Sentences with phrase «couple of centuries»

That's the business model that has dominated the last decade or so — well, the last couple of centuries really, but in its current form, 10 - 15 years.

Consider how the past couple of centuries of human activity and population explosion have altered the face of the earth.

In the past couple of centuries people have released quantities of fossil carbon that the planet took hundreds of millions of years to store away.

If you were to set out in the year 1800 to measure the trajectory of temperature for the next couple of centuries what would you do?

There has certainly been an element of this in our culture in the last couple of centuries.

In the past couple of centuries, the world has seen revolutionary innovations like the steam engine, the combine, the jet engine and the assembly - line robot.

It is well - liked by herbalists for its flexible medicinal applications, and has in fact been recognized in the last couple of centuries as a safer alternative to aspirin made from willow bark.

Interestingly enough, it's actually so simple, and so straightforward, that it would have helped almost any investor make quite a bit of money over the past couple of centuries regardless of market conditions provided he or she had a long enough time horizon.

I think the thing we need to pray for most now, and the thing we've prayed for LEAST in the last couple of centuries regarding the Church is wisdom!

Based on that, and given the practical need for pure math research as being the driver for much of technology innovation (all of our computer revolution is based on pure math work of preceding couple of centuries; all of modern finance and economics is based on previous «pure» math; I won't even go into cryptography and number theory dependency since Gilles covered that.

Over the next couple of centuries English expansion was consolidated, with many of the Norman lords marrying with locals and thus, over the generations becoming indistinguishable from the Irish.

Further one may also understand the vital, thus far irreplaceable role that fossil fuels have had in conjuring those rabbits, and in cauterising some of the bleeding edges, over the meagre couple of centuries that economists have had so much fun laughing smugly at Malthus.

My fascination with corrosion reflects a particularly American longing for deeper history: we don't have buildings older than a mere couple of centuries as does the rest of the Old World.

«So even though some of these concepts have only been formalized in the past couple of centuries, our brains are already built to deal with them,» Just says.

«It's one of the things that makes me optimistic about America because when I look at what we have accomplished using half our talent for a couple of centuries, and now I think of doubling the talent that is effectively employed — or at least has the chance to be — it makes me very optimistic about this country,» Buffett says.

«It's one of the things that makes me optimistic about America because when I look at what we have accomplished using half our talent for a couple of centuries, and now I think of doubling the talent that is effectively employed or at least has the chance to be it makes me very optimistic about this country,» Buffett said.

BTW — it is two thousand years and not «a couple of centuries».

So...» and in another couple of centuries, no one will know bill nye existed..

In a couple of centuries people like you will be free.

Obviously, they forgot that government decided to separate church and state a couple of centuries ago.

For a couple of centuries, seminaries have specialized in undermining confidence in the Bible.

I have known many priests and none ever acted inappropriately towards me — so for you to paint every Catholic priest with same brush speaks to your deep seated and blind resentment... and yeah, the Church did a lot of horrible things in the past — including to my ancestors, so I don't need a history lesson and I won't hang it over their head some couple of centuries later.

Whats most embarrassing is the certainty that in a couple of centuries they are going to judge us the way we now look at the Dark Ages because of all these religious nuttiness going on, all over the world, including the USA!!!

At this point in England, Christmas had been on the wane for a couple of centuries.

For we have already pointed out that the biblical passage is late, and, though we can not date it within a couple of centuries, it is probably not earlier than Plato and may easily be as late as Zeno.

There's no way to squeeze a couple of centuries of Church life into a few sentences.

At the risk of oversimplifying a diverse range of views and attitudes over time and geography, it is only our Western culture over the last couple of centuries that has adopted this generally repulsed view of gay sex.

If he honestly wants people to listen, he needs to use the fas and not simply state, «You know, in another couple of centuries that world view, I'm sure, will be, it just won't exist.»

In fact, no one wrote anything about Jesus until several decades later, and most of what was written in the gospels wasn't written for at least a couple of centuries.

A couple of Centuries later, Buddhism sought to release people from their suffering by opening consciousness to a world - transcending experience of enlightenment.

Remember how jews and pagans were treated a couple of centuries ago.

That society, in turn, is mirrored in another book, written a couple of centuries before How to Win Friends or The Power of Positive Thinking.

It would be another couple of centuries before the first vegan society was created (1944).