Use "decade" in a sentence

1. She was the largest vessel to put into Sinbara this decade

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2. According to a leading life insurer, 'life expectancy is likely to rise from 77 years to 85 years over the next decade

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3. "In the second decade I think

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4. This was not the case till say a decade back

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5. You can have her watch that shuttlecraft joyride all around this planet for a decade and a half and you'll probably be no closer to it than you are now

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6. You don't need to try and make the Starskater, though if you do, this says she was refitted in the second decade and Ebmiytn's in command, his reputation is good and he's been plying the lake since it was still rising

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7. Once the second decade went by with this, we figured it was here for long term storage

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8. His yard boy, who was friendly with Estwig, though half a decade younger, ran a few blocks after them, then snatched off and waved his shorts as they rumbled out of sight

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9. "We have over half a decade to lay in supplies," doostEr told him

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10. "I do remember it will be more than half a decade till it happens, whatever the odds are

11. She had been abducted almost a decade ago

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12. "This says we have what they call two thirds of a decade, about four Earth years

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13. "It's been under observation two thirds of a decade already," Ava said, "since it was knocked out of its original orbit

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14. from its packaging, suffers a decade of high-speed revolutions and hot water

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15. Nothing made sense, as if I was waking from the equivalent of a long and comatose illness and had no idea what year, what decade this might be

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16. She had borne two tiny babies in the time the natives call a decade, about six years of Earth

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17. His children would have been just three and almost five on Earth, here they were thirty-one and forty-four in their birth decade

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18. " Among the Elves one is expected to be able to read when they pass one decade and become a child

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19. Klowee had her first decade and was introduced to the privileges and responsibilities of a one decade in the native tradition with only a vedn cake frosted with whipped sugar froth to mark customs of Earth, a token of which only he and Beeta partook

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20. Their birth had been celebrity fodder, first Brazilian children born on Kassidor, with pictures of Isabel holding each infant, each half a local decade apart

21. The current chip installed was sold under the tag 'Seventh Level Black Sorcerer' and was guaranteed not just to work, but to retain its competitive position for a decade

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22. They would carry on here, they were actually doing well, though he had to admit, they were less and less Brazilian and more Gengee with every passing decade, especially at his end of the settlement

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23. For a long time they were occasional lovers, sometimes for a decade

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24. A washing machine rises bright and shining from its packaging, suffers a decade of high-speed revolutions and hot water calcification, and finally returns back to its constituent elements through recycling or decomposition deep beneath the gull strewn summits of landfill

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25. He'd also had quite an adventure, not just rough weather on the Ttharmine but a three decade sail thru rivers they had to keep buying new maps for

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26. They braved a decade of cantankerous lock operators and a five year delay in a smelly old desert city in Goblin country when a drought dried up a canal for awhile

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27. Even so, it had been a fad in that part of his world for a decade or two

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28. As he dwindled though his sixties and settled into his final decade, it was enough now to look

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29. of testing for over a decade, but I had never seen this

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30. “In the 55th decade of the 55th,” Jorma answered

31. “Bekthi, she moved into the other downstairs room when I bought the house and moved up here, somewhat more than a decade ago

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32. A decade and twenty four is my best guess

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33. “Oh, I’ve been tending Tendine’s vines for a good decade and a half now

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34. She was moderately wealthy but more popular for her social smarts and sexuality while she was still completing her third decade

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35. Hers, as Tdeshi, was in the same decade four centuries later, 55,52,43

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36. “Lets see,” he said, “the opening decade of this century should be this way

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37. If they have any twenty decade old records or storage, we can go thru that looking for Tdeshi

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38. In a dusty and damp cavern lit only by his own torch, he got down drawer after drawer of sample tickets and thumbed thru them in their thousands, one by one, starting on the first day of the decade when Enjteen was born so he was sure he didn’t miss any

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39. “Still; that’s the way he’s been telling it most of this decade

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40. I made thirty one coppers profit on that, I’m proud to say, one of the best deals I’ve made this decade and too new for those outside my organization to have counted in my income

41. By the odds it should have been a decade or two til they found one with her look, build and mental capacity, instead it had been only weeks

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42. To people five thousand Earth years old, the wait of another decade or more would have been trivial

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43. They took the bale for that decade to a worktable deep in the center of the space that Ava had to light with her torch

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44. There hadn’t been a decade that passed of her first thirteen in this flesh that she hadn’t been here at least once a year and usually more often than that, sometimes every week, probably averaging four times per local year for those sixty Earth years

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45. It was about a local decade that the devices reliably lasted

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46. Consumer durable goods were expected to last from a decade for cheap clothing, to a century for light duty devices that aren’t exposed to the elements

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47. “Yeah, within a decade or two

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48. Pretty soon he had friends I couldn’t afford to hang with, then within three decades he was in that house, ‘caretaking’ he said, the first decade or two anyway

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49. “For years, as in not even a decade when she moved in, Teshi had been gone for many decades by then, went away to the city and never returned

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50. Delurna looked up what they each earned at the Kassikan and in the last four days his paper chasers were able to find public records of a valid sample of Kulai’s real estate and shipping transactions all the way back to that decade

51. After the third decade of the 100th, Kulai’s finances made sense

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52. Before the first decade of the 100th, Kulai seemed to have no finances

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53. It’s like your current summary, since the third decade his finances make sense

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54. “Oh I would think it has to be longer than that, since the 40-something decade of the 55th wasn’t it? I remember we had some lumpy times getting adjusted but we’ve been pretty much OK since the start of the 100th I think

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55. He might not have finished his third decade

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56. It ended with a very simple little story of ways to cross a river, meant to be administered to a child about one decade old

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57. The scenes were of the lives of children a decade older than those in the first book, just about to reach puberty

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58. We found that was too far from the concerts, so another decade later we moved to the closest plot we could live off

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59. They would wait a decade between recordings

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60. I couldn’t count how many times I went out with them, at least once a decade for the better part of a century

61. “What?” Their distant profitable relationship had been stable and increasing over the last decade

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62. One of the astronomers up there had written about what were believed to be some asteroid fragments that had become trapped in the gravitational null between Narrulla and the world this decade

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63. This job was going to be much more complex than the heist a decade before

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64. More often than not, she was roused for the latter; few Captains in Transit lasted more than a decade before they lost their minds and Argos determined them to be hazardous to the ship and the entire mission

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65. Her decade in the city had flown, but it had been fun

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66. There is also the not entirely secret fact that a human or two does fall victim to animal predation in downtown Zhlindu every decade

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67. That was about the most action news in Zhlindu this last decade

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68. Maybe Alan's cultural background was still a little thin, but he was still very young wasn't he? And he'd had a heavy dose of cultural background in the last decade

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69. She left the tribe a century ago and wandered far from the west Knidola basin, arriving in Zhlindu less than a decade ago

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70. In the last couple minutes this had gone from a strange case to a very interesting case and now to the case of the decade

71. "You should have seen me a decade ago

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72. During this decade she had only casual relations with quite a few different guys who lived and/or worked and/or hung out in the castle

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73. I've been with Alan a decade now and I've gone over his stories backwards and forwards and found they all hang together no matter how unlikely it seems

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74. Which would she prefer? To go with him to YingolNeerie or live here without him? A decade ago if they had captured him when they tried on the Lhar, it would have been no decision at all

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75. "I was quite closely coupled with the owner of this home for most of that decade

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76. "And a decade more almost, that I lived with Valla and Knume

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77. "I did a good chunk of a decade out on the flatlands," he said

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78. Another year, another decade, the 53rd decade of the 55th century begins when Kortrax next rises

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79. Their decade together had been good and there was no one important in her life right now was there? She hoped Thantar might amount to something, but had to admit that relationship hadn't changed in a decade

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80. "Thank-you," Alan said, "You are one of the best I've ever had in my life also, even though it was just that one shining decade

81. I was with my guide to Zhlindu one decade, my guide to the Yakhan for nearly four, but I still love and admire you the most

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82. For one thing, he was a decade older than his ringing voice suggested, a man full in his prime

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83. Every once in what felt to him like a decade or two, a compassionate stranger would take pity and pass on some coin

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84. A significant proportion of the world’s population started to tire of the energy surrounding animosity nearing the end of that decade

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85. The only problem was that it went through inhabited and loyal areas built by refugees working in the logging industry the last decade

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86. He was over a decade younger than Chris, but if anything looked older

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87. As limited as it was, the ULR was the only way to communicate with Earth without a decade long transmission time

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88. Tony Edwards had worked as the government representative to the Galilean mining operations for over a decade

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89. decade older than the chairs, close to retirement

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90. What in the world was this mentally-challenged Secretary of Health and Human Services and her minions in the Clinton Administration thinking of when they disgraced the entire decade of the nineties by coming up with categories such as the male way of knowing (bad), and the female way of knowing (good)? The former was 144

91. It lasted for decade, and it will take decades to restore a semblance of confidence…if ever

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92. Nevertheless, the social and political divisions that typically defined that decade extended well beyond the appropriate limits of conventional tolerance

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93. We have our own set of rules and guidelines that we developed over more than a decade of playing street football - sometimes at night under the lights

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94. To make a long and boring story short the moderate candidate was replaced by the hawk known as PW Botha who would dominate the scene for the next decade causing unspeakable damage

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95. For over half a decade before the US entered World War II, Roosevelt had stood strongly against precisely the kind of aerial atrocities he was about to commit

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96. But while McCarthy was an extremist who ruined hundreds of lives, the Cold War predated his campaign by half a decade

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97. The latter two weapons had been destroyed by UN teams over a decade before

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98. When the US-Vietnam War failed, it took a decade and a half before the US public could support a war again, and then only half the public, and then only with extensive propaganda

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99. These invasions almost came to an end for a decade and a half

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100. Finally there was a campaign of repression, the Phoenix Program, approved by two presidents and maintained for over half a decade