Sentences with phrase «at least a couple of decades»

So the political group that seized control, would have to maintain that control for at least a couple of decades, probably longer.

Interstate 787 severed downtown Albany from the Hudson River, and attempts to regain access may be at least a couple of decades away.

This summary work alone, he estimates, could take at least a couple of decades.

It won't happen for at least a couple of decades.

Suffice to say I haven't had an 18 - inch waist in at least a couple of decades.

Escape Plan is at least a couple of decades too late to bring in the once - large fan - bases of Stallone and Schwarzenegger, formerly the biggest action stars of their 1980s and early 1990s, working here together for the first time in a significant way (the miniscule part Arnie played in the Expendables series hardly counts).

Added to which, he was reading for at least a couple of decades before TV was even invented, and rarely watched TV when he was in good health - so there seems little doubt which is likely to give him the most comfort.

They could tell from their scientific research that the piece of film in the metal container had been produced sometime around 1981, but that you had not exposed it until at least a couple of decades after its expiration date.

No politician or member of the public who has not spent at least a couple of decades in this area can possibly understand it enough to clearly ascertain its strengths and weaknesses.

Having worked steadily for at least a couple of decades at a given firm, with a strong salary and a prestigious reputation and having essentially reached the «top of the ladder» it can seem a bizarre choice when partners choose to leave to set up their own firms.

Not exact matches

Canada's satisfaction with having easy access to the U.S. has caused it to miss out on at least of couple of decades of rapid growth in Asia and other parts of the developing world.

Specifically, for at least the next couple of decades the number of prime - age workers is going to shrink relative to the elderly.

Interestingly the NICs, the fastest growing economies of Asia, such as South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, China and in a sense Hong Kong, have been those which did not respect democratic elections at least for a couple of decades.

The idea that at least some of the non-coding DNA might have latent functionality beyond basic gene expression has been around for a couple of decades.

The way priests are constantly shuffled around, the tacit approval of the churches leadership coupled with the fact that thousands of cases have been reported across at least 2 continent's over a period of decades paints a pretty filthy picture.

I realize this may not be clear or meaninful to some readers and I can't take the space here to go into it other than to say that a good segment of biblical scholarship for a couple decades at least, has properly broadened its pursuits in an interdisciplinary manner, into probing for better understandings of the nature and formative, growth processes of the earliest groups of Jesus followers and how they ultimately became Jewish Christian groups, or started as mixed Jewish / Gentile groups (as via Paul, et al.).

GENT and WOLFSBURG are the only a couple of knockout stages of the Champions League that has not already met at least once in European competitions for the past decade.

@blip and Casey: In many cases, you'd be right, but it's pretty clear what the meaning was in this case (or at least it is to anyone who has been following U.S. / N.K. relations for the last couple of decades or so.)

«Fifty Shades Freed» probably would have been terrible but at least its flaws could be expected and even rationalized based on the failings of its predecessors while «The 15:17 to Paris» is so bewilderingly terrible that all you can do is scratch your head in disbelief while quietly admiring the still - potent strength of Eastwood's power in the industry that would allow him to make a film that is virtually indistinguishable from the instant and usually dreadful made - for - TV movies torn from the headlines that were all the rage a couple of decades ago.

Either way, the Cross Sport concept is likely Seat's way of raising awareness about the company's future, which will include at least a couple of crossovers by the end of the decade.

I've been reading blogs about the publishing industry for at least five years now, and reading books about the publishing industry for a couple of decades.

Someone starting at age 40 still typically has at least 25 years until retirement and even when in retirement could live for another couple of decades.

«I've known Walter for at least a couple decades as an artist, writer and activist in the art world, who was very involved on the lower east side of Manhattan in the»70s and»80s when many (contemporary) artists were coming of age,» King says.

There is a lot of evidence already of behavioural «adaptation» (at least changes in spatial and temporal distributions [e.g., flowering time]-RRB- to the last couple of decades» warmth.

Common sense would dictate otherwise but I belive the 21st century started 1st of Jan 2001 — at least that's how I recall it from a couple of years working out Y2K bugs, so assuming «this» decade is the first of the new century is not unreasonable compared to the rest of the spin.

The moral of the story, in essence, is that «future energy» — at least through the next couple of decades — is largely the same as current energy, with gains in efficiency and growth in adoption of renewable sources and nuclear power still not substantially blunting growth in the combustion of fossil fuels.

To point out just a couple of things: — oceans warming slower (or cooling slower) than lands on long - time trends is absolutely normal, because water is more difficult both to warm or to cool (I mean, we require both a bigger heat flow and more time); at the contrary, I see as a non-sense theory (made by some serrist, but don't know who) that oceans are storing up heat, and that suddenly they will release such heat as a positive feedback: or the water warms than no heat can be considered ad «stored» (we have no phase change inside oceans, so no latent heat) or oceans begin to release heat but in the same time they have to cool (because they are losing heat); so, I don't feel strange that in last years land temperatures for some series (NCDC and GISS) can be heating up while oceans are slightly cooling, but I feel strange that they are heating up so much to reverse global trend from slightly negative / stable to slightly positive; but, in the end, all this is not an evidence that lands» warming is led by UHI (but, this effect, I would not exclude it from having a small part in temperature trends for some regional area, but just small); both because, as writtend, it is normal to have waters warming slower than lands, and because lands» temperatures are often measured in a not so precise way (despite they continue to give us a global uncertainity in TT values which is barely the instrumental's one)-- but, to point out, HadCRU and MSU of last years (I mean always 2002 - 2006) follow much better waters» temperatures trend; — metropolis and larger cities temperature trends actually show an increase in UHI effect, but I think the sites are few, and the covered area is very small worldwide, so the global effect is very poor (but it still can be sensible for regional effects); but I would not run out a small warming trend for airport measurements due mainly to three things: increasing jet planes traffic, enlarging airports (then more buildings and more asphalt — if you follow motor sports, or simply live in a town / city, you will know how easy they get very warmer than air during day, and how much it can slow night - time cooling) and overall having airports nearer to cities (if not becoming an area inside the city after some decade of hurban growth, e.g. Milan - Linate); — I found no point about UHI in towns and villages; you will tell me they are not large cities; but, in comparison with 20-40-60 years ago when they were «countryside», many small towns and villages have become part of larger hurban areas (at least in Europe and Asia) so examining just larger cities would not be enough in my opinion to get a full view of UHI effect (still remembering that it has a small global effect: we can say many matters are due to UHI instead of GW, maybe even that a small part of measured GW is due to UHI, and that GW measurements are not so precise to make us able to make good analisyses and predictions, but not that GW is due to UHI).

The uncertainty limits are justified at least over periods of many decades, probably over a couple of centuries.

On that basis I think we will see cooling for a couple of decades due to the negative phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation which has just begun then at least one more 20 to 30 year phase of natural warming before we start the true decline as the cooler thermohaline waters from the Little Ice Age come back to the surface.

Abstract: An evaluation of analyses sponsored by the predecessor to the U.K. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) of the global impacts of climate change under various mitigation scenarios (including CO2 stabilization at 550 and 750 ppm) coupled with an examination of the relative costs associated with different schemes to either mitigate climate change or reduce vulnerability to various climate - sensitive hazards (namely, malaria, hunger, water shortage, coastal flooding, and losses of global forests and coastal wetlands) indicates that, at least for the next few decades, risks and / or threats associated with these hazards would be lowered much more effectively and economically by reducing current and future vulnerability to those hazards rather than through stabilization.

So we're talking about a sector that has generated many tens of billions of dollars over the last couple of decades, at least 1 % of global legal spend annually, from a standing start the year Titanic was released.

The goal of access to justice has been a constant concern for the past couple of decades at least.

By number 10, I'll have at least a decade of payments on a couple of the first properties and those balances will be easily paid off.