Sentences with phrase «about a decade younger»

I have a good friend who is about a decade younger than I am.

That would be Barry Keoghan, the 25 - year - old Irishman who has given two superb but wildly different performances this year playing characters about a decade younger.

Not exact matches

Final - mile delivery is a market that Transport Futures economist Noel Perry said could grow to about $ 12 billion over the next decade, from about $ 3.7 billion today, thanks in large part to a growing appetite from younger consumers to buy everything from BBQ grills and mattresses to dining room tables online.

Indeed, think about the ubiquity of certificates of participation — younger people have been rewarded for just showing up for things for decades.

For decades, if not centuries, talking about one's salary has been the biggest taboo in capitalism, which is why the idea of salary transparency — the current «it» strategy among progressive young private companies — makes so many people uncomfortable.

Nassar, a former faculty member and physician at an on - campus clinic at Michigan State University was sentenced in February to up to 125 years in prison after some 200 young women testified about decades of abuse at his hands.

A San Diego woman who said she was raped by the «Golden State Killer» as a young teen spoke out about the relief she felt after hearing a suspect was arrested in the decades - long hunt for the perpetrator.

First published in the early decades of the nineteenth century, it is a long narrative poem about a young woman of great beauty and culture, her misfortunes, and the burdens of karma; a work of genuinely moving brilliance, grim and sad at many points, but also somehow radiant.

For many decades those who don't like something about someone else pretend to know that the young will change things their way.

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

Simply moving the guilty towards fresh young meat in new parishes for decades can not be ignored just because other Catholics are tired of hearing about it.

Solomon is a stylish, stunning woman herself; I spend half of our interview trying to figure out how someone this young could be this successful before she mentions her actual age — and it turns out I was under by about a decade.

Just don't think about how their keystone combination is still impossibly young and otherworldly and how they'll be around for the better part of the decade, because that's extra scary, too.

But he's had my back 140, 150 games every year for over a decade now, and it almost feels like I'm getting younger with each passing year, so I don't talk about that much.

You'll spend the next decade dreaming about the big - armed, erratic young pitcher in your favorite team's system because of Arrieta, and he'll never be Arrieta.

About once a decade hordes of brilliant young ballplayers come off the farms in a swarm and scare the daylights out of the tired old baseball journeymen.

If he played for everton or Southampton we would have been talking about spending # 50 million on a young CB that can play for us for the next decade.

For the best part of two decades, French club sides and the national federation have whined long and loud about overseas outfits stealing their best young talent.

While some studies have looked at outcomes much later in life, this new study is the first to assess how breastfeeding affects markers of heart health in younger and middle - aged women, about a decade after having children.

Ironically, Rob Weiss, who heads the ranch's sex - recovery unit, penned an article for the Huffington Post in 2013 in which he talked about Weiner and a fellow sex - shamed ex-pol, former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer — as well as Ariel Castro, the monster who held captive and raped three young Ohio women for more than a decade.

For more than a decade, scientists have wondered about the nature of the dark material that coats long, linear fractures and other relatively young geological features on Europa's surface.

The current generation of young people faces the worst job prospects in decades, yet previous research into how «NEET «youths feel about their own prospects and how unemployment affects their mental health is scarce.

In all, only about 1 in every 1000 young leatherbacks will return to the beach on which it hatched nearly a decade later to breed, he says.

Young and middle - aged adults who harbor negative thoughts about aging may face a higher risk for Alzheimer's disease decades later.

Few men would be concerned about the future needs of a 2 - decades - younger woman.

People discover it really terrible if they get to know about a wedding in which a 20 decades young lady has committed to a man of 40 decades age.

Men are definitely from Mars, and it causes enough difficulty to find common grounds with someone of the same generation as yours, let alone the young guy who's trailing about two decades far behind.

Bars and clubs, the mainstays of young singles meet - ups, are unlikely to yield positive results for seniors, most of whom became weary and wary decades ago about alcohol - fueled dialogue.

About Blog A blog which offers book reviews for young people of preschool to high school ages by a children's librarian with decades of experience in reading guidance.

Spanning over a decade from the early 1950s through to the mid-60s, Novitiate is about a young girl's first initiation with love, in this case with God.

BBats: What young director (3 or less films) are you most excited about seeing over the next decade?

Paul King, the writer and director of the new British family film «Paddington,» recalled the dread that came over people's faces when he mentioned he was doing a movie about the adorable young bear that has enchanted children for nearly six decades.

The author revealed that Dumbledore was gay, making the announcement outside of the books about a decade ago, and many fans were curious to see if his young romance would be addressed in Fantastic Beasts 2.

On the DVD commentary, they are talking about an alternative ending that I always liked: When Morgan Freeman's character realizes that he can't keep Pitt from shooting John Doe, he pulls out his gun and does it himself, sparing the younger cop decades in prison and sacrificing himself.

The weaknesses of his latest offering shouldn't surprise anyone that knows about his track record; his last two films released this decade were Garfield, the feeble - minded version of the long - running comic strip, and Thunderpants, about a young boy with astounding abilities to produce flatulence.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 7, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Atonement (R for profanity, sexuality and disturbing war images) Decades - spanning romance drama, opening in England in 1935, about the budding relationship between a rich girl (Keira Knightley) and the son (James McAvoy) of her family's maid aborted when he is falsely accused of a crime by her jealous younger sister (Saoirse Ronan).

GQ — Every once in the rarest while, a young actor shows up in a movie like an alien — anonymous and yet in possession of such preternatural talent that audiences start thinking about the actor's future not in years but in decades.

A decade after the death of an American TV star (Kit Harington), a young actor (Jacob Tremblay, then Ben Schnetzer) reminisces (about) the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.

At that time I was far too young know or care about Attenborough's impressive decades - long career.

Based on a true story about the intelligence going on behind the scenes for almost a decade before Bin Laden's death, Zero Dark Thirty follows a young and committed CIA agent (Chastain) who is determined to track down a courier that most think is dead, but who she knows is the key to solving the mystery of the target's location.

Way back in the decades past, there were many comedies about the young underdog struggling to beat the snobs.

All modern animated content in movies, from Jabba the Hut to «Toy Story,» springs from those years of invention at Disney, he says: «The same principles apply everywhere, and those principles were all discovered under one roof, decades ago by a bunch of young punks jazzed up about creating something.»

A screwball comedy about female friendship and intellectual - property theft (well, not quite, but we'll get to that), Mistress America breathlessly tags along as Brooke makes wild gesticulations and snappy pronouncements, by way of mentoring the decade - younger Tracy Fishko (Lola Kirke), a shy suburbanite newly installed in the freshman dorms at Barnard.

«Second Chance» (Fox): Formerly known as «The Frankenstein Code,» then «Lookinglass,» Fox's newest science fiction drama is about a morally corrupt cop who's brought back to life decades later in a newer, younger, stronger body - and the consequences of that.

The festival's second prize went to a film that already is something of a commercial hit in Los Angeles and New York: John Sayles» «The Return of the Secaucus Seven», a funny melodrama about a group of friends who were young political activists in the late 1960s and hold a reunion 10 years after the end of that idealistic decade.

Considering it took nearly a decade to bring the story to film, Haley Joel Osment, who talks about growing up on screen, would have been far too young to play the awkward adolescent along side the legendary Michael Caine and Robert Duvall.

For two decades, Sarah Polley has been desperately trying to adapt Margaret Atwood's book about a young woman who was abused, mistreated and silenced in the mid-1800s.

As a result of all this work, and deeply worried about young employment situation around the world, eight months ago we set up a new project in our agenda: The International Campaign for the Youth Employment Decade.

For nearly a decade, their guesses about that link between going to school as a young girl — even for only a few years — and behavior later as a mother that positively affects children's health focused primarily on attitude and behavior.

An analysis of decades of research about how young children can best learn to read indicates that, in most cases, these difficulties can be prevented, according to the National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators (NCITE), based at the University of Oregon.