Sentences with phrase «few decades past»

Human nature, and perhaps the fact that the preponderance of people involved in dog breeding are female, has probably lead to the reduced size, larger eyes and shorter, blockier muzzles seen in several breeds today that did not exhibit these features a few decades past.

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But over the past few decades the burdens on medical practices have drastically increased.

Our understanding of the nature of creativity has undergone a revolution in the past few decades.

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

Additionally, the number of people who report having a close confidante in their lives has been declining over the past few decades.

Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

With online apparel retailer American Giant, Bayard Winthrop is trying to do what few have done in the past several decades: produce high - quality clothing entirely in the United States.

On a national scale, our analysis reveals just how powerful the tech industry has become to the US economy in the past few decades.

The bee population has been declining in the past few decades — 700 bee species are heading toward extinction — due to changes in agricultural processes, habitat loss, and pesticides.

Big brand names such as Coca - Cola, Apple, Salesforce, and Oracle are just a few examples of companies that have achieved big growth in the past decade by relying on a partner ecosystem.

who may have been slightly blindsided by the change in retirement strategy over the past few decades

Here's the likelihood that a person has been married at least once at some point in his or her life for every year of age over the past few decades:

The problem, he warned, is that Canada's workforce is rapidly aging, while its companies are stuck in a low productivity gear, putting the country on track to generate only half of the annual growth in the next few decades that Canadians have come to expect over the past 50 years.

Such stereotypes have shadowed the women's movement over the past few decades — and a slew of young, fashionable celebs are working to clarify feminism's true definition.

From the McDonald's Arch Deluxe to the Wendy's SuperBar, we took a look at 14 fast food items that have been discontinued during the past few decades.

U.S. airlines remaining after a wave of megamergers over the past decade have left travelers with fewer options, even though these airlines have, as a result, larger fleets and access to more hubs to reposition aircraft in the event of a storm.

The increases in crop yields seen over the past few decades are starting to slow, and the world's population is still rocketing up.

The doohickeys on which these run, which the Asian manufacturers have mastered over the past few decades, are increasingly disposable and interchangeable, and therefore less valuable.

The growing recognition of the negative effects of corporate tax rates explains why Canada and other OECD countries have made it a point to reduce corporate income taxes over the past few decades:

Markets have been fueled by the steady stream of 401 (k) and pension purchases over the past few decades.

Way back in the winter of 2014, when he was sketching the broad strokes of his agenda as the new leader of the then third - place Liberals, Trudeau spoke in Montréal about how pro-free market economic orthodoxy, put into policy by successive governments over the past few decades, was favouring the rich too much.

However, there has been a striking decline in the important social infrastructure of local communities over the past few decades.

Over the past few decades in the U.S., wages have remained stagnant while the costs of building and living in housing has steadily risen.

There are perhaps many explanations for this trend, but it does correlate nicely with the technological explosion — especially of the Internet — over the past few decades, which invites a sobering conclusion.

I've seen studies that suggest the percentage of Americans who report chronic feelings of loneliness has risen over the past few decades.

Over the past few decades, the sale of such goods migrated largely to big - box multinational chains, where employees couldn't care less about answering customers» questions or concerns.

Over the past few months, there's been a flurry of launches, releases and unveilings in the market, ushering with it a level of competitive optimism not seen in half a decade.

Over the past decade, virus - writers worldwide have created and released about 80,000 viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other «malware» programs, according to Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for antivirus software vendor Sophos Inc. (www.sophos.com) And about 600 to 800 new variations crop up every month, although, typically, only a few cause widespread or serious headaches.

The debt boom over the past few decades has been a big economic stimulant.

Lars Schmidt, a former HR practitioner who now runs Amplify, an employer branding and search consultancy, points out that while the field has evolved significantly over the past few decades — becoming more strategic and aligned with business, as well as more automated and data - driven — the practice of employee relations, or how workplace grievances are handled, has hardly changed.

Few owners in the National Football League have been as successful as New England Patriots Owner Robert Kraft in the past two decades.

Over the past few decades, the Internet has been touted as «the great equalizer,» and small businesses have found some great successes in virtual spaces.

Companies have been using the strategy for decades, but recapitalizations have become increasingly popular the past few years, thanks in large part to the fast - growing private equity market.

Over the past few decades, researchers have made strides to understand more about stem cells and regeneration.

The past few decades have been good for female earners, especially those with more education.

Bathroom scales have come a long way in the past few decades, and you don't necessarily have to pay top dollar to get top features.

But, in the case of a speculation tax, it's important to recognize that our markets have changed dramatically over the past few decades.

Much of Canada's growth over the past few decades came from the entry into the workplace of extraordinarily successful women.»

The proposal has generated a great deal of often vitriolic debate over the future of the wheat board, and the C.D. Howe Institute recently weighed in with a report arguing that global grain markets have changed significantly over the past few decades, to the point that the CWB is more often than not a price taker.

Over the past few decades, he has focused on philanthropy; he co-founded Birthright Israel, spearheaded Heritage Minutes and started the Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine in New York.

The management of Canada's oil and gas industry has become, over the past few decades, ever more concentrated in Calgary.

I've had my eye on Israel for several years now, since working on my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, and learning that much of the country's economic success over the past few decades has been the result of a meshing between technology and the military.

Israel has been the flashpoint of much of the world's conflict for the past few decades and it's not inconceivable that it'll be the last place on Earth where fighting continues.

Companies like Google, Microsoft, and IBM have tried to get into the health IT space over the past few decades but haven't stuck around.

MIT grads alone have created over 400 startups over the past few decades.

McFarland points out that many of the great fast - growing companies of the past few decades relied on Market Development as their main growth strategy.

While there have been many iterations of the gaming device over the past few decades, the Oculus Rift has most notably brought the concept of VR to the consumer forefront in the 2010's.

It is a view based on how innovation and inventions affect the economy, especially the inventions of the past few decades.

Although financial services companies including PIMCO and Pacific Life have dominated the local economy over the past few decades, Newport Beach has built a technology cluster in recent years: Investment app Acorns and CudaSign, an e-signature company, were both started in Newport Beach.

Di Vincenzo cites August as the stock markets» traditionally worst performing month during the past few decades.