Sentences with phrase «decades before i became»

But the company's supersized support likely ties back to Kevin Love, who was among the nation's best prep players a decade before he became a five - time NBA All - Star with a championship ring.

I was a professional dancer for two decades before I became a personal trainer.

The additional fattening effect of insulin resistance festers for years or even decades before it becomes apparent.

Sounds like a pretty simple premise, but this late -»60s thriller nailed the «home invasion» premise decades before it became so popular, thanks in large part to director From Russia With Love director Terence Young, Ms. Hepburn's excellent performance, and villains like Richard Crenna and a young, freaky Alan Arkin.

HGSE Lecturer Victor Pereira, who taught high school science for more than a decade before becoming the master teacher in residence (science) in the new Harvard Teacher Fellows Program, knows the challenges firsthand.

Tennyson, better known as Lord Tennyson (even though he was well into his eighth decade before becoming a peer) will be familiar to most of us for a handful of his better known poems including The Charge of the Light Brigade, one of the many works written during his 42 year tenure as Poet Laureate to Queen Victoria.

Origin of Designer Yorkiepoo Breed Fondly called as designer breed, yorkiepoos are recently about a decade before become well - known and much appreciated dog breed.

Their first release, Cortex Command, helped pioneer the concept of «Early Access» nearly a decade before it became widely adopted.

Lloyd Schermer's art career began decades before he became an artist.

They also boldly took on subversive topics: Hartigan's work, for instance, explored themes of sexual identity and critiqued bridal imagery and consumerism decades before it became fashionable to do so.

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Steven Pressfield was a struggling writer for nearly two decades before he published The Legend of Bagger Vance, which subsequently became a Hollywood hit starring Will Smith.

And reading transcripts from those halcyon days of a decade ago, before the U.S. crash, two things become readily apparent that may lend some insight to Poloz's situation — U.S. Federal Reserve officials were indeed worried about causing alarm.

Before Rowland Hussey Macy opened his first of what would become hundreds of Macy's stores, he spent more than a decade launching four dry goods stores that would eventually go bust.

Many of the technological achievements in the last few decades were actually ideas prophetically described in science fiction literature long before they became a reality.

Before becoming one of the world's best - known comic strip writers and authors, Scott Adams spent more than a decade in the corporate world, moving into management after being held at gunpoint twice while working as a teller.

In the same way that the Internet spent more than two decades in academic and government settings before its use became commercial, the Media Lab believes that a similar gestation could be important for blockchain, too — so it can become secure and reliable enough for mainstream use.

And because Senate rules will require the plan to fit within a budget resolution that will most likely allow only $ 1.5 trillion in revenue losses over a decade, lawmakers will have to trim its proposed tax cuts — or add new tax increases — to meet that specification before it can become law.

Although most analysts at the time considered my forecasts to be shockingly low and wholly implausible, and thought so even two to three years ago, I have always said that before the end of the decade it will have become the consensus.

Even if AI becomes an enemy of humanity once it reaches our level of intelligence, we've got decades before that could happen.

Before becoming a Christian a decade ago, Philippa was plugging away at breaking onto the UK music scene, applying to and receiving what seemed like a never - ending and resounding «no» from talent shows.

Before many decades they became the rulers of parts of Ireland, Great Britain, Gaul, and what was later Russia.

Studies in cultural anthropology have, become most useful to us in understanding ritual behavior, and theologians in the past decade have been discussing these studies more than ever before.

Cardinal William Levada said Benedict, before becoming pope, enacted many of the reforms that followed the eruption of the church's sex - abuse scandal a decade ago.

For nearly a decade — before he became one of music's biggest stars — he served as the choir director at Bethel AME Church in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

So when I saw the faces once again of so many with whom thirty years before and in the decades that followed I had - so often bitterly embattled against the Establishment - faced that challenge, men from whom inevitably I had become separated on my own conversion to Rome; and when I saw their profound happiness at the Pope's great and apostolic act, and their excitement at the prospect before them, I could not fail to remember once more a famous passage from the Apologia pro Vita Sua, which the agnostic George Eliot said she could not read without tears; and certainly, I can not:

I am a relatively new vegan (7 years, 18 as a vegetarian before that) but I know lots of vegans who have been vegan for decades who have not had any health / degenerative issues and this includes athletes that have performed their best since becoming vegan.

Andria's first appeared on this website 3 times in the first 2 weeks when it started and many years before they became a sponsor because we've been fans of Andria's for decades and as in love today with the sauce as we were when we first tried it

McCarty went vegetarian for a year before becoming vegan and hasn't eaten an animal product in over two decades.

Blanda, who had lingered for a decade on benches in Chicago before becoming, at 33, a regular starting quarterback in Houston, would have none of the complaining.

But for the first time in more than a decade, I have become hopeful even before the season has started.

Craig became Chairman of the British Olympic Association in 1992, where he served for more than a decade before retiring in 2005.

If you're an adult, you spent decades of Decembers in shopping malls sipping Orange Julius to strains of «Wonderful Christmastime» (before malls became Boschian hellscapes of drone kiosks and massage chairs), and now you spend hours squinting at your prescriptions with Delilah spinning «My Grownup Christmas Wish» in the background.

Before Craig Hodge became CNP Director for Clarke County School District, he worked for over a decade as a state auditor of child nutrition programs in Alabama.

For decades U.S. doctors recommended rice cereal for babies just starting solids, but this thinking began to shift even before arsenic became a concern.

It begs the question: why was this revolutionary new approach to dealing with the Ukip threat not dealt with before 2014, when Labour became the first main opposition party in decades not to win?

«By the middle of the decade Mrs Thatcher had become an institution, a seemingly permanent part of the national landscape, around whom grew a personality cult unlike anything seen in Britain before.»

«It rolls us back to the days before the Americans With Disabilities Act became federal law, two decades ago,» Edith Prentiss, chair of the Taxis for All Campaign said.

Two decades passed before Pories became the first to recognize the potential of bypass surgery to dispel diabetes.

It was to be many decades before the true shapes of the nebulae became apparent in photographs — and their popular names coined.

A small percentage of people who do become infected never seem to suffer any harm, and others hold the virus at bay for a decade or more before showing damage to their immune systems.

Decades ago paleoanthropologists argued about whether our ancient ancestors evolved large brains and then walked erect or became bipedal before they were brainy.

«It will be at least a decade before such an offering could be rolled out nationally, if it were ever to become economic to operate,» claims Viewcall, estimating that it is costing BT # 6500 for every home where it is on trial.

«The head trauma usually occurs years, maybe even decades before the person become symptomatic,» McKee says.

Researchers in Norman have made only one - panel systems operable for weather surveillance, and it is likely to be at least a decade before phased arrays become the norm across the country.

B612 will use data from the space telescope and observatories on Earth to identify potential threats in our neck of the solar system, hopefully decades before those threats become imminent.

Which, let's remember, will be the station's ultimate fate, and likely within about a decade — NASA currently believes the ISS can remain in operation until 2028 before becoming unsafe.

Although cervical cancer can take decades to develop, it's important to protect children before they become sexually active and risk getting infected with HPV, which is why Wheeler strongly recommends: «Get your kids vaccinated — both your boys and your girls — before their 13th birthday.»

I was using it a decade ago before it became popular and widely available in grocery stores.

Before I became a life coach, I spent more than a decade in a job I despised.

However, food manufactures widely used hydrogenated fats for decades before the very damaging effects to cardiovascular health became widely known!