Sentences with phrase «few tens of millions every year»

[3] Most open clusters dissipate after a few tens of million years.

It is different when a private actor such as Gates uses his money to leverage public money — some $ 600 billion of it for his own relatively small investment of few tens of millions every year — to steer the public money to implement mediocre curricula and ill thought - out programs born of his feverish imagination and ignorance.

Not exact matches

Starting with just a few hundred dollars and no marketing budget, Michael Epstein founded a manufacturer, distributor and retailer of consumer electronics that achieved a million dollars in sales in its first year and continued to expand, generating tens of millions in revenue.

The last thing he wants is to have to spend the next few years publicly defending legislation that takes away health insurance from tens of millions of Americans and raises the premiums for tens of millions more (whether he believes in the merits of that legislation or not).

Neanderthal bones found in a Spanish cave have been dated to 430,000 years ago, suggesting their ancestors left Africa nearly half a million years ago and ventured across Europe as far as southern Siberia before dying out only a few tens of thousands of years ago.

Ten years ago, she could get millions of views publishing only once every few months.

It's the difference between a few tens of thousands of years, and being able to date back hundreds of millions of years.

The age of the oldest rocks is known PRECISELY to within a few tens of millions of years, as determined by several different radiometric dating methods.

1) Ten years without a significant trophy yet the Manager is never questioned 2) Selling off key «World beater» Players season after season and replacing them with mediocre at best replacements 3) Keeping a 33 % shareholder who is one of the world's richest men AND a true football fan as far away from the board as possible 4) Charging possibly the highest prices in Europe but NOT reinvesting within the team in any really significant way 5) Classing 4th place in the EPL as a trophy 6) Boasting of a # 100 million war chest for transfers then quibbling over a few hundred thousand on deals.

Royal Mail wants to cut down the size of its workforce as mail levels fall - the average postbag today contains almost ten million fewer letters than just three years ago, it claims.

In the last few years we had paid down tens of millions of dollars in debt.

But his publicity stunt has a half - life way beyond even what he could imagine — the Roadster should continue to orbit through the solar system, perhaps slightly battered by micrometeorites, for a few tens of millions of years.

In the longer term, Rein estimates that the Roadster has a 50 % chance of lasting a few tens of millions of years.

In this new, more chaotic picture of the solar system's early days, the planets seem to pass through a vagabond phase lasting a few tens of millions of years.

It's a matter of faith among scientists that soft tissue can survive at most for a few tens of thousands of years, not the 65 million since T. rex walked what's now the Hell Creek Formation in Montana.

«Standing on the surface of Mars a few tens of millions of years from now, it would be pretty spectacular to watch,» Black said.

But only a few tens of thousands of tons of the metal are used every year, compared to millions of tons of steel.

If Moore's law — that the cost of computation halves every 18 months — holds for another 15 years or so, SETI workers plan to use this antenna array approach to check out not a few thousand but perhaps a few million or even tens of millions of stars for alien signals.

Consisting of particles just a few micrometers in size (creating the halo in this artist's impression), the snow has been accumulating over millions or even tens of millions of years.

Within a few tens of millions of years, that process could make the East Coast as geologically active as the West Coast is today.

Over the past few years, both teams have raised tens of millions of dollars toward the billion - dollar - plus projects in the hope that the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) would come up with the balance.

Astronomers are working on theories to explain how this could happen in just a few tens or hundreds of millions of years.

Whereas the first sequencing of the 3.2 billion base pairs of DNA that make up the human genome took many years and cost tens of millions of dollars, today your genome can be sequenced and digitized in minutes and at the cost of only a few hundred dollars.

A star ten times the mass of the sun will burn for only a few million years, but they will be tempestuous years.

«Galactic eyelids last only a few tens of millions of years, which is incredibly brief in the lifespan of a galaxy.

Automakers spend tens of millions of dollars each year conducting research and taking consumer surveys in order to track the habits and predict the needs of car buyers.After spending a few hours touring the Central Florida International Auto Show with this year's panel of Sentinel readers, critiquing the class of 2000 and discussing cars in general, one wonders if some of that research money could be saved.Our panelists want a good - looking, comfortable, trouble - free vehicle that performs well and holds its value.

The number of Kindles and eReaders being sold is increasing rapidly (at least it has so far) and it's not inconceivable that in a few years we have tens of millions of Kindles in circulation.

I think the tablet is going to replace laptops for many people.I think the tablet is going to sell in millions in the first year and tens of millions in the next few years.»

Despite lacking color and a backlight, the Game Boy proved an astronomical hit, moving tens of millions around the world within a few years of its release.

Actually, it IS a technical challenge... though probably easily solved by putting something more than the few tens of millions of dollars per year into research that we currently do.

«Over the next few decades, we may make the oceans more acidic than they have been for tens of millions of years.»

«If current trends in CO2 emissions continue unabated,» says Caldeira, «in the next few decades, we will produce chemical conditions in the oceans that have not been seen for tens of millions of years.

The U.S. has already given tens of millions of dollars to the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, but global warming took a severe blow a few years ago when the East Anglia scandal, dubbed «Climategate,» developed.

A clear attempt to mis - represent to the millions of BBC viewers, that the emails were all ten years old, When in fact they were up to a few weeks old, including the latest request for information and refuasl of it..

the claim that the industry has been fracking for 60 years is true but grossly misleading as the current practice involving horizontal drilling and in general aggressive techniques to extract gas from marginal resources only dates back to the 1990s; rather than millions of well using fracking, current practice has only been tested over a few tens of thousands of wells

Over the next few decades, we may make the oceans more acidic than they have been for tens of millions of years, Caldeira said.

Using a LIMRA study of a few years ago, at that point there were tens of millions of Americans that would fit into a category of «needing» life insurance, but didn't have any.

Apple's been doing this for a few years with OS X, but on a much smaller scale, measured in the low tens of millions for each new release.

That means wireless charging pads soon will become ubiquitous, and that power wastage will be multiplied by tens of millions of users in a few years.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimate the repeal of the individual mandate will result in over ten million additional uninsured individuals by 2027 and save the government over $ 300 billion over a ten - year period, as fewer people are insured and no longer qualify for the ACA's premium tax credits.

The result: tens of millions of babies born in just their first few years back.