decadeful

plural decadefuls · plural decadesful

1. The amount that fills or is produced in a decade.

   A retrospective gives us a decadeful of his watercolors.

   1979 December 3, Nancy McKeon, “Best Bets”, in New York Magazine, volume 12, number 47, page 89

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   Because really I've come to measure my life in decadefuls.

   1983, N. C. Manganyi, Exiles and Homecomings: A Biography of Es'kia Mphahlele, page 287

   At first a performer, then a conductor in the musical theatre, Bratton later moved into the production of "dollar circuit" touring plays and musical comedies (The Dingbat Family, The Newlyweds and Their Baby, Let George Do It, etc), in partnership with Johnny Leffler, whilst also composing more than a decadeful of songs, which were used both as decoration for his own productions and, interpolated into musical comedies on both sides of the Atlantic, in those of others.

   2001, Kurt Gänzl, The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre: A-Gi, page 241

   The moment has slipped free of time. It could exist in decadesful of instants.

   2007, Joyelle McSweeney, Flet: A Novel, page 14