1.   And then there are the Raiders, who are beginning their third decade with the same old madrags.

2.   As her career approaches its third decade, Madonna represents the triumph of willfulness.

3.   As it moves into its third decade, the marathon has had a longer career than most of the musicians it has presented.

4.   Beginning a third decade at the Vatican, his reign is longer than any other pope this century.

5.   Across the country, enclosed malls are spending their third decades in a slow slide toward obsolescence.

6.   Cable TV is responsible for a more gradual erosion of network viewership that is entering its third decade.

7.   China is now entering its third decade of shifting from a centrally planned to a market-driven economy.

8.   Eldredge, who has won five US titles and five world medals, could have a renaissance in his third decade.

9.   Grammy winner Al Jarreau may be in his third decade of recording music, but his energy level still runs like that of a clubbing young jazzman.

10.   Her narrator is serving his third decade in prison.