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People have actually been working on this for decades.
More black men die from high blood pressure than from anything else, even though decades of medical wisdom and science have demonstrated that death from high blood pressure can be prevented with timely diagnosis and appropriate treatment.
If we did, then every parent would have the confidence to name their child the moment that child is born, daring to dream that that child's life will be measured in decades, not days.
Although the belief and tradition of the zodiac sign has been over thousands of years, the trend of using it in making major decisions did not really happen until the past few decades.
But that's only because high school wages have been cut to the bone, for decades now.
For decades, workers with a high school degree have been denied a fair share of what they have produced.
You see, what had happened was, over the last two decades, India had been fighting the challenge of access, having enough schools, and enrollment, bringing children into the schools.
It took this medium decades to figure out its preferred language of storytelling, in the form of a feature film.
Over 10,000 physicists and engineers from 85 countries around the world have come together over several decades to build this machine.
For nationalists, globalism is rapidly deconstructing what our ancestors took decades to build.
And left on the side of the road are hundreds of millions of people in Western middle classes with anemic income growth for more than two decades, possibly three decades, according to some studies.
The region’s bamboo plants produce massive amounts of fruit just once every few decades.
Fast-forward a couple of decades, and I hope I didn't do too badly in making my father proud of his would-be son.
In the past two decades, we've begun to use digital money.
It can change by itself into very complex structures by a procedure that took decades to develop.
The Zaraeeb, that’s how they call themselves, which means the pig breeders, have been collecting the garbage of Cairo and sorting it in their own neighborhood for decades.
It had been growing at five percent per annum for the last one and a half decades, but this year's forecast was three percent.
The '80s and '90s were the lost decades, when Africa was not doing well, and some of you will remember an "Economist" cover that said, "The Lost Continent."
250 million children were immunized in the last one and a half decades.
The other thing we have not done is that our economies retain the same structure that we've had for decades.
We're seeing young founders of companies in their early 20s scale them up to global giants by the time they get to 30, and yet, we expect these young digital leaders to somehow miraculously embody the relationship wisdoms we older workers have had decades to learn.
If we extrapolate this out over the next two decades with the growth of baby boomers, at this rate it is 60 percent of the GDP.
Luckily, three decades ago, humans started to invent tools that can find any specific line of genetic information.
The technology likely to have the greatest impact on the next few decades has arrived.
You know, for the past few decades, we've had the internet of information.
In one famous example from decades ago, the management of Vanity Fair magazine actually circulated a memo entitled: "Forbidding Discussion Among Employees of Salary Received."
A few decades later, the suffragettes brought a spirit of theatricality to their fight, marching together in white dresses as they claimed the franchise.
But it's been over a half century since Selma and the Voting Rights Act, and in the decades since, this face-to-face culture of voting has just about disappeared.
It's only within the last few decades that a map like this could be drawn.
And soon after I had taken that formal step to becoming an American, the attacks of September 11, 2001, changed the immigration landscape for decades to come.
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