Sentences with phrase «people over a period of decades»

They abandoned their Christianity gradually, as a result of many decisions made by many people over a period of decades.

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And so what better place to teach persons personally than in a congregation where you have access to everything that makes up their personhood — their families, their work, the weather, their neighborhood, their sins, their stories — and over a period of years, sometimes decades.

If you took a hundred people and randomly had them fully buy into the market over a decade period, some of those people will do very well (relative to the rest) while others will do very poorly (relatively).

In contrast, if you look at a list of top performers over a period of a decade or two, the top spots usually belong to people who invest much as we do — who look at all the excruciating detail and temper it with a consistent blend of diversification and common sense.

Student loan debt has soared from $ 260 billion in 2004 to $ 1.4 trillion in 2017; average debt jumped from $ 18,650 to $ 38,000 over that same period; and the number of people over 60 with student loan debt has quadrupled in the last decade from 700,000 to 2.8 million.

By the way, there is sort of an analogy here to the stock market: It is often noted by the sort of people who write mutual fund reports that if you just missed a few short periods of time in the market over the last few decades (e.g., say, the N best weeks where N is a fairly small number), you would have missed out on nearly all of the stock market gains.

Very few people know much about how electricity rates work, where their rates have been, or where they likely to go over a period of decades.

In her 2015 book Women and Justice for the Poor: A History of Legal Aid, 1863 - 1945, Felice Batlan unveils an otherwise unknown but exceptionally rich history of how free legal assistance was provided to poor and disadvantaged persons, and, in particular, to poor and disadvantaged women in the United States, over a period of decades.

It's estimated that direct spending by the federal government would increase by $ 130 million over the next decade, and Medicaid spending would increase by $ 650 million in that same time period thanks to the cost of raising a child and, since many low - income people use Planned Parenthood services, the social safety net costs that would have to be provided.