Sentences with phrase «nearly decade old»

Sounds like they are playing games with me now that my term policy is nearly a decade old.

Sorry to nitpick, but I'm curious to know where you got that figure of 60 % — the most reliable numbers I have seen (admittedly, now nearly a decade old) for ocean phytoplankton are 45 % of world net primary productivity (NPP):

With the October 2016 release of Return to Arkham — beautifully remastered versions of the PS3 hits Arkham Asylum and Arkham City for the PS4 — we can look back at this incredible franchise, now nearly a decade old and still going strong.

Though now nearly a decade old, and already upgraded to Mario Kart 8 on Wii U, the Wii version of Mario Kart feels like my version — for me, it was the first time that all Nintendo's kart racing elements combined flawlessly.

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Its basically the (now nearly a decade old) flash game «helicopter» (that you can play at http://www.helicoptergame.net/) with decent «retro» - graphics.

The trend toward online shopping is nearly a decade old, but it was only in 2012 that online retailers began to truly make a significant impact on overall consumption habits.

Remember, those salary numbers are nearly a decade old.

Now the current generation car is nearly a decade old, and new challengers like the Scion FR - S and Subaru BRZ have arrived promising the same type of fun.

Based on the debut of the redesigned 2015 GMC Canyon at the 2014 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit, General Motors evidently sees a market opportunity for modern trucks that are smaller than full - size pickups, a segment currently dominated by the Nissan Frontier and the Toyota Tacoma, each featuring a design that is nearly a decade old.

Since then, years of a textbook budget that has been nearly zeroed out has left many classrooms working with textbooks nearly a decade old — or with no textbooks at all.

Many classrooms are working with textbooks nearly a decade old — or none at all.

«We, at Brighton Place, greatly appreciate Erie County's appropriation of $ 5,000 to our nearly decade old, not - for - profit library and resource center in the Brighton Road area of the Town of Tonawanda.

In fact, it was a player nearly a decade older than either of Los Angeles» prized one - two punch.

Over Thanksgiving my wife's sister and her family visited, with kids in their early 20's, nearly a decade older than ours.

Not exact matches

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

Actor Augustin Legrand is taking over the role of «The Most Interesting Man in the World» months after the 77 - year - old American Jonathan Goldsmith bowed out of the role he played for nearly a decade in TV commercials and other promotional spots for the Heineken - owned beer brand.

The aim of the weigh - ins, which might be more familiar to travelers who have flown on small planes, is to update nearly decade - old data on average passenger weights as it expands its route network and needs to accurately forecast payloads and how much fuel it requires.

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).

Nearly a third of older workers in the NORC study said they have brushed up their skills through job training or school during the last half decade, which could provide an income boost and help in finding late - career work.

A coalition of conservative states historically opposed to the Affordable Care Act is suing the Trump administration in a move to end the nearly - decade old health law following last year's repeal of Obamacare's individual insurance mandate.

But what really scares B.C. is the ominous shadow of a nearly three - decades old marine disaster on the West Coast that is of an entirely different order of magnitude.

And while student loan balances have grown substantially for borrowers of all ages in the past decade, researchers say the fastest growth has been in total balances held by borrowers age 60 or older, which have increased nearly nine-fold since 2004.

Similar announcements made recently by Oscar Mayer, McDonald's, Costco, Safeway, Kroger, Quiznos and nearly 60 other leading food companies signal a reversal in a three - decade - old trend in the pork industry that leaves most breeding pigs confined day and night in gestation crates during their four - month - long pregnancies.

I have been a Gunner for nearly 2 decades now I have seen enough of this same old problem.

It's not his fault or anything, it doesn't make him a bad person or negate what he's done for the franchise for nearly two decades — he's just older and coming off a devastating injury that plenty of guys don't ever really recover from, especially not that late in their careers.

But it is difficult to get too excited about this hire until Davie shows that he can recruit reasonably well and that either a) the old - school offensive approach he has championed on ESPN for nearly the last decade can actually still work, or b) he can adapt some new offensive techniques.

(His 87.1 save percentage would be the best Premier League mark this decade by nearly 10 points — a number that's sure to regress, but one that also speaks to just how impervious the 27 - year - old Spaniard can be.)

Now a seasoned 29 - year - old international, nearly a decade ago in 2007 Gelson Fernandes was lauded as one of the finest young central midfielder's in Europe when Sven Goran - Eriksson signed him for Manchester City.

This of course is the dreaded «Homework Table,» which sustained nearly two decades of use by both me and my older brother.

Plot: The film set in post-WWII Germany and focuses on a warcrime trial of the former lover of a law student Michael Berg nearly a decade after his affair with the older woman ended.

One day after the Pride March in Manhattan, Commissioner James O'Neill declined to apologize on behalf of the New York Police Department for the nearly four - decades - old clash that sparked the gay rights movement.

Suffolk County has agreed to pay $ 1.5 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of a 17 - year - old girl who was killed in a car crash involving two police officers nearly a decade ago.

More than half the new funding would go toward meeting a nearly decade - old court order that found the state has traditionally underfunded its schools in needy districts.

One day after the Pride March in Manhattan, Commissioner James O'Neill declined on Monday to apologize on behalf of the New York Police Department for the nearly four - decades - old clash that sparked the gay rights movement.

De Blasio and Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner are set to release a joint statement Monday calling on Cuomo and the Legislature to use a state budget surplus on a sizable downpayment to meet the terms a nearly decade - old court decision saying the state has shortchanged its schools.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner are set to release a joint statement today calling on Cuomo and the Legislature to use a state budget surplus on a sizable downpayment to meet the terms the nearly decade - old CFE court decision saying the state has shortchanged its schools.

De Blasio and Miner are set to release a joint statement today calling on Cuomo and the Legislature to use a state budget surplus to make a sizable down payment to meet the terms of a nearly decade - old court decision saying the state has shortchanged its schools.

Organizers of the annual Little Italy event the Feast of San Gennaro plan to ask City Hall to rescind a nearly two - decade - old gambling ban instituted by then - Mayor Rudy Giuliani at the height of his crusade against organized crime.

Trump dismissed a published copy of an IRS filing that showed he used the U.S. tax code to take a nearly $ 1 billion operating loss in 1995, saying the news media is «obsessed» with a decades» old return and that he, in fact, «brilliantly used the law» to salvage his real estate empire.

LOWER EAST SIDE — In the nearly two decades since 6 - year - old Elisa Izquierdo was murdered by her mother on the Lower East Side, Dalia Soto has thought about the case every day.

The verdict capped a dramatic fall from grace for the 71 - year - old Silver, one of the state's most powerful officials during his 21 years in the Speaker's chair and nearly four decades in the Assembly.

Nearly 200 mourners, including a Who's Who of political heavyweights, gathered at St. Benedict the Moor Church in St. Albans Friday to honor the 89 - year - old Democratic district leader for her decades of service.

Dozen of marriage equality supporters gathered Wednesday evening to react to the Supreme Court's decision that the nearly two decade old Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, is unconstitutional.

The senator said at the age of 63 and after nearly four decades of government service she wanted to spend more time with her family, including taking care of her 88 year - old mother.

«We do continue to oppose an unlimited look - back for decades - old claims because it would open institutions up to claims going back to the 1950s and»60s or earlier, which are nearly impossible to properly defend due to the passage of time,» Poust said.

The discovery nearly two decades ago of nine beautifully articulated vertebrae at Big Bend National Park is shedding new light on a 66 million - year - old sauropod native to Texas and the North American southwest called Alamosaurus sanjuanensis.

The study, out of Duke University, analyzed the health of nearly one thousand 38 - year - olds and found that some resembled people a decade older while others appeared years younger (SN: 8/8/15, p. 10).

Prime Minister Stephen Harper — who has been in office nearly a decade and is derided by environmentalists for his climate and pro-oil positions — is in an intense political fight against Justin Trudeau, the 43 - year - old leader of the Liberal Party and son of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

Photo detective work could solve an enigma nearly nine decades old.