Sentences with phrase «decades and years»

In recent decades and years, the prices of solar photovoltaics (PV) and batteries have decreased sharply, which has in turn increased the incentive for self - consumption (e.g., traditional electricity consumers producing parts of their electricity consumption themselves and thus becoming «prosumers»).

Also, Barnes and Noble has launched its «Nookcolor reader» touch screen, which in effect shows the emergence of various kinds of e-books as the decades and years roll bye.

In our paper, we found that school attendance among Indigenous children and young people has been improving over recent decades and years.

Once Sony found a foothold for the transistor in small, cheap, low - power devices, it was able to improve the technology in the decades and years ahead until it was eventually making the TVs and radios that RCA had wanted to sell.

Western Project proudly presents our 11th Year Anniversary Exhibition marking a decade and a year of programming.

This could actually be the wording of a standard skeptic position... 3) Mann et al's claim that the ’90 and 1998 are record - breaking decade and year in the context of the past millennium are dismissed, given the uncertainties.

I used the «dismissed» verb for Mann et al's claim regarding the «90s decade and the year 1998.

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After five years of negotiations, handwringing, and pushback, the biggest trade deal in more than two decades, known as the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP), has now been finalized.

After decades as an operations executive in the corporate world, including 15 years at Clorox, Tasner moved to Method in his late 50s and became immersed in the sustainability ethos.

Over the next three years, the Canadian Tire analysts will study decades worth of competition results dating back to the 1930s, and dissect any insights out of the data as possible, writes Marketing's Jered Stuffco.

As a fundamental component of the economy, entrepreneurs should have not only a day, but a month, a year and even a decade dedicated to them.

The drywall company he had owned and operated since he was 20 years old — employing dozens of people over decades of hard work — shriveled.

Games have consequently ballooned in scope over the decades to the point where they typically require $ 100 - million budgets, teams of hundreds and several years to produce.

Over the past decade, public stock markets have outperformed the average venture capital fund and for 15 years, VC funds have failed to return to investors the significant amounts of cash invested, despite high - profile successes, including Google, Groupon and LinkedIn.

Thiel Fellow and 19 - year - old Harvard drop - out Connor Zwick will explain the «democratization of hardware over the next decade» that led him to leave school and found Milkshake Labs, which is building a game controller for smartphones.

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

It was nudging up at 2.96 percent on Tuesday, which also left the gap between U.S. and German 10 - year benchmark bond yields just off its widest level in nearly three decades.

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.

I'm not sure that in the past year or, honestly, in the past decade or two, there has been a single deal that will be regarded as a more impactful transaction across multiple industries and the entire omni - channel economy than Amazon's recently announced acquisition of Whole Foods.

The number of actual tickets sold in 2015 was essentially flat compared to the previous five years and the number was down by about 2.5 % from a decade earlier.

In the past decade, Goldstein's three businesses, which include the subprime lender Enova, which he started a year after graduating college in 2004; real estate site and Inc. 5000 company Pangea Properties, and 2015 30 Under 30 listee lender Avant, have added 2,200 new jobs to the economy.

At various points in the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, new stock market records and historically low unemployment rates were used as a synonym for a booming economy, or after the financial crisis, to signal that the economy was recovering — even though many workers and households experienced stagnating or steadily declining incomes for years or even decades.

These struggles have left them with 22 % fewer workers than they employed a decade ago (on average), and net capital assets (such as factor floor space and machinery and equipment) that have shrunk 2.2 % per year on average.

Actor Augustin Legrand is taking over the role of «The Most Interesting Man in the World» months after the 77 - year - old American Jonathan Goldsmith bowed out of the role he played for nearly a decade in TV commercials and other promotional spots for the Heineken - owned beer brand.

It should have: It was this scrappy, five - man team of mechanical engineers that first caught on to the German giant's emissions - cheating ways, kicking off the biggest business scandal of the year (and possibly the decade).

In 2016, women got just 2.19 % of venture capital funding — a smaller piece of the pie than in every year this past decade, with the exception of 2008 and 2012.

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«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.»

The next crash in North America and what follows decades later could very well look like the previous 30 years on the Japanese Nikkei.

Meanwhile, Behan, 48, and Jaime Gifford, 51, who are in their 10th year of living aboard Totem, a Stevens 47, logged decades of sailing experience prior to setting off on their journey in 2008.

Yet there is one economist who has made big and bold predictions for the past five decades with exacting precision, and in doing so, he has shown it's possible to be a 79 - year - old economist and still be in the game.

CNBC's Mike Santoli reports on the lag in small - caps and value stocks despite the market having one of the best starts to the year in more than a decade.

Sure, it's been more than two decades since he rewrote the rules of hip - hop with The Chronic and 15 years since he released a new album, but the man born Andre Young remains ubiquitous in popular culture.

This year's Tony hosting slot finally went to Kevin Spacey, the decorated actor who has since been disgraced by allegations of sexual harassment and assault from men dating back decades.

That's a major global program where they're spending trillions of dollars a year and trying to build this program out for the next decade.

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

She has slashed the cabinet in half, raised the minimum wage and announced plans to double the province's carbon tax over the next two years, the first such change in nearly a decade.

It's a concern that was highlighted in the Duetsche Bank report; they reported that building starts for detached, single family homes was stagnant over the last decade, while building starts for condos and townhomes had increased dramatically over the last 10 years.

Last year's prize in the category went to composer Dun Yu's album «Angel's Bone,» and the past several decades of awards in the category have largely gone to instrumental LPs.

Collins said coverage issues must also be dealt with, citing a report from the Congressional Budget Office that said 14 million people would lose health coverage under the House bill over the next year and 24 million over the next decade.

It simply tells you what the future is going to look like in 10 years and reminds you that we are actually in the most creative decade of world history.

The high - powered jetpack was 40 years in the making, the culmination of millions of dollars spent and decades of trial and error by Mayman and his business partner, Nelson Tyler.

I used to spend $ 250 a month, $ 3k a year, $ 30k a decade, and if I drive for 50 years that is $ 150k.

The film, which will be released on Dec. 15 of this year, will pick up after the action of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the franchise's huge 2015 release that shattered box office records and marked the space opera's return to theaters for the first time in a decade.

A decade ago, the 53 - year - old chairman and CEO of Toronto - based marketing holding company MDC Partners invested heavily in tech - savvy agencies staffed with creative entrepreneurs that scoffed at the lumbering dinosaurs of the traditional ad world.

And some of those decades - old products are cutting edge compared with drywall, which has been made roughly the same way for 115 years.

Just over half of S&P 500 companies had the same CEO and chairman last year, down from 71 % a decade ago, according to executive search firm Spencer Stuart.

Over the last two decades of building and running businesses, and the last couple of years working full time with dozens of startup founders and CEOs on their strategies and funding plans in my consultancy business, I have observed that there are a common set of reasons that startups struggle and fail, and a consistent set of factors that make startup companies successful.

Looking at the number of options awarded by S&P 500 companies for the roughly two decades between 1992 and 2010, they found about 20 % of the time boards simply kept the number of options they granted to their top executive the same from one year to the next.