Sentences with phrase «fell in a matter of decades»

Included are some towns that rose and fell 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.

These spikes show rainfall levels rising sharply over just a few decades, and falling off again soon afterwards, in a matter of centuries.

Climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) finds his dire predictions about global warming and the future of the world falling on deaf ears — until the forecasted weather changes begin happening in a matter of hours instead of the anticipated years or decades.

Many of the mechanisms are like that — the tides, the direct inductive heating, the heating caused by the days influx of falling meteorites — which incidentally is far greater than the rate of heat loss through outgassing, as meteoric dust and matter infalls at an average rate of at least millimeters per decade, from my own direct measurements — they have «impressively» large amounts of annual energy associated with them, right up to where you divide by the surface area of the earth and the number of seconds in a year.

No matter what happens in the next decade or so, many experts say, the second and probably hardest phase of stabilizing the level of carbon dioxide will fall to the generation of engineers and entrepreneurs now in diapers, and the one after that.

The reasons as to why Samsung's flagship phone appears to be more popular than Apple's smartphones amongst adults weren't explained, though the findings seem to fall in line with Samsung's own point of view on the matter, at least judging the company's recent «Growing Up» ad showing a young iPhone user making the switch to a Samsung device after a decade of sticking with the Apple brand.