Sentence examples for three decades preceding from inspiring English sources

Like Lanark, it was published in the early 1980s but was written over the three decades preceding.

In the three decades preceding 2002, health spending in the United States tended over the longer run to grow two percentage points a year faster than did G.D.P. Absent periods in which G.D.P. declines sharply, I would be surprised if health spending in the future grew even one percentage point faster than G.D.P.

Perhaps that time frame wasn't long enough especially if the two decades preceding it were more volatile.

In the two decades preceding the Great Recession, the American prison population nearly tripled, according to the Pew Center on the States.

The future Impressionists themselves displayed extraordinary diversity during the two decades preceding "Impression, Sunrise," painted by Monet in 1872, that would inspire an art critic to coin the name Impressionism.

The mushrooming of pockets under the authority of Sikh leaders was thus a feature of the two decades preceding Durrānī's invasion of the Punjab and took place not merely in the eastern Punjab but in the Bari Doab, not far from Lahore itself.

In the two decades preceding the Millsap acquisition, Denver had landed only two other free agents of comparable stature, Kenyon Martin in 2004 and Antonio McDyess in 1998.

By comparison, the annual average of mumps cases in the U.S. in the two decades preceding the 2006 outbreak was 265; before the introduction of the single-shot Mumpsvax vaccine in 1967, there were approximately 200,000 cases of the disease, according to the 55-page document.

His use of methods involving "one or more orders of the infinitesimally small" is present in his De motu corporum in gyrum of 1684 and in his papers on motion "during the two decades preceding 1684".

A study by Michigan State University researchers determined that over the two decades preceding passage of the Racial Justice Act, North Carolina prosecutors rejected twice as many blacks as potential jurors than they did whites; the rejection rate was even higher in cases where the defendant was black.

Average long-term exposure to particle mass for MESA participants was estimated using three metrics that were calculated using the complete residential history that participants provided during the two decades preceding the baseline clinical exam (2000 2002).