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"There's an ancient legend that as long as these eggs are made, evil will not prevail in the world," says Joan Brander, a Canadian egg-painter who has been painting eggs for over 60 years, having learned the art from her Ukrainian relatives.

92 were found to have higher nicotine yields than they did six years previously.

A new study finds that McDonald's posted its slowest drive-through times since this survey was first conducted 15 years ago.

A number of companies have sprung up—GamEffective, Bunchball and Badgeville, to name a few—in recent years offering gamification platforms for businesses.

About 15 years ago, I was invited to join a knitting group.

About 80% of people 65 years and older have living children, and about 90% of them have frequent contact with their children.

Although many of his specific conclusions have been 35 rejected or modified over the years, his ideas inspired thousands of studies by investigators all over the world.

Although many of his specific conclusions have been rejected or modified over the years, his ideas inspired thousands of studies by investigators all over the world.

And based on past experiences, it takes four to five years after economic recovery for unemployment to return to pre-crisis levels.

As a result, their math grades overtook those of the other students by the end of the first semester—and the gap between the two groups continued to widen during the two years we followed them.

Ask Nima Veiseh what he was doing for any day in the past 15 years, however, and he will give you the details of the weather, what he was wearing, or even what side of the train he was sitting on his journey to work.

At 8 years old, he worked as a kitchen boy for a restaurant in Paris in exchange for room and board.

Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn't become a staple food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researchers.Based on that timing, they indicate barley may have 34 arrived in the re

Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn't become a?staple food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researchers.

But even if people are able to economically support a retirement at 65, over thirty years of potential inactivity is harmful to cognitive (認(rèn)知的) and emotional vitality.

But in his short lifetime, which ended exactly 184 years ago today, he would forever revolutionize French gourmet food (美食), write best-selling cook books and think up magical dishes for royals and other important people.

But it is also important to look at the wider picture of what happens when so many people live for 100 years.

But the word "gamification" and the widespread, conscious application of the concept only began in earnest about five years ago, Werbach says.

But, in the years that followed, her sustained tutoring suggested that Kafka might be wrong about the solitude.

California has been facing a drought for many years now, with certain areas even having to pump freshwater hundreds of miles to their distribution system.

Cracker Jacks has been "gamifying" its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-of-the-century steel magnate (巨頭 Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of

Crowdfunding, raising money for a project through online appeals, has taken off in recent years for everything from making movies to producing water-saving gadgets.

Dori taught high school engineering for 11 years.

Even if those causes of death were eliminated, life expectancy would still not go much beyond 92 years.

Explaining what the data revealed, he said: "What you see is that even after three years, mental health is still better, which is unlike many other things that we think will make us happy." He observed that people living in green spaces were less stressed

figures show the number of male nurses has fallen in the last three years.

For example, sleep duration has declined from some eight hours in the 1950s to seven in recent years.

For many years I have studied global agricultural, population, environmental and economic trends and their interactions.

For me it took the form of my first, and I hope only, encounter with writer's block— I was not able to produce anything for three years.

Giorgio says he's never experienced the Rialto Bridge this way in all his 22 years.

He estimated that the "comfort level" will increase considerably in five to ten years.

He has been growing tea in the Kerugoya area for 40 years.

He says demand has boomed in the past couple of years.

However, Dr Mehmood Khan,chief scientific officer, said the company had doubled research and development spending in the past five years and was "committed to sustaining investment", adding that companies cannot cost-cut their way to increasing sales.

However, the business had been in trouble for years.

I am sure I wrote essays in the later years of high school without my mother's guidance, but I can't recall them.

I fell in love with it instantly and continued with ballet dancing for about ten years.

If I stayed in the U.S., it'd take two years and cost at least 50,000 dollars in tuition alone.

In 1977, when he was 17 years old, James Terry Roach and two friends cruelly murdered three people.

In 2014, for the first time in more than 1 years, adults aged 18 to were slightly more likely to be living in their parents' home than they were to be living with a spouse or partner in their own household.

In 2014, UNESCO gave Italy two years to manage Venice's flourishing tourism or the city would be placed on another list—World Heritage In Danger, joining such sites as Aleppo and Palmyra,destroyed by the war in Syria.

In a three-stage life, people leave university at the same time and the same age, they tend to start their careers and family at the same age, they proceed through middle management all roughly the same time, and then move into retirement within a few yea

In his teenage years, Careme fashioned eatable copies of the late 18th century's most famous buildings—cookies in the shape of ruins of ancient Athens and pies in the shape of ancient Chinese palaces and temples Sylvain Bailly.

In many European countries,where diesel vehicles have become more common in recent years, that number reaches tens of thousands.

In one US study that analysed the health data of 50,000 people over seven years, researchers found that those who made breakfast the largest meal of the day were more likely to have a lower body mass index BMI than those who ate a large lunch or dinner.

In the last seven years, Americans have grown more pessimistic about the power of education to lead to success.

In those years, just after World War I, the military wanted to build an American highway system for national defense.

It has been brought on by years of eating anything he could get his hands on.

It has existed for just a few years.

It's an administrative sham of the kind that has multiplied over the last 30 years.

It's expected to raise $410 million over the next five years, most of which will go toward funding a universal pre-kindergarten program for the city.

I've been involved with pubs off and on for ten years.

Karraker and co-author Kenzie Latham analyzed 20 years of data on 2,717 marriages from a study conducted by Indiana University since 1992.

king willem-Alexander of the Netherlands said that he recently ended his role as a regular "guest pilot" after 21 years with the national airlines fleet of now-outdated aircraft.

Last week, France announced that the country will pave 621 miles of road with solar panels over the next five years, with the goal of providing cheap, renewable energy to five million people.

life expectancy is increasing at two years for every decade.

lions have disappeared from much of Africa, but for the past few years scientists have wondered if the big cats were hanging on in remote parts of Sudan and Ethiopia.

Long before television cooking shows, Careme walked readers through common kitchen tasks, instructing them to "try this for yourself, at home" as famous American Chef Julia Child might do, many years later.

Looking back on too many years of education, I can identify one truly impossible teacher.

Many of the reductions over the past 30 years have been achieved either by reducing the amount of sugar, salt or fat in a product, or by finding an alternative ingredient.

More than 1,000 years ago, they made three important geographical discoveries.

Most people's minds function at a high level even in their later years, according to researcher Timothy Salthouse.

Most roads, bridges, transit, water systems, the electric grid, and communications networks were installed 50 to 100 years ago, and they are largely taken for granted until they fail.

My mother had taught me to knit at 15, and I knitted in class throughout college and for a few years thereafter.

Natural disasters can wreck a community 5s infrastructure, disrupting systems for months or years.

Research is converging on the conclusion that great accomplishment and even genius is typically the result of years of passion and dedication and not something that flows naturally from a gift.

Several years ago, she became interested in eggs and learned the traditional Ukrainian technique to draw her very modern characters.

She describes how the definition of beauty has changed over the years and even from culture to culture.

She's been working in Manchester for two years, and no one, not one of her colleagues had ever invited her to their home.

Should a woman who possessed a small amount of drugs years ago be permanently unable to be licensed as a nurse?

So, for example, my sister's birthday is December 9th and her golden birthday would have been the year she turned nine years old.

That's the conclusion of a new study that finds that Earth's oceans now 26 absorb heat at twice the rate they did 18 years ago.

The alternative, he suggested, was to face the prospect of becoming another Palo Alto, California, where outsize stress on teenage students is believed to have contributed to a number of suicides in the last six years.

The amount of nicotine that's delivered in every cigarette is 10 percent higher than it was six years ago, which means that it's easier to get hooked and harder to quit.

The company spent the last five years developing solar panels that are only about a quarter of an inch thick and are strong enough to stand up to heavy highway traffic without breaking or making the roads more slippery.

The competition only happens every four years and the last time the team went, they won the third place in the nation.

The federal Head Start program, launched 50 years ago, has served more than 30 million children.

The issue of the stresses felt by students in elite school districts has gained attention in recent years as schools in places like Newton, Massachusetts, and Palo Alto have reported a number of suicides.

The land has been independent for over 300 years.

The Maker Movement is rediscovering learning by doing, which is Dewey's phrase from 100 years ago.

The New York State parks system wants to turn off the falls on the American side some time in the next two to three years to replace two 115-year-old stone bridges that allow pedestrians, park vehicles and utilities access to Goat Island.

The number of British films being made has declined in the past few years, according to new figures.

The Olympic got wrecked before the titanic did, but it was the only one to survive and maintain a successful career of 24 years.

The Perfect Essay Looking back on too many years of education, I can identify one truly impossible teacher.

The report warns that 200 million poor workers are at risk of joining the ranks of people living on less than two dollars per day in the past three years.

The researchers gathered 150 years of ocean temperature data in order to get a better picture of heat absorption from surface to seabed.

The secret to eating less and being happy about it may have been cracked years ago—by McDonald's.

The study included healthy, educated adults who took standard tests of memory, reasoning and perception at the outset and at some point over the next seven years.

The young murderer remained on death row for ten years while his lawyer appealed to the governor.

They could be sold, but we want to save them for future years.

Thirty years after he imagined the city, Park's baby is close to 70 percent built, with 36.

We validated these expectations in a study in which two other psychologists and I monitored 373 students for two years during the transition to junior high school, when the work gets more difficult and the grading more strict, to determine how their mind-

We went there about ten years ago for our honeymoon.

When Ted Komada started teaching 14 years ago at killip elementary, he didn't know how to manage a classroom and was struggling to connect with students.

While height increased in Uganda and niger during the early 20th century, the trend has reversed in recent years, with height decreasing among l8-year-olds.

While the public sees greater workplace equality between men and women now than it did 20-30 years ago, most believe more change is needed.

with costs falling and kitchen appliances becoming "status" items, owners are throwing away microwaves after an average of eight years.

within two years, Leah shed the safety of her accounting job and made the switch complete.

Years ago, the government made money by selling public lands, but most of the best public lands have now been sold.

You've been dating since your first year of university, so that six years now?

"It's been the year of interactive television advertising for the last ten or twelve years", says Colin dixon of a digital-media consultancy.

"The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world," read the final declaration from this gathering, the first of a sequence which would lead to t

"There is not any one-hit wonder, and there will not be one for years to come," said Gary Shapiro, president and chief executive of the Consumer Technology Association CT.

"We're obligated to keep a pulse on the population for at least five years after the foxes are delisted," says Boser.

A few years later, a large defense buildup finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs—and suddenly industry was eager to employ those "unadaptable and untrained" workers.

A handful of lawsuits have been filed in recent years against companies accused of using misleading environmental labels.

According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.

Addressing differences in the earliest years, it seems, could reduce inequality in the next generation.

After all, the percentage of Americans who say a college degree is "very important" has fallen drastically in the last 5-6 years.

After being dogged by technical delays for years, sir Richard Branson, virgin Galactic's founder, had recently suggested that a Spaceship Two craft would carry its first paying customers as soon as February 2015.

After studying these products for several years, I wrote a book about how they do it.

After three years of working in a petrol station and doing unpaid work I still hadn't managed to get an entry level job.

After years of pleasing a fascinated audience across Europe with books of detailed descriptions and life-size paintings of familiar insects.

All 67 participants were over 60 years of age, and both groups lost about the same amount of weight.

Although most people do not take out insurance on their young children, as the children become financially independent of the family, the emphasis on family financial security will shift from protection to saving for the retirement years.

Although, over the years, Barbies had more than 180 different careers, including football coach, sign language teacher, ambassador, president and astronaut, her body shape hasn't changed much.

And I'm going to pick a definition from a former colleague, Robert Sternberg, who is now the dean at Tufts University, but was here on our faculty at Yale for nearly 30 years.

And over the years, my stubborn loyalty has been justified.

And the reality is that antibiotics have been responsible for saving millions of lives since penicillin, one of the earliest antibiotics, was first used on a clinical basis 70 years ago.

Another influential feeder for advanced-math students is an online school called Art of Problem Solving, which began about 13 years ago and now has 15,000 users.

Bottom line, if you think you need more protein in your diet, consider these questions: Are you an extreme athlete; are you recovering from injury or surgery; or are you 60 years or older?

But after I moved to Tokyo and lived there for a number of years, I got used to having a pile of to-do lists.

But keeping those foxes from harm will occupy Boser and her colleagues for years to come.

But researchers are improving systems to measure a teacher's performance throughout the year, and, with three years of data, it's usually possible to tell which teachers are failing.

California has spent years preparing for "The Big One"—the inevitable earthquake that will undoubtedly unleash all kinds of havoc along the famous San Andreas fault (斷層).

Chemical testing showed that over the two years before her death, she moved about every two months.

David Mallen, associate director of the Council of Better Business Bureau, said in the last two years the organization had seen an increase in the number of claims companies were bringing against each other for false or misleading environmental product cl

Each featuring a different researcher, one of whom they'd met once two years earlier.

Electronics giants like Best Buy and Samsung have provided e-waste take-back programs over the past few years, which aim to refurbish (翻新) old electronic components and parts into new products.

Even five years ago most people faced a choice.

For example, years when people spent more time with friends were better years for well-being and followed by better years.

For instance, years with a larger increase in online usage were followed by years with lower well-being, rather than the other way around.

For the next few years, you have a chance to focus on thinking.

For years, many of us have relied on antibiotic use to treat various infections.

For years, nutritionists have recommended that pasta be kept to a minimum, to cut calories, prevent fat build-up and stop blood sugar shooting up.

For years, smartphones, televisions, tablets, laptops and desktops have made up a huge part of the market and driven innovation.

Globally, urban populations are expected to double in the next 40 years, and an extra 2 billion people will need new places to live, as well as services and ways to move around their cities.

Gregg Rosen lost his job as a sales nearly three years ago and is still unemployed.

Having lived in Asia for almost 10 years now, I've seen various dieting tips come and go.

historian Paul Lovejoy relates that the cultivation of kola nuts in West Africa is hundreds of years old.

However, the "screen time" hypothesis, advanced by researchers such as Jean Twenge, is that electronic devices and excessive time spent online may have reversed these trends in recent years, causing problems for young people's psychological health.

However, the last such increase in temperature took place two years ago.

If a fellow says "I'm 94 years old and I worked all my life", we need to realize, that is how he got to be 94, by staying involved.

In 1863, after 17 years of advocacy including letters to five presidents, Hale got it.

In a few short years, he turned the magazine on its head.

In recent years, feminists, historians and artists have all praised Merian's tenacity, talent and inspirational artistic compositions.

In recent years, many mid-sized cities have begun to adopt a middle-of-the-road approach incorporating the excitement and opportunity of large cities with small cities' quiet after midnight.

In the last five years or so, there has been an explosion of green claims and environmental claims.

In the past few years, Math Counts added two new middle school programs to try to diversify its participant pool—the National Math Club and the Math video Challenge.

Insurance can be purchased at a lower rate during the young years.

Interactive television advertising, which allows viewers to use their remote controls to click on advertisements, has been pushed for years.

It continued the efforts, begun in 1961, by Project OSCAR—a US-based group that built and launched the very first nongovernmental satellite just four years after Sputnik.

It includes accounting for any piece of debris they plan to release over 5mm that might stay in orbit for 25 years or more.

It is one thing to say that we are going to shift 30 percent of our electricity supply from, say, coal to nuclear power in 20 years.

It notes that, in recent years, experts have come to the conclusion that undernourishment between conception and a child's second birthday can have serious and long-lasting impacts.

It's time to wake up to the fact that making smart buildings, cities and homes will dramatically improve our quality of life in the years ahead.

I've often stopped writing a book and left it for a few years.

Looking back now, nine years later, I can't remember exactly what it was about these universities that made them seem so much better.

Mobile phone champion Nokia, one of Europe's biggest technology success stories, was no 26 exception, losing its market share in just a few years.

More than 20 years after the internet was opened to commerce, the Census Bureau tells us that brick and mortar sales accounted for 92.3 percent of retail sales in the first quarter of 2016.

More than seven years after it was originally supposed to open, it still stands empty.

Mothers have been warned for years that sleeping with their newborn infant is a bad idea, because it increases the risk that the baby might die unexpectedly during the night.

My grandfather spoke of his greatest fear, that of leaving the only home they had known for the past 60 years.

Now, a new study that began with about 1,000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child's low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years.

Of course, as most of us forget memories from our first few years as we grow older, this early long-turn memories will likely be lost in subsequent years.

On the exercise’s website, officials explain that the report they prepare during this rehearsal will inform disaster management for years to come.

Once every three or four years, when conditions are right, the lake is covered with the pink birds as they stop flight to breed.

One hundred years ago, "Colored" was the typical way of referring to Americans of African descent .

Other churches were conserved in previous years.

Our problems are "structural", and will take many years to solve.

Our species originated around 200,000 years ago and underwent tremendous diversification culturally, technologically, linguistically, artistically for 130,000 years.

Our world now moves so fast that we seldom stop to see just how far we have come in just a few years.

Over the last 50 years, economic losses have increased by a factor of 50.

Over the next five years, the group helps the students get into other elite summer math programs, high-performing high schools, and eventually college.

Over the past few years, we have made dramatic breakthroughs.

Over the years, Tim Joseph's partners have helped many dairy farmers to switch to grass-fed.

Palau has only been an independent nation for twenty years and has a strong history of environmental protection.

Researchers in psychology, a field rocked by findings of irreproducibility in the past few years, have been especially vocal supporters of the drive for more-open science.

Rosen says he'll use the last of his savings to try to hang onto the home he worked for more than 20 years to buy.

Satellite observations and submarine surveys over the past few years had shown less ice in the polar region, but the recent measurements show the loss is more pronounced than previously thought.

Scores in various well-being measures began to go downward among young Americans in recent years.

Several years ago when my grandparents were well into their eighties, they were faced with the reality of no longer being able to adequately care for themselves.

since 2010, the couple has helped 125 small dairy farms convert to grass-fed, with more than 80% of those farms coming on board during the last two years.

Staff from the Norwegian government have carried out conservation work on 10 of the churches over the past two years.

The average age of farmers hovers around 58 years old, but he is just 26.

The carbon that we've put into the atmosphere keeps having a warming effect for 100 years, so we have to cut back rapidly now, because it would take a long time to work its way through into a response by the atmosphere.

The dot.com bust discredited most predictions of that sort and in the years that followed, conventional retailers’ confidence in the future increased as Census continued to report weak online sales.

The ham is covered in salt to dry and preserve it, and left hung for up to two years.

The impact of a basic discovery on human health can be exaggerated so that the public thinks a miraculous cure is a few months to years away when in reality the significance of the study is far more limited.

The researchers also note the recession hit some years before we see the beginning of the well-being drop, and before the steepest well-being decline, which occurred in 2013.

The show has been running for over ten years, and some of the actors are practically global super stars.

The sudden decline in foot traffic in recent years, even though it hasn't been accompanied by a massive decline in physical sales, is a critical warning.

The surface formed mostly in the last billion years, which makes it fresher and more recently active than any rocky planet other than Earth.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is "much lower" than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years 81 percent.

The video gaming industry has ballooned in recent years.

These cultures have eating habits that developed over thousands of years.

They can recover from months and years without water, depending on the species.

They could have improved their financial situation and their physical and mental health situation 30 years later.

This important study demonstrates that the more fiber you eat during your high school years, the lower your risk is in developing breast cancer in later life.

This is a very sensible way for an animal to make decisions in the wild and would have been very helpful for humans for thousands of years.

A retired engineer, 76-year-old Wilson has been offering free rides to college students for the past eight years.

A son of immigrants, Chris stared learning English a little over three years ago.

A tool developed just a couple of years ago by a young farmer, Jonathan Dysinger, in Tennessee, with a small loan from a local slow money group.

According to a recent study, four out of ten people under 35 years old are planning to downshift from stressful jobs to a slower pace of life.

According to a review of evidence in a medical journal, runners live three years longer than non-runners.

After 75 years the plaza theater has shown its last movie.

After having taught fifth-grade classes for four years, I decided to try all costs to rid them of their fear and dislike of books, and to get them to read oftener and more adventurously.

After ten years of living in one, I can't imagine ever living in a small town again.

After years of heated debate, gray wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone national park.

After years of regular treatment, she finally became healthy.

And that's exactly what I did when I was fifteen years old.

And years later, she was proud that her son had read thousands of books, was awarded a PhD in literature, and authored his own books, articles, poetry and fiction.

As a result, in the last twenty years or so, many people have come to believe that whatever change is happening today is the result of great technological progress, going against which will be like trying to turn the clock back.

Behaving in this selfless and devoted manner, these little creatures have survived on earth, for more than 140 million years, far longer than dinosaurs.

Ben, had got in touch, he'd moved to England with his mum when he was three and it had been 13 years since I'd last seen him.

Benjamin west, the father of American painting, showed his talent for art when he was only six years of age.

But after all, those years, I found that dance was gradually becoming something that felt like more of a burden than a joy.

But gold was discovered there in 1897, and two years later, it was one of the largest cities in the west, with a population of 30, 000.

But he is providing a few years during which the farmers will, perhaps, be able to find other means of adapting.

But humans enjoyed all of these advantages for a full 2 million years during which they remained weak and marginal creature.

Charles darwin, over 150 years ago, imagined a world far busier, noisier and more intimate (親密的) than the world we can see and hear.

China's high-speed railways are growing from 9,000 to 25,000 kilometers in the past few years.

Connor gave the deciding vote in many important cases during her 24 years on the top court.

Corn production has jumped nearly 125 percent over the past 25 years, while rice has increased only 7 percent.

Disappointed by many a broken, vine-ripened (蔓上成熟的) promise, I've refused to buy winter tomatoes for years.

During the last few years, business executives and book writers looking for a new way to advise corporate America have been exploiting Shakespeare's wisdom for profitable ends.

During the rosy years of elementary school (小學(xué)), I enjoyed sharing my dolls and jokes, which allowed me to keep my high social status.

El nifio sees warm water, collected over several years in the western pacific, flow back eastwards when winds that normally blow westwards weaken.

Even after all these years, I want to get better and better.

Every man, woman, and child over ten years of age has on average over four cups a day.

Fifteen years ago, I took a summer vacation in lecce in southern italy.

First, I want to get a job as a computer programmer, and then after five years or so, I'd like to start my own business.

Five years ago, when I taught art at a school in seattle, I used tinkertoys as a test at the beginning of a term to find out something about my students.

For the past two years, Gordon's students have been studying ways to kill bacteria in zero gravity, and they think they're close to a solution.

For years I dealt with my travel agent only by phone.

For years researchers have attempted to show that television is dangerous to children.

For years, my mum has been helping out by giving them whatever food she could spare.

Four years before, she'd had to offer her paperboy a drink to have someone to talk with.

Grocery stores of the future might stock "food" that lasts years on end, freeing up shelf space and reducing transportation and storage requirements.

He had owned that business for 15 years.

He observed that homer was still admired after two thousand years.

Helen Mirren stars in the play by Peter Morgan, about queen Elizabeth II of the UK and her private meetings with twelve prime ministers in the course of sixty years.

Her years of hard work have finally been acknowledged after a customer nominated her to be cheshire's woman of the year.

However, 110 years is probably the longest that anyone could hope to live—if he or she is extremely healthy and lucky.

However, within a few years, street sales of newspapers would be commonplace in eastern cities.

I discovered even more about one of humanity's earliest forms of life art during several years of research around the world.

I go back years ago, when we lived in a three-room house, when we got up before daylight and worked till after dark to make ends meet.

I graduated on scholarship and danced professionally for ten years.

I have always enjoyed all the events you organized and I hope to attend many more in the coming years.

I have not tried reading my newspaper out loud on a train, but, several years ago, I read some chapters from Harry porter to my bored and noisy children.

"I have worked there on and off for almost ten years," says gin.

I learned that Freddy did several jobs after his graduation from high school and remained the same caring person I met forty years before.

I learned this lesson from an experience many years ago.

I learned through another woman's eyes that my daughter was still a good person despite her troubled teenage years.

I love coming here and seeing my family and all the friends I have made over the years.

I started studying ballet when I was six years old.

I still remember visiting a friend who'd lived here for five years and I was shocked when I learnt she hadn't cooked once in all that time.

If anyone had told me three years ago that I would be spending most of my weekends camping.

If the copyright date of your current dictionary shows that it was published five or more years ago, consider investing in a more recent edition.

If you miss this chance, it may be years before you get another one.

I'm talking about people who have stopped learning on growing because they have adopted the fixed attitudes and opinions that all too often come with passing years.

In 1897, the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting the killing of passenger pigeons but by then, no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 years.

In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations—UNESCO and national geographic among them—have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.

In general, they can expect to live six or seven years more than men.

In his first years of high school, Gabriel would look pityingly at music students, struggling across the campus with their heavy instrument cases.

In recent years an english word "infosphere" has appeared, combing the sense of "information" and "atmosphere".

In recent years some Inuit people in Nunavut have reported increases in bear sightings around human settlements, leading to a belief that populations are increasing.

In recent years, however, young upper middle-class people in London, have begun to adopt some regional accents, in order to hide their class origins.

In recent years, many writers have begun to speak the 'decline of class' and 'classless society' in Britain.

In the last few years, China has made great achievements in environmental protection.

In the more than five years since Hannah began her activities, she has received a lot of praises.

In the years of my growing up, dad was strict with me.

It could be expanded across the tube network in coming years.

It has changed who we are and continues to fuel our optimism about how much the lives of the poorest people will improve in the years ahead.

It is a truly delightful place, which looks the same as it must have done 100 years ago with its winding streets and pretty cottages.

It is also popular with 35 to 54-year-olds, 12% of whom are making plans to downshift, 6% hoping to have done so in the next 2 years.

It is expected that American demand for au pairs will continue to rise in the next few years.

It is important to remember that success is a sum of small efforts made each day and often takes years of achieve.

It is reported that a space station will he built on the moon in years to come.

It took three years to complete and was built using an interesting method.

It took years of work to reduce the industrial pollution and clean the water.

It was made around 40 years ago.

Italians always "see me as a foreigner," an outsider, even though she's stayed in the country for years and can speak the local language fluently, she said.

Italy, which has a much weaker tradition of immigration, has witnessed a sharp increase in immigration in recent years.

Jane's grandmother had wanted to write a children's book for many years, but one thing or another always got in the way.

Languages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going.

Measles, which once killed 450 children each year and disabled even more, was nearly wiped out in the united states 14 years ago by the universal use of the MMR vaccine.

More efforts, as reported, will be made in the years ahead to accelerate the supply-side structural reform.

My goal was to lose 150 pounds in one year and raise $50,000 in support of a movement founded 30 years ago to end hunger.

My mother will be living alone most of the time for three years in my absence.

Nasa is worried about two things: recovery time once astronauts return home, and, more importantly, how to maintain strength and fitness for the two and a half years or more that it would take to make a round-trip to mars.

No matter where you are on the risk-seeking range, scientists say that your willingness to take risks increases during your teenage years.

Not everybody can do that — it takes years of experience, but a printer makes it easy.

Now, years later, this river is one of the most outstanding examples of environmental cleanup.

Of the outstanding ladies listed below, who do you think was the most important woman of the past 100 years?

On one of her trips to New York several years ago, Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to dinner.

Once the damage is done, it will take many years for the farmland to recover.

One day, when she was five years old, she was walking with her mother in downtown winnipeg.

One of them comes from our earliest years.

Only five years after Steve Jobs' death, smart-phones defeated conventional PCs in sales.

A couple of Christmases ago, my youngest stepdaughter, who was 9 years old at the time, got a Superman T-shirt for Christmas.

After all, it was rumored that smoking caused cancer for years before the evidence was found to prove a connection.

After bills, Tony has ￡60 a week to spend, ￡40 of which goes on food, but 10 years ago he was earning ￡130,000 a year working in corporate communications and eating at London's best restaurants at least twice a week.

Although electric cars are still a rarity on roads now, this massive investment could change the picture rapidly in coming years.

American farmers have been complaining of labor shortages for several years.

And after going to school for 12 years, it doesn't feel natural to spend a year doing something that isn't academic.

And ultimately, it is likely to reshape our politics, our culture, and the character of our society for years.

Another is to let students sit for the bar after only two years of law school.

As a News Feature article in Nature discusses, a string of lucrative awards for researchers have joined the Nobel Prizes in recent years.

At its peak in 2007, it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, a research firm—double the figure five years earlier.

But fewer students want to study humanities subjects: English departments awarded more bachelor's degrees in 1970-1971 than they did 20 years later.

But the regular time it takes to get a doctoral degree in the humanities is nine years.

But while this may be true, it's not a good enough reason to condemn gap years.

Carter sifted through rubble in the Valley of the kings for seven years before he located the tomb in 1922.

Construction took 17 years as the building slowly rose wing by wing.

Despite graduating into the best economy in the past 50 years, Gen Zs know what an economic train wreck looks like.

Despite trade competition and outsourcing, American manufacturing still needs to replace tens of thousands of retiring boomers every years.

Even in traditional offices, "the lingua franca of corporate America has gotten much more emotional and much more right-brained than it was 20 years ago," said Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn.

Evidence shows that 60,000 extra new homes could be built over the next five years if the cap were lifted, increasing GDP by 0.6%.

For example, Business Week predicted in 1975 that electronic means of payment would soon "revolutionize the very concept of money itself", only to reverse itself several years later.

For example,the Long Now Foundation has as its flagship project a mechanical clock that is designed to still be marking time thousands of years hence.

For years executives and headhunters have adhered to the rule that the most attractive CEO candidates are the ones who must be poached.

For years,studies have found that first-generation college students—those who do not have a parent with a college degree—lag other students on a range of education achievement factors.

He finally took that post at a major financial institution three years later.

Homework has never been terribly popular with students and even many parents, but in recent years it has been particularly scorned.

I assumed that phase was something experts developed after years of research into children's behaviour: wrong.

I found, as Hacker observed years before, that most wives want their husbands to be, first and foremost, conversational partners, but few husbands share this expectation of their wives.

In 2015, the US Forest Service for the first time spent more than half of its $5.5 billion annual budget fighting fires——nearly double the percentage it spent on such efforts 20 years ago.

In another case, American archaeologists Rene million and George Cowgill spent years systematically mapping the entire city of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico near what is now Mexico City.

In France, shareholders who hold onto a company investment for at least two years can sometimes earn more voting rights in a company.

Instead, the digital services tax is part of a much larger trend, with countries over the past few years proposing or putting in place an alphabet soup of new international tax provisions.

It is as though 20 years of ever-tougher reforms of the job search and benefit administration system never happened.

It is the first worldwide epidemic designated by the World Health Organization in 41 years.

It was not until the mid-1980s, when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant children's marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least

Legislation is moving through the House that would save USPS an estimated $28.6 billion over five years, which could help pay for new vehicles, among other survival measures.

Mr.Roth has three community-college students enrolled in a work-placement program, with a starting wage of $13 an hour that rises to $17 after two years.

Not the 20% profit margins that were routine a few years ago, but profit all the same.

Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized I0 years ago.

Passengers must pay 85 dollars every five years to process their background checks.

Pledging to run pilgrim safely, the company has applied for federal permission to keep it open for another 20 years.

Priestly explains how the deep blue color of the assistant's sweater descended over the years from fashion shows to department stores and to the bargain bin in which the poor girl doubtless found her garment.

Sometimes years are required for truly novel discovery claims to be accepted and appreciated.

Starting next year, any guaranteed bonus of top executives could be delayed 10 years if their banks are under investigation for wrongdoing.

Studying this could help understand why human evolution picked pace in the last 30, 000 years, with social environment being a major contributory factor.

Take a broader look at our species' place in the universe, and it becomes clear that we have an excellent chance of surviving for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years.

Technology will improve society in ways big and small over the next few years, yet this will be little comfort to those who find their lives and careers upended by automation.

Ten years ago on Monday, it was announced that the Games of the 30th Olympiad would be in London.

The average time for holding a stock in both the United States and Britain, he notes, has dropped from seven years to seven months in recent decades.

The cost of solar panels has dropped by 80 percent and the cost of wind turbines by close to one-third in the past eight years.

The networked computer offers the first chance in 50 years to reverse the flow, to encourage thoughtful downloading and, even more importantly, meaningful uploading.

The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing - Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.5 billion, but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp me

The truth will not be known for years.

The use of this little-known practice has accelerated in recent years, as colleges continue to do their utmost to keep students in school and paying tuition and improve their graduation rates.

There has been a kind of inflationary process at work: ?nowadays anyone applying for a research post has to have published twice the number of papers that would have been required for the same post only 10 years ago.

Thirty years ago, it would have been inconceivable to have imagined a ban on smoking in the workplace or in pubs, and yet that is what we have now.

This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization.

Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch's daughter, Elisabeth, spoke of the "unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of our institutions".

Unfortunately, despite 2.5 years in the making, "The Heart of the Matter" never gets to the heart of the matter: the illiberal nature of liberal education at our leading colleges and universities.

USFWS also set an interim goal of restoring prairie chicken populations to an annual average of 67, 000 birds over the next 10 years.

When our ancestors were hunters and gatherers 10, 000 years ago, they didn't have time to wonder much about anything besides finding food.

Yet two years before Dickens' birth, his mother's father was caught stealing and fled to Europe, never to return.