Sentences with phrase «several decades before»

Incorporated in 1911, it served as a major manufacturing city for several decades before being eclipsed by the entertainment industry.

Cash - value guidelines grow eventually and it will be several decades before there is a significant available term plans with return of premium.

several decades before the EPA began work on its endangerment finding.

But the «big climate picture» includes ocean feedbacks on all time scales, carbon and other elemental cycles, etc. and it has to be several decades before that is sorted out I would think.

But, others now believe it will take several decades before these effects would become statistically significant.

Such a critique may arise from the argument that we need to wait several decades before we will know how reliable the predictions may be.

This takes a long time: it could be several decades before these ozone - destroying chemicals are rendered mostly harmless.

It would take several decades before enough data were gathered that the scientific community wholeheartedly endorsed plate tectonics.

It may take you several decades before you have enough money to retire.

If you've got several decades before you need that money, your risk profile can be on the high side, allowing you to put your money in more volatile, higher return investments that can be corrected over time.

It took several decades before the Muppets became the jovial mop - puppet hybrids we know and love today.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them takes place in the same wizarding world Harry Potter lives in — just several decades before.

Several decades before Disney's renaissance effort, the first feature filming of the story arrived in Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête), a 1946 French movie written and directed by Jean Cocteau.

We return to the wizarding world created by author J.K. Rowling, during a time period several decades before the boy with the lightning - bolt scar was born.

Unlike Vincent, he's not cantankerous; he's forlorn, working as a locksmith while pining over Clara, a woman with whom he had an affair several decades before and hasn't seen since.

The setting of this rambunctious entertainment is New York City, 1926 — an ocean away from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and several decades before a boy named Harry Potter would forever change the course of magical history, to say nothing of bestseller lists and box - office records.

«A prominent and well - characterized feature of AD is progressive, region - specific declines in the cerebral metabolic rate of glucose (CMRglc)-LSB-...] Carriers of a common Alzheimer's susceptibility gene [APOE Ɛ4] have functional brain abnormalities in young adulthood, several decades before possible onset of dementia.

That's true, and in fact several decades before that it was shown that natural thyroid extract supplementation was a very safe and effective way to normalize cholesterol concentrations and eliminate heart disease risk whether there was any other evidence of hypothyroidism or not.

But ultimately the researchers hope to see if the mechanism could be exploited to allow humans to regenerate limbs themselves, although they warn it could be several decades before that is possible.

It took several decades before this message found large numbers of adherents.

Not exact matches

For example, several decades ago, before he started publishing The Robb Report, White was a college student with some extra money.

I've written before about the presidential election cycle theory, developed several decades ago by Yale Hirsch, whose son Jeffrey serves as editor of the indispensable Stock Trader's Almanac, now in its 50th edition.

CIA has been in the book business for several decades: before 1967 it «sponsored, subsidized or produced over 1,000 books,» many of which were put out by CIA - backed cultural organizations whose subsidy was «more often than not» unknown to the writer.

It happens, though, that these questions are of far more interest to Christians of the last several decades than they ever were before.

But that was before the Cook County Department of Environmental Control requested additional asbestos inspections and testing at the decades - old shopping center, pushing the project back several weeks.

Fate intervened in several unlikely ways in the two ensuing decades and then last fall, Weber, now a fixture in the national Farm to School Network, found himself waxing enthusiastic about local produce to a woman who was part of an effort called Homegrown Minneapolis, which would like to see more of that farmstead goodness put before MPS kids and other locals.

If you are a good rifleman you could probably kill them from several hundred yards out before then get close enough to use their crappy 40 year old AKs that probably haven't been properly cleaned in decades or RPGs.

Traditionally, patients would have to try several medications with poor results for years or decades before being considered for surgery, according to the Epilepsy Foundation.

There have been several studies over the last few decades that show this is quite possible, though it still has a ways to go before it can be regularly used in the clinic.

Sunspot region 2673 has now turned away from Earth, but not before unleashing several X-class flares over the past week, one of which is the largest in over a decade and one of the top 10 since records began.

It takes several weeks for your body to completely transition from decades of being a carb - burning machine to being what it was designed to be — a fat - burning machine — so if you try one of these diets, be sure to give it at least a month if you can, before you decide what you think of it.

Simon displayed an innocent, girl / woman sensuality that anticipated Brigitte Bardot (ironically, also a discovery of Allegret) by several decades, and it wasn't long before she was discovered by the American movie industry.

One of the most influential voices from the past two decades of American cinema, it's funny to think that Anderson was endorsed by Martin Scorsese way back in the day when the «Mean Streets» director co-signed onto his then little - cared - for debut «Bottle Rocket» several years before Anderson would blow up into a cultural phenomenon (that wouldn't be until around «The Royal Tenenbaums» and «The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou»).

The Montreal - born actress has been working for over a decade — she led «Stardom» in 2000 for «The Barbarian Invasions» director Denys Arcand, and made several films in Canada before breaking into the US with Paul McGuigan «s «Wicker Park» and TV drama «Jack & Bobby.»

WHAT: Set over the course of several decades, the film tells the real - life story of Robert Kuklinski (Michael Shannon), a devoted husband and father of two who secretly worked as a contract killer for the mob, murdering more than 100 people before finally being arrested.

LAFCA wasn't formed until several decades later, so let's use this space to bow down before the year's most indelible female performance, which was Oscar - nominated but inexplicably lost to Bergman: Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity.

Although the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 was to facilitate computers in schools, it would be several more decades before students would see this happen.

With roughly 30 percent of American students dropping out before receiving a diploma — a rate that has been stable for several decades — assessing existing alternatives to the traditional high school is an urgent task.

Over the last several decades, marriage has become less common than before the age of technology and social media.

The remaining chassis, gearbox, suspension, brakes, dashboard, and other components passed through several hands over the better part of the next three decades before the car was finally rebuilt in Italy — first by Carrozzeria AutoSport in Modena, then by Ferrari itself, where the car received a brand new, correct - type engine and further bodywork on its way to achieving Ferrari Classiche certification in 2014.

At 28 years old, I thought I had several more decades before I found myself complaining about unforgiving suspension.

That involves an entirely new generation of longer - range electric vehicles and plug - in hybrids; and now, early next month at the Paris auto show — and, according to several sources, teased at a recent meeting with the media at Wolfsburg — the brand will preview the first of those vehicles, likely to go on sale before the end of the decade as a 2020 model.

It would be more than three decades before the mystery of Marcia's disappearance was finally solved, and during that time, the case took a toll not only on the little girl's family and on several young men in the neighborhood who were falsely suspected of involvement in the crime — but, more broadly, on the city as whole.

So, 44 indie authors in the world have managed to make $ 35,000 + (before taxes and expenses) through selling e-books on Amazon — and we're assuming each author may have written about 10 books, which would take several years, if not a decade or more.

After flirting with it for decades, Sex Criminals publisher Image has had a continued open door policy to more racy material; Fraction and Howard Chaykin's Satellite Sam, launched several months before this, explores the sexual indiscretions of a 1960s TV show host, and the reprinting of Chaykin's Black Kiss (and then an original sequel) shows some bold moves by Image to push into new territory for a mainstream direct market publisher.

After several decades, this breed becomes one of the most popular toy breed, but it has an unique history before this happened.

It became home to the Bishop of Truro at the turn of the 20th century for 15 years before providing a convalescent home for Great Western Railwaymen for several decades into the middle of the last century.

Set decades after the Mortal Kombat 9 «retcon ``, Mortal Kombat X includes several new characters, new appearances for iconic fighters, and a plethora of new and returning gameplay mechanics; each character has three separate fighting styles and move sets to choose from before each match; each stage includes hazards that certain characters can utilize, akin to Injustice: Gods Among Us.

This is only one year within several decades» worth of collaboration between the two, however, so we're taking a look at the best Wild West games you can play before the new generation is introduced.

That was more than a decade before the famous Rothko Chapel in Houston opened its doors and several years before Rothko installed another set of room - filling murals in a penthouse space at Harvard.