Sentences with phrase «at least a decade ago»

Yet here we are, in the same state as at least a decade ago.

It was probably at least a decade ago, while I was teaching at Oberlin, that a young African - American woman — I'll call her Tonya — who had been a student in several of my classes told me she was leaving school, at least for a year.

Listen, Derek Jeter stopped being a shortstop at least a decade ago, and the Yankees still let him play there in actual baseball games.

They first met at least a decade ago when FM was working at a centre left think tank and their children go to the same school in South - West London.

The humor isn't anywhere near as scandalous as it claims to be because the very idea of pushing bizarre premises to their nastiest and most absurd extremes jumped the shark at least a decade ago, rendering any and all further reiterations of such gags pointless.

And second, the epigraph of this book is a Cormac McCarthy line that has haunted me since I first read All the Pretty Horses, at least a decade ago.

most of those proxies ended at least a decade ago.

Not exact matches

Maybe ignoring the competition was fine advice a decade ago, but with technology driving change at a pace never seen before in human history, entrepreneurs can't afford not to follow their competitors, at least to some extent.

Dropping «Donuts» from the brand name has been a strategic no - brainer for over a decade, and ideally should have been fully completed at least five years ago.

A few decades ago, having a high school diploma meant you at least had the education, background and ambition to complete the «bare minimum» of educational expectations.

At least, that's what Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. has been offering passengers on its Bahamas and Eastern Caribbean cruises since the line debuted its tiny Bahamas island, CocoCay, three decades ago.

Net interest payments of households are now more responsive to changes in interest rates than they were a decade or more ago (at least in the short term).

-LSB-...] I introduced our guide to shaving creams and shaving soaps, but there is another tool that is at least as important: the shaving brush.A few decades ago -LSB-...]

I have lost faith in Wenger for the whole of the last decade and his legacy - built largely upon what George Graham left him in defence - has long ago been tarnished and ruined, for me at least.

@JeffLambert The most recent years (from skimming the indictment with layman's eyes) would seem to be their lying about past crimes, which at least have their origins over a decade ago.

There is a real paradox in investing at least # 25 billion in Trident when the rationale for it melted away two decades ago.

But he's facing at least three challengers, including state Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, the son of the man Rangel defeated as a reform candidate decades ago in a race for New York's 15th congressional district seat.

«So part of the age - satisfaction correlation, at least in my own case, comes from having laid the groundwork decades ago for work that is still ongoing and being very fruitful now.»

Museum collections are based on rhino specimens that were collected at least five decades ago.

The Chicxulub crater, the remnant of the impact discovered buried under Mexico's Yucatan peninsula a decade ago, is at least 180 kilometres across, and dates back to the Cretaceous - Tertiary (K / T) boundary, a geological layer of material laid...

This may help explain the larger trend, because today's seniors are more likely to have at least a high school diploma than those in the same age range a decade ago.

Climate activists are recommending many of the same policy solutions today that they were a decade ago — and while President Trump and several other GOP leaders are firmly in the skeptic category, a newer generation of Republican lawmakers seems at least willing to acknowledge the problem and, in some cases, even embrace bold solutions.

Piltdown Man: this was discovered to be a hoax nearly 50 years ago, and had actually ceased to be a considered a human ancestor for at least a decade before that because it was too anomalous compared to all the other known fossils.

I was hounded by elected officials, threatened with violence and more — after a single study I co-wrote a decade and a half ago found that the Northern Hemisphere's average warmth had no precedent in at least the past 1,000 years.

A decade ago, prior to the scientific hypotheses of Logan et al. [73, 74], the notion that the intentional manipulation of the intestinal microbiota could provide therapeutic value to human depressive and fatigue states was, at the very least, outlandish.

Just a decade ago, it was only diagnosed Celiacs (about 1 percent of the population) who avoided gluten, but now at least one - third of Americans are trying to restrict or eliminate gluten consumption.

Back when I was breastfeeding my daughters, about a decade ago, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended at least 1 year and a European counterpart recommended at least 2 years.

Turns out that the entire time Lila and Eve have been playing kickass Tina - Terminators, there has been a second agenda unfolding behind the scenes — one that at least partially excuses the way Lopez's turn comes across so much phonier than the work she did in movies like «Selena» and «Out of Sight» nearly two decades ago.

Who could have guessed that a serialized story published six decades ago in a magazine would have such staying power that it would be made into four films, at least one of which has been released repeatedly on Blu - ray and DVD?

Ever since they shifted their ceremony to before the Oscars nearly a decade ago, the BAFTAs have aligned more with the Academy's picks in the top category, so I'd look for at least four of the current Oscar favourites to feature here.

And it wasn't quite a decade ago that Julie Christie found herself at the Oscars for playing an Alzheimer's patient in Away From Her (in the end losing the prize to Marion Cotillard's Edith Piaf), though Moore's struggle here feels more fearsome moment - by - moment, not least because the Still Alice filmmakers keep their focus on their leading lady, in effect sidelining Baldwin, Stewart, and some fine actors elsewhere in the cast.

When he wrapped the Lord of the Rings saga almost a decade ago, it looked like Peter Jackson left behind Middle - earth — as director, at least.

«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.

No doubt, my own lacking familiarity with 50s Hollywood was a barrier for entry and at least a sizable contributor to my overall unmoved intake of the film but let that serve as a warning to all: those unversed with the ins and outs of the entertainment industry circa six decades ago will likely find the experience similarly cold.

It thus seems probable that remediation rates may now be significantly lower than they were a decade ago, at least in affected states.

When technology courses are compulsory in teacher education, their focus, at least as determined more than a decade ago, has been more on software applications than on technology - infused curriculum design (Jacobsen, Clifford, & Friesen, 2002).

The National Association of College Admissions Officers says the trend started at least two decades ago with private schools and eventually spread to public schools.

The Wall Street Journal reports that 2.7 million college students are taking at least one remedial course, more than double the figure from a decade ago.

Nissan's research suggests that what these customers want — at least in terms of sheer hauling and towing strength — is a rig a lot like the HD trucks domestic automakers sold over a decade ago, before they went all steroidal.

Introduced less than a year ago, the latest - generation BMW 7 Series could spawn at least one new version by the end of the decade.

Over three decades ago, Chrysler gave the world the minivan, and it wasn't long before the endearingly boxy, undeniably useful vehicle worked its way into the hearts — or at least the driveways — of millions of Americans.

With those caveats behind me I have found I read at least three times the books now as a decade ago.

Different platforms have included interactive and multimedia aspects for children's books for at least a decade, and I bought my first interactive «choose your own adventure» style Kindle book almost three years ago.

→ Rebuild to code Building codes are updated at least every decade, which can be a problem if your home was built a few decades ago but suddenly requires extensive repairs or a rebuild.

A decade ago, the mindset of most veterinarians, at least when it came to pain, was reactive rather than proactive — in other words, treating the pain only when it could no longer be ignored.

Written over three decades ago, USDA regulations mandate that a breeding female dog have a cage at least six inches longer than the dog herself and that she be able to stand up and lie down in it.

Well the servers for Call of duty 2 on xbox 360 are still up, and that released 12 years ago, so I think you're safe for a decade at least.

Also, the very definition of classic paints a picture of cars from an era when F1 was in its origins such as in the 1950s or at the very least decades ago between the 1960s and 1980s or alternatively teams that were established and well respected that are no longer in F1 within the season the game is based upon including Alfa Romeo, Brabham and the classic Lotus which participated from 1958 to 1994; yet having a car from the 2010 season seems in total conflict with that very notion, regardless of it being a championship winning car.

Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, and other shooters seemed to mine World War II for all of its major moments a decade ago, which is at least partially why Activision's series imagined up new conflicts to portray instead.

Widely considered a dead genre as recently as half a decade ago, not only has the JRPG survived to this day, but through the occasionally cartoonish force of will of a handful of developers, 2016 looks to be the biggest year for the genre since the burgeoning days of the first PlayStation, at least in terms of Western — especially European / Australian — release dates.