Sentences with phrase «many years or decades»

Business owners who committed their capital years or decades back could be forced to deal with a very different set of rules than they began with.

Once a power plant is built or technology is integrated into an industrial facility, it may last for years or decades, creating an entrenched competitor to new green energy technologies, he explained.

Years or decades from now I will look back and thank my younger self for picking up quality companies on the cheap.

In Berkshire's property & casualty (P&C) insurance businesses, premiums are collected up front, but claims are paid out often years or decades later, allowing the float to be used for investments.

This is the fourth in a series of articles highlighting dividend growth companies that have large and durable economic advantages, or «moats», that protect their business operations and allow years or decades of strong profitability.

Once an investor buys a stock (or a portfolio of stocks), there's really nothing left to do but wait for the investments to become profitable — years or decades later.

In other words, your dollar's purchasing power today is almost guaranteed to be lower in a year or a decade from now.

There is a contingent that believes that this is a new secular bull market, one that is driven by factors that will last many years or decades.

The successful financial advisors serving these clients have been able not only to win their clients over, but more importantly, retain this clientele over years or decades, often across generations.

Ligand isn't like a traditional biotech stock in that it doesn't spend years or decades bringing drugs from the discovery stage to pharmacy shelves, which is an exceptionally risky boom - or - bust model.

We are still very much breaking down barriers and I don't know how many years or decades it will be before we have the strong network of mentors we need to support funding, growth and exports.»

And while the terrorists may or may not strike again this year or this decade, lightning strikes somewhere pretty much every day.

Even if hindsight bias allows us to point out all the cases where it has turned out to be a mistake — a mistake that sometimes delayed paradigm shifts in science for years or decades — it's still usually best to start by attempting to explain anomalous observations within the theoretical framework we have.

You can only tell movement has happened by looking at the marker of its position a year or a decade or a century ago.

Wesley was so concerned about holiness that he had a standard that most of us today would be hard pressed to even maintain for a week, nevermind years or decades.

Snow has wreaked havoc over the past few days but what if it's just the start and the global warming, sorry, climate change means we're all facing months, years or decades in freezing conditions?

To all the future Dads, soon - to - be-Dads, new Dads, and Dads who've been in the trenches for years or decades: Happy Father's Day!

In an earlier generation, this might have taken the form of separation or divorce, but now, it seemed, more and more women were unwilling to abandon the marriages and families they'd built over years or decades.

It's what helped lead to a relentless focus on a company's next quarter, to the detriment of its next year or decade.

Afghanistan and Somalia (as well as states at risk of failure such as Iraq today) are salient examples of what can happen to a state after years or decades of civil war.

(Those eligible are most likely to be naturalised British citizens, who may have been in for many years or decades).

And as MEP Zahradil pointed out, this is a decision that will influence years or decades or centuries to come.

But the church, along with organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, has said a one - year look - back period would open the floodgates to litigation against organizations that could have to defend themselves in cases involving alleged abusers who have been dead or retired for years or decades.

Some of the insults appear to have little or no short - term effect, but often become serious years or decades later.

Consequently, some researchers have feared the search for life would have to wait for other, more capable telescopes many years or decades in the future.

Strengths of this study, Dr. Li noted, included that researchers used an objective measuring device and studied a short - term outcome (miscarriage) rather than one that will occur years or decades later, such as cancer or autoimmune diseases.

And while that might not be a problem in the early years of life, years or decades of drinking sweet liquids will catch up with them eventually.

Experiments that had run for years or decades were discarded without ever being analyzed.

«You would need to travel about seven times as long as Starshot's 20 - year mission, but in return you would get years or decades of close - up exploration instead of only seconds,» Heller says.

But the health effects of chronic low - level radiation exposure over years or decades are far from clear.

The model fits best if we imagine neuron loss (instead of just shriveling), because the atrophy can persist for years or decades after the trauma.

Hints of a surprise particle at the Large Hadron Collider have officially been confirmed as a blip, and finding another could take years or decades

The term describes a controversial scenario in which victims of horrendous traumas utterly repress all memory of the experience, only to recover it years or decades later.

The star shines brightly for a few glorious days before returning to its deathlike slumber for years or decades, until the whole sequence repeats itself.

«Usually distant galaxies do not change significantly over an astronomer's lifetime, i.e. on a timescale of years or decades,» explains Andrea Merloni, «but this one showed a dramatic variation of its spectrum, as if the central black hole had switched on and off.»

Our models say it will be less stable, but any future collapse remains years or decades away.»

«We showed that there are short - term outcomes, like more acute illness among shorter - sleeping adolescents, that don't require waiting months, years or decades to show up,» Orzech continued.

But the next big earthquake could be years or decades from now, he said.

The United States keeps as many as 80,000 prisoners in solitary confinement, sometimes for years or decades on end.

These symptoms often begin years or decades after players have ended their athletic careers, according to the Boston Universitycenter.

Alternatively, it may be that PKD patients, who are frequently aware that they have a progressive medical condition and who therefore typically receive close medical care for many years or decades, engage in other healthy behaviors that prevent cancer.

However, the enzyme isn't something that acts once — it is chronically elevated along with HPV infection, leading to years or decades of higher mutation rates.

Traditionally, patients would have to try several medications with poor results for years or decades before being considered for surgery, according to the Epilepsy Foundation.

Around 14,000 years ago (about 13,000 radiocarbon years ago), there was a rapid global warming and moistening of climates, perhaps occurring within the space of only a few years or decades.

[2] In some patients, in - transit metastatic disease may remain indolent and regionally confined for years or decades.

Also, because HD takes many years or decades to develop, differences seen in HD patients may seem large at the baseline but actually be due to very slow changes that take place over a long time.

«The threat to the patient is something that plays out over many years or decades; it's not an immediate threat,» he notes.

The symptoms are subtle and may develop over years or decades (17, 18).

We find this situation in transplant patients who are maintained on synthetic cortisol for years or decades as part of their anti-rejection medications.

NASH is often a slow - growing disease than can take years or decades to progress.