Sentences with phrase «decades and then»

After decades and then an empty nest, we had no relationship left and much negativity, and divorced.

«To avoid the worst outcomes, we need to immediately adopt an emission reduction scenario in which emissions peak within the next two decades and then decrease very significantly, replacing fossil fuels with cleaner energy sources like solar and wind.»

5 — I suspect that the impact of your plan (as I read it) could be worse than the impact of climate change under a non-BAU scenario (i.e. one where we gradually reduce emissions down to zero over the course of say 3 - 5 decades and then manage to go carbon - negative — more on that below).

«(i.e. one where we gradually reduce emissions down to zero over the course of say 3 - 5 decades and then manage to go carbon - negative — more on that below).

The intriguing finding implies that there are changes in rainfall that persist over decades and then switch to another state.

If sea level is rising 2 mm a year for decades and then starts rising by 3 mm * per year for a few years and then starts falling by 6 mm a year in 2010, would you consider a prediction of 1000 mm to 1900 mm in 100 years realistic considering that is 10 mm to 19 mm per year?

Without any supra - governmental authority, projections of population growth show the earth's human population leveling out at 9 billion people in a few decades and then slowly beginning to decline.

Warm or cool modes in the AMO and PDO persist for decades and then shift state.

If humanity gets truly serious about emissions reduction — and by serious I mean «World War II serious» in both scale and urgency — we could go to near - zero global emissions in, say, two decades and then quickly go carbon negative.

(Although I suspect it would be more like 0.5 inches a year for a decade, followed by 10 inches a year for a couple decades and then decline.)

The idea that a box of evidence could sit on a shelf for decades and then suddenly be pulled down, dusted off and mined for the name of the killer had a lot of appeal.

When we get down to the very basics of human life we find that we arrive to take a ride on spaceship Earth for several decades and then we leave.

Directing with an even more restless energy than he showed in Kings and Queen, Desplechin sketches out a family tragedy, the untimely death of a first - born, that precedes the story by decades and then only overtly references it a few times, even as the shadow of that death hovers over the film: in the cancer that family matron Junon (Catherine Deneuve) has been diagnosed with, in the fragility of her teenage grandson Paul (Emile Berling), and in the odd sibling dynamics that have caused eldest daughter Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) to, in effect, legally separate herself from her brother Ivan (Mathieu Amalric, in a mesmerizingly manic - depressive performance).

It then segues into the New Testament with the birth of Jesus in a lowly stable, skips a few decades and then resumes with the calling of the apostles Peter (Darwin Shaw), John (Sebastian Knapp), Matthew (Said Bey) and others.

Typical satellites are built to last two or three decades and then burn up as they reenter the atmosphere.

Combining the asylum - application data with projections of future warming, the researchers found that an increase of average global temperatures of 1.8 °C — an optimistic scenario in which carbon emissions flatten globally in the next few decades and then decline — would increase applications by 28 percent by 2100, translating into 98,000 extra applications to the EU each year.

Fate intervened in several unlikely ways in the two ensuing decades and then last fall, Weber, now a fixture in the national Farm to School Network, found himself waxing enthusiastic about local produce to a woman who was part of an effort called Homegrown Minneapolis, which would like to see more of that farmstead goodness put before MPS kids and other locals.

After decades and then an empty nest, we had no relationship left and much negativity, and divorced.

They identified with the lifestyle for decades and then after a tough process they were able to change and be complete and happy.

In Nebraska, the death penalty had not been used for nearly two decades and then was abolished last year.

I needed to unlearn everything I had picked up over the past two decades and then to try to write a book that would be easy for anyone to understand.

He ran wireless antenna designer Antenova for a decade and then headed Aero, a contract installer of wired and wireless network equipment, for the past four years.

Johnson's plan would slow the growth of benefits over the next decade and then gradually put benefits on a glide path to bring them below payable benefits so they could be financed entirely with the program's 12.4 percent payroll tax.

It was this kind of event that led many people to the cynical view that parapsychology finds a new «breakthrough» about once every decade and then abandons it.

I carted those letters around for a decade and then mailed them.

The SHO disappeared for a decade and then returned a few years ago as this fourth - generation model.

Models have been initiated with climate values from a starting point in an earlier decade and then allowed to run with or without the anthropogenic input (CO2, aerosols, etc.).

The bill would have the U.S. reduce emissions at affected facilities by approximately 19 percent in the next decade and then continue on a declining path after that.

For instance assume that a rural site with an average 0.1 per decade after 10 years slowly turns into a semi urban with a.2 per decade and then 10 years later is an urban with.3 per decade.

If the United States left its emissions untouched for the next decade and then tried to hit its target for 2030, the necessary cuts would become so drastic and disruptive that they'd never pass the legislature.

In the study, the researchers assumed that the obesity rate would remain relatively stable, topping out at about 30 percent in the next decade and then declining slightly to about 27 percent in 2033.

Not exact matches

The ECB, however, said after its latest policy - making meeting Thursday that it still doesn't expect to raise its own interest rates until «well past» September next year — and even then, only if it is absolutely sure that inflation is back on track after a decade of undershooting.

A decade ago TransCanada Pipelines, as it was then known, was a pure - play natural gas shipper from producing areas in Western Canada to markets in Eastern Canada and the U.S. Midwest.

The way that we take our drugs has continued to evolve in the decades since then — syringes became disposable, for example — and the progress is far from over.

«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»

As a result of a decade - long succession planning process, the 17 - member family established a retirement fund for the founder, and then undertook a gap analysis to determine which skills were lacking among the members of the next generation.

It would take at least two years to negotiate the breakup and then as long as a decade to extricate the UK from Europe.

But if you invest with the idea that rates will never rise again, or at least not for decades, then a lot of the tried - and - true investing rules that people have been following suddenly change.

A media product might do well for a decade but then lose its way and fold.

The data sat quietly in archives for decades until, in 2012, University of Edinburgh neuroscientist Matthew Harris and his team managed to track down more than 600 of the original participants in the 1950 study, then aged 77.

By then, and in just the previous few decades, northern sections of the Larsen Ice Shelf had «retreated significantly,» said Jacobs.

It just so happened Katz - Mayfield had a direct line to Raider, whom he had worked with at Bain & Company a decade earlier, and then at Charlesbank Capital Partners.

Whereas the natural course of events a decade ago might have been to start on this side of the border and then jump across it, today's founders are choosing to stay at home.

While a lot has changed in the business world over the past several decades, the fundamentals of building a strong business have not, Branson notes: «The principles are the same and still fit what I am good at: finding markets that need shaking up, coming up with ways to make people's lives better, then finding brilliant people to bring it to life.

He recited a Yeats poem in a thick Irish accent, smashed a coffee mug, and then began reading from the Cluetrain Manifesto, a decade - old Internet marketing treatise about the power of communities.

On a chart, the lines tracing Canadian and American productivity are essentially equal in the late 1980s but slowly diverge in the 1990s and then, in the last decade, an enormous gap opens.

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.

While new gadgets such as tablets or even e-readers have debuted at premium prices and then quickly nose - dived to dirt cheapness, SLRs have stayed expensive for decades — even despite the digital revolution — largely because the glass and precision parts used to make lenses simply don't see Moore's continual price - performance improvements.

The good news is that we've done this for decades — this is how we ironed out digital transformation and the transition to cloud computing, then mobile, and now we're doing it for AI.

He figured he'd spend a few decades establishing financial security and then pursue his social impact dreams.