decade

For at least the last decade, the happiness craze has been building.(至少在过去的十年里，人们对幸福的狂热一直在升温。)

The company has indeed become more commercial over the past decade.(这个公司在过去的十年里确实已变得越来越商业化了。)

He would have been a saint, but within a decade, we shall have him.(他本可以成为一名圣徒，但是，不出十年我们就可以得到他了。)

It's estimated that birth rate has dropped dramatically over the past decade.(据统计，在过去十年中，人口出生率急剧下降。)

The IMF has scaled back its growth forecasts for the next decade.(国际货币基金组织已经调低对未来十年的增长预测。)

Over the past decade, prices leaped by more than double the inflation rate.(在过去的十年里，物价的上涨速度是通货膨胀率的两倍多。)

They typically appear about once in a decade.(它们通常大概每十年出现一次。)

We hope to have test flights in this decade.(我们希望在这十年内进行试验飞行。)

Until a decade ago, most scientists thought that only a volcano had such energy.(直到十年前，大多数科学家认为只有火山才有这样的能量。)

His latest CD is a compilation of his jazz works over the past decade.(他最新的CD是他过去十年的爵士乐作品集。)

用作名词(n.)

Several decades have elapsed since I graduated from the college.
自我大学毕业已经好几十年了。The last decade of the eighteenth century was a time of great social change. 18
世纪最后10年是社会发生巨变的10年。The world will considerably change in the next few decades.
世界在今后数十年里将有相当大的变化。Price have risen sharply in the last decade.
物价最近十年中暴涨。The custom has prevailed for decades.
这个风俗已盛行数十年。I feel like we have known each other for decades.
我觉得咱们俩像是相识好久好久似的。He is been in that job for decades.
他在那个岗位上一干就是数十年。

用作名词 (n.)

形容词+～

the past decade在过去的十年里last decade在最近的十年next decade自下个十年期间

～+介词

the first decade of the 21th century 21世纪的头10年

As hopelessly lost as the second decade of Livy.