Sentence examples for tough decades from inspiring English sources

The market for refineries has been strong in the last two years — after two tough decades for the industry — as refining margins improved.

"It could be a very tough decade".

Coal has had a tough decade.

The 1990s were a tough decade for the field.

"It's going to be a tough decade for the Democrats," he says, with a smile.

"Economically, it was a very tough decade for baseball," said Andrew Zimbalist, a sports economist at Smith College.

It has been a tough decade for the music industry, but some are beginning to hear a happier tune.

Let me just say that we have been through a tough decade, and hope things will be better in the future.

It's also important for the Globe, which has suffered a tough decade since breaking the story, as has the whole newspaper industry.

Taylor's uncompromising stance brought him a tough decade for work opportunities after this, but he never stopped exploring and experimenting, and by the mid-1960s was regarded as one of the key figures in the free-jazz revolution alongside Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Albert Ayler.

It had been a tough decade for the Kennedy family's youngest son – he had seen two brothers felled by assassins' bullets, and in 1964 was in a place crash in which the pilot was killed.