Decenniums [noun]

We have spoken of a splendid Decennium in the Duke of Marlborough's campaigns—that from 1702 to 1712.

One short decennium has comprehended within its circuit the beginning and the end of this unparalleled hurricane.

In England, it is true that the largest cities show during the last decennium a certain slackening in the pace of growth.

The second decennium still found him employed chiefly in research, vertebrate and extinct forms absorbing most of his attention.

He was occupied actively with teaching, but the dominant feature of the decennium was his assumption of the Darwinian doctrines.

In the following year and throughout the rest of the decennium the district had its usual low average of enteric-fever deaths.

The high rate of a decennium is not unfrequently brought up by one great explosion.

Still as late as in the last decennium of the last century, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus fell a victim to this old foolish legend.

These are the only monuments of early typography acknowledged to come within the present decennium.

It has been already shown, that most editions of classics printed in France and Germany are in the last decennium of the century.