Sentences with phrase «by turn of the century»

By the turn of the century, online retailing had become a veritable bubble, and in the early 2000s, that bubble burst, causing millions of people to lose faith in online shopping.

By the turn of the century, it was sending 1,000.

The curricular expressions of this impulse were English literature courses which emerged by the turn of the century and the inventions of the Western Civilization and humanities courses.

Out of this movement grew innumerable Holiness papers, local camp meetings and associations, missions and colleges; by the turn of the century these began to coalesce into new denominations — the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) and related groups, the Church of the Nazarene, the Pilgrim Holiness Church, and so forth.

Although the abortion debate may gradually become more muted, «none of us should be too surprised if, by the turn of the century, technological changes were once again to make abortion a battleground for competing social, ethical, and symbolic values.»

It ended in the total extinction of Christianity in China by the turn of the century, while Tamerlane simultaneously carried out the same destructive mission in Central Asia.

By the turn of the century the couple opened a sandwich shop to complement the bakery.

It was evidently too hot for some tastes, for by the turn of this century other countries were requesting that Hungary develop a non-pungent variety.

During the Victorian railway boom the railways expanded, and by the turn of the century Shepparton was central to a large network of regional branch lines on the Toolamba — Echuca railway line — lines leading to Cobram, Nathalia, Dookie, Picola and Katamatite.

Susskind dug into this black hole information paradox, and by the turn of the century he thought he had resolved it with a proposal called complementarity.

Last year 53 nations crafted an agreement that will cut CFC production by 50 percent over the next decade; the chemicals may well be banned altogether by the turn of the century.

The findings come after UEA research revealed that up to half of all plant and animal species in the world's most naturally rich areas could face local extinction by the turn of the century due to climate change if carbon emissions continue to rise unchecked.

By the turn of the century, the humble nematode worm (Caenorhabditis elegans) will have a rather big claim to fame: all being well, it will be the first animal to have the DNA of its genome, all 100 million base pairs of it, spelt out in full.

Up to half of plant and animal species in the world's most naturally rich areas, such as the Amazon and the Galapagos, could face local extinction by the turn of the century due to climate change if carbon emissions continue to rise unchecked.

Industry experts believe that the Chinese — thanks to new plans to collaborate with cash - strapped Russian space scientists — will be able to send their first cosmonauts into space by the turn of the century.

If Higgs bosons have larger masses, they might be unveiled at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., by the turn of the century.

By the turn of the century, they could climb 5 1/2 feet.

The oldest of the old, above 80 years, are projected to increase at an even faster pace, their numbers increasing sevenfold by the turn of this century.

The Sydney Morning Herald, no doubt attempting to reverse The Australian «s sunny optimism about climate change, is reporting predictions of multi-metre sea level rise by the turn of the century.

That hot streak had cooled by the turn of the century and his last film, 2003's sci - fi thriller «Dreamcatcher,» wasn't thrilling.

By the turn of the century, there were versions of Uncle Tom's Cabin that had hardly anything to do with Stowe's story; some portrayed Tom as a foolish, old minstrel - show character, and others ended happily, with Tom surviving.

Congress should set a national goal of immediately connecting every school to the developing «information highway» and insuring that every classroom has access to sophisticated data networks by the turn of the century, a policy statement released here by a new national coalition of education organizations urges.

By the turn of the century, the observation had been made in many countries that substantial increases in expenditure on schools had failed to deliver measurable improvements in student performance.

By the turn of the century, the graduation rate had dropped 7 percentage points -LSB-...]

By the turn of the century, the graduation rate had dropped 7 percentage points from its high - water mark of 77 percent in 1969.

Sands» win was an important moment in the history of the political arm of the Republican movement, Sinn Féin, which grew to be the largest political party in Northern Ireland by the turn of the century.

By the turn of the century, Rockford was the second largest furniture manufacturing center in the country.

By the turn of the century, each can be described as «fully developed.»

By the turn of the century, the hedge fund industry had grown to comprise over 12,000 operations.

(Very different by the turn of the century!)

By the turn of the century, Santa Barbara was home to one of California's most successful fishing enterprises.

History does not record how long Grover's Hotel remained in business, but by the turn of the century it had been replaced by the Richmond Boarding House.

By the turn of the century arcades had become an expensive, and risky business.

Crawford uses lighting to create color and creates two - dimensional graphic images inspired by turn of the century Botanical drawings.

By the turn of the century Breitner was a famous painter in the Netherlands, as demonstrated by a highly successful retrospective exhibition at Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam (1901).

By the turn of the century, Noland had returned to his most recognizable emblem: the concentric circle, this time, on a much smaller scale.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) warned in 2011 that reliance on coal — expected to increase to 65 percent by 2035 — will «lock» the world in the next five years on a path that could see global temperatures soar by two degrees Celsius and beyond by the turn of the century.

Ironically, both the S&P and the Deutsche Bank reports came as one of the biggest oil producers in the world, Shell, delivered its own in - depth report that predicted that solar would emerge as the dominant energy provider in the world by the turn of the century.

As the water level in the Sunderbans delta increases by 7 mm a year, a significant area will be inundated by the turn of century, forcing large - scale migration, particularly in Bangladesh.

In 1982, nations have two choices: to carry on as they are and face, by the turn of the century, an environmental catastrophe which will witness devastation as complete and as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust, or to begin now in earnest a cooperative effort to use the world's resources rationally and fairly.»

«the cooling trend observed since 1940 is real enough... but not enough is known about the underlying causes to justify any sort of extrapolation,» and «by the turn of the century, enough carbon dioxide will have been put into the atmosphere to raise the temperature of earth half a degree.»

The report predicts that by the turn of the century, the temperatures are likely to exceed 1.5 ° above pre-industrial era.

What it means: Scientific organization, including the UN Environment Programme have warned that failing to further cut emissions could increase global temperatures by over four degrees Celius by the turn of the century.

Geochemists are fairly certain that at the current fossil - fuel burn rate, ocean acidity will double compared to preindustrial times by the turn of the century.

Should the long - term goal be to keep global temperature rise below 1.5 degree by the turn of the century or should it be somewhere between 1.5 degree and 2 degrees

The expectations are a rise of at least 70 cm by the turn of this century.

When I was undertaking postgraduate studies in librarianship in 1978, lecturers Doug Down and Wes Young said to us: «By the turn of the century there will be no books left in libraries».

By the turn of the century, Rockford was the second largest furniture manufacturing center in the country.

«The African business and consumer sector is set to be the fastest growing market by the turn of the century.

In 1970, the great futurist Alvin Toffler predicted that technology would accelerate the rate of change to such dizzying levels that by the turn of the century most people would be in a perpetual state of shock from trying to absorb too much change in too short a period of time.