Sentences with phrase «during the past century»

Compare this with what has actually occurred during the past century.

This is almost exactly the average increase recorded all over the world during the past century!

The team found that storm force has indeed increased over time, especially during the past century.

During the past century alone there are several obvious examples to consider.

Others have none, since, at least during the past century or so, they have not been bred for this characteristic.

The model results and historical data suggest that this dramatic fall in primary productivity is unprecedented during the past century.

Regardless of the links between climate change and the current drought, a general warming trend during the past century in California has reduced year - round water availability through a combination of earlier melting of snowpacks and greater rates of evaporation.

«Africa, where Christianity spread fastest during the past century, now is the region where oppression of Christians is spreading fastest,» the group noted.

Of course, the roots of Muslim resistance to Christianity go back to some of the earliest encounters with Christians, but tensions have increased significantly during the past century.

Several times during the past century, chemists dreamed up new reactions, only to see them fail in the lab.

According to Robert Wilby of Loughborough University, El Ninos during the past century have usually brought extra rain and snow to Britain in winter, especially during February.

Jack Maniak 12/3/2017 - It is widely accepted that France has consistently been a hotbed of electronic music innovation during the past century.

Again and again in the United States during the past century, vanguard artists found affinities and inspiration in the work of their untutored, marginalized peers and became staunch advocates, embracing them as fellow artists.

«The ground - breaking nature of portraiture during the past century has not always been recognized, yet the boundaries of identity have shifted significantly during this period.

For example, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston only had three paintings by African - American artist back in 2000, but now holds one of the most significant collections of art by African Americans in the nation, including works by almost every major African - American artist working during the past century and a half.

The use of trash in the making of art during the past century is so widespread as to defy summarization.

While the process of banding a bird has not changed greatly during the past century, the information provided by birds marked with a simple numbered metal band has transformed our knowledge of birds.»

The red line indicates the peak temperature anomaly of the past century, the blue line indicates the current temperature anomaly, the shaded red circles indicate periods in which temperatures were warmer than the peak warmth of the past century, and the shaded blue circles indicate periods during the past century that were colder than present.

These transition zones have historically fluctuated in response to rainfall changes (Hiernaux and Turner, 2002), in the clearest example of multi-decadal variability measured during the past century (Hulme, 2001).

Above all, our lesson plan would indicate that there has been a substantial effort in this direction during the past century, but also that it is now showing signs of failure in all of the institutions noted above.

If everyone had been held tightly to orthodoxy during the past centuries, we might not find much to draw on.

The quest for «strong, keen, efficient and great» offspring came to the fore during the past century, when the dominant classes became concerned with making fecundity discriminating.

We have only to consider any of the new concepts and intuitions which, particularly during the past century, have become or are in process of becoming the indestructible keystones and fabric of our thought — the idea of the atom, for example, or of organic Time or Evolution.

How is one to account otherwise for the type of social evolution which has taken place during the past century in nations like Germany, France, Great Britain, Russia, Japan and the United States?

That statement is from the «Draft National Policy on Education,» an attempt to chart directions for the 5,200 - some institutions of higher learning that have arisen in India during the past century.

Comte called his philosophy «positivism,» and its reductionism and atheism have had a significant impact during the past century.

Because of the rising sea levels, which research has confirmed has occurred steadily during the past century and is expected to accelerate in the future, extreme events that are now expected to happen, on average, only once every hundred years, could occur every decade or even every year, in many places by 2050, the study said.

Whether you call it soda or pop, the bubbly beverage has become ubiquitous during the past century.

They reached out to clinicians worldwide to identify patients with arhinia — before this study only 80 cases had been reported during the past century — and gathered samples for genetic sequencing.

The IPWP has experienced substantial warming and growth during the past century.

There were even several occasions during the past century when the olinguito came close to being discovered but was not.

But the discipline the Braggs founded, X-ray crystallography, has continued to thrill during the past century, giving scientists a window on the atomic world.

The rise of a generation of powerful female politicians, including U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Christine Todd Whitman, pictured here, is deeply symbolic of the dramatic change in women's opportunities during the past century.

Although Ford Motor Co. casts a longer shadow over automotive history, Buick has been far from invisible during the past century and enjoys at least one distinction: It was the cornerstone of the world's largest automaker.

«American Humane has rescued innumerable cats during the past century,» said the organization's president and CEO, Dr. Robin Ganzert.

It could be argued that Gabriel Kuri's approach to sculpture has been over-rehearsed during the past century, but on rare occasions art such as his demonstrates that it will always be possible to brush the formal and conceptual cobwebs off of any way of working and provoke actual surprise if not innovation.

The Hammer Museum and The Museum of Contemporary Art jointly present Masters of American Comics, a large - scale exhibition comprising in - depth presentations of work by 15 artists who shaped the development of the American comic strip and comic book during the past century.