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Usage examples of decade.

This Dionysian pleasure in the release of bestiality and evil, begun by the Viennese Actionists, can be traced through every succeeding decade.

David remembered reading of adipocere, fatty tissues changed chemically to waxy material, preserving bodies for decades.

James Warburg affidavit is not aimed at the original boo but rather at an anti-Semitic book circulated over a decade later.

It was located in impoverished East London, where a decade earlier the tragic Tussy Marx had spent her happiest moments agitating among low-paid Jewish immigrants and found herself unexpectedly drawn to the racial heritage that her father so despised.

He said he saw no reason why such a retrograde amnesia should not thrust backward decades, or almost a whole lifetime.

Cannibalistic behavior predates by decades the appearance of all disease symptoms, and by inference, the appearance of amyloid plaque lesions in the brain tissue.

At present, in Great Britain at least, the headmasters entrusted with the education of the bulk of the influential men of the next decades are conspicuously second-rate men, forced and etiolated creatures, scholarship boys manured with annotated editions, and brought up under and protected from all current illumination by the kale-pot of the Thirty-nine Articles.

Croatia descended into political apathy from which it did not emerge for almost two decades.

Decades elapsed, for instance, before the apologetic theology came to be generally known and accepted in the Church, as is shown by the long continued conflict against Monarchianism.

This layered imaging technique, far more precise than old-fashioned X-raying, allowed one to determine the age of the victim to the decade, judging by the hardening in the articular cartilage and in the blood vessels, since medicine, at the time these people lived, had not yet learned how to halt the changes termed sclerosis.

She had been required to stand up to Philip for the decade and a half when they had skulked from neighborhood to neighborhood until returning to within two blocks of the house on Auer Avenue where Timothy and Philip were born to Mom and Pop Underhill.

Who now for the last six decades had been the priest in charge of the Franciscan bakery in Jerusalem.

She set an oak bench against the south wall and flanked it with buddleias for the butterflies - and decades later, the Basher, who had fought her all the way, came there to die.

Had beheaded him and beaten him as punishment, had drugged and hypnotized him into decades of dreaming hell.

The province of Quebec, an historic battleground where the French and English settle their differences with weapons and words over the centuries, may have seen more biker murders in the last two decades than all of the United States.