Years in sentence

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And we were doing so for thousands of years, whether it's when we hunted in packs, or farmed in cooperatives, before this big system called hyper-consumption came along and we built these fences and created out own little fiefdoms.

I bet, in a couple of years, that phrases like "coworking" and "couchsurfing" and "time banks" are going to become a part of everyday vernacular.

Now products-service systems have been around for years.

I've been living with HIV for the past four years.

War in my homeland forced me to flee to Uganda in 2008, nine years ago.

This sort of behavior has been going on for three, four, five million years, and we can't step in and say, "That's wrong, and that's right."

Our assignment is to develop protocols for the housing for 400 million people in 12 years.

A couple of years ago, I was in New York, and I was pitching a deal, and I was in one of those fancy New York private equity offices you can picture.

A study in the last two years of people entering the workforce out of college showed that 57 percent of boys entering, or men, I guess, are negotiating their first salary, and only seven percent of women.

And if two years ago you didn't take a promotion and some guy next to you did, if three years ago you stopped looking for new opportunities, you're going to be bored because you should have kept your foot on the gas pedal.

So a few years ago, L.A. County decided that they needed to spend 2.5 billion dollars to repair the city schools.

Now, two dozen men can tear down a mountain in several months, and only for about a few years' worth of coal.

Three years of dirty energy with not many jobs, or centuries of clean energy with the potential for developing expertise and improvements in efficiency based on technical skills, and developing local knowledge about how to get the most out of that region's wind.

I spent some years watching how good intentions for community empowerment, that were supposed to be there to support the community and empower it, actually left people in the same, if not worse, position that they were in before.

And I know a little bit about these issues, because, for many years, I spent a long time in the non-profit industrial complex, and I'm a recovering executive director, two years clean.

So, I'll start with this: a couple years ago, an event planner called me because I was going to do a speaking event.

Because, by the time you're a social worker for 10 years, what you realize is that connection is why we're here.

My one year turned into six years: Thousands of stories, hundreds of long interviews, focus groups.

And so then I went back into the research and spent the next couple of years really trying to understand what they, the whole-hearted, what choices they were making, and what we are doing with vulnerability.

Which just, I hope in 100 years, people will look back and go, "Wow."

Ken and I have been working together for almost 40 years.

The Pennsylvania sentencing guidelines required a minimum sentence for a crime like this of two years, 24 months.

The mandatory minimum sentence for armed robbery is five years.

Michael was sentenced to five years in prison.

Now the striking thing about this is that psychologists have known this for 30 years.

Psychologists have known about the negative consequences of incentivizing everything for 30 years.

Two-and-a-half years ago, I fainted from exhaustion.

That idea only came into being 300 years later, and most Islamic scholars see it as the equivalent of people with wings sitting on clouds and strumming harps.

I think that we're going to see, over the next 10, 20, 30 years, a real science of creativity that's burgeoning and is going to flourish, Because we now have new methods that can enable us to take this process like complex jazz improvisation, and study it rigorously.

And I think, hopefully in the next 10, 20 years, you'll see real, meaningful studies that say science has to catch up to art, and maybe we're starting now to get there.

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