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How to use the word years in a Sentence? Page #10

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It could have been 100 years since (the species) was even in this area — and it’s been years since it’s been spotted anywhere near it. The next closest place that they’ve been found was 1,200 miles away, so very unlikely it would have traveled that far.

Michael Skvarla

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1 year ago

Procedural mistakes should splatter like paint. It’s messy but the results should be random. In my four years here every mistake DOJ has made has benefited one side and harmed the other. That’s a hell of a coincidence.

Kelly Armstrong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Discounting whistleblowers before the Democrats know what the witnesses have to offer says a lot more about their agenda than it does about the validity of the whistleblowers, procedural mistakes should splatter like paint. It’s messy but the results should be random. In my four years here every mistake DOJ has made has benefited one side and harmed the other. That’s a hell of a coincidence.

Kelly Armstrong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Based on the speed of color evolution seen in hummingbirds, we calculated it would take 6 (million to) 10 million years for this drastic pink-gold color shift to evolve in a single species.

Field Museum senior research scientist

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1 year ago

I know how tough it is sometimes to look with hope and confidence on the months and years ahead, but I would like to tell you what I often told you when you were much younger: I like you just the way you are. And, what’s more, I’m so grateful to you for helping the children in your life to know that you’ll do everything you can to keep them safe, and to help them express their feelings in ways that will bring healing in many different neighborhoods.

Fred Rogers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For example, AlphaGo (the AI that beat the world’s No. 1 Go player in 2017) was trained on data from 160,000 games, a person would have to play five hours a day for more than 175 years to experience these many games.

Thomas Hartung

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Imagine if schools actually helped kids identify their strengths by exploring their talents from a young age and growing their skills over the 12 years instead of letting them all follow the same routine leaving them confused in life after graduation.

The Blonde Jon

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1 year ago

Don’t spend more than 5 minutes worrying about something that won’t matter in five years.

The Blonde Jon

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1 year ago

They have young families and so much of their life ahead of them. That’s why I encourage my patients who are age 45 years and older to get screened, i also encourage people to let their doctor know if they have a family history of colon cancer. There is genetic testing we can do to identify some at-risk patients early before they develop cancer.

Joel Gabre

Found on CNN
1 year ago

House prices are 20% higher than they were before the pandemic and we expect around half of this to unwind over the next two years as buyers revise down their budgets.

Tom Bill

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Over the past three years, millions of Americans have struggled to pay rent, utilities, food, and many have been unable to pay their debts, loan forgiveness is a paradigmatic form of debt relief, and the secretary acted within the heartland of his authority and in line with the central purpose of the HEROES Act( of 2003) in providing that relief here. To apply the major questions doctrine to override that clear text would deny borrowers critical relief that Congress authorized, and the secretary deemed essential.

Elizabeth Prelogar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That’s completely unacceptable to reach that 1,200 marker, go around LA – high rise apartments go up all the time. Does not take 10 years to build 1,200 units of housing.

Rob Reynolds

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1 year ago

We’re on track to be able to do this in 10 to 12 years, that’s completely unacceptable to reach that 1,200 marker.

Tyler Monroe

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1 year ago

The ruling is another heavy blow to the claim that the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment remains alive, over the past 41 years, ERA-lives claims have been put before 29 federal judges, and have yet to win a single vote from a single judge.

Douglas Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

How many people want to talk about Afghanistan at the Pentagon? How many people want to talk about Afghanistan at State, or AID? Not many, and you know this report, with its companion report, is the only official US government report that’s public … on the 20 years spent in Afghanistan. To me, I’m very glad that we were able to do this, but I’m an inspector general. You would think the Department of Defense or Department of State or USAID or the National Security Council would have come out with something official on the 20 years there.

John Sopko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My concern is that while the grass is growing, the cows are starving. We have problems but no solutions, the things they have been talking about in these commissions, we have known this for over 40 years.

Boyd Jr.

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1 year ago

I know that so many people in our industry who are actors don’t get to do this job, and you look at nights like this and think, ‘Is that ever going to be possible for me?’ And I know you look at me and think ‘nepo baby,’ that’s why she’s there, and I totally get it, but the truth of the matter is I’m 64 years old, and this is just amazing.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I hope I will come back when I’m 100 years old.

James Hong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Many of the claims of sustainability are just greenwashing or are the same types of ‘sustainability’ measures that have been happening for years in land-based tourism.

Marcie Keever

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Regardless, we know the next step, while we’re focusing on where Covid-19 started, we’re not spending time about how to keep America from ever having to go through the last three years again.

Megan Ranney

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Specifically, patients who received the stem cell therapy were less likely to have a heart attack or stroke over the next 2.5 years, especially among those who were found to have a high degree of systemic inflammation as measured by a laboratory test.

Brett Victor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

New listings were at the lowest level in the last six years in January as sellers stayed on the sidelines, waiting to see buyers return, before placing their homes for sale, however, the first month of the year brought glimmers of hope as year-over-year declines in both existing and new home sales slowed, and buyer sentiment improved slightly.

Hannah Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Union Pacific has been my home for 22 years and I am confident that now is the right time for Union Pacific’s next leader to take the helm. the Board is grateful to Lance for his unwavering leadership, dedication and oversight in driving our company forward over the last eight years as CEO. Lance created an environment that has allowed Union Pacific to make a measurable impact with our customers, communities and employees alike.

Union Pacific

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1 year ago

This is a big deal for the insurance companies, and they’ve woken up recently to this, the estimates of risk they use to price properties and premiums are 50 years out of date, and the climate has changed enough to make their data useless.

Kerry Emanuel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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