past decade
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpastanddecade
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past
adjective
uk/pɑːst/us/pæst/
used to refer to a period of time before and until ...
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decade
noun[C]
uk/ˈdek.eɪd/us/ˈdek.eɪd/
a period of ten years, especially a period such as 2010 ...
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(Definition ofpastanddecadefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In gerontology, over thepastdecadestudies of nursing homes and housing settings have burgeoned.
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Over thepastdecade, powerful new tools and approaches for understanding the neural circuitry involved in emotion have become increasingly available.
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Over thepastdecade, an alternative suggestion has gained ground.
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Unfortunately, thepastdecadehas not witnessed much response to her suggestion.
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This article succinctly outlines a number of key findings and conclusions on the nature of reading, drawing on his research over thepastdecade.
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Over thepastdecade, many of these systems have matured to a stage where they become increasingly attractive for commercial, large-scale software projects.
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The depreciation rate is set to = 0.09, which implies an initial steady-state investment-to-output ratio (21.5%), consistent with the average of thepastdecade.
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These have become less and less popular over thepastdecadeor two and are now not commonly prescribed.
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Their advent is not new; yet in thepastdecadethere has been a proliferation in the development of clinical practice guidelines.
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Advances in computer hardware and software, particularly in thepastdecade, have led to the emergence of many new planning and treatment techniques in radiotherapy.
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As will become clear in the remainder of this review, considerable progress has been made towards answering these questions in thepastdecade.
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But in thepastdecadeor so there has been a novel and interesting development.
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A study of benchmark indices suggests an average investment performance differential between growth and non-growth assets of about 5% over thepastdecade.
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Over thepastdecadeor so, there has been active development of alternative time-frequency representation schemes, independent of computer music research and largely theoretical.
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In fact the dramatic transformation of macroeconomics during thepastdecadehas reflected the adoption of more scientific methodology than had previously characterized the field.
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Nonetheless, over thepastdecadethere has been considerable progress in developing rationale treatment strategies for children and adolescents with bipolar disorder.
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This depiction obscures the reality that in thepastdecadeor more, legal responses to problems of land relations have been energetically promoted.
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Thepastdecadehas seen a remarkable upsurge of interest in, as well as academic comment upon, the phenomenon of political corruption.
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