Sentence examples for useful years from inspiring English sources
That thought occurs to Zachary Busner, the hero of the novel, as he lies in bed staring at a clock-radio, an old man past his useful years.
Scientists at the biotechnology company, Advanced Cell Technology, in Worcester, Mass., hope to create human embryos from which stem cells can be derived that could ultimately prove useful, years from now, in treating disease.
The tax breaks — fast write-offs for drilling expenses, generous depletion allowances, and the like — may have been useful years ago but are wholly unnecessary when oil prices and industry profits are reaching new highs.
There is, of course, no guarantee that a great player will make a great manager, but the greatest shame would be watching Shearer spend the rest of his useful years on a sofa in a BBC studio.
Those useful years deserved more... way more than four percent.
We used useful life years of 3 years for start-up costs, 2 years for bicycles, 7 years for motor vehicles, 7 years for furniture, and 5 to 6 years for office equipment [ 29, 30].
Here are a few of my (and my students') favorite summer learning sites — though all are, of course, useful year round: USA Learns is for beginners and intermediate E.L.L.'s, and has reading, speaking and listening activities.
Those tallies tend to count individual vehicles multiple times as they move around the city, so they do not produce an accurate picture of the actual number of vehicles on city streets, but they do allow useful year-to-year comparisons of traffic volumes.
The week between Christmas and New Year's Eve is traditionally one of the biggest of the year and the gains made by Marley & Me, Paramount's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (it's released by Warner Bros in the UK), Disney's Bedtime Stories and MGM/UA's Valkyrie provided a useful year-end boost to the 2008 box office.
The French Senate generally supports their implementation, and President Jacques Chirac predicts that 2001 will be another "useful" year for tax reform in France.
