Sentences with phrase «than a decade before»

More than a decade before he started Tesla, Musk was studying physics at the University of Pennsylvania and then battery technology at Stanford, both key fields for learning how to build an electric car.

Still, outside of cities, car ownership will remain sensible, the company noted: «It'll take much more than a decade before it makes sense for someone in Wyoming, for example, to ditch their car.»

IBM tells the story of racially integrating its facilities more than a decade before the Civil Rights Act mandated they do so.

As Paul Krugman points out Reifschneider, working with John Williams and using the same FRBUS model, concluded that the ZLB was only a very small issue less than a decade before the financial crisis led to an 8 year stretch of zero rates.

It was more than a decade before I left church behind entirely and still more years before I realized that what had been faith had metamorphosed into something entirely different.

But it was more than a decade before I began to consider the purpose of this kind of fast for myself.

Kirin had owned a large stake for more than a decade before the full buyout.

Craig became Chairman of the British Olympic Association in 1992, where he served for more than a decade before retiring in 2005.

When United manager Louis van Gaal signed the German, I was quite happy as it meant that United had the strongest midfield since the departure of Roy Keane more than a decade before.

I'm lucky enough to be able to afford the time out of the workforce while my children are little, but as an extreme extrovert who suffers from chronic health problems (which were the primary thing that got me committed to to breastfeeding as a teen — more than a decade before my first pregnancy — I was hoping that breastfeeding might help protect my children from some of the health problems I have) this is REALLY hard on me mentally some days.

Starting as an assistant, Suellen was promoted to assistant manager within two years and stayed in that position for more than a decade before transferring to Zephyrhills High and assuming her duties as cafeteria manager for 1500 students.

The former «Parks and Recreation» star — who worked as a waitress for longer than a decade before breaking into the acting business — spoke at The Rockefeller Foundation on Fifth Avenue.

I will never accept the idea that it's ok for a child born in the poorest part of my city, Sheffield, to die more than a decade before a child born just across town.

The coin dates to a little more than a decade before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 AD, and was found in rubble material outside the ruins of the 1st Century Jewish villas the team has been excavating.

Michael Papadopoulos moved his family to the United States more than a decade before taking a job at Oregon, not in 1967.

And he points out that very few multi-agency missions are smooth; for instance, the $ 700 - million Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, with contributions from the DOE and NASA, went through a difficult birthing process for more than a decade before being launched last year.

Oligomers may appear more than a decade before plaques are detected.

The drug had been in use for more than a decade before a reliable test was introduced in 2000, at the Sydney Olympics.

This can catch glaucoma more than a decade before vision problems would be noticed by the patient.

More than a decade before we came up with a concept of serving people for wellness with our spa services.

Less than a decade before, both of these age groups had significantly less approval for interracial dating.

More than a decade before winning a Pulitzer for «August: Osage County,» Tracy Letts wrote «Killer Joe,» a violent look at an impoverished Texan family.

The film More than a decade before he made «Gravity» (which could have used a sex scene), Alfonso Cuarón broke out with this hit — one that also marked the arrival of actors Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal as two friends on a delirious, sensual road trip.

HGSE Lecturer Victor Pereira, who taught high school science for more than a decade before becoming the master teacher in residence (science) in the new Harvard Teacher Fellows Program, knows the challenges firsthand.

It would take more than a decade before the last vestiges of Jim Crow fell away from classrooms.

Sales of «Chevrolet imports» peaked at 196,777 in calendar 1994, according to «The Standard Catalogue,» but that was more than a decade before Chevy had any decent homegrown small cars it could upsell to customers who came in to look at the Geos.

In the immediate postwar era, manufacturers could sell anything they built, and for the small businessman who needed both a truck and a car, this was a perfect combination more than a decade before the introduction of the Chevrolet El Camino in 1959.

Picking up where the 964 left off more than a decade before, the 997 Speedster was part of a send - off package for the popular 997 family that included the RS 4.0, GT2 RS, and Sport Classic, models that arrived within a year of each other.

The later 1.5 liter American - market CRX HF (high fuel economy) model (chassis codes EC1 and AF) could also reliably achieve very good gas mileage, more than a decade before gas - electric hybrids appeared on the market, and at no price premium over the base model; the 1.5 liter is rated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)(under the new rating system) at 42 miles per U.S. gallon (5.6 l / 100 km; 50 mpg ‑ imp) city and 51 miles per U.S. gallon (4.6 l / 100 km; 61 mpg ‑ imp) highway.

Dunkel tells the story of a North Dakota car dealer who, more than a decade before Jackie Robinson, formed an integrated baseball team that captured the hearts of the region.

More than a decade before the Donner party brought a story of frontier cannibalism to the American public, there was the Essex disaster.

As a result, I'd have to keep the mortgage for more than a decade before my yearly investment returns started to exceed what I pay in interest each year on the mortgage.

Others, like the Minnesota Timberwolves, bumble for more than a decade before hitting pay dirt with blue chip prospects.

Bearing in mind this was 1993, more than a decade before HDTVs were properly made available to the public, Hudson had to make special custom - made units to both host and display the game.

That was more than a decade before the famous Rothko Chapel in Houston opened its doors and several years before Rothko installed another set of room - filling murals in a penthouse space at Harvard.

In 1964, more than a decade before Hernan Bas was born, Dieter Roth painted portraits with biodegradable materials such as processed cheese and chocolate.

The museum also borrowed a masterpiece in Vermeer's Milkmaid, but compare that to a Vermeer retrospective more than a decade before.

This becomes breathtakingly clear to anyone who tours the Joyner - Giuffrida house in San Francisco's Presidio Heights neighborhood, where the 150 - odd works on display run the gamut from Whitten's The Eighth Furrow, a squeegee painting executed more than a decade before Gerhard Richter made the technique famous, to Kara Walker's epic Terrible Vacation, a reimagining in gouache of J.M.W. Turner's Slave Ship, to the young Brooklyn - based artist Jayson Musson's Anticyclonic, which is made from the scraps of innumerable Coogi sweaters.

More than a decade before he was designing album art for David Bowie and the Clash, Derek Boshier was among a vital group of painters reshaping British Pop art during the early 1960s.

On climate, we probably have less than a decade before a rubicon is crossed (the equivalent of permanent brain damage or worse in your teenage metaphor), and on species extinction and habitat destruction every passing day damage is done that is irreversible.

«What matters is this decade is warmer than the last decade, and that decade was warmer than the decade before.

He adds that their group believes that the likelihood of» 2007 events» is higher now than a decade before and that this is connected to the gradually reduced sea ice thickness.

The 1950s was the last decade cooler than the previous decade, the next five decades were all warmer on average than the decade before.

(Hansen et al., 2010) The warmest decade has been the 2000s, and each of the past three decades has been warmer than the decade before and each set records at their end.

Harnett's client was married to his wife for more than a decade before they split in early 2016.

It would take more than a decade before scientific advances would give Barnes another chance.

DiMartino worked as a chiropractor in northwest Indiana for more than a decade before he got his law degree.

She had lived in subsidized elderly housing for more than a decade before that and had a leased car that was repossessed because she had neglected the payments due to her illness.

2015 wasn't some magic year, either: the FCC and Congress had proposed net neutrality rules going back more than a decade before then.

As much as the government tries to keep things within their control, globalisation has made that task harder than decades before.