Bluetooth, as another example, has been around for a much longer time but is still increasing in popularity.
As a recent study confirms, on a much longer time scale, genes are even at the mercy of culture.
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But, conveniently, the Levada report also contained polling data from a much longer time horizon with many more data points.
But many of our readers hope to communicate over much longer time frames: 15% chose three years, 18% chose five years, 16% chose ten years, and 19% will wait two decades to get their message.
They also favor naval power, but ships take a much longer time than planes to get places in the vast expanses of the Western Pacific, and the Navy has little in the way of long-range aircraft.
"Massmart is well positioned as a springboard for sub-Saharan Africa, but we believe that it will take a much longer time period for the company to earn its cost of capital in Africa, " said Janney Montgomery Scott analyst David Strasser.
And for us to start giving them some serious incentives, giving them additional access to financing, could accelerate a process that otherwise could take a much longer time and, frankly, all those folks out there who are out of work right now, they just can't afford to wait any longer -- they need it now.
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Because of technology, there are less people needed to manufacture and service the durable equipment that we use because this stuff is working better and for a much longer period of time.
With closing velocities exceeding 80mph, sailors no longer have much time to think before taking action.
We found that the time to diagnosis was much longer in children than in adults.
Portfolio working has evolved from a growing belief that guarantees of permanent full-time employment cannot continue for much longer.
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That means seeking out the reward structures that will entice them to be on duty longer while making old work-time much more flexible.
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So much time has passed, that the quasars no longer even exist anymore.
Of course this time I will enter these names with a much longer leash and minimal expectations.
Again, the mutant mice behaved appropriately, but they were much less aggressive, spent less time fighting and they took longer breaks between attacks.
But look at any of these charts and they show structural unemployment at an all-time high, with the situation getting much worse the longer the duration of unemployment.
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Eventually, we start getting longer sequences that feature Shakespeare's melodious dialogue, since much screen time is taken up with the rehearsals.
The study also assumed a 30-year time horizon but a growing number of people are living much longer than that in retirement.
For a start, the order-to-delivery time is very long, up to two months, much longer than customers for true mass-market cars would be prepared to wait.
That is true but slightly unfair, as sendmail has a much longer history than most MTAs, and it has been clean for quite some time.
One of the ways that retirement planning has become more difficult is that longer life expectancies mean that people may have to plan to spend as much time in retirement as they did working.
As a result, we are all stuck now with courses that are longer and more expensive to maintain than they need to be, and take too much time to play.
Engaged employees were much more likely to say their companies offered at least some flex time and to report working longer hours than actively disengaged colleagues or those who were not engaged.
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Overall, across the longer time frame (November 2011 to November 2012), the numbers did not change much for the global media landscape.
For the time being, everything is being done on credit, but that won't last much longer either.
He said so much time had passed and Germany had changed geographically, with many letters addressed to places that no longer formed part of modern Germany.
The broader question is whether what worked for Yale and Harvard, for a time, can be a successful strategy for a much broader range of universities over a much longer period.
It has fundamental significance for UNESCO nowadays, at a time when science has tremendous power to shape the future of humanity and when it no longer makes much sense to design science policy in purely national terms.
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