decennium

• “He was occupied actively with teaching, but the dominant feature of the decennium was his assumption of the Darwinian doctrines.”

  Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work

• “According to Swedish daily DN, seven young Swedish prose authors have launched an ambitious literary manifesto called, in Swedish, Manifest för ett nytt litterärt decennium.”

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• “But often after I've cursed Kate and mobile telephony in one breath, she'll come up with something so sweet that she's secured her honorary place among my friends for the next decennium or two.”

  Fictionaut: Girlfriend

• “The third decennium [or term of ten years] having now run out, and a fourth beginning, he, being forced to it, undertook the government.”

  From the Talmud and Hebraica

• “You must see that congruity requires the semi-centenary, and that Sir Walter was a full decennium behind-hand.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.

• “This addition to our wealth by the labor of the children, in the first ten years, would be small; but in the second, and each succeeding decennium, when we count children and their descendants, it would be large and constantly augmenting.”

  The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

• “They are the works of his more than matured mind -- of his waning life; and they show a rare instance of a talent so steadfastly and perseveringly self-improved, as that, in life's seventh decennium, the growth of Art overweighed the detriment of Time.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845

• “Pius IX approved the society by Briefs of 1856 and 1858 and by a Decree of 3 June, 1863, approved the rule ad decennium.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon

• “The institute under this title and its rules were approved by Pius IX on 2 July, 1876 per modum experimenti ad decennium and received its final approbation from Leo XIII, by a Decree dated 21”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip

• “The same hero defended it who had so often in the course of a single decennium defeated the Turkish foe in an offensive war, who now, regardless of danger, with a small but faithful band of followers, was prepared to do all that courage, resolution, and prudence might effect.”

  Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

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