21.   For Marie Salvati, the decades passed in a jumble of kids, work, grandkids, and prison visits.

22.   He may have been the ultimate icon of countercultural rock, but decades have passed since his death.

23.   Military figures have seen their image drawn more darkly as the decades have passed.

24.   More than a decade has passed, and the action has moved to Africa, where Sylvia is working as a doctor in a small mission town in Zimlia.

25.   More than a decade has passed since then.

26.   More than a decade has now passed since the Amish study.

27.   Nearly a decade has passed, and now it time for Clarence to repay his political godfather.

28.   More than a decade would pass before an increasing body of literature on symptom relief made it clear that pain is commonly undertreated in American hospitals.

29.   Nevertheless, more than a decade passed before he sat down to write the script.

30.   Nearly a decade has passed since Congress impeached and removed Alcee Hastings from the federal bench in Florida after he was accused of taking bribes.