Sentences with phrase «last dozen years»

A seminar from Franco on how to last a dozen years w / o serious injury, and leave the game w / all faculties intact while breaking records and winning super bowls..

The key driver of these income trends, besides lower employment and hours in the aftermath of the financial crisis, has been wage stagnation over the last dozen years.

Wallace spent the last dozen years of his life trying to surpass his own high - water mark.

Villi has spent the last dozen years helping to build amazing technology companies.

Fast - growing consumer demand and large price premiums for organic milk have made the organic dairy sector a bright spot for many producers over the last dozen years.

But to continue that success this postseason and reach the second round for the first time in four years, Indiana will have to get past LeBron, which has proven to be damn near impossible for the last dozen years.

Over the last dozen years you have made a lot of money in your position and have surely saved enough for your family to live comfortably in there remaining days.

To such a weird and wonderful estate, which over the last dozen years has annually paid him more than $ 100,000, most of it already spent, Mel Allen has risen on the strength of an indefatigable, hinged - in - the - middle tongue, an unsurpassed knowledge of and almost mystical involvement in sports.

The town's population in the last dozen years has nearly doubled — from 40,000 to 70,000.

To me, his major tactical blindspot was never really replacing the Vieira / Petit / Edu / Gilberto hole over the last dozen years or so.

For the last dozen years, Hernandez, 46, has been the boxing instructor at Garfield Park Fieldhouse, part of the Chicago Park District's popular free - of - charge boxing program.

Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn supported the fee hike as a way to bring in more money to fix crumbling roads, leaky roofs and broken toilets in a state park system that has seen its budget cut heavily over the last dozen years.

But there was a retrenchment during the last dozen years, said Dr. John Kennell, pediatrics professor at Rainbow Babies and Children Hospital in Cleveland and an expert on bonding and on doalas.

A state Comptroller's Office report made public three weeks ago noted that the town board has not had a signed contract with East Kingston for the last dozen years.

Efforts over the last dozen years to have hearing loops installed in public places around the U.S. have gained momentum in recent years with new American manufacturers stepping up to design and market hearing loop amplifiers for a wide variety of installations, from home TV rooms and taxis to auditoriums and airports.

The writer - director's career over the last dozen years has been like an exercise in entropy: from the critical and commercial success of The Sixth Sense; to the underrated Unbreakable; to the bold but ill - conceived Signs; to the escalating idiocies of The Village; to the risible Lady in the Water (a failure notable enough to occasion an entire book); to The Happening, a picture so terrible that it defied conventional criticism.

As many of you have noticed and inquired about, our beloved colleague, senior writer, and Hatsune Miku aficionado Mike Fahey has not been writing for the site he's called home for the last dozen years.

I have learned a lot over the last dozen years.

For the last dozen years, waves of idealistic Americans have campaigned to reform and improve K - 12 education.

For the last dozen years, the DB9's silhouette has loosened the jaws of onlookers while its V12 bellow crammed velvet in their eardrums.

Despite the number of hybrid vehicles introduced over the last dozen years or so, none have really been able to take too big of a bite out of the sales figures for the poster child of hybrids, the Toyota Prius.

But it was in the last dozen years of his life that he became a best - selling author, fueling our national fascination with WWII and bringing its heroes, generals and GI's alike, back into fashion.

Over the last dozen years I've bought loads of books, clothes, computer equipment and other goods from a very wide range of different online vendors.

Now, although the Kindle is a totally serviceable reading device, there's not much reason to «innovate,» because «innovation» means costs to publishers, which is unacceptable when they can just keep doing things the way they've done them for the last dozen years at least, cutting costs and quality — they're a lot like politicians in this sense — and with a recovering economy even Barnes and Noble can stay afloat!

For a while I still picked up a few titles and the last dozen years I haven't really read much at all; some Neil Gaiman stuff, a few recommendations (Invincible, Alias), and whatever they had on free comic day.

Despite another bull market from 2003 through 2006, the returns on stocks over the last dozen years have been dismal, while gold has regained its lustre.

One of the reasons that the Permanent Portfolio has gained popularity recently is that its returns have been impressive over the last dozen years or so, a period when stocks have performed poorly.

While most lenders require a minimum reserve of $ 250 per unit per year for capital expenses and many owners reserve up to 400, according to actual expense budgets Mike tracked for properties in the Seattle area actual capital expenses have been averaging $ 750 a year for the last dozen years and the trend is definitely up:

That's because I have an unusual habit: I've tracked virtually every cent I've earned and spent over the last dozen years.

(I've spent only $ 34 on sporting events in the last dozen years — and all of that at Chicago's Wrigley Field eight years ago.)

All of his top 30 prices were achieved in the last dozen years with a flurry of benchmark - setting sales, according to Artnet's database, during the heights of the last boom in 2007 and 2008.

Most works are from the last dozen years or so, although a good number span the prior half - century.

So there was cause for celebration this season as both Marian Goodman and Michael Werner galleries in New York presented important samplings of the remarkable output of Broodthaers's last dozen years, before his career was cut short by his early death in Cologne.

Over the last dozen years alone these have included shows at Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2014); Fernand Léger National Museum, Biot, France (2014); Dairy Art Centre, London (2013); Swiss Institute, New York (2012); Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (2011); Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland (2010); Kunstverein Hannover, Germany (2006); Tate Liverpool, England (2006); and the ICA, Philadelphia (2006).

In the last dozen years, Ms. Herrera has had a thriving career that would make any artist jealous: a show opening May 3 at Lisson Gallery in New York, the debut for the American branch of the London dealer, and in the fall, a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

His first sketches at the age of 12 led to a career in street and train bombing that began in the late 80s and has lasted a dozen years.

A self - taught photographer, Colin's work has gained recognition over the last dozen years, and he is now one of the area's prominent fine arts photographers.

Based in Toronto, Jensen - Nagle has mounted over fifty exhibitions in the last dozen years across North America and Europe, including at the Griffin Museum in Boston and the Glenbow Museum in Calgary.

Lester has written a number of articles over the last dozen years about China, which are available on Earth Policy Institute's website.

Over the last dozen years and more, the tried - and - true regulatory system that protected Ontario's electricity consumers and the financial viability of the power sector as a whole have been systematically sidelined by politicians at Queen's Park.

Sometimes it goes up, sometimes down, and occasionally — such as for the last dozen years or so — it does little that can be discerned.

American foreign policy, routinely decorated with extravagant alarmism over the last dozen years or so, has been an abject failure.

Soon, having collected over $ 1.2 million over the last dozen years in research funding from ExxonMobil, Southern Company, and the American Petroleum Institute, states that, «No amount of money can influence what I have to say and write, especially on my scientific quest to understand how climate works, all by itself.»

Of course, thanks to technological advances, working from home or even at a coffee shop is a lot more doable and has gained greater acceptance in the legal community in the last dozen years.