Sentences with phrase «about a decade away»

Zuckerberg himself has said that we're probably about a decade away from smart glasses beginning to make a serious dent on mainstream markets.

Warriors fans are about a decade away from earning that kind of natural arrogance.

A useful robotic assistant is about a decade away, he estimates.

Advanced nuclear designs have the potential to mitigate some of the challenges of deployment in this region, but they are also about a decade away from first commercial demonstration.

Not exact matches

For decades, automobiles have been gathering data about their own internal systems, yet that information has typically been locked away from drivers; only mechanics armed with special hardware have been able to access it.

Facebook, on the other hand, is only about a decade old and represents the American economy's shift away from manufacturing goods to the creation of software and ideas.

Frank Giustra has spent roughly two decades giving money away, but every year teaches him something fresh about philanthropy.

Sheikh says he tried mightily as head of StatsCan to shift limited resources away from collecting data about the country's shrinking manufacturing sector — more than 300,000 jobs have been shed in Ontario and Quebec over the past decade — so the agency could spend more on tracking the boom in services and trade.

At the time, Ben and I had been investing and operating in the city for over a decade and we were consumed by a belief that we could make a real difference if we stepped away from the traditional model - a model that we felt was dominated by lip service about «hands - on» investing, but that was sorely lacking in GPs who were willing to spend real management company resources to build capabilities that mattered.

The company has been talking about engineering a strategic shift away from consumer PC sales — which still account for 70 % of its revenue — and toward business clients, as IBM has done over the past decade.

I heard a story about farmers in Haiti who, a few decades ago, were given tractors and other farm machinery so they could use new techniques to keep their land from eroding away.

The former pastor of that church, a friend for decades, preached a fiery sermon about how taking away financial support from a missionary was tantamount to taking food from their children's mouths.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

One is that we have somehow turned Chelsea from being a bogey club that we could not beat home or away for about a decade, into a club that we actually seem to thrive against.

I'm giving away my age when I tell you that I was 11 - years - old on that trip, but to say that was my dad's last visit to Walt Disney World and that he teared up talking about it decades later just shows you the kind of impact a Disney vacation has on your psyche.

Within families, men and women are finding new ways to share the breadwinning and caring — throwing away decades of social expectation in the process (Gideon Burrows has written about why it's up to both sexes to address inequalities in this way).

But even for parents whose kids are a decade or more away from college graduation, this book offers an opportunity to think about the kind of relationship you want with your kids when they do grow up.

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.

He also refused to back away from his praise of a still - controversial, decades - old report issued by Daniel Patrick Moynihan about the problems facing African - American households.

The issue has been talked about for decades, but previous governments had backed away because of the high costs.

Dewberry said discussions about government reform have gone on for at least two decades, while poverty and lack of employment have driven city residents away.

The star exploded in the neighboring galaxy M82, about 12 million lightyears away, making it the nearest type Ia supernova in decades.

But despite decades of work, researchers could get the blobs of plasma to last only about 0.3 milliseconds before they broke up or melted away.

Before we get too carried away with lauding Moore's Law, be forewarned: Even industry optimists, Moore included, think that about a decade from now there could be trouble.

There was a news story in my home state (probably more than a decade ago) about a little girl who had found a wild Belladonna plant and had eaten a small handfull of the sweet tasting berries and ended up passing away due to her heart stopping.

Dear sir, I'm 25 yrs old... iv been suffering from manboobs for about a decade now... iv been going to the gym 6days a week since last 4 yrs... while iv developed muscularly the man boobs haven't budged even though iv tried to eat healthy n stay away from junk food... but its been a constant source of shame n low confidence as a result.

Over the last decade I feel that the traditional weddings have slowly gone away, and more modern-esque options are coming about.

You may be worried about getting back into the dating scene after some years or decades away from it, and whether previous relationships might have an effect on how you form new ones.

There's already 50,000 of these websites out there, one more doesn't make a difference, and their infrastructure basically copy and pastes, doesn't worry about maintenance, and you just use SEO, pay - per - click, these handy funnels that everyone's spent a decade polishing and you're away.

The door to the Tomorrow Corporation & 2D BOY vault is about to burst open... Locked away for literally decades, three multi-award winning

Despite the contemporary setting for the film — it's described in the official festival program as «A Big Chill for our current social media moment» — its depiction of gender roles are a few further decades behind still, with female characters assuming domestic roles as an excuse to steal away and talk about men and destiny.

She continued to be an on screen presence in the succeeding decade, but turned to directing, notably giving us Away from Her (2006), an excellent drama about dementia, starring Julie Christie.

But if a truer measure of an actor's greatness is the ability to surprise over the long haul, I'd set the date about a decade later, around the time he quietly walked away with the Keira Knightley vehicle «The Duchess,» and well into his galvanizing five - film run as Lord Voldemort.

During our ride, the driver shared that he has owned a used car business for over a decade, and he talked about how the landscape of that industry is shifting away from the business owner and into the hands (and digits) of the consumer.

FYI; Y» all might wan na look at what the manufactures are saying about EV's [a dead issue with zero future] and hydrogen [the real solution thats at least three decades away]

Now, here we are, about a decade later, with the resurrection of the NSX only a few short weeks away.

That heritage would have been fine, but it came about a decade too late, because just as the Aviator hit the market, the consumer tide turned away from truck - based SUVs to the more carlike crossover SUVs, so named because they crossed over from the car side, rather than the truck side.

Underneath all that Norman Rockwell veneer is an astute commentary about India's slow move away from the family unit, a focus on individualism that is bound to have repercussions for decades to come.

Growing up on a farm near a small town I could relate to everyone thinking they know your business, still thinking / whispering about events that occurred years / decades ago., and the need to escape small town life by living far away in a city.

The year is key, for though chronologically part of the decade, 1962 was, culturally, eons away from the Swinging Sixties that would usher in new freedoms and laissez - faire attitudes about sex just a few years later.

Goulds, For about a decade I lived one suburb away and visited the suburb on occasion for drinks or food.

Writing was pushed away for about three decades.

I was a crab that luckily managed to crawl out of the traditional publishing bucket by stumbling on to self - publishing and self - promoting (after reading Dan Poynter's Self - Publishing Manual in 1980), but what about all the rest of those hapless crustaceans down there, flailing away — searching in vain for decades for a publisher's take - it - or - leave - it contract?

It is still decades away — you're not that old, you remind yourself — but you can't help envisioning all the places you will visit, the home where you will retire, not having to stress about your job anymore.

Most target date funds begin with a stock allocation of about 90 % when the target date is several decades away.

Of course, one doesn't save so linearly, it's tough to get a twenty year old thinking about saving for a retirement that's decades away.

Hi Andrew, I know what you mean about the shift to own - brands, but I think it's probably well over a decade away for companies like RB.

The door to the Tomorrow Corporation vault is about to burst open... Locked away for literally decades, three multi-award winning games will once again be available for a new generation to enjoy.

Fashion today, adds Hamilton, «is about stripping away the layers of cliche that have built up over decades.

While continuing the dance between abstraction and figuration found in her previous decade of works, the new pieces move away from a more direct narrative to a more abstract, open language about painting itself.