Sentences with phrase «space of a decade»

Even so, it is not a little startling to discover that some modern movements which purport to be based upon a new revelation from God have been able in the short space of a decade to claim in excess of a million followers.

In 2017, the figure was 24.72 million... a 265 percent increase in the space of a decade.

The previous Liberal government having increased spending 47 per cent in its last six years in office; the Conservatives having increased spending another 19 per cent in its first three years («good times»), and a further 20 per cent over the next two («bad times»); after doubling spending, in short, in the space of a decade, the government's notion of restraint is more or less to leave it there.

In the space of a decade Arsenal seem to have fallen from one of the most attractive projects in world football, to a team that shows little ambition and has little promise for the near future.

Despite becoming a prostitute of various kinds over the space of a decade, Latika remains a shining beacon of purity in Jamal's eyes, which is kind of sweet except that we never actually see the real street life that would have turned Latika into a hollowed - out shell of a woman.

With the announcement yesterday of two new projects both starring Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett — «Lawless,» also with Ryan Gosling and Rooney Mara, and «Knight of Cups» with Isabel Lucas — it means that the reclusive auteur looks likely to make more films in the space of this decade than he did in the previous 35 put together.