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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.

Millennium


Definition:

  • (n.) A thousand years; especially, the thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, during which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the world. Some believe that, during this period, Christ will reign on earth in person with his saints.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Britons certainly divided over that strange, heady Diana week in 1997 and again over how to mark the millennium.
  • (2) "Unless and until vulnerabilities are addressed effectively, and all people enjoy the opportunity to share in human development progress, development advances will be neither equitable nor sustainable," Clark said, noting that protection for vulnerable people should be included in the sustainable development goals, which will replace the millennium development goals when they expire next year.
  • (3) Litvinenko died aged 43 after drinking tea laced with radioactive polonium-210 at a meeting with two Russian men at the Millennium hotel in Grosvenor Square, London, in November 2006.
  • (4) According to the MDC source, whose name the Observer has redacted, "Kofi Annan, in the recent meeting in New York during the millennium summit offered Mugabe a deal to step down.
  • (5) As current aid levels stand, the first Millennium Development Goal to halve the number of people who suffer from hunger would "slip through its [DfID's] fingers and further out of reach", says the report, which opens with a message from Boyzone singer Ronan Keating, a UN FAO goodwill ambassador.
  • (6) These criteria cover poverty reduction and the millennium development goals, respect for human rights, good governance, transparency and accountability.
  • (7) World leaders will assemble at the UN general assembly this month to hear Ban Ki-moon set out his vision for what should replace the millennium development goals (MDGs).
  • (8) She wrote to Moore and asked him to remove it in accordance with the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
  • (9) There was Paul Nicolaou, the head of the Liberal party fundraising arm the Millennium Forum who, the Icac was told, was getting a $5,000 a month lobbying fee.
  • (10) Two weeks before the ill-fated encounter in the Millennium hotel, the pair met Litvinenko in the Grosvenor Square office of a private security company.
  • (11) The strategic locations are: Stratford, in east London, which is seen as an emerging Olympic city and centrepiece of the country's bid for the 2012 Olympics; Greenwich and Woolwich, involving new and rebuilt communities near the floundering millennium dome site; Barking, where work has already begun on a new township; Thurrock in Essex, involving a new urban development corporation with sweeping planning powers, and North Kent Thameside, between Dartford and Gravesend, which embraces Ebbsfleet.
  • (12) Carmel McConnell, the founder and chief executive of Magic Breakfast, first got involved with the issue around the turn of the millennium, when she was visiting schools to conduct research for a book on how business could engage with local communities.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully lands on ocean platform The busts Those accomplishments have not come without repeated failures, the most spectacular of which occurred during attempts to land their Falcon 9 rockets, named after Star Wars’ Millennium Falcon .
  • (14) The Millennium Development Goals have succeeded in bringing down the numbers of deaths of children under the age of five, but the rate of reduction of newborn deaths is about half that of the rest.
  • (15) In September 2015, UN negotiators will work towards an agreement on what will come after the millennium development goals (MDGs) expire that year.
  • (16) The Doctor Who anniversary celebrations continue for the rest of the millennium • This article was amended on 22 November 2013 to remove swearwords
  • (17) The Italian, who will hand Darren Bent and Jack Wilshere their first competitive starts at the Millennium Stadium, was quick to insist he remains the right man to coach the national team after a little over three years and 34 matches at the helm.
  • (18) Christians form about 10% of Egypt's population, and have lived largely peacefully alongside Muslims for over a millennium.
  • (19) Writing in the Observer , Rogers, whose architectural partnership designed the Millennium Dome and the National Assembly of Wales, states that the “brilliant garden bridge will enhance our public realm and reconnect the city, strengthening London’s renaissance, celebrating the river, creating an oasis of calm and beauty, and opening up new perspectives on London”.
  • (20) It met the millennium development goal of halving poverty rates by 2015 , and was hailed as a model of political stability after peaceful elections.

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