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Definition of Decades
1. decade [n] - See also: decade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decades
Literary usage of Decades
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Technology Against Terrorism: The Federal Effort (1992)
"In, a total of 309 international operations were recorded; this figure more than
doubled in two decades, reaching 661 incidents in. ..."
2. Publication by Cleveland Foundation Survey Committee (1916)
"CHAPTER II DEVELOPMENTS IN SEVEN decades By 1850 Cleveland had developed a well
organized school system. Buildings were erected for long years of service. ..."
3. Literary Criticism from the Elizabethan Dramatists by John Tucker Murray, David Klein, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, William Winter, Rosamond Gilder, Felix Emmanuel Schelling, William Dean Howells, Mary Findlater, Jane Helen Findlater, Allan McAulay, William Randolph Hearst (1908)
"... the conservatism of the academic drama rendered a foregone conclusion. in the
first two decades of The variety of Within the first twenty years of ..."
4. Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England from the by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1908)
"... of the academic drama rendered a foregone conclusion. two decades of n , ...
of drama known to the later in the first decades had been clearly presaged. ..."