1.   Market research surveys were probably the first type of opinion survey to be used and as early as the first decade of the twentieth century.

2.   The first decade of the Franco regime was appropriately known by people on both sides of the political divide as the hungry years.

3.   He has also discovered a strong correlation between the extent of enclosure and high per capita levels of poor relief in the first decade of the nineteenth century.

4.   At their home in Louisiana, Ashaki Pratt, who married Pratt during his first decade of imprisonment, said she was overjoyed.

5.   About the same number of men and women moved into the buildings in the first decade or so, according to managing agencies, residents and superintendents.

6.   But recent studies from both California and Michigan covering the first decade of the privatization movement show mixed results.

7.   During her first decade here she lived with one of her sons in the South End, grappling with the new language and a disorienting idleness.

8.   Each side sees the ability to tip the balance of political power its way in the first decade of the next century.

9.   Ewing spent the first decade of his career collecting his money, doing nothing off the court to promote the league.

10.   For all its sensational aura, it became one of the classics Robbins choreographed in his first decade at the City Ballet.