Decade - definition, pronunciation, transcription

The war lasted nearly a decade.

The bridge was built a decade ago.

The decade of the 1920s runs from January 1, 1920 to December 31, 1929.

There have been a lot of changes during the past two decades.

He has been in office for a decade.

Real estate prices have doubled in value over the last decade.

With proper care, the machine should last a decade or more.

The drug was banned a decade ago.

...a crapulous wastrel who went through the family's once-fabulous fortune in less than a decade...

...the economic forecast for the coming decade looks promising, inasmuch as we can predict that far in advance...

...a puzzling detail that had been infixed in the detective's mind for over a decade...

These new companies are parasites feeding off the success of those who spent the last decade establishing the industry.

...the phenomenal growth that the suburb has experienced over the last decade...

...a slob of a professor whose office was littered with a decade's worth of notes and student papers...

...in terms of social change, the 1960s are generally considered the most tempestuous decade in recent American history...