Sentences with phrase «at an unprecedented rate since»

Disappearing at an unprecedented rate, means growing at an unprecedented rate since last summer.

Chinese furniture manufacturers» imports of several species of rosewood, collectively known as hongmu, have soared at an unprecedented rate since 2010 and hit an all - time high in 2014, according to China's customs data and reported in a new study by Forest Trends, an international non-profit organization.

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Interest rates have remained at unprecedented lows since the financial crisis in 2008, providing more incentive for Canadians to jump into the housing market.

MONTREAL — Humans are dumping extra carbon into the atmosphere at a rate unprecedented since at least the time the dinosaurs went extinct about 66 million years ago, new research suggests.

According to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the forcible displacement of individuals and families has grown at an unprecedented rate in the past two decades, reaching more than 65 million in 2016 — a number not seen since after World War II.

The courts service spent # 50m last year on agency and contract staff, a more than tenfold rise since 2010 when it spent # 3m, while courts have been closing at an unprecedented rate.

Since its establishment 22 years ago, Deer Jet has been firmly committed to improving services, allowing the company to grow at an unprecedented rate and taking the business from being China's first private jet company up to its current position as the largest business aviation group in Asia and a world's leading lifestyle brand.

Since the industrial revolution, we have been burning fossil fuels and clearing and burning forested land at an unprecedented rate, and these processes convert organic carbon into CO2.»

And although the problem has been around since the 1930s, rising sea levels mean these leaks are increasing at unprecedented rates.

Their study concluded that heat has increased in the deep oceans at an unprecedented rate in recent years, with approximately 30 percent being sequestered below 700 meters since the year 2000.

Since the Paris Agreement was struck at the global climate Summit in Paris (21st Conference of the Parties to the Un Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP21) last year, countries have come together at an unprecedented rate to ensure its early into force.

Since the Industrial Revolution humans have been releasing an increased amount of greenhouse gasses such as CO2 and methane at an unprecedented rate.

The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely (greater than 95 percent probability) to be the result of human activity since the mid-20th century and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented over decades to millennia.1 Earth - orbiting satellites and other technological advances have enabled scientists to see the big picture, collecting many different types of information about our planet and its climate on a global scale.

As law firms shed attorneys at an unprecedented rate — 4376 layoffs since January 1, 2008, 2614 in calendar year 2009, and 700 on a single Black Thursday, one would think that the bar association websites would be on high alert, offering discounted CLEs and networking events and otherwise mobilizing to help unemployed lawyers find work.

And since by 2007 legal process work had become a significant part of many junior associates» workloads, the rapid reduction of the amount of that work available to associates billing at full freight has been a major factor in BigLaw's unprecedented reductions in force and falling hiring rates from late 2008 through 2010.