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Just because, first of all, if you look at the history of the last couple of decades, you know, it's always been push forward at full speed, it's OK, that's our only choice.
Astronomers spent the next two decades meticulously tracking the position of Uranus across the sky, but it still didn't fit Bouvard's predictions.
If a population is wiped out, it can take decades to replenish.
Many people wrote us that they felt hope for a better future for themselves for the first time in decades.
But we have, somehow, in the course of the last few centuries, or even decades, started to cultivate an image of a mythical, rural agricultural past.
With the advent of the Industrial Revolution with modernization of agriculture in the last few decades, since the 1960s, food availability, per head, in this world, has increased by 25 percent.
Whether the downfall of the Russian monarchy was a product of the monk’s curse, or the result of political tensions decades in the making, well, we may never know.
They spoke with a passion, an urgency, an intellectual conviction that, for me, was a voice I had not heard in decades, a dream long forgotten.
So if you live on planet Earth and you're one of seven billion people that eats food every day, I need you to pay attention, because over the next three decades, we will need to address one of the most critical global challenges of our generation.
And many have been doing it for decades.
The exponential growth of computing started decades before Gordon Moore was even born.
From your standpoint this means a great increase in climate refugees over the coming decades, and what goes along with that, which is resource wars and chaos wars, as we're seeing in Darfur.
And for many decades now there have been a series of TOMS satellites that have collected data about the radiation of the Earth's surface.
The last several decades have seen the creation and rapid development of what are called "focus-tunable lenses."
For context: the number of new class of antibiotics that have been discovered over the last three decades is zero.
In his writing career spanning over four decades, this man has chosen words with beauty and versatility, like a flower springing to life ... like Mr. Bachchan’s memorable punches ... (Laughter) like a best-selling book of Urdu poetry ... like well ... what do I say, only Javed Akhtar Sahab.
But in the last two decades, it has experienced an unprecedented expansion, now accounting for roughly 15 percent of the world's GDP.
The last two decades have been the champagne era for dirty lucre.
That puts him up there on the Olympus of gangsters with the Colombian cartels and the major Russian crime syndicates, but he did this for decades in the very heart of Wall Street, and no regulator picked up on it.
My past three decades of studying anxiety in children stems partly from my own search for self-understanding.
Decades on, her work retains its wild energy— and O’Keeffe her personal mystique.
Here are just some of the pipeline projections and possibilities and scenarios and routes that are being mapped out for the next several decades.
What does it mean for us to think that at a time that was two, three decades before the end of slavery, that people were learning how to read, they had to learn how to do math, they had to be on the cutting edge of science and technology, to do math, physics and chemistry just to make a single photograph.
If you think about the last three decades, the consumer has moved from savvy about marketing in the '90s, to gathering all these amazing social and search tools in this decade.
And you can't isolate just the difficult feelings, so I lost access to the joy, the pleasure, the play, and I spent decades like that, with this his low-grade depression, thinking that this is what it meant to be a grown-up.
The last three decades, we have done about three-and-a-half million surgeries, a vast majority of them for the poor people.
It will be prohibited because we'll have to save our natural resources in a few decades from now.
Yet we're still dealing with a lot of the same challenges as many decades ago.
It was a Japanese scientist who first undertook serious field studies of the Bonobo, almost three decades ago.
Video: Narrator: By raising Bonobos in a culture that is both Bonobo and human, and documenting their development across two decades, scientists are exploring how cultural forces (Laughter) may have operated during human evolution.
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