Sentences with phrase «years or decades from»

Years or decades from now I will look back and thank my younger self for picking up quality companies on the cheap.

But the next big earthquake could be years or decades from now, he said.

Years or decades from now I will look back and thank my younger self for picking up quality companies on the cheap.

In other words, your dollar's purchasing power today is almost guaranteed to be lower in a year or a decade from now.

When you make a film like Overheard 3 that depends so much on the current technology, do you worry that in a few years or a decade from now when there'll be all sorts of new technology that the film will look dated?

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It's unlikely, for instance, to encourage tardy claims from «people who know all relevant facts and fail to exercise their rights for years or even decades,» as the Chamber put it (pdf) in a letter to the Senate.

During the past two decades, Maitland, now 71, who generally takes four or five vacations a year, has flown in a hot - air balloon over the Swiss Alps, ridden a camel by the Great Pyramid in Egypt, seen India from atop an elephant, and taken in Bangladesh while floating down the Ganges aboard a barge.

In recent years, analysts have increasingly assumed, in their models, that deficits resulting from tax cuts are ultimately paid for by tax increases or spending cuts several decades in the future.

The median price in the Baltimore metro area was $ 259,000, up 5.7 percent or $ 14,000, from a year ago and was the highest sales price in March of the decade, according to data...

Ligand isn't like a traditional biotech stock in that it doesn't spend years or decades bringing drugs from the discovery stage to pharmacy shelves, which is an exceptionally risky boom - or - bust model.

or the first time, more than 100,000 engineers are graduating from American schools every year, and we're on track to accomplish my goal of training 100,000 excellent new STEM teachers in a decade.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

Donna's, which sits on the corner just down from the townhouse our founder [Richard John Neuhaus] bought over three decades years ago, has closed after 30 or more years, the victim of a rise of (local rumour has it) $ 16,000 a month in rent.

And then there's the individual interpretations of what they think Jesus would DO as if we knew every motivation of a man that may or may not have lived over 2000 years ago of whom we only have these va - gue and ambiguous accounts from other people that were written DECADES after this Jesus guy died.

One of my advantages over most of my contemporary rivals is that, decade after decade, in eighty or so years I have gone on gaining additional clarity on a number of topics which interested me from the start.

Futurist Herman Kahn announces that some day people will live for 150 years, immunized against all diseases, anesthetized from all pain, able to hibernate for decades or centuries if they desire.

Far from sweeping aside anyone these days, the Gunners have failed spectacularly to live up to that nickname for around a decade, certainly the last five years or so.

As someone who has been educating sports parents about head trauma in sports for the past seventeen years, and about the very real risk posed by chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) for the last decade, it is not surprising that I receive emails from parents all the time expressing deep concern about stories in the media that have led them - wrongly - to fear that playing contact or collision sports, or suffering a sports - related concussion, especially one slow to heal, makes it inevitable that their child will develop CTE and is at greatly increased risk of committing suicide.

The volunteers were affiliated with the Greater Chicago Food Depository, which over the last decade has arranged to make food shows week its best operation of the year: more than 200,000 pounds of food, or about 25 semitractor trailers» worth of everything from pizzas to bananas to boxes of macaroni and cheese.

Back to the feeling that we have to be ever - vigilant in order to optimize our children's performance and hoping that somewhere down the line, whether that's this year or in a decade, it will all pay off with a letter of acceptance (preferably several) from a prestigious college or university.

So, three decades on from the boycott's inception, I have come to Bangladesh to find out whether Nestlé has - as it claims - changed its behaviour, and is now a reformed organisation, or whether the campaigners have been right to keep up the pressure all these years, not just on Nestlé but on other formula manufacturers too.

A decade later, nothing has changed; that's why it is disconcerting to see so much hype about the IDEO plan, which is still years away from implementation or affordability, but no talk about the current meal program.

A real - time electronic poll of BME teachers attending the seminar found that: 78 % do not think the work and contribution of BME teachers is recognised and valued by schools; 58 % do not think treatment of BME teachers has improved in the last decade; Only 36 % feel outcomes for BME pupils have improved in the last decade; 98 % feel that racism continues to be a serious problem in the UK today; 53 % do not see themselves still being in the teaching profession in the next five years, with 31 % saying they are planning to change career and the rest saying they plan to retire or take a break from the profession.

«But whether it's Felix Ortiz, with two decades» experience in Albany, or Jason Zove, who's only a few years removed from college, they share a dedication to safe and complete streets.»

This has been the call over the past decade or so from those still within the party responding to the fall out over the Nu Labour years.

The Democratic Party in the House of Representatives will have a huge challenge in the coming two years as it fights to defend the American people from a barrage of legislation coming from the soon - to - be Republican House majority that seeks to turn back the clock in the country a decade or more.»

If you are a good rifleman you could probably kill them from several hundred yards out before then get close enough to use their crappy 40 year old AKs that probably haven't been properly cleaned in decades or RPGs.

As START - UP NY participants, the firms will pay no income or property taxes for a decade, and employees also get a 10 - year break from income taxes.

If nobody complains, sidewalks can go years - or decades - without attention from the city.

Mostow: Yeah, I mean, I believe that 1,000 years from now, historians will look back at the time we are living in right now, and in distance like this, this decade or maybe even these couple of years as a turning point in the history of mankind; not [unlike the way] we look back on primitive man, when they discovered fire and how that world is changing society.

Training for a career in science takes a decade or more, and there's no way to know what the job market will look like years from now.

But the health effects of chronic low - level radiation exposure over years or decades are far from clear.

The disease earns its moniker, the «silent killer,» from its tendency to lie dormant in a person's system for years, even decades, until striking the victim down, usually through sudden heart or digestive failure.

As a result, CO2 emissions from those countries fell by 4 to 5 percent per year for a decade or more.

Comparing data from the 2001 - 2002 and 2012 - 2013 NESARC waves, the researchers found that the prevalence of drinking at levels two and three times or more the standard binge thresholds in the past year was significantly higher in the most recent NESARC wave, suggesting that more adults are engaging in extreme binge drinking now than a decade earlier.

Even its backers admit it would take a decade to grind all the mirrors, but once built, it could pick out brown dwarfs in neighboring galaxies or supernova explosions from 10 billion light - years away.

This study shows that aragonite saturation state in waters shallower than 328 feet or 100 meters depth decreased by an average of 0.4 percent per year from the decade spanning 1989 - 1998 to the decade spanning 1998 - 2010.

The problem, he explains, is that the strategy is different from vaccination, in which the body's immune system produces antibodies and remembers how to do so for years or even decades.

After decades of work, physicists say they are a year or two away from detecting ripples in spacetime

New measurements by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies indicate that 2012 was the ninth warmest year since 1880, and that the past decade or so has seen some of the warmest years in the last 132 years.One way to illustrate changes in global atmospheric temperatures is by looking at how far temperatures stray from «normal», or a baseline.

In the past several decades, scientists have discovered that the North — South distributions of certain plants often result from a single jump across the tropics, not as a result of gradual movements or events that occurred over a hundred million years ago.

In a fast - changing world, it is hard enough to predict whether people will be listening to music on compact discs, digital audio tapes or some other system next year, let alone anticipate which technologies will shape the global economy decades from now.

From the number of fairy circles that had died or started to die over the past 2 to 9 years, Tschinkel calculated that the fairy circles had an average age of about 6 decades.

More than 10.6 million people worldwide fell ill and 1.7 million died from tuberculosis last year while a quarter of the world has latent TB, which will develop into active tuberculosis for one in ten victims years or even decades later.

Researchers found a significant decrease in rates of childhood overweight or obesity between 2004 and 2013, from 30.7 % in 2004 to 27.0 % a decade later among children aged 3 to 19 years.

Over the 150 years, polar bear attacks averaged eight or nine per decade, Atwood says, but from 2010 to 2014 alone there were 15.

Each year over the past decade, it has generated an average of 10 patents from DOE - supported research, and enters into about five technology license agreements and / or options.

But it is even better than that because to go from generation to generation in the human world is either nine months or 21 years, depending on who you talk to; you've got to get pregnant; you've got to buy baby clothes, the whole thing; the kid goes to school and then college and a couple of decades later, you've got a new generation.

For main - belt objects, data from many years, even decades, may be required to get an accurate picture, assuming supplementary data from radar, adaptive optics, and / or occultations are not available.

1) the atmosphere (which can also be subdivided into northern and southern hemispheres, and even into Hadley Cells) all with fairly short time constants 2) the upper ocean — time constant on the order of years to decades 2a) the biosphere — time scale from 1 year to decades and even centuries and millennia for some processes 3) abyssal ocean (timescale of many decades to ~ a century or more) 5) the geosphere — timescale of millennia to eons.