Sentences with phrase «during the past decade more»

During the past decade more than 300 graduates from about 70 countries have enriched their careers and expanded their networks through participating in the program.

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«State government revenue has grown far more sensitive to economic conditions during the past decade,» Mattoon and another Chicago Fed economist noted in a 2009 report.

The ratio has previously been this low only six times during the past two decades; whenever that happens, stocks have rallied over the next year by more than 50 %, on average.

Saunders, the president of the Vancouver and District Labour Council, says that Canadian workers and their pensions are more exposed to risk during market trouble because of the successful campaign over the past decades to move from defined benefit pensions, which guarantee a certain monthly amount when you retire, to defined contribution plans, promoted by market enthusiasts.

Yet on the whole, given their positive experience both with receiving more income than they could get from the fixed - income sector in recent years and the potential for capital appreciation over the long haul, dividend stocks and the ETFs that own them have demonstrated their long - term value to the investors who've gravitated toward them during the low - rate environment of the past decade.

Werner Mark Linz, president of Seabury Press, identifies the challenge: «The center of serious religious thought seemed to collapse during the past decade, and nothing may be more important in the long run than rebuilding it.

During the past several decades there has probably been more writing on the problem of evil...

There is a suggestion that the past decade or more was a period during which the proclamation of the word was insufficiently emphasized.

During the past two decades, the restaurant chain has grown to include more than 65 locations throughout California, Colorado, Texas, Hawaii, Nevada, New York and Nebraska.

During the past decade, organically grown products have become the fastest growing sector in agriculture as consumers have become more concerned about how their food is grown and processed.

During the past decade, unmarried births increased by more than 50 percent.

White Americans without college degrees are much more likely to not marry, and to divorce, and to have multiple marriages, during a pre-elderly lifetime than they were historically, while white Americans with college degrees are now more likely to marry, and less likely to divorce, than they were for the past several decades.

And the country's publications in astronomy have risen more than fourfold during the past decade.

During the past decade, Toyota has controlled around three quarters of the U.S. hybrid market, with worldwide sales of the Prius and luxury Lexus hybrids nearing two million vehicles — more than half of them Priuses.

It seems that the conditions for a real reform of the university system in Germany are more favorable than at any time during the past few decades.

Nitrogen deposition has risen more than tenfold across most of Europe during the past two decades, says Pitcairn.

During the past decade China, India and Brazil more than doubled their expenditures on research and development — increasing their contributions to world R&D spending from 17 to 24 percent.

During the past decade, Richardson has spearheaded an effort to install more than 80 such cameras at sites across North America, from the arctic tundra near northern Alaska's Toolik Lake to the tropical grasslands surrounding Hawaii's towering Mauna Kea.

Given the rapid technological advances we've witnessed over past decades — your cell phone has more processing power than NASA's computers had during the moon landings — it's not a huge leap to imagine that such simulations will eventually encompass intelligent life.

Although ALS (commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease) was first described more than 140 years ago, most major advances in understanding the disease have come only during the past decade or so.

Temperature during the winter as a whole have generally decreased over the past two decades, likely as a result of climate change, but the sensitivity of ozone loss to the exact timing of March warming events makes ozone depletion a much more variable quantity.

We've seen more and more of these types of summers in the past couple decades, most recently during 2015, one of the bigger fire seasons in the last century across the Northwest.

During the past decade, the popularity of super foods has been growing, as more and more people are looking for ways to combat the effects of our increasingly toxic environment, bad diet habits, unhealthy lifestyle choices and the stress of modern living.

Indeed, production and use has more than tripled during the past three decades as it replaced more expensive sugar in food production.

During the past two decades, charters have grown from three schools educating 160 students to more than 100 independent schools that educate almost 42,000 students, close to half of the District's public school enrollment.

During the past two decades, the percentage of nonwhite students has more than doubled, from roughly 20 percent in 1980 to slightly more than 50 percent in 2002.

Thinking more broadly, if desegregation and integration were really such a disaster in terms of American race relations, how is one to explain the plethora of statistical and anecdotal evidence suggesting a dramatic liberalization in racial attitudes during the past four decades?

The natural growth in enrollment during the past decade meant that most large districts were much more concerned about where they would house the students who did not leave for a charter or private school.

During the past two decades, he has been involved in the design of performance - based assessments; education for understanding; the use of multiple intelligences to achieve more personalized curriculum, instruction, and pedagogy; and the quality of interdisciplinary efforts in education.

College enrollment has swelled by 38 percent during the past decade to more than 20 million, according to government data.

Schrag believes that these changes «point to a gradual shift away from the narrow focus on fact - based testing in math and reading, on creating many more charter schools, on «reconstituting» or closing sub-par schools, and on other business - model schemes that school reformers have pushed for during the past couple of decades....

Virginia's schools have grown more racially and economically segregated during the past decade, with the number of students attending schools that are considered racially and economically isolated doubling from 2003 to 2014, according to a new report.

Branding exercise aside, a strategy revision is likely of more interest to German hot - rod enthusiasts: Where RS models during the past decade - plus tended to arrive at the tail end of a given car's life cycle — and even skip certain generations of those cars — they will now arrive within the first year or two of a new model's introduction, and RS badging will be present on 10 different vehicles by the end of 2018, with the new RS5 up next at the beginning of the year.

«During the past decade, people have gotten used to the idea that you could pay more money for a smaller version of the real thing,» said Horbury, citing the evolution of music players from tapes to CDs to MP3 players as an example.

... During the past two decades, the risk tolerance of investors is positively correlated to the movements of the stock market, meaning that investors are likely to invest more when market returns are high, and withdraw partially or even completely from the market when returns are negative.

Service charges on deposit accounts, which include overdraft and NSF fees, have more than doubled while interest income has decreased during the past three decades.

Others point out that because interest rates are so low, the debt service payment on the national debt (about $ 250 billion) relative to the size of the economy is less than it was throughout most of the past three decades — 1.6 percent of American output vs. 3 percent or more during the four administrations prior to Obama.

The Baltimore Museum of Art's (BMA) enormously successful Campaign for Art has secured more than 3,500 objects during the past decade in honor of the museum's 100th anniversary in 2014.

During the past decade, 99 organisations around the world have presented his artworks for the enjoyment of more than 12 million people.

This exhibition features a number of Ji's major works created during the past decade, including several scroll paintings more than ten meters long, which have never before been seen together.

The current exhibition suggests that we take another, longer look at an artist whose mature work may occupy more territory than we have been led to believe during the past decade.

The exhibition focuses on work made by the artist during the past two decades in which he has lived and worked in Texas, and features more than fifty works in a diverse range of media, including mixed - media, painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking.

The collection also belies the impression Still's painting has progressively «thinned out» during the past two decades; in fact, it shows that he has alternated between thick, richly troweled surfaces and more thinly applied pigments, surrounded by large expanses of bare canvas, throughout much of his career.

Both the radiosonde and reanalysis data show that the frequency of occurrence of high tropopause days in the subtropics of both hemispheres has systematically increased during the past few decades, so that tropical characteristics occur more frequently in recent years.

«Climate change projections suggest that European summer heatwaves will become more frequent and severe during this century, consistent with the observed trends of past decades.»

The maximum value of VPSC during five to ten year intervals exhibits a steady, monotonic increase over the past four decades, indicating that the coldest Arctic winters have become significantly colder, and hence are more conducive to ozone depletion by anthropogenic halogens.

Their life expectancy might have improved more during the past two decades if they'd not taken attention off medical care and public health in general for their still vast rural population, a problem they're now working to remedy.

I'd be particularly interested in your view on the question whether, if sulphate concentrations have been as low as A1T projects for 2030 during the past decade, you would have expected global mean temperatures to have risen more than they have.

This means the inertia of earth has decreased due the massive snows that we have had during the past decade and more which moved water from the low latitude oceans to ice on high latitudes.

At the same time, during the past decade, Republicans have become much more likely to believe that news of global warming is «generally exaggerated» (from 34 % in 1997 to 59 % this year), while Democrats» agreement with that view have been fairly stable, at 23 % in 1997 and 18 % in 2008.