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单词 decade
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decade
(dekeɪd )
Word forms: decades
countable noun B2
A decade is a period of ten years, especially one that begins with a year ending in 0, for example 1980 to 1989.
...the last decade of the nineteenth century.
Collocations:
decade of decline
Total music revenues for last year hit $19.1 billion, the fourth consecutive year of growth after more than a decade of decline linked to online piracy.
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After more than a decade of decline, the proportion of 35 to 44-year-olds in their own properties grew to 57 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times
Think of music from smart speakers as a step on from streaming, the technology that turned pop back into a growth business last year after a decade of decline.
Times, Sunday Times
This triumph, however, was followed by a decade of decline.
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Turnout rose to 51 per cent, reversing decades of decline.
Times, Sunday Times
decade of dominance
The common theme was this - great champions realising that the manner of their defeat was even more glorious than the decade of dominance which preceded it.
The Sun
Butler capped its decade of dominance, seven league titles in ten years with three playoff berths, by winning another conference championship in 1994.
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The bargain buy that saw arguably the world's biggest club end their 26-year wait for a title and set them on the road to two decades of dominance.
The Sun
decade of growth
At the same time the property market may be entering a lost decade of growth, in which prices stay flat.
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However, after almost a decade of growth, global economic headwinds have blown the industry off course.
Times, Sunday Times
It had insisted that, despite the downturn, the timing was perfect for opening the superstores, helping it to secure another decade of growth.
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After a decade of growth, they decided to form a limited liability partnership and employee benefit trust, paying back staff quite literally for the efforts they put in.
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That we are living through the worst decade of growth in household incomes in living memory will get nary a mention.
Times, Sunday Times
decade of neglect
A shared disease can't heal decades of neglect.
Times, Sunday Times
Grant aid for restoration cannot reverse the decades of neglect and mismanagement during which conservationists seemed concerned only by 'grubbing up'.
Times, Sunday Times
The house has been empty ever since and now lies rotting and overgrown by creepers after decades of neglect.
Times, Sunday Times
But after decades of neglect, it needs help to flourish.
The Sun
They were stored often in chaotic corners of the flat and were thick with grime after decades of neglect.
Times, Sunday Times
decade of stagnation
The result: more than a decade of stagnation, as debts mounted, banks failed and lending contracted.
Times, Sunday Times
He said that the increase in yield this year would not cancel out the fall in prices, but yields were likely to go on increasing after a decade of stagnation.
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It's time for something new if we are to avoid a decade of stagnation.
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The result has been two decades of stagnation.
Times, Sunday Times
According to the professor, the cultural shift was the consequence of two decades of stagnation and the overbearing burden of debt.
Times, Sunday Times
ensuing decade
In the ensuing decade, there were 20 of them.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It had initially talked of opening at least 400 stores in the country over the ensuing decade.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
This is hard, because so much has happened in the ensuing decade to modify our reactions.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
lost decade
I'm drawing comfort from the fact that we could already be eight years into our 'lost decade'.
Times, Sunday Times
The lost decade of productivity, which has left it 19% below where it should be, appears set to continue.
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We spoke to the experts to learn some lessons from the lost decade.
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At the same time the property market may be entering a lost decade of growth, in which prices stay flat.
Times, Sunday Times
In that lost decade a new generation of hungry, fearless cubs has emerged, and the depth of talent in golf has never been greater.
The Sun
preceding decade
A superior saga of a grand country house and its scions, it begins with a funeral in 1920, then recounts the preceding decade.
Times, Sunday Times
The country has posted barely any productivity growth since the end of 2007, after having annual growth of about 2 per cent for the preceding decade.
Times, Sunday Times
There has been hardly any productivity growth since the end of 2007, while in the preceding decade annual growth of about 2 per cent had been recorded.
Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, they are the first postwar group not to have higher incomes in early adulthood than those born in the preceding decade.
Times, Sunday Times
This administrative reorganisation was a response to the rapid population increase experienced across the territory, especially during the preceding decade.
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previous decade
For much of the previous decade, car sales had climbed by between 20 and 30 per cent a year.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
But it's true that in the past ten years we have seen more change in the media than in any previous decade.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
To answer this question, it is necessary to consider the previous decade of employee relations at the plant.
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recent decade
This decline has continued in the most recent decade.
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Sadly, if this proves the criteria for defining our most recent decade, then perhaps the 'aughts' really ought to remain nameless.
Times, Sunday Times
And in the most recent decade to date, the 2010s: zero.
Times, Sunday Times
Laser - during the recent decade intense research has been made into utilization of high energy laser beams for rock disintegration.
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A number of factories for processing cotton were shut down in recent decade.
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span a decade
These datasets are unique in that they provide global data on primary productivity and span a decade.
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Their demise spanned a decade despite a change in government.
Times, Sunday Times
Their conversations spanned the decades all the way to the patient's death in 1979.
The Times Literary Supplement
She was found guilty of 13 counts of arson spanning a decade, including fires at a social club and a shop.
The Sun
Yet the exasperation always gives way to affection, encapsulated in a moving sequence of home video clips spanning the decades.
Times, Sunday Times
spend a decade
They might spend a decade building up knowledge on the military, only to be suddenly placed in culture and sport.
The Times Literary Supplement
Suspects can spend a decade on remand only to then see charges dropped.
The Sun
The art world has spent a decade and a half metamorphosing into something ugly and worthless.
Times, Sunday Times
I then spent a decade rebelling - in as supine a manner as possible - sleeping only when drunk or during the day.
Times, Sunday Times
Deemed unfit for modern research it has spent a decade in retirement, superseded by a swish new laboratory across the road.
Times, Sunday Times
subsequent decades
In subsequent decades, the popularity of turning two - or more - houses into an extra-large home may have waned in favour of the sub-division trend.
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What was published in subsequent decades was often incomplete and ambiguous.
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The show would last for just two seasons, but was repeated endlessly in subsequent decades.
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In the subsequent decades, it languished, depopulated and half forgotten.
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Since the 1960s, when package tourism took off, and subsequent decades, when the nature parks were created, west-coast communities have struggled for survival, with young people heading south for work.
Times, Sunday Times
the past decade
The past decade was the hottest on record.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
I have pondered this question a lot over the past decade.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In the US, so many new malls have been completed in the past decade that they outnumber high schools.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
turbulent decade
However, she was the product of a turbulent decade.
Times, Sunday Times
This was a turbulent decade that gave birth to modernity.
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With rare exceptions, such as the past turbulent decade, it should grow your capital over several years.
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He had survived many changes in leadership in the turbulent decades since the 1950s.
Times, Sunday Times
These three gorgeous and troubling works affirm his status and his range — as well as his aliveness to the turbulent decades through which he lived — intellectually and emotionally deeply satisfying.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 十年
Japanese: 十年間
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