recent decade

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The methodologies evolved in the history of political thought in recent decades have shown that the categories of political science are not eternally applicable.
Newer methods in recent decades have allowed for the unveiling of many of the intricate complexities underlying the development of higher mental functioning.
The gap in the timing of entry into this role between the more competent and the least competent seems to have widened in recent decades.
Recent decades have brought major advances in the prediction of who becomes a serious delinquent.
The observed increase of damages in recent decades due to extreme weather events has been noted by the insurance industry.
What has happened in the cognitive sciences in recent decades, then, is this.
In recent decades, the industrial use of carbonates in the world has expanded markedly.
In recent decades the acquisition of aspect has been studied intensely for a variety of languages.
Scholarship in recent decades requires us to modify this view, however.
One of the research directions in recent decades is the design of manipulators with a parallel mechanical architecture.
A stronger and more controversial thesis has been proposed and defended by some researchers over recent decades.
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