Sentences with phrase «first few decades»

For the first few decades in business, the Andersons ran the company out of their attic and had one retail partner in a local grocery store.

When we first met and for the first few decades of our marriage we were very much...

The second occasion of rearticulation of the Christian purpose of Missionary institutions of higher learning took place in the first few decades of this century in relation to the movements of religious renaissance and the emergence of political nationalism.

Hmmm... would you say that there was a particular time in history after the first few decades that the Church has NOT been in this condition?

When we first met and for the first few decades of our marriage we were very much on the same page.

One of the strangest phenomena of our own day has been the reappearance in so many parts of the world, especially in North America of course, of a biblical literalism which is very similar to the «Fundamentalism» which was prevalent in the United States during the first few decades of this century.

For the first few decades of the 20th Century, the two towns remained rural hamlets, linked to Chicago more by rail than road.

The death rate in the overall population started dropping at the end of the 1800s, and it dropped most dramatically during the first few decades of the 20th century.

For Mondragon's first few decades it was a local group of manufacturers selling largely within a protected Spanish market.

Japan's neighbors (at the highest levels in politics) initially very willing to let bygones be bygones and didn't exert pressure on Japan to address these issues in the first few decades after the war.

During the first few decades of the 19th century, some astronomy texts listed 11 planets in the solar system: the true planets as they are now known (minus Neptune, not discovered until 1846), along with Ceres, Vesta, and their cousins Pallas and Juno.

When I glossed over the list of Nobel laureates that attended the Lindau meetings in the first few decades, I was ashamed to discover that I only recognized a few.

The fastest part of the increase occurred in the first few decades of the century, as improved sanitation and nutrition dramatically reduced infant and child mortality.

During the first few decades of the 1900's, the Eastman Company worked in collaboration with several astronomical observatories to develop emulsions that were increasingly sensitive to light.

Throughout the first few decades of its existence, it stopped the likes of Richard, John Brookfield, Wade Gillingham, and many others DEAD IN THEIR TRACKS at first, until they were all ready to re-group, re-strategize, and re-formulate their plan of attack.

During his first few decades as an actor, Bill Macy took whatever was readily available: poetry - reading jobs, movie bits, comedy - record gigs (he's the operatic cabdriver in the classical music lampoon The Wurst of PDQ Bach) and off - Broadway stage assignments.

Such sights pack more of a visual punch than most of the controlled soundstage shoots that Hollywood often relied on in its first few decades of feature filmmaking.

Though undeniable in importance and influence as one of the great innovators of the first few decades of the cinema's existence, his -LSB-...]

Throughout the first few decades of the 20th century, educators commonly believed that homework helped create disciplined minds.

The organization of work in the countries with the best - performing education systems took its current shape over the last few decades, not in the first few decades of the 20th century.

Results were even better when equities were kept at 100 % for the first few decades - even when bonds were added in the last decades.

To be fair, there is also the possibility that the markets will do great, and inflation will stay low for your first few decades of retirement.

For the first few decades, the Humane Society concentrated on protecting livestock, working animals, and children.

Already, in these first few decades of videogames history, games are beginning to make this reflexive, inward turn.

So the bottom line is; if there is leakage, which will be rare, it would be more likely in the first few decades and the risk diminishes over time - provided the correct site has been chosen and operated effectively.

The tax revenues from the industries created over the first few decades more than made up for the cost and the congress new that was very likely to be the case.

Additionally, to stem the divorce tide rolling in during the first few decades of the 20th century, education programs sponsored by social services and private practices became increasingly popular.