Sentences with phrase «decade came to a close»

As their first decade came to a close, the highly exclusive New Economy awarded the company their coveted «Clean Tech Award» for its contributions to global innovation and economic impact.

The sixties had not been a great time to be an Arsenal fan, but things began to pick up as the decade came to a close and we made the League Cup Final in 1968 and 1969.

November 16, 2009 • With the decade coming to a close, we compiled a list of the 50 most important recordings of the past 10 years in a wide range of styles and genres.

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

As the year and the decade come to a close, there is plenty of remembering going on, with legal bloggers and newspapers offering year - end lists and decade - end lists.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile in February the U.S. - government funded National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California, known for housing the world's most powerful laser, reported experiments indicating they were close to achieving «net gain,» where more total energy comes out than was put in — a goal that has eluded scientists for six decades.

Microsoft, which closed Monday at $ 30.74, has traded around that level for much of the last decade, never coming close to its all - time peak of about $ 60 in late December 1999.

For then the world might understand why even at its recent price above $ 1,300 per ounce gold has not come close to keeping up with the inflation, the currency debasement, of the last few decades, why gold has not fulfilled its function of hedging against inflation.

Nothing comes close to allowing you to put away so much money, compound it for decades, and then live off the passive income without ever sending anything to the Federal or State governments again.

After Frederick's excommunication at Lyons, the two older brothers of Thomas Aquinas, who had served in Frederick's court for decades, joined in a rebellion against Frederick at Parma that eventually failed, but not without coming close to success.

Nobody has ever come close to those numbers for us in decades.

He came extremely close to delivering a first league title in over two decades for the club in the 2013 - 14 season, but has since gone backwards as he failed to inspire his players to a top four finish last year.

No athlete in history has come close to earning, strictly in sports, what Shoe has, and his account of this brimming career forms an indispensable chapter in the annals of horse racing over two decades

In their separate spells at the club, both warmed the hearts of Liverpool fans, Torres hit 81 goals in 142 appearances, while Suarez struck 31 goals in 33 league games last season as the Reds came agonisingly close to winning a first league title in over two decades.

No one is saying an absolutely useless bunch of players just not enough top quality players to win stuff... For the club which is the 5th richest in the world getting to CL should not be the metric of success... winning it should be... and we haven't come remotely close to doing that in a decade

No one else has come close to this kind of cross-category dominance in a single season — let alone half of a decade.

The recent Lancet Breastfeeding Series refers to new discoveries being made about breastmilk — such as its role in gene expression — so it can be expected that Nestle will use the strategy of launching «new improved» formulas that are «closer to breastmilk» for decades to come (Nestle is currently investing heavily in epigentics research).

It will not be easy to break a culture that took hold in Nassau decades ago and flourished through Republican and Democratic administrations even as Nassau came close to insolvency.

It is hard for those who didn't live through the decade before Margaret Thatcher arrived in No 10 to remember how close to collapse our nation came.

Rep. Toni Walker, D - New Haven and co-chairwoman of the legislature's powerful appropriations committee, said the proposal, cobbled together with input from both Republicans and Democrats, represents a significant step toward closing a $ 3.5 billion deficit over the next two years and righting the state's wobbly finances for decades to come.

That's what the Legislature and governor have been doing for decades when it comes to the state budget, ignoring the obvious signs of trouble to the point where the state is close to a financial breakdown — «fundamentally bankrupt» as the governor calls it.

They should at least pause to consider, amongst the myriad of issues and concerns closest to them, one of the darkest episodes of New Labour's decade in power, namely the role allegedly played by a number of Ministers in what has come to be known as «Extraordinary Rendition».

It would also mean he equals Tony Blair's decade in power and comes close to Margaret Thatcher's 11 years in Downing Street.

All tobacco products sold in the UK will now come in plain standardized packaging, as decades of harmful marketing tactics by the tobacco industry draw to a close.

A chance to get a close look is coming soon: Kervella's team mapped out the system's trajectory and found that in a decade, Alpha Centauri A will pass in front of a more distant star and act as a gravitational lens, distorting the light of the star behind it.

With Asia representing the largest growth market for nuclear power in the coming decades, Centrus will continue its 20 - year commitment to its Asian customers as their trusted supplier of nuclear fuel and services through closer cooperation and more immediate service.

However Tett and Thorne method comes out with a tropospheric warming close to the surface warming 0.17 / decade, which is much more than Christy and Spencer etc..

As the»90s came to a close, you probably thought that the bandage headband would probably fade into obscurity along with scrunchies, chokers, mom jeans, frosted lipstick, and the rest of the decade's beauty and fashion trends that you were obsessed with.

Over a decade on there is nothing that comes close to SimCIty 4.

It was also light years ahead of all film special effects that preceded it, and nothing came close to redefining the look of a «space movie» until the original Star Wars, a decade later.

When thinking about the 50's you have to remember that the 50's (as any decade) varied depending on where you lived and how you were raised - and this movie comes pretty close to what real life was like for these people - they were literally trapped inside a nightmare which they (and their contemporaries) had created - it's no wonder that a few years later their children would be burning their bras and protesting wars.

It's hard to think of a major filmmaker who came so close to being ruined by technology, just as it's hard to believe that anyone except film historians will be watching Beowulf, The Polar Express or A Christmas Carol even a decade hence.

Launched in 2001, the iPod represents one of the signal musical events of the decade that's coming to a close.

Meanwhile, «Mystery of Love» came closest to being an indie update on the romantic balladry that has been the category's stock in trade in decades past, but obviously, a love song is not just a love song when it's representing for «Call Me By Your Name.»

The movie will be the fifth in the series, and comes out close to two decades after the release of the original in 1996.

He's been a familiar face on screen for over a decade, and seemingly every time he comes close to serious stardom, he ends up pulling back.

It's certainly the closest that we've come this decade to an old fashioned MGM musical, with Gregory Jacobs piecing together a series of lavish and playfully bawdy musical set - pieces along the road to a giant stripper convention in Miami.

After close to a decade of watching these heroes come into their own, flying around Earth and transporting themselves to different universes, Civil War is the first truly human movie about a team of superhuman individuals.

Firstly, three decades after its release, the original film still works, thanks to its (at the time) top - of - line special effects, a series of legitimately gruesome scenes (It is strange that the remake, which has the PG - 13 rating its predecessor helped to usher in, never comes close in that respect), and a much - appreciated sense of humor.

A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the heart of popular culture comes the follow - up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution.

The Buzz: We've been following these spell - casters around now for just over a decade, and it's hard to believe that their journey has come to a close.

In the past decade, ample evidence has accumulated indicating that it is possible to create reliable assessments that come closer to measuring the kinds of achievement now called for in the most thoughtful state standards.

It would be similar to the educational goals set at Charlottesville more than a decade ago, none of which have come close to being reached.

More than a decade of discord over how to apportion Florida's trauma centers may have come to a close Tuesday, with the Senate's passage of what amounts to a compromise.

Over the last decade, Kentucky's investment in need - based financial aid has not come close to keeping up with public tuition or with the cost of living.

Ford expects further growth in this segment through the end of the decade, but then again the decade is coming to a close.

For more than three decades, hundreds of other exhaust suppliers have attempted to copy our winning formula, but haven't come close.

I've spent five decades writing poetry, paying close attention to first and last lines, so they do come when I call them.

Dane a fellow vampire has loved Ciera for decades tells his family that she is coming close to this human.

Part of it, in my expectation, will come from real GDP growth that will be about a half percentage point faster than the 2.5 % expected growth in «potential GDP,» as I expect the current «output gap» to gradually close over the coming decade.