noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
years/decades/centuries etc of neglect
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After years of neglect, the roads were full of potholes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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early
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Here, as in other areas, we see ecology emerging from a deliberate revolt against the evolutionary morphology of earlier decades .
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But, like so many young artists in the early decades of the century, Miro could not keep away from Paris.
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In the early decades of last century gender differences in late life mortality were very small.
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Douglass, in the early decades of this century-although many of the principles had been understood long before that.
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Both estimates suggest a significant increase in the numbers of elderly with chronic health problems in the early decades of next century.
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In the earlier decade , heavy unemployment in the peripheral regions was also gradually overtaken by consistent national growth.
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Nevertheless, Clements' philosophy represents a notable extension of nineteenth-century developmental attitudes into the early decades of the new century.
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In the early decades of the century, evangelicals had been constrained by the fear of revolution.
past
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Suddenly, the economic miracle of the past decade began to be recognized for what it was.
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I hoped that he might be prepared to congratulate it on its 30 percent. improvement in productivity during the past decade .
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We have played a decisive part in the development of the Community over the past decade .
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That would mean the resumption of the heroic and successful anti-motorway battles of the past two decades .
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This firm has been designing precision assembly robots to make integrated circuits for the past decade .
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On the other hand, the pace of counterurbanization has slowed considerably in the past decade .
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The number of applications for judicial review has none the less increased significantly over the past decade .
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Psychoanalytic theory has probably been the single most important theoretical influence on the discipline of Art History over the past decade .
previous
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Many of those affected by the relocation had left the south as refugees from the conflict there in the previous decade .
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Over the previous decade . investors had put only $ 22 million into Lowertown.
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Not so: the recruit of today is generally better educated and more enquiring than his counterpart of previous decades .
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For most of the previous two decades , McKinsey consultants had concentrated on matters of strategy.
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Higher education had only just resumed with some semblance of normality after the disruption of the previous decade .
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In previous decades this would signify certain defeat for the revolution.
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Sounds like a familiar blueprint from a previous decade .
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This means that sexually active teenagers are using contraceptives more effectively than they have in previous decades .
recent
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This affinity or linkage has real historical roots though its importance and character has changed in recent decades .
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The basic education level of the general population has risen dramatically in recent decades .
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I would like to end by asking what lessons can be drawn from the successes and the disappointments of recent decades .
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In recent decades , such questions might have sounded like a drunken hallucination or worse.
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Solar changes were the main cause from 1750 to 1850, but the greenhouse effect has been dominant in recent decades .
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In recent decades the elegant, abstracted paintings of the Aboriginal people have become famous around the world.
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Furthermore, food productivity has been buoyant throughout the recent decades .
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At the same time, in recent decades City, like many other undergraduate colleges, has ramified upward into a quasi-university.
■ VERB
spend
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In Britain at least we have spent two decades arguing about what type of nuclear reactor to build.
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Social scientists have spent decades trying to discover why some corporate chief executives make more money than others.
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This is the approach on which most of the effort - and the money - has been spent in recent decades .
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Malcolm Forbes spent a couple of decades in the thickets of New Jersey politics and nearly became governor in the 1950s.
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Like other baby boomers who delayed parenthood, she will spend the next two decades defying contemporary ideas of aging.
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Having spent the last decade appearing in television mini-series and narrating Thomas the Tank Engine, Starr has rediscovered his musical roots.
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Judith has spent over two decades building her business.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But because of their longevity they are expected to go on damaging the ozone layer for decades.
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By the end of a decade , it requires artificial means of life support.
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For decades, townspeople thought his childhood home was a three-story rowhouse near the market square, now a porcelain shop.
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I've been at the top in television for a decade , you see, Blanche.
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In Gwinnett County, Ga., a boom that began more than a decade ago continues with no end in sight.
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Such brilliant slickness kept our eyes trained on him for three decades.
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The decade could hardly have ended on a more optimistic note.
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The remaining web of streets was due for redevelopment - the standard solution to housing decay in the last couple of decades.