1, Women have become more assertive in the past decade.

2, Great changes have taken place in the last decade.

3, This decade has passed uneventfully.

4, The last decade has witnessed a serious rise in the levels of racism and hostility to Black and ethnic groups.

5, This would have been considered unthinkable only a decade ago.

6, Has household composition changed in the last decade?

7, In the past decade, the city has been reborn.

8, These climate shifts occurred over less than a decade.

9, This decade began badly for us.

10, These problems persisted for much of the decade.

11, Prices have risen steadily during the past decade.

12, Environmental awareness has increased dramatically over the past decade.

13, He has rounded into his eighth decade.

14, Commercialism has been infiltrating universities for the past decade.

15, Air traffic has increased 30% in the last decade.

16, A decade of misgovernment has bankrupted the country.

17, Demand is expected to increase over the next decade.

18, During the last decade the right wing of the party has held the whip hand.

19, The way we work has undergone a radical transformation in the past decade.

20, This wine is from one of the two best vintages of the decade in this region.

21, The country has been beset by economic woes for the past decade.

22, The newspaper is believed to have been unprofitable for at least the past decade.

23, After the fall of Pitt in 1801 there was a decade of unstable government.

24, The anti-smoking lobby has steadily gained ground in the last decade.

25, This is the toughest crime bill that Congress has passed in a decade.

26, Gone are the support suspenders and gaudy steel rings that strangled the tower for much of the last decade.

27, He's been on several shuttle missions over the last decade.

28, Have history textbooks been dumbed down over the past decade?

29, The number of employees in the company has trebled over the past decade.

30, The critics picked him out as the outstanding male dancer of the decade.