Sentences with phrase «of decades before it»

We know that GMAST underwent a substantial mid-century gyration where 20th century warming actually reversed for a couple of decades before accelerated upwards again but we do NOT know that ocean heat content underwent any such gyration.

As reported in a special meeting of the world's oldest scientific academy, Britain's Royal Society, in 2006, it is matter of decades before a natural disaster kills over one million people, in Tokyo, Teheran, Istanbul or any of the coastal megacities of the world.

Kramer didn't seem interested that Guston had painted figurative murals for a couple of decades before working in abstraction, and he made no connections between the new work and the old.

Added to which, he was reading for at least a couple of decades before TV was even invented, and rarely watched TV when he was in good health - so there seems little doubt which is likely to give him the most comfort.

For me, it would be the period in America during the early part of the 20th century, the first couple of decades before World War I. My grandmother was a great storyteller and that was the period of her youth.

So perhaps we should be grateful that he skipped the next couple of decades before picking the story up again, especially since the queen and her advisers still seem to be having the same conversation.

Unmanaged autoimmune diseases such as Hashimoto's hypothyroidism can slowly undermine your health and quality of life for years of decades before it is medically recognized.

The rigorous anti-modernism of the decades before Vatican II, however needed it may have been for a time, tried to let the winds of modernity into the Church only one purified breeze at a time.

Donna Olshan started her eponymous boutique residential brokerage in 1980, when it looked as if New York City real estate, if it ever did come back from the economic doldrums of the decade before, would certainly tarry.

I used the shit out of a $ 40 pancake compressor from there for the better part of a decade before the regulator gave out.

Employees felt the impact of this a decade before, as companies anticipated the drop in profits.

Yet, against all odds, it continued to operate on the PlayStation 2 for the better part of a decade before its lights were turned off.

His signature paintings of a decade before displayed skill, style, and above all a good ear.

Not exact matches

For more than two decades, Springboard's Millman has contended that we needed vast societal changes before we'd have masses of women building fast - growing companies, cracking the very top ranks of entrepreneurship.

A lot of women will have been working doggedly for at least a decade before we achieve these personal milestones.

Steven Pressfield was a struggling writer for nearly two decades before he published The Legend of Bagger Vance, which subsequently became a Hollywood hit starring Will Smith.

«If your approach is to just buy a bunch of reports to see what's going on in the marketplace, that's not as likely to get you a return on your market research dollars as a specific need,» says Robert Rubenstein, who spent three decades in the market research business at Canadian corporate heavyweights Molson Breweries and TD Canada Trust before recently founding his own startup, Horizn.

«However, it will be decades before they take a major share of the global energy supply.»

And reading transcripts from those halcyon days of a decade ago, before the U.S. crash, two things become readily apparent that may lend some insight to Poloz's situation — U.S. Federal Reserve officials were indeed worried about causing alarm.

In a decade, federal debt will reach an overwhelming $ 33 trillion, the equivalent of 113 % of GDP — and $ 6 trillion higher than the CBO had forecast before the Trump agenda passed.

That remains a lofty hurdle in a field where it can take decades of research and development before a team can enrol its first study participant.

That was remarkable, especially his description of having wasted two decades before he finally decided he was ready to grapple with some of those emotions.

In the decade following Katrina, I would write a book on the digitization of modern sexuality well before it was popular and co-found a platonic connection app that would kickstart an entire industry.

Before devoting herself to her business full time in 2012, Katie Stack spent a decade working in the costume departments of regional theaters.

This would come decades after American preclearance facilities were first placed at major Canadian airports, where travellers have long cleared customs before flying to the U.S., with the goal of reducing wait times at the back end.

The most recent projections, granted their tentativeness, nonetheless make clear that the highly desirable goal of paying off the federal debt is in reach before the end of the decade.

It won't be too long — a couple of decades at most, before individual car ownership starts to seem anachronistic.

May stunned investors by putting Hinkley on hold in July, just hours before a deal was to be signed, saying she needed time to assess the project under which French utility firm EDF would build Britain's first new nuclear reactor in decades, backed by $ 8 billion of Chinese cash.

A handle along the top of the camera is flanked by a grip sprouting out of the bottom, akin to Super 8 cameras from decades before it.

Before Rowland Hussey Macy opened his first of what would become hundreds of Macy's stores, he spent more than a decade launching four dry goods stores that would eventually go bust.

Flaherty enjoyed a remarkable career of public service, spending a decade in the Ontario legislature before moving to federal politics in 2006.

New entrepreneurs are inherently inexperienced, and getting the experience necessary to be successful either takes decades of firsthand ventures (and oftentimes, dozens of failures), or the coaching and mentorship of someone who has been there before.

Leading the effort has been Gary Boggs, who spent four decades as a DEA agent before joining McKesson in 2013 as the senior director of regulatory affairs, in the midst of the government's investigations into McKesson.

The mall - based mobile stores, at 1,400 square - feet only 3 % the size of a regular Best Buy, were opened a decade ago well before the smartphone boom ushered in by Apple's iPhone and when margins were higher.

Particularly striking is the mortality trend line for tuberculosis, which falls precipitously from 1838 onward — decades before the bacterium responsible for the disease was identified (1882), and long before the advent of the first effective antibiotic therapy, streptomycin.

Decades before we were able to articulate the value of «getting out of the building» and the Lean Startup, the value in having skunk works controlling their own distribution was starkly evident.

Sirius stock is enjoying its best run in more than a decade: It's up about about 45 % from its low of a year ago, and on Thursday it briefly hit $ 5.00 for the first time since 2006 before settling just under that mark.

But nothing else has had quite the same hold on consumers as sports programming, and the unwinding of that massive, decades - long value chain is going to cause a lot more pain before it is finished.

Research has determined that years — even decades — before a person might start showing symptoms, amyloid beta deposits in the brain that are characteristic of Alzheimer's disease can start to accumulate.

You might be tired of your current career after decades of effort, wanting to part ways before you burn out entirely, or you might be a youngster looking to get out of the workforce as early as possible.

Wonder Woman's symbolic value has been equivocal from the character's inception, decades before she first made the cover of Ms. Magazine.

«Automakers have been working to mitigate distraction in vehicles since we developed the first set of distraction guidelines in 2003 — years before this issue entered the broader public debate and a full decade before NHTSA published its guidelines for vehicles,» said the Alliance of Automotive Makers, an automotive trade group made up of 12 car and light truck manufacturers including BMW, Chrysler, Ford, GM and Toyota.

There have been seven, dating back to 2010 — eight if you include our designation of Steve Jobs as «CEO of the Decade» the year before.

Legislators from both sides of the aisle were receptive to this work, and were set to consider the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, called «the most significant anti-trafficking legislation to come before the Senate in over a decade.»

Many of the technological achievements in the last few decades were actually ideas prophetically described in science fiction literature long before they became a reality.

«Take rotten governments like the one in Egypt before the riots of 2011, supported by the United States for four decades in order to «avoid chaos,» he writes.

One example of the former might be cluing them into Caitlin Jenner's original rise to fame as an Olympic athlete, which came decades before her association with the Kardashians, or her highly - publicized gender transition this year.

Before becoming one of the world's best - known comic strip writers and authors, Scott Adams spent more than a decade in the corporate world, moving into management after being held at gunpoint twice while working as a teller.

«Before, you didn't get to be a CEO of a giant company without decades of corporate management experience, and you were rarely authorized to speak to the press,» Lucas says.

In the past decade, all best picture winners have grossed the far majority of their money before the Oscars were handed out.