Women are more likely to take years off of work outside of the home because of family responsibilities.
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Research shows that being seriously overweight can take ten years off an average lifespan.
"We're trying to reach people who just can't take two years off to go back to school, " Rosen says.
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For some people, a recession is a good time to take two years off, rather than job-hunt fruitlessly at home.
But one of the issue if you have with that is for disease and pests, if you want to have crop rotation which when you only have one place to grow something it's kind of like, am I going to take three years off growing tomatoes.
Dryers took just four years to take off in Sweden, but 11 years in Britain and 12 years in Portugal.
The sale enabled Ambras, who won't say how much he made, to take a few years off to ski.
For the European Commission, it means a lot more references to the word growth in Brussels policy documents - and a lot of new European infrastructure projects which might well take years to get off the ground.
But after his business endeavors failed to take off for years, Njoku had no option but to move back to his mother's house in London.
"There is always a gap between development and deployment, " says Alan Brown, an analyst with Gartner Research, noting that Bluetooth technology took four or five years to take off after it was finalized.
For some, it could take years to get their ideas off the ground.
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The only other alternative is that we have our free will trampled and be told by the federal govt each parent must take a minimum of 2 years off to raise each child they have.
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Housing, totally depressed, could take at least two years to work off inventory of unsold homes.
And so even as we were dealing with the economic crisis, we tried not, over the last three years, to take our eye off the larger purpose of rebuilding an economy that has a firmer foundation.
The IMF retorts that it might take 20 years for Europe to pay off the government debt built up during the 2008 financial crisis, global recession, and recovery, recalling that it took that long to pay off the debts Europe ran up during World War II without unduly creating hardships on the population.
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In July 2014 we will launch the International Crown, which will take place in off-Solheim Cup years.
However, IBRC was going to take at least 10 more years to pay off its ELA loans.
These power plants have actually been around since the 1970s, but the technology has only started to take off in the last few years.
He added that it would take 11 years for the measure to pay off, and that it would be difficult to put legislation through without other areas of the UK demanding similar measures.
The lesson from that story: Persistence and patience can pay off, but it may take years.
"To get FDA approval for a prescription drug, it would be prohibitively expensive and could take years, which would keep TA-65 off the market, " founder Noel Patton wrote in an email.
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There is little or no chance that Russia or China will abandon their friend, and even vaunted banking sanctions will take years to bite and may yet be sloughed off by a very tough regime.
The move will take Dell off the Nasdaq stock exchange after 25 years.
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Bezos has been funneling money into the Texas firm for years in hopes of developing a vertical take-off, vertical landing rocket.
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The dish is so popular, he said, that he hasn't been able to take it off the menu since he opened six years ago.
Let me make this personal (and the gender wage gap IS personal): Sixteen years ago, I left the workforce to take time off to raise my son.
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It may take years, even decades, for all these changes to pay off.
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