Sentences with phrase «began around a decade»

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The price drop is an unexpected turn of events for an industry that for decades has operated under the assumption of Peak Oil — geophysicist M. King Hubbert's theory, first proposed in 1956, that the United States» then soaring oil production would peak and begin to decline around 1970.

The extraordinary growth of the business of golf these last 15 years, he argued, was almost entirely down to the hype around Woods (and to the incredible way he validated it, beginning with his first green jacket in 1997 just months after he turned pro, and continuing across more than a decade of dominance).

A decade from now, not only will the way you shop for groceries in the United States have changed, but Amazon could well have begun transforming the way people around the world get their food.

These single - premium fixed products have been around decades, but they only had ho - hum sales — that is, until a rising number of advisors, financial media and older consumers began to see value of including income annuities in retirement portfolios.

Serious brain science around meditation has emerged only in about the last decade, since the birth of functional MRI allowed scientists to begin watching the brain and monitoring its changes in relatively real time.

But in recent decades, many Christians around the world have begun to teach and write about the Kingdom of Heaven in a different way.

So with MG slashing the farmgate price, Coles will now pocket around 15 cents more per litre than it did two years ago when the decade in question began, while MG as a processor gets nothing more.

The Cubs have been hovering around.500 so consistently since the very beginning of the season, it'll be wildly inappropriate to use the term «hovering around.500» for any team over the next decade.

Right around this time the name Landon began to surface as a first name, picking up steam over the following decade, and catapulting into the top ranks of popular baby names.

In the past decade, excavators have begun to find evidence to support this idea around the globe.

In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change flagged an odd phenomenon: Atmospheric temperature data collected over the past few decades suggested that global warming had slowed down beginning around 1998.

The first decade showed little change, but starting around 1996, the data show that due to darkening, the ice began absorbing about 2 percent more solar radiation per decade.

Southern Australia's decline in rainfall began around 1970 and has increased over the last four decades.

A growing body of research in the last decade has looked at what makes human psychology special, and scientists have said that the basic social communication skills that begin to develop around 9 months are what first seem to set humans apart from other species, said MacLean, assistant professor in the School of Anthropology in the UA College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

A decade ago the leading theory of modern human origins held our species arose around 200,000 years ago in eastern Africa and (apart from short forays into Israel around 90,000 to 120,000 years ago) did not begin spreading out of Africa in a major way until around 60,000 years ago.

The 1980s will probably be remembered as the decade when the defence of laboratory animals really began to make headlines around the world.

After decades of riding icebreakers in Antarctica's icy waters hoping to better understand the fragile ecosystem on and around this frigid continent scientists have begun delegating data collection to satellite - guided robotic subs.

«The approval of a vaccine to treat cancer is a victory in the history of cancer therapy, and signals the beginning of a new era in cancer medicine,» said Jill O'Donnell - Tormey, Ph.D., executive director of the U.S. - based Cancer Research Institute (CRI), a nonprofit organization founded in 1953 that has provided decades of significant support to cancer immunology researchers around the world so that the development of cancer immunotherapies such as Dendreon's Provenge might one day be possible.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been around for decades, but it's only within the past several years that physicians have begun using the technology on a regular basis to examine the heart.

While human growth hormone has been around for at least five decades, it was only in the 1990s that we really began to see a vast increase in its synthetic production.

In THE POST, director Steven Spielberg fluidly mirrors this shot with a SteadiCam following Bradlee (Tom Hanks) through the newsroom as the drama begins to unfold around Daniel Ellsberg's (Matthew Rhys) 1971 leak of the Pentagon Papers — a decades - spanning intelligence assessment which betrayed administration doubts about success in Vietnam, highlighting the influence of what Eisenhower warned was a growing Military Industrial Complex.

My name is Adam and around the time that I began visiting The Film Experience, nearly a decade ago during my freshman year of high school, I had my first serious crush on a guy.

Those decades of gap - year growth were far from Pendoley's mind when he graduated from the Ed School and began working in public schools in and around Boston.

But I believe that around the mid-1980s, when corporations began to become more powerful that some nation states, that the battle for critical democratic citizenship became just a smokescreen for the production of consumer citizenship and critical pedagogy as it was then conceived became more like a dying star about to go into a supernova stage and incinerate any hope we had for real educational transformation, locked as we were within a neoliberal state that was quickly consolidating itself (and that a few decades later would have transformed itself into a security state akin to fascism).

Even in old age — the current van has been around for nearly a decade — the Dodge Grand Caravan began 2017 by outselling all of its rivals combined.

(In case you weren't around in the web industry over a decade or so ago: the structural quality of web development tools and CMSes didn't begin to improve until client apps that required structural quality began to be important, namely RSS / Atom readers and search engine crawlers.

Digital books have been around for decades, ever since publishers began experimenting with CD - ROMs, but they did not catch on with consumers until 2008, shortly after Amazon released the Kindle.

Passive funds have been around for decades but became fashionable in 2009, as the stock market began to rebound from the financial crisis, experts said.

Sony spent nearly a decade with the PS3 keeping online multiplayer free with PlayStation Network, but suddenly went ahead and began charging once the PS4 came around.

Only time will tell, although it is highly likely that official support will begin to cease around November 2016, as Sony has previously stated that they have an ideal lifecycle of ten years for each console and that is when the PS3 will celebrate a decade of gaming memories.

This ambitious endeavor was first begun in his teens through two formative studio encounters — one with the brilliant, omnivorous painter Gerhard Richter, the other with the arch conceptualists Fischli / Weiss — and has stretched out over the ensuing decades to encompass visits with thousands of artists and curators around the world, many of which he has recorded and published in his books.

While a number of established Cologne - based gallerists, including Karsten Greve, Paul Maenz, Rolf Ricke, Michael Werner, and Rudolf Zwirner, had already begun shaping the European reception of American art in the previous decade, the 1980s marked a period during which art being produced in and around Cologne gained international attention.

The story of her move to the desert, building a house by hand (one account made it sound like she began by putting adobe around her camper and worked outward from there) and of her «quitting» painting for the better part of a decade: I find all of that an inspiring example of taking an alternative path.

In the early 1980s there was a marked change in the Chicago art scene as the city's art schools began attracting students and working artists from around the nation who had absorbed the lessons of the previous decades» avant - garde and who were influenced by the theoretical writings of historians, philosophers, environmentalists, and literary critics.

Leslie Hewitt's artwork has remained admirably consistent since she began exhibiting around a decade ago, still strongly exuding intelligence and revealing the artist's knack for mining the aesthetic possibilities of a given image.

The early 1980s marked a sea change in the Chicago art scene as the city's art schools began attracting students and working artists from around the nation who had absorbed the lessons of the previous decades» avant - garde and who were influenced by the theoretical writings of historians, philosophers, environmentalists, and literary critics.

A 2007 NASA sponsored satellite - based study sheds light on the puzzling observations by other scientists that the amount of sunlight reaching Earth's surface had been steadily declining in recent decades, began to reverse around 1990.

Former Vice President Al Gore has spent decades immersing himself in the science and policy of global warming, visiting the poles, writing two books largely framed around the issue, and traveling the world giving a climate presentation that began on 35 - millimeter carousels and evolved into a snazzy Keynote extravaganza and Oscar - winning documentary.

Mercury levels in the upper layers of the ocean are up 3.4 x since the beginning of the industrial revolution, according to the first study to have done truly global measurements of marine mercury levels by taking thousands of samples around the world over half a decade.

The decrease has been greatest during summer, with sea ice extent reducing by around 12 % per decade since the satellite record began in 1979.

But on the contrary, the Southern Ocean has warmed by around 0.5 °C in the three decades since satellites began measuring sea ice trends.

Coinciding with cycles of reduced sea ice, glaciers on the island Novaya Zemlya in the Barents Sea, also underwent their greatest retreat around 1920 to 1940.61 After several decades of stability, its tidewater glaciers began retreating again around the year 2000, but at a rate five times slower than the 1930s.47 The recent cycle of intruding warm Atlantic water45 is now waning and if solar flux remains low, we should expect Arctic sea ice in the Barents and Kara seas to begin a recovery and Arctic glaciers to stabilize within the next 15 years.

Asimov made the point decades ago, that what thermodynamics dictates as the end condition of the universe, Genesis accurately describes, although wrong end around as you say, as the beginning.

(It must also be remembered that the apparent linear trend started around the beginning of the period considered while the temperature had been close to constant over the precious decades.

Since the satellite record began in 1979, summer sea ice cover has fallen by around 13 % per decade, with rising temperatures playing a large role in the decline.

http://bit.ly/V19Im8 shows that warming has been going on at a rate of around 0.06 C per decade ever since proper records began; and the CET suggests this warming has been going on ever since the 17th century.

In other words, according to the most recent models, within four or five decades one might begin to regularly expect typical April weather beginning around February.

Dr Pfister reported to Hubert Lamb that for several decades prior to 1564 the Swiss climate was on average 0.4 c warmer than today (1990's) In Switzerland, the first particularly cold winters appear to have begun in the 1560s, with cold springs beginning around 1568, and with 1573 the first unusually cold summer (Pfister, 1995).

In the decades which followed, the city of Boston would rise up around that elm tree — but their humble beginnings could hardly predict the important role both town and tree would have in shaping history.

The basic physics knowledge of the greenhouse effect have been examined since 1824 beginning with Joseph Fourier, the hypothesis that we should warm with continued CO2 emissions has been around for more than a hundred years, the general confirmations and realization that this will develop into a global problem have been germinating for over 50 years, and in the last three decades the knowledge that the warming we will experience will affect our climate and agricultural systems is well known.