decades-old
1.The dam project is part of a decades-old strategy to harness the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
2.There is a long-term, decades-old trend from larger formats to smaller formats among paid daily newspapers. In the abstract, readers prefer compact formats.
3.Now, the sharpest-ever visible-light images taken by Hubble are also helping astronomers confirm decades-old theories behind the fundamental processes of galaxy formation and evolution.
4.Japan set to break a decades-old moratorium on hunting the famed humpback whale during its largest ever scientific whaling program that sets sail for the South Pacific.
6.Many old buildings with historic significance have had to make way for our overriding goal to achieve economic growth and rapid urbanisation in the past decades. Now that we’ve realised the importance of keeping the old world charm of some areas which Singaporeans identify strongly with emotionally and an organisation is prepared to do the job, what we should have treasured and preserved have long vanished.
8.Sinn Fein expelled the 55-year-old Donaldson and ac-cused him of having been a British agent for the past two decades.
9.A 40-year-old female with pigmented lesion on left index fingernail for decades came to our clinic due to recent pigmentation change on her nail.

