Usually, getting a drug from the laboratory to the market takes a decade and a half.
It poignantly recalls the pioneering days of mobile phones a decade and a half ago.
By some estimates China alone might use 26m tonnes a year within a decade and a half.
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Today we live in a world that's demonstrably better off than it was a decade and a half ago.
Mr Ozawa has done as much before, ending the only other period of non-LDP rule a decade and a half ago.
But Bristol-Myers is counting on this drug bringing returns for 15 years--and a lot can change in a decade and a half.
He opened his first restaurant in Manhattan a decade and a half ago and now has over 30 restaurants in cities across the country.
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Hammond was convinced the MLP business was poised for a growth spurt, like the one REITs had enjoyed a decade and a half earlier.
At 77 -- his birthday is July 18 -- he would be, by a decade and a half, the oldest American to go into space.
Pitchford says that the finished Forever will be completely up to date but still the game 3D Realms labored on for a decade and a half.
In a little more than a decade and a half, he has wracked up 54 wins (38 KOs), 5 loses and 2 draws in 61 pro bouts.
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Lieberburg has been developing Alzheimer's medicines at Elan's South San Francisco research labs for a decade and a half, since they were a standalone biotech called Athena Neurosciences .
Jill Hanauer, the president of the Denver-based political consulting firm Project New America, said Colorado is more urbanized and diverse today than it was a decade and a half ago.
About a decade and a half ago, she hosted an Oscar Night Party and there was a cake and guests had an Oscar pool and screamed every time somebody won.
Dickey bounced around the minors for a decade and a half and only two years ago had the ignominious distinction of being the first player cut by the Mets in spring training.
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In an effort to keep pace, organizations are scrambling to get new mobile capabilities into market, just as a decade and a half ago they were rushing to launch their first transactional websites.
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Set against them are those who hope The Daily can help to show the way forward for the publishing business after a decade and a half of wandering in the wilderness of the Internet.
Cindy Evans, director of a county clinic for children in Raleigh, says the percentage of her patients who are Hispanic has leapt from perhaps 2% a decade and a half ago to about 65%.
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Sixty percent of myeloma patients die within five years, but Giusti beat the odds, living for a decade and a half through multiple rounds of drug therapy and a bone marrow transplant from her twin sister.
First, while claiming that staff retention is better than at its rivals, Cazenove wants a currency to pay its staff that is more immediately alluring than the prospect of a partnership after a decade and a half of service.
For a decade and a half Leach traveled the globe with a producer and a cameraman, capturing weekly glimpses of castles in Germany, solid-gold apartments in Hong Kong and the homes of Hugh Hefner, Joan Collins and legions of other celebrities.
Nathan Myhrvold , former chief technology officer of Microsoft (nyse: MSFT - news - people), has lately taken to comparing the current state of biotech to the revolution in computing he joined more than a decade and a half ago.
Art-world experts are quick to point out that the market today has a strong foundation, with a cheap dollar and stable equity markets, in contrast to the puffed up prices of a decade and a half ago that were largely driven by the hyperactive Japanese economy.
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Bob Casey suffered a rift with the national party on abortion in an incident that continues to rankle some religious voters more than a decade-and-a-half later.
On the other, consumer spending for the coming several years is likely to be a fraction of what it was in the decade and a half before the 2008 crash.
Teams from England have been a regular presence in the Champions League quarterfinals and beyond over the past decade and a half, since the competition format was changed.
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Crime lurched upward and would continue to climb for a decade and half.
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Convener of the Crichton Foundation, Dame Barbara Kelly, said the backing from councillors was a strong indication that the hard work of the current partners responsible for the campus over the past decade and a half would not go to waste.
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