Sentences with phrase «decline in a matter of decades»

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Turning around decades of economic decline in a matter of years is «an unreasonable expectation» even as gains in job growth have been made, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at an event in Glens Falls on Wednesday.

And in East Africa, scientists found that a decline in wildebeest populations in the Serengeti - Mara grassland - savanna system decades ago allowed organic matter to accumulate, which eventually led to about 80 percent of the ecosystem to burn annually, releasing carbon from the plants and the soil, before populations recovered in recent years.