Example collocations logo

Decades in sentence

5634 examples of Decades in a sentence

After two decades of conflict and the deaths of millions, it's clear that we need to change our approach.
I mean, it's a nice thing to have, it's the right thing to do, but for decades, we've been trying to make the case that diversity fuels innovation and customer insight.
But for AIVA, this process is taken from years and years of learning, decades of learning as an artist, as a musician and a composer, down to a couple of hours.
But the last few decades have shown us that other animals can do it too: elephants, porcupines, sheep, goats, you name it.
A hundred years ago, people began practicing personal hygiene, and life expectancy rates rose by over 50 percent in just a matter of decades.
Over the last few decades, the issue only worsened as organ demand has exponentially increased.
However, after five decades of research, there's no strong consensus on the definition, the cause, the treatment, or even the existence of PMS.
For nearly two decades now, we have slowly been sowing the seeds of shame and public humiliation in our cultural soil, both on- and offline.
Guys stayed up in these cheap hotels for decades.
But I've done more in the seven decades since that miserable day when my mother put me on the train than I would ever have dreamed possible.
If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war.
Glaciers and sea ice that have been with us for millennia are now disappearing in a matter of decades.
Fortunately, I was good enough that by the time I was 30, I was able to move into the upstairs world of money management, where I spent the next three decades as a global macro trader.
That was true many decades ago when Roy Chapman Andrews wrote these lines.
Now for decades, my wife and I have been moved by common compassion to sponsor kids, to fund microloans, to support generous levels of foreign aid.
Decades of anti-poverty programs right in his community were never able to rescue him or any of the hundred other slaves from the beatings and the rapes and the torture of violence inside the rice mill.
In fact, people have been using lasers to eavesdrop on objects from a distance for decades.
They often are people who have actually been faithful for decades, but one day they cross a line that they never thought they would cross, and at the risk of losing everything.
I've noticed that a lot of couples, in the immediate aftermath of an affair, because of this new disorder that may actually lead to a new order, will have depths of conversations with honesty and openness that they haven't had in decades.
We decided upon chimpanzees, not just because Jane Goodall was on our board of directors, but because they, Jane and others, have studied chimpanzees intensively for decades.
MR: Well, Chris, what we're working on is creating a situation where people can create a mind file, and a mind file is the collection of their mannerisms, personality, recollection, feelings, beliefs, attitudes and values, everything that we've poured today into Google, into Amazon, into Facebook, and all of this information stored there will be able, in the next couple decades, once software is able to recapitulate consciousness, be able to revive the consciousness which is imminent in our mind file.
And in the last two decades, astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets.
When you think about decades of failed housing policies and poor educational structures, when you think about persistent unemployment and underemployment in a community, when you think about poor healthcare, and then you throw drugs into the mix and duffel bags full of guns, little wonder that you would see this culture of violence emerge.
Also, over the past two decades, we have accepted that the best way to guarantee our own security is by defeating our enemies, and to do that, we need to rely almost exclusively on the military.
Over the past two decades, our security policy has been short-term.
For decades, we've tried to motivate people with money, even though we've got a vast amount of research that shows that money erodes social connectedness.
And he didn’t know it at the time, but over the next five decades, he'd draw on these dueling identities to forge a whole new way to think about pain.
It'd change modern medicine so much so, that decades later, Time magazine would call him pain relief's founding father.
He pushed his pain agenda for decades, before it finally took hold in the mid-'70s.
For decades, the prevalence estimates remained stable at just three or four children in 10,000.
BackNext