Sentences with phrase «say years or decades»

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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.

That said, the long - term implications of bailouts, tax shortfalls and lack of budget discipline is likely to be significant inflation pressure beginning about 4 years or so out, and continuing for the remainder of the decade.

Through 24 years of living all I can TRULY say for sure now is that I KNOW there is a GOD and I always will, but his role and the role of others keep changing every few decades or so, before you know they are going to be proposed GAY biblical icons and then I'm through with Christianity all together.

The Free Methodist Church USA issued a press statement confirming that the 71 - year - old — who has spent decades as a missionary — had been released, though it did not say whether or not a ransom was paid.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

With a third of rural priests set to retire in the next ten years, Marshall says the next decade is «make or break» for rural churches.

I also make decisions by saying to myself, «If you knew you had only a year or only a decade to live, would you do this?»

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

If you were a party girl before, or used to be the life of every event you went to, you might as well say goodbye to them for the next few months (or years, no wait, make that a decade or two).

A real - time electronic poll of BME teachers attending the seminar found that: 78 % do not think the work and contribution of BME teachers is recognised and valued by schools; 58 % do not think treatment of BME teachers has improved in the last decade; Only 36 % feel outcomes for BME pupils have improved in the last decade; 98 % feel that racism continues to be a serious problem in the UK today; 53 % do not see themselves still being in the teaching profession in the next five years, with 31 % saying they are planning to change career and the rest saying they plan to retire or take a break from the profession.

«Even in the years of plenty over the last decade or so with a lot of government money going into areas of the north - east, north - west and where I am an MP South Yorkshire, we still have not been able to shift that divide,» he said.

The state Senate's Ethics Committee doesn't appear to have met or pondered a bill in at least five years, though other Capitol watchers say its inaction reaches back two decades.

The Democrat and Chronicle says Cuomo's plan to pardon people convicted of nonviolent crimes while they were 16 or 17 years old and have stayed out of legal trouble for a decade «is a good step for New York and a potential new start for former juvenile offenders.»

But the church, along with organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, has said a one - year look - back period would open the floodgates to litigation against organizations that could have to defend themselves in cases involving alleged abusers who have been dead or retired for years or decades.

«Today I call on Gov. [Andrew M.] Cuomo to tell the people of New York without any equivocation whether he supports a yes or a no vote on the Constitutional Convention referendum this Election Day,» said Bill Samuels, a major campaign contributor for decades who created an advocacy group to hold a constitutional convention next year.

«You would need to travel about seven times as long as Starshot's 20 - year mission, but in return you would get years or decades of close - up exploration instead of only seconds,» Heller says.

In addition, neither condition emerges in the first years of life, but rather both appear years or even decades later, says senior author Dr. Arturas Petronis, head of the Krembil Family Epigenetics Laboratory in the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

«Cooler North Atlantic ocean temperatures and less summer blocking activity might slow down Greenland melt for a few years or even a couple decades, but it would not help us in the long run,» said Osterberg.

Bowen says the two relatively rapid carbon releases (about 1,500 years each) are more consistent with warming oceans or an undersea landslide triggering the melting of frozen methane on the seafloor and large emissions to the atmosphere, where it became carbon dioxide within decades.

Our models say it will be less stable, but any future collapse remains years or decades away.»

«Right under our noses, in the same place that a team might have looked a decade earlier, or even just a year earlier, a new assemblage of plants and animals may be taking hold,» Gotelli says.

«If we were to begin to reduce man - made emissions this year,» NOAA's Feely says, «it would take decades before we'd see CO2 levels and acidity start to go down instead of up and hundreds or thousands of years to return to preindustrial levels.»

Analyses conducted over the last decade in the U.S., Canada, England, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark suggest that «a 75 - to 85 - year - old has a lower risk of having Alzheimer's today than 15 or 20 years ago,» says Langa, who discussed the research on falling dementia rates in a 2015 Alzheimer's Research & Therapy commentary (pdf).

«Some patients may experience metastatic relapse within months, other patients may go several years or even decades without distant recurrence,» Bissell says.

After decades of work, physicists say they are a year or two away from detecting ripples in spacetime

But the next big earthquake could be years or decades from now, he said.

«The noteworthy increase in the annual rate of heroin abuse or dependence among non-Hispanic Whites parallels the significant increase in nonmedical opioid use during the last decade and the growing number of heroin overdose deaths described for this race and ethnic group in recent years,» said Martins.

However, Goddard said the results don't fully show the slowdown has disappeared when comparing the past 15 years to the decades preceding that period and that understanding the natural fluctuations in climate on a year - to - year (or even decade - to - decade) basis provides important context to the warming trends driven by carbon dioxide.

Over the 150 years, polar bear attacks averaged eight or nine per decade, Atwood says, but from 2010 to 2014 alone there were 15.

«For reasons we're still trying to understand... we see single sites of metastatic disease develop over years or, in some cases, decades,» says Swanton.

«Especially when we talk about investing in science and innovation, where the fruits of those investments may take years or even decades to materialize, we need to make sure that we have a data infrastructure in place to document and evaluate their outcomes,» said Li.

Bruton said that study would be a good first step in an effort that promises to take years or even decades.

Human expeditions to Mars are expected within two or three decades, and Elon Musk of Space X previously said he wants to help the human race to establish a permanent, self - sustaining colony on Mars within the next 50 to 100 years.

Climate scientists would say in response that changes in ocean circulation can't sustain a net change in global temperature over such a long period (ENSO for example might raise or lower global temperature on a timescale of one or two years, but over decades there would be roughly zero net change).

When the paddocks were built decades ago, says Gread, there was enough water to plant crops year round, flooding the paddock, and then allowing the water to drain onto poor ground or into groundwater.

When an iceberg might break off is anybody's guess — it could happen in months, or it could take years — though any ice shelf collapse would likely take decades, experts say.

Researchers say that childhood obesity could reduce life expectancy by five years or more over the next decades.

After researching the science of lipids, cholesterol, heart disease, and nutrition for nearly eight decades, Dr. Fred Kummerow — now nearly 100 years old — has a thing or two to say about the matter.

I followed your workout plan for a decade.2 years ago i was burnt over 30 % of my body and with that lost 98 lbs, heartbreaking as u might imagine.My main question is what reps.should i use 10 -8-6 or 12 -10-8, my muscles r weak.I have to say you have become an amazing specimen, will u ever stop growing LOL.Thanks Jay and keep it up!

It found the proportion of Americans who say that they met their current partner online has doubled in the last eight years to six percent of Internet users, up from three percent in 2005 the last decade, 11 percent said that their spouse or partner is someone they met online, the Pew researchers said.

Looking only at those committed relationships that started within the last decade, 11 % say that their spouse or partner is someone they met online.14 By contrast, hardly any relationships that have existed for more than ten years had their genesis online: just 1 % of Americans who have been in a committed relationship for more than ten years met their spouse or partner online.

Here's a very common scenario — and dilemma — for many men and women in midlife: Let's say you were married for a few years, or even decades Coping With Your Husbands Midlife Crisis.

The sacred element of marriage has changed dramatically over the decades, it doesn't hold the same tradition or relevance it once did, but there are those out there who have been married for several years, but «Hope Springs» addresses the concept of being «happily married», a term that is thrown around all too frequently these days, Kay (Meryl Streep) and Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) are said couple, married for 31 years as Arnold keeps reminding us, reminding us because Kay knows the spark is gone, and Arnold uses this fun fact to remind her, just because the number is there doesn't mean it's a happy one.

It is one minute and 35 seconds, but it says more than most people say in years, decades or even in a lifetime.

More than 70 percent of public school parents said that they believed the scores will likely be the same or higher than previous years» scores on the completely different California Standards Tests that students had been taking for over a decade.

«It's not one of those things that matters a lot in any given year, but over a couple decades or generation or two, it matters a great deal,» Zandi says.

With that being said, I want to lay out my argument for why I believe that the bull market we've seen is set to run for years to come — maybe even a decade or longer.

Cats that live in the wild or indoor pets allowed to roam outdoors kill from 1.4 billion to as many as 3.7 billion birds in the continental U.S. each year, says a new study that escalates a decades - old debate over the feline threat to native animals.

EUTHANIZE EVERY SINGLE FERAL CAT ASAP Image result for CATS KILL BIRDSwww.sciencenews.org Cats that live in the wild or indoor pets allowed to roam outdoors kill from 1.4 billion to as many as 3.7 billion birds in the continental U.S. each year, says a new study that escalates a decades - old debate over the feline threat to native animals.Jan 29, 2013 Cats kill up to 3.7 B birds annually - USA Today https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/29/cats-wild-birds.../1873871/ How many birds are killed by house cats?

Over all, the scientists say there is now a 57 to 71 percent chance of a temblor of magnitude 6 or greater within a decade, and about a one - in - four chance of a quake greater than 7.0 within 30 years.