Sentences with phrase «at least a century before»

Also shocking: the researchers estimate that the sharks live at least a century before they reach sexual maturity.

The genetic patterns observed by the researchers suggest that, for at least a century before the Civil War, there was ongoing admixture between blacks and whites.

Not exact matches

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

The same kind of coordinated action could unite evangelicals with other Christians and concerned persons of goodwill to address the key social needs of the late 20th century — if not to solve them, at least to hold them before God responsibly in prayer to seek whatever measure of progress may be consistent with the church's task before the return of Christ.

Before the trinitarian and christological debates in the fourth and fifth centuries, Christians sang praise in language that was quite fluid while also at least implicitly trinitarian.

It is at least as old as the words of a Hebrew prophet, written centuries before the time of Jesus:@ @@

But two centuries elapsed before these ideas attained cultural dominion in the West (or at least in the Anglo - American portion of it).

Since Christianity existed for at least three centuries before the formation of Christendom, there is no reason why it should end at the same time.

For many centuries now, at least since the Reformation, and possibly before that, people have understood the «Kingdom of Heaven» (or the Kingdom of God) as being equivalent to «heaven.»

Moreover, however dependent the Indian Church structure later became on the Syrian Persia, the fourth - century report of Theophilus the Indian is evidence that at least two hundred years before Cosmas it had already begun the indispensable process of accommodating Christian practice to Indian ways.

The theory of composite authorship had been held in one form or another for a century and a half or more, by at least some scholars, before Wellhausen, a German scholar, gave it so systematic and convincing a statement that it has since been associated with his name.

The warming of the WAIS is most worrisome (at least for this century) because it's going to disintegrate long before the East Antarctic Ice Sheet does «'' since WAIS appears to be melting from underneath (i.e. the water is warming, too), and since, as I wrote in the «high water» part of my book, the WAIS is inherently less stable:

The movie — a $ 90 million gamble for 20th Century Fox — arrived here after a whopping 19 - year development process led by producer John Goldwyn that included at least five directors, four lead actors, three studios and one lawsuit before settling on the current version, written by «The Pursuit of Happyness» scribe Steve Conrad and co-starring Kristen Wiig.

One can scarcely think, before the anti-traditional 19th century at least, of any artist who sprang from the ranks of any more elevated class than the upper bourgeoisie; even in the 19th century, Degas came from the lower nobility — more like the haute bourgeoisie, in fact — and only Toulouse - Lautrec, metamorphosed into the ranks of the marginal by accidental deformity, could be said to have come from the loftier reaches of the upper classes.

I think we have at least two centuries before we do serious recycling, and this will last us several centuries before it becomes difficult and limitations set in.

The agave lifecycle is a long one, leading some to dub certain agave varieties as century plants, and while it doesn't take nearly as long as a hundred years for them to grow to maturity, those used in tequila making require at least seven years before they are ready to harvest.

It has passed safely before and scientists have calculated at least a couple of centuries out that, even with the slight changes that can occur in the orbits of such objects, this particular space rock won't add to the planet's pockmarks.

It will be at least decades, and maybe even centuries, before we understand the «essedntial physical proceesses» of how our climate works.

The 97 % Consensus Predicted * NOT * an Arctic Ocean «completely ice free by 2011 / 2013/2015», but rather «an ice - free Arctic for at least part of the year before the end of the twenty - first century.»

Some models forecast an ice - free Arctic for at least part of the year before the end of the twenty - first century.

«By the end of this century, mountaineers will most likely have to reach at least 3,000 metres before they will encounter a glacier,» he said.

We do not have enough weather records to reliably tell what happened to Arctic temperatures before the 20th century, but it is at least plausible that similar cooling and warming periods also occurred then.

While the resolution does not have to be that fine, it has to at least approach the century level before it tells us much.

And remember warming temperatures globally swung upward — at least my information tells me this — in the first half of the twentieth century before World War II and the post-war industrial boom — and the second half of the century, with all of the industrial activity, didn't global temperatures remain fairly static?

In testimony before the US Senate in 2003, he stated: It is the consensus of the climate research community that the anomalous warmth of the late 20th century can not be explained by natural factors, but instead indicates significant anthropogenic, that is human influences... More than a dozen independent research groups have now reconstructed the average temperature of the northern hemisphere in past centuries... The proxy reconstructions, taking into account these uncertainties, indicate that the warming of the northern hemisphere during the late 20th century... is unprecedented over at least the past millennium and it now appears based on peer - reviewed research, probably the past two millennia.

The report also predicted that although there's a chance the world's population will level off sometime in this century, there will be at least 5.9 billion more people on Earth before it does.