Sentences with phrase «during previous decades»

This location, northeast of Galveston, has experienced substantial coastal erosion during previous decades, and observed the highest water level for Hurricane Ike.

Virtually all the action during previous decades had focused on southern Iraq, in the low - lying alluvial plain that merges with the Persian Gulf.

But they would not have been able to dismantle so much of the painfully won gains in the common good achieved during previous decades had they not had the support, or at least the acquiescence, of many people of good will.

History has revealed that some of the best performing stocks during the previous decades have been those that shelled out ever - increasing cash to shareholders in the form of dividends.

While most of this company's revenues came from search advertising during the previous decade, the next 25 years for Google will not be so easily defined.

Michigan was the only state in the United States to see its population fall during the previous decade and he wanted to reverse that trend.

During the previous decade, the combined membership of all Protestant denominations declined by almost 5 million people, while the US population increased by 24 million during the same time period.

She was as charming and supportive as ever, although I am not sure she connected me at the time to the burgeoning food writer who had written her fan letters during the previous decade.

These were the 1970s, after all, when millions of marriages — including both Guttentag's and Secord's first marriages — had collapsed in the chaos of the free love movement spawned during the previous decade.

He points to a recent retrospective analysis by the California Encephalitis Project that analyzed the blood of 761 patients that had been gathered and stored during the previous decade.

Set during the previous decade, mostly in Liberia and Sierra Leone, The Last Face stars Charlize Theron as Wren Petersen, head of an organization that's Doctors Without Borders in everything but name.

74 percent of the cancer drugs approved by the FDA during the previous decade ultimately did not extend life by even a single day.

Google tried to organize books online based on ISBNs during the previous decade, but all they got was a lousy, unnecessary, and prolonged lawsuit from the Author's Guild that was finally dismissed in 2013.

The light tones are different from the darker ones often chosen by the artist during the previous decade, torn by the social and political upheaval of the War which left a strong impression on him.

During the previous decade, Tworkov had joined the Treasury Department's Public Works of Art Project and later the easel division of the Federal Art Project.

, then located in SoHo, a neighborhood that in 2012, when the show aired, was more of a historic outpost of the New York art world, with most of the galleries there having decamped to other areas in the city during the previous decade.

The once influential paintings she created during the previous decade, with only a few notable exceptions, disappeared from view, omitted from critical, art historical discourse for more than forty years.

Ofili bounced back in 2005 when the Studio Museum presented «Afro Muses 1995 - 2005,» a series of 181 watercolors he had painted during the previous decade, an exhibition Lax describes as «showstopping.»

Although 52,000 sq km were lost per year between 2000 and 2010, that was a marked improvement on the 83,000 sq km annual figure seen during the previous decade.

My skills and knowledge incorporates a number of exceptional projects during the previous decade.

Not exact matches

When these entities are net exporters of less than $ 22 billion, as they had been for much of 2013 and 2014, or net importers of capital, as they had been during the previous two decades, the central banks will have exported capital (accumulated reserves) to bring that number up.

During the current decade, labor - force participation plummeted to 63 %, down from 66 % in the previous decade.

In this paper he attributed all ills in the missionary movement to the church - centric thinking which had been developed during the previous two decades.

To put recent trends in even sharper relief, 205 abortion restrictions were enacted over the past three years (2011 — 2013), but just 189 were enacted during the entire previous decade (2001 — 2010).

The amount of time that fathers are available to their children has not changed very much during the previous four decades but what has changed is men's use of such time to get actively involved in such things as playing with their young children, bathing, changing nappies and putting them to bed.

The group's previous iterations in Iraq during the last decade faced similar adversity and it has often been able to make use of political instability to re-emerge as a major threat.

And he admits that previous administrations, during the past few decades have dropped the ball on protecting the state's most vulnerable people, saying there was government «atrophy and apathy» and dysfunction.

When they retrieved data from the moorings in 2015, they found that the ocean had experienced a dramatic change over the previous decade, especially during the winter.

U.S. plants operated at 80 % capacity during the 1990s, up from 65 % the previous decade.

Unlike in previous studies, the study behind this new publication looked at the regional density shifts of species during different decades, starting from the 1970s.

The deceleration in rising temperatures during this 15 - year period is sometimes referred to as a «pause» or «hiatus» in global warming, and has raised questions about why the rate of surface warming on Earth has been markedly slower than in previous decades.

The incidence of breast cancer began decreasing in 2000, after increasing during the previous two decades.

During the 1990s the rate of wetlands loss in the U.S. declined by some 80 percent over previous decades.

Steven Chu referenced Hell's groundbreaking research during his lecture on Wednesday morning, which focused on his recent efforts in optical microscopy — quite a departure from his previous work in energy during a decade - long sabbatical.

Written in 1944 during a lull in the 40 - year - old's World War II service, the story takes place over the previous two decades and considers issues of class, religion, and the heart.

During the early years of the revolution, peoples» lives changed more in a decade than they had in previous centuries.

The progress in education data over the past two decades surpasses that made during the entire previous century.

The FJ Cruiser was conceived and executed during the middle of the previous decade, an era when the economy was roaring and Toyota was riding high and could afford to spend money on what is essentially a corporate vanity project.

Although U stocks did not fare as well in previous periods — the J Portfolio dominated the 1980s, while the E Portfolio was the clear winner during the 1990s — there seems little doubt that the next decade will also be brought to you by the letter U.

Most of the same obligations from the previous decade usually persist during your forties.

Then there's the unwinding of the Fed's balance sheet — the unprecedented debt load the central bank took on during the financial crisis of the previous decade — and that's supposed to put upward pressure on interest rates, too.

During the final years of the previous decade, games that came packaged with their own, unique peripherals seemed to become more and more popular.

Constructed during a previous drought in 1970, the work was submerged by restored water levels and only emerged again a decade ago.

While a number of established Cologne - based gallerists, including Karsten Greve, Paul Maenz, Rolf Ricke, Michael Werner, and Rudolf Zwirner, had already begun shaping the European reception of American art in the previous decade, the 1980s marked a period during which art being produced in and around Cologne gained international attention.

In New York, the exhibition differs somewhat in form and content from its previous incarnation: There is more of an emphasis on Rauschenberg's innovative activities both during the earlier and final phases of his six - decade - long career.

During her last decade, she produced more artworks than she had done in the previous thirty years.

- What worries me is whether this mechanism also works during previous hiatus decades (as the 1960s) or not.

In a news release today, agency biologists said this is the third such worldwide coral bleaching measured in recent decades, with the previous ones in 1998, during a strong El Niño heating of the tropical Pacific, and in 2010.

From Solanki, Usokin, Kromer, Shussler, and Beer's, 2004 paper «Unusual activity of the Sun during recent decades compared to the previous 11,000 years»

This decade - long satellite altimetry data set shows that since 1993, sea level has been rising at a rate of around 3 mm yr — 1, significantly higher than the average during the previous half century.