Sentences with phrase «for decades past»

Though I also loathe the absent and uncaring owner and lickspittle board with a passion too, it is WENGER who buys and sells and plays players, in the wrong position too, so often and it is WENGER who refuses, flatly refuses, and for a decade past to do ANYTING about our joke defending.

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The past decade has seen a rising demand for «music supervision» of the type Grayson Matthews provides — companies and individuals dedicated to creating or finding the right song for the right moment in a piece of film.

Over the past decade, public stock markets have outperformed the average venture capital fund and for 15 years, VC funds have failed to return to investors the significant amounts of cash invested, despite high - profile successes, including Google, Groupon and LinkedIn.

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

A lawyer, Pai has shuttled between government and private - sector jobs for the past two decades.

While most international peers have seen their BERD rise for much of the past decade, Canada's BERD has been steadily dropping — both in absolute terms and as a share of GDP.

Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

Implementing a winning management strategy grew to become a top priority for small businesses for the past decade.

If you were thinking it's millennials, that's probably because they've dominated the media's focus for the past decade.

The drug at the heart of four lawsuits in New Jersey is insulin — «a century - old medicine that for most of its history cost $ 15 or less,» write Barrett and Langreth, but «whose list price has risen more than 270 percent over the past decade.»

Price shared her insights about what it takes to stay in business for more than two decades, planting seeds for future successes and how to move past fear and find your voice.

Yet there is one economist who has made big and bold predictions for the past five decades with exacting precision, and in doing so, he has shown it's possible to be a 79 - year - old economist and still be in the game.

The dodo, «a once powerful bird,» was hit with a change in its environment and «was unable to respond,» warns the plaque, which has been handed down from one Shell scenarios head to another for the past four decades.

To be fair, though, medical marijuana has been legal in California for nearly two decades, but past Coachella festivals also have prohibited attendees with medical clearance to use the drug or bring it onto the festival grounds.

I've used Sensodyne toothpaste off and on for much of the past decade, and I've always been impressed with how reliably they treat tooth pain with regular use.

«We are solving problems with machine learning and artificial intelligence that were in the realm of science fiction for the past several decades,» he said.

Thanks to sports» increasing value over the past two decades, Teachers» was able to parlay a $ 50 - million investment in 1994 for a 49 % stake in the Maple Leafs and Maple Leaf Gardens, one of the biggest, most profitable sports companies in the world, selling its stake for $ 1.32 billion.

Barrick ended up mired in debt and dysfunction in part because it tried to boost production numbers over the past decade, just for the sake of boosting numbers.

Canada's resource sector was one of the primary drivers for employment over the past decade, according to Statistics Canada, so a correction in China would also rob this country of a key engine for job growth.

Two - thirds of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, a number that has been rising steadily for the past three decades.

The IOC, which ultimately holds the rights for past Games, knew there was likely a global market for decades» worth of Olympic - themed merchandise.

He points to the ratio of probable workers (ages 25 - 64) to probable retirees (ages 65 and over), which currently stands at four to one, as it has for the past three decades.

Whereas Silicon Valley has been at it for at least three decades, the funds in Chile have only been investing for the past five or six years.

Prices for gold bullion and other precious metals have climbed over the past decade to new heights as investors sought protection against the erosion of incomes and wealth by inflation.

For the past decade, the advertising industry has been driving along with a billboard growing larger and larger on the horizon.

Over the past decade, domestic consumption's share of the economy has plunged from around half to a miniscule 35 %, the lowest of any significant economy ever, according to Michael Pettis, a finance professor at Peking University whose online writings have become must - reads for those eager to divine what's really going on in China.

The rise of the numbers for women - owned businesses over the past five years is cause for cheer among those who would like to see more equality of business ownership, particularly given the stagnant numbers or declines over the previous half decade.

The goal is for legal medical marijuana to bring back jobs lost over the past decades by the decline in the steel industry.

As a professional speaker and presentation coach for the past two decades, I agree with this public speaking wisdom, and I would add one more tip:

It doesn't seem like much, but a succession of such increases over the past four decades has given Canada some of the highest prices in the world for cheese, yogurt and other products made from industrial milk.

For the past decade and a half, Handy has been licensing his ideas for gamFor the past decade and a half, Handy has been licensing his ideas for gamfor games.

Store brands» market share has risen to 17.5 percent over the past two years after hovering around 16 percent for over a decade.

Steadily increasing demand for timber - made goods is one reason why the sector has produced strong returns over the past two decades.

Over the past decade, China's and other emerging markets» rapid economic growth created a surge in demand for Canada's natural resources, driving gains in Canada's exports and wealth.

Biogen is among companies that have been singled out for criticism in recent months; the Wall Street Journal called out the company for hiking the price of MS drug Avonex — 21 times, and at an annual average rate of 16 % — over the past decade.

Over the past decade, the number of two - year - old - in - training sales has risen, Wagner notes, a symptom of racehorse investors» looking for a quick route to the winner's circle.

Brewers haven't done as good of a job marketing and developing products for women over the past decade, though the launch of hard sodas and seltzers can help.

Lewis managed to meet his goal of «one dollar more» than the previous year for all but six of his 45 years on air to date, earning around $ 60 million annually over the past decade, for a career total of nearly $ 2.5 billion.

In fact, of those eight films, five of them have made less at the box office than Crash, which is currently the fifth - lowest grossing film of the past four decades (in terms of sales adjusted for inflation).

«The longevity of the company has not allowed it to escape the financial issues that have plagued this industry for the past decade,» read an official statement.

Having achieved significant growth over the past decade, the company has limited its options for additional revenue.

In the past half - decade, the company that started making tractors for Italian farmers more than 55 years ago has unveiled the $ 242,300 Huracán — known for its smoother, sleeker (more affordable) demeanor behind the wheel — and the $ 200,000 Urus, its first SUV since the LM002 went out of production decades ago.

Over the past decade, employment of skilled technology workers in BC has grown 27 %, driven partly by U.S. companies frustrated with their own government's limit on visas for skilled workers.

His corporate maneuvering over the past decade has been guided by his belief that Dell can dominate as a one - stop tech shop for corporations facing profound technological change.

For the past decade, I've been involved in the battle to protect the Bristol Bay region of Alaska, which is under threat from the proposed Pebble Mine project.

Over the past decade the company has paid out just $ 24 million in income taxes, a tiny amount for a $ 3.6 - billion company.

British Columbia's film industry, which for most of the past two decades commanded the lion's share of foreign - funded service production in Canada, has fallen on

Here's the likelihood that a person has been married at least once at some point in his or her life for every year of age over the past few decades:

British Columbia's film industry, which for most of the past two decades commanded the lion's share of foreign - funded service production in Canada, has fallen on lean times.

Detroit has been pummeled over the past several decades, and it is still in for a long, hard climb.