Sentences with phrase «states over the past several decades»

Lyme disease has been spreading across the United States over the past several decades, and a new study has confirmed that ticks carrying the disease are present in eastern national parks.

Foundation giving has been increasing steadily in the United States over the past several decades, reaching $ 46 billion in 2011 (Lawrence, 2012).

Marriage rates have steadily declined in the United States over the past several decades, and the American Psychological Association states that 40 % to 50 % of marriages will end in divorce.

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The consumption of spices in the United States has exploded almost three times as fast as the population over the past several decades, data from the USDA reveals.

A version of the Child Victims Act has passed several times over the past decade in the New York State Assembly including last year.

He's a narcissist and a huckster, an opportunist who not only failed to join conservatives in the big fights about the size and scope of government over the past several decades but, to the extent he was even aware of such battles, was often funding the other side, with a long list of contributions to the liberals most responsible for the dire state of affairs in the country, including likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Several large severe wildfires have occurred in the state over the past decade, leading some to hypothesize that the beetle's destructive spread may be a contributing factor.

Session Description: Improved capabilities for horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing over the past decade led to significant increases in unconventional oil and gas production in several regions of the United States.

The author of the «Entries to arts subjects at Key Stage 4» publication, Rebecca Johns, has stated that the findings show that entries to arts subjects by Key Stage 4 cohorts have declined over the past couple of years, following several years of gradual increases, with the 2016 entry rates being the lowest of the decade.

The spread among the states has remained wide and grown in absolute terms over the past several decades.

This project will examine state - level school finance reforms, intended to increase funding for schools serving poor children, over the past several decades.

States have taken a number of actions to improve students» skills over the past several decades.

Now Spirit is largely known as a low cost airways company providing travel flights within the United States and abroad; it is also well known for several controversial ad campaigns over the past decade.

Cornelissen's efforts were largely funded by WWF (known as the World Wildlife Fund in the United States) but he had worked over the past decade with scientists from the European Space Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory as well as several universities.

Florida State University's James Elsner said ground data show every decade has been warmer than the last since the middle of the 20th century and satellite data - based observations «show continued warming over the past several decades.»

Since 1950 the number of heat waves worldwide has increased, and heat waves have become longer.5 The hottest days and nights have become hotter and more frequent.6 7 In the past several years, the global area hit by extremely unusual hot summertime temperatures has increased 50 - fold.8 Over the contiguous United States, new record high temperatures over the past decade have consistently outnumbered new record lows by a ratio of 2:1.9 In 2012, the ratio for the year through June 18 stands at more than 9:1.10 Though this ratio is not expected to remain at that level for the rest of the year, it illustrates how unusual 2012 has been, and how these types of extremes are becoming more likOver the contiguous United States, new record high temperatures over the past decade have consistently outnumbered new record lows by a ratio of 2:1.9 In 2012, the ratio for the year through June 18 stands at more than 9:1.10 Though this ratio is not expected to remain at that level for the rest of the year, it illustrates how unusual 2012 has been, and how these types of extremes are becoming more likover the past decade have consistently outnumbered new record lows by a ratio of 2:1.9 In 2012, the ratio for the year through June 18 stands at more than 9:1.10 Though this ratio is not expected to remain at that level for the rest of the year, it illustrates how unusual 2012 has been, and how these types of extremes are becoming more likely.

As the companion article to this one points out, virtually every major prediction of catastrophe that global - warming alarmists have made about the coming state of the environment over the past several decades — from melting sea ice and flooded nations to loss of snowfalls and increased climate refugees — has proven utterly incorrect.