Sentences with phrase «less than a century ago»

In the last 20 years, a despised Catholic church has become allies with those who less than a century ago would have gladly snuffed them out.

And yet, until less than a century ago, his story was by far the better known, more influential, and more vital of the two.

Such was the comfortable vista which, less than a century ago, began abruptly to change beneath our gaze, something in the fashion of those organic tissues in the living body which, after long remaining harmless and dormant, their cells apparently indistinguishable from those of the surrounding tissue, suddenly burst into dangerous growth.

The city that less than a century ago was a fur - trading post known as Fort Garry was alive and throbbing last week with its birthday offering for Canada, the fifth Pan-American Games, and extraordinary charity was at work all over town.

It was less than a century ago that Einstein was the most radical physics thinker around.

Modern cosmology depends so thoroughly on Einsteinian notions of curved space - time, the large - scale homogeneity of matter, and the equivalence of all reference frames that many scientists forget that these ideas were radical speculations less than a century ago.

The terrible days of deserted cities and heaps of the dead fell into the dim past on the Continent, although plague never disappeared — more than 10 million died of it in India less than a century ago.

Less than a century ago, nobody knew if other galaxies even existed.

MARCH 1959 DARWIN»S MISSING EVIDENCE «Less than a century ago moths of certain species were characterized by their light coloration, which matched such backgrounds as light tree trunks and lichen - covered rocks, on which the moths passed the daylight hours sitting motionless.

Less than a century ago, Abstract Expressionism brought the United States squarely into the dramatic center of world art for the first time.

It wasn't until less than a century ago that we finally developed a magic - bullet treatment for gonorrhea, and for a handful of decades it was quickly and easily treated with a dose of penicillin.

Not exact matches

Hulu — which is owned jointly by CBS rivals Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox, Comcast, and Time Warner — made a similar move less than a year ago, when the service offered subscribers the option of paying a few dollars more per month for an ad - free experience.

This trend suppresses the demand side of the housing market, while the supply - side has been hindered by builders eschewing starter homes and moving up the value chain, as evidenced by the fact that the average size of a new single - family home is almost 2,700 square feet today, versus less than 2,100 square feet a quarter century ago.

The Century» s liberalism is certainly less sentimental and less strident than it was fifty years ago.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

It is not less than astonishing that these social thinkers of twenty - five centuries ago recognized this fact.

But it is here, in my view, that the importance becomes manifest of an intuitive notion which, timidly evolved less than fifty years ago by a small group of human minds, is now beginning to pervade twentieth century thought as rapidly as did the idea of evolution in the nineteenth century.

He has still only played less than a half century of Premier League games in his career, and it has been meteoric rise for the player, who only signed from Barnsley two years ago.

Ms. Duong noted that «The Cannon is named for Annie Jump Cannon, a pioneering American astronomer who classified the spectra of around 340,000 stars by eye over several decades a century ago — our code analyses that many stars in far greater detail in less than a day.»

Besides costing less to manufacture than glass bottles, the Bag - in - Box apparatus, invented by Scholle packaging a half century ago, weighs significantly less, stacks more efficiently (meaning more wine can go with each container load) and will not shatter if dropped.

These biological drives are, of course, much less important today than they were centuries ago.

Most subversive about Ramin Bahrani's remarkable adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel (previously filmed, less successfully, more than half a century ago by the French filmmaker François Truffaut) is that its oppressed state isn't dystopian but in fact a utopia that questions whether it's oppressed at all.

«The 10 million elephants of a century ago have dropped to less than 300,000,» she says, in large part because poachers kill adults for their tusks, leaving behind vulnerable babies.

McMurdo Research Station (Jan. 11)-- If you walk less than half a mile from this site, one of the beacons of 21st - century scientific research, you can step into a building for a glimpse of life nearly 100 years ago.

Covering far more content than teachers a century ago, and far more than higher performing nations, our less school - ready children begin to struggle.

Frame is dedicated to galleries established less than eight years ago, selected on the basis of a solo presentation; Spotlight will feature a record 36 presentations of 20th - century works by solo artists, with a post-1960 focus.

Unlike Europe, with its centuries old base of culture, America started less than 300 years ago out of wilderness.

«Only five large ice shelves remain in Arctic Canada, covering less than a tenth of the area than they did a century ago.»

Compare any century - old, multi-story building in Rome with those elsewhere in the region built less than a couple of decades ago.

Their enormous volumes of water can not become acidic — that is, plummet from an 8.2 pH level 150 years ago and their current 8.1 pH into the acidic realm of 7.0 or lower, due to the tiny amount of atmospheric CO2 attributable to fossil fuel use, in less than five centuries.

As the chart reveals, today's per century trends are dominated by cooling for the different time periods; today's trends are multiple times below prior period, historical highs; the 5, 8 and 10 - year trends are definitely below the average modern trend (1950 through 2013); and all the trends are significantly less than those reached 15 years ago (see black dotted lines for year - end 1998 trend levels).

In the United States, annual federal spending for all energy research and development — not just the research aimed at climate - friendly technologies — is less than half what it was a quarter - century ago.

Half a century ago, a science journalist discovered that anything less than reverential reporting was interpreted by scientists as hostility.

We are vastly more energy efficient than we were just a few decades ago, much less a few centuries ago.

The rationale supporting federalism is no less true today than it was two centuries ago.

In addition, because workers» compensation benefits depend largely on the worker's salary, schedule loss awards have not increased for workers who earn less than $ 600 per week since 1992, nearly a quarter - century ago.