Sentences with phrase «took less than a decade»

Bitcoinist: The pace of tech adoption has been accelerating from the 19th century onwards, with smartphone technology now only taking less than a decade.

And, at a point very, very soon, the billionaire who took less than a decade to build the world's fourth biggest iron ore producer will start eye - balling chief executives of some of Australia's biggest gas users and recommending they put their future supply contracts where their mouths have been.

Not exact matches

But it was only in the last decade that the state began taking advantage of its vast wind - energy resources, growing from less than 1 percent of net electricity production in 2005 to nearly 30 percent in 2016.

Take the underrepresentation of women among tech entrepreneurs together with an overwhelmingly male VC population (with their presumably dude - heavy networks and natural affinity for the types of companies that speak to men) and the result has been dismal amounts of investor dollars going to female founders — less than five percent just a decade ago.

The «termination without cause» took less than a minute, as Beutner was then escorted back to his office by T - Pub SVP for Human Resources Cindy Ballard — the same drill employed as protocol as so many newspaper jobs have been cut over the last decade.

That software has taken over and changed many aspects of the global economy in less than a decade is now clear.

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less - than - desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

Even less did it take account of the till longer predisposing factors for which the U.S. is more to blame than Saddam Hussein: the decade spent competing with the U.S.S.R. in building up Hussein's forces, and the explicit statements made in July to the effect that what Hussein might choose to do with border problems was not our concern.

In less than a decade it had gone from a Tasmanian family run business to the poster child for Australian success in China as it took advantage of surging demand for foreign infant formula which became known as «white gold».

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.

- 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

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.

This event was not expected to occur for decades; because of the high numbers mussels present, however, this return is taking place in less than a decade.»

«The climate transitions that we studied took place on millenial time scales, less than a thousand years, with some occurring over just decades to centuries,» Gibson says.

In less than a decade, the deadly bat disease called white - nose syndrome has taken hold across the eastern half of the United States and up into Canada.

The governments of the world, and our government in particular, seem presently much less than enthusiastic about exploring the oceans of our own planet than in exploring other planets (ocean research seems to have taken a particular hit in the last decade of Congressional budget cuts, although admittedly, all agencies have seen cutbacks).

I can understand that approaching equilibrium takes a long, long time, while TCR gives a better measure of what will happen over the next few decades (and that technology and society may be very different in 200 years time); but on the other hand, I thought nations had agreed to try to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C overall, and not just to limit it to less than 2 degrees C by 2100.

From an instantaneous doubling of atmospheric CO2 content from the pre-industrial base level, some models would project 2 °C (3.6 °F) of global warming in less than a decade while others would project that it would take more than a century to achieve that much warming.

Since the decade has totally come back in style in the past 3 years, I say do yourself a favor and instead of buying that Supreme x Alexander Wang $ 400 hoodie, take a trek to your local vintage store where they undoubtedly have a much cooler one for less than $ 40.

Ed Helms of Office and Hangover fame takes on the mantle of Russ, the grown up youngest Griswold who, like his father (Chase) decades before him, is determined to unite his family in less - than - ideal times through the means of a car trip across the USA.

It is a bit strange to see the movie version of an event that many will remember took place less than a decade ago.

Parents, teachers, and state and local leaders have waited for more than a decade to take back control of their schools, and they deserve nothing less.

For decades, American schools have been engaged in a failed experiment, attempting to cram more content into a typical teaching day than humanly possible, asking children to learn overwhelming content at younger and younger ages without taking the time to build the foundation skills needed for learning success or behavioral success, and creating anxiety - filled classrooms in which children are less likely to fall deeply in love with learning.

In creating its name, the Legislature indicated that the new agency should take a less dictatorial and punitive approach to school improvement than the federal government prescribed during the past decade under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

«After serving more than a decade as a superintendent, I have learned firsthand that our education system is often shaped more by the politically safe and less by the fearless experimentation it takes to truly improve schools for all students.»

The Gallardo (named for a breed of fighting bull) took less than 24 months to top the previous record of 2,903 Diablos, built over a decade.

He's also a fan of companies that can consistently create cash flow, and given his historical preferences, the Oracle of Omaha has generally bought stocks that are inherently less volatile than the broad market — attributes that only took the world of academia five decades to officially figure out, even though Buffett has been willing to drop such hints for about as long.

It boils down to this: how easily can the Fed reduce policy accommodation with out derailing the recovery, and will it take less time than it did / will Japan (they are into two lost decades now, are they trying for three?).

Card issuers and auto lenders may also be taking a cautious approach because subprime borrowers are less likely to be able to tap into home equity in an emergency than they could a decade ago.

Some applauded him for taking a stand for something he believes in, while others wondered if it was a stunt to cover up for his less - than - stellar play on the field for the San Francisco 49ers after leading the team to the Super Bowl nearly half a decade ago.

The break up between Hideo Kojima and Konami, more precisely the company where he worked for no less than three decades, was one of the most shocking news of recent times, taking everyone by surprise.

In the middle of the decade she began showing regularly at the Fournier Gallery, although Mr. Fournier was less than enthusiastic about the new direction her work had taken late in the decade.

I am not yet in my 40's but was raised in a very alternative community of people in nyc in the 70's and 80's... amidst the depression of the city at that time, there were tons of free - thinking individuals, groups and companies leading the way presenting biofuel - concepts and ideas, or promoting industries based on recycling things rather than being a disposable society... there have always been large numbers of people in the pro-environment movement country and world - wide that cried out about how alternative thinking would lead to newer, more positive and less harmfully - impacting industries and tried to introduce inventions that could have spurred new economies... Had the auto industry not blocked things, we could have had more energy efficient cars decades ago... but they did not want the «expense» of helping foster this new industry... it is so damn sad it took a war to make people «wake up» about alternative fuels and how exciting the options are.

El Nino is a cyclical phenomenon with the length of these cycles being less than a decade (i.e. it takes c. 7 years to go from an El Nino to La Nina and back again to an El Nino).

Is not the precipitous loss of groundwater levels, the fact that deep, rich agricultural soils that took thousands of years to be generated but are now exhausted in less than a decade, the collapse of marine fisheries, the loss of biodiversity (thousands of times higher than background rates), the number of species becoming endangered etc. etc. etc. not enough to say that we are headed in the wrong direction?

I have an inkling what is in the root of both AMO and PDO http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/A&P.htm (both are reconstructions, real data I believe is only taken in last 4 - 5 decades), which leads me to think that the «tele - connection» effect is far less important than it is given credit.

But «big changes in less than a decade» is how paleoclimatologists typically characterize all of the abrupt warmings and coolings in the best ice cores, though the full time course from one stable state to another may take a few decades.

If you can cite me a couple of good references that line up theory and observations to date with a clear exposition supporting a sensitivity of less than 3 with a nice tight clarity that there's no long term sensitivity attached to that to take it higher after further decades or centuries, go for it.

Half of the warming that brought us out of the Wisconsin ice age occurred in less than a decade, the other half took 10,000 years.

Such losses of individuals that take species towards critical viability thresholds can be very fast — within three decades or less, as already evidenced by many species now considered at risk of extinction due to causes other than climate change by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.15 The second kind of abrupt change is simply the terminal event in the extinction process — the loss of the last individual of a species.

I can understand that approaching equilibrium takes a long, long time, while TCR gives a better measure of what will happen over the next few decades (and that technology and society may be very different in 200 years time); but on the other hand, I thought nations had agreed to try to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C overall, and not just to limit it to less than 2 degrees C by 2100.

In practical terms it means that the total premium that the person pays for the entire 20 years is actually less than what they would pay if they take a 10 year policy and then renew it again for another decade.

Many would probably agree, particularly when consideration is taken of the number of relatively recent innovations in car technology that should make a return, or introduction, to driving for an older person a much less daunting prospect than it might have been in decades past.

Dental assisting certification generally takes less than a year to complete, which makes this a smart career choice for those fresh out of high school or college, or those looking to change careers after years or decades of experience in the workforce.

On her first day she observed a typical theater audition, cattle - call style and in less than eight hours learned what it takes most people decades to learn about interviews.