Sentences with phrase «began during the past decade»

In much of the world, libraries are taken for granted, but their appearance in up - country African villages only began during the past decade.

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A real - world illustration: In 2014, the insurance industry began approaching a period during which the bonds bought many years, even decades, in the past were coming up for maturity.

As the new literature about «theological education» began to grow during the past decade it quickly became clear [l] that for some participants the central issue facing «theological education» is the fragmentation of its course of study and the need to reconceive it so as to recover its unity, whereas for others the central issue is «theological education's» inadequacy to the pluralism of social and cultural locations in which the Christian thing is understood and lived.

Thanks to powerful gene - sequencing techniques developed in the past two decades during the race to decode the human genome, researchers are beginning to reconstruct what our ancestors» microbiomes looked like, potentially going back thousands of years.

After improving steadily for half a century, the health of American children as measured by key indicators began to deteriorate during the past decade, according to a report released last week.

Branding exercise aside, a strategy revision is likely of more interest to German hot - rod enthusiasts: Where RS models during the past decade - plus tended to arrive at the tail end of a given car's life cycle — and even skip certain generations of those cars — they will now arrive within the first year or two of a new model's introduction, and RS badging will be present on 10 different vehicles by the end of 2018, with the new RS5 up next at the beginning of the year.

To get there, he begins by noting the «stunning» and ongoing «shift from active to passive investment management» may be «the biggest story in the finance industry during the past decade.»

As the East Building was being constructed, Paul Mellon began to give the museum carefully selected individual works from the collection that he and his wife had assembled during the past decades.

During the past decade, most years ranked among the warmest since record keeping began in the mid-1800s.

Sea surface temperature has been consistently higher during the past three decades than at any other time since reliable observations began in 1880.

Child maltreatment is a significant public health and social welfare problem, particularly in high - income countries1 and effective methods of prevention have begun to be identified during the past two decades.