Sentences with phrase «decades before i began»

But it was more than a decade before I began to consider the purpose of this kind of fast for myself.

It took the government decades before they began to recognise that sweeping anti-terror stop - and - search powers were doing more harm than good.

«When it does start happening, it could happen fast, but it might be years or decades before it begins.

I was an LO for decades before I began writing syndicated mortgage columns, and my husband is still in mortgage lending — has worked for big companies like B of A and Countrywide and smaller local companies, and I can tell you that there are no advantages specific to going with a bigger company.

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Yet if a same - sex couple had lived together for 18 years before being allowed to legally marry in 2015 and decides to divorce today, whether that union began two years or two decades ago is not legally clear.

Best Buy began opening these stores more than a decade ago, before Apple Inc's iPhone was launched and when margins in the business were high, Best Buy Chief Executive Hubert Joly told employees in a letter, a copy of which was seen by Reuters.

To be clear, the catch - share system didn't create inequity — Rafael began swatting the mosquitoes decades before it came into play.

Having reached relatively steady state after better than half a decade of investment and construction, the French have popped in with a bid before the hard yards of balance sheet stabilisation can begin in earnest.

Chinese growth will begin to slow sharply by 2013 - 14 and will hit an average of 3 % well before the end of the decade.

If we continue to close our eyes to existing 8 % of GDP deficits, which when including Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare liabilities compose an average estimated 11 % annual «fiscal gap,» then we will begin to resemble Greece before the turn of the next decade.

The way I see it, when baby DivHut is a young adult (20s, which is way before I or most people start) he can begin his own tax advantaged account to supplement his already two decade old taxable portfolio.

For at least a decade and a half before the appointment of Tietjen to the presidency of Concordia Seminary, some of its faculty had begun to turn away from such understandings — though without claiming that this turn meant giving up biblical inerrancy.

Heroin started pouring into the eastern United States a decade ago, even before the price of pills began to climb.

All this has begun almost one decade before Thatcher.

Maria Wright and her family had been members of the congregation at St John the Evangelist Church in Ilford for more than four decades, before she began cleaning the church hall seven days a week in 2004.

A decade would pass before it was embraced by another artist, and its true introduction began.

The company launched a gluten - free menu more than a decade ago — before there were many options for people with celiac disease or people began adopting it as their diet.

Both of which came before this decade began.

The percentage of women breastfeeding would still remain relatively high through the 1930s, however, when compared to the numbers just two decades later.31 Jacqueline Wolf, in her study of infant feeding in Chicago, found that despite the known dangers of using breast milk substitutes, by the mid-nineteenth century many women began weaning their babies at three months, even before cleaner cow's milk and more reliable proprietary foods were available.

Since the first «pioneers «began re-entering the neighborhood about two decades ago, most of the Victorian mansions built before 1892 for the Columbian Exposition have been restored to their former elegance.

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.

Clarke's parliamentary experience began nearly three decades before that of David Cameron's, and his grand tour of Whitehall departments gives him a level of knowledge unmatched in government.

The country's need for critical job creating sectors which has been ignored for decades is now beginning to yield results,» Buhari said before the council held its inaugural meeting.

Long before I began stockpiling a rather eclectic collection of curiously homoerotic Men's Fitness magazines in my closet as a randy teenager, decades still before the global pornification of the 21st - century Internet age, my tender childhood libido found a secret refuge amidst the colorful scenes contained in a handful of old university textbooks placed happily among my parents» bookshelves in the family room of our home.

People have talked about making private space stations for decades, even before on - orbit construction began on the ISS.

When a tree begins to die, it can take years before anyone notices; forests can hide their decline for decades.

«If we were to begin to reduce man - made emissions this year,» NOAA's Feely says, «it would take decades before we'd see CO2 levels and acidity start to go down instead of up and hundreds or thousands of years to return to preindustrial levels.»

If successful, he'll begin trials on children with muscular dystrophy sometime before the end of the decade.

This was decades before the discoveries of thousands of extrasolar planets began in the 1990s, and years before astronomer Frank Drake presented his probabilistic argument for the rarity of communicating civilizations in the cosmos in 1961.

Cholesterol readings were taken at three - year intervals over the course of a decade from 1987 to 1989, before widespread statin use began.

Prior studies have found that changes in the brain begin years, and possibly decades, before cognitive symptoms emerge.

A debate rages on whether President Reagan did or didn't have Alzheimer's disease during his time in office.With what we have learned in the last decade about the disease, the question is relatively meaningless, except perhaps to score political points.The simple answer: of course he did.The newest technology — consisting of imaging and spinal taps — shows that the disease process begins its relentless course as many as 15 years before a firm diagnosis.

«These results suggest that inflammation in mid-life may be an early contributor to the brain changes that are associated with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia,» said study author Keenan Walker, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md. «Because the processes that lead to brain cell loss begin decades before people start showing any symptoms, it is vital that we figure out how these processes that happen in middle age affect people many years later.»

Recent studies have revealed the existence of a long asymptomatic phase, where the pathological changes leading to AD begin — at least - decades before the first symptoms of cognitive decline appear [2 — 4].

Another factor is that scientists have found the accumulation of the amyloid begins decades before the first symptoms, Iadecola said.

Sunspot region 2673 has now turned away from Earth, but not before unleashing several X-class flares over the past week, one of which is the largest in over a decade and one of the top 10 since records began.

Planning for the Hubble Space Telescope began in the 1970s, two decades before its launch.

Your body has been prepared for the menopausal cliff for decades before, and it will pay future dividends for you to understand the more subtle hormone imbalances that begin as early as your late 20s.

Alzheimer's disease, a disease for which there is no cure or particularly meaningful treatment, can begin in the brain decades — not weeks or even months, but decades — before the very first symptom.

A growing body of research suggests that dementia begins decades before any noticeable symptoms surface, and it's possible that DHA helps prevent or slow those harmful changes.

The damage done to your brain from the wrong foods and from unbalanced insulin and leptin levels actually begins decades before you show any of the telltale signs of Alzheimer's.

Scientists believe that damage to the brain likely begins a decade or more before memory loss and other cognitive symptoms arise.

The organic standards have been on a decline over the past couple decades and before hydroponics began seeking the coveted certification.

The ability of the follicles to mature an egg and release it may begin «sputtering,» so to speak, a decade before actual menopause, creating menstrual cycles in which a woman does not ovulate, called anovulatory cycles.

After decades of loving green tea, just before going WFPB I suddenly began to hate it.

My mom began meditating decades ago, long before the mind - calming practice had entered the wider public consciousness.

Justin and Aaron (played by impressive filmmakers Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead) are two California brothers who fled a strange UFO cult a decade before the story begins.

Taïa's film revisits two periods from his life, beginning with his adolescence in Morocco, where he pines for the attention of his cultured older brother and discovers his own homosexuality, before jumping forward a decade to his post-college years in Geneva, where he struggles to find a home, both literally and metaphorically.

The entire series, beginning with «Iron Man,» qualifies as a work of marketing and narrative genius from Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, Before the home video market existed, Hollywood studios would never think of creating a movie that required viewers to see a decade's worth of other films to know what's going on.

With more than 140 film credits spanning six decades, Canadian - born Sutherland began his career with small roles in British and Italian films before his breakthrough in The Dirty Dozen.