At current usage rates we will exhaust the proved reserves in a few decades.
Until only a few decades ago, desertion was the most common military offense committed.
Today, students with disabilities are reaching achievements considered unattainable just a few decades ago.
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And while that's better than it was a few decades ago, it's nowhere near good enough.
Within a few decades, says Dr Turner, the entire observable universe will have been digitised.
The other is to not pay any or very little interest for a few decades.
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You would think these people did not realize Interstate 40 passed them by a few decades ago.
The space-lifts, he reckoned, would become reality a few decades after people stopped laughing at the idea.
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Scientific processes have only been with us a few hundred years, talent management processes a few decades.
But I imagine that it will be quite a few decades before we find out for certain.
As the Times reports, families look very different today than they did just a few decades ago.
"It was such a thriving community" a few decades ago, said Mr. Ryan, 62, a native of Binghamton.
In 70% of cases, up from only 30% a few decades ago, water is supplied for a profit.
"I think we're in the same position the gay movement was in a few decades ago, " said Dawkins.
It is quite possible that Force Recon may not exist in a few decades, but not a certainty.
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Only a few decades ago, incredibly, some "experts" said Japan would forever be a poor, underdeveloped, mostly agricultural nation.
Mr. VERRALL: So it's definitely one that's been around for a few decades.
Vintage, not to be confused with grunge (oversized sweaters and flannel shirts) brings us back a few decades further.
He made a lot of money a few decades ago investing in mutual savings bank conversions to stock ownership.
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Fremont in 1844, and swarmed with silver prospectors just a few decades later.
We can make the transition to peace and prosperity easily in a few years--or painfully over a few decades.
How will we see the mavericks and innovators, the movements that may seem off-putting or inconsequential a few decades later?
Today we grant welfare assistance to families that only a few decades earlier would have been perceived as relatively well-off.
In saying that, they forget that government taxes us today in ways people never considered just a few decades ago.
In order to head off the worst problems a few decades hence, action will need to be taken straight away.
Yet it is the developing world that will be producing the lion's share of global greenhouse emissions within a few decades.
Thus, over the course of a few decades, the concentration of the gas in the atmosphere will return to pre-industrial levels.
Some people think that climate change might force tens of millions of people to get moving within just a few decades.
In his 1990 novel Earth, Brin depicted a time just a few decades from now when a worldwide network would connect everyone.
Computers have been getting faster, smaller, and cheaper for decades, making practical applications that would have been prohibitively expensive a few decades ago.
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