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in recent decades vs in the recent decades

"In recent decades" is the proper phrase. The use of the article "the" before "recent decades" is incorrect in this context. "Recent decades" is a set phrase that does not require an article.
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in recent decades

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to refer to the time period of the most recent decades leading up to the present.
  • Jun 12, 2024 ... No severe ozone depletion in the tropical stratosphere in recent decades ... in recent decades, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 6743–6756, https://doi ...
  • Oct 23, 2020 ... ... in recent decades. Analyzing 841 large cities throughout the world ... in recent decades in terms of urban expansion, population growth ...
  • Sep 13, 2022 ... ... in recent decades. Geography. People who have left Christianity are underrepresented in the South, where 33% of former Christians live ...
  • Feb 18, 2020 ... In recent decades, unprecedented extreme summer heat waves have occurred in Europe, and they have exhibited an increasing trend since 1970s.
  • Oct 25, 2019 ... Enhanced El Niño–Southern Oscillation Variability in Recent Decades ... Higher frequency of Central Pacific El Niño events in recent decades ...
  • ... in recent decades. Direct satellite measurements since the late 1970s show no net increase in the Sun's output, while at the same time global surface ...
  • Oct 27, 2009 ... ... in recent decades. Other works point to a change in El Niño (La Niña) properties as part of the climate shift in the central Pacific; and ...
  • CDS prevalence levels for English (US), Spanish, and German significantly exceed those of this null model in recent decades, but in the case of Germany also ...
  • Western United States in Recent Decades ... from the National Streamflow Information Program. Printed on recycled paper. This Fact Sheet is one in a series ...
  • Globalization enabled nearly all countries to grow richer in recent decades. Douglas A. Irwin (PIIE). Date. June 16, 2022 5:00 AM. The author is grateful to ...

in the recent decades

This phrase is incorrect in English. The article "the" should not be used before "recent decades."

  • Nov 3, 2019 ... ... in the recent decades (Cowtan & Way, 2014; Huang et al., 2017; Simmons & Poli, 2015). However, interpolated data set by Cowtan and Way (2014) ...
  • Feb 5, 2020 ... In contrast to the changes in the 1980s, the members of the EAWM show, to some extent, inconsistent evolution in the recent decades.
  • (2019) suggested that the easterly wind anomalies in the subtropical and subpolar North Pacific (indicating poleward expansion of the HC) in the recent decades ...
  • Apr 9, 2013 ... Methods for generating families of univariate continuous distributions in the recent decades. Carl Lee,. Corresponding Author. Carl Lee. lee1c ...
  • Nov 24, 2015 ... Distinct El Niño types have been observed in the recent decades with warm anomalies in the eastern Pacific (Canonical El Niño, EL) and central Pacific (El Niño ...
  • Nov 1, 2020 ... Improving the estimate of the secular variation of Greenland ice mass in the recent decades by incorporating a stochastic process. Author ...
  • Advances on the circulation in the Changjiang Estuary and adjacent East China Sea (ECS) and Yellow Sea (YS) coastal waters in the recent decades (2000–2020) ...
  • Changes in extreme rainfall events in the recent decades and their linkage with atmospheric moisture transport. Author links open overlay panel P.S. ...
  • Feb 14, 2024 ... ... in the recent decades. Meteorol. Atmos. Phys. 134, 1–15 (2022a). https://doi.org/10.1007/S00703-022-00883-9/FIGURES/12 · Article Google ...
  • ... in the recent decades are further investigated, which was due to the accelerated positive ice/ocean albedo feedback at work (Wang et al 2005, 2014). Figure ...

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