Sentences with phrase «about a century»

Let's begin this starting point about a century ago, when the sweaty saga was much like today.

We're talking about a century of cinema, but it's still rock & roll to me.

Some coral populations in peripheral seas (or extreme environments such as tide pools) live today in environments that climate change projections expect for the tropical ocean in about a century.

About a century after the revolution that brought the independence of the nation, a new revolution was to take place, albeit a far less violent and a more gradual one.

In addition to experiencing the rainforest firsthand, they explored incredible mystical Mayan ruins and thanks to experienced guides, learned about the centuries old Mayan civilization.

Oil and gas companies, for example, take advantage of special depreciation rates, two of which are about a century old.

Much of the grim truth about the century past is to be found in this personal tale.

Finally, reliable records for most ground locations go back only about a century, so setting records may not be as surprising as if they broke marks that had been around longer.

He said scientists need about a century's worth of good data to start making sophisticated predictions about the influence of human - caused climate change on hurricane frequency.

But after a ship accidentally introduced black rats to the island about a century ago, the stick insects disappeared, only to be found 40 years later on a nearby volcanic sea stack.

This is a tale of two women separated in time by just about a century and in age by more than three decades — unlikely companions, you may think.

That would still commit us to increasing temperature for about a century and increasing sea levels for hundreds of years.

About a century ago, most girls didn't have their first period until well into their teens.

Not in this book, we should be able to create a universe in about a century.

It was not until about a century after Jesus that Christians began to regard as normal an ecclesiastical structure which had bishops as its chief administrative officers.

Others have found inspiration in the groundwork he laid for movements in public dissent, while others show how the problems Du Bois wrote about a century ago are still with us, and in certain cases are more urgent than ever.

Latif's run was legendary, one that will be talked about centuries from now, when children ask their mothers to recount how the «Daigoslayer» brought pride back to America's SSFIV fans after years of humiliation at Japanese players» hands, before they go to bed.

In that succession of prophets beginning about a century after Elijah there is that which is distinctly new.

Your notes about century variation make it all the worse: not only did they delete the later «cool» data, they worked hard to cool down Briffa's earlier «warm» data.

Hopefully, availability will increase as time goes on and more people show an interest in the new health food - although there's really nothing new about a centuries - old Amazonian plant.

I wish a lot more knew about Century Support and the great things they do, compared to people that would go into bankruptcy.

What's more, they discovered that Sabah could double carbon stocks by allowing previously logged forests to regenerate — a process that they estimate would take about a century.

Stick with one and argue it, preferably one that says something about century - scale warming and why GHGs aren't it.

For about a century now, no other issue in American Jewish life has evoked as much emotion and energy at the local level as has the struggle to keep religion out of their children's schools.

According to The Last Great Walk author Wayne Curtis, the health benefits of regular walking came into view about a century ago - particularly when it came to keeping ourselves young.

For about a century beforehand, British citizens...

Yes, the available history says that the heart was in the possession of the church about a century later, so either someone kept it for a long time after cutting it out of his corpse — yeah, that sounds likely — or it is a medieval «relic» that is actually the heart of a pig or a sheep that some clergyman sold along with genuine pieces of the cross and bones from St. Peter to make a buck on the rubes, uh, faithful.

For about a century Egypt was under the Umayyads; then the Abbasids ruled the country.

The first Gospels date to a couple DECADES after his death, the first non-Christian mention is about 80 years later, and the first Roman mention about a century.

It was the work of Mencius, a man who lived about a century later, who drank deeply at the fountain of Confucian wisdom, as it had been transmitted to his times, and who became the foremost Confucian teacher of antiquity, or perhaps of all time.

The Bulls, the most perplexing No. 2 of all, did it by beating higher - ranked schools that'd had football programs for about a century longer.

American corporations got into the business of recreation about a century ago, when the first big intra-industry baseball game was played by the teams of two New York insurance companies.

Keep the faith though chaps we've only got about another century of this and maybe we'll see a change.

The first anxiety upon which formula companies pounced about a century ago is perhaps the most looming of them all: untimely demise.

They then turn to Strang's book about a century - old case involving Italian anarchists and the famed criminal defense lawyer Clarence Darrow.

Thirty percent of voters said Owens deserves to be re-elected, while 47 percent said they think it's time for someone new in the seat that had been held by the GOP for about a century prior to the Democratic newcomer's election.

«And we'll also be talking a lot in the community about another century's old problem with (sewage) discharge.»