"We have done extraordinarily good work over the whole decade," said the official, interviewed in April.

But in the meantime, I had a whole decade to live, on my own track.

He has still dominated the way Russell once seized a whole decade.

It took one whole decade and parts of two others for football's Bears to honor their greats.

Ireland didn't manage to win the trophy once in the whole decade and worse never finished outside the bottom two.

He was a young guy, not more than twenty-five, which made him a whole decade younger than me.

There has been a whole decade of dictatorship in that country.

And the environmental agenda will begin shaping the energy outlook for the whole decade.

But even that partial fix, if maintained over the whole decade, would have made the tax cut too big to fit the budget resolution.

But hold off until 2009, when we're in prosperity or depression, before deciding what to call the whole decade.