31.   It seems English is bankrupt when it comes to a word for the first decade of a century.

32.   Later Mitterrand treats us quite unexpectedly to several minutes of black-and-white documentary footage of Japanese life in the first decade of this century, the setting of the opera.

33.   Many opera enthusiasts would happily spend all their listening hours with voices dimly preserved from the first decades of the century.

34.   Nesting birds, including those who make their homes in the cavities of trees, flourish immediately and in the first few decades after a fire.

35.   Nothing the Rangers did on the field in their first decade in Texas could top the day Roger Moret turned into a statue in the clubhouse.

36.   Or so Liv thought for the first decade of her life.

37.   Richter was a national hero for the first decade of his career, a European hero for the second decade, and for the third decade an American hero.

38.   Sometime near the end of the first decade of the next millenium, Earthlings might get their first word of another Earth-sized planet orbiting another sun.

39.   Still, it appears that the deal would, at least over the first decade, save ratepayers money.

40.   Some of the biggest job hoppers are workers in their first decade out of school.