Decade in sentence

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In particular, in my lab in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, I have spent the past decade trying to understand the mystery of how children learn so much from so little so quickly.

I'm a psychiatrist who works with pregnant and postpartum women, a reproductive psychiatrist, and in the decade that I've been working in this field, I've noticed a pattern.

A decade later, the Denver Museum and our Native partners have reburied nearly all of the human remains in the collection.

Fast forwarding a decade later to 2012, I was entering my third low-performing school as principal.

We've added seat belts, we've added air bags, and in the last decade, we've actually started trying to make the car smarter to fix that bug, the driver.

For the past decade, I've been studying non-state armed groups: armed organizations like terrorists, insurgents or militias.

And in fact, we've actually had vaccine candidates available now for more than a decade.

So we marvel now at those odds, the overwhelming odds, and the amazing thing is that within the next decade, the GMT may be able to take spectra of the atmospheres of those planets, and determine whether or not they have the potential for life.

And the full telescope will be finished in the middle of the next decade, with all seven mirrors.

So for the last decade, I began seeking out these areas where the concrete yields to forest and the pines turn to cypress, and I viewed all these mosquitoes and reptiles, all these discomforts, as affirmations that I'd found true wilderness, and I embrace them wholly.

I'm part of a team of scientists who has been working to find a cure for Alzheimer's for over a decade.

In the next decade?

We've been working very, very, very hard for the last decade and more.

My parents and I have been walking on this tightrope for the last decade.

Ultimately, with the passage of years, the survivors will increase in size, from that of a dinner plate at year one to that of a dinner table, in the case of one species at least, the leatherback, a decade or so later.

So you have to rely on people's ingenuity, that they will solve the problems, but it may be a decade or more down the line.

Almost all projects of this kind fall apart within a decade because too many people drop out of the study, or funding for the research dries up, or the researchers get distracted, or they die, and nobody moves the ball further down the field.

And when, about a decade ago, we finally asked the wives if they would join us as members of the study, many of the women said, "You know, it's about time."

But in the last decade, we've seen the combined effects of climate change, population growth and competition for water resources threaten these vital lifelines and water resources.

Besides losing most of his memories from the previous decade, H.M. was unable to form new ones, forgetting what day it was, repeating comments, and even eating multiple meals in a row.

Scientists have several theories about what's behind this deterioration, from actual brain shrinkage, the hippocampus loses 5% of its neurons every decade for a total loss of 20% by the time you're 80 years old to the drop in the production of neurotransmitters, like acetylcholine, which is vital to learning and memory.

Your body often repairs damage from small amounts ionizing radiation, and if it can't, the results of damage may not manifest for a decade or more.

In 2005, after only a single decade of protection, scientists measured the largest recovery of fish ever recorded.

Some believe this incident alone set East/West relations back a decade.

By 1990, a mere decade later, this proportion stood at 80 percent.

Orange dishes made during the next decade may still have some hazardous qualities on their surfaces to this day.

They used to tell their neighbors and friends, "Our son, he's taking a gap decade."

In 1962 at Rice University, JFK told the country about a dream he had, a dream to put a person on the moon by the end of the decade.

Now, little story: about a decade ago, the government thought that if it brought this system online, it could save taxpayer dollars and provide a better service, which was a great idea.

We're seeing real movement to repeal some of the most evil, ugly gun lobby legislation passed over the last dark decade.

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