1.   Concentrated periods of innovation were followed by decades of consolidation and incremental advances -- the railway age, for example, or the automobile age.

2.   If the next few decades follow the pattern of the last few, Asian living standards will approach those in the West.

3.   More than a decade of estrangement followed, but the titles were returned to her eventually.

4.   This was followed by decades of revolution and political turmoil.

5.   Turbulent decades followed.

6.   The Georgian lithurgical repertoire had almost been wiped out by decades of Tsarist russification followed by decades of Bolshevik official atheism.