Its very long-distance applications are years, perhaps decades off.
Any civilisation that has built a Dyson sphere will have to have been around for a long time, of course and in the very long run its star will start to change in unpleasant ways, ballooning to form a red giant.
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"We've been campaigning for this for a very long time and its really important as part of the regeneration of the north of the city, " she said.
Although the East India Company flourished a very long time ago, in a very different world, its growth, longevity and demise have lessons for those who run today's state companies and debate their future, lessons about the benefits of linking a company's interests to a nation's and the dangers of doing so.
However, Matthews has been writing about Russia and its energy-dependent economy for a very long time.
The very fact of Facebook offering its long-coveted shares to the public will reinvigorate demand, not just for its own stock but for the whole tech sector.
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Its been a long road with only a very modest return to date.
Well, because one of the major downsides of buying a house is that your equity is locked up in it and you have this very long term mortgage contract that its hard to get out of.
Apple had previously been a long-term investment because its future seemed very certain and competition had not really become an issue.
And so when Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, it didn't take very long for the Reagan administration to make up its mind to put its support largely behind Iraq.
The dinosaur had a very long tail, up to twice the length of its body.
An electric car's longevity depends a great deal on how long its battery lasts, not least since it is very expensive to replace them.
The US can always roll over its debt as it comes due and interest payments will be manageable for a very long time.
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Ford, he says, is very satisfied with the pace of its turnaround effort in Europe, especially given how long it took to get its North American recovery plan off the ground in 2005 and 2006.
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If Brazil scares off the best operators in the business it will be a very long time before Petrobras is able to build out these offshore oil fields on its own.
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So although a significant degree of skepticism is warranted with regards to the Eurasian Union, the Russian government has a very long history of grandiose projects that have floundered on the rocks of reality, its program of liberalization actually strikes me as a modestly progressive one that ought to be welcomed, not a neo-Soviet one that should be mocked.
It was very long at 348 feet and with a short wingspan of 131 feet, which suited its function.
While elevated iodine has been most widely reported, its 8-day half life is very short, and iodine tablets offer good protection from the primary long-term health risk: thyroid cancer.
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"The role of liquid water on Mars is of great importance for its habitability and this study using Mars Express describes a very large zone where groundwater was present for a long time, " said Olivier Witasse, a project scientist with ESA's Mars Express.
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Rather, the public should know that air emissions associated with hydraulic fracturing (where they exist) remain a small part of a very large and complex issue, that the oil and gas production industry has long done its part to reduce air emissions from a variety of sources, and that reasonable minds can differ about whether the new regulations make sense as adopted.
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On the other hand a practical reactor can be distinguished by the following characteristics: (1) It is being built now. (2) It is behind schedule. (3) It requires an immense amount of development on apparently trivial items. (4) It is very expensive. (5) It takes a long time to build because of its engineering development problems. (6) It is large. (7) It is heavy. (8) It is complicated.
Sam Raimi has brought a very good version to the screens, given that Spider-Man was created so long ago its hardly surprising that Raimi has dabbled slightly with Spider-Man, though nothing major.
Before things get that far, Washington will re-plead its case to Saudi Arabia to open the taps, or at the very least prompt Ali Naimi (the long standing Saudi oil minister) to quell the market with the right kind of supply side messages.
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While today we are a successful growth company executing on a powerful vision, not so long ago, SAP was faced with the very unpleasant task of cutting 3000 people from its payroll worldwide when software sales dropped sharply during the economic crisis in 2009.
It killed entire brands, Pontiac included, and axed high-performance cars like the G8, a full-size, V8-powered sedan very similar to the new Chevy SS. It even went so far as to completely disband its long-standing High Performance Vehicle Operations unit, which had developed such fast, gas-guzzling cars as the Cadillac CTS-V and Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1.
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Sure to be staple of crush-fueled mixtapes for as long as such a thing exists, "Much More Than That" feels contradictory in its very nature: It's a brilliantly expressed look at the way big love can't always be expressed brilliantly.
Nokia has long dominated the low-priced end of the handset market, and its no-frills phones remain very popular in developing economies.
Though the LUMILEO P100 is a very small device that fits into even the smallest pocket, the pico-presenter punches above its weight: Its long-lasting LED light combined with the high-quality optics allow users to project pictures up to a size of 152 cm (measured diagonally) onto a wall.
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