Sentences with phrase «take about a decade»

Since it takes about a decade to develop a mine, supply and demand remained out of balance for much of the 2000s.

My previous post was about how it takes about a decade longer to exit in companies with venture capital investors.

It took about a decade, but in 1999 he and his colleagues began implanting these engineered organs in spina bifida patients aged 4 to 19 who, in addition to spinal cord defects and nerve damage, had abnormal bladders.

«I can tell you that in Africa the recovery rate of its countries takes about a decade.

This deluxe sample is 0.17 oz and you can also find a 0.68 oz travel size of this or purchase the full size 1.7 oz bottle but it would probably take about a decade to finish that!

We acknowledge the fact that dating over 40 can be tedious and take a bit longer than what it would have taken about a decade - and - a-half ago.

Irons is the pious one, and Malkovich is auditioning for Taken about a decade too early as he seeks to avenge the death of his son (played by a baby Peter Sarsgaard).

It will probably take about a decade for the failure of Common Core to become obvious to its most important backers.

Carbon dioxide can remain in the atmosphere for thousands of years and takes about a decade to reach its maximum warming effect.

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Some haven't been happy about it, while others are gleefully trying to take full advantage of the media attention generated by the biggest (and most embarrassing) story to hit Toronto in decades.

«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»

Price shared her insights about what it takes to stay in business for more than two decades, planting seeds for future successes and how to move past fear and find your voice.

Despite the «overnight» success stories you read about in glossy business magazines, the overwhelming majority of successful businesses take years, if not decades, to build.

For decades, workers had been complaining about robots taking their jobs, and they were right to be on edge.

Last year the company admitted it would take until 2030 to halve its greenhouse gases, about a decade longer than it had hoped.

«The United States has been taken advantage of by other countries both friendly and not so friendly for many, many decades,» he said, complaining about what he said was the United States» $ 800 billion trade deficit.

The so - called benchmark revision, which takes place about twice a decade, also showed the economy grew faster in 2012 than previously estimated: 2.8 % vs. 2.2 %.

In the late 1940s through the early 1970s, the U.S. and UK both reduced their debt burden by about 30 % to 40 % of GDP per decade by taking advantage of negative real interest rates, but there is no guarantee that government debt rates will continue to stay so low.

«It's been more than a decade since the Liberals starting making empty promises about Highway 1, to take just one example.

People thought it would take years to become relevant; I remember a man coming up to me after I spoke about cryptocurrency and telling me that my talk would be interesting in a decade.

SEO has been around for decades, but only since the early 2000s has the search engine giant, Google, taken measures to make SEO more about the web user's experience than following specific formulas to make one's website rank high in search results.

When those experiences are about selling a business and each data point can take a year, it can take decades to accumulate a complete understanding.

The top one per cent of income earners took about a third of all income gains in the decade from 1997 to 2007.

Believe it or not, a true Muslim (the one who surrenders to the Will of his Creator) would rather die but not to keep silent about the disrespect of God's Words which take place at a country that had enough of disrespect to human life for more than a decade of aggression and atrocities.

In about a decade of seemingly unrelated social and political events, thousands stopped attending church and the government took control of the education and health system from the Roman Catholic Church and its «spent Catholicism,» as Martel puts it.

Jerusalem was taken by Christian forces at the end of the First Crusade in 1099, but Western control of the city was short - lived — lasting only about 90 years — and Muslims consistently routed the crusaders in the decades and centuries to follow.

After being contacted for an interview this week about the on - the - record accusations of sexual misconduct — encounters that took place over a decade ago — Louis C.K.'s publicist, Lewis Kay, said the comedian would not respond.

When asked about taking the first step to recovery, Brand, a man who has thought about recovery every day for more than a decade, offers this advice for those wanting to get clean spiritually and physically: «Admit you have a problem.

The nature of religious television in America can be seen to be a function of the interaction of four main players; changes over the past decades have come about because of changes in the relative power and relationships of the four following players: (1) the regulatory agencies of the federal government, which, through the legislative process, provide the structure within which interaction inside the television industry takes place; (2) the television industry, primarily network and local station managements, which control the airwaves within the legislated structure; (3) the viewing public, which selects what it is that will be watched; and (4) the religious broadcasters who provide the material for broadcasts.

So I took about 6 seconds to find out what this massive evangelical teen event was that I've somehow never heard of while traveling and speaking across the country at hundreds of events over the past couple of decades.

Perhaps a generation of Methodist professionals and well - educated laity some decades hence, proud of their tradition, will display nice coffee - table books about Wesley and early Methodism, content to know that the scholarly archives have all the footnotes, but without any serious intention of taking up the early Methodist faith and mission.

The U.S. government will take steps to do something about it within this decade.

In recent decades much discussion has taken place about baptism between Christians of the various denominations.

The former pastor of that church, a friend for decades, preached a fiery sermon about how taking away financial support from a missionary was tantamount to taking food from their children's mouths.

In the first decades of his remarkably busy career, Greeley did serious academic work in sociology, taking down a number of shibboleths about Catholic culture and Catholic schools and demonstrating empirically the educational, professional, and financial upward mobility of white Catholic ethnics in the United States.

It took me about two decades to discover figs for the first time and I feel like I missed out for so long.

Brock, who's been in Charleston for a decade, talks about living in the city back in the age of «tasteless rice and beans,» whiskey, the veg he'd take over okra any day, and how to party in Nashville.

It feels like if I didn't say anything — if I ran out of the room right then, sobbing — he'd just tidy up a few papers on his desk and go back about his job of being Barry Alvarez, the former Badgers head coach who took Wisconsin to three Rose Bowls after decades of irrelevance, then signed the check for his own bronze statue as the school's athletic director.

excuses aside, who did not know that arsenal were just participants rather than competitors in any of this competitions??? let us not pretend that we are surprised about all that has happened because it has been happening for the last decade including poor decisions of the ref -LCB- do not know whether it is bad luck] the last transfer window will haunt us dearly going forward... most pple here were taking a swipe at manure for buying martial and using it to justify our inactivity!!!

But when Isaac Jordan takes the mat for his match, his wiry father — 5» 7 and about 150 pounds, close to what he was three decades ago when he wrestled for Wisconsin — is not in his prime front row seat.

A lot of Arsenal fans would gladly take a bit of the trophy success that Chelsea have enjoyed over the last decade or so, with Premier League titles, domestic cups and both the Champions League and Europa League to celebrate, but I am not so sure about the way that their big spending billionaire owner Roman Abramovich gets through managers.

I think its time to do something about this, over the 2 legs, ireland were clearly the better side, that notwithstanding this particular french team is the worst i've seen in decades, and they have no bussines going to the world cup.It is time for replays to be reviewed in some cases and goaline technology to be applied in other cases, i think we human being have come of age to realise that we humans are not perfect, no matter how hard we try, so for sepp blatter to keep resisting replays and goal line technology is quite baffling to me, i can't really understand why 3 socalled officials could make a decision, a decision in which the whole world saw to be a foul, and its allowed to stand, and a nation is left, heartbroken, cheated and bitter, i am an african, but as a fan of football, i felt terrible seeing this, and i beg the question, if someone other than the team is not benefiting from this, why can't the officials be allowed to take a look at the replays in order to officiate the game better?

«In fact, now I think about it, if a formula one team devised a car specifically for me and really took the time, spending hundreds of millions upskilling me and devoting all their R&D to my development for as long as it took, decades if necessary, I have every confidence I could become a highly successful Grand Prix driver.

Espn soccernet had on fergie marvellous 25 years, not forgetting the amount of luck on his side and the 12 man the referee at old trafford on his side, got to hand it to him he knows how to find, manage and disperse of players, wish I could say the same for mr wenger for last half of a decade, I not going to rant about wenger and the dissapointments but I ask for fans not to put down all their cards in favour of arsenal performances as history looks bleak as wenger hasn't taken us over to the trophy cabinet exploration for a while.

but I still stand by my initial feelings - if this is what it takes to bring attention to the cause, so be it - because Lord knows the rest of us have been shouting about it for decade (s) and progress had been moving at a snails pace, which was so frustrating.

So and you have to be careful about the outlet plugs that we used for decades and decades, the plugs that are solid that you stick in the outlets they are actually a suffocation hazard because lot of times parents will take those out to use the outlet and will leave it on floor, they leave it on the chair and the baby's come and when the toddler comes and they take it, they stick it in their mouth, then they can suffocate.

In my first book, Whatever it Takes, I wrote a lot about Baby College, a nine - week parenting program that the Harlem Children's Zone has been running for more than a decade.

After decades of failed education policies, scientists, economists and educators are beginning to rethink their basic ideas about what it takes to succeed in school.

So, why not take a few minutes to learn about a great service that pregnant moms have relied on for decades: doulas!

C'm on guys — take a lesson from talk radio, whose hosts have sparred with guests for decades (talk about social media!).