For the approaching six decades of my life, there have only been two voices that remain a constant.
Biden's announcement, with his wife, Jill, and President Obama at his side, signals the approaching end of a four-decade career in elected office and a quest for the presidency that stretched for more than a generation.
With the war in Afghanistan approaching the decade mark, there may be no better way in America right now of grasping the horrors of human conflict than to spend some time with these etchings.
Deceptively calm, with straight blond hair and an unflinching green gaze, Ms. Stanton-Paule, 49, had long championed the approach: a decade earlier she had found jobs for several special needs students who still worked in town, at a hair salon, at the library, at the Y.M.C.A.
Aged 42, and approaching a decade in the job at Exeter, Tisdale is a fascinating character.
There's a kind of Doppler effect that results: a slight increase in frequency as the decade approaches the artists.
Raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour has been in discussion approaching a decade.
Studies on the elimination of TCDD have examined cohorts many years after the exposures and suggest that the half-life approaches a decade.
For approaching three decades, the professional identity and autonomy of teachers have been under concerted assault from Ofsted and the noxious "audit and accountability culture"; and the impact on the morale and mental health of teachers and children alike has been catastrophic.
We're approaching the third decade of the twenty-first century and someone on Fox refers coyly to "a band called the Beatles and another called the Rolling Stones".
The countries have been close allies for approaching seven decades.
