Below you will find example sentences with "decade ago". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Decade Ago in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: ago
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 11
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 28.3 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 10 start, 6 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "decade ago" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 28.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a decade ago 37 year, a decade ago few could, years, almost and two stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with years ago, year ago, month ago, years ago, year ago and month ago, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with decade ago
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Health care was addressed a decade ago, abortion almost a half-century ago. (13 words)
Almost a decade ago, the One Southdale Place apartments were built on the Southdale property. (15 words)
Almost a decade ago, California enacted a law that is supposed to protect groundwater reserves from overpumping. (17 words)
A highly anticipated appeal hearing for a man convicted of killing an Indigenous woman in Edmonton more than a decade ago has been postponed — along with at least a half-dozen other cases — due to a power outage lasting more than 24 hours. (43 words)
In relation to community housing, the target set over a decade ago in an MOU between the ACT government and CHC Community Housing, which the ACT government unilaterally abandoned some years ago, would have been 600 over five years. (39 words)
Harare effectively abandoned its north-eastern suburbs almost a decade ago, with intermittent supplies pumped to northern and eastern suburbs, largely weekly for a few hours, until anything between three months and a year ago when flows abruptly ceased. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Spain, meanwhile, were amazing as a team for nearly a decade when they won two Euros and one World Cup all in a row just over a decade ago.
In relation to community housing, the target set over a decade ago in an MOU between the ACT government and CHC Community Housing, which the ACT government unilaterally abandoned some years ago, would have been 600 over five years.
The skills a leader needs today are different from the skills needed a generation ago — or even a decade ago.
Two thirds of people responding to a recent budget consultation from South Gloucestershire Council said they were satisfied with the local area, down from over three quarters two years ago, and 85 per cent a decade ago.
Health care was addressed a decade ago, abortion almost a half-century ago.
More than a decade ago, Biden lost one of his sons, who went through one such neuro-brain surgery several years ago, to brain cancer.
Harare effectively abandoned its north-eastern suburbs almost a decade ago, with intermittent supplies pumped to northern and eastern suburbs, largely weekly for a few hours, until anything between three months and a year ago when flows abruptly ceased.
Housing prices don’t go down to the levels they were over a decade ago but merely a few years ago.
Despite admitting in depositions more than a decade ago to giving Constand Benadryl pills on the night of the alleged assault in his Philadelphia-area mansion nearly 13 years ago, Cosby has insisted that the encounter was consensual.
Kevin Norton, Phil Lynch, Tom Bell and the Gustafson family operate five boats between them, down from 17 boats a decade ago and dozens 40 years ago.
Abdil, an office worker who emigrated to the U.K. a decade ago from Somalia, said over a bowl of chicken curry that he decided to sleep in instead of watching the ceremonies.
A brocade fabric reprised from an collection of a decade ago still made for one of the highlights when cut in a miniskirt or short frock.
A decade ago, 37-year-old Jeff Bush was sleeping in a bedroom when the earth opened up and devoured him and part of the house.
A decade ago, few could have foreseen that the University of Maryland would regret operating a Catholic hospital.
A decade ago, it was my that was next to impossible to raise awareness for but now the media is bringing tangible change and hope for sufferers including increased government funding for research.
A decade ago, J.P. Morgan Asset Management found companies that initiated and grew their dividend over the four decades between 1972 and 2012 outperformed non-dividend-paying stocks by a wide margin.
A decade ago, that wouldn’t have been particularly disappointing, but these days, China makes some wonderfully weird, interesting cars that would give plenty of other countries’ automakers a run for their money.
A highly anticipated appeal hearing for a man convicted of killing an Indigenous woman in Edmonton more than a decade ago has been postponed — along with at least a half-dozen other cases — due to a power outage lasting more than 24 hours.
Almost a decade ago, California enacted a law that is supposed to protect groundwater reserves from overpumping.
Almost a decade ago, the One Southdale Place apartments were built on the Southdale property.