Sentences with phrase «doubled in the past century»

Life expectancy in the developed world has nearly doubled in the past century.

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There are dozens of books and articles from the past half century, all arguing that, far from being the Boy Scout of popular imagination who slew Goliath, the David figure who supplants Saul as king in Israel is a devious, double - dealing thug.

In the past century success in feeding a growing population depended in large part on doubling cropland and a five-fold increase in irrigated lanIn the past century success in feeding a growing population depended in large part on doubling cropland and a five-fold increase in irrigated lanin feeding a growing population depended in large part on doubling cropland and a five-fold increase in irrigated lanin large part on doubling cropland and a five-fold increase in irrigated lanin irrigated land.

A recent study of bank credit in 17 countries over the last 120 years by Oscar Jorda, Mauritz Schularick and Alan Taylor found that the share of mortgage loans in banks» total lending portfolios has roughly doubled over the course of the past century — from about 30 per cent in 1900 to about 60 per cent today.

In the past third of a century, their prevalence worldwide has nearly doubled.

Looking at data from 1855 through 2005, Webster and Holland found that the total number of tropical cyclones per year doubled in that time, from an average of six at the beginning of last century to 14 over the past decade.

Third, in the absence of any feedbacks except for temperature itself, doubling carbon dioxide would increase the global average surface temperature by about 1.8 F. And fourth, global temperatures have been rising for roughly the past century and have so far increased by about 1.4 F.

In many parts of the mid-latitudes, including the United States and Europe, forest clearing over the past few centuries has likely doubled to quadrupled the frequency of extremely hot, dry summers.

Both casual relationships are operative at all times: In the 19th and 20th centuries, the temperature - driving CO2 causal relationship amplified the original temperature effect, as one of several factors leading to a net positive feedback on temperature due to CO2 increase, and a climate sensitivity of about 3C for a doubling of CO2 — a number verified multiple times by calculation from proxy data from multiple epochs in Earths prehistoric pasIn the 19th and 20th centuries, the temperature - driving CO2 causal relationship amplified the original temperature effect, as one of several factors leading to a net positive feedback on temperature due to CO2 increase, and a climate sensitivity of about 3C for a doubling of CO2 — a number verified multiple times by calculation from proxy data from multiple epochs in Earths prehistoric pasin Earths prehistoric past.

As the Climate Council has reported, hot days have doubled in Australia over the past half - century.

In fact, if humankind was really as dumb as the fans of DPS would have us believe, we wouldn't be around today to hear their doomsaying, because Homo sapiens would have been wiped out during vastly larger environmental swings (in and out of ice ages, for example) in our past, than those expected as a consequence of the burning of fossil fuels to produce the energy that powers our world — a world in which the human life expectancy, perhaps the best measure of our level of «dumbness» or «smartness» — has more than doubled over the last century and continues to grow ever longeIn fact, if humankind was really as dumb as the fans of DPS would have us believe, we wouldn't be around today to hear their doomsaying, because Homo sapiens would have been wiped out during vastly larger environmental swings (in and out of ice ages, for example) in our past, than those expected as a consequence of the burning of fossil fuels to produce the energy that powers our world — a world in which the human life expectancy, perhaps the best measure of our level of «dumbness» or «smartness» — has more than doubled over the last century and continues to grow ever longein and out of ice ages, for example) in our past, than those expected as a consequence of the burning of fossil fuels to produce the energy that powers our world — a world in which the human life expectancy, perhaps the best measure of our level of «dumbness» or «smartness» — has more than doubled over the last century and continues to grow ever longein our past, than those expected as a consequence of the burning of fossil fuels to produce the energy that powers our world — a world in which the human life expectancy, perhaps the best measure of our level of «dumbness» or «smartness» — has more than doubled over the last century and continues to grow ever longein which the human life expectancy, perhaps the best measure of our level of «dumbness» or «smartness» — has more than doubled over the last century and continues to grow ever longer.

Overseas born Aussies are now at their highest number in over a century, making up twenty eight percent of the overall population - and those born in China have doubled in the past decade.

Added to the merger with Century 21 RCP Realty in 1998, Century 21 Request Realty has now more than doubled its sales force over the past two years.»