recent decade
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrecentanddecade
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recent
adjective
uk/ˈriː.sənt/us/ˈriː.sənt/
happening or starting from a short ...
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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 ofrecentanddecadefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The situation drastically changed in therecentdecadewith the ultrashor t laser pulses.
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Overall operative mortality was 9 percent but has steadily declined being 2 percent (1 of 58 patients) during the mostrecentdecade(1988-1997).
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It showed that at the beginning of eachrecentdecade—1969–70, 1979–80, 1989–90 and today—there has been a sudden rise in the wholesale price of oil.
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A number of factories for processing cotton were shut down inrecentdecade.
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Laser - during therecentdecadeintense research has been made into utilization of high energy laser beams for rock disintegration.
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In the mostrecentdecade, however, criticisms of the organization's legitimacy and function arose from within its own members.
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In therecentdecadethere has been an intensive process of replacing the old analog switches with modern digital ones.
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Temperatures in the mostrecentdecade(years 2001-2010) were slightly higher in all seasons than the long-term average.
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The mostrecentdecade, 19992008, was the warmest of the period, and four of the five warmest decades occurred between 1950 and 2000.
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The methodologies evolved in the history of political thought in recent decades have shown that the categories of political science are not eternally applicable.
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Newer methods in recent decades have allowed for the unveiling of many of the intricate complexities underlying the development of higher mental functioning.
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The gap in the timing of entry into this role between the more competent and the least competent seems to have widened in recent decades.
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Recent decades have brought major advances in the prediction of who becomes a serious delinquent.
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The observed increase of damages in recent decades due to extreme weather events has been noted by the insurance industry.
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What has happened in the cognitive sciences in recent decades, then, is this.
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In recent decades, the industrial use of carbonates in the world has expanded markedly.
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In recent decades the acquisition of aspect has been studied intensely for a variety of languages.
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Scholarship in recent decades requires us to modify this view, however.
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One of the research directions in recent decades is the design of manipulators with a parallel mechanical architecture.
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A stronger and more controversial thesis has been proposed and defended by some researchers over recent decades.
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