Sentences with phrase «take years or decades»

Life insurance is a self - completing financial product, meaning that while it might take years or decades to save for a home or retirement, the value of a life insurance policy is instant; if you die, your loved ones immediately get the death benefit to keep their financial goals on track.

These numbers of extinct species are certainly underestimates, because the majority of species have not been described or assessed, and proving that a species is extinct can take years or decades.

And a very few take years or decades.

The «stadium wave» as a partial systemic or meta explanation of the natural evoultion of climate affecting factors is an intersting, cogent and logical step to understanding this sort of thing — it might mot be right, but at least it's an attempt, even if it will take years or decades to determine if it's on the right track and what other factors need to be added / removed to make it an effective and usefully predictive tool.

Student loan default is not an option — the financial consequences are so difficult that it can take years or decades to recover.

NASH is often a slow - growing disease than can take years or decades to progress.

Hints of a surprise particle at the Large Hadron Collider have officially been confirmed as a blip, and finding another could take years or decades

I know we're eager to know «what works,» but it took years or decades before folks decided that the telephone, airplanes, or the Internet truly «worked.»

Not exact matches

Economists can debate precisely why so many people have taken it in the teeth in recent decades, but it's clear that years of stagnant or dropping incomes have taken a toll on their ability to get ahead.

Which goes to show it takes more than a bad year or two to dent a reputation forged over decades.

During the past two decades, Maitland, now 71, who generally takes four or five vacations a year, has flown in a hot - air balloon over the Swiss Alps, ridden a camel by the Great Pyramid in Egypt, seen India from atop an elephant, and taken in Bangladesh while floating down the Ganges aboard a barge.

Then there are the cities that spend so bountifully, or plan to poorly — or a combination of both — that they triggered damage that took years or even decades to fix.

«This is why people didn't figure out that it was the Great Depression until two years after the worst point in the crisis in the 1930s; and why it took decades, not months, quarters or even years, for the complete transition to the next sustainable economic expansion and bull market.

Your credit history takes more than a decade of your past behavior into account, so it could take months or years for your credit score to reach its peak.

Some of the retiring politicians have spent a decade or more in office, so before the writ is dropped I thought it would be fun to take a look at what some of them looked like in their younger years in office.

While it would be difficult to take a lack of fresh credit strains as evidence of restored health in the banking and lending system, we can't rule out the possibility that the Rube Goldberg machine created by the Fed and the Treasury will be enough to take us through a period of years (or if we follow Japan's example, decades) where we will gradually bury the losses of the banking system, trading a short - lived period of adjustment instead for a long - term period of stagnant credit.

Staring ahead at years upon years of student loan payments can be depressing, and programs that can cancel out that debt — like Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) and income - driven repayment — take a decade or more to forgive the loans.

It is normal that any new theory goes through the usual ridicule / attack / acceptance stages, often taking years, decades or even centuries to develop through the stages.

It is so easy to forget that while Japan and Haiti were brief headlines in the US they will both take years or even decades to recover.

In 1979 Mrs. Thatcher and her government began the return to true capitalism, but even after a decade of common sense reforms and rapid improvements in productivity, we calculate it will still take us another ten years or so to catch up with Germany and France, while the United States and Japan are still further beyond our reach.That is the price of trying to make capitalism do something which is not in its nature to do — promote equality.

So it took some effort to be okay with the fact that I was actually craving for the foods I hadn't eaten in years, or a decade, and things I kind of thought were off - limits.

It has been obvious for 2 years or more that giroud Walcott ox Campbell were not good enough attacking options to challenge for titles... wenger added Sanchez and took a failed punt on welbeck... 2 weeks to go and it's the same thing... Le prof of denial had better put his hands in his pockets and buy mahrez and another striker or season will just repeat the disappointments of the lost decade

Not against or for Wenger but I personally couldn't take getting beat so regularly by managers in their what you would call their rookie year, not after being in the league fir almost 2 decades...

It will take either a billion Pounds and 2 - 3 years or a great manager and a decade to get us back to being serious challengers.

In an earlier generation, this might have taken the form of separation or divorce, but now, it seemed, more and more women were unwilling to abandon the marriages and families they'd built over years or decades.

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.

Training for a career in science takes a decade or more, and there's no way to know what the job market will look like years from now.

The simplicity of building BRT means a system can be up and running in less than five years, compared to train systems that can take a decade or more.

The enormous projects that dominate particle physics typically take years or even decades to build.

«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.»

Even its backers admit it would take a decade to grind all the mirrors, but once built, it could pick out brown dwarfs in neighboring galaxies or supernova explosions from 10 billion light - years away.

But such large, clean studies can take years of planning, fund - raising, and lining up patients, plus a decade or more to execute.

Detecting a solar system like our own (in which the most massive planet, Jupiter, takes a full 12 years to complete one orbit) would require at least another decade or two of high - precision Doppler observations.

A decade ago, in the midst of a 5 - year NIH doubling, administrators took a close look at «fat cats,» or researchers who had six or more grants, and concluded there was no problem with overextended researchers or duplicated work.

«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.

Also, because HD takes many years or decades to develop, differences seen in HD patients may seem large at the baseline but actually be due to very slow changes that take place over a long time.

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.

This past Thursday marked the one - year anniversary of The Curious Case of Campbell's Rats, wherein we took a wild ride through over two decades of animal research in which Dr. T. Colin Campbell of China Study fame showed that dietary protein, whether it comes from animals or plants, protects against aflatoxin toxicity and the initiation of new precancerous lesions while simultaneously promoting the growth of precancerous lesions that have already formed.

Because dementia can take root in the brain years or decades before symptoms appear, you can take action now to avoid becoming part of this skyrocketing statistic.

When I then, after a year or so of vegetarian lifestyle, acquired HHV2 infection, I was really in serious trouble, and the ominous deterioration of my health during the next few years took me decades to climb out of.

Sadly, it no longer takes decades or even years to become toxic.

To reverse decades of damage more emphasis needs to be put on a highly nutritious eating program, improved digestion, and physical activity - it takes a lot to reverse 20 or 30 years of damage!

So it took some effort to be okay with the fact that I was actually craving for the foods I hadn't eaten in years, or a decade, and things I kind of thought were off - limits.

For some people, it might take a few months, for others it could be years or even decades.

After taking several six hour plus flights in the past decade or so, including six at the end of last year, I've developed an in - flight routine to help be solve both conundrums.

They're classics and (if you take care of them) can last for years or even decades.

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.