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Example sentences for: decade

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(This type of gardening came into vogue in the 1980s as the gardening environmentalists' response to the excesses of that decade.
Only the Atlanta Braves have had consistent success in this decade, making them the first team since the New York Yankees of 1960-1964 to appear in four out of five consecutive World Series.
Cancer vaccines may consist of whole tumor cells or tumor lysates, but identification of tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) over the past decade has made possible the use of specific proteins or peptides as cancer vaccines.
Over the next decade, I made my biographer's rounds, like the postman deterred neither by sleet nor snow--nor by occasional emanations of reticence or frostiness from my subject--from the routine (often a fascinating routine) of poring over his unpublished manuscripts in the rare book and manuscript division of the University of Chicago Library; lugging my laptop all over America in quest of high-school classmates, cousins, friends, and lovers of my famously peripatetic subject; driving Avis rental cars into the remotest suburbs of Los Angeles and flying into Buffalo, N.Y., in pursuit of letters in private hands.
During the past decade much progress has been made in identifying proteins that bind to core origins (reviewed in [ 20]).