coming decade

collocation in English

meanings of coming and decade

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coming
adjective [before noun]
uk
/ˈkʌm.ɪŋ/
us
/ˈkʌm.ɪŋ/
happening ...
decade
noun [C]
uk
/ˈdek.eɪd/
us
/ˈdek.eɪd/
a period of ten years, especially a period such as 2010 ...

(Definition of coming and decade from the Cambridge English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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This volume will help many clinicians and researchers today, and should serve as a signpost for the advances to be made over the coming decade.
I imagine myself in the coming decade celebrating and supporting others' efforts to do such things.
The point forecast for migration assumed that the recent heavy out-migration declines towards zero net-migration in the coming decade.
The recommended actions summarize the steps that are necessary to move the specialty forward in the coming decade.
This new emerging field promises to be one of the most exciting frontiers of physics in the coming decade.
These methods will change how we understand language use and language learning in the coming decade.
Able to supply most of the colony's needs over the coming decade.
A second problem area which will have to be faced in the coming decade is the problem of illegitimacy.
But even without the decline in the stock market, sponsors of defined benefit plans were going to face increased pension contributions in the coming decade.
This challenging problem could be tackled during the coming decade from three areas of research : astrobiology, the design of self-replicating systems, and the modification of the simplest autotrophic systems.
At the same time, many state and local governments need to attract replacement workers for the large number of long-term employees expected to retire during the coming decade.
Therefore, the new strategy for the coming decade must be based on a strong management system and it must ensure responsibility.
Questions of education and citizenship will in fact be among the major issues of the coming decade.
Underlying the proposals is the likely move to electronic conveyancing over the coming decade.
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In the coming decade we shall move, and have to move, towards the single union representation in certain important industries.
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There will be a desperate need for help from the rest of the world over the coming decade.
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In the coming decade, it is possible that we shall once again become a net exporter of motor cars.
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The report forecasts that in the coming decade the cycle of demand may turn up.
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Clearly it is one of my responsibilities to ensure a good flow of teachers over the coming decade for the introduction of the national curriculum.
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In this sense, this proposal for the coming decade is clearly a political proposal with strategic overtones.
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