Sentences with phrase «even close to a decade»

We found that long - term cancer survivors have unmet health information needs, even close to a decade after first being diagnosed with cancer.

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The U.K. had been expected to follow close behind the Federal Reserve in raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, but with lower commodity prices and weak wage growth still keeping a lid on inflation, economists now think that the U.K. may not raise rates till 2017 — even though new data out Wednesday showed the employment rate hit a 45 - year high of 74 % in the three months to November.

By secular reflation, we mean at least a decade in which short - and long - term interest rates stay habitually below nominal GDP growth and high grade bonds are not really bonds any more: delivering trend returns that are close to zero or even negative.

For then the world might understand why even at its recent price above $ 1,300 per ounce gold has not come close to keeping up with the inflation, the currency debasement, of the last few decades, why gold has not fulfilled its function of hedging against inflation.

The Gunners have always got through those play - off games even though it was sometimes a close call, but for the first time in two decades the Gunners will not be involved with the elite of Europe and Arsene Wenger has admitted that this is not good, in a report by The Mirror, but he also played it down a little bit by claiming that the English Premier League and the title race is now more important and more of interest to fans than the UCL and maybe the fact that Arsenal have not looked remotely like winning it since we lost to Barcelona in the final makes that true.

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».

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 will not be easy to break a culture that took hold in Nassau decades ago and flourished through Republican and Democratic administrations even as Nassau came close to insolvency.

It notes that 150 courthouses have been closed in the past decade, causing those involved to travel further and even resulting in some cases being cancelled, and says a lack of clerks and legal advisors is causing further delays to the system.

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?

I love everything about being in this decade — like you, I totally feel like I have a better grasp on things, have less insecurities and even though I'm not close to where I want to be, I'm taking small steps to get there and it's pretty fulfilling!

Once seen in close - up (or even in a medium shot), Skelton Knaggs, with his outsized head, large eyes, and prominent ears, is seldom forgotten by filmgoers; for two decades, from the mid -»30s until his death in 1955, directors loved to use Skelton Knaggs to dress a horror set or establish a menacing mood in a thriller with his mere presence in a shot.

It's hard to think of a major filmmaker who came so close to being ruined by technology, just as it's hard to believe that anyone except film historians will be watching Beowulf, The Polar Express or A Christmas Carol even a decade hence.

Pictures has as rich a history as any movie studio and, thanks to decades of savvy acquisitions and partnerships, the company's home video library isn't even close to being rivaled.

Despite the hysteria, it may not be appropriate yet to call a time of death on the decades and decades» worth of precedent that will be shattered when Argo wins Best Picture despite very conspicuously not being nominated for its director, not having even remotely close to the year's highest nomination tally (it trails behind four other films), and not having even a halfway plausible shot at winning more than two other categories aside from this one.

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.

Meaning even if we never get color e-Ink screens, if publishers never experiment with eBook subscriptions, and interactive eBook formats never succeed, we will still see digital get close to $ 3 billion in size by the middle of the decade.

Starting at a 1.6 % yield to maturity (or even the 4 % you might find on a mid-grade corporate bond) you can not have returns going forward that are anything close to the returns of the past several decades.

That's why Buffett says you should never buy a stock you wouldn't be happy to hold for a decade, even if the stock market was closed.

Even people decades away from retirement should pay close attention to how Congress just ended two lucrative ways of taking Social Security benefits, known jointly as the «claim now, claim more later» strategy.

I'm an adoring fan of both of these things: Rayman Legends is the only platformer I've even come close to finishing in the last half - decade, and Lost Odyssey is a Japanese RPG that also happens to be one of my favorite games of the last console generation.

Easy to forget that it was in the 60s that staircases first climbed to nowhere; that posters blown up to avatars took on the mantle of art; that subversions as diverse as the optics of Jo Baer and the combines of Joseph Beuys coincided; that Latin American artists from three nations had nailed disruption by mid-century; that the satirist Robert Crumb was already his fully irreverent self, and that Henri Cartier - Bresson's street photography, consigned in memory to an earlier time, was even more actively influential at the decade's closing.

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.

As for Chuck Close, over the decades we've seen his face rendered in paint and in ink, via blocks, circles and even thumb prints, but this is the first time to my knowledge that we're seeing it in thread.

That the climate models are remarkably close to the observed temperature trend over the recent decade, taking into consideration all relevant factors, is an explicit demonstration that we can get this temporary surface temperature slowdown even when the Earth's climate sensitivity is around 3 °C per doubling of CO2.

And since none of the winners is going to be exact — indeed, for decades and decades of work, none of the winners was even particularly close to observed / measured spectra in spite of using supercomputers (admittedly, supercomputers that were slower than your cell phone is today) to do the computations — one would then return to the drawing board and code entry console to try to do better.

«For close to 500,000 years there were some ups and downs in the atmosphere and then just not more than about 150 years ago it started raising from 280 parts per million to 330 parts per million in the 80s, and now even more quickly,» Wolfe explained, «It's [the amount of CO2] going up exponentially every decade.»

It's a hard problem, and it may be decades (or even a century) before we get close to solving it.

You will note that this trend in the observations is NOT EVEN CLOSE to the 0.26 C per decade that IPCC gins up by cherry picking endpoints.

Because on the evening of November 14, the moon will be closer to Earth than it has in almost 7 decades — and it won't swing by this close again until November 2034.

It is even close to 0dec over the last decade.

What we want is something closer to big pivotal changes that are still with us even decades later (civil rights, etc).

So Perth sea levels haven't risen by up to 10 mm per year since 1993, they aren't rising three times faster than the global average, land subsidence indicates they've been closer to flat and possibly even fallen since 1993, and the leaked IPCC report confirms they've been as stable as global temperatures for well over a decade.

We have had distant early warnings of this for well over a decade, and if you doubt that — or even if you don't — I invite you to read The New York Times» coverage of Lord, Day, & Lord's closing its doors in 1994 (with the pithy headline / diagnosis: «Oldest Law Firm is Courtly, Loyal, and Defunct»).