Sentences with phrase «at least a century old»

The Northern Powerhouse initiative was launched by the Government to address a North / South divide in the UK that is at least a century old.

The notion that cancer and immunity are closely connected and that a person's immune defenses can be turned against cancer is at least a century old.

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• Gyula Krúdy, The Adventures of Sindbad: Not the Sinbad of the Arabian Nights, but a seducer and lover and aesthete of love, three centuries old at least, but indefatigable, a ghostly figure haunting the fading world of the Austro - Hungarian Empire.

This model is rooted in an understanding of schooling already at least four centuries old by the time Christian churches appeared on the scene.

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

Certainly ours is a century in which the traditional Western forms have been collapsing about us, but in the arts and sciences at least, the dissolution of old forms has gone hand in hand with the birth or rebirth of new forms.

Why, you have the god given right to believe in talking snakes, knowledge and eternal life giving fruit, centuries old people, a flood that required at least a pair of every animal to be stuffed on a boat that was not viable, a tower, god was afraid would reach all the way to heaven, a zombie messiah, unicorns, satyrs, and a leviathan god does battle with.

It's an old world type of name that has almost been reinvented or at least found again since the turn of this century.

To study evolution across a major vertebrate class, dissect the genomics of complex traits, and resolve a centuries - old debate on the avian species tree, we formed a consortium focused on the sequencing and analyses of at least one genome per avian order.

With a phenomenal grade - point average of 3.99, 18 - year - old Das is the youngest to receive the medal in at least a century.

A smidgen too young for the role of widowered father of a four - year - old, at least for 21st - century sensibilities, he and the film use the tender vulnerability of both his years and his... Read More»

By 1997, as it became evident that this goal wasn't going to be met, President Clinton returned in his State of the Union speech to the old model of substituting quantity for quality: «We must make the 13th and 14th years of education - at least two years of college - just as universal in America by the 21st century as a high - school education is today.»

For some of us, there's reverse cachet in owning a car that's at least a quarter - century old — provided it's relatively obscure or at least has some sort of noteworthy provenance.

The question he poses in the paper is whether the centuries - old tontines — «or at least the underlying DNA of a tontine» — can help.

He also created and directed the PBS series, THE LIVING CENTURY, which told the amazing stories of the 20th Century through individuals who were at least 100 yeaCENTURY, which told the amazing stories of the 20th Century through individuals who were at least 100 yeaCentury through individuals who were at least 100 years old.

In a neighborhood that seems to reinvent itself at least once a week, this century - old Italian - style building houses a 60 - year - old general store - turned - restaurant.

This insight is at least four centuries old, formulated by philosopher Francis Bacon during the Enlightenment.

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.

Because many old houses — at least in the East — started life in the late 18th century.