Sentences with phrase «few decades previous»

Current figures are averaging in the 20 % range globally, but in some areas, like Russia, the total amount of sun that now reaches the ground is some 30 % less than only a few decades previous.

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By then, and in just the previous few decades, northern sections of the Larsen Ice Shelf had «retreated significantly,» said Jacobs.

In previous decades, the magazine could easily weather a few years of turmoil.

«The Church is doing more than they've done, perhaps in the previous few decades and I absolutely agree that there's a lot more we can be doing.

As a result, more has been written on this topic in the last few decades than had been written in the previous two millennia.

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.

«That is why it's so puzzling that your plans for «transportation equity» have left out the borough with the fastest population growth in the previous decade and the fewest public transportation options.»

The finding challenges previous arguments that a hot spot north of Cape Hatteras over the past few decades was due to a slowdown of circulation in the North Atlantic, which is itself due to global warming.

We also know that we are statistically consuming less fat that we have in previous decades, and fewer vegetables.

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Feminine beauty is one of the eternal themes discussed at all times; each era has its own canons of female beauty, which are dictated by modernity: in one period of years, it is fashionable one, tomorrow there are new standards, sometimes totally opposite to the previous, and a few decades again come into vogue long - forgotten images.

Previous research shows the amount of college students hooking up hasn't actually risen in the past few decades, but is there prejudice against those students who do choose to hook up?

At its heart, Black Panther has a fairly standard comic book sort of story: baddie Ulysses Klaue (a rare live - action Andy Serkis: Star Wars: The Last Jedi, War for the Planet of the Apes), one of the few outsiders who knows the secrets of Wakanda, and who had stolen a small quantity of vibranium decades ago, is up to no good again, with a scary dude nicknamed Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan: Fantastic Four, and both of Coogler's previous films) at his side; they must be stopped by T'Challa, Nakia, and the absolute force of nature General Okoye (Danai Gurira), with an assist from CIA agent Everett K. Ross (Martin Freeman: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Sherlock).

The previous decade had shown us what wonderful things the man from San Anselmo was capable of — with the excellent Se7en, the underrated The Game, and the now - fashionably - disliked - but - still - actually - great Fight Club all arriving within a few years of each other.

The citywide graduation rate actually declined a few points this year, and it's been hovering below a previous high - water mark for half a decade.

Few write from as broad and experienced an entrepreneurial and technological perspective as Guy Kawasaki, whose previous books include such timely books over the past few decades as The Art of Start, The Macintosh Way, Reality Check, and EnchantmeFew write from as broad and experienced an entrepreneurial and technological perspective as Guy Kawasaki, whose previous books include such timely books over the past few decades as The Art of Start, The Macintosh Way, Reality Check, and Enchantmefew decades as The Art of Start, The Macintosh Way, Reality Check, and Enchantment.

There are fewer stray dog populations now than in previous decades, and the need for the iconic town dog catcher has been reduced to almost nil.

It is very obvious there is an overpopulation problem with these breeds and many of the issues we see can be linked back to that overpopulation (as similar problems have been linked to other breeds in previous decades when this happens; the Boxer is a prime example of this both a few decades ago and with some problems we see as their popularity goes on the rise again).

From a contract game artist's point of view, the next few years in the video game industry may look a little more interesting creatively — and a little lighter on the clones — than the previous decade.

In the 2 previous decades, Xbox players played with other Xbox players, PlayStation players played with PlayStation players, PC players played with PC players etc with very few exceptions to that rule.

While superhero films have dominated the field workplace over the previous decade, few anticipated 2016's Deadpool to be fairly so profitable.

A few years later, she released a series of works reminiscent of the ones from previous decades where she used typewriter juxtaposed with the common and stereotyped media images of African Americans.

In the past few years, the art world has begun to more graciously reward artists who have honed their practice over previous decades, while remaining inexplicably under - the - radar.

In the past few years, the art world has begun to more graciously reward artists who have honed their practice over previous decades, while remaining inexplicably under - the - radar — artists like these 10 members of The Artsy Vanguard, who are finally getting their due.

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.

In the 1980s, Ringgold shifted her tone, moving away from the explicit works of the previous few decades.

It is to be noted here that there is no necessary contradiction between forecast expectations of (a) some renewed (or continuation of) slight cooling of world climate for a few decades to come, e.g., from volcanic or solar activity variations; (b) an abrupt warming due to the effect of increasing carbon dioxide, lasting some centuries until fossil fuels are exhausted and a while thereafter; and this followed in turn by (c) a glaciation lasting (like the previous ones) for many thousands of years.»

The most exciting thing is we'll get a chance to see the relative strength of all of these over the next few years, and it will most interesting to compare the total decade of 2010 - 2019 to previous decades in terms of the trends in Arctic Sea ice, Global Temps, and of course, OHC.

According to some analysts, more square footage of structures will be built in the next few decades than has been built by human societies in all previous history.

That was a very extreme signal — far outside the previous variation — yet its also rather hard to fit into std GW theory, because it would be extreme even under warming to be expected in the next few decades (I think).

-- New technology of this sort tends to follow an exponential growth curve, so that if properly managed it could become mature within a few decades, being then able to balance existing emissions and start a drawdown process that could quickly make up for the previous century's emissions.

A few decades later, a paper by Guy Callendar in 1938 linked the increase in carbon dioxide concentration over the previous 50 years to rising temperatures.

But, there now seems to be a general agreement that the apparent signals that had been reported in the 2000s were biased by the various factors described in the previous sections, and that trends of the last few decades are within the bounds of natural variability, e.g., see the Knutson et al., 2010 review (Abstract; Google Scholar access).

Previous work by the group projected that all of the reefs in the world may be dissolving in a few decades if current carbon dioxide emission trends continue.

Extrapolating out, the trend line will not break the 2007 low for over a decade, and since very few previous years were more than 10 % below the trend line, I believe that the 2007 low will not be broken in the next few years.

Meteorological station data provide a useful indication of temperature change in the Northern Hemisphere extratropics for a few decades prior to 1880, and there are a small number of station records that extend back to previous centuries.

Some of the proxy series began diverging a few decades ago, after matching previous observations and proxies very closely before that.

The court heard three or four cases each of the previous three terms, according to data compiled by Edward Lee, a professor at Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago - Kent College of Law, and the court heard even fewer in the previous decade: two or three per term.

If you consider the rapid changes in our society over the last few decades, it's easy to see that today's parents face much greater challenges than previous generations of parents.

I ask him a few questions and he tells me the previous owners passed away almost a decade ago and the property passed to their heirs in which the property then quickly fell into dis - repair and people started moving out.