Sentences with phrase «at least a century ago»

That was, in some cases, at least a century ago, however.

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Turning to any page at random, you will find gleefully sarcastic observations that ring at least as true today as they did three - quarters of a century ago.

A century ago at least half our population could live on the produce of their own gardens.

Religion and scientific pursuits parted company centuries ago, at least in the eyes of the public.

These remind me of cheese biscuits I tried to make when I first learned to cook, at least a half century ago.

That feels so wrong, given that Wisconsin won 11 games two years ago in the same season Michigan won five and missed a bowl game, given that Wisconsin won at least nine games in six of its last seven seasons while Michigan has done it just twice, given that only Ohio State has won more games than Wisconsin among Big Ten teams this century.

A turn - of - the - century vase made at Sophie Newcomb College (that means something if you're into vases) that Jerry bought 25 years ago for $ 10 — the asking price was $ 12, but no self - respecting collector pays tag — the Sloans now estimate to be worth at least $ 20,000.

Lake Ontario's water level is currently higher than it has ever been — at least since records on it began getting collected nearly a century ago.

While a century ago there were fewer than 20 cities holding more than 1 million people, there are now around 450, of which at least 10 have a population of more than 10 million.

A CENTURY ago, the universe was a calm and stable place — at least in the minds of cosmologists.

Of course, summer temperatures when the warming portion of the wobble cycle peaked roughly 7,500 years ago were at least 0.8 degrees Celsius warmer than 20th - century average temperatures.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / LeventKonuk Four years ago the Obama administration offered up $ 19 billion in stimulus funds to help get health care IT (including electronic health records, or EHRs) in the pink — or at least in the black.Better information technology throughout the health care system would save money, improve care and bring the health care industry into the 21st century, proponents argued.But, as is obvious by the continuance of paper records, isolated institutional networks and clunky interfaces, health care IT is still in critical condition.A new report, assembled by the RAND Corporation, a non-profit, non-partisan research group, suggests that health care IT is not a hopeless case, however.

Europe's first great culture sprang up on the island of Crete, in the Aegean Sea, and rose to prominence some 4,000 years ago, flourishing for at least five centuries.

But so far, at least, it has been one of the weakest seasons since modern record - keeping began about half a century ago, U.S. weather experts say.

Although African maize is infected by several virus species from at least six different families, there are two that stand out as the greatest threat to African food security: these are Maize streak virus [MSV]; family Geminiviridae, a virus species with an extremely small single - stranded DNA genome that was first discovered infecting African maize over a century ago; and Maize rough dwarf virus [MRDV], family Reoviridae, a virus species with a complex double - stranded RNA genome that until recently was thought to occur only in Europe and Asia.

It was an important trade item for the Inca at least two centuries ago and collected as tax by the Spanish to then be used by royalty (those ancient kings truly knew what was good).

Set amidst the postwar austerity of early 1950s London, «Vera Drake» offers the viewer a decidedly ambivalent brand of nostalgia, while addressing a subject — abortion — that is still, at least in some quarters, as contentious today as it was half a century ago.

In Washington, D.C., the juvenile court still operates, at least on paper, as the founders of the system envisioned over a century ago.

In closing, if you love the modern day American Pit Bull Terrier, than you should at least give respect to those that created the breed centuries ago, because it is from these lines that all modern day Pit Bulls are spawned.

Sea Level Rise this century is likely to be «at least twice that projected» three years ago, with enormous humanitarian and economic impacts.

The peculiar notion that the human race will grow much more quickly than it can be sustained by food supplies is at least as old as Thomas Malthus, whose grim Malthusian Theory of more than two centuries ago predicted just such a scenario.

It has been warmer than the present for much of the ten thousand years since the last big ice age: it was a little warmer for a few centuries in the medieval warm period around 1100 (when Greenland was settled for grazing) and also during the Roman - Climate Optimum at the time of the Roman Empire (when grapes grew in Scotland), and at least 1 °C warmer for much of the Holocene Climate Optimum (four to eight thousand years ago).

The world is now at least 1 °C warmer than it was a century ago, and 2016 has already been declared the warmest year since records began.

Scientists believe that the missing signal means that this Tibetan ice field has been shrinking at least since the A-bomb test half a century ago.

The research predicts that a megadrought in the coming decades could be at least as dry as the one that took place ten centuries ago, but that temperatures could be higher this time around, increasing the severity of the event.

2.6 million years ago, there was no ice in the Arctic, just as we expect in a few years» time (or at least by the end of the century.)