Sentences with phrase «less than a decade ago»

An oddity outside China's borders less than a decade ago, the renminbi (which translates as «the People's currency») is quickly becoming one of the world's most commonly used forms of payment.

And Ether is now the biggest rival to Bitcoin, the $ 10 billion cryptocurrency that mysteriously burst onto the scene less than a decade ago.

The first @reply, hashtag and retweet happened less than a decade ago, but in the world of social media, they're historic.

Less than a decade ago, there were 70 distilleries in the U.S..

But the fact that Verizon seeks to buy AOL is just the latest chapter for the Internet pioneer, which saw its merger with Time Warner (TWX) fizzle out less than a decade ago.

Less than a decade ago, Everett was a teenage father and community college dropout waiting tables and relying on government assistance.

We are on the edge of a bubble larger than the one we experienced less than a decade ago as housing prices race back down to where it is affordable and sees demand from new buyers.

Less than a decade ago, during the national debate on ENDA (The federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act), a major beach - head in the gay movement, 68 percent of respondents in a poll of gays and lesbians commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) said it was acceptable to exclude their T colleagues from the protections sought in this legislation.

A recent example is the changed attitude to nuclear war as compared with attitudes less than a decade ago.

• Winds of change have blown through all countries of Eastern Europe in a way not dreamed of less than a decade ago.

Less than a decade ago Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger fielded a squad that did not contain an English player, yet now, his team is full of promising players that are eligible to play in current England boss Roy Hodgson's side.

Politifact.org won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2009, and FactCheck.org has received three Webby Awards since it was founded less than a decade ago.

After all, less than a decade ago, McKeon was the mouthpiece for Gov. George Pataki whom Cuomo tried to challenge at the polls.

Less than a decade ago, even in liberal New York, support for same - sex marriage was not automatic.

Rosamond's job is to build up an industry where little remained less than a decade ago, figure out how to make products out of every last pine needle harvested and turn a profit.

Since its discovery less than a decade ago, researchers have learned that graphene conducts heat and electricity extremely well.

«ILCs were discovered less than a decade ago, but the parallels between them and T cells will enable us to more quickly understand how they work and to develop ways to enhance or inhibit their function in treating a variety of immune and inflammatory diseases.»

Less than a decade ago, anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis was first identified, a disease characterized by inflammation of the brain that causes acute psychiatric symptoms including psychosis.

His automated genome - sequencing machine is driving the price of mapping a person's entire genetic code down toward $ 1,000, almost unbelievably cheap considering that, less than a decade ago, the government - funded Human Genome Project spent roughly $ 3 billion to sequence a single genome.

The third - generation reactors have safety features that should prevent a meltdown similar to Fukushima's but political controversy, along with the high price tag means that new nuclear complexes in the U.S. and Europe could be in the single digits instead of dozens originally planned less than a decade ago.

The universe is not just strange but truly weird — weirder than even the boldest theorists would have guessed less than a decade ago.

Virus Genes «Less than a decade ago there was no reason to doubt that virus genetics and cell genetics were two different subjects and could be kept cleanly apart.

Less than a decade ago, these questions would have been dismissed outright.

Since the first organoids were created less than a decade ago, their uncanny ability to mimic in miniature the development of real organs in the human body has caused a quiet revolution in many areas of medical research.

It might be odd to feel nostalgic for a time that's less than a decade ago, but Flower, Sun and Rain will make you feel exactly that.

Based on a true case in New Jersey less than a decade ago, when the fight for pension benefits for domestic partners was a first step and gay marriage a pipe dream, «Freeheld» came across as a clear reminder of how quickly and how dramatically things can change.

Unless you're a Wall Street trader or a CNBC fanatic, you're bound to learn something new about how unregulated capitalism set itself on fire less than a decade ago — and how the banking industry has retained its tight grip on both the kerosene and the matches.

It is a bit strange to see the movie version of an event that many will remember took place less than a decade ago.

A blatant and naked cash grab, a film that only exists to retain Sony's rights to the character, a rehash of a trilogy that ended less than a decade ago, all of the warning signs were there.

We find one answer in the story of a Dominican teenager who immigrated to New York City less than a decade ago.

Less than a decade ago the majority of teacher education programs in the country offered stand - alone technology courses that focused primarily on technical skills and trouble - shooting strategies to prepare teachers to use technology (U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment [OTA] 1995; Willis & Mehlinger, 1996).

Then, less than decade ago, the brand began a life - altering transformation, converting from rear - to front - wheel drive and from boxy to stylish, inside and out.

It's not uncommon for people these days to have a negative reaction to the idea of being in debt — after all, irresponsible debt practices all but collapsed the global economy less than a decade ago.

Many first time home buyers who can afford a home today would never have been able to handle the interest rates from less than a decade ago.

According to recent studies, 69 % of college graduates are under the burden of student loans, up 5 % from less than a decade ago.

Since less than a decade ago, stats show that most pet junkies and sworn animal lovers are leaning towards them, and it's not hard to guess why!

Less than a decade ago Mr. Guyton couldn't get a dealer to pay attention to him.

Less than a decade ago, a pairing of Matisse and Picasso told the same story.

Solar influence during that period is much less than estimated less than a decade ago meaning that aerosols and / or natural climate oscillations played a greater than estimated role.

Nearly 2,000 animal species «are fleeing global warming by heading north much faster than they were less than a decade ago,» asserts new «research» just published in the once - credible journal Science.

This is a snapshot of America's energy revolution — the fundamental shift from energy scarcity to abundance that would have been unthinkable less than a decade ago.

Almost 40 % of the U.S. coal fleet that operated less than a decade ago has shut down or is shutting down.

Less than a decade ago, industry analysts and government officials fretted that the United States was in danger of running out of gas.

That projection — almost unimaginable less than a decade ago — results from the energy revolution, in which private investment and private producers are accessing vast quantities of oil and natural gas from shale and other tight - rock formations, safely and responsibly, via modern hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.

The world's first floating wind farm — Norwegian energy giant Statoil's 30MW Hywind Scotland array — has been switched on off the Scottish northeast coast, marking the start of a new chapter in the fast - paced narrative of a sector that installed its maiden industrial - scale prototype less than a decade ago.

Although I am sure Mr. Kinder was already dreaming of being a captain of industry when he was eight years old, the truth is the company only bought the pipeline less than a decade ago.

A little less than a decade ago, the federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals, whose rulings affect federal cases in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, issued an important ruling that can affect people with bipolar disorder in New Jersey.

Even with the increase, the number of executions this year was 47 percent less than a decade ago.

The first one came out less than a decade ago.

And Ether is now the biggest rival to Bitcoin, the $ 10 billion cryptocurrency that mysteriously burst onto the scene less than a decade ago.