a decade passes
Frequency: 7.27.1 per million words
Another common way to say that ten years have gone by.
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Examples (10)
- This decade has passed uneventfully.
- A decade passed before they saw each other again.
- By the time we finish this project, another decade will have passed.
- It felt as if a decade had passed in just a few short months.
- Time flies; a decade passes in the blink of an eye.
- With each decade that passed, the city changed beyond recognition.
- Has a whole decade really passed since we graduated?
- Not even a full decade had passed before the technology became obsolete.
- A lost decade passed with little economic growth for the country.
- Let not another decade pass without significant progress on this issue.