Sentences with phrase «short space of a decade»

Even so, it is not a little startling to discover that some modern movements which purport to be based upon a new revelation from God have been able in the short space of a decade to claim in excess of a million followers.

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The previous Liberal government having increased spending 47 per cent in its last six years in office; the Conservatives having increased spending another 19 per cent in its first three years («good times»), and a further 20 per cent over the next two («bad times»); after doubling spending, in short, in the space of a decade, the government's notion of restraint is more or less to leave it there.

Despite my sense that making friendships after school is hard, I've been blessed with several that have lasted more than a decade, something impossible in the short space of school.

Specifically, say Hansman and a wide range of other space experts, Griffin has committed most of NASA's expected funding for the next several decades to a program that stands a very good chance of falling far short of the Red Planet, thanks to what may prove to be a trillion - dollar price tag.

Vija Celmins at Matthew Marks Gallery, West Hollywood Reviewed by Christopher Michno In a world increasingly short of attention, Vija Celmins has for more than four decades been depicting a narrowly delimited set of subjects with a degree of emotional distance that has offered expansive space for reflective thought.

The Whitechapel Gallery's «archival» show «Supporting Artists: Acme's First Decade 1972 — 1982», like Jon Savage's series of photographs of Uninhabited London (shown in its entirety at Maggs Gallery a year back), depicts a long gone East End and Covent Garden of empty buildings, rotting short - life housing, urban decay and space.