Decades in sentence

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For the past three decades, everyone in my family had to apply for a permission from the government to have a child.

I started my career decades ago at the southern US border, working with Central American asylum seekers.

Now, Shanidar Cave a few decades earlier had unveiled a Neanderthal known as Shanidar 1. Now, for a BBC/PBS TV series we actually brought Shanidar 1 to life, and I want you guys to meet Ned, Ned the Neanderthal.

Last year, American farmers made the least they have in almost three decades, because they now own fewer parts of the supply chain than ever before.

Scientists and experts have studied our glaciers for decades, and their report kept me awake at night, agonizing about the bad news and what it meant for my country and my people.

When you go into spaces like this, you're directly accessing the past, because they sit untouched for decades.

Most of my photos are set in places that have been abandoned for decades, but this is an exception.

If you remember that bald guy, you'll know that what has been stripped off of these trunks in the Pacific Northwest old-growth forest is going to take decades and decades to come back.

Chess-playing computers had been developed for decades, but Deep Blue’s triumph over Garry Kasparov in 1997 was the first time a machine had defeated a sitting champion.

Great progress is being made, but it will be many decades before those chemical pathways are drawing down a gigaton of CO2 a year.

All trees start as seeds, little tiny things, and it's many decades before they've reached their full carbon-capture potential.

We'll be investing many, many billions of dollars into these solutions, and they will take decades to get to the gigaton scale.

In fact, a growing number of academics and practitioners have concluded that neoliberal economic theory is dangerously wrong and that today's growing crises of rising inequality and growing political instability are the direct result of decades of bad economic theory.

This could never have happened decades ago when the country was poor and ruled by an authoritarian government.

About one-third of them were immigrants, many of whom settled on the West Coast and had lived there for decades.

She became a teacher, and over the next several decades, her advocacy for multicultural, socially conscious education would impact thousands of students.

These shifts could be tiny— for instance, certain constants we’ve measured with accuracies of parts per million have stayed steady for decades, so any drift would have to be on an even smaller scale.

They go, "So, Emily, how do couples, you know, sustain a strong sexual connection over multiple decades?"

Research actually has pretty solid evidence that couples who sustain strong sexual connections over multiple decades have two things in common.

But in fact this virus crossed over into humans many decades before, from chimpanzees, where the virus originated, into humans who hunt these apes.

But because there could be, like, 10 molecules with the exact same mass, we don't know exactly what they are, and if you want to clearly identify all of them, you have to do more experiments, which could take decades and billions of dollars.

Currently in Detroit, our population is under 700,000, of which 84 percent are African American, and due to decades of disinvestment and capital flight from the city into the suburbs, there is a scarcity in Detroit.

Typically, public health transformations take a long time, even decades.

I first landed on the island of Madagascar two decades ago, on a mission to document its marine natural history.

We've been spending the last few decades accumulating a very powerful backlog of technologies for saving and substituting for oil, and no one had bothered to add them up before.

General Motors has been cited for dumping chemicals in the Flint River for decades.

So, I used a visual algorithm to extract visual information from decades of my digital and analog drawings.

There were these particles in breast milk that were found already in the 1930s called human milk oligosaccharides, but their function remained a mystery for decades and decades after their initial discovery.

China is the world's greatest anti-poverty program over the last three decades.

I think a couple of decades ago, you made the case that we might all be living in a simulation, or perhaps probably were.

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