Below you will find example sentences with "decades ago". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Decades Ago in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: decades
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 15
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 29 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 7 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "decades ago" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 29 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 15 two decades ago, a few decades ago thanks to, two, four and nearly stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with years ago, two decades, year ago, two decades, four decades and few decades, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with decades ago
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
A couple of decades ago, typewriters' loud noises permeated offices, and large piles of paper filled large cabinets and desktops. (20 words)
But after Israel withdrew its forces and settlers from Gaza nearly two decades ago, Hamas vastly expanded the underground network. (20 words)
A man chatting to friends had a "eureka moment" when he realised he had been a victim of a paedophile decades ago. (22 words)
As a former longtime resident of China and someone who has been studying the country since I was a college student many decades ago, I could not prevent myself from trying to imagine the run of experiences the two elders had lived through. (43 words)
The original “Murphy Brown” debuted three decades ago and ended nearly 20 years ago, inspiring a generation of professional women who have since wrestled with the merits and fallacy of “leaning in” and “having it all” and everything in between. (40 words)
According to a study published in The Lancet, Diabetes and Endocrinology, 10.1 crore people in India are suffering from diabetes, and till two decades ago, diabetes was known as a health problem associated with increasing age. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
The potential normalization deal could have a seismic effect, unlike anything the region has seen in decades, bigger than the signing of the Camp David peace deal between Israel and Egypt more than four decades ago.
Calum began balding two decades ago ago, and underwent his first hair transplant procedure in Ireland when he was in his 20s - though it is not known where.
The original “Murphy Brown” debuted three decades ago and ended nearly 20 years ago, inspiring a generation of professional women who have since wrestled with the merits and fallacy of “leaning in” and “having it all” and everything in between.
A $1 million reward is being offered to help solve the murder of a teenage boy shot dead in a botched robbery almost three decades ago.
About two decades ago, the DOT began planning to replace the 2.5-mile series of viaducts that carry I-84 through much of Hartford.
According to a study published in The Lancet, Diabetes and Endocrinology, 10.1 crore people in India are suffering from diabetes, and till two decades ago, diabetes was known as a health problem associated with increasing age.
A couple of decades ago, Regev noted, if you wanted to go out for dinner in Jerusalem on a Friday night, you had to travel to east Jerusalem.
A couple of decades ago, typewriters' loud noises permeated offices, and large piles of paper filled large cabinets and desktops.
A few decades ago, the island nation was renowned for its soaring economy fueled by its vibrant youth culture and passion for technology.
A man chatting to friends had a "eureka moment" when he realised he had been a victim of a paedophile decades ago.
America, Gulf powers, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom all supported Sunni Islamists against Communist Najibullah in Afghanistan several decades ago – despite Najibullah introducing educational reforms for women along with other positive measures.
An 83-year-old man from Louth who admitted historic sex offences against a young girl more than four decades ago has been sentenced to more than six years imprisonment.
And the trend seems sure to accelerate: The percentage of workers who are 55 or older is nearly 24%, up from only about 15% two decades ago.
As a former longtime resident of China and someone who has been studying the country since I was a college student many decades ago, I could not prevent myself from trying to imagine the run of experiences the two elders had lived through.
A similar bradyseism occurred four decades ago, where magma chambers filling and draining deep below the Earth's surface prompted the evacuation of 40,000 people.
As I recall my time at that White House luncheon four decades ago, it is clear that today’s politicians must put party politics aside and do the job their constituents elected them to do.
As Weckstein explains it, there were virtually no falcons or hawks in Philadelphia a few decades ago thanks to DDT, that nasty insecticide that caused so many problems in the world.
But after Israel withdrew its forces and settlers from Gaza nearly two decades ago, Hamas vastly expanded the underground network.
But, during those cutthroat slice-price wars two decades ago, “hot” cheese seemed to be one way some operators cut costs on their most expensive ingredient.
But the Daily Beast story reported on how Florida officials snubbed a task force established nearly three decades ago to advance its revisionist history.