Decade in sentence

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A decade and a half ago, I moved from working in law and technology in New York to financing, producing and distributing films in Nairobi, Lagos and Johannesburg.

In just over a decade, Nigeria's film industry, Africa's largest, has taken the country's words and languages into the vocabulary and imaginations of millions in many other African countries.

And it really wasn't until pretty recently, maybe the last decade or so, that comics have seen more widespread acceptance among American educators.

So I've been working for about a decade now on finding other ways to change people's relationship to the future self without using commitment devices.

I've spent the last decade subjecting myself to pain and humiliation, hopefully for a good cause, which is self-improvement.

Plus, during the last decade, we've been in the mode where dealing with groups was conceptually and politically dangerous.

The West, as I would see it, comes out of that decade weakened, because we didn't understand the group.

The paradox here is that the last decade probably was a lost decade for making progress on this.

But the problem is that we are coming out of a decade where we had a fear of touching it.

And for the last decade or so, it's been quite clear what being an atheist means.

Well, over the past decade, we have observed three main negative consequences to offering people more and more choices.

My team at InteraXon and I have been developing thought-controlled application for almost a decade now.

And we'll be there, showering them with towels and toasters and drinking their free booze and throwing birdseed at them every single time ... even though we know, statistically, half of them will be divorced within a decade.

That's the sort of technology that's available today that really wasn't available even a decade ago.

Imagine what you'll tell your children when they ask you, "So, in 2012, Mom and Dad, what was it like when you'd had the hottest decade on record for the third decade in a row, when every scientific body in the world was saying you've got a major problem, when the oceans were acidifying, when oil and food prices were spiking, when they were rioting in the streets of London and occupying Wall Street?

And every year we ask them to start a company or a product or a service that can affect positively the lives of a billion people within a decade.

Last month, MIT put out a study showing that by the end of this decade, in the sunny parts of the United States, solar electricity will be six cents a kilowatt hour compared to 15 cents as a national average.

And that's not bad for a political movement that hasn't even been around for a decade.

These soybeans are being shipped to Europe and to China as animal feed, especially after the mad cow disease scare about a decade ago, where we don't want to feed animals animal protein anymore, because that can transmit disease.

And so, what has struck me as I've travelled the last decade for the foundation around the world is that all women want that same thing.

In France, the average family size went down every decade for 150 years in a row until it stabilized.

And then actually they track each other a little bit on the increase later in the decade.

I mean, this is something that our studio has been working on for the past decade.

Well, that's the question I was wrestling with over a decade ago when I was sitting at a kitchen table with my husband, David, who is also a public defender.

So these types of examples, today there are just a few of them, but I think in the next decade they will become commonplace.

So I think in the next decade, the sciences and the humanities will come closer together to be able to answer deep questions about mankind.

This is not just a journey for scientists, it is for all of us, because the decisions we collectively make over the next decade will affect what the ocean looks like for centuries to come.

You see, there's something about climate change that we didn't grasp just a decade ago.

Believe it or not, the picture on your right remains a very popular tourist snorkeling spot on the island of Maui, even though it's lost most of its coral cover over the past decade or so.

But really, fundamentally, safety comes in the design of the system that you're going to fly people on, and so we've been working for years, actually, almost a decade, on this technology.

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