Sentences with phrase «began more than a quarter of a century»

Groundbreaking work that began more than a quarter of a century ago has led to ongoing insights about brain organization and consciousness

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Today, more than three quarters of a century since it all began, we are continually setting the bar for humane programming in our region.

Now, more than a quarter of a century later — during which time he settled in the US, began collaborating with his wife Emilia, and acquired the status of one of the most important artists among former Soviet nonconformists — the tone and comportment of his work has changed.

It is a quarter of a century since the so - called «Young British art» movement began with the exhibition Freeze, and no artist makes the case for that generation more powerfully than Lucas.

Both wetland drying and the increased frequency of warm dry summers and associated thunderstorms have led to more large fires in the last ten years than in any decade since record - keeping began in the 1940s.9 In Alaskan tundra, which was too cold and wet to support extensive fires for approximately the last 5,000 years, 105 a single large fire in 2007 released as much carbon to the atmosphere as had been absorbed by the entire circumpolar Arctic tundra during the previous quarter - century.106 Even if climate warming were curtailed by reducing heat - trapping gas (also known as greenhouse gas) emissions (as in the B1 scenario), the annual area burned in Alaska is projected to double by mid-century and to triple by the end of the century, 107 thus fostering increased emissions of heat - trapping gases, higher temperatures, and increased fires.