Sentences with phrase «gets about a decade»

The result was dramatic: In 1960 the average Canadian lived to age 71; today, a typical Canadian gets about a decade extra.

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A recent Statistics Canada Megatrends report suggests migration to Canada has accounted for the bulk of population growth since about 1999, and is only going to get more important in the coming decades:

For decades, men have had only two ways to actively avoid impregnating a partner: wear a condom (which are about 85 % effective) or get a vasectomy.

The interest rate on 10 - year bonds was 1.79 % at the end of 2014 — about half as much as the federal government had to offer to get investors to buy its debt a decade ago.

In the 1930s, about a decade after Polish biochemist Casimir Funk first recommended people get enough of certain micronutrients called «vitamines» (later found in abundance in citrus fruits and veggies), the first grapefruit diet emerged, followed by a banana - and - skim - milk diet promoted by United Fruit, the planet's leading banana importer.

Now, though, an improving economy and increasing emerging - market demand for new airplanes have pushed orders back to near decade highs — in 2011 Airbus received 1,419 orders for its planes — and Boeing and Airbus are trying to get through a backlog of about 4,000 aircraft apiece.

I was excited to get to chat with him about how he grew his operations so successfully in under a decade.

Nearly two decades later, I remember that speech distinctly, and it got me thinking about some other graduation speeches that were memorable for better reasons.

The FCC's decades - long commitment to and enforcement of this basic principle — that ISPs don't get to pick winners and losers on the Internet — means Internet users in the U.S. haven't had to worry about whether ISPs might block or discriminate against certain kinds of content or applications.

He says that Canadian oil production is projected to double over the next two decades to about six billion barrels, but finding markets and getting the oil to market is not assured.

But, when we talk about America becoming great again — defined, in a vague way, by a greater degree of upward mobility — what decade most often gets referenced?

«Over last few decades society has gotten confused about who the real heroes are,» Yancopoulos said.

When I got out of the military a decade ago, my story went something like this: Recently discharged veteran wants to meet the world's most interesting people, write about them, and find a way to make a living.

After a decade of «coddling» the super-rich and people who «make money with money,» Buffett wrote, «it's time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice.»

Most have been there for decades, and they get so delighted talking about working there that they make Google (GOOG) employees look like detainees.

In the post about the report, the company described the type of requests they get as pertaining to «serious criminal records, embarrassing photos, instances of online bullying and name - calling, decades - old allegations, negative press stories, and more.»

For roughly the past two decades, I've read just about anything I can get my hands on in terms of professional and personal growth.

From the time Enbridge began talking publicly about Northern Gateway almost a decade ago, the oil pipeline project — which is expected to get federal cabinet approval any day now — got off on the wrong foot by the company's lack of a presence in British Columbia.

The airlines that survived the volatile decade following 9/11 have since consolidated themselves into a lucrative oligopoly, prompting questions about why smaller cities continue to lose service, why seats keep getting smaller, why fares have remained stubbornly high even as fuel prices dropped and profits soared, and why paying passengers are being quasi-defenestrated from overbooked flights.

«It's not about getting any public recognition for her giving, it's to help touch and transform individual lives,» said Laura Arrillaga - Andreessen, a philanthropist and lecturer on philanthropy at Stanford who has been close friends with Ms. Powell Jobs for two decades.

Our seasoned professional experts — with decades of experience in their chosen fields — will deliver the on - target information you need to get the real picture about living, buying or starting up a business in Panama.

Still, the Trump administration's decision to impose tariffs indicates that it is serious about turning decades of U.S. trade policy on its head, and that it might be willing to risk a trade war to get what it wants.

These are helpful.You are right that market failures have hit elder popluation in heavy way in past decade or so, and on top of that the fed locks interest at artificial rate low, so if we did save like our wise elder and financial advisors told us to do, we now get about nothing at all in interest return on those life savings.

Forbes, in turn, notes that Trump has a long history of trying to inflate his Forbes valuation and decades ago editors even joked about having a «Trump rule» when assessing Trump's net worth - consider the amount Trump claims and then divide it by three to get the real worth.

Different people will have different questions — for millennials, about getting started and maximizing savings; for Generation X, about setting more specific retirement income goals; and for baby boomers, about preparing for the payout of decades» worth of savings — and the tools available will vary.

Maybe you don't feel comfortable about a permanent commitment to an energy company, so a firm like General Mills, Anheuser Busch, Kraft, Hershey, or Berkshire Hathaway (which presumably will get around to paying a dividend sometime in the next decade or so) would be a better fit on your permanent list given your risk profile.

All the good works done by religious organizations of all kinds (Christian and otherwise) might get a mention in a human interest story sometimes, but decades of this media treatment have skewed public perceptions of what faith is about.

Exactly what generation are you talking about??? I mean, you've got a single generation growing up a couple of decades ago worshiping both MTV and Obama?

Sadly, I haven't been able to get that for about a decade now.

When asked about taking the first step to recovery, Brand, a man who has thought about recovery every day for more than a decade, offers this advice for those wanting to get clean spiritually and physically: «Admit you have a problem.

Already in his late 50s, he figured he'd gotten enough to keep him busy for a couple of decades — which is about all the time he's got, anyway.

I think being written only a few decades after these events is about as good a deal as you can get w / ancient history; same goes for finding early 2nd century samples of m in Egypt.

After more than 20 years of professional ministry experience and a decade focused on philanthropy and developing leaders for the nonprofit world, I often get into conversations about how to know if all the work we're doing is actually worthwhile.

«So let me get this straight, you have two - way conversations with invisible spirits, you think the earth is 10,000 years old, you believe the world was once covered in water (about 5,000 years ago), you believe your invisible sky father came to earth in human form after a virgin birth, then rose as a zombie, from the dead, then ascended into an invisible sky city... all because the first people on earth ate and apple before proceeding on with decades of incest... am I getting this?»

BT: In the nearly two decades I've worked as or with prosecutors, I never get asked about false allegations of burglary, robbery, arson or a host of other offenses.

Nearly all the women I've met who share this disease have been told by a doctor in some form or another that the pain is all in their head, so most women with endo don't get diagnosed for about a decade.

, it was something I got pulled into trying about a decade ago.

If you know anything about the U.S. dairy industry, you know that dairy farms have been getting bigger for decades.

We somehow got on the topic of dream jobs now that we've all been working in the real world for about a decade, and I wasn't surprised to hear that we all had visions of creative and passionate careers that gave us the freedom to travel and explore regularly.

It's probably just a getting - older thing, anyway, Lee has been on my mind a lot over the last decade, and I'm always eager to talk about him.

Being a successful manager is about getting your decisions right and he has come short for a decade.

I will suggest replacing him with Chambers till we get a specialist Defensive Midfielder (Isn't it THE SAME POSITION that Arsenal fans have been talking about for a decade?)

And a decade later, I was getting paid a little bit to write about this sport and its numbers?

After the game, Parker was asked about Curry and the other point guards in the NBA getting more attention — heck, Derrick Rose isn't even playing and he's comparatively dominating the news cycle — and Parker gave an answer he's been giving for almost a decade.

In about a decade or two, it comes out of storage and gets put in the museum (next to Saban's 10 National Championship trophies).

A lot of Arsenal fans would gladly take a bit of the trophy success that Chelsea have enjoyed over the last decade or so, with Premier League titles, domestic cups and both the Champions League and Europa League to celebrate, but I am not so sure about the way that their big spending billionaire owner Roman Abramovich gets through managers.

The prem teams get so much money now they can afford the best managers in the world and then buy the best players and if u think about what arsenal have done it's obvious we have stagnated with the same manager, spending the same amount of money playing the same tactics which never won the league in the first place (not including wengers first decade or so) so the past does not represent the present when every other team has improved so much!

But he's had my back 140, 150 games every year for over a decade now, and it almost feels like I'm getting younger with each passing year, so I don't talk about that much.

He has NO excuses and has been desperately blaming fans now, yet he still get's defended for achieving just about nothing in over a decade.

No wonder every ex-Wenger player only has good things to say about their former boss, because we know he barely even shouts at anyone, gives them too much freedom on the pitch, and gives players almost limitless opportunities to impress, even if that means keeping a player at the club for decade just to get one or two good seasons out of them.