Sentences with phrase «first several decades»

In the first several decades of Confederation, they often chafed at the trade barriers that were put in place to protect and nurture the growth of the manufacturing industries of central Canada.

Curiously, he found, in the first several decades after the first portolan chart was drawn, subsequent charts» accuracy declined a bit.

His paper in 1972 about this technique became a blueprint for the initial LIGO detectors, and the blueprint that guided us for the first several decades.

Scary movies were persona non grata for the first several decades of the Academy Awards, even as they were beginning to assert themselves with the public in the 1930s.

Finally, as compared to the first several decades of the last century, governments have shown an increased willingness to ensure that depressions to do not occur.

As this column has often noted, while most of us spend our first several decades accumulating wealth, one of the ultimate objectives of all that saving and investing is to start drawing an income for when your working days are over.

The holdings of the Palmer Museum of Art include a significant survey of prints by American artists working in the first several decades of the twentieth century.

The main difference between Hansen's emissions Scenarios A and B for the first several decades does not involve CO2.