His wife said that decades after the show went off the air, people continued to recognize him.

You could easily let a decade go by and not do anything.

The last few decades did not go well for this city 30 miles south of Seattle.

The decades could come and go, but cops would never change.

The next decade is not going to be like that.

For example, decades later in the 1980s the myth was still going strong.

The next decade is going to be very interesting indeed.

Another decade went by, though, before those concerns were taken seriously.

Several decades have gone by but there is still no free movement of services in Europe.

As the decades go by these things cease to be trivial and begin to become important sources of information.