Decade Sentence Examples

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  • Then there can be a week, a month, a year, a decade, and a century without war.

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  • It had only been two years, but it felt like a decade.

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  • Jackson was thrilled at the thought of spending a decade or so at his favorite home, claiming North America to be fresh and new.

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  • The following decade was the most active of the city's history as regards the ocean carrying trade.

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  • You'd think we were still sitting in the same high school bleachers where we'd met a decade earlier.

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  • The team spent over a decade making sure the rocket was ready to launch into space.

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  • It took a decade or two for the new medium to be seen in light of itself, not just in terms of what it displaced.

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  • Though it is crowded with incident, the main facts in the central decade of Bruce's life may be rapidly told.

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  • With the incoming of the last decade of the century there seemed to be some justifiable hopes of the dawn of better times, but they were speedily doomed to disappointment.

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  • But it was only during the last decade of his life that he ventured, with much hesitation, to present his ideas in a systematic and final form.

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  • Over the past decade, Emma saw tremendous changes in her life.

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  • In the past decade there has been an outbreak of superhero films.

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  • From Mohl down to the eighth decade of the century the study of anatomy was entirely in the hands of a group of German.

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  • Judah itself was next involved in an anti-Assyrian league (with Edom, Moab and Philistia), but apparently submitted in time; nevertheless a decade later (70r), after the change of dynasty in Assyria, it participated in a great but unsuccessful effort from Phoenicia to Philistia to shake off the yoke, and suffered disastrously.3 With the crushing blows upon Syria and Samaria the centre of interest moves southwards and the history is influenced by Assyria's rival Babylonia (under Marduk-baladan and his successors), by north Arabia and by Egypt.

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  • It ended in 1201, and the last decade of Sancho's reign was a period of peaceful reform which earned for the king his popular name of o Povoador, the " maker of towns."

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  • In the last decade of the 19th century the chief discoveries were of the bacillus of influenza (1892), of the bacillus of plague (1894) and of the bacillus of dysentery (1898).

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  • The reunion was very exciting because it had been over a decade since they last saw each other.

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  • The engineers want to make three-dimensional printers available to the hoi polloi in the next decade.

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  • Our government has began to lean continually moretotalitarian during the past decade.

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  • She has written about animal-related issues for more than a decade.

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  • An older person might not be fond of current hip-hop, but enjoy rock music from a past decade, or they may like jazz or classical.

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  • I don't even know the decade the guy died, much less who he was or who might be connected to him.

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  • Finally, as Justin's statements as to the birth of Jesus in a cave and Mary's descent from David show in all probability his acquaintance with the book, it may with good grounds be assigned to the first decade of the 2nd century.

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  • His first decade undoubtedly influenced Camoens, and together the two men fixed the Portuguese written tongue, the one by his prose, the other by his verse.

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  • In 1901 the population was 188,022, showing an increase of 12% during the decade.

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  • The population in 1901 was 1,060,528, showing an increase of 6% during the decade.

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  • Quite distinct is the search for the germs which cause undesirable changes, or " diseases "; and great strides have been made in discovering the bacteria concerned in rendering milk " ropy," butter " oily " and " rancid," &c. Cheese in its numerous forms contains myriads of bacteria, and some of these are now known to be concerned in the various processes of ripening and other changes affecting the product, and although little is known as to the exact part played by any species, practical applications of the discoveries of the decade 1890-1900 have been made, e.g.

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  • Much as the decade from 1880 to 1890 abounded with investigations on the reactions of bacteria to heat, so the following decade was remarkable for discoveries regarding the effects of other forms of radiant energy.

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  • By 1876 the anthrax bacillus had been obtained in pure culture by Koch, and some other pathogenic bacteria had been observed in the tissues, but it was in the decade 1880-1890 that the most important discoveries were made in this field.

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  • The last decade of the 19th century will stand out in the history of medical science as the period in which serum therapeutics and serum diagnosis had their birth.

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  • The population in 1901 was 137,268, showing a decrease of 12% in the decade; the estimated gross revenue is L21,437; the tribute, £310.

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  • Up to 1900 the most prosperous period (absolutely) in the agricultural development of the state was the last decade of the 19th century; the relative increase, however, was greater between 1880 and 1890.

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  • Wheat, which in 1899 ranked second ($2,131,953), showed an increase of more than 400% in the decade, and the farm value of the crop of 1907, according to the Year-book of the United States Department of Agriculture, was $5,788,000; the value of the barley crop in 1899 ($312,730) also increased more than 400% over that of 1889, and in 1907 the farm value of the product, according to the same authority, was $1,265,000; the value of the oat crop in 1899 ($7 02, 955) showed an increase of more than 300% in the decade, and the value of the product in 1907, according to the United States Department of Agriculture, was $2,397,000.

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  • In 1901 the population (on a reduced area) was 854,533, showing an increase of 11% in the decade.

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  • The population of Michigan in 1880 was 1,636,937; in 1890 it was 2,093,889, an increase of 27.9% within the decade; in 1900 it was 2,420,982, a further increase of 15.6% and in 1910, according to the preliminary returns of the U.S. census, it was 2,810,173.

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  • This was further increased during the Civil War, but after the close of that war it was rapidly diminished and finally was extinguished in the last decade of the century.

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  • Pop. (1901) 45,901, showing a decrease of 21% in the decade.

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  • The population in 1901 was 100,430, being a decrease of 17% during the decade; the estimated gross revenue is £25,412; and the tribute £600.

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  • Various indications point to the period from 27 to 20 B.C., as that during which the first decade was written.

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  • As to the first decade, it is generally agreed that in the first and second books, at any rate, he follows such older and simpler writers as Fabius Pictor and Calpurnius Piso (the only ones whom he there refers to by name), to whom, so far as the first book is concerned, Niebuhr (Lectures, p 33) would add the poet Ennius.

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  • Passing to the third decade, we find ourselves at once confronted by a question which has been long and fully discussed - the relation between Livy and Polybius.

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  • It is conceded on all hands that Livy in this decade makes con For Livy's debt to Valerius Antias, see A A Howard in Harvard Studies Classical Philology, xvii (1906), pp 161 sqq.

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  • Consequently the theory that he used Polybius in the third decade requires us to assume that in this one instance he departed widely, and without sufficient reason, from his usual course of procedure.

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  • The latter Livy certainly used directly for some parts of the decade.

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  • In the latter books of the decade his chief authority is possibly Valerius Antias.

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  • It is clear, on the contrary, that his circle of authorities for any one decade was a comparatively small one, that of these he selected one, and transcribed him with the necessary embellishments and other slight modifications until impelled by various reasons to drop him.

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  • For the third decade our chief authority is the Codex Puteanus, an uncial MS. of the 5th century, now at Paris.

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  • What remains of the fifth decade depends on the 5th century Laurishamensis or Vindobonensis from the monastery of Lorsch, edited at Basel in 1531.

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  • Calcutta and Bombay have long contested the position of the premier city of India in population and trade; but during the decade 1891-1901 the prevalence of plague in Bombay gave a considerable advantage to Calcutta, which was comparatively free from that disease.

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  • In the decade 18891899 the apple crop increased from 603,890 to 4,640,896 bushels.

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  • But the predominance of the pastuial industry is not by any means so marked as it was even as late as the last decade of the 19th century.

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  • Penal establishments were formed at Newcastle in New South Wales, at Hobart and Launceston in Tasmania, and an unsuccessful attempt was made to colonize Port Phillip. The most noteworthy incident in the first decade of the 19th century was the forcible deportation by the officers of the New South Wales Corps, a regiment raised in England for service in the colony, of the governor, Captain Bligh, R.N., the naval officer identified with the mutiny of the " Bounty."

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  • Parramatta, Richmond and Windsor had indeed been founded within the first decade of the colony's existence; Newcastle, Maitland and Morpeth, near the coast to the north of Sydney, had been begun during the earlier years of the 19th century; but the towns of the interior, Goulburn, Bathurst and others, were not commenced till about 1835, in which year the site of Melbourne was first occupied by Batman and Fawkner.

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  • The population in 1901 was 837,695, showing a decrease of 6% in the decade, due to the results of famine.

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  • Housing.-The total area of England and Wales covered by urban districts (a term which coincides pretty nearly with that of towns, which bears no technical meaning in England) was 3,848,987 acres, and contained a population of 25,058,355 in 1901, the increase in the decade 1891-1901 being 15.2%.

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  • In 1906 the population of the commune was 17,790, of the town 10,464; the population of the former was more than doubled in the last decade of the 19th century.

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  • The number of other neat cattle (180,878 in 1900; 151,000 in 1908) decreased during every decade from 1860 to 1900; the number of sheep in 1900 was 427,209 (31.9% less than in 1890), and in 1908 it was 267,000; but the number of horses in 1890 and 1900 was about the same (140,310 in 1900, but only 116,000 in 1908).

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  • The total value of the manufactures of the state increased from $95,689,500 in 1890 to $127,361,485 in 1900; and in 1905 the value of factory-made products alone was $144,020,197, or 2 7.5% greater than their value in 1900.1 Measured by the value of the output, paper and wood pulp rose from fifth among the state's manufactures in 1890 to third in 1900 and to first in 1905; from $3,281,051 in 1890 to $13,223,275 in 1900, an increase of 303% within the decade, and to $22,951,124 in 1905, a further increase of 73.6% in this period.

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  • Woollen goods ranked fourth (1905) - $8,737,653 in 1890, $ 1 3,744, 126 in 1900, an increase of 57.3% within the decade; and the value of the factory-made product alone in 1905 was $13,969,600, or 20.1% greater than in 1900.

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  • Fish, canned and preserved, followed next, $1,660,881 in 1890 and $4,779,773 in 1900, an increase within the decade of 187.8%, most of which was in one branch - the canning of small herring 1 under the name " sardines "; from 1900 to 1905 the increase was slight, only $275,358, or 5.8 / 0.

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  • Decade after decade these processes went on, a rain of minute scales and grains falling, according to one witness, continually from the surface, till the picture seemed to be perishing altogether.

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  • When, in the last decade of the 19th century, works of thorough architectural investigation and repair were undertaken in that building under the superintendence of Professor Luca Beltrami, a devoted foreign student, Dr Paul Muller-Walde, obtained leave to scrape for traces of Leonardo's handiwork beneath the replastered and whitewashed walls and ceilings of chambers that might be identified with these.

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  • In 1901 the population was 285,326, showing a decrease of 1 2% in one decade due to famine.

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  • During the decade 1891-1901 Bengal was fortunate in escaping to a great extent the two calamities of famine and plague which afflicted central and western India.

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  • In 1901 the population was 2,291,752, showing an increase of 6% in the decade.

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  • The number of factories increased from fifty-three in 1881 to eighty-three in 1890, and that decade saw the influx of a great industrial population from the surrounding districts; but the decade 1891-1901 witnessed at least a temporary set-back owing to the ravages caused by plague and the effects of over-production.

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  • Bombay, however, soon recovered herself, and in 1891 was more prosperous than ever before; but during the ensuing decade great havoc was played by plague (q.v.) with both her population and her trade.

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  • Mining was begun in Iron and Crawford counties in the second decade of the 19th century; at Iron Mountain in 1846, and at Pilot Knob in the next year.

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  • The population of Oregon was 13,294 in 1850; 52,465 in 1860; 9 0, 9 2 3 in 1870; 174,768 in 1880; 317,70 4 in 1890; 413,536 in 1900, an increase of 30.2% in the decade; and 672,765 in 1 9 10, a further increase of 62.7%.

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  • In 1901 the population was 789,664, showing an increase of 15% in the decade.

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  • During the decade 1891-1901 the mill industry passed through a period of depression due to widespread plague and famine, but on the whole there has been a marked expansion of the trade as well as a great improvement in the class of goods produced.

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  • The great increase during the decade 1890-1900 was partly due to the absorption by Clinton in 1895 of the city of Lyons (pop. in 1890, 5700).

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  • In 1901 the population was 1,071,197, an increase of 9% in the decade.

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  • To make the year completely ordinal, we should have to describe it as the 6th year of the 8th decade of the 9 th century of the 2nd millennium; i.e.

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  • The principal crops in which the state has maintained a high relative rank are Indian corn, wheat and hay; the acreage devoted to each of these increased considerably in the decade 1890-1900.

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  • The growth in the preceding decade of the iron and steel industry, the products of which increased in value from $4,742,760 in 1890 to $19,338,481 in 1900 (307.7%), and of the manufacture of glass, the value of which increased from $2,995,409 in 1890 to $ 1 4,757, 88 3 in 1900 (392.7%), is directly attributable to the development of natural gas as fuel; the decrease in the value of the products of these same industries in1900-1905is partly due to the growing scarcity of the natural gas supply.

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  • The decade following the close of the war was one of ceaseless Indian warfare.

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  • The first great political problem presenting itself was that of slavery, and for a decade or more the only party divisions were on pro-slavery and anti-slavery lines.

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  • The problem of " internal improvements" came to be of paramount importance in the decade 1820-1830.

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  • In this western third the rainfall is insufficient for Indian corn; but Kafir corn, an exceptional drought-resisting cereal, has made extraordinary progress in this region, and indeed generally over the state, since 1893, its acreage increasing 416'1% in the decade 1895-1904.

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  • This value was almost equalled by that of eggs and poultry ($14,050,727), which increased 79.7% in the same decade.

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  • During the following decade the lines of the Missouri Pacific, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas and the Santa Fe were well under construction.

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  • By that Act Kansas (which from 1854 to 1861 included a large part of Colorado) became, for almost a decade, the storm centre of national political passion, and her history of prime significance in the unfolding prologue of the Civil War.

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  • In the decade following 1880, struggles in the western counties for the location of county seats (the bitterest local political fights known in western states) repeatedly led to bloodshed and the interference of state militia.

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  • Peace without this provision could undoubtedly have been secured at Vienna, and the prolongation of the war from 1855 to 1856 only resulted in securing this arrangement for a little more than one decade.

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  • Pop. (1901) 40,382, showing a decrease of 2% in the decade; estimated revenue £19,508.

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  • In 1901 the population was 663,062, showing a decrease of II% since 1891 compared with an increase of 8% in the preceding decade.

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  • In 1901 the population was 1,051,347, showing an increase of 5% in the decade.

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  • In 1901 the population was 1,952,692, showing a decrease of 1,970 in the decade, compared with an increase of 11% in the preceding decade.

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  • In 1901 the population was 993,97 6, showing a decrease of 2% compared with an increase of 17% in the preceding decade.

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  • After the discoveries of gold in the last decade of the 19th century it wholly lost its commercial primacy, but business improved after the discovery of gold in 1905 on Chicagoff Island, about 50 m.

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  • The population in 1901 was 183,816, showing a decrease of 3% in the decade.

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  • By the new calendar the year of 365 days was divided into twelve months of thirty days each, every month being divided into three periods of ten days, each of which were called decades, and the tenth, or last, day of each decade being a day of rest.

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  • The last decade of the 19th century saw the establishment of a permanent theatre at Reykjavik.

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  • The best-known silver mines are the Rosario, from which about $90,000,000 had been extracted up to the last decade of the 19th century, and the Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe de los Reyes, discovered early in the 19th century and yielding over $85,000,000 before its close.

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  • But the census returns of 1851 showed a remarkable alteration - a decrease during the previous decade of over 1,500,000 - and since that date, as the following table shows, the continuous decrease in the number of its inhabitants has been the striking feature in the vital statistics of Ireland.

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  • During the decade only three counties, Dublin, Down and Antrim, showed any increase, the increase being due to the growth of certain urban areas.

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  • The inhabitants of the rural districts (3,073,846) decreased during the decade by over 380,000; that of the urban districts, i.e.

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  • For three-quarters of a century, then, philosophy was at a standstill; and, when in the second decade of the 4th century the pursuit of truth was resumed, it was plain that Zeno's paradox of predication must be disposed of before the problems which had occupied the earlier thinkers - the problem of knowledge and the problem of being - could be so much as attempted.

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  • It is not to be expected that modern scholars should be able to fix the exact year or even decade in which such a book was written.

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  • The wars in the first decade of the 19th century were not on the whole unfavourable to the commerce of Leipzig, but in 1813 and 1814, owing to the presence of enormous armies in the neighbourhood, it suffered greatly.

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  • In 1901 the population was 423,616, showing a decrease of 12% in the decade due to the effects of famine.

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  • He seems to have passed the decade beginning with 1055 in Worms, where the niche referred to above is still shown.

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  • The population in 1901 was 326,521, showing a decrease of 15% in the decade, due to the effects of famine.

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  • From 1850 onwards the rate of construction increased apace, and during the last decade of the 19th century about 205 m.

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  • The exports of Spanish Cotton goods were, until the close of the 19th century, hardly worth mentioning outside the colonial markets, which took an average of two millions sterling in the decade 1888-1898.

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  • The decade following the Spanish-American War (1898-1908), which may be regarded as a period of industrial and commercial reconstruction, was marked by a very rapid increase in the use of electricity for lighting, traction and other purposes.

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  • The foreign commerce of Spain rapidly developed in the decade 1882-1892, Great Britain, France and the United States figuring at the head of the imports, Great Britain and France at the head of the exports.

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  • No attempt was made, during the decade which followed the Spanish-American War, to replace the squadrons destroyed at Manila and Santiago de Cuba.

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  • When in the decade 80-70 B.C. the Roman Sertorius (q.v.) attempted to make head in Spain against his political enemies in Rome, the Spaniards who supported him were already half Romanized.

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  • They selected Spain as an excellent field of enterprise; and it must be said that all the governments of the regency showed so much indulgence towards the Catholic revival thus started, that in less than a decade the kingdom, was studded with more convents, monasteries, Jesuit colleges, Catholic schools, and foundations than had existed in the palmy days of the houses of Austria and Bourbon in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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  • During the first decade of the 19th century the modern locomotive started to replace the stagecoach of the prior generation.

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  • The yearly yield in the decade 1895-1904, according to the most conservative state statistics, varied from 298,599,638 to 72,445,227 bushels, and the average was 178,941,084 bushels, or 190,773,957, omitting the failure of 1901; the yield per acre being similarly 26.35 or 27.9 bushels (12.4 in 1901); 1 in 1906 the crop was 249,782,500 bushels, and the average yield per acre 34.1 bushels; in 1907 the crop was 179,328,000 bushels, and the average yield only 24 bushels per acre, According to the report of the state Board of Agriculture, Custer, Lancaster and Saunders counties produced the largest amounts (each more than 5,000,000 bushels) of Indian corn in 1908.

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  • From 1880 to 1890 the acreage devoted to wheat greatly diminished, because the spring variety was not relatively remunerative, but the acreage trebled in the next decade as autumn planting increased.

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  • Movements in Congress for the creation of a new Territory on the Platte began in 1844, several attempts at organization failing in the succeeding decade.

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  • In 1901 the population was 1,012,972, showing a decrease of 13%, compared with an increase of 14% in the preceding decade.

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  • In 1901 the population was 412,664, showing a decrease of 12% in the decade; the estimated revenue is X 2 55,800, and the tribute IO,30o.

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  • The total number of manufacturing establishments in 1890 was 1746, with a product for the year valued at $77,351,546; in 1900 there were 2847 establishments with a product for the year valued at $100,892,838, or an increase of 30.4% in the decade.

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  • The volume of the export trade tended to decrease in the first decade of the 20th century.

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  • A province subject to such conditions can hardly be free from famine or scarcity for any length of time; accordingly it was visited by two famines, one of unprecedented severity, and one scarcity, in the decade 1891-1901.

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  • In 1901 the population was 476,912, showing a decrease of 12% in the decade, due to the results of famine.

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  • About 80 B.C. Sulla founded an Isiac college in Rome, but their altars within the city were overthrown by the consuls no less than four times in the decade from 58 to 48 B.e., and the worship of Isis at Rome continued to be limited or suppressed by a succession of enactments which were enforced until the reign of Caligula.

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  • One of the most startling discoveries of the decade 1890-1900 was the fact that a number of forms are devoid of both gills and lungs, and breathe merely by the skin and the buccal mucose membrane (20).

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  • Indeed, during every decade from 1860 to 1890 the total value of farm property and products declined; and the increase of products from 1890 to 1900 was due to the growth of dairy farms, which yielded almost one-third of the total farm product of the state.

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  • Tobacco, which was first grown here between 1640 and 1660, because of a law restricting the use of tobacco to that grown in the colony, was in the decade 1890-1900 the only crop raised for consumption.

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  • The production of orchard fruits and market vegetables, however, increased during the decade 1890-1900.

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  • The decade of greatest relative development was that of 1860-1870, during which the value of the products increased 96.6%.

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  • In the first decade of the next century Edessa was taken by Chosroes II., and a large part of the population transported to eastern Persia.

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  • The feeble rule of Alexander Charles, who became duke in 1834, and the disturbed state of Europe in the following decade, led to considerable unrest, and in 1849 Bernburg was occupied by Prussian troops.

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  • It was a decade of conflict transformation and peace-building.

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  • This brief overview encapsulates the dilemma that the BDA has faced over the past decade or so.

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  • I have followed the vicissitudes of the nuclear non-proliferation regime very closely for more than a decade.

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  • Heraldry, abbey Strand Within little more than a decade the monastery had been elevated to an Augustinian abbey.

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  • The critical acclaim for Forster has dipped during the last decade.

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  • The company led by its Managing Director, Roger Johnson, has a highly ambitious agenda of growth over the next decade.

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  • By the end of the decade a network of working class agitators and organizers existed across the industrial towns and cities of Britain.

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  • For a decade, I used the same office both to see analysands and to see students in an academic setting.

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  • His humor, which had seemed so anarchic at the start of the decade, was now looking a little dated.

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  • So the relationship has to be an equable one - for who wants to be locked into mutual antagonism for a decade?

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  • Drum n bass is one of the most influential forms of music to emerge in the last decade.

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  • Over 11,000 new marina berths are likely to be needed over the next decade to meet a shortage of inland waterway moorings.

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  • His recent book, The Insider, private diaries of a scandalous decade, became an instant number one bestseller.

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  • The agency's best efforts at overthrowing the Iraqi dictator have failed for a decade.

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  • The study brings together a multi-disciplinary team who have worked together over the last decade studying the risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

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  • Having then stood empty for a decade, Hastings Hall has now been beautifully restored.

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  • Honda, Rover's partner for over a decade, were deeply entwined with Rover's fortunes.

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  • Rather than writing their gravestone epitaphs, the major players are readying themselves for the end of the second digital decade.

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  • The past decade has seen the rise of a movement " evangelical feminism, " that has had a profound impact.

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  • Data Centers offer redundant power, lightning-fast fiber connections and 24X7X365 support from a staff with more than a decade of networking experience.

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  • Over the last decade various estimates have been made of the pool of illegal firearms.

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  • Over the past decade, women have earned a solid foothold in the Legislative Yuan.

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  • Often we are unprepared to cross a decade frontier.

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  • However, they had been the mainstay of heavy freight haulage for nearly a decade.

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  • The female prison population is at an all-time high, with 4,671 women inside compared with 1,811 a decade ago.

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  • Objectives of the decade include reducing illiteracy, especially among women.

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  • The computer revolution in digital audio has created new possibilities for musical composition and research that were scarcely imaginable a decade ago.

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  • Helge spent the next decade and a half collecting the impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings that Carl found ' awful, mannered and ghastly ' .

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  • In terms of popular music the decade got off to a very inauspicious start.

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  • And over the last decade the evidence of the benefits of learning have become indisputable.

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  • In the United States, the major reform initiatives of the last decade have focussed on teacher accountability for student outcomes.

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  • Within the next decade the first submillimetre interferometers will come on-line.

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  • In the last decade great improvements have been achieved and these changes must now be made irreversible.

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  • Iraq began to end a decade of diplomatic isolation in March at the Arab summit.

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  • As a result, many New York neighborhoods went from relatively law-abiding to pretty lawless in a decade.

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  • A small 3 v lithium cell can easily provide this for a decade.

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  • Richard aims to operate the low-noise plane from small airfields to avoid the logjams expected in European airports over the next decade.

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  • With iconic bikes throughout most of the company's 10 decade history, Harley Davidson has become a truly awesome marque.

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  • No child has died of acute measles in the UK for more than a decade.

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  • But can a decade that gave us the music center and the pocket calculator truly be considered mediocre?

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  • Throughout the decade he bashed out songs which were often musically and vocally stark, but still strongly melodic and memorable.

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  • At worst, it is an apology for the defunct neo-liberalism and tired post- modernism of the last decade.

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  • A decade ago Ian Richardson was running the BBC's first ill-fated Arabic television newsroom.

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  • Could the Tories have avoided political oblivion a decade ago?

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  • Scientific Impact The JWST will be the world leading infrared observatory for the next decade.

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  • For well over a decade, American education has been almost obsessed with school reform.

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  • Over the past decade I've taken an increasing satisfaction in my increasingly outdated equipment.

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  • It went double platinum within three weeks; the 80s had been the group's decade.

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  • The last decade has seen a profusion of stylish streetcars sweeping into view.

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  • They have consumed Italian prosecutors for the best part of a decade.

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  • Would his masterpiece about the depths of one man's twisted psyche have been celebrated in any other decade?

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  • Popular culture junkies and fans of gossip rags have gorged on the glamorous and public life of Tom Cruise over the past decade.

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  • The coldest March for a decade has delayed the onset of spring and provided limited scope for further aquifer recharge.

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  • An attempt to go directly from TA to OA publishing will only retard the growth of OA for another needless decade.

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  • In the past decade several tribal revolts have been reported, all brutally suppressed.

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  • However, it's arguably the finest action romp of the decade.

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  • Where the hell were you for the third decade of the family rosary or when I wanted a sister to share late-night dance-hall secrets?

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  • The bed does not sag or distort (even a decade later it remains the same ).

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  • Top Back schoolgirl Pregnancies Births to schoolgirl mothers in Scotland ranged between 450 and 660 per year in the last decade [1] .

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  • The Victorian slums were cleared away in a project which ran from 1969 for the next decade.

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  • Bruce began stand-up in July 1995 after over a decade of writing for some of Australia's biggest names in comedy.

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  • Trends in car travel have been broadly static over the last decade.

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  • In the past decade, one place in particular has become synonymous with catching giant sturgeon.

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  • Brazil have made sure to maintain that supremacy in the last decade, having played in the last three World Cup finals.

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  • Having operated this service for a decade, BIDS and ISI had become practically synonymous.

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  • Although the end of the decade was more stable, there was little tangible progress with economic reform.

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  • A new decade emerged which would be marked by excess, leisure suits and the steady thump of disco.

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  • I was surprised to find people still tinkering with equipment I hadn't touched for well over a decade!

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  • From this clash of positions has emerged a threat to the peace process that risks undoing the advances of the last decade.

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  • The 1990s became an increasingly unhealthy decade for the nuclear non-proliferation regime.

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  • Therefore, the transport protein responsible for neuronal uptake of NE has been extensively investigated in the past decade.

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  • Early in the decade, suits with somewhat full, long skirts at a natural waistline were common.

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  • Steffens (80), represent the average number of houses struck by lightning in a year per million houses; in the first decade only seven years (1851-1860) are really included.

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  • In Germany as a whole, out of a million houses the number struck per annum was three and a half times as great in the decade 1890 to 1900 as between 1854 and 1860.

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  • The railway mileage of the state grew with great rapidity in the decade 1880-1890; it was 691 m.

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  • In the decade 1890-1900 the value of the products of Birmingham's manufactories increased 78.9% from $7,064,248 to $12,581,066; in 1900 establishments under the "factory system" produced goods valued at $8,599,418, in 1905 at $7,592,958, a decrease of 11.7%.

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  • During the decade ending 1907 large reserves were settled with Ruthenians often known as Galicians, Poles and other peoples from central and northern Europe.

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  • The Reformed Presbytery of North America was reconstituted by two ministers from Ireland in 1798; it became a synod of three presbyteries in 1809 and a general synod in 1823; in the first decade of the century the presbytery required all members to free their slaves.

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  • During the decade 1881-1890 great sums of European capital were invested in railways and other undertakings, encouraged by the grant of interest guarantees and by state mortgage bank loans in the form of cedulas, nominally secured on landed property.

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  • The department of Nord produces by far the greatest quantity, its average annual output in the decade 1895-1904

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  • In 1901 the population was 9,723,301, showing a decrease of 20% in the decade owing to the great famines of1897-1898and 1900-1901.

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  • The fact that it has become necessary to introduce regulations for its control by national legislation and international conferences shows the supremely important position which it has taken in the short interval of one decade as a means of communicating human intelligence from place to place over the surface of the globe.

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  • The Austrians in the period from 1849 to 1859, known as the dccennio della resistenza (decade of resistance), were made to feel that they were in a conquered country where they could have no social intercourse with the people; for no self-respecting Lombard or Venetian would even speak to an Austrian.

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  • Revenue from taxation had risen in a decade from 7,000,000 to 20,200,000; profit on state monopolies had increased from 7,000,000 to 9,400,000; exports had grown to exceed imports; income from the working of telegraphs had tripled itself; railways had been extended from 2200 to 6200 kilometres, and the annual travelling public had augmented from 15,000,000 to 25,000,000 persons.

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  • The discovery of the widespread occurrence of this mycorhizal symbiosis must be neld to be one of the most important results of research upon the nutritive processes of plants during the closing decade of the 19th century.

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  • In 1824 the county-seat was removed here from Franklinton; in 18 3 the Columbus branch of the Ohio Canal was completed; in 1834 the borough was made a city; by the close of the same decade the National Road extending from Wheeling to Indianapolis and passing through Columbus was completed; in 1871 most of Franklinton, which was never incorporated, was annexed, and several other annexations followed.

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  • Of the plays by Ford preserved to us the dates span little more than a decade - the earliest, The Lover's Melancholy, having been acted in 1628 and printed in 1629, the latest, The Lady's Trial, acted in 1638 and printed in 1639.

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  • No sooner had he made peace with the Poles and failed to get himself elected as their king, than he began a war with the Swedes which dragged on for more than a decade (1572-1583), and before it was ended he was again at war with Poland (1 57981).

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  • The first decade of Alexander's reign is commonly known in Russia as " the epoch of the great reforms," and may be described as a violent reaction against the political and Alex- intellectual stagnation of the preceding period.

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  • In the decade following its opening nearly 2000 m.

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  • France and Austria opened their first lines in 1828; Belgium, Germany, Russia, Italy and Holland in the succeeding decade; Switzerland and Denmark in 1844, Spain in 1848, Sweden in 1851, Norway in 1853, and Portugal in 1854; while Turkey and Greece delayed till 1860 and 1869.

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  • The decade from 1896 until 1905, inclusive, saw huge sums spent on yards, passing tracks, grade reduction, elimination of curves, substitution of large locomotives and cars for small ones, &c. During those ten years, the route mileage increased 34,991 m., or 17%, while the mileage of second, third, fourth and yard tracks and sidings increased 32,666 m., or nearly 57%.

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  • It is also a fact that with each recurring decade these general expenses (also called indirect, undistributed or fixed charges) have an increased importance as compared with the particular (direct, distributed or operating) expense attaching naturally to the particular portions of the traffic. For with increased density of population it becomes profitable to make improvements on the original location, even though this may involve increased charges for interest and for some parts of its maintenance, for the sake of securing that economy of operation, through larger train-loads, which such an improved location makes possible.

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  • Pop. (1901) 75,225, showing a decrease of 16% in the decade, due to the famine of 1899-1900.

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  • The question is complicated by the fact that the Sixth Decade of Diogo do Couto, the best contemporary historian of these events, was suppressed by the censor in its original form, and the extant version was revised by an ecclesiastical editor.

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  • There are various places also near the mouths of desert canyons, where small amounts of water are obtainable for irrigation purposes from intermittent streams. The total number of acres irrigated in 1899 was 504,168, an increase of 124.7% in the decade.

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  • For Judaism had organized itself; the Shulhan aruch of Joseph Qaro, printed in 1564 within a decade of its completion, though not accepted without demur, was nevertheless widely admitted as the code of Jewish life.

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  • The increase in automobile production in the decade closing in 1914 was 486%.

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  • During the next decade it was a little more than doubled, and at the close of 1908 it was 3916.85 m.

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  • The population increased from 1,131,597 in 1880 1 to 1,289,600 in 1890, of 14% within the decade, and by 'goo it had grown to 1 i 551,270 (9 9.4 8% native-born), and by 1 9 10 to 1,7 9 7,11 4.

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  • When the Civil War was over, the abnormally high price of cotton made cotton raising for more than a decade a great assistance to the people in recovering from ruin, but when the price had steadily declined from 23.98 cents a pound in 1870 to 10.38 cents a pound in 1879, they turned to the erection and operation of cotton mills.

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  • But the greatest period of building was from 1880 to 1890; during this decade the mileage was increased from 1486 m.

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  • More important in the history of the modern church was the secession, in the decade between 1880 and 1890,, of the Old Order Brethren, who opposed Sunday Schools and.

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  • The shadow of the approaching depression had already fallen upon the land before the year 1875 had run its course, and the outlook became ominous as the decade of the 'seventies neared its close.

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  • After 1894, in which year the brilliant prospects of a bountiful harvest were ultimately extinguished by untimely and heavy rains, all the remaining seasons of the closing decade of the 19th century were dominated by drought.

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  • The two meteorological events of the decade which will probably live longest in the recollection were, however, the terrible drought of 1893, resulting in a fodder famine in the succeeding winter, and the severe frost of ten weeks' duration at the beginning of 1895.

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  • Turning to the average yields per acre, as ascertained by dividing the number of acres into the total produce, the results of a decade are collected in Table IX.

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  • Nevertheless it was not till near the approach of the closing decade of the 19th century that the explanation of this longestablished point of agricultural practice was forthcoming.

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  • It was not till the closing decade of the 19th century that the stock-breeders of the United Kingdom found themselves in a position to prosecute their industry free from the fear of the introduction of contagious disease through the medium of store animals imported from abroad for fattening on the native pastures.

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  • The recorded outbreaks were more numerous in the decade of the 'nineties than in that of the 'eighties, though possibly this may have been due to greater official activity in the later period.

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  • An analysis of city election returns for the decade 1890-1899 showed that the interest of the citizens was greatest in the choice of a president; then, successively, in the choice of a mayor, a governor, the determination of liquor-license questions by referendum, and the settlement of other referenda.

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  • It helped to postpone secession and Civil War for a decade, during which time the North-West was growing more wealthy and more populous, and was being brought into closer relations with the North-East.

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  • Dr Begemann considers that possibly during the decade from 1720 to 1730 a kind of Rosicrucian or Hermetic influence took place in the lodges of London, some additions to the ritual of that period not having been derived from operative masonry; but in the previous century no such influence is traceable.

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  • Rough approximations must always precede accurate measurements; and these returns, while often inaccurate, are better than nothing, and probably improve with each decade.

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  • Population.-New York outstripped Pennsylvania in population in the first decade of the 19th century, and Virginia in the second decade, and since 1820 it has been the most populous state in the Union.

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  • The total acreage of all land included in farms increased from 3,459,018 acres in 1890 to 3,609,784 acres in 1900, or from 60% to 62.6% of the total land area of the state, but the improved portion of this decreased during the decade from 1,727,387 acres to 1,076,879 acres, or from 49'9% to 29.8%; in no other state east of the Mississippi river was so small a proportion of the farm land improved at the close of the decade, although in Florida it was only a trifle larger.

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  • Some of his very best hymns are in the little volume he published in 1681, and hence the old period of semi-articulate Danish may be said to close with this eventful decade, which also witnessed the birth of Holberg.

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  • During the decade 1891-1901, 596,856 coolies were imported, or about a tenth of the total population of the province.

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  • Mention must be made, however, of an author whose work connects the literature of the Adriatic Servians of the 18th century with the regenerative efforts of the Danubian Servians in the second decade of the 19th century.

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  • In dealing with the practical side of beekeeping as now understood, it may be said that, compared with the methods in vogue during the first decade of the 19th century, or even within the memory of men still living at the beginning of the loth, it is as the modern locomotive to the stagecoach of a previous generation.

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  • And life went on for a decade.

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  • It helped launch 18 companies in recent years, and corporate-sponsored research at the medical school has nearly quadrupled in the past decade.

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  • A new decade was rapping on the door with an icy fist.

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  • The mill has not produced any sugar for a decade and a half - since it was sabotaged by apartheid-backed Renamo rebels in 1986.

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  • If we cannot, then a Conservative party finally showing signs of regrouping after a decade of disarray could yet thwart our ambitions.

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  • After more than a decade I encountered the work again, in a retrospective of the late artist 's work.

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  • However, it 's arguably the finest action romp of the decade.

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  • The bed does not sag or distort (even a decade later it remains the same).

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  • Top Back Schoolgirl Pregnancies Births to schoolgirl mothers in Scotland ranged between 450 and 660 per year in the last decade [1 ].

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  • Farmersâ markets, which were unknown on these shores a decade ago, have soared in popularity.

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  • Over the past year, Berlin has squandered much of the political capital it has built up in eastern Europe over the past decade.

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  • For the past decade at least, the market has swept the board.

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  • So he returned to Hungary with the Curwen books and over the next decade revised and refined tonic sol-fa.

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  • Toddler beds have gained favor among many parents over the last decade, chiefly because they ease a toddler's transition from a crib to a full-size bed.

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  • Coin investment is not for the impatient, because coins generally don't appreciate in less than a decade.

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  • In the past decade, men's underwear has become available in a vast variety of styles.

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  • Rear-projection TVs have been the center of home entertainment centers for over a decade.

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  • After less than a decade in the business, QVC had become the biggest home shopping network in the country, available in 80 percent of homes with cable and on three million satellite dishes.

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  • Shopping online has grown by leaps and bounds in the last decade, and many holiday shoppers choose to do most, if not all, of their holiday gift buying from popular retail outlets online.

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  • Metal roofing has become more and more popular over the past decade or so because of their energy efficiency and longevity, if installed right.

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  • One of the most successful and popular gaming consoles released over the last decade, Nintendo's Wii at one time had thousands of people muttering in frustration, "Where can I purchase a Wii?"

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  • This is why the computer security industry has grown by leaps and bounds over the last decade.

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  • Mission furniture continues to be a popular interior design choice throughout America and has, in fact, gained popularity in the past decade for its simple, yet strong, sense of style.

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  • Keep in mind that inexpensive futons aren't going to last you through the next decade, but they should hold their own for at least a few years.

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  • For very old sofas, you might not be too lucky (of course, you should always give it a shot), but sofas purchased within the last half decade or so will probably result in a fruitful search for new cushions.

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  • However, given the explosion of Internet shopping over the last decade or so, many Amish furniture makers were looking for a way to expand their businesses without compromising their beliefs.

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  • For more than a decade, The Lighthouse Man, also known as Kevin's Custom Crafts, has been creating handcrafted lighthouses and nautical items for the home, including very unique looking entertainment centers.

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  • Until about a decade ago, bunk beds were only available as single beds stacked on top of each other.

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  • Even people who plan on staying in their homes for over a decade may find it difficult to justify the cost of purchase and installation, which can easily exceed five figures.

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  • While a decade ago many of these fuels were unheard of, today they are becoming more readily available than ever.

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  • The green initiative to push the green industry forward is helping to advance solar power to be far more efficient than the first photovoltaics used to produce energy a decade ago.

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  • The scientific community has only begun recognizing the health benefits associated with gamma linolenic acid (GLA) and other fatty acids over the past decade.

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  • Other factors that shape color choices are news events and cultures that suddenly take the spotlight, like China has over the past decade.

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  • Look at old photographs and books from the decade your home was built to find ideas.

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  • Over the past decade, this idea has changed.

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  • When previewing old photographs, it's usually not difficult to determine an approximate decade of the picture based on what type of clothes are being worn, hairstyles, and the makeup applied to the faces.

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  • If you lived through the 80s or have seen pictures of the decade, you are probably all too familiar with the look of the 80s.

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  • Fashion trends included shoulder pads, leg warmers, and neon colors, and the makeup of the decade was decidedly bold.

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  • The makeup of the 80s decade was all about applying more to bring attention to a woman's facial features.

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  • An updated look includes a toned down version of 80s makeup that translates well into the present decade.

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  • Today's smoky eyes are a descendent of the 80s decade.

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  • Airbrush makeup application came about after Dina Ousley, a Hollywood actress and makeup artist that was tired of mediocre results, invented it over a decade ago to help people on screen look more flattering.

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  • However, it is important to remember that most of the dyes used will not fade until about a decade after application, and touch up coloring can easily be done.

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  • The company, which rose from a quarter-million dollar startup to a Fortune 500 business in less than a decade, specializes in products designed for what Claiborne dubbed the "Liz lady."

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  • The 1970's was a time of transition and the 70's fashion and makeup of the decade really reflects that.

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  • The generation of that decade were spreading their cultural wings, wrapping their minds around concepts like "equality", "equal pay for equal work" and grappling with large numbers of women in the workforce.

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  • This was not a decade for feeling shy and the fashion and makeup certainly reflects that.

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  • As the decade wore on, sparkle and shine overtook the free flowing baby doll dressed of the 1960's.

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  • Disco music is the soundtrack of this decade and no matter what you may think about it, it did give us amazingly creative looks.

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  • Legendary beauty Farrah Fawcett, with her sun-kissed beauty and youthful glow, helped to define the beauty of this decade.

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  • Designers still look to that decade for fresh, bold looks that grab the spotlight.

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  • When the first round of lip enhancing lip glosses hit cosmetic shelves over a decade ago, the formulas were sticky and uncomfortable to wear.

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  • In fact, the star has undergone a number of transformations over the years, but some of her most memorable looks definitely come from the decade of excess.

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  • It was the decade that saw her rise to fame as a Hollywood actress.

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  • Now, video gamers, especially those who grew up in the first decade or so, want to relive some of those games that they got started on.

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  • Although overall interest in Pokemon has died down during recent years, its popularity remains strong among children even over a decade later.

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  • Everything is categorized by decade, by genre, by network, by playlists, and alphabetical.

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  • This model paved the way for many more household printers by companies such as Hewlett Packard, Canon, and Lexmark; the advent of home photo printers helped digital photography explode in the home market over the next decade.

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  • The dawn of the decade saw the birth of the first all digital cameras.

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  • Subsequent competition by camera manufacturers helped pave the way for digital imaging innovations over the next decade.

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  • After a decade or so of people carrying around digital cameras that can fit in their pockets, two things happened.

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  • Just over a decade later, instant film cameras took center stage and blazed the first trails through fast analog photography.

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  • Appreciation for this type of art form has skyrocketed in the last decade thanks in large part to the advancements in digital photo technology.

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  • Retails sales have grown 20% annually for the last decade. 49% of organic retail sales come from mainstream grocers and 48% from natural food stores.

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  • In the past decade, K2 has acquired a number of other winter sports gear companies.

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  • Launched in late 2000, fast food mascots Master Shake, Frylock and Meatwad have been entertaining late night viewers for more than a decade.

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  • Make sure the DJ has a good selection of music from that decade.

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  • Research each decade online to decide which one your student body will have the most fun dressing up for.

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  • Prom courts were formed during this decade.

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  • While some dresses exhibit a purely modern look, a Tiffany dress will endure from one decade to the next-a point to consider if you are planning on keeping the dress to wear on later occasions.

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  • The overall health benefits of exercise have become well-known, particularly in the last decade or so.

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  • For some, the urge to take a trip down memory lane hits a decade or two after graduation.

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  • Teens love to dress in the past, in the best fashion of every decade.

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  • These trends might seem silly, but they can be a great way to find a fun prom theme like a 1980s decade prom or one based on a popular prom song.

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  • Big hair, head-turning styles, and outrageous combinations make this decade a memorable one.

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  • This was truly a decade of extravagance, so your prom look should reflect the pop culture styles at this time.

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  • You can find prom gowns from this decade online and even in thrift stores and at estate sales.

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  • Some of these are actual dresses worn in the 80s decade.

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  • Take a trip back to your favorite decade with an unusual retro shower curtain.

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  • This decade reflects a time when science and space exploration were starting to peak.

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  • The next decade wasthe psychedelic age.

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  • AllMusic referred to the album as "Probably the most hyped debut album by a rap artist in about a decade."

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  • Perhaps in a decade or so, the American population will forgive the Chicks for their anti-patriotic behavior.

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  • Anna Nicole Smith has become a household over the past decade; although it's mostly because of gossip columns and tabloid magazines rather than her career as a model and actress.

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  • The court case raged on for close to a decade, involving both state and federal courts before finally landing in front of the United States Supreme Court, which ruled in Anna's favor and allows her to continue fighting for the money.

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  • A decade later, Woods was accused of being insensitive to those with disabilities when he used the word "spaz" in an interview.

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  • The former model told the Associated Press it was necessary to include additional fabric and make adjustments since she only weighed 140 pounds a decade ago.

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  • Who do you think you will be writing about a decade from now?

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  • Being married for a decade as a Hollywood couple is an eternity.

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