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Example sentences for: decades

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It's happening this week with the revelations about the workers in the federally owned bomb factory in Paducah, Kentucky, who were unknowingly exposed to plutonium for decades.
Because Hemings was the half-sister of Jefferson's deceased wife, and because their relationship may have lasted decades, the story has taken on a romantic coloration.
But the paper squanders a bit of this edge when it writes that the situation in East Timor "has for two decades remained a largely invisible problem closed off to journalists, and the scene of some of the world's worst reported human rights abuses," thus falsely suggesting that poor coverage of the topic was somehow mostly caused by something other than press inattention.
Two decades after Congress first deregulated the airline industry, America's major airlines are starting to sound more than a bit like St. Augustine: "Give us competition, Lord!
The Bimini Islands have been the capital of sport fishing for decades; here you’ll find hundreds of huge boats lining the marinas waiting to be taken out into the teeming waters.