You wouldn't have expected that a few years back.

Let's go back a few years in time and see what happened back then.

I did some work for Microsoft a few years back.

After a few years, between five and seven years, fish come back, they eat the urchins, and then the algae grow again.

But I was asked to give a talk at a conference in Sacramento a few years back.

And that it's accelerating even faster than what we thought was the worst case just a few years back.

Even here in California, if we were to go back just a few years, it was a very different story.

I remember, just a few years ago, speaking about climate change, and people heckling me in the back and saying it doesn't even exist.

It is a well known fact that almost half of all countries that emerge from war lapse back into violence within a few years.

And it s actually something that we invented a few years ago, or created a few years ago.

This thing was discovered just a few years ago and could hit us a few years from now.

If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.

If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.

What happened back a few years ago was a group of theoretical physicists at MIT actually came up with this concept of transferring power over distance.

I think that that's a few years back I think that wave is past, and the play wave is cresting, because there is some good science.

So, fast forward a few years.

And I could just imagine the committees reporting back to them on where agriculture was going to take humanity, at least in the next few hundred years.

But I was a little disappointed pretty young but I went back again a few years later and this time was in California, and I went to Berkeley.

So it turns out there was a company across the river called Google who had started a digitization project a few years back that might just enable this approach.

If you look forward, I mean future humans, far before the end of this millennium, in a few hundred years, they are going to look back at this moment.

If we go back to a place like Palmyra Atoll, where I was with Jeremy Jackson a few years ago, the corals are doing better and there are sharks.

Then I couldn't participate for a few years.

Air quality has deteriorated these past few years.

We had these data a few years ago.

A few years later another encyclopedia got started.

Few people live to be 100 years old.

(within a few years) they will be victorious.

(within a few years) they will be victorious.

Come back 15 years later.

So I want you to think back a few months ago.

New infectious diseases appear or reappear every few years.

This is one I made a few years ago.

And a few years ago, we received these results.

In the next few years we will confirm them.

But this story only happened a few years ago.

This is something you leaked a few years ago.

We've been having strange weather the past few years.

Tom has been learning French for a few years.

So you have to go back a few phases and start again.

When I lost my 40 pounds a few years ago,

A few years ago, I visited Mexico from the U.S.

A few years later, Tim Berners Lee worked that out.

A few years later, there's no snow left at all.

That's as opposed to billions just a few years ago.

Thirdly, food security has improved in the past few years.