Sentences with phrase «couple of decades so»

A couple of decades so ago the idea that words «sexy» and «texting» would one day be conjoined, thereby creating a new, perfectly acceptable sexual act, would have baffled tech - heads and normos alike — and yet, here we are; a population swiftly learning to type one - handed.

However as the football evolved in last couple of decades so did the importance of quality full backs who are good while defending and support attack as well.

I have been using Celtic sea salt for a couple of decades so I don't have conversions.

Not exact matches

And how do we allow you to write a new class of apps, so that over a period of probably a couple of decades, quite frankly, the software world can transform?

His argument, in a nutshell: Take out a HECM as soon as you're eligible, at age 62, and then let it earn interest so you can milk it for cash a couple of decades down the road.

With the birth of my first child recently I began thinking about planting a dividend tree for him at birth so that he may sit in its shade in a couple decades.

The Pope and his handlers have set a tone that so many Catholics have thirsted for over the past couple of decades.

If the RC had come out a couple of decades ago and asked the public for help in exposing the pedophile priests so that they could be excommunicated and imprisoned, they might have a leg to stand on, but they didn't do that.

So I took about 6 seconds to find out what this massive evangelical teen event was that I've somehow never heard of while traveling and speaking across the country at hundreds of events over the past couple of decades.

Though bioethicists may continue their academic debates for decades to come, there is no need to cause unnecessary confusion among couples navigating a rocky enough road as it is, so I hope these sections may be amended in future editions of the book.

It also looks so vibrant:) Marriage nowadays has become a totally different «commitment» than a couple of decades ago and while some people do nt like the concept at all anymore, some others still love the idea of bonding for a life long.

Arsenal fans and Arsene Wenger have a lot to thank the FA cup for, especially over the last couple of years when it provided the trophy that had been so elusive since a winning penalty by Patrick Vieira in 2005 brought the last piece of silverware to the club for almost a decade.

Every thing has been said about «that goal «and iv only watched it 50 times but it's just one of a dozen things that has defined this season imo, 9 men at Boro, 2 pens at Cardiff to name a couple, but one thing for sure, none of this team or Nuno and his staff will ever forget season 2017, 18, when Neves reflects on his career in a decade or so, regardless of his World appearances and champions league wins (hopefully with us) and Nuno looks back on his first season in England, this will be where it all started.

, it's difficult to pinpoint exactly what has gone wrong for England over the past couple of decades or so.

So much has changed in the last couple of decades.

@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.)

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

Questioning Trident has been a big taboo in Labour Party policy circles for a couple of decades or so.

Even those who have only been in politics for a couple of decades or so can remember the days of being outcasts, a sideshow to the main clash between the Tories and Labour.

«No wonder we've had to endure so many Eric Garner scenarios throughout the last couple of decades,» he continued.

And he says the schools who have successfully merged in the last couple of decades have done so partly to enrich the student's learning experience, not solely because of money and taxes.

Yet after I spend a couple of afternoons with him, it becomes clear that he thinks he has a reasonable shot at something that has eluded researchers for decades: creating a fusion device that yields more energy than it consumes, and doing so on a budget of tens of millions instead of billions.

Biologists say that if the dam is not stopped, the gene pool in the subgroups will be so small the bears will no longer be viable and they could disappear within a couple of decades.

The researchers used a climate model, a so - called coupled ocean - atmosphere model, which they forced with the observed wind data of the last decades.

«It takes decades for the cataracts to get to that point, so if you can reverse that by a few drops in the eye over a couple of weeks, that's amazing.»

As we mentioned briefly, that leads to a «sweet spot» for forecasting of a couple of decades into the future where the initial condition uncertainty dies away, but the uncertainty in the emission scenario is not yet so large as to be dominating.

For the first couple of decades after that, the universe was so dense that any process producing extra energy, such as the annihilation or decay of dark - matter particles, would affect all of the CMB photons, creating what are known as mu (µ) distortions in the blackbody spectrum.

In the last couple of decades, especially in the last five years or so, HGH has become increasingly popular with athletes for many reasons.

At 17 I turned vegan, so did my wife and we remained so for a couple of decades... we raised three children as vegetarians.

One of the things that they started doing a couple years ago — a couple decades ago now — is adding iodine to salt because what they wanted to do was, they realized that iodine is heavily deficient in most of our diets, and it can lead to goiters if we don't have enough of it, so they started iodizing salt.

And, on the note of expense, even if you wear it only a couple of times a year, a well - made dinner suit is timeless and could last you a decade or more, so think of it as an investment.

The number of interracial couples all over the world has shown a clear spike in the last decade, so much so that around 20 % of all the marriages in the US just last year were interracial.

It may not seem so, since most of us have been attached to our phones for so long, but online dating is only a couple of decades old.

Belfast has come a long way since the Troubles that made so much of the city center more or less off limits, and a huge revamp has been going on in the last couple of decades, especially around the center itself and primarily Victoria Square.

Hey, I think it's a cool enough novelty to have this war biopic star the guy it's about, and it would have been really cool if they coupled that with the novelty of making him old as dirt, so I would have dug it if they waited another couple decades to make this... even though Murphy didn't live past 1971 (Poor guy didn't live to see the formation of Metallica).

IFMCA member James Southall said that «The Shape of Water» was «yet another from the top drawer of Desplat,» and went on to describe him as «one of the most consistently impressive film composers of the last couple of decades,» who has «managed to be so successful without having to water down his highly - distinctive musical voice at all».

It has been a couple of decades since Baywatch spiced up our Saturday nights, but just a month or so until the modern - day version...

Not for nothing, «Joe» also featured Nicolas Cage's most recent convincing performance, so maybe between that and «Manglehorn» Green has entered a stage in his career where he's interested in dialing back and getting great performances out of great actors underserved by the past couple decades.

So perhaps we should be grateful that he skipped the next couple of decades before picking the story up again, especially since the queen and her advisers still seem to be having the same conversation.

It's New Year's Eve and everyone's already counted down their top games of 2015 but I do things differently, so why not turn back the clock a couple of decades?

fills viewers in on what the cast and crew have been up to over the past couple of decades, «We Told You So!»

It Needs: To have been made a couple of decades ago, if only so that we could have had the great Walter Pidgeon doing some of the voiceover work.

«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.

The past couple of decades have seen the appearance of so many gigantic CG waves in big - budget movies that they almost qualify as stock henchmen, popping up as bonus disaster - porn footage in movies that don't actually take place in the ocean or even on a shoreline.

Even with the sheer number of superhero origin films over the last couple of decades, it's rare and refreshing to see so much detail given to who these characters are as people, until you realise that you're quickly running out of movie.

It's hard to shake the sense that this might be the endpoint of the assassin he played so long ago in True Romance, after a couple more decades of drinking and whoring and death.

In a lengthy essay for the Washington Post New York State Regent Roger Tilles provides more evidence for why the Empire State has slipped so badly educationally in the last couple of decades: the tendency to fiddle while Rome burns.

Schools, in particular secondary schools, have for decades been viewed as loosely coupled (Weick, 1976), segmented organisations enhanced by encouraging largely autonomous parts of the organisation to lift their game, believing doing so would naturally enhance the school's overall performance.

A couple of decades back, somewhat awestruck, I held a simple — primitive, really — wooden car model as old as I was, nothing more than a block of wood that had been sliced longitudinally at an angle on both sides sometime in the late 1930s so its transverse cross section became a symmetrical trapezoid.

There's no arguing the price / utility / ease of ingress / egress (both passengers and cargo) of minivans in general, and my grandfather has owned a couple examples of the Town & Country in the past decade or so.