Sentences with phrase «often last decades»

Whilst correctly installed roofs will often last decades — and in the case of natural slate, a lifetime — it is often assumed that they require zero maintenance or attention.

Not exact matches

Mali was once considered to be among the few bright spots on an often - grim continent, but over the last decade it has seen a gradual erosion of stability.

Over the following decade, Congress repeatedly passed legislation — often at the last possible moment — to temporarily «patch» the AMT by increasing the AMT exemption amount.

Canada's banking and mortgage system is often seen as more resilient than America's was last decade.

Hooray for the hand - crank - I've had my Marcato Atlas for more than 2 decades and I use it often (just last night, in fact, to roll out sheets for spaghetti alla chitarra).

Unfortunately for us fans, no league has locked its players out as often as this one over the last two decades — 1,698 regular - season games lost, more than major league baseball, the NBA and the NFL combined.

As you'll see in this timeline, over the last few decades athletes were all too often punished by teams, leagues and the law for the use of cannabis.

The top four teams of the last two decades, Chelsea, Arsenal, Man City, and Man U have a total of six players on the England side while Tottenhamd most often found patrolling the 5th through 7th spots, and Liverpool, who has enjoyed similar success in the Premier League era, had 5 players each in the national team.

A little trickier, since membership for many of these has often been fluid over the last decade, which makes rivalries harder to group.

Though Tranter often praises today's park district in comparison to Kelly's, park officials tend to view Tranter and her group as relentless critics who fail to appreciate the progress parks have made during the last two decades.

Research over the last decade shows that these young fathers spend time with their children and give money to their children's mothers, even though the financial arrangements often don't go through the courts.

And in the last two decades, the 56 - year - old litigator often has been credited with steering the Arlington Heights village board toward resolutions on the everyday issues before the governing body.

Despite these recommendations, the prevalence of supine positioning has remained stagnant for the last decade.71 One of the most common reasons that parents and caregivers cite for not placing infants supine is fear of choking or aspiration in the supine position.72, — , 80 Parents often misconstrue coughing or gagging, which is evidence of a normal protective gag reflex, for choking or aspiration.

In the United Kingdom over the last decade, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) was often unsympathetic to the creation of more mutually - owned businesses.

The group's previous iterations in Iraq during the last decade faced similar adversity and it has often been able to make use of political instability to re-emerge as a major threat.

Chinese companies have been successful in securing contracts all over Africa in the last decade, often beating their western rivals to secure the deal.

Over the last decade I've often drawn inspiration from his account of the trials he faced and recounted in It's Not About the Bike.

Buchwald should get credit for the reform said Horner, who noted that loss of a pension can affect convicted officials for decades, while a prison term often lasts only a few years.

We believe that there are big political arguments to be had between the left and the right of politics, and the left has every reason to be confident about our values and ideas, which have done much to change Britain for the better over the last century and which are in the ascendancy internationally after three decades in which anti-government arguments have often dominated.

(The agency has fallen short over the last decade, often to the tune of $ 2 to $ 3 million per year.)

The development of targeted therapies has significantly improved the survival of melanoma patients over the last decade; however, patients often relapse because many therapies do not kill all of the tumor cells, and the remaining cells adapt to treatment and become resistant.

In the last decade, chemists have worked to develop reusable catalysts that separate out from the end products without the help of other often - toxic and waste - generating chemicals.

Although many technological improvements have been made to both grape growing and winemaking over the last few decades, climate is often the wild card in determining year - to - year variations in quality.

Spider silks often display strong mechanical properties [1] and have been studied extensively during the last five decades.

But in the last four decades scientists have discovered that, in most species, females mate with multiple males, and that paternity of offspring in a single brood is often mixed.

Over the last decade, it has been most often used to perform in utero repair of a myelomeningocele defect in select candidates.

I often see the warming trend of the last few decades explained away as «It's the PDO» or something similar.

Over the last decade, wellness expert and author Amie Valpone has gathered such an incredible amount of knowledge about wellness and detoxing that she can often see a clear path for others who are dealing with unwanted symptoms.

Over the last two decades, LargeAndLovely.com has introduced thousands of men and women across the globe, but the team doesn't often hear back from couples once they've walked off into the sunset together.

With the increase in the divorce rate over the last few decades, men and women who are newly single often find that their social community is made up of almost entirely couples (most of whom also know the ex, and therefore may feel uncomfortable about being seen to «take sides»).

Over the last few decades men from all over the world have become very interested in searching for Russian brides, often referred to as hot russian brides.

Known for complex narratives that often concern a network of characters engaging with the mediation of identity, truth and history, Egoyan's work over the last decade plus applies these concerns to a variety of film subjects, as well as installations, plays and operas.

Perhaps no movie has been played more often on television over the last decade (where would we be without TBS?).

There have been so many superhero movies released in the last decade or so that the question often pops up, what exactly are the best superhero movies to date?

Franco's ubiquity as an actor, screenwriter, and director over the last decade has resulted in an almost endless stream of bored, indifferent performances, often to the detriment if not of Franco's seemingly unstoppable career, then whatever film he happened to appear in that particular month.

Penn hasn't traditionally dabbled in the action genre very often in his decades - long career, and his last major role was the disappointing Gangster Squad.

This year's Director Tribute recipient, Oliver Stone, is a true visionary whose prolific career as director, writer, and producer has given us some of the most influential, iconic, and often controversial films of the last few decades.

While Day - Lewis has picked his parts carefully over the last few decades, Oldman has often vacuumed up whatever was available, happy to pay the bills instead of guarding the reputation.

Over the last decade or so (possibly even less than that), one trend in Hollywood has been planning ahead (often too far ahead).

Almost three decades later, during her last years in the classroom, math instruction had become a team effort, with her school's math instructors meeting often to discuss topics, sharing lesson plans, and developing common assessments to make sure everyone was on the same page.

During the last decade, we've documented how online learning — often in the form of blended learning — is an innovation with disruptive potential to transform our antiquated, seat - time - based education system.

An often overlooked and unappreciated innovation over the last decade is the advancement of design.

While many Catholic schools have closed, consolidated, or suffered financial hardship over the last few decades [v], Cristo Rey Schools are Catholic schools that have often succeeded in many important ways, expanding to 32 high schools this past year.

I've interviewed hundreds of people over the last decade about how schools in the United States often choose to structure time.

Although more studies could be cited and the list of positive effects lengthened somewhat, studies of the last decade, often with improved methodologies, tend to confirm the general characteristics identified by the work on effective schools.

If we've learned anything from the last two decades of school reform, it is that education reform is hard, uncertain, and often frustrating work.

Often over the last decade, they were on the phone together or exchanging e-mail messages half a dozen times a day.

Call to Action An often overlooked and unappreciated innovation over the last decade is the advancement of design.

Since Chrysler spent the last decade building products that often were mediocre at best, it was difficult to imagine the company succeeding in a more competitive, lower - volume market.

Times have changed radically in the last decade... even more so, the past few years — today's author has to be prepared to work their butt off to get his book noticed by the media, the public, you name it; they often are disconnected from the editor who «acquired» the book and the one that does the editing; and advances have shrunk, even disappeared (many authors work for far less than minimum wage).