Sentences with phrase «decade old fell»

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The decades - old Merkur Classic and its heftier cousin, the aptly - named Heavy Duty, are still highly regarded among wet shavers, but the standard - length grips fall a bit short for some hands.

In the hills above this chestnut tree and in the woods behind my house lie dead trunks, decades old — some of them more than three - quarters of a century fallen.

The 32 - year - old was a stalwart in the Los Blancos team for over a decade before falling out of favour with former manager Jose Mourinho.

Representative Louise Slaughter (D - NY), who served three decades and was the oldest member of the U.S. House, has died after suffering a concussion in a fall at her home.

The verdict capped a dramatic fall from grace for the 71 - year - old Silver, one of the state's most powerful officials during his 21 years in the Speaker's chair and nearly four decades in the Assembly.

«Today's reefs are as much as 5,000 years old, and they will start to fall apart within a decade or so if we don't radically change how we do business,» contends Christopher Langdon, a biological oceanographer at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.

For the first time in decades the working age population fell in 2012, and China, the world's most populous nation, could be the first country in the world to get old before it gets rich.

Analyses conducted over the last decade in the U.S., Canada, England, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark suggest that «a 75 - to 85 - year - old has a lower risk of having Alzheimer's today than 15 or 20 years ago,» says Langa, who discussed the research on falling dementia rates in a 2015 Alzheimer's Research & Therapy commentary (pdf).

Importantly, over this decade of clean air in pubs, the proportion of 16 to 24 year olds who smoke has fallen to 17 per cent from 26 per cent in 2007 — a record low.

After decades of struggling for equality, older lesbians deserve their own safe space to mingle and fall in love.

Leaving jokes aside about some older men being like shoes you buy in a charity shop that fall apart or are comfy shoes you feel safe in, does the author make any useful points on the question of whether men more than a decade older than you are different to date?

Imagine what a chunk of life a decade is to a 15 year old who loves Harry Potter; to a 20 year old who has already begun to look back on Harry with perspective; and to the parents who fell in love with the stories themselves.

By Bob Bloom Over the past few decades, a fair share of movies has followed the trajectory of an older woman who, in her younger years, was either a success or on - track to a prominent career, only to be sidetracked by falling in love, marriage and children.

The most subtle of all the selections this year are almost certainly Rooney Mara's interpretation of Therese Belivet, a young lesbian who falls for an older, more sophisticated and upper - class woman named Carol (Cate Blanchett, herself in the running for Best Leading Actress); and Rachel McAdams» resilient and emotionally restrained Sacha Pfeiffer, a Boston Globe reporter who helped expose the decades - long cover up of the Catholic church's involvement in child molestation at the hands of Boston area priests.

With 45 Years, he's made a mosaic of utterly mundane living that's overlaid with a mystery of nostalgic proportions; from a distance the movie's central proposition, that retiree Geoff Mercer (Tom Courtenay) should be the recipient of notice from the Swiss government about the freshly uncovered remains of his old girlfriend, who perished after falling into a glacial crevasse decades prior, appears ridiculous, perhaps even melodramatic.

Under the umbrella of this new act fell previous legislation regarding disability discrimination, sexual discrimination, and race discrimination, all of which were decades old (Equality and Human Rights Commission, 2013).

The emphasis on early intervention to prevent failure in the nation's youngest and most at - risk students marks a major break from the unsuccessful remediation models of the past three decades, which focused on helping older students after they had already fallen behind.

THE debate over renewing No Child Left Behind, the education reform act that will be 10 years old in January, has fallen along partisan lines even though school improvement is one of the few examples of bipartisan cooperation over the last decade.

But despite the decades - old consumer protection law, which guarantees consumers the right to get legitimate errors off their reports, Sharma fell through the credit reporting system's cracks.

>> OLD - SCHOOL PENSIONS STILL ON DECLINE Consulting firm Towers Watson says the number of providing defined - benefit pensions continues to fall, although fewer companies moved away from such plans last year than in any other year over the past decade.

Over 4 km long, it curves past resorts, beachfront cafes, wooden fishing boats under repair and quite a few elegant old villas built decades ago by the wealthy expats who fell under Bali's spell.

«Of the 47 journal articles cited, over half (26) were a decade old or older, 15 were published within the last five years, and the remainder fell in between.

But perhaps because of old Yankee miserliness, it was virtually impossible, until the last decade, to win a lawsuit for slipping and falling on snow or ice.

Often I hear from older couples in their 50s that they fell in love with each other over and over every decade.