Sentences with phrase «did close to a decade»

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Fillon allegedly paid his Welsh wife Penelope Fillon and two of his children close to $ 1 million over the span of a decade for jobs they reportedly didn't perform.

In his book «My Decade in the Premier League,» he wrote: «The club like us not to go overboard on the eating and drinking in the close - season break, so if I go abroad I like to get into the hotel gym three times a week to work on the treadmill and do some weight work.

Cohn got the money, one of his investors says, by doing something usually associated with Silicon Valley but doing it far from America's technology capital: growing a company for close to a decade using his own capital and a small team.

I am also an older person, closer to seventy than sixty, and yet in my mind I am forever twenty (I like to think so, anyway) and have done many things in the last two decades that I ought to have done in my youth, but didn't for various reasons.

In the closing decades of the fifteenth century the Papacy sank to a nadir from which it did not recover until the next century.

I've waffled through two decades of «well, I don't really know» and «could be a he - said / she - said kind of thing» that all translate to, «He helped fill my brain with sports endorphins, so I'm just going to close my eyes and hope he isn't really a monster.»

While that had a lot to do with Madison Bumgarner, it's still an argument against an $ 80 million closer, especially for a team that's still hoping to keep Bryce Harper around for the next decade.

Assuming that Wenger since Gazidis arrived is the real Wenger even though he had close to a decade of «buying talent» from abroad and then getting moaned at for buying so many foreign players... Stupid people like you forget that and think «Derp, Wenger is boss so he MUST be telling the owner and board what to do».

Xi Jinping's still waging a war against the sport as Mao had done decades prior, shuttering 110 courses across China just last year for reasons ranging from corruption to being too close to a water reservoir.

No one is saying an absolutely useless bunch of players just not enough top quality players to win stuff... For the club which is the 5th richest in the world getting to CL should not be the metric of success... winning it should be... and we haven't come remotely close to doing that in a decade

Kids simply don't need to be indoctrinated into any virtual online community during their first decade on earth — even those that claim to bring children, parents and educators closer together.

It is hard for those who didn't live through the decade before Margaret Thatcher arrived in No 10 to remember how close to collapse our nation came.

The one policy that has arguably done more to improve education outcomes for kids in New York City over the past decade has been the systematic effort to close the City's giant failing high schools (i.e. drop out factories) and replace them with new, smaller high schools.

I don't know how republicans can feel good about the chances of any of these Senate candidates still polling in the 45 - 47 percent range this close to election day in this election year, particularly McConnell who's been in Washiington for decades.

That's what the Legislature and governor have been doing for decades when it comes to the state budget, ignoring the obvious signs of trouble to the point where the state is close to a financial breakdown — «fundamentally bankrupt» as the governor calls it.

Even our closest relatives, the great apes, move smoothly from their juvenile to adult life phases — so why do humans spend an agonising decade skulking around in hoodies?

The University of California, Santa Cruz, which is the smallest of the nine main campuses except for Merced, which doesn't yet have students, will be hiring close to 600 faculty members over the next decade, about 350 for new positions and the rest from expected retirements.

For close to 3 decades, as an ecologist at Pondicherry University — not far from her hometown — she has been doing research that conservationists can use to combat the loss of biodiversity.

And it had to be done fast, because the best launch opportunity in decades is this month, as Earth passes Mars at perihelion, when the two planets are closest to the sun and to each other.

Control basically means it doesn't explode, it just moves along slowly and produces heat and you can then use that heat, and they've been working on this for decades and decades now and getting closer and closer to the point where they're producing actually more energy than they put into the experiment.

Some 300 so - called hot Jupiters have been identified over the past two decades, but how did these large, hot planets ever get so close to their suns?

What I liked most about Carolin is she seemed very down - to - earth; after being a full - time stylist and working with models for close to a decade - trust me, this is something I don't take for granted!!

Based on my memories from a decade earlier, I didn't think I was interested, so I closed the match before he had a chance to contact me.

The German director Philip Gröning waited more than a decade for permission to film inside the cloister walls of the 900 - year - old order, and he has done a remarkable job of depicting an ascetic way of life that's normally closed to outsiders.

I draw the comparison because Moyle, like Hughes (and unlike the hucksters behind the countless failed high - school romps of the past two decades), has empathy for his young characters — though Hughes was less reluctant to hold them accountable for their angst, marking Moyle as the bigger suck - up — and because he leans towards having an aesthetic, especially in Empire Records, that favours, as Hughes's does, quarantining close - ups and medium close - ups.

The film's virtually a solo effort for much of the running time, and Bullock (who won four years back for «The Blind Side «-RRB- is doing something different here from the bulk of her work in the last few decades (you have to go back to «Speed» for its closest counterpart, and there's much greater emotional heft here).

«Wadjda» Given that it was made by a female director in an environment as hostile to both women and film as Saudi Arabia (where women can't drive, and cinemas have been closed for decades), it's genuinely staggering that «Wadjda» — which made its U.S. debut at Tribeca on its way to a full release from Sony Pictures Classics — turned out as brilliantly as it did.

Reville, who founded the Ed Redesign Lab as a way to rethink how we educate children, said that although much education reform work has been done over the past two decades in the United States to close the «achievement gap» created from income disparities, there is still a persistent, iron - clad correlation between zip code and destiny.

He closes by tracking the fifty year journey of developing global position satellites and GPS technology as one example of how great innovations ~ big new ideas can develop over decades; they do nt have to just happen and become commonplace.

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«For decades, negotiations have quickly turned into closed - door mediation, which lead to incremental change that does not match the urgency necessary to improve outcomes for our students and close the opportunity gaps that exist in the Twin Cities.»

But in many places, including Los Angeles, Oakland, North Carolina, Oregon and Boston, the more than $ 2 billion spent by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation over the course of a decade didn't move those cities close enough to Gates's goal of 80 percent graduation.

The failure over more than three decades to make any progress in moving more Latino students successfully through college suggests that what we have been doing to close achievement gaps is not working.

Japanese challengers like Lexus and Infiniti have been trying to do just that for the past decade or so, and their latest vehicles inch closer to that benchmark.

That's exactly what the company has done for close to a decade now with the Chevrolet Traverse.

While Kia compares the K900 to the German automakers and to the Lexus LS460 that is probably closer on price and mission — luxurious highway cruising with incredible comfort front and rear — it's really going to excite someone milking the last year out of a Lincoln Town Car, or who wondered what to do once the Cadillac DeVille departed a decade ago.

I've spent five decades writing poetry, paying close attention to first and last lines, so they do come when I call them.

«We will actually close the libraries down by removing the oxygen from their lungs — but if we close the libraries by doing this — it is not hard to predict and believe that in only a few years, maybe a decade, we will have reduced the publishing market to a fraction of what it is now.

Yet I wanted my stories to be known, for I would not have written them if I did not have things to say, powerful insights from close to five decades of living, loving, and learning.

That a group of women did achieve a family size close to replacement (an average of about 2.1 children is required to insure the same population in the next generation) several decades ago when contraceptive techniques were less sophisticated than even today's unsatisfactory variety is compelling testimony to the fact that lower fertility is attainable even without a revolution in contraceptive technology.

One can calculate the closing price needed to exceed a RSI value 3 - I have done this exact same research several time in the last decade.

IIRC, I've done just a couple of swaps in close to a decade and I could have done the exact same swap through two buy and sell transactions.

It has nothing to do with computing power, which has been available for decades - mutual funds can only be bought or sold at closing prices, so there's no reason to publish intra-day prices.

After all, consider Japan — it has had two lost decades in a row, and we are following something close to their monetary and fiscal policies, minus the fact that Japan at present self - funds their debt and we don't.

No other dog breed or type can come close to what they have been doing for decades to people.

Development on two of the three most popular JRPG series had slowed down considerably, and as the first decade of the new millennium came to a close, you didn't have to look far to find people proclaiming the death of the JRPG genre had come...

While some may be disappointed at just another stall in the road, this release marks the official transition of Kingdom Hearts to the PS4 which does in fact bring us one step closer to the end of the decade long wait for Kingdom Hearts III «s official release.

→ Cindy Sherman at Wexner Center In finding an artist to close out its year of showing only women artists — 37 in total — the Wexner Center for the Arts could hardly do better than Cindy Sherman, who has spent her decades - long career in photography and film presenting a multitude of women.

Even now, decades after its closing in 1957, the powerful influence of the Black Mountain College continues to reverberate as some of its students are considered to be true milestones of American modern and contemporary art — Willem de Kooning, Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Franz Kline, Francine du Plessix Gray, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Dorothea Rockburne and many others made an impact on the world in a significant way.

In finding an artist to close out its year of showing only women artists — 37 in total — the Wexner Center for the Arts could hardly do better than Cindy Sherman, who has spent her decades - long career in photography and film presenting a multitude of women.