Sentences with phrase «of years and decades»

As with most whole life policies, the cash value can grow substantially over the course of years and decades.

The presence of internally arising regularities in the climate system with periods of years and decades suggests the need for a different null hypothesis.

The presence of internally arising regularities in the cli - mate system with periods of years and decades suggests the need for a different null hypothesis.

However, some of the mechanisms for exchange between the compartments have rate constants of years and decades.

Exposure to asbestos is dangerous in part because it does not cause obvious irritation; contamination manifests itself over the course of years and decades, not days.

His truest function is revealed in terms of years and decades, as he watches children grow, marries them, and teaches their children in turn, and as he stands beside loved ones around the deathbed of a patriarch whom he has come to admire and respect.

A man counts in terms of years and decades.

Much of the worry of that year and the decades that followed was about the growing number of nuclear weapons that both super powers were amassing.

Not exact matches

After five years of negotiations, handwringing, and pushback, the biggest trade deal in more than two decades, known as the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP), has now been finalized.

Over the next three years, the Canadian Tire analysts will study decades worth of competition results dating back to the 1930s, and dissect any insights out of the data as possible, writes Marketing's Jered Stuffco.

As a fundamental component of the economy, entrepreneurs should have not only a day, but a month, a year and even a decade dedicated to them.

The drywall company he had owned and operated since he was 20 years old — employing dozens of people over decades of hard work — shriveled.

Games have consequently ballooned in scope over the decades to the point where they typically require $ 100 - million budgets, teams of hundreds and several years to produce.

Over the past decade, public stock markets have outperformed the average venture capital fund and for 15 years, VC funds have failed to return to investors the significant amounts of cash invested, despite high - profile successes, including Google, Groupon and LinkedIn.

Thiel Fellow and 19 - year - old Harvard drop - out Connor Zwick will explain the «democratization of hardware over the next decade» that led him to leave school and found Milkshake Labs, which is building a game controller for smartphones.

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.

I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

The ECB, however, said after its latest policy - making meeting Thursday that it still doesn't expect to raise its own interest rates until «well past» September next year — and even then, only if it is absolutely sure that inflation is back on track after a decade of undershooting.

I'm not sure that in the past year or, honestly, in the past decade or two, there has been a single deal that will be regarded as a more impactful transaction across multiple industries and the entire omni - channel economy than Amazon's recently announced acquisition of Whole Foods.

The number of actual tickets sold in 2015 was essentially flat compared to the previous five years and the number was down by about 2.5 % from a decade earlier.

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.

It should have: It was this scrappy, five - man team of mechanical engineers that first caught on to the German giant's emissions - cheating ways, kicking off the biggest business scandal of the year (and possibly the decade).

In 2016, women got just 2.19 % of venture capital funding — a smaller piece of the pie than in every year this past decade, with the exception of 2008 and 2012.

«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»

Meanwhile, Behan, 48, and Jaime Gifford, 51, who are in their 10th year of living aboard Totem, a Stevens 47, logged decades of sailing experience prior to setting off on their journey in 2008.

CNBC's Mike Santoli reports on the lag in small - caps and value stocks despite the market having one of the best starts to the year in more than a decade.

Sure, it's been more than two decades since he rewrote the rules of hip - hop with The Chronic and 15 years since he released a new album, but the man born Andre Young remains ubiquitous in popular culture.

This year's Tony hosting slot finally went to Kevin Spacey, the decorated actor who has since been disgraced by allegations of sexual harassment and assault from men dating back decades.

That's a major global program where they're spending trillions of dollars a year and trying to build this program out for the next decade.

Last year's prize in the category went to composer Dun Yu's album «Angel's Bone,» and the past several decades of awards in the category have largely gone to instrumental LPs.

It simply tells you what the future is going to look like in 10 years and reminds you that we are actually in the most creative decade of world history.

The high - powered jetpack was 40 years in the making, the culmination of millions of dollars spent and decades of trial and error by Mayman and his business partner, Nelson Tyler.

The film, which will be released on Dec. 15 of this year, will pick up after the action of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the franchise's huge 2015 release that shattered box office records and marked the space opera's return to theaters for the first time in a decade.

A decade ago, the 53 - year - old chairman and CEO of Toronto - based marketing holding company MDC Partners invested heavily in tech - savvy agencies staffed with creative entrepreneurs that scoffed at the lumbering dinosaurs of the traditional ad world.

And some of those decades - old products are cutting edge compared with drywall, which has been made roughly the same way for 115 years.

Just over half of S&P 500 companies had the same CEO and chairman last year, down from 71 % a decade ago, according to executive search firm Spencer Stuart.

Over the last two decades of building and running businesses, and the last couple of years working full time with dozens of startup founders and CEOs on their strategies and funding plans in my consultancy business, I have observed that there are a common set of reasons that startups struggle and fail, and a consistent set of factors that make startup companies successful.

Looking at the number of options awarded by S&P 500 companies for the roughly two decades between 1992 and 2010, they found about 20 % of the time boards simply kept the number of options they granted to their top executive the same from one year to the next.

The value of Canadian gas exports last year fell to $ 13.1 billion, from a peak of $ 35.6 billion in 2005, and analysts project the U.S. will become a net gas exporter within a decade.

Working out of a dozen corrugated - metal buildings in a dismal windblown patch of desert in Mojave, 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, it has rolled out 26 new types of manned aircraft in 30 years, many of them rule - breaking and innovative; most big aerospace contractors, by contrast, struggle to get a single new aircraft out in an entire decade.

Traders are suddenly worried about interest rates (although anyone older than 30 has to be amused that 2.85 % on the Treasury 10 - year is a source of panic), worried about inflation (although after the last decade of stagnant wages, Friday's 2.9 % rise should be cheered, not jeered), and worried about a tax - fueled spike in growth (with this report from Powell's Atlanta colleagues leading the way.)

But it is widely held that all such technical hurdles have now been erased and that later this year a challenge that began over a decade ago will finally spell the end for the protection of the Washington Redskin's federal trademark.

Home ownership has experienced the biggest decline in two decades, and the number of renting households has been growing by about 700,000 a year since 2006.

Rick George, who helped pioneer Canada's oil - sands industry during two decades at the helm of Suncor Energy Inc., died on Tuesday after a year - and - a-half battle against acute myeloid leukemia.

Waugh says the constant travel and punishing hours of the past two decades were not easy on his wife of 38 years, Lynne, or their three sons, now in their late 20s and early 30s.

In the past half - decade, the company that started making tractors for Italian farmers more than 55 years ago has unveiled the $ 242,300 Huracán — known for its smoother, sleeker (more affordable) demeanor behind the wheel — and the $ 200,000 Urus, its first SUV since the LM002 went out of production decades ago.

(Repeats to additional subscribers) NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuters)- The U.S. benchmark 10 - year Treasury yield topped 3 percent for the first time in more than four years on Tuesday, a milestone that reflects the durability of the U.S. economic expansion and stokes the view the three - decade - old bull market in bonds is numbered.

Last year, the CDC found that U.S. life expectancy had actually dropped for the first time in more than two decades to an average of 78.8 years and that every major leading cause of death other than cancer was killing more people.

And Toronto's culture of entrepreneurship has evolved light - years ahead of where it was just a decade ago.

Kevin Eichelberger, chief executive officer and founder of Blue Acorn, an ecommerce agency in Charleston, SC., reminds us that we've had thousands of years to perfect brick and mortar sales and only a few decades for ecommerce.