On and off the pitch United's decade under the Maxwells has given them a brief but all too short taste of glory.

Four decades of steadily rising incomes abruptly gave way to six years of relentless impoverishment.

"A decade of this," she said, "has given me the kind of security that - well, that normal people have."

But whether he knows it or not, that decade may have given him a critical edge: It gave him stories to tell.

They stood for the pass, for team play, but now their decade of selflessness has given way to one of selfishness.

The first decade of Muhammad's life gave no indication of the prominence to come.

Two decades of public service have given her access to officials that previous school chiefs did not enjoy.

Our seventh decade is giving every promise of even greater advances.

The decade of food as art is giving way to restaurants as conceptual art.

The car was launched at a time when several decades of economic stagnation were giving way to growing prosperity and surging car ownership in France.