Sentences with phrase «than a decade earlier»

However, the space agency's Mars 2020 rover is expected to launch in July 2020, meaning it should arrive more than a decade earlier and gather samples for a future return mission.

But allegations of sexual abuse related to BJU and the school's response have been ongoing at least since 2010, when former board member and former Trinity Baptist Church pastor Chuck Phelps was accused of helping to «cover up repeated instances of sexual abuse committed more than a decade earlier by an older male parishioner against his step - daughter.»

More than a decade earlier, a canny Park Slope councilman named Bill de Blasio did the same to another colleague, Lew Fidler.

State lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo agreed to the first workers compensation law changes in more than a decade earlier this year.

In 1980 he began studying one called verbenone that other researchers had isolated from beetle guts more than a decade earlier.

Comparing data from the 2001 - 2002 and 2012 - 2013 NESARC waves, the researchers found that the prevalence of drinking at levels two and three times or more the standard binge thresholds in the past year was significantly higher in the most recent NESARC wave, suggesting that more adults are engaging in extreme binge drinking now than a decade earlier.

When his team ran the same scenario but capped air pollution at 2000 levels, ice - free summers in the Arctic started more than a decade earlier in 2045.

Failing to correct for the Flynn effect can have even bigger consequences, as courts frequently consider IQ scores using tests introduced more than a decade earlier — meaning scores can be inflated by 3 or more points (see «Life or death ``, below).

Having based her first best - seller, Postcards from the Edge, on her experiences in drug rehab more than a decade earlier, she started trying to write about her break and hospitalization in the same vein while fresh out of the psychiatric ward.

She and Morris play charming childhood sweethearts who devolve into bickering over a one - night stand Bunbury's character had when they were on a break more than a decade earlier.

By remaking a film that won the Grand Prix at Cannes less than a decade earlier, Lee has undertaken a serious challenge.

It was 1954 when Gojira first hit the big screen in Ishiro Honda's now iconic monster movie, made as a reply to the USA dropping two atom - bombs on Japan less than a decade earlier.

For all of his obvious skills and uncommon talent as a visual storyteller, Kosinski's first two films were short on character depth and emotional engagement, but whether a function of Kosinski's innate preferences for spectacle over substance or simply script - related issues, Kosinski's feature - film output made him an odd, left - of - field choice to direct a film about American firefighters and the Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013 that resulted in the greatest loss of firefighters since 9 - 11 more than a decade earlier.

They've met once before, more than a decade earlier, the night they lost their virginities to one another.

Because of this talk and his subsequent if short - lived advocacy, Shanker is often credited with conceiving the very concept of charters, although he drew on work published more than a decade earlier.

More than a decade earlier, Ford had decided against producing a new small car to rival BMC's Mini as the production cost was deemed too high, but the 1973 oil crisis saw a rise in the already growing demand for smaller cars.

In fact, more than a decade earlier, when I was just 13.

Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY: In the spring of 1965, Joan Mitchell had her seventh and final exhibition at the historic Stable Gallery in New York where her career as a painter had been launched more than a decade earlier.

Describing the many ways in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience deep trauma, in a list «that would surely make the blood of any decent human being run cold,» Parker said Indigenous people continued to die more than a decade earlier than their peers, suffer double the burden of ill health and infant mortality, with unemployment four times higher and median incomes half, and disability for one in three.

The violent crime rate was 10 per cent lower than a decade earlier, but 35 per cent higher than 20 years ago.

Not exact matches

Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.

«The energy market is changing more rapidly than we could have imagined, and it's changing because the costs of competitive fuels are coming down,» says Simon Flowers, chief analyst at Wood Mackenzie, who predicts global demand for gasoline and diesel fuel will peak as early as a decade from now and «certainly» by 2030.

After more than a decade of being Sumner Redstone's right - hand man, Dauman abruptly fell out of favor earlier this year.

Earlier this year, after more than a decade in the hospitality industry, award - winning Perth chef Daniel Sterpini made what could be considered an unusual career choice.

The person with the higher fees will run out of money more than two decades earlier, assuming both withdraw from their accounts at the same rate.

A little more than a decade ago, its ranks were likely small — just a dedicated wave of early adopters plunging into the world of social media and digital content creation.

After more than a decade at Yahoo, she was ready for a change and knew she wanted to join an early - stage, high - growth, consumer - facing company.

Fortescue Metals Group surprised investors earlier today with a better - than - expected December quarter production report, but that should not stop speculation that it could be a key player in Western Australia's deal of the decade.

In fact, decades down the road from that first stock, he's surprised more people don't recognize the wisdom in investing early and often, rather than trying to time the market and take advantage of fluctuations.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that productivity has only risen 1 % YOY from 2015 to 2016, much less than the typical increase experienced earlier in the decade.

Dave Peck was an early champion of influencer and social media marketing who has been active in online communities for more than a decade.

Asked Shenfeld: «When it's claimed that today's median American family is worse off than one decade ago, do we really capture the benefits from the existence of the Internet, cellphones and other goods that couldn't have been in the earlier consumption basket at any price?»

Although from 1972 to 1976 Americans produced nearly one million fewer babies per year than they had a decade earlier, maternity - ward traffic later rebounded to pre-Vietnam, pre-Watergate, pre-disco levels, peaking in 1990.

Early versions of ransomware have lurked for more than a decade, but the latest ones are increasingly sophisticated, as are the cyber crime gangs that assiduously update their malignant programs and find novel ways to elude cybersecurity experts and law enforcement.

The seven - year - old Plug and Play Tech Center is no stranger to startup investment; in the course of more than half a decade, it has accelerated 1,500 early - stage companies, by Amidi's reckoning.

A striking 46 percent of renters ages 25 to 34 — the core of the millennial population — spend more than 30 percent of their incomes on rent, up from 40 percent a decade earlier, according to a report by Harvard University's Joint Center of Housing Studies.

But the inventor who had first caught Fortune's eye more than two decades earlier was someone else: a rebellious physics genius, not yet 30, who «never took the trouble to graduate from Harvard» and who had started a small company in a cellar on Boston's Dartmouth Street.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The Obama administration is expected to announce an agreement with Cuba in early July to reopen embassies and restore diplomatic relations severed more than five decades ago, U.S. sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.

Connor Schell, executive producer of ESPN Films, told reporters on a conference call earlier this week that, when he first discussed the project that became Made in America with the director Edelman more than two years ago, they had no idea to what extent the Simpson trial would reassert itself into American popular culture after two decades — not to mention the surge in popularity of the true crime genre, as seen recently with documentary series like Netflix's Making a Murderer and HBO's The Jinx.

Moreover, CBO's latest baseline assumptions predict earnings to grow faster for high - income earners than for others in the next decade, [32] suggesting that the Great Recession and financial crisis may have had only a temporary impact on the rising trend of income gains at the top, much as the impact of the dot - com collapse in the early 2000s was only temporary.

As Barry Eichengreen writes of the British economy, «Its performance compares less favorably with Europe's in the «twenties, when it persistently lagged its Continental rivals, than in the «thirties, when it closed much of the gap that had opened up in that earlier decade.»

In 2012, the number of guns made in the United States totaled 8.5 million, more than double the 3.3 million that were produced a decade earlier.

Over the past decade immigrants have arrived in Canada better educated and at similar stages in their careers as those born in Canada, but evidence suggests that they have been less successful than earlier waves of immigrants.

Rubin strolled out the door of Citigroup in early 2009 $ 120 million richer than when he originally rolled his shopping cart into the well - stocked aisles of hubris at Citigroup almost a decade earlier.

Early this week I was with an Australian government representative in Beijing whom I have known for many years and he told me that iron ore prices were currently around $ 83 (I think they dropped another $ 2 last week), and that while some people in Canberra were reluctant to say it too loudly, he and others were increasingly in agreement with my lower forecast of less than $ 50 well before the end of the decade, in part because supply has come off much more slowly than predicted, but mainly because they now recognize that China's rebalancing was indeed going to be a far bigger deal for Chinese demand than sell - side research had predicted.

Earlier this week, Congress passed the first overhaul of the U.S. tax system in more than three decades.

The largest negative deviation was in October 1974, when the actual annual 10 - year return for the S&P 500 was about 5 % lower than the projections that our valuation methodology indicated a decade earlier.

This year's flu season is hitting early and hard, the worst the U.S. has seen in more than a decade.

Still, the weak showing left G.M. with a lower market share for the year than it had a year earlier despite executives» promises that G.M. would begin to grow again after decades of shrinking market share.

Young Conservative staffers have, on balance, been likelier to marry off and start families at a young age than their Liberal predecessors a decade earlier.