Sentences with phrase «changed over the last few decades»

All the poster was saying was that the face of Christianity has changed over the last few decades, for the worse.

But what has actually changed over the last few decades?

- One of the major reasons for cutting back on how much we eat is due to how much our diet has changed over the last few decades.

That mindset has changed over the last few decades, with many veterinarians spaying earlier.

The study not only reveals the Arctic's dramatic changes over the last few decades, but may also help researchers better predict when the Arctic Ocean will be ice - free during parts of the year.

One that has changed over the last few decades, and is changing still.

Not exact matches

The simple fact is that, while our family lives have changed substantially over the last few decades, workplace policies haven't kept pace with those changes.

Banana workers have been exploited since the banana trade began well over a hundred years ago, though in the last few decades we have been making progress with fair trade and organic certifications that seek to change this.

Because of changes in adoption over the last few decades — changes that include open adoption, gay adoption, international adoptions and trans - racial (racial transformation) adoptions, and a focus on moving children out of the foster care system into adoptive families — the impact of adoption on the basic unit of society and the family, has been enormous.

The result is that average house prices have changed little in Germany over the last few decades.

Over the last few decades which portions of the average rural voter's disposable income in dollars, (or if there is no change, their quality of life), have consistently improved as a result of Republican policies, relative to Democratic policies?

Over the last few decades which portions of the average metropolitan voter's disposable income in dollars, (or if there is no change, their quality of life), have consistently improved as a result of Democratic policies, relative to Republican policies?

«Society has changed hugely over the last few decades and we live our lives in very different ways.

Large telescope designs have changed significantly over the last few decades, with an growing emphasis on using segmented mirrors.

They found that the area taken up by mangrove forests in the northernmost latitudes had doubled over the last few decades, while the southern stretches changed little.

Over the last few decades, we have seen denim trends fluctuate, come and go and change.

The way in which single individuals seek out their soul mate has changed a lot over the last few decades....

If you consider the many things that have changed in the last few decades, there is a completely new outlook at the way that people should perceive online dating over 50 and what they should do in order to make this process easy for them.

The comedy cinemascape has changed severely, not only over the past decade, but even within the last few years.

However, while the presence of technology has remained constant, the ways that schools are using it has changed considerably over the last few decades.

Considering the massive changes that have occurred in our world over the last few decades, it's easy to yearn for simpler times, when phones only made phone calls and banks didn't charge account fees.

The landscape of retirement has changed dramatically over the last few decades, however, and with traditional pension plans dwindling, the future of Social Security uncertain, the rising costs of health care, and now retirement right around the corner, people are rethinking their approach to retirement income.

Over the last few years, and particularly in recent months, the home studio where the 83 - year - old painter Rose Wylie has lived and worked for decades in Kent, England has undergone what amounts to a décor change.

«The Oroqen's history is reflective of the vast changes that have happened across China over the last few decades, as the country has moved from a largely agrarian nation to an industrial powerhouse drawing in numerous ethnic groupings to present an image of a diverse and harmonious society.

Over the last few decades, scientists have been sounding the alarm about the Great Barrier Reef, which has lost more than a quarter of its corals in the last three decades, due to bleaching brought on by climate change, storms and coral - munching starfish — and quite possibly even sunscreen.

This situation has changed little over the last few decades.

Of course, there are changes in economic growth too — who could have imagined rapid growth seen in Asian cities over the last few decades?

A globally warm medieval period could be a simple forced response to increased solar, in which case it doesn't imply any larger intrinsic variability than already assumed, and since solar has been pretty much constant over the last 50 years, improvements to our understanding of solar forced climate changes are irrelevant for the last few decades.

Given all the independent lines of evidence pointing to average surface warming over the last few decades (satellite measurements, ocean temperatures, sea - level rise, retreating glaciers, phenological changes, shifts in the ranges of temperature - sensitive species), it is highly implausible that it would lead to more than very minor refinements to the current overall picture.

Attitudes won't change the fact that the Earth has already warmed about 0.7 C over the past century and mostly in the last few decades, and the warming has been accelerating.

They found that the area taken up by mangrove forests in the northernmost latitudes had doubled over the last few decades, while the southern stretches changed little.

The aerosol forcing change has been fairly flat over the last few decades according to the AR5 figure.

Which is just to say that the variation in anthropogenic forcing over the last few decades (and the next few decades) is several order of magnitude larger than the change in Milankovitch forcing over the same short period.

Two new features on Nature Reports Climate Change pay homage to the work of scientists who, over the last few decades, have been tireless in their efforts to extract clues about the Earth's past climate from air bubbles, isotopes and dust particles trapped in ice.

Recent work (e.g., Hurrell 1995, 1996; Thompson and Wallace 1998; Corti et al., 1999) has suggested that the observed warming over the last few decades may be manifest as a change in frequency of these naturally preferred patterns (Chapters 2 and 7) and there is now considerable interest in testing the ability of climate models to simulate such weather regimes (Chapter 8) and to see whether the greenhouse gas forced runs suggest shifts in the residence time or transitions between such regimes on long time - scales.

«Although the recovery of Arctic sea ice is certainly welcome news, it has to be considered against the backdrop of changes that have occurred over the last few decades,» Andy Shepherd of University College in London told BBC News.

However, mounting evidence against climate change theory and the «consensus» is unlikely to stem the tide of policy designed to combat global warming, thanks to the sheer size of the climate change industry that has built up over the last few decades.

Two - thirds of Americans (67 %) say there is solid evidence that the earth has been getting warmer over the last few decades, a figure that has changed little in the past few years.

This discussion suggests three important conclusions: (i) the effect of changes in terrestrial water storage on sea level may be considerable; (ii) the net effect on sea level could be of either sign, and (iii) the rate has increased over the last few decades (in the assessment of Gornitz et al. (1997) from near zero at the start of the century to 0.8 mm / yr in 1990).

While surface temperature show a significant warming over western Himalayas in the last few decades, the observed regional precipitation changes are irregular and not spatially coherent.

Over the last few decades, many international organisations and governments have aimed to reduce agricultural production while environmentalists, claiming that that «climate change is happening now» worried about decreasing fertility.

SSTs however have been influenced by other forcings, such as greenhouse gases, over the last few decades, and these transient changes will obviously affect the solar cycle influence.

The Walrus has an article by Alex Hutchinson, «The People's Court, A case for universal legal care,» that looks at some of the changes that have happened to legal aid over the last decade and a few of the changes to civil procedure expected in British Columbia... [more]

The landscape of retirement has changed dramatically over the last few decades, however, and with traditional pension plans dwindling, the future of Social Security uncertain, the rising costs of health care, and now retirement right around the corner, people are rethinking their approach to retirement income.

If you consider the rapid changes in our society over the last few decades, it's easy to see that today's parents face much greater challenges than previous generations of parents.