Sentences with phrase «about a decade since»

It's been about a decade since he ran off course, Brokeback Mountain aside.

It had been about a decade since the last booming Nintendo launch with the Wii.

Not exact matches

A recent Statistics Canada Megatrends report suggests migration to Canada has accounted for the bulk of population growth since about 1999, and is only going to get more important in the coming decades:

Home ownership has experienced the biggest decline in two decades, and the number of renting households has been growing by about 700,000 a year since 2006.

Sirius stock is enjoying its best run in more than a decade: It's up about about 45 % from its low of a year ago, and on Thursday it briefly hit $ 5.00 for the first time since 2006 before settling just under that mark.

Since the 1946 strike, Stelco workers have walked off the job about once every decade.

Most projections say Canada's economy will average annual economic growth of about 1.6 % over the next couple of decades, compared with 2 % since 2000.

Since it takes about a decade to develop a mine, supply and demand remained out of balance for much of the 2000s.

Microsoft, for example, has reduced itself to heckling Google with two campaigns: «Scroogled,» about the alleged evils of Google's e-mail advertising policy (something that consumers have met with a shrug ever since Gmail's introduction nearly a decade ago); and the «Bing It On Challenge,» in which people on the street pick the search results they like best (which apes the old Pepsi Challenge — a campaign that defined Pepsi by what it isn't, and thus condemned it to being Coke's bridesmaid forever).

Since 2005, the Multiple Listing Service's Home Price Index has climbed 55 %, while housing prices have jumped about 90 % over the past decade.

In his first interview with a business magazine since his appointment, Papp — who spent four decades with the Coast Guard — talks to Fortune about drilling in the Arctic, working with Russia amid the current geopolitical turmoil, and the need to invest in everything from icebreakers to deep - water ports.

If you start the clock in 2007, we are nearing a decade of talking about the U.S. economy as either being on the verge of disaster, in the throes of the worst recession since the Great Depression, or stuck in an endless and disappointing recovery.

Especially if the drug cost 3,000 % more than it did a decade ago, even though nothing about it had materially changed in that time (or for that matter since its creation in the 1950s).

The airlines that survived the volatile decade following 9/11 have since consolidated themselves into a lucrative oligopoly, prompting questions about why smaller cities continue to lose service, why seats keep getting smaller, why fares have remained stubbornly high even as fuel prices dropped and profits soared, and why paying passengers are being quasi-defenestrated from overbooked flights.

Since Facebook entered Africa about a decade ago, it has become the region's dominant tech platform.

Singles Day was started in the 1990s by Chinese college students as a version of Valentine's Day for people without dates, but it has since been closely linked with Alibaba, which adopted it as a shopping event about a decade ago.

The two were closely linked for decades, but since about 1980 they have diverged, with wage growth falling far behind productivity growth, for reasons having nothing to do with corporate tax burdens.

Last week: The tectonic shift in the conversation about gun regulations, school safety and mental health since the murder of 17 faculty and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two decades!

Since Amazon decided about a decade ago to stay in downtown Seattle, the company said, it has invested over $ 4 billion in the construction and development of offices in the city, though it won't disclose the budget for the spheres.

The price of gold more than quadrupled in the past decade even though inflation has remained relatively restrained (consumer prices are up about 27 % since 2003).

Despite reports that she has since been paid $ 130,000 to keep quiet about their affair from more than a decade ago, at the time, Trump didn't tell Stormy to lay low about their encounter.

«It's been more than a decade since the Liberals starting making empty promises about Highway 1, to take just one example.

But then again, the S&P 500 lost about 5 % annually in the decade following the 2000 peak, and even including the recent advance, has achieved an annual total return since 2000 of almost exactly zero.

VANCOUVER — More than half a decade since the Vancouver Police Department last raised the alarm about the growing reliance on police and emergency rooms to fill gaps in mental health services, the problem continues to grow, says New Democrat mental...

Since 1950, the average retirement age has decreased by about five years and the average life expectancy has increased by more than a decade.

SEO has been around for decades, but only since the early 2000s has the search engine giant, Google, taken measures to make SEO more about the web user's experience than following specific formulas to make one's website rank high in search results.

Early in this decade (one could argue about the exact date since a cluster of events is involved) came the technology to make use of this information to bring about by design significant changes in actual life processes.

I make this extended autobiographical introduction to indicate how in the liberal Methodist tradition I first encountered the guilt complex about missions which I have since come to know so well after living more than two decades in the West.

More young people are expressing doubts about God now than at any time since Pew started asking the question a decade ago.

Since I left print journalism to study theology two decades ago, I've thought a great deal about the limits and possibilities of words - especially when we try to navigate the spiritual territory of human life.

Serious brain science around meditation has emerged only in about the last decade, since the birth of functional MRI allowed scientists to begin watching the brain and monitoring its changes in relatively real time.

Another sign of the flourishing of graduate professional theological schools was the discovery that about half of all such schools «had undertaken new construction or major renovation during the decade since the end of World War II».

Brian Williams has been a trusted voice in news for decades, but questions about his credibility have been abounding since last week, when he admitted that his story about coming...

I have opinions, and since we haven't won the league in over a decade I'd say there's plenty of evidence for critique...... so how about you drop the bs notion that having anything critical to say makes someone a hater or not a fan.

I do nt think any fan would expect that from a new coach, but how about not playing our players out of position and repairing glaring holes that we have had for some time now (The DM hole has been around for almost a decade, the ST position since RvP left).

LVG has been managing Man utd for two years now, but Wenger has been managing Arsenal for two decades and people has been seeing th same mistake from wenger for the past 10 years doing the same thing.How many years has it been when so many people say Arsenal need striker, since RVP left but still you don't see WC striker at Arsenal.So I think thats why people are more gives stronger opinion about Wenger.

True, but we could also say the same thing about our premier league performances over the last decade or so, yet no one is saying what's the point in playing in this league since we keep on bottling it every time we are in with a shout.?

LOL... Since when does 90 per cent of passes going sideways or backwards amount to an attacking strategy... Wenger has an 8 million quid banking strategy and that is it... The man has no clue about putting together and coaching a team that can challenge for top footballing trophies and that has been obvious to me for a decade

Not only have the player and the club just agreed a bumper new long term contract extension, and without too much wrangling at that, but the Frenchman has been talking very warmly to Arsenal Player about Theo's development since joining Arsenal almost a decade ago.

I agree with the sentiment about width though — and it's been our problem for a decade since the days of Ljungberg and Pires.

We could have the best depth at DE we've had in decades, but I have not heard much good about NTs since pads came on.

The steroid era sure seems like it was the era of steroids, but it's still probably improperly named, since there were plenty of other aspects at play that caused offense to rise: smaller ballparks, multiple expansions in the decade that (temporarily) diluted the talent pool in MLB, and juiced baseballs as proven by studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and written about by Jay Jaffe.

They had a spell in the early sixties where they we're dominant, and believe me, I saw them, they we're a great side but we also had a great spell in the thirties when we we're, and there's no doubt about it, the best club side in the world with a superb stadium to match it, however, when it comes down trophy's» we're far ahead» winning silverware in every decade since the those glorious thirties, what it is?

It was a moment the 32 - year - old had dreamed about ever since making his Toffees debut way back in August 2002 but, having had to wait after more than a decade at Manchester United, when it came it was something of a gift.

Infidelity has been a topic of interest in scholarly literature for at least the past two decades, but humans have been talking about it, and engaging in it, since biblical times.

But since the World Health Organization published a report about a decade ago saying that babies should be exclusively breastfed until 6 months, countries like the UK and US have recommended parents hold off until then.

Though Wheaton's population over the past decade grew by nearly 8 percent, to 55,416 in 2000, mostly because of the mixed - use Danada development on the south end of the city that included about 700 single - family homes, its population has since leveled off, according to census statistics.

Since the first «pioneers «began re-entering the neighborhood about two decades ago, most of the Victorian mansions built before 1892 for the Columbian Exposition have been restored to their former elegance.

In his first substantial interview in a decade and his first extensively about football since the»90s, OJ Simpson spoke to The Buffalo News about his time in prison, his life since his release, football, CTE and more.

That could just be a projection of my assumptions about what constitutes good communications skills, but even that's revealing, since it shows that I associate «we» with the best political communicators of the past few decades.