decadelong

or dec·ade-long

[ dek-eyd-lawng; British also duh-keyd-lawng ]

adjective

1. lasting for a decade:

   After a decadelong study, the drug has finally been approved by the FDA.

Example Sentences

“I’m over here being a jefita chingona, busting my a— and that’s what people want to focus on?” she said, referring to her love life amid a decadelong career without scandals, five Latin Grammy nominations, four studio albums and two headlining tours.

From Los Angeles Times

Out of that came Building Healthy Communities, a decadelong initiative that distributed $1 billion to groups in 14 places from Del Norte County to the Coachella Valley to San Diego.

From Los Angeles Times

It promises to develop decadelong science spending plans, cut net carbon emissions from electricity production to zero by the end of the decade, and reduce the use of animals in some kinds of research if, as many observers predict, it prevails.

From Science Magazine

The research is the culmination of a massive, decadelong effort to characterize those crop populations, or landraces—sequencing their genomes, planting them in fields, and scrutinizing their traits.

From Science Magazine

A bloody decadelong Sikh insurgency shook north India in the 1970s and 1980s until it was crushed in a government crackdown in which thousands of people were killed, including prominent Sikh leaders.

From Seattle Times