Sentences with phrase «like decades since»

It definitely fells like decades since my last post here on the blog.

The Suzuki Hayabusa was last updated in 2008 and it's been like a decade since Suzuki is selling the same Hayabusa.

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But it's notable since it's the first such drop noted in more than two decades, and Americans» life expectancy is already lower than that of other developed nations like Canada, France, and Germany.

Microsoft, for example, has reduced itself to heckling Google with two campaigns: «Scroogled,» about the alleged evils of Google's e-mail advertising policy (something that consumers have met with a shrug ever since Gmail's introduction nearly a decade ago); and the «Bing It On Challenge,» in which people on the street pick the search results they like best (which apes the old Pepsi Challenge — a campaign that defined Pepsi by what it isn't, and thus condemned it to being Coke's bridesmaid forever).

But like every leader since Deng, he was once expected to hand these over after his appointed decade, letting one generation of leadership pass smoothly on to the next.

If one assumes Mr. Rosengren allows the economy to hum along at the current levels (a big if since he wants to raise rates), a average 2.5 % wage gain less 2 % inflation makes you wait three more years to get back to 2007 (a lost decade plus two) and five years to party likes it's 1999 (two lost decades, plus one).

Currently, BBB - rated bonds are equal to 45 % of the entire outstanding high - yield market, which has increased from 30 % a decade ago.3 Since BBB is the lowest investment - grade bond rating, the risk is that many poor credits will fall, like angels, from the investment - grade into the high - yield universe.

Indonesia has the largest Muslim population and it has experienced productive and peaceful times in the decade since the Bali Bombings, actively committed to redressing a long history of human rights abuse and repairing once - frayed bonds with modern neighbors like Australia and New Zealand.

While western theologians tried to cope with religious pluralism and struggled to introduce theology of religions seriously only since the late 1980s, theologians in multi-religious situations like India had been working on the issue for decades under several other nomenclatures.

And I love film, but haven't used any since I used to develop my own rolls in my blacked - out dorm bathroom... like a million years ago (seriously, a whole decade ago).

Since the New Southern renaissance turned the spotlight on Charleston a decade ago, restaurants have been opening at a gold rush pace, garnering the kind of media attention and food world cred usually reserved for towns with, like, more than 125,000 people.

It's been two decades since he's had a perfect storm quite like this, and it will be fascinating to watch him conduct this particular offseason symphony.

A tiny few, like Jenkinson and from decades agom Jimmy Carter were Gooners since kids.

The Gunners have always got through those play - off games even though it was sometimes a close call, but for the first time in two decades the Gunners will not be involved with the elite of Europe and Arsene Wenger has admitted that this is not good, in a report by The Mirror, but he also played it down a little bit by claiming that the English Premier League and the title race is now more important and more of interest to fans than the UCL and maybe the fact that Arsenal have not looked remotely like winning it since we lost to Barcelona in the final makes that true.

Assuming that Wenger since Gazidis arrived is the real Wenger even though he had close to a decade of «buying talent» from abroad and then getting moaned at for buying so many foreign players... Stupid people like you forget that and think «Derp, Wenger is boss so he MUST be telling the owner and board what to do».

That may sound like a lot, but at the start of the decade that number was more than 500 million people — and it's been falling ever since.

DEAR PHIL Let me tell you something: i read carefully what you say, you JON FOX and KEN 1945 since you are our «elder brothers», attending since the sixties (even if you, PHIL, are quit abusive with me, sometimes) therefore i respond to your enquiries: 1 - I believe we» r not progreessing but it's essentially due to the finincial restriction and the spending power of our oppenents (even if Wenger is RESPOSIBLE partly with his dogmatic conception of economics) 2 - Going second to sixth is not of course what we could: should achieve but it been explained by my first answer 3 - I give attention to my fellow arsenal fans, like you, what they are thinking, not to the oppenents (most of the PL clubs fans would give their lives to have a manager with the same success as Wenger over two decades, the first of dominating and the second of re-building the club after the stadium building) Now i am not against another manager if he can do better than the one we have but you must, my friend, respect him for what he has done.....

the wenger out brigade just goes for the prof because he epitomises the failures arsenal has had in the past decade, yes managerial failures name the youth products that are world class since 2007, a proper trophy, a tactical innovation, a unique way of training??? I respect him and believe he's a legend at this club, I'm just gutted to see him go like this he should have went on a high and got replaced, I'm sure the same fans that say wenger out would love a statue of him at the emirates.

For a club of our stature, we should be used to winning games like yesterday's, but wenger has taken us so low to the point that we celebrate such victories occasionally.It's been more than a decade since we last beat utd convincingly, yet in that period, they have bested us several times including an 8 - 2 drubbing.

The steroid era sure seems like it was the era of steroids, but it's still probably improperly named, since there were plenty of other aspects at play that caused offense to rise: smaller ballparks, multiple expansions in the decade that (temporarily) diluted the talent pool in MLB, and juiced baseballs as proven by studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and written about by Jay Jaffe.

Yet the three players in the squad that are have not had the best of seasons; Luciano Vietto and Jackson Martínez have not had the desired impact since arriving in the summer, while the 2016 Fernando Torres is playing like a tribute act to the Fernando Torres of a decade ago.

Since Arsenal haven't won the league in over a decade, it shouldn't be surprising when imported superstars like Ozil or Sánchez (or Robin van Persie, or Cesc Fàbregas, or Samir Nasri) eventually want away in search of trophies and bigger paydays.

John Obi Mikel has been a wonderful servant for Chelsea since joining the London giants from Norwegian side Lyn back in 2006 but it does look like the Nigerian international is nearing the end of his decade long association with the Blues.

But since the World Health Organization published a report about a decade ago saying that babies should be exclusively breastfed until 6 months, countries like the UK and US have recommended parents hold off until then.

Like many names on this list, Anneliese has been on the rise since 1996 and remained pretty high in the last decade.

It sounds to me like Skelos is trying to undercut Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson's argument that he and his conference can't be blamed for the mess in Albany because they've only been in power since January 2009, while the GOP ruled the chamber for more than four decades prior to that.

But as the town's population has since more than doubled, Democrats over those decades have gradually overtaken Republicans in voter enrollment — «like a glacier,» Kindel said.

But since the World Health Organization published a report about a decade ago saying that babies should be exclusively breastfed until 6 months, countries like the UK and US have recommended parents hold off until then.

But over the last decade or so, the bees have fallen victim to a number of problems like parasites, pesticides, and disease, causing their numbers to dwindle 30 % each year since 2006.

Nevertheless, trying to develop new therapies based on what treatments will look like in the coming decade is a nearly impossible task, points out Michael Stratton, joint head of the Cancer Genome Project and professor of cancer genetics at the University of London's Institute of Cancer Research, who has been working on developing finely targeted cancer treatments since identifying the BRAF oncogene in 2002.

Ever since the first exoplanets were discovered 2 decades ago, astronomers have been fascinated by super-Earths because we have no model for what they would be like.

Flying under the accounting radar Derek Scissors, a research fellow in the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation, questioned whether looking at the past decades is a useful comparison, particularly for hydro development, since industrialized countries like the United States built their dams decades ago.

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Algae has been used by tens of millions of people in Asia for over 50 years — and even Olympic athletes and NASA astronauts have relied on algae for decades as a way to pack a lot of nutrients into a very small volume of food — since algae contains 1,000 times more nutrition than anything else in the world (or if you'd like to think about it this way, one gram of algae — about the equivalent in a tiny tablet — has the nutrition of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetables).

Like you, my style has definitely changed and gotten way better since my decade of the twenties, or even since from 5 years ago when I first started blogging.

Other enjoyable performances back Sandler's up: Emmanuelle Chriqui is a charming leading lady; Lainie Kazan's crack comic timing put me in mind of her uproarious portrayal of the ultimate Jewish mom in 1982's My Favorite Year (and she doesn't look like she's aged a day since); as two of the Zohan's old foes, John Turturro is amusing (even if he's in danger of becoming this decade's answer to Vito Scotti if he takes on too many more ethnic roles), while Sandler's longtime buddy and perpetual hanger - on Rob Schneider for once DOES N'T make you want to tear out either his hair or your own.

In the decades since, the abandoned ship has deteriorated from flying saucer to hovering cloud, permanently hung over the city like a grey lament.

It doesn't help that this is an Eighties flick, redolent of the standard biases of the decade: Since Stiller and McCarthy are playing trust - fund babies (in a manner of speaking), the filmmakers are far less afraid to flaunt their penniless affectations than those of the actual poverty - stricken characters — like Ringwald's, who appears on - screen only in conjunction with Matt.

It almost feels like a decade has passed since I first experienced Sine Mora on the PlayStation Vita.

Yet to be umbilically linked in the public mind to a single character is the last thing Grant needed at that point in his career, especially since he'd spent a full decade trying to shake off the image of the floppy - haired, tongue - tied bumbler that had clung to him like a leech ever since Four Weddings And A Funeral became a global box - office smash and propelled him to A-list stardom.

I know that this is not the first time in the past few years that we've seen a period film but the reunion of Michelle Pfeiffer and Stephen Frears is definitely making it feel like it's been decades since I've seen a good period drama.

Since then, Don has written about film and pop culture for Film Threat, Film School Rejects, Adobe Airstream, Devil in the Woods, Pop Culture Press, the Los Angeles Journal, and was Managing Editor for Smells Like Screen Spirit for just shy of a decade.

He also refuses to let Verna visit Jed, and because it has been a decade since she last saw him and she isn't quite sure what he looks like now she decides to tamper with the security system, instigating a riot and enabling the inmates to escape, including Jackson, Bud, the clearly insane Ike (James Bloor) and his equally crazed girlfriend Clarice (Jessica Madsen), who kidnap Lizzy and take her along for the ride as they try to escape the authorities.

Technically Deadpool is the first to do it, since the character predates properties like Super and Kick - Ass by at least a decade (the first Deadpool comic was released in 1991).

Both stars have noticeably aged in the nine years since the first film, but it's the younger Tucker who got old first, never seeming like he is interested in pushing himself any further than he already has as a comedian or entertainer, content to dole out the same old shtick that made him a star a decade ago.

It's been nearly a decade since Ferrell played the role, but it still fits him like a comedy glove.

Since then, a steady stream of parents living within different school zones has lobbied along with educators to become charter schools focusing in areas like the fine arts, technology, math and science or international studies, said Gordon Higgins, a district spokesman with decades of education experience.

NEW ORLEANS — Nothing has defined and even driven the fractious national debate over education quite like this city and the transformation of its school system in the decade since Hurricane Katrina.

Like the standards some states have had for decades and all states have had since NCLB, the Common Core is a checklist for what K - 12 students should know in English Language Arts and math.

Citizens stuck in blue states like California now have no recourse to escape the failed test prep approach other than to get their children into private schools — and if they lack the resources to pay for tuition a second time (since they still must pay taxes for the second class teaching their local state schools are dispensing), their children will be doomed to fall behind the international competition, since that is a consequence of the second missed opportunity of the past decade, the Common Core standards that doom American children to fall 2 - 3 years behind their peers in Asia and northern Europe by the time they finish high school.