Sentence examples for close to a generation from inspiring English sources

Building on green belts has been politically unsayable for close to a generation.

Women-only shortlists have been a Labour mainstay for close to a generation – and the party has 86 female MPs (31%) in parliament.

Myhrvold has gotten his investors to lock up their cash with him in highly unorthodox funds with few strings attached for a very, very long time, in some cases as long as 20 years, or close to a generation, people familiar with IV say.

Yet all around us doors are closing to a generation of young people who are being excluded from access to the arts and even from the local library.

July 8-13: The seventy-eight-year-old pianist Barry Harris is as close to a first-generation bebop master as we've got.

"We have seen a problem that was close to nonexistent a generation ago explode into an epidemic that is devastating families and communities right across the top end of Australia," wrote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner, Mick Gooda, in the report.

Although explicit models for resetting operations have been constructed that get arbitrarily close to a minimum heat generation of k T ln 2, what is needed is a proof that no physical process can do better.

We came close to getting a generation of Alaskans speaking with one voice, but demanding international societal changes requires a worldwide chorus.

Both lines were then maintained with 20 sires at each generation, without any decrease in the abdominal fat content divergence, which remained close to a factor of three at generation 35.

Michael Janssen, who has a Berlin gallery, said having a foothold in Singapore would help him get closer to a new generation of artists in Southeast Asia who had not yet been fully discovered by collectors.

"We followed the worms for more than one hundred generations — close to a year — and the effect still persisted," said Dr. Rechavi.