Yet in a decade of living here, I have not seen a cougar in the wild.
Yet, in a decade when the value of such highly coveted wines shot upward, with individual bottles selling for four or even five figures, the specter of counterfeits hung heavily over collectors.
Anatoly V. Lebedko, chairman of the United Civic Party, said in an interview that the government's tactics were the worst yet in a decade of elections, all of which, since Mr. Lukashenko's first, have been criticized by international observers as undemocratic.
The new National Defense Program Guidelines are the biggest step yet in a decade-long shift away from cold war-era deployments of heavy tank and artillery units on the northern island of Hokkaido — to counter a now-vanished Soviet threat — and toward bolstering Japanese forces in the southern islands around Okinawa, where China's navy has become a growing presence.
" And yet in a decade-and-a-half, you've never seen anyone tampering with it or refilling it?" I asked.
Yet in almost a decade in power, the self-described populist governments of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and of her late husband Néstor before her, have failed to pass no-brainer measures, like extending capital-gains tax to financial transactions.
Yet in nearly a decade of teaching here, she has proudly watched her students inch forward academically.
And although they may not have given it much thought yet, in a few decades young Germans will have to support a record number of pensioners, a problem exacerbated by a birth bust in the former East after the fall of the wall.There are many reasons why youth has failed to storm the barricades of business in modern Germany.
Yet "Tune In", a decade in the making and first in a projected trilogy called "All These Years", has hypnotic appeal.
Yet after a decade of living in New York City — nine years in Manhattan, 18 months in Brooklyn — I've learned that big-ticket amusements merely obscure the city's more affordable (and more enjoyable) corners, something I was recently prepared to put to the test.
Yet, in the decade and a half that Mr Putin has ruled Russia as president or prime minister, Russia failed to prepare for the possibility of low oil prices and did little to diversify its economy and reduce its reliance on energy exports.
