The UK Foreign Office says it expects Turkey to be ready for membership "in a decade or so".
They don't want to just look at it and hear that, oh, maybe in a decade or so it'll be there.
In a decade or so, much of this will have become reality.
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The country's choice may be between allowing more democracy now and facing nastier change in a decade or so, after many of the petrodollars have been squandered.
The ingenuity of derivatives traders in adapting to both market forces and regulations may well send supervisors back to the drawing board in a decade or so.
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The budget overview acknowledges that, even under the best-case scenario, the retirement of the baby-boom generation in a decade or so will put new, intense pressure on America's finances.
Clean technology will be expensive, and a country facing a demographic time bomb in a decade or so cannot afford to waste a single percentage point in GDP growth to clean up its environment.
When her saga is completed in a decade or so with the letter Z, Ms. Millhone may well join such classic snoops as Sherlock Holmes, Perry Mason, Nero Wolfe, Miss Marple and a handful of others in mystery immortality.
Two-year Treasury notes now yield significantly more than 30-year bonds--and that's not just because in a decade or so long-term government bonds may be listed as an endangered species because of the reduction of the publicly held portion of the national debt.
That's why, when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets with President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel in May, the European leaders should practice some nuanced diplomacy: They should not shut the door to Turkey's becoming part of the EU but simply say that the negotiation process should continue and that they will see where things stand in a decade or so.
The Internet mania reminds me of the infrastructure craze in Asia a decade or so ago.
In the 1950s, sliding-door closets were introduced, according to California Closets, and the walk-in first emerged a decade or so later.
The Federal Reserve's latest forecasts suggest a jobless rate above 8% in 2011, and half a decade or so until the economy returns to full employment.
All of this stands in contrast to just a decade or so ago when the disease was considered resistent to almost any treatment.
The stock market lost 70% of its value in real terms over a decade or so, as ever worsening cycles of recession trashed the economy, and inflation trashed the value of investments.
American negotiators have also proposed land-leasing schemes to let Israel remain in the Jordan valley for a decade or so, to build confidence they hope between Arab and Jew.
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In the past decade or so, a lot of Americans have lost jobs to either mechanization or outsourcing.
It is widely expected Arctic sea-ice will be totally lost in summer with a few years to a decade or so, perhaps at less than 1C or warming.
While the falling dollar has helped investments in foreign stocks over the last decade or so, there have been periods in the past where a rising dollar caused huge headwinds, and certainly losses in many cases, for foreign stocks.
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As happened a decade or so ago, the airlines flying in the open air fear unfair competition from those flying under the protection of the courts.
For as the nature of the world's conflicts has changed in the past decade or so, so the demand for a new type of mediator has grown too.
As a practical matter though, at some point in the first decade or so of the next century, the United States is going to have to replace its B-52, and perhaps its B-1 bombers.
To find out, I have been to Barking and Dagenham, a London borough which has seen a phenomenal change in its cultural make-up over the past decade or so.
Family reaction: Ricardo DeJesus told CNN that his family had known Ariel Castro, one of the three brothers suspected in the abductions, but he hadn't seen him for a decade or so, and had not linked him to his sister's disappearance.
Missionaries from London began their work on the islands a decade or so later, and Christianity has very strong roots in this devout corner of the South Pacific.
For the decade or so before the financial crisis in 2007, LIBOR traded in a relatively tight band with alternative market measures of funding costs.
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Glass, a Stanford Business School graduate who helped Jerry Jones buy the amazingly undervalued Dallas Cowboys back in 1989, has been investing in stocks long enough to know that truly great investment opportunities only come along once a decade or so.
David Ji is one of a dozen or so U.S. businessmen detained without due process in the past decade in China (see box, p. 148).
David Ji is one of a dozen or so U.S. businessmen detained without due process in the past decade in China (see box, p. 34).
Before the collapse, Rana was little known outside of the few blocks of his tiny empire, a grid of poorly paved streets in the crowded industrial suburb of Savar, built up over the past decade or so around hundreds of garment factories.
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