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Decades
"Decades" in a Sentence (11 examples)
This tree has been standing for five decades.
In the United States, 20 million new jobs have been created during the past two decades, most of them in the service sector.
After decades of civil war, order was restored.
He has had that job for decades.
His face was cyanosed from decades of drinking.
Yona Wallach had been a postmodernist two decades before the term "Postmodernism" was even conceived.
The cleanup at the Fukushima Daiichi plant could take years, possibly decades.
The country bore the yoke of tyranny for two decades.
I worked in this company for three decades.
The law is meant to redress decades of discrimination against the country's ethnic minorities.
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For decades American politicians have assumed that mass incarceration works, wooing voters with ever-tougher sentencing laws. The dramatic fall in crime since the 1990s has persuaded many that they were right. Locking up the worst criminals while they are young, fit and dangerous clearly makes America safer. But keeping sad cases[…]incarcerated past pensionable age serves little purpose. Prison has diminishing returns, and America long ago passed the point where jailing more people makes sense.
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