(n.) A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
(2) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
(3) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(4) Over the past decade the use of monoclonal antibodies has greatly advanced our knowledge of the biological properties and heterogeneity that exist within human tumours, and in particular in lung cancer.
(5) A review is presented concerning the development of new neuroimaging techniques in the last decade which have improved the diagnostic exploration of patients with spinal cord injuries, including studies of possible sequelae.
(6) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
(7) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(8) Significant changes have occurred within the profession of pharmacy in the past few decades which have led to loss of function, social power and status.
(9) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
(10) Gliomas of the pregeniculate anterior visual pathways comprise about 5% of all intracranial tumors that occur in the first decade of life.
(11) Over the past decade, the quinolone antimicrobial class has enjoyed a renaissance with the emergence of the fluoroquinolone subclass.
(12) "There is sufficient evidence... of past surface temperatures to say with a high level of confidence that the last few decades of the 20th century were warmer than any comparable period in the last 400 years.
(13) Plays like The Workhouse Donkey (1963) and Armstrong's Last Goodnight (1964) were staged in major theatres, but as the decade progressed so his identification with the increasingly radical climate of the times began to lead away from the mainstream theatre.
(14) Although the incidence of acute rheumatic fever has declined in the last decades, a few outbreaks have recently been reported.
(15) We report on the clinical studies of bladder tumours carried out at the centre for oncology in the Aarhus area and describe the experience and results of the past three decades.
(16) But the condition of edifices such as B30 and B38 - and all the other "legacy" structures built at Sellafield decades ago - suggest Britain might end up paying a heavy price for this new commitment to nuclear energy.
(17) During the last decade, clinical studies with immunotherapy in recurrent gliomas have been added to the therapeutic regimens.
(18) Grace has no capacity so she will be very mechanised.” This week Robert Mugabe described Mujuru, his vice-president of a decade, as too simplistic .
(19) The thickness of the media in the groups behaves like the number of nuclei: in hypertension with the highest values, there is no significant decrease as far as the 8th cross-section, while in the coronary sclerosis and third decade groups the values come closer together after the 6th cross-section.
(20) But for decades now there has been a systematic undermining of it [the NHS’s] core values.
Decennium
Definition:
(n.) A period of ten years.
Example Sentences:
(1) After more than one decennium of international research work the doubtless identification of the causative agents of the non A-non B-hepatitis (NANBH) has not yet been successful.
(2) 36 patients were younger than 40 years, in general the 6th to 7th decennium was preferred.
(3) In the 10th decennium the value of postoperative letality is reaching almost 30%.
(4) A report is given on experiments of rejuvenation which were carried out in the first decenniums of the 20th century.
(5) Angiomyoma was found to occur in high incidence in the fourth to sixth decennium of age, with clearly recordable predilection for females, and localized in 40 per cent of all cases in the region of the lower leg.
(6) The incidence of pancreatitis has been increasing during the last decennium paralleling a rapid enhancement in alcohol consumption.
(7) The differences in the development balance in the first decennium.
(8) As it was established in 1968, the proportion of the adipose persons (more than 20% of the Broca-weight) and the percental average deviation from the Broca-weight (calculated in decennium classes) was more than in the comparable population groups in the GDR.
(9) The 4th decennium was most frequently concerned in men as well as in women.
(10) The influence of psychic factors on the blood pressure has been known since decenniums.
(11) If visual loss occurred, it usually happened in the first decennium.
(12) Carbohydrate tolerance and preparation of insulin were reduced in decenniums of older age.
(13) It shows a clear increase in the 4th decennium, in these cases there is a higher prevalence of hypertension in males younger than 40 years than in females of the same age, after the 40th year of age the relation inverts itself.
(14) It is impossible to draw conclusions from the clinical material presented; therefore, observation of sterilized men up to the period of the presenium or to their 6th decennium, when ''exhaustion'' of the organism begins to bring about premature disorders of sexual activity, is recommended.
(15) A final judgment is allowed only after an interval of 1 to 2 decenniums.
(16) All those different operation methods thought for the preservation and reconstruction of the posterior canal wall in the last decennium show us in a high degree the extension of the problems.
(17) During the last decenniums the methodology of the clinically controlled study was permanently extended and improved.
(18) In comparison to former decenniums the relations between insulin and immunology have changed and continued to develop.
(19) These complications generally occurred within the first decennium.
(20) The medical practice is occupied with this problem and phenomenon since the sixth decennium of this century.