Used in a Sentence

decade-long

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for decade-long.

Editorial note

It's the decade-long release-response-revision cycle you're forced to deal with when the stakes get so high.

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Quick take

Extending over a decade.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of decade-long gathered in one view.

adjective

Extending over a decade.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for decade-long.

adjective

Extending over a decade.

Example sentences

1

It's the decade-long release-response-revision cycle you're forced to deal with when the stakes get so high.

2

So unless you want Soviet Union style decade-long waiting lists for season tickets, you'd have to build dozens of new mainlines.

3

Interest rates in the decade-long run-up leading to the crisis was 5-7%.

4

The autonomous trucks will not take driver's seat overnight - the truck in question will be a decade-long testing phase, according to the article.

5

With world GDP in excess of $70 trillion per year [1], spending 1 billion EUR ($1.25 billion) for a decade-long mission does not seem like extravagance.

6

We're in the midst of what will be a decade-long X.509 cleanup effort, disentangling untrustworthy CAs (all of them) from the outsized role they have in the Internet trust model.

7

A one time cost of 100 hours of work to put the globals into an interpreter struct and fix the C API to have a PythonInterpreter* as the first argument to every function would be a very small price to pay compared to the decade-long debates and hacky workarounds surrounding the bad GIL design.

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From a purely professional standpoint, we should've long ago settled on a few languages to do our tasks, and focused on exploring how to write and manage decade-long projects in those cases, or at least how to rapidly develop and shift codebases to meet the new year's business needs.

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This has, I assure you, nothing to do with Obama trying to claim back support from the teachers unions after they started attacking him, quite rightly I must add, for instantiating our evil (Republican) decade-long request that poor schools be given the tools to fire incompetent teachers.

Quote examples

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Many of us seem to have made the hidden assumption that we are first supposed to have a two-decade-long "education" phase, and only then a "real world" phase.

2

It was hardware designs that were stolen, as the first line of the article states: >> "The Obama administration on Tuesday announced the arrest of a Chinese professor and the indictment of five other Chinese citizens in what it contended was a decade-long scheme to steal microelectronics designs from Silicon Valley companies."

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use decade-long in a sentence?

It's the decade-long release-response-revision cycle you're forced to deal with when the stakes get so high.

What does decade-long mean?

Extending over a decade.

What part of speech is decade-long?

decade-long is commonly used as adjective.