By the first decade of the twenty-first century, I could no longer swing a golf club.
The first decade of the new millennium has been a huge disappointment to many Americans.
In the first decade of the euro, Germany put itself through wrenching economic reforms to become competitive.
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They were able to do so in the first decade or so of retirement, apparently by adjusting spending.
It went slowly for the first decade, with a few military contracts and toy designs here and there.
Remember that the Qing dynasty, with all its inherited rituals, survived into the first decade of this century.
They have also removed most of the property-tax burden that would fall on the company in the first decade.
Studies in the first decade of neuroeconomics relied heavily on active MRI scans.
So by the end of the first decade in the new millennium, Air Force fortunes were at a low ebb.
The stream of immigration that flowed in the 1890s became a deluge during the first decade of the new century.
He began by noting progress in race relations since the first decade of the 20th century when the NAACP was founded.
The experience of the first decade or so of devolution has been less exciting than many of its advocates had expected.
Over the first decade the Wu released dozens of records, starred in movies, and even had their own video game.
As it turns out, combat scenes hardly feature in the manga of the first decade after Japan surrendered to the Allied forces.
In the first decade of the industry, the 1980s, Apple and IBM led, nearly neck in neck for much of the time.
In the first decade of the new millennium, the trends reversed again.
Spain ran hefty current-account deficits in the first decade of the euro.
During the first decade of the 21st century Michigan lost over 200, 000 jobs and it was the only state that actually lost population.
The middle of the first decade of the 21st century was the date of birth of what we now call the social-media movement.
Mongolian spots usually fade to a large extent, if not completely, within the first decade of life (often within the first few years).
More to the point, dollar weakness has historically been a worldwide inflationary event, the first decade of the new millennium being no exception.
Invented in Europe in the first decade of the 1600s, Galileo (and later Kepler) wasted no time exploiting the new device for astronomical observations.
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Once Lockheed integrated its various legacy cultures, it became the dominant player in the defense sector during the first decade of the new millennium.
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Even the invention and widespread use of the telescope in the first decade of the 17th century did not radically change man's view of the heavens.
It would appear that, in the first decade of the 21st Century, the dream of escaping to the country became a reality for tens of thousands of urban white Britons.
If civilisation lasts another 100 years, perhaps an equally talented historian will one day compare the first decade of this century to its dizzying counterpart before 1914.
The first decade of the 2000s was more divisive among those who craved horsepower and those who sought the image associated with hybrid badging, inspired by the Toyota Prius.
The court came to be seen as a victim of its own success, and by the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century appeared to be collapsing under its own caseload.
Economists such as Simon Johnson have said this played a major role in the narrowing of spreads between, say, German and Greek borrowing rates in the first decade of the euro.
According to the latest U.S. census, the city lost almost 19 percent of its population in the first decade of this century, and two-thirds of the population is 40 or older.
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