This decline has continued in the most recent decade.

Sadly, if this proves the criteria for defining our most recent decade, then perhaps the 'aughts' really ought to remain nameless.

And in the most recent decade to date, the 2010s: zero.

Laser - during the recent decade intense research has been made into utilization of high energy laser beams for rock disintegration.

A number of factories for processing cotton were shut down in recent decade.