Sentences with phrase «for at least a century»

The gold coin watch has been around for at least a century and a half, but it was Corum that made it simple to use.

So, guess your chances of realising that sort price appreciation in real estate experienced elsewhere is not likely to happen in the U.S. for at least another century.

Charging interest was around for at least a century, but Christians prohibited themselves from loaning money, yet they still required the service, so THEY set up Jews in the banking industry, much in the same way an estranged wife hires a hitman to do her dirty work.

For at least a century, this was the way we Anglicans joked about anything that seemed too obvious to state.

This compels us to reconsider the civic project of American Christianity that has for the most part guided our participation in the liberal public order for at least a century.

Though Madison's account of religion in the public sphere prevailed for at least a century, Jefferson's radical tolerance remained latent.

In the front yard, serving as acounterweight to the mansion's spanking brand - newness, is a massive oak, a treethat appears to have been on that spot for at least a century.

While the evidence is a bit inconsistent, some medical researchers insist that human sperm are going downhill and have been doing so for at least a century.

Tribes like the Mashco Piro have had limited contact with strangers and foreign pathogens for at least a century, and so are extremely susceptible to illness and exploitation; many newly contacted tribes have been all but wiped out by the flu or other common diseases.

CHOLERA IN HAITI: Absent from Haiti for at least a century, cholera swept in after the powerful earthquake of January 2010.

The new study's results show the Alaska Range has been warming rapidly for at least a century.

For at least a century, mathematicians have tried to find effective ways to distinguish between different knots.

The genetic patterns observed by the researchers suggest that, for at least a century before the Civil War, there was ongoing admixture between blacks and whites.

Obesity Ketogenic diets have been used for at least a century for weight loss.

Most of the action takes place in Jamaica, but even when Ida leaves the island for some years the author stays true to the Jamaican experience because, for at least a century, one of Jamaica's primary exports has been its people.

And if what matters is lost revenue, why has the industry never targeted the used - book market, which has (by their logic) been costing them sales for at least a century?

Today's column will focus on Lyme disease which was discovered in the town of Lyme, Connecticut and has been around for at least a century, but public awareness of the disease did not occur until the late 1980s.

Wasmuht has her own vision of the future, but she knows that art been dreaming now for at least a century.

Earlier this year, the museum announced a partnership with a trust run by the Fishers, and created after Don Fisher's death in 2009, to house the art for at least a century.

It is found that a radiative forcing from non-CO2 gases of approximately 0.6 W m -LRB--2) results in a near balance of CO2 emissions from the terrestrial biosphere and uptake of CO2 by the oceans, resulting in near - constant atmospheric CO2 concentrations for at least a century after emissions are eliminated.»

The Terra Preta soils in the Amazon formations have retained their remarkable fertility for at least centuries, still until today, as documented by generational histories of many South American farm families.

«[P] rojected growth in wood harvest for bioenergy would increase atmospheric CO2 for at least a century because new carbon debt continuously exceeds NPP.»

Meanwhile, scientists have determined that biomass burning generates more CO2 emissions per kWh than burning coal does, and the projected rapid growth in biofuel use will only serve to «increase atmospheric CO2 for at least a century».

There is also considerable observational evidence that arctic sea ice extent over the last few decades is much lower than it has been for at least a century prior to modern times.

That and calcium compensation will ensure that oceans pH doesn't for at least a century and only then in the southern oceans.

All appear to show a cooling - or at least a pause - for at least this century.

Even if we stopped all emissions today, we will be living with these changes for at least a century, because carbon takes a long time to dissipate from the atmosphere.

And since paleontologists and coal companies have known for at least a century that the mines are treasure chests of ancient secrets, many companies have staff scientists who look for unusual formations and alert researches when they find something good.

The role of the lowest solar cycle for at least a century is mostly ignored by believers in man - made global warming.

The coal reserves in the US are sufficient for delivering power for at least a century and potentially much, much longer.

Independently there is the data point that nature has been absorbing around 50 % of anthropogenic CO2 for at least a century.

Decorating with yellow has been popular in kitchens for at least a century, and is commonplace in nurseries as it is gender neutral.

Not exact matches

The term «target hardening» has been around for at least half a century.

Rudd's $ 43bn fast web gamble The global recession has forced Kevin Rudd to scrap plans for a high - speed national broadband network funded by the private sector and wager at least $ 21.9 billion of taxpayers» money to fund his election pledge to bring internet speeds into the 21st century.

«It's one of the things that makes me optimistic about America because when I look at what we have accomplished using half our talent for a couple of centuries, and now I think of doubling the talent that is effectively employed — or at least has the chance to be — it makes me very optimistic about this country,» Buffett says.

By the time the game finally started, on a steamy Texas Saturday this September, there were 87,500 people in the stadium and thousands more in the streets, all eager for the rematch between Alabama and Texas A&M — the «game of the century,» at least for that week.

After half a century, it has become far more than just another sporting contest — it's a social and cultural event that eclipses almost anything else, at least for a few hours.

Following the sharpest decline in crude oil prices in at least a century, as well as a six - year bear market in metals, the global environment could be ripe for a commodity rebound.

Whereas Britain may not have been an engine of growth for 18th Century India, or at least for the Indian textile industry, it was for much of the 19th Century the world's engine of growth because it supplied much of the capital that a savings - starved world needed to fund investment.

Is it reasonable to speculate that perhaps mutual fund holdings of Treasuries as a percentage of the total outstanding has peaked at a high unseen for at least a quarter century?

The authors usefully highlight the ways in which the evangelical fervor of the nineteenth century gave women considerably expanded space for social leadership, and they view people such as Matthews and Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons, as reacting, at least in significant part, to this challenge to patriarchy.

* sigh * people have known for decades if not centuries at least that the numbers of Christians martyred was exaggerated.

His range of experience was restricted by the kind of man he was; and this in itself raises certain difficulties if he is held up as an example to all human beings everywhere and at all times, for it is at least in some measure unreal to present a first - century Galilean as a model for the conduct of Western or African or Asian men in a twentieth - century industrial society.

It's an all - stops - pulled celebration of the Middle Ages as the summit of Christian civilization — a sentiment I find at least somewhat attractive, until I remind myself that it would require later centuries for us to acquire the blessings of anesthesia, modern dentistry, and single - barrel bourbon.

Perhaps it is necessary to admit that the narrative, at least in the grand nineteenth - century tradition of Tolstoy, Austen, and Melville, is not the form for our time.

This may be partly because the moderns had some success in undermining confidence in the classic proofs by their criticism without winning any lasting confidence in their own, but the main cause is not any defect in the proofs for the existence of God, at least in the classic proofs, but the general discredit which has fallen upon all systems of thought which ante-date the last century.

We acknowledged that many people have recognized that these two texts pretty clearly do prohibit at least some kinds of male - male sex... The law really means what pretty much everyone has taken it to mean for centuries.

I have read the Bible for almost half a century, including cover to cover on at least eighteen different occasions.

Whatever moral capital U.S. bishops have in the wake of the sex abuse scandal that rocked the nation for decades will be insufficient to win over lay Catholics to what has been for at least a half a century a lost cause.

Nuns should break from the Catholic church and start their own, take at least half the revenue away from the vatican and reinvent religion for the 21st century.