Sentences with phrase «course of the last century»

Well, consider that franchising, one of the great game changers for small business over the course of the last century, today accounts for over $ 1 trillion in total sales and employs approximately 15 % of the US workforce.

Over the course of the last century, the modern university has ceased to attend to character formation, or it has imagined that such attention should be an «extra-curricular» enterprise having little or nothing to do with knowledge.

Conversation about community over the course of the last century has paralleled the conversation about culture.

Such efforts have had a demonstrable impact, dropping the extinction rate by half over the course of the last century.

And, it's true that our ideas about dog care have changed rapidly over the course of the last century.

Over the course of the last century a body of iconic work has been created and previous artists -LSB-...]

Over the course of the last century a body of iconic work has been created and previous artists who have created a poster include Howard Hodgkin (Welcome, Winter Games in Sarajevo, 1984, above), David Hockney, Andy Warhol and RB Kitaj.

Together, A. Conger Goodyear, Seymour H. Knox, Jr., Martha Jackson, and Natalie and Irving Forman donated more than 1,300 works to the Collection over the course of the last century and a half.

Peter Ritchie - Calder: In the course of the last century we've put 360,000 million tonnes of fossil carbon into the atmosphere.

Over the course of the last century, the food we eat has taken on many new forms.

Canada's merger laws have undergone frequent changes under the country's evolving approach to government oversight of competition and, more specifically, mergers over the course of the last century.

And yet over the course of the last century that is exactly how this idea came to be treated.

Through the course of the last century, employer liability has been expanded by multiple judicial decisions and court cases.