Sentences with phrase «at least the third century»

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Though the ecclesiastical relation between the two churches existed at least from the end of third century, the immigration of Persian Christians to Kerala not only strengthened the existing community, but also influenced its liturgical life.

The available evidence indicates that this relationship of the Indian church with the church in Basra existed at least from the third century.

Since the middle of the eighteenth century, the West's population has more than quadrupled while real income per head increased at least fivefold — an even faster rate than today's population growth in the Third World.

Indeed, analysis shows that for at least a third of the past century, the country was governed by parties which had failed to win an election in their own right but had created temporary mergers with another party in order to form a ruling coalition.

The new study suggests that by the end of the century, about a third of all the drainage basins could experience reductions in runoff greater than 10 percent during at least one month of the warm season.

An analysis of forest species in six French mountain ranges (the western Alps, northern Pyrenees, Massif Central, western Jura, Vosges and the Corsican range) shows that more than two thirds of them moved at least 60 feet (18.5 meters) higher on the mountainsides per decade during the 20th century.

In addition, two - thirds of western watersheds are projected to experience at least a 10 percent increase in erosion by the middle of the 21st century.

It's hard to imagine a less exciting Lara Croft movie than what directors Simon West and Jan De Bont cooked up at the turn of the century, but «Tomb Raider» 2018 comes worryingly close — especially in its third act — distilling a routinely rousing video game franchise into its least essential cutscenes.

Nonviolence has roots in Judaism as well, going back at least to Palestinian Talmudic sources of the middle third century.

Occasionally, my Mid-Western, Swedish mother would refer to their house as the «Ottoman annex of the Metropolitan,» because it was - at least by the standards of Westchester County in the middle third of the twentieth century - so exotic.

If both Greenland and West Antarctica shed the entirety of their ice burden, global sea levels would rise by 12 to 14 m. Although these icecaps would not disintegrate within a century, the loss of even a third of their mass — quite plausible if the rate of polar ice loss continues to double each decade — would force up the oceans by at least 4 m, with disastrous socioeconomic and environmental consequences.

The trend in the early 20th century is at least a third of that, so the man - made element would appear to be only about 0.6 ° to 0.7 ° per century.

«If sea ice declines at the rates projected by the IPCC climate models, and continues to influence emperor penguins as it did in the second half of the 20th century in Terre Adélie, at least two - thirds of the colonies are projected to have declined by greater than 50 % from their current size by 2100,» Dr Jenouvrier said.

Forests cover about 25 % of the planet's land surface, but over the past three centuries Earth has lost at least a third of its natural tree cover, due to human expansion.