Sentences with phrase «last around a decade»

The Nissan Leaf battery pack is expected to last around a decade, and servicing is significantly less than a conventional car.

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I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

LONDON — An influential Tory MEP who helped to draft the biggest change to European finance laws in the last decade says the government's leaked Brexit impact report shows a «consensus» is emerging around the effects of leaving the EU.

The country has seen a steady rise in killing since around 2015, and last month and the first six months of the year both had more homicides than any of the same periods over the past two decades.

Whether they've been around for decades or were launched in the last two years, some companies just have a bit of magic when it comes to grabbing attention and establishing themselves as fan favorites...

The extraordinary growth of the business of golf these last 15 years, he argued, was almost entirely down to the hype around Woods (and to the incredible way he validated it, beginning with his first green jacket in 1997 just months after he turned pro, and continuing across more than a decade of dominance).

Case in point: China's gross savings rate has been high for decades, averaging around 45 percent of GDP for the last 20 years, per the World Bank.

Oil sands production has already doubled in the last decade to around 3 million barrels a day.

Microsoft, which closed Monday at $ 30.74, has traded around that level for much of the last decade, never coming close to its all - time peak of about $ 60 in late December 1999.

As we have said in past commentaries, the historic levels of quantitative easing following the global financial crisis — that is the expansion of the Fed's balance sheet from around $ 900 billion to nearly $ 4.5 trillion today — was one of the most dominant market - shaping forces over the last decade.

Early this week I was with an Australian government representative in Beijing whom I have known for many years and he told me that iron ore prices were currently around $ 83 (I think they dropped another $ 2 last week), and that while some people in Canberra were reluctant to say it too loudly, he and others were increasingly in agreement with my lower forecast of less than $ 50 well before the end of the decade, in part because supply has come off much more slowly than predicted, but mainly because they now recognize that China's rebalancing was indeed going to be a far bigger deal for Chinese demand than sell - side research had predicted.

This favorable environment has allowed RGA to earn what we believe are solid returns and increase book value around 10 % annually for the last decade.

But since the last Bitcoin block is projected to be mined around the year 2140, adopting Bitcoin as a major (or world) currency anytime in the next few decades would just exacerbate anthropogenic climate change by needlessly increasing electricity consumption until it's too late.

In the final three months of last year the US dollar declined by 8 per cent against the euro and 7 per cent against the yen, to be around its lowest level in the past decade.

With the US currently feeling more or less self - sufficient with the shale oil / gas boom of the last decade, the primary market for bitumen has dried up, and shipping it around the world is laughably uneconomical.

GEM's founding members have been involved in supporting some of the most significant global tragedies over the last decade, personally assisting in over 200 various aid relief trips around the world.

The answer can be found in a weak U.S. dollar (the dollar index has wallowed around the 90 mark for much of 2018, after a stunning free fall in 2017), an immense fiscal expansion in the last decade pushing the economy toward overheating, a tight labor market, and recent (albeit modest) price pressure in the wake of trade war possibilities and tariff talk, Slok said.

Consequently, Procter & Gamble has seen its gross and operating margins remain essentially flat during the last decade, around 50 % and 20 %, respectively.

To make silly statements about people going to hell fails to recognize the fact that there is a lot of blame to go around for the craziness of the last decade.

The last two decades have witnessed the introduction of the internet, offering a new way of sending information almost instantaneously around the world.

Serious brain science around meditation has emerged only in about the last decade, since the birth of functional MRI allowed scientists to begin watching the brain and monitoring its changes in relatively real time.

Our foreign policy during the last decade has been built around the negative aim of opposition to Russia, and has failed to take positive leadership in a world - wide attack on hunger and disease.

Aside from the fact that many kids have allergies and intolerances to wheat; the modern wheat grain that around ninety percent of the western population eats today was only hybridized in the last few decades.

From its origins as a hot - dog cart that the restaurateur Danny Meyer set up as a kind of art project in 2001, Shake Shack has become one of the most influential restaurants of the last decade, studied and copied around the country.

Chemero has spent the last decade transforming Wayback Burgers into one of the nation's fastest growing burger franchises while also expanding the company's reach and influence in multiple countries around the globe — a prime reason why he was a perfect candidate for the exclusive council.

I haven't spent a lot of time in gay bars in the last decade, mainly because I have the extraordinary good fortune to feel - most of the time - like the world around me is a safe space for me to be and express my love.

He has been doing a great job in driving the fan's around the same old bend, for the last decade!

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

And floundering around 4 th like we spent most of the last decade.

They lost general manager Andrew Friedman, the man who helped turn the franchise around last decade, to the Dodgers.

World football has gone from strength to strength in the last couple of decades, specially the club game in Europe has been on the rise since the developments in 1992 when most of the major league around Europe More...

Far from sweeping aside anyone these days, the Gunners have failed spectacularly to live up to that nickname for around a decade, certainly the last five years or so.

These are the cloth diapers that have been around for decades and they are versatile, inexpensive and long - lasting.

In fact, she's spent decades teaching writing to others, amid her own struggles around identity, brokenness, self - destructive habits, and conflicting emotions about her own mother (it's mere coincidence that my last post was on the Happy / Sad of adoption).

Thanks to a number of significant global initiatives, breastfeeding rates around the world have slowly risen over the last few decades.

In last few decades how much technological advancement that we have gone through can be seen like a picture once we have glance at the innovations around us.

Over the last decade, rural populations have increased by 800,000 inhabitants, around seven per cent.

The NWLC graphic caught the public debate around tax cuts for millionaires at a good time, hitting a nerve with people angry about constant talk of budget cuts without tax increases for people who've done well in the last decade or two.

The scheme has proved increasingly popular over the last decade — with one in four car parks — that's around 5,000 - now Park Mark awarded.

Not among the true believers, of course (they'll never cotton to the notion of a Kenyan socialist Muslim in the White House) but if the anti-Obamacare movement turns out to look like hysteria, many voters casually inclined toward the Tea Party might just start to question what Fox, et al, have been telling them all around for the last half - decade.

The West has been difficult territory for Republicans over the last decade or so, but small GOP gains in the region could be a sign of larger gains elsewhere around the country.

RIP Morley Safer, 84, who reported from around the world for nearly five decades on the newsmagazine 60 Minutes and just announced his retirement last week.

During the last decade Britain's use of cluster bombs, which release and scatter small bomblets over a large area, has been surpassed by only two other countries around the world.

Part 4: The peak of your brain's powers comes at around age 22 and lasts for just half a decade — but there is an upside to the ageing brain

The peak of your brain's powers comes at around age 22 and lasts for just half a decade.

On the other hand there has been no really notably dry, hot, sunny summer in the UK since 2006; summers overall have either been around average or exceptionally wet, and this appears to be linked with strong warming and more frequent high pressure over Greenland in the last decade.»

The magnitude 8.2 earthquake might be part of a pattern of big quakes around the world over the last decade, says Thorne Lay of the University of California Santa Cruz.

If all the plastic made in the last few decades was clingfilm, there would be enough to put a layer around the whole Earth.

Over the last decade, the solar plasma around Voyager 1 has thinned as the spacecraft hurtles toward the edge of the bubble at more than 60,000 kilometers per hour.

Southern Australia's decline in rainfall began around 1970 and has increased over the last four decades.