Which preposition to use with decade

of Occurrences 193%

But ever since 1825, the diary has been judged to be of high importance in the understanding of the first decade of the Restoration.

in Occurrences 13%

He worked on this masterly study of human souls for many years in the decade in which his wife died.

between Occurrences 9%

During the decade between 1879 and 1889 I was engaged in a detailed study of Wordsworth; and, amongst other things, edited a library edition of his Poetical Works in eight volumes, including the "Prefaces" and "Appendices" to his Poems, and a few others of his Prose Works, such as his 'Description of the Scenery of the Lakes in the North of England'.

to Occurrences 7%

The exports of the sea-island staple rose by 1805 to nearly nine million pounds, but no further expansion occurred until 1819 when an increase carried the exports for a decade to about eleven million pounds a year.

after Occurrences 6%

They therefore tested every dogma and practice by the words and deeds of the Prophet, his contemporaries, and the leaders of the Community in the first decades after Mohammed's death.

before Occurrences 6%

The present weariness and lassitude of human spirit and the disappointment and disillusion as to the aftermath of the harvest of blood, may have aggravated, but they could not cause the symptoms of which I speak; for the very obvious reason that all these symptoms were in existence and apparent to a few discerning men for decades before the war.

from Occurrences 6%

Population in 1870.%Thus in the decade from 1860 to 1870 gold, silver, and the Pacific Railroad gave value to the American Desert, brought two states (Nevada and Nebraska) into the Union, and caused the organization of six new territories.

WITH Occurrences 5%

REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS FOR EACH DECADE WITH RATIOS.

as Occurrences 3%

He who had been denounced for decades as being unable to write properly for the voice was actually taken up as a model by the greatest composer of Italy, the land of song.

than Occurrences 2%

It would be impossible for women not to be affected by this spirit of unrest, especially as they have made greater advance during the last few decades than any other class or body.

by Occurrences 2%

The volume of crime rose gradually decade by decade to a maximum of 242 in the 1820's, and tended to decline slowly thereafter.

into Occurrences 2%

In a word, the principles underlying saigner à blanc have grown during the past four decades into a possible avalanche possessing huge potential energy; the momentum was given to it in August, 1914.

during Occurrences 1%

In 1820 the usual crop in middle Georgia for each full hand was reported at six acres of cotton and eight of corn; but in the following decades during which mules were advantageously substituted for horses and oxen, and the implements of tillage were improved and the harvesters grew more expert, the annual stint was increased to ten acres in cotton and ten in corn.

past Occurrences 1%

In 1818 William Elliott of Beaufort, South Carolina, had written that in the sea-island cotton industry for a decade past the high valuations of lands and slaves had been wholly unjustified.

against Occurrences 1%

Italian nationalism was spiritualised by the very fact that it had to struggle for decades against a foreign oppressor, and the foundations of her unity were laid on the heroic memories of her efforts to expel the intruder.

under Occurrences 1%

The Fourth Decade under the title, De Insulis nuper inventis, etc., was republished in Basle in 1533 and again in Antwerp in 1536.

for Occurrences 1%

The Superintendent of the Census is appointed each decade for the purpose of taking the regular decennial census.

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