Sentences with phrase «take around a decade»

Major new projects take around a decade to develop and so work on them needs to be urgently advanced.

Not exact matches

With the dam broken and decades worth of accusations of sexual harassment and abuse finally flooding out, we're hearing more and more apologies from powerful creeps who took advantage of and dehumanized the women around them.

Far from an economic powerhouse, China's economy remains a middleweight when its vast number of poor people is taken into account — the country's per capita GDP is only around US$ 4,500, 1 / 10th that of the U.S. And as a share of the economy, household incomes have actually declined over the past decade.

We also invite you to take a look at how each Global 500 company has moved around in the ranks over the past two decades.

So you may want to take some profits off the table to buy something where you know will be around for decades to come e.g. real estate.

Metaphorically, at least, this isn't unusual; the idea of the «permanent campaign,» a reference to how politicians consider their reelection chances from almost the moment they take office, has been around for decades.

Taken together, Mr. Trump's actions demonstrate his resolve to turn away from a decades - long move toward open markets and integrated world economies and toward a more starkly protectionist approach that erects barriers around a Fortress America.

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.

Investors around the world were taken by surprise on Tuesday after the People's Bank of China (PBoC) devalued the yuan by almost 2 percent against the U.S. dollar, causing the currency to suffer its biggest fall in over two decades.

Podcasts have been around for more than a decade, but it was the NPR audio thriller Serial, which unpacked the murder of teenager Hae Min Lee and subsequent botched investigation by the Baltimore Police Department, that arguably made podcasting take off.

Our foreign policy during the last decade has been built around the negative aim of opposition to Russia, and has failed to take positive leadership in a world - wide attack on hunger and disease.

To be a manager and be around for years let alone decades takes many skills, so I can understand why Wenger is irritated by pundits let alone tabloid hacks.

we have at most 4 real quality outfielders i.e. players that other top european teams would take... ozil sanchez santi and kos... in my books you need 6... we are two short but worse the quality of others is lower than needed... only bellerin coq and wilshere have that potential... and there are problems with each still... we should have put in bids in june for griezman kondogbia and the Burussia striker as all could have been prized away with right bid plus players thrown in IMO... now its too late and wenger is in some weird gallic world of existential hope and denial and fans are just praying we do nt lose opening 2 matches for first time in over two decades... but no one is really confident against a team which is sure to finish around mid table...

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

Parpia took the concept «potty training in one day,» which has been around for decades, and created a series of products that help parents through the process.

No 10 is taking around ten of its business delegation with the prime minister as he makes a historic visit to Burma - the first by a western leader for decades.

Take a walk around Chestnut Ridge Park and you will see many varieties of trees, but not chestnut trees due to the blight that killed almost all of them decades ago.

Utica Mayor Robert Palmieri says it took a decade for the city to get into its current state of fiscal stress, and it won't turn around overnight.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

While Exxon Mobil provided plenty of details about the company's thinking on climate change and disclosed steps it was taking internally to meet regulatory and other challenges around carbon emissions, it held fast to the broader assertion that the world's energy needs over the next three decades can not be met with low - carbon energy alone.

IN THE SHADOW Over the next two decades, more than a dozen total eclipses of the sun will take place around the world.

Over the next two decades, more than a dozen total eclipses of the sun will take place around the world.

Two of the most recent human - to - monkey transmission events appear to have taken place around three decades ago, and roughly seven years ago, respectively.

For more than three decades, athletes have remained devoted fans of supplements; the American College of Sports Medicine estimates that around half of elite athletes take vitamins in hopes of keeping their bodies fit and boosting endurance.

The fort with the settlement was erected in order to take possession of large areas to the east of the Rhine around the seventh decade of the 1st century AD, and to expand the traffic infrastructure from and to the centre Mainz - Mogontiacum.

Instead, for the past three decades we've been relegated to nothing more than trips to low Earth orbit in space shuttles and a space station going around in circles growing plants and taking pictures of the weather.

«We can now take linear nano - materials and direct how they are organized in two dimensions, using a DNA origami platform to create any number of shapes,» explains NYU Chemistry Professor Nadrian Seeman, the paper's senior author, who founded and developed the field of DNA nanotechnology, now pursued by laboratories around the globe, three decades ago.

But around the time the nodule dream was dissolving, a new one was taking its place — the one that would grip Heydon two decades later.

Over the past decade and a half, countries around the world have taken unprecedented steps to shift their energy dependence from fossil fuels to alternative resources.

It took the E.U. four decades to create the euro; it may take the world even longer to invent a single carbon credit that is legal tender and equally valuable around the globe.

With 100 billion neurons, each with around 10,000 connections, mapping the human brain will be no easy feat, and charting every single connection could take decades.

If you were to take a group of people who were at higher risk of breaking a bone — so had about a 15 per cent chance of breaking a bone over the next 10 years — and treated all of them with a reasonable dose of vitamin D for a decade, you'd prevent a fracture in around one in 50 of them over that time.»

Rising temperatures due to global warming will make it harder for many aircraft around the world to take off in coming decades, says a new study.

Such a lofty goal may take decades, but researchers are already on the path to get there, developing new instruments and analyzing the dust kicked up around stars to better understand how to snap crisp planetary portraits.

The greatest cause of this heat wave is the shrinkage of winter around the North Pole, which took decades before happening this way, one side of the world is bound to be hotter while the other normal, its been going this way for more than a decade, and its getting hotter during winters; no ice in High Arctic Mid-November (1998), bees in N.Y. January, tulips in the UK February, summer heat in North American March, the spinning of the heat zone during winter will continue and expand.

AMHERST, Mass. — A decade or so ago, scientists discovered genes they thought could be turned on to make plants take up more iron from the soil, enriching cereals, grains and other staple foods that feed millions of people around the world an iron - poor diet leading to iron deficiency anemia, says molecular biologist Elsbeth Walker at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

So glad to have found your program, still waiting for improvements but I know for someone that has suffered for decades it will take some time to turn this around

It all started about a decade ago when Chaudhary's migraine headaches had worsened around the time she took on her own medical practice in San Diego.

Over the last decade, I estimate I've spent around $ 25,000 - $ 50,000 on various strains of probiotics to fix my gut, including the time I took pig whipworm eggs.

The last time I was home two years ago I wanted nothing to do with these sunglasses, vintage T - shirts, Chanel costume jewelry, crystal mesh crop tops from Wet Seal in the 90's etc... The lesson I learned here, was it really does take a decade or more for things to come back around.

Dating services have been around for many years now, but it's only been a decade or so that they've taken online by storm.

This article will show you how to take advante of this new experience.A dating service is not a new idea; they've been around for several decades.

Taking its name from the New York Times obituary page's euphemism for the partners of the dead, it covers the whole decade, structured around well - heeled couple Sean (Mark Lamos) and David (Bruce Davison) and their friends and family (played by the likes of Campbell Scott, Dermot Mulroney and Mary - Louise Parker).

There was a moment around the turn of the decade when Dan Fogler seemed ubiquitous, popping up in everything from Fanboys to Kung Fu Panda to Take Me Home Tonight.

The latest Tarantino film takes place a decade or so after the Civil War, and centers around a bounty hunter (Russell) and his fugitive (Leigh) who get holed up with six other strangers after a blizzard cuts them off from the town of Red Rock.

The writer - director's characters all have them: a rebellious high school senior (Abby Quinn) flirting with boys and heroin for the first time; her soon - to - be-married sister (Jenny Slate), who questions everything after a hookup with an old flame; their mother (Edie Falco), who works around the clock and takes flak from all involved; and their father (John Turturro), a wannabe playwright who may or not be carrying on a decade - long affair (the discovery of a dirty poetry stash sends the sisters hunting for answers).

«A decade after we took a risk in backing a film centered around a slide show presentation and one human's quest to awaken global consciousness about our changing planet, we are proud to bring global audiences a promising update: that a future powered by clean, safe, renewable, inexpensive, non-polluting energy is no longer a dream but a very attainable reality,» Participant Media Founder and Chairman Jeff Skoll said in the statement.

What does it say about education reformers that it's taken us a decade to wrap our heads around the concept of an average?

Until now 21 EUROCLIO Annual Professional Training and Development Conferences have taken place annually in the past two decades with a growing success: starting with 60 people from 4 countries in Scotland in 1993, the participation reached up to 160 participants from 45 countries in 2005 in Latvia and 2006 in Malta, 200 people from 50 countries in Turkey and Germany, and 165 people from 38 countries in the Republic of Macedonia in 2013 and once again over hundred educators in and around Europe are expected in the 22nd EUROCLIO Annual Conference for the first time in Denmark for the first time in the history of EUROCLIO.

Still, given the public beating standardized tests have taken over the last decade, and the negative narrative around testing that's solidified as a result, it remains exceedingly important for those of us that still believe in annual, statewide standardized testing to articulate — again, and again, and again — why it matters.