For the first few decades in business, the Andersons ran the company out of their attic and had one retail partner in a local grocery store. (entrepreneur.com)
When we first met and for the first few decades of our marriage we were very much... (nakedpastor.com)
The second occasion of rearticulation of the Christian purpose of Missionary institutions of higher learning took place in the first few decades of this century in relation to the movements of religious renaissance and the emergence of political nationalism. (religion-online.org)