Sentences with phrase «as a decade»

History: The 1990s will be remembered as the decade of the sport - utility vehicle.

This phase can be just a few months or as long as a decade in length.

A little hotter and we all get by, even as the «normal» base continues to warm as each decade passes.

Sales totals jumped significantly for 1976, the best year yet for the second generation, and were to improve even more dramatically as the decade progressed.

This year's results include two interactive graphics providing both 2016 findings and as much as decade - long trends.

Note that as recently as a decade ago, I wouldn't have said that.

In other words, climate describes phenomena observed over long time periods, such as decades and centuries, while weather is observed over short time periods, such as days and weeks.

With this push has come an influx of students that may not have been part of the college scene as early as a decade ago.

As far as decades go, the 1980's are always good for a laugh.

As the decade rolls to a close, we can look to 2009 as a pretty amazing year in food.

As the decade ended, the classes were shortened by a couple of hours.

They were things hung on a wall, as blunt in their physicality as pieces of sculpture, which they came to resemble more and more as the decades wore on.

The 1980s will probably be remembered as the decade when the defence of laboratory animals really began to make headlines around the world.

Given the rapid turnover in technology, however, I doubt that will be very long — certainly not as long as the decades for which my bound books have endured.

As the decade came to a close, things had changed considerably.

Just as a decade ago there was no alternative to CDs.

I find no such data and the same result is going to happen as this decade proceeds.

THE decade spanning the years from 1995 to 2005 is often described as the decade of transition to the online economy.

The 1970s might be characterized as the decade of school finance reform.

We often refer to what we're doing as a decades - long experiment.

Researchers pointed to decreasing congressional institutional capacity as a decades - long trend that has generated bipartisan concern.

As the decades advanced, telescopes got bigger and better able to spot small, faint objects.

The décor should be as wild and neon as the decade.

It's very important frequently updating your wardrobe, as every decade makes you look different.

Today, they serve more than three million students nationwide — nearly three times as many students as a decade ago.

The board voted last year to force the charters into participating when their licenses come up for renewal, which for some is as long as a decade away.

This new promotional tool became a key part of the author's and publisher's marketing campaigns as the decade progressed.

It presents films that launched the careers of several important artists and defined the 90s as a decade of when American independent film came into its own.

Notice that before the financial crisis, global debt was «only» around $ 150 trillion, meaning we've added close to $ 120 trillion in as little as a decade.

But as the decades passed, lawmakers increasingly passed bills to raise their salary as far in advance of the next election as possible to reduce the likelihood of voter backlash.

As recently as a decade ago, self - publishing was much more labor intensive and costly than it is today.

As the decade progressed, the couple watched the ups and downs in the market.

Impact investors often speak in terms of patient capital — that is, investments that can take as long as a decade to turn a profit.

As early as a decade ago, this was the only way to go about getting coverage.

But as a decade of wars against terrorist organizations have shown, the real question is what comes next.

And as the decade wore on, things just got better.

The way people invest in real estate is very different than it was as recently as a decade ago.

This exhibition celebrates the life and 40 - year career of American - Israeli sculptor Boaz Vaadia as well as a decade long collaboration with Connaught Brown.

It is only as the decade draws to a close that it becomes clear just how presciently the Austrian director Michael Haneke tapped into the uncertain mood of the Noughties.

Projections show that, assuming little action is taken to slow global warming, the Arctic Ocean may be essentially free of summer sea ice in as little as a decade from now, although other scientists maintain that won't occur until the 2040s or 2050s.

As the decade closed, these movements appeared to have chiefly historical interest.

One theme that came up repeatedly, especially with those married 20 + years, was how much each individual changes as the decades roll on, and how ready each of you have to be to embrace the other partner as these changes occur.

What those citations show is that a short - term fluctuation, sometimes over as short a period as a decade, was considered by those scientists to constitute a «problem» for climate science that had to be resolved.