Sentences with phrase «takes decades»

It often takes decades for research to make it into practice — and for old policies to be significantly reformed — so it's not surprising that we have found ourselves in this situation, but...

That is a difficult question because acupuncture is a skill that takes decades to fully master.

Another is that large males are typically 45 to 55 years old, so it takes decades to replace them.

«It takes decades for the cataracts to get to that point, so if you can reverse that by a few drops in the eye over a couple of weeks, that's amazing.»

«It takes decades to centuries to repay the carbon debt that is created from clearing land.»

It takes decades for even the most immediate result of higher greenhouse gas levels — a rise in surface temperatures — to become apparent.

Asbestos products are now banned in most developed countries, but since this form of cancer takes decades to develop, the number of cases in these nations is still climbing.

A more straightforward reason is that so much of this technology takes decades to develop.

Opponents of the death penalty argue against it by citing America (where the system is misapplied, inconsistent and often takes decades before punishment is implemented), or by playing a neat conjuring trick with the UK figures.

With this came a switch to a parliamentary system of government and while the full process takes decades, it has led to a system of parliamentary sovereignty where the Montesquieu idea of separation of powers is technically dead even though the three branches remain important institutions.

The environmental impact of almost every baby in the country producing a mountain of waste, that takes decades to disappear, is certainly a cause for concern.

Lacazette has been with the team for less than a season and you're already saying «flop»??????? Wenger takes decades to dump out crap players.

It usually takes decades — centuries even — for such combinations of grape and place to establish themselves as classics.

«Iron ore takes decades to find and develop so it's slow moving but, in agriculture, every six months you grow and eat a crop.»

As members of the Kingdom of God, we can (and should) call our human governments to a better and different way of living in relation to others, but we should recognize that change takes decades — even centuries!

It takes decades to find entire SHIPS lost at sea.

Interesting how quickly the vatican gets these charges put forth, and for a priest, it takes decades, if ever.

It takes decades for such changes.

While all of this sounds fairly obvious, it takes decades of experience to actually put the strategies, systems and discipline in place to truly be effective (and deploy it) at scale.

Second, I often compare the craft of a money manager with that of a gardener: To have a great garden takes decades, not a few months.

Of course those views were also wrong: the banking system can not immediately adjust to a large injection of reserves; even absent interest on excess reserves, it takes decades for new reserves to expand the money supply as lending opportunities are limited at a given point in time.

Again, we should not feel too superior to our Asian neighbours in this respect; it takes decades or more to develop these, and as recently as the late eighties we still had some glaring deficiencies.

New entrepreneurs are inherently inexperienced, and getting the experience necessary to be successful either takes decades of firsthand ventures (and oftentimes, dozens of failures), or the coaching and mentorship of someone who has been there before.

Namely, it can take a decade or more for highly trained workers or immigrant entrepreneurs who create fast - growth companies and jobs to get long - term work status and citizenship.

It would take a decade for you to recover that lost value (assuming your home appreciated at the historic norm of 2 % in value per year).

That is an amount of money that would have taken me decades to earn without this platform.»

It took decades for some companies to even reach the, let's say, standard of a brand.

That remains a lofty hurdle in a field where it can take decades of research and development before a team can enrol its first study participant.

How often have we heard that it takes a decade to be an overnight success?

This is hard to do for two reasons, first, because the economic cycle is slow — boom to bust can take a decade or more.

Energy investors are acting as if the next bust is already too close GM CEO ramping Bolt production, says transition to EVs «won't take decades»

«It would likely take a decade - plus to roll out genuine national coverage, including in rural areas.

But new health tech can take a decade to catch on because of regulation, the stakes involved, and the costs.

We haven't taken decades and decades.»

It could take decades for manufacturers to figure out how to make models consumers buy in volume.

Hamad International Airport took a decade and $ 16 billion to build.

Pi notes that Facebook took a decade to reach the billion - user mark, while Chinese mobile - communication app startup WeChat hit 600 million after only four years.

He essentially thumbed his nose at authorities, who were trying to hunt down a man whose last photo was a confident - looking young man, in a jacket and tie, hair brushed back from a broad forehead, taken decades earlier.

By studying the right role models, you could learn in a week what might otherwise take you a decade.

Nielsen recognizes that the university feeder system is just one element of many that will ultimately contribute to the viability of Vegas as a start - up cluster — a process that may take decades to achieve.

The victory over the world's top player — which many thought would take decades to achieve — underlines the potential of artificial intelligence to take on humans at complex tasks.

Once graduates have accrued significant debt, it can take decades to pay it off.

The benefits of a renewed splurge of infrastructure spending will take decades to materialise.

«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.

In 1903, Henry Ford founded the company that bears his name, but it took him decades and hundreds of millions of dollars at today's prices to build a company that reached all corners of the globe.

He said he knew he needed patient investors, because energy technologies typically take decades to refine and deploy.

To get more specific, our dynamic DCF model shows that even if we assume OCLR's NOPAT declines by 50 % in 2018 and takes a decade to get back to current levels, the stock has a present value of $ 7.60 / share, a 12 % premium to the current valuation.

If you've been making your student loan payments every month, but you still feel like it's going to take decades to pay everything off, your student loan interest rates might be the problem.

And alternative energy sources may take decades to scale up.

Despite promises by event organizers and local bid committees, and expectations by the public that the event will solve some of their daily urban problems, host cities often end up with unwanted or unused facilities and saddled with debts that will take decades to repay.