Sentences with phrase «only about a decade»

Facebook, on the other hand, is only about a decade old and represents the American economy's shift away from manufacturing goods to the creation of software and ideas.

But it lasted for only about a decade before people once again forgot about the threat beneath their feet.

The effort, as yet confined to animal studies, is only about a decade old but has become one of the hottest areas of neuroscience research because it promises a more precise understanding of the hugely complex network of cells in the brain.

While methane persists for only about a decade before breaking down, other gases, such as the chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), can persist in the atmosphere for hundreds or even tens of thousands years.

In use for only about a decade, optogenetic technology combines techniques from optics and genetics, allowing scientists to precisely control activities of individual neurons using light.

Born in Havana in 1915, Herrera's only about a decade into mainstream recognition of her painting, though she's been at it for nearly 80 years.

He further complicates things because he painted for only about a decade — 1950 to ’60 — before moving on to making unclassifiable, jam - packed assemblages during the rise of Minimalism, Pop Art and Color Field painting.

Atmospheric bomb tests show the true t 1/2 of all [CO2] atm is only about a decade.

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«There's only so many people who want to Twitter about Gossip Girl or whatever,» says Shelley Smit, Universal McCann Canada's managing director who also served as Labatt's director of media and sponsorships for a decade.

A recent Statistics Canada Megatrends report suggests migration to Canada has accounted for the bulk of population growth since about 1999, and is only going to get more important in the coming decades:

For decades, automobiles have been gathering data about their own internal systems, yet that information has typically been locked away from drivers; only mechanics armed with special hardware have been able to access it.

The film alleges that the COS was only declared tax - exempt by the IRS after it waged a decades - long campaign against the agency, which included filing dozens of lawsuits against both the organization and individual IRS workers, and hiring private investors and fake journalists to dig up incriminating information about individual IRS workers.

For decades, men have had only two ways to actively avoid impregnating a partner: wear a condom (which are about 85 % effective) or get a vasectomy.

Countless books and articles were written about it, but only «The Smartest Guys in the Room» holds up a decade later as the definitive narrative.

«It's ludicrous to talk about an end to a supercycle that only started a decade ago,» Gartman told the Financial Times in August.

Over the past decade, virus - writers worldwide have created and released about 80,000 viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other «malware» programs, according to Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for antivirus software vendor Sophos Inc. (www.sophos.com) And about 600 to 800 new variations crop up every month, although, typically, only a few cause widespread or serious headaches.

However, in my three decades of experience coupled with reading about markets before my time, the only strategy that I see standing the test of time is to buy solid blue chip dividend - paying stocks from diverse industries, hold them for the long term, and diversify them properly with a judicious allocation to bonds and cash.

The founder of Vanguard Group thinks a conservative portfolio of bonds will only return about 3 percent a year over the next decade, and stocks won't do much better.

When he had to squeeze extra floors into a new building, he called Sandy Lindenbaum, a zoning - law guru who called himself «the last of the gunslingers»; when he needed the New Jersey Casino Control Commission to see things his way, he turned to Atlantic City fixture Nick Ribis; when he wanted to divorce Ivana (and, later on, her successor, Marla Maples), he retained Jay Goldberg, a self - described «killer» who says he can «rip skin off a body»; when it was tax time, he reversed decades of bragging about his billions and had tax attorneys say his properties were worth only a fraction of what he had publicly proclaimed (an ongoing tax appeal in Chicago declares Trump Tower Chicago «a failed business»); when he was in the market for a troubleshooter, he hired Michael Cohen, who has threatened journalists who've written about Trump with bodily harm.

The graybeards at the ACA conference all agreed that a decade ago, there were only about 20 angel groups in North America.

Based on the valuation measures most strongly correlated with actual subsequent total returns (and those correlations are near or above 90 %), we continue to estimate that the S&P 500 will achieve zero or negative nominal total returns over horizons of 8 years or less, and only about 2 % annually over the coming decade.

SEO has been around for decades, but only since the early 2000s has the search engine giant, Google, taken measures to make SEO more about the web user's experience than following specific formulas to make one's website rank high in search results.

For the standard 60/40, that means 40 % of our invested wealth will only return about 2 % a year over the next decade.

I find it amazing that almost every organized religion during that time was at least partially, if not fully involved in bigotry toward blacks, including outright banning them from their membership and congretations altogether (which Mormans have never done), but only Mormons are still chided constantly about their history with blacks, despite the fact that black members have had full benefits for almost four decades, and despite the fact that Mormons have been actively proselyting and doing charitable missionary work in Africa for over 160 years.

But while those investments were supposed to total an extra $ 60 billion over the next decade, only about $ 17.4 billion was earmarked for the next four years.

And even the number of meteorite falls is about one hundred times what it was only a few decades ago.

They not only challenge the consensus of several decades but also suggest the historical conditioning of Holiness theology, raise questions about the varieties of theologies in the New Testament, and focus issues about the historical and theological relationships between Holiness and Pentecostal traditions.

If you look at the resurrection there are only close associates as supposed «eye witnesses,» unless you count the highly supicious 500 people that Paul, at least I think it was Paul, talks about several years, if not decades later.

Jerusalem was taken by Christian forces at the end of the First Crusade in 1099, but Western control of the city was short - lived — lasting only about 90 years — and Muslims consistently routed the crusaders in the decades and centuries to follow.

I think being written only a few decades after these events is about as good a deal as you can get w / ancient history; same goes for finding early 2nd century samples of m in Egypt.

Serious brain science around meditation has emerged only in about the last decade, since the birth of functional MRI allowed scientists to begin watching the brain and monitoring its changes in relatively real time.

What odd items the mind latches onto in moments of grief: the tilt of a friend's head, the way he used his hands when he spoke, an awful meal shared a decade back, a conversation about a book only a little while ago.

So I am deeply concerned about the impact the Supreme Court's ruling might have on faith - based or other educational institutions — including schools from grades K - 12, colleges, universities, theological seminaries and graduate schools — that hold to natural or conjugal marriage, which has only come into question within the past decade.

We can have a good life in the decades ahead only if we broaden our circles of caring far beyond our marriages and our family, to care for and about the whole earth and its peoples.

It's only in the past decade or so, and about the same time I moved to bigger city churches, that this other view started to come into favour.

«I received an email from a business school about a year ago who wanted to know about champagne pricing over the decades and they told me the Sherry - Lehmann catalog is the only record that exists.»

City slickers have no option to buy it raw in town because in that form buckwheat is only good for about 24 months vacuum packed at best, yet in roasted form it will be good for decades.

Alexis, If you seriously think that, apart from the occasional exception, Arsenal are either motivated by Wenger or self motivated, then you have been ignoring not only the legendary soft underbelly we have had for about the last decade, which is universal accepted as the awful truth throughout the Prem world, by our ex-players, other top ex player pundits and virtually all our own fans too.

But it's worth remembering in his two decades in North London it was never Arsene's chosen way to play and only came about as our back 4 had a crisis of confidence.

I apologize to every @ss hat on this page I ever said quit dreaming to over the last decade +4 (I've only been coming here six years) about chuckys return... i never thought he would.

If this sport was only about entertainment, then we'd have won the league 6 or 7 times over the last decade, as our on - field and off - field antics have given the media enough ammo to last the remainder of the millennium.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

No wonder every ex-Wenger player only has good things to say about their former boss, because we know he barely even shouts at anyone, gives them too much freedom on the pitch, and gives players almost limitless opportunities to impress, even if that means keeping a player at the club for decade just to get one or two good seasons out of them.

The Tigers had gone just 14 - 9 in Danny Ford's first two seasons, and while there was some optimism — they had their most experienced team in years, and Clemson fans are always optimistic about the coming year — they had only finished ranked twice in two decades, and they were unranked to begin the year.

Not only have the player and the club just agreed a bumper new long term contract extension, and without too much wrangling at that, but the Frenchman has been talking very warmly to Arsenal Player about Theo's development since joining Arsenal almost a decade ago.

I don't know about the rest of you Arsenal fans, but I am still scratching my head trying to figure out just what the hell Arsene Wenger was thinking by only completing the one bargain basement transfer deal on the January window, despite the club being sat on a mountain of cash and having our best chance of the Premier League title in a decade put at risk by losing a number of key players to injury.

Over the past decade plus, the under has received the majority of bets only about 15 % of the time.

The sporting press, after ignoring steroids for decades, even turning on one of their own for writing about Mark McGwire's use of androstenedione in 1998, * made a sudden 180 - degree turn only a few years later.

Hail Marys are thrown short of the goal line all the time; Tennessee losses to Kentucky, on the other hand, only come about once a decade.

So, Shaquille O'Neal was a guest on Jimmy Fallon's show recently, and spent some time hanging out with Fallon's house band, The Roots, only to find out about some decades - old sabotage.