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Harry Cliff: I was very lucky that I joined the experiment I work on at the LHC in 2008, just as we were switching on, and there are people in my research group who have been working on it for three decades, their entire careers on one machine.

And Europe, to a large extent, failed in that investment in the past few decades.

For decades, these parts were called silent areas, their function elusive.

But my own experiences working with some of the world's most water-starved cities in the last decades have shown me that we have the technologies and the management skills to actually transition away from imported water, and that's what I want to tell you about tonight.

We've been doing this for a couple of decades now.

We've made tremendous progress in seawater desalination in the past two decades.

Only a few decades ago, news was broad-based.

Partial lobotomies had been used for decades to treat mental patients based on the notion that mental functions were strictly localized to corresponding brain areas.

Wigner pointed out that many purely mathematical theories developed in a vacuum, often with no view towards describing any physical phenomena, have proven decades or even centuries later, to be the framework necessary to explain how the universe has been working all along.

But the good news is that decades of development and research have led to a lot of new technologies and knowledge that allow us to do a lot better.

For the past several decades, the exponential growth in computer storage capacity and processing power has followed a pattern known as Moore's Law, which, in 1975, predicted that information density would double every two years.

For decades, researchers have asked, "What happens when we communicate?"

Decades of overfishing had brought them close to collapse.

So many refugees are left with no choice but to remain in camps for years and sometimes even decades.

Nitrous oxide became popular in the decades that followed and is still used today.

With a 60% rise in child obesity globally over just two decades, the problem is too significant to ignore.

So after decades of development, construction and imagination and a breathtaking amount of hard work, they built their detector, called LIGO: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.

And yet, decades ago, scholars found that it's theoretically possible to not just spread human civilization across the galaxy, but to do so quite quickly, without breaking any known laws of physics.

It turns out that decades ago, skilled pilots were able to fly remote-controlled aircraft that had only two moving parts: a propeller and a tail rudder.

Now, cities have been dealing with this problem for decades.

But there's a creature so resilient that it can go without it for decades.

But focus groups have remained largely the same for decades.

But for decades, we've explored from a seat behind screens and keyboards.

Well, the irony of all of this is that we actually don't have to look any further than our backyard, because right here in America are the very ideas, the very people, who have swept our world into a radically different place than it was two decades ago.

Well, once you protect the core interests of nations, then you can understand that nations were ready to begin to converge onto a common path, onto a common direction of travel that is going to take us probably several decades, but over those several decades is going to take us into the new economy, into a decarbonized, highly resilient economy, And the national contributions that are currently on the table on behalf of national governments are insufficient to get us to a stabilized climate, but they are only the first step, and they will improve over time.

Jenipher is 65 years old, and for decades has been running a food stall in the central business district.

Three researchers from the Centre for Creative Leadership, in a study done two decades ago that's been replicated many, many times, they interviewed over 200 executives in a report called 'Key events in executives' lives'.

Firstly, because greenhouse gases, once released, stay in the atmosphere for decades.

The Nightingale ward, as it is called, dominated hospital design for decades to come, and elements of it are still used today.

They've been swept away over the last two decades by these types of world-flattening digitization technologies, right?

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