Sentences with phrase «in a couple of decades there»

In a couple of decades there will probably be incentives within each nation to have children, lots of children.

Not exact matches

There remains a lot of market cap located in the middle of the country, and those corporations that are going to survive the next couple of decades are those that are proactive and creative in embracing technology to disrupt themselves.

Over the last two decades of building and running businesses, and the last couple of years working full time with dozens of startup founders and CEOs on their strategies and funding plans in my consultancy business, I have observed that there are a common set of reasons that startups struggle and fail, and a consistent set of factors that make startup companies successful.

Over the past decade there has been little growth in manufacturing output and the level of employment has declined, particularly over the past couple of years (Graph 3).

«In the past two years, the most outstanding mutual fund and holding - company managers of the past couple of decades, each with different styles, with limited overlap in their portfolios, collectively and simultaneously underperformed the S&P 500... There is no precedent for thiIn the past two years, the most outstanding mutual fund and holding - company managers of the past couple of decades, each with different styles, with limited overlap in their portfolios, collectively and simultaneously underperformed the S&P 500... There is no precedent for thiin their portfolios, collectively and simultaneously underperformed the S&P 500... There is no precedent for this.

Prognosticators prognosticate that within a couple of decades, there will be 5 billion people in cities and towns, especially in Africa and Asia.

Though bioethicists may continue their academic debates for decades to come, there is no need to cause unnecessary confusion among couples navigating a rocky enough road as it is, so I hope these sections may be amended in future editions of the book.

Trippi in particular mentioned being brought in to talk with the British Labour Party a couple of weeks before a major election in the last decade, and having to tell them that there was very little they could do online in the time they had remaining that would do much good.

Over the next couple of decades, there were a few fleeting moments of excitement in the world of SETI.

«There has been a lot of debate for a very long time, but especially in the past couple of decades, about whether information representation in the brain is distributed or local,» Barbour said.

What has become very clear over the past couple of decades is that, in fact, there is considerably more generation of new neurons even in the adult brains than had it once believed.

There have certainly been some large El Nino events over the past couple decades, and this leverages any linear trend estimates of the long - term behavior (such as those shown in the recent Vecchi et al paper, which we'll be talking about more in a follow - up post to this).

At two lake sites in Europe, there seems to be a reaction that tracks the changes in the ice cores by as little as a decade and at most a couple of hundred years.

In the modern world there is no shortage of BDSM communities online, but only a couple decades ago many of the taboo...

In the modern world there is no shortage of BDSM communities online, but only a couple decades ago many of the taboo subjects that are now discussed openly were prohibited by just about every digital community you could have joined.

According to Statistics Canada, around 5 per cent of all long - term Canadian couples are in partnerships that can be described as mixed unions — a percentage which has seen a rapid increase in the last few decades.1 For those in lesbian relationships or gay relationships the percentage of mixed unions is even higher, with some 10 per cent of all same - sex couples being mixed.2 Clearly, there are single men and women in Canada for whom interracial dating leads to lasting, committed love.

In the last couple of decades, it has become increasingly apparent that there has been a paradigm shift in terms of how audiences watch and enjoy movieIn the last couple of decades, it has become increasingly apparent that there has been a paradigm shift in terms of how audiences watch and enjoy moviein terms of how audiences watch and enjoy movies.

There is a vibrancy to some of the art direction and set design in this busy but oddly inert take on the Bram Stoker novel, which adds a bunch of mayhem but else to justify yet another take on the same story, but over the last couple of decades Argento seems to have lost all sense of directing actors.

Daniel Day - Lewis has played a couple of the most memorable on - screen villains over the past decade with Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood and Bill «The Butcher» Cutting in Gangs of New York.

There are also the problems that often accompany poverty that, coupled with Nashville's painful history of segregation and racial disparities in discipline practices, have perpetuated inequities among its students for decades.

There's no arguing the price / utility / ease of ingress / egress (both passengers and cargo) of minivans in general, and my grandfather has owned a couple examples of the Town & Country in the past decade or so.

There are also strong student incentives toward indie publishing, as textbook prices have risen faster in the last couple of decades than real estate or medical costs.

Added to which, he was reading for at least a couple of decades before TV was even invented, and rarely watched TV when he was in good health - so there seems little doubt which is likely to give him the most comfort.

In this hauntingly beautiful story, Virginia Woolf relates the tale of a living couple sharing a house with the ghosts of the couple who once lived there, decades earlier.

However, after a couple of decades working with investors, I can say there is quite a difference between the results of a risk assessment and losing 40 % of your money in a down market.

Even if there were no deniers around, I can't see humanity transforming our entire global civilization from one based on fossil fuels to one based on renewable energy sources — especially not in the required couple of decades.

There is a lot of evidence already of behavioural «adaptation» (at least changes in spatial and temporal distributions [e.g., flowering time]-RRB- to the last couple of decades» warmth.

In a couple of decades when astronauts finally make to Mars, there will be an unlimited amount of jobs to do.

There have certainly been some large El Nino events over the past couple decades, and this leverages any linear trend estimates of the long - term behavior (such as those shown in the recent Vecchi et al paper, which we'll be talking about more in a follow - up post to this).

There's a hopeful, enduring, possibly wishful thread of thought that I've been exploring for a couple of decades: various visions of the human species eventually overcoming its tribal and myopic nature and embracing the reality that it is in fact a single, if variegated, community inhabiting a shared, if planet - size, home.

This should be put into context, as Zwally also says that within a couple of decades (should the current loss rate remain) the losses will catch up to the gainings: «If the losses of the Antarctic Peninsula and parts of West Antarctica continue to increase at the same rate they've been increasing for the last two decades, the losses will catch up with the long - term gain in East Antarctica in 20 or 30 years — I don't think there will be enough snowfall increase to offset these losses.»

There's been global warming over the past couple of decades, as observed in ocean warming, surface warming, warming of the troposphere, and Earth's energy balance (i.e. comparing the amount of energy the Earth takes up vs. the amount of energy the Earth releases):

And as Figure 2 demonstrates, there has been absolutely no pause over the past couple of decades in the warming found in the upper 700 meters of the ocean.

But it's nice that the picture confirms what we already knew: That it was much warmer 6000 years ago than in the last couple of hundred years (we've known that for a long time, I learned in school decades ago that in Norwegian mountains which are now Arctic tundra, there were huge forests back then — the preserved roots of those trees can still be found in marshes).

The wealth of evidence currently available points to the latter decades of the 20th Century being warmer than the medieval peak but there is only a couple of tenths of a degree in it.

The second issue raised in our Science paper (now available free, see bottom of this post) is that perhaps there shouldn't yet have been substantial long - term trends in hurricane intensity — whether we would be able detect them above the natural variability or not — because until the last couple of decades, aerosol cooling effects on hurricanes have been counteracting the effects of greenhouse gas warming.

And as for «all the money going to climate science» suggests that some vast amount of money is being thrown at climate — yet there's not really been that much of any dramatic increase in the budgets of agencies like NOAA or EPA regarding climate over the last couple of decades.

Mark Stoval (@MarkStoval) says: June 28, 2014 at 10:38 am «What if there is no «pause», but in fact there has been a cooling over the last couple of decades?

@ 1 Paul S. Most assessments of ice sheet contribution to sea level rise indicate an acceleration over the past decade, whereas altimeter - measured SLR has not been faster over the most recent decade There was a paper published within the last couple of years by some of this sites contributors that suggested part of the disparity may be due to an increase in land based water.

While climate projection even for a couple of decades means you have little skin in the game, being retired by the time it verifies, it doesn't mean there is not a responsibility.

All we need to win now is the weather to turn in the opposite direction to what the alarmists predict and stay there for a couple of decades.

There's been a huge increase in the number of in - house corporate lawyers in America over the last couple of decades, creating an opening for a whole new function of legal ops, which are the professionals charged with driving efficiencies, and coming up with a new way to deliver legal services.

Only a couple of days ago the CBC's Ontario Today did a segment entitled «so you think you are covered» and their lines instantly lit up with (former and current) accident victims calling in to complain about the years and years of denial and delay they endured — sometimes over a decade — as there cases dragged on and they were worn down by the «inherently expensive» vagary of medico - legal expert assessment treadmill which drive personal injury litigation.

In spite of being a loss making proposition for most insurers, for an industry that is only a couple of decades old in India there is certainly a lot of optimism about its future prospectIn spite of being a loss making proposition for most insurers, for an industry that is only a couple of decades old in India there is certainly a lot of optimism about its future prospectin India there is certainly a lot of optimism about its future prospects.

There has been a data - revolution taking place in the last couple of decades.

While at first the newlywed phase can make it seem as though the connection between husband and wife will span effortlessly across decades, as those years pass by; most couples realize there is a good deal of dedication necessary in order to keep the love alive.

Although declines in passion are typical over the course of a long - term relationship, as I discussed here, there is evidence to suggest that the loss of passion is not inevitable and that some couples manage to maintain high desire and excitement for decades.3 As Dr. Lyubomirsky discusses in her article, one ingredient for maintaining passion is engaging in novel activities with a partner.

Even if you and your partner have been a couple for decades, there are so many things to do in Houston that you will never run out of interesting places to go.

Although there have been decades of research on similarity, and recent meta - analysis evidence of the greater importance of perceived than actual similarity in ongoing relationships (Montoya, Horton, & Kirchner, 2008, 2008), we know little about couples» perceptions of various types of similarity in their relationship, and the factors associated with the degree of perceived similarity.

There has been a major shift over the past couple of decades in the way companies brand themselves to both their customers and employees.