Definitions for decades
decades

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'decades' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3778

How to pronounce decades?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say decades in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of decades in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of decades in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of decades in a Sentence

1. Andrew Cuomo:

   The goal of this law is simple : to prevent cigarettes and vaping products from getting into the hands of our youth, creating an addiction to a deadly habit, we are taking aggressive action to make sure the decades of progress we've made to combat tobacco addiction is not undone by a sharp rise in e-cigarette use among younger New Yorkers.

2. Dan Werb:

   We have decades of evidence suggesting that methadone and similar opioid-based medications can be really effective in helping people to manage their opioid use.

3. Dan Taberski:

   Lenny Simmons would wake up at 4 in the morning and reach out to 30, 40, 50 people with phone calls and emails, it was sustained relationships that lasted years, sometimes decades.

4. Read MoreMore:

   But the second part that is tempting is to say -- therefore, let's go back. Let's go back to normal -- the problem is normal wasn't working for a lot of people, over decades, and Republican and Democratic presidents have let us down and Democrats can't take it back to the '90s, any more than Conservatives can take it back to the '50s.

5. Richard Schmalensee:

   The real question is, 'Can solar help us deal with climate?' that means solar at scale in the decades ahead.

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