Sentences with phrase «over a couple of decades»

What I've learned over a couple of decades and several thousand births is that times have changed and I've changed with them.

A lot can go wrong over a couple of decades.

During his career that spans over a couple of decades, he has worked in a variety of traditional media, much as painting, printmaking, drawing and sculpture.

I want to keep working at solving the problem that, notwithstanding the great efforts we've made in Massachusetts over a couple of decades in setting high goals, measuring progress, holding people accountable, and investing and building the capacity of the system to deliver, we've still been — however successful we've been comparatively — unsuccessful at: closing persistent achievement gaps.

Be that as it may, the point of this talk is to argue against the proposition that a particular type of demand management policy was responsible for growth achieved over a couple of decades.

Its plot draws on France's chaotic political landscape during the early 1800's, with the Royalists and Bonaparte - ists being in favor and then out of favor over a couple of decades.

History shows, though, that if you follow an indexing strategy consistently over a couple of decades, you'll thrash the results of most professional investors while spending less than an hour a year monitoring your money.

The paintings are untitled and done over a couple of decades; I doubt Bleckner even knows when they were done, although the checklist provides a general idea.

Neither is sure to solve the problem; but $ 420 billion, spent wisely over a couple of decades, would certainly go a long way toward reducing the US's terrible level of greenhouse gas production.

To provide a meaningful response, I went back through a decade worth of notes from training practice group leaders, scrutinized the results from the psychometric data that I have had over 50 new managing partners complete as part of the First 100 Days Program, and reflected upon what I'd observed in working with hundreds of law firms over a couple of decades.

I think the greater harmonisation and streamlining over the couple of decades I have seen has all generally been a good thing.

Obviously trying each out over a couple of decades isn't possible, and as you quote Buffett «if past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians».

But, over a couple of decades, it would be a barely detectable deduction from growth in national income.