Two decades of warfare have left the country's power grid badly damaged.
By this point, the decades of vacancy had left the building quite dilapidated.
And a decade of conflict has left many dead.
I am aware that the decades left to me will seem even briefer, so they had better be sweet.
But a decade of war had left him with little wealth and few pleasant memories in Kentucky.
In Afghanistan, two decades of war have also left it hard to distinguish between the bad times and the worse.
I wouldn't be surprised if a decade from now there isn't a real Amish person left in the county.
The next two decades would see 13 different schools either joined or leave the conference.
But over two decades of searching had left him desolate, desperate.
"It goes to prove my old theory that we probably had a few more decades left," he said.