decennia

But it would take a few decennia I guess to convince the esthabliment that such an event explains about exactly what we see today as evidence.

IPCC 1995 [SAR] – An Extended Excerpt « Climate Audit 2005

Het geweten van de Britse pop wordt de band wel eens genoemd; ze wordt algemeen beschouwd als één van de belangrijkste en meest invloedrijke Britse popgroepen van de afgelopen decennia.

The Fall 1999

The most general and positive result of the study of the brain in recent decennia has been the doctrine of the localization of the separate functions.

Wilhelm Ostwald - Nobel Lecture 1966

By the spoken and the written word he, perhaps more than any other, has carried modern theories to a rapid victory and for several decennia he played a leading part in the field of general chemistry.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1909 - Presentation Speech 1966

The specific type of research which characterized organic chemistry during the final decennia of the century that has just closed attained its zenith of development and its finest form in

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1902 - Presentation Speech 1966

An impressive number of workers have been active in the macromolecular field during the last decennia.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1953 - Presentation Speech 1964

For decennia on end indeed they hold fast to it, but soon their idolatrous tendency, which has only been repressed by fear of the judge during his lifetime, again finds expression; they must have

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

During the decennia which immediately followed, Jewish history was practically absorbed in vain attempts to restore the old

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

The first decennia after the return of the exiles, during which they were occupied in adjusting themselves to their new homes, were passed under a variety of adverse circumstances and by no means either in joyousness or security.

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

And the issue is this -- starting from the contemptuous defiance of the scriptural doctrine upon the necessity of making provision for poverty as an indispensable element in civil communities, the economy of the age has lowered its tone by graduated descents, in each one successively of the four last _decennia_.

Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822