Sentences with phrase «decades past virtually»

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The state's oil production grew tenfold over the past decade as it built a thriving oil shale industry virtually from scratch, driving unemployment to a national low and filling government coffers with surging tax revenue.

The past decade has been a relatively good time for companies to hold debt as funding costs were low and bond investors were willing to snap up virtually any new offering.

In a report that surprised virtually nobody, researchers declared last month to be the hottest in U.S. history, beating out 1936's Dust Bowl that had held onto the top spot despite the past two decades of gradually warming temperatures.

In the past decade, virtually all slaughterhouses have followed the lead of the top three meat producers in conducting only off forest feeding.

The theory's concepts and jargon have evolved over the past decade, with two - dimensional membranes replacing one - dimensional strings, but the theory comes in so many versions that it predicts virtually everything — and hence nothing at all.

Since we have achieved the capability for interstellar radio communication only in the past few decades, there is virtually no chance that any civilization we come in contact with will be as backward as we are.

In fact, many of these «health foods» have caused Americans» health and the American health care system to rank at the bottom of virtually every study, including a survey conducted in the past decade.

In the past decade, virtually all slaughterhouses have followed the lead of the top three meat producers in conducting only off forest feeding.

Although both scientists and lay people alike may frequently identify a single dietary element as the cause of chronic disease (eg, saturated fat causes heart disease and salt causes high blood pressure), evidence gleaned over the past 3 decades now indicates that virtually all so - called diseases of civilization have multifactorial dietary elements that underlie their etiology, along with other environmental agents and genetic susceptibility.

WHY: Robert Redford the actor / director and Robert Redford the activist have become virtually interchangeable over the past decade, so it's not surprising to see his name attached to a movie like «The Company You Keep.»

Film4's contribution to British cinema over the past few decades has been virtually unparalleled and judging by the slate we saw previewed today here in Cannes, that's not about to change in a hurry.

Interactive, collaboration, communication, creativity, learning and of course technology are words that have become a part of virtually every education product description over the past decade.

Over the past two decades, «tracking» as traditionally practiced has been virtually eliminated from the vast majority of America's schools — with the exception of mathematics at the middle and high school levels.

He has for the past three decades photographed virtually every form of auto racing including Formula 1, IndyCar, NASCAR, NHRA, Pike Peak, and IMSA and World Endurance Championship sports - car racing in the United States and Europe.

For the past three decades he has photographed virtually every form of auto racing including Formula 1, IndyCar, NASCAR, NHRA, Pikes Peak, and IMSA and World Endurance Championship sports - car racing the United States and Europe.

The reasons for this are well documented with virtually all commodities, which Canada has in abundance, advancing sharply in price over the past decade.

In past decades, when the services of professional home inspectors were virtually nonexistent, buyers were forced to take risks on home purchases with hidden problems, unexpected repair costs, and sometimes major disasters.

It may have changed a lot in the past decade, but virtually everywhere in the world has.

NEW YORK — Cindy Sherman has virtually created her own category of contemporary art over the past three decades, photographing herself in

Christy is correct to note that the model average warming trend (0.23 °C / decade for 1978 - 2011) is a bit higher than observations (0.17 °C / decade over the same timeframe), but that is because over the past decade virtually every natural influence on global temperatures has acted in the cooling direction (i.e. an extended solar minimum, rising aerosols emissions, and increased heat storage in the deep oceans).

As in past years, utilities all across the nation indicate they expect to continue retiring coal - fired generation, and virtually no one expects to add more coal capacity to their systems in the next decade.

If coal kept up the pace of growth of the past decade for the next 10 years, there would be virtually no chance at all of hitting our collective climate targets — the target agreed upon in Cancun (2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels) or the shared aspiration agreed upon in Paris («well below» 2 degrees, ideally 1.5).

Note that the number of confirmed erupting volcanoes has leveled off between 50 and 70 per year through the past four decades, and a linear regression line through the data indicates that volcanism has been virtually constant.

As we have recently discussed, although we can't say for certain statistically, it's likely that the global surface temperature warming trend has slowed over the past decade, because virtually all short - term temperature impacts have been in the cooling direction over that timeframe.

There is virtually no controversy among climate scientists and meteorologists that massive changes have occurred in the Arctic environment during the past three decades, and that those changes are largely due to manmade greenhouse gas emissions.

As the companion article to this one points out, virtually every major prediction of catastrophe that global - warming alarmists have made about the coming state of the environment over the past several decades — from melting sea ice and flooded nations to loss of snowfalls and increased climate refugees — has proven utterly incorrect.

Add the facts in trend: The oceans are acidifying, The climate has already shifted 4 degrees of latitude in the past 30 years; the Arctic will likely be virtually ice free during the summer melt within the decade, all the uncertainty ranges are positive and none of them are negative, CO2 is plant food, but what does that mean when the oxygen levels are dropping, the Hoover dam is supposed to shut down in 2023 due to no water (latitudinal shift), the Yangtze in China is getting very low, etc. etc..

This agreement is documented not just by a single study, but by a converging stream of evidence over the past two decades from surveys of scientists, content analyses of peer - reviewed studies, and public statements issued by virtually every membership organization of experts in this field.

Over the past three decades, as companies in virtually every business sector have found themselves in some form of economic transition, the outsourcing of both critical non-core activities and non-critical non-core activities has been incredibly useful for controlling costs and for improving the level of service for such activities.

Foley Hoag lawyers and healthcare policy specialists have had a direct hand in shaping virtually every healthcare law and regulation enacted over the past four decades... More

The CBC has been offered a new license on terms that are virtually identical to those that have existed for the past decade (the cost to CBC to use the theme is approximately $ 500.00 for each game broadcast of Hockey Night in Canada).

Sears has been around for over 120 years, and has sold virtually everything you can think of, and in the past few decades, it has started to lose its customer - base, largely due to the internet.

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Developers dabbled in eco-friendly offices and houses in the past decade, but virtually no multi-tenant projects made it to the drawing boards...