1.   An industry lobbyist who had spent a decade fighting against binding limits on greenhouse gases at climate talks said he was quite confident that the process would break down.

2.   As they spent a decade building TLC, they also helped construct an African-American music scene that rivals that of any American city.

3.   At Sergiev Posad, Tatiana Filipova has spent a decade selling Matryoshka dolls outside the Holy-Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery.

4.   At Taillevent, most wines spend a decade in the cellars before even being considered for the list.

5.   Before joining the firm, Gorman spent a decade at McKinsey.

6.   Before that, she spent a decade overseeing trade newspapers at CMP Publications in Manhasset.

7.   BellSouth spent a decade preparing to bid for the licenses.

8.   Beyond that, the democracy-oriented opposition could have been stronger if the West had given it more support, instead of spending a decade courting Milosevic.

9.   After Bremerton, he spent several decades doing sheet-metal work in lumber mills.

10.   Al Davis spends a decade trying to get somebody to build him a new stadium in Los Angeles and the minute it finally happens, he leaves town?