Below you will find example sentences with "past decade". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Past Decade in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: decade
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 17
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 26 words

Words in this phrase

past decade

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • past can mean: The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future. Common word
  • decade can mean: A group, set, or series of ten , particularly Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 1 start, 10 middle, 9 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

in the past decade 3× over the past decade 2× for the past decade 1× for the past decade plus and 1× in the past decade 75 in 1× in the past decade for the 1× of the past decade has seen 1× over the past decade 807 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a new study 1× about half 49 1× although private equity 1× anaheim which has 1× and contracts are 1× and i think 1×

Common sentence endings:

the past decade 6× a wide margin 1× and early 2000s 1× any other company 1× by the market 1× decade more holistically 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

market 3× contracts 3× people 2× helping 2× company 2× year 2× especially 2× few 2× years 2× manager 2× getting 2× growth 2×

Related phrases

past year walks past past few past two past week next decade decade ago last decade drives past nearly decade

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around decade:

next decade 12× last decade 11× nearly decade 9×

Just before it in the phrase index:

passion fruit passing yards passing touchdowns passing game passenger vehicles passenger trains

Just after it in the phrase index:

past few past mistakes past two past week past year past years

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

past year past few past two past week past mistakes past years

Same ending:

next decade last decade nearly decade

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "past decade" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as in the past decade, over the past decade, market, contracts and people stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with past year, walks past, past few, next decade, last decade and nearly decade, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with past decade

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

And something unexpected happened over the past decade or so. (10 words)

Apart from acquisitions, revenue growth over the past decade benefited from the uptrend in Housing Starts. (16 words)

According to the report, there have been more than 800 total losses over the past decade (807). (17 words)

Longer example sentences

What has emerged from the conversations is that there is agreement, among the fans, the quality of the game, back in the ‘80s, 90s and in the first decade of the millennium, was better than what has been on display in the past decade. (44 words)

While Quesada has done plenty of work for DC in the past, he has been synonymous with Marvel Comics for the past decade-plus -- and is even credited with helping to save the company from financial ruin in the late 1990s and early 2000s. (44 words)

As all eyes are set on the to be presented by Finance Minister today, the speech is likely to be an exercise in underscoring the achievements of the incumbent government not just over the past year but also over the past decade. (42 words)

Example sentences (20)

It can remind people of and emphasize their earliest movie-viewing experiences of the decade, helping to eliminate recency bias and allow people to look at movies over the past decade more holistically.

What has emerged from the conversations is that there is agreement, among the fans, the quality of the game, back in the ‘80s, 90s and in the first decade of the millennium, was better than what has been on display in the past decade.

While Quesada has done plenty of work for DC in the past, he has been synonymous with Marvel Comics for the past decade-plus -- and is even credited with helping to save the company from financial ruin in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

As all eyes are set on the to be presented by Finance Minister today, the speech is likely to be an exercise in underscoring the achievements of the incumbent government not just over the past year but also over the past decade.

Because of the worldwide smartphone market’s explosion over the past decade – especially in the past few years – we’ve got massive amounts of headphones and earbuds flooding the market.

He has served as the assistant general manager with the Nashville Predators for the past 12 years and admitted that getting passed over for certain job openings over the past decade started to take a toll.

Over the past decade, and especially in the past few seasons, there has been a concerted effort to include performers of color.

The Strip, over the course of the past decade, has seen more growth than in any year’s past, and by a wide margin.

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The Watchdog has received thousands of complaints about AT&T in the past decade (75 in the past four months), far more than any other company.

About half (49%) of Zambians say droughts have become more severe in their region over the past decade, a proportion that has almost doubled since 2017.

According to his close aide, the books the professor gave out had been collected over the past decade.

According to the report, there have been more than 800 total losses over the past decade (807).

Although private equity’s foray into book publishing is new, funds have been news publications for the past decade.

Anaheim — which has the highest signing authority amount in Orange County — has come in the past decade for the city manager’s power to sign contracts.

And contracts are getting bigger: over the past decade, the median value of procurement contracts has increased by 50% in real terms.

And I think it's one of those capabilities of Fifth Third that we've proven over the past decade that's perhaps underappreciated by the market.

And something unexpected happened over the past decade or so.

A new study has said that the number of nightclubs in the UK has almost halved in the past decade.

Apart from acquisitions, revenue growth over the past decade benefited from the uptrend in Housing Starts.

Apple have managed to convice a lot of Android users to switch to iPhones in the past decade.

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