Sentences with phrase «growth over a few decades»

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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.

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

Higher productivity growth, sustained over a few decades, would have a profound impact on future living standards, but to expect an economic boom of anything but the short - lived variety is to rely on arithmetic that doesn't add up.

Over the next few decades, Canada's carbon emissions will be driven by the sharp growth in bitumen production from Alberta's oil sands.

To put this in perspective, «average» home price growth over the last few decades is somewhere between 3 % and 5 %.

Few companies can match Disney's consistent growth in profitability over the past decade and a half.

But over the last few decades it's remarkable how little of that growth has trickled down to ordinary families.

This neglect of the AG is unfortunate, for mainline churches can learn much from considering both the Assemblies» growth over the past few decades and the crossroads that the denomination faces.

Observers of Christian growth have been suggesting over the last few decades that the faith is experiencing a significant migratory moment, not unlike the first explosive venture outside the tribe of the Jews into the unfamiliar world of the gentiles.

Observers of Christian growth have been suggesting over the last few decades that the faith is experiencing a significant migratory moment, not unlike the first explosive venture outside the tribe of the Jews into the...

My experience with professional growth groups for theological students over the last decade has convinced me that the quality of professional services could be raised significantly in a few years if growth groups were used widely in professional education.

With the dramatic growth of the nonreligious in the last few decades, more atheist leaders are emerging as spokespeople for atheism, but the Christmas rift speaks to growing disagreement over how atheists should treat religion.

The black / white divide has been highlighted by the fact that the fastest growing segment of the UK Church over the past few decades has been among Pentecostal denominations, driven by the rapid growth of new African and Caribbean churches.

«Trusting the people» and empowering cities will be a fundamental element to balanced economic growth and urban revival over the next few decades.

The growth that Rockland County has seen over the past few decades paints a picture of why this additional source is needed.

Because the world's uranium supply is finite and the continued growth in the numbers of thermal reactors could exhaust the available low - cost uranium reserves in a few decades, it makes little sense to discard this spent fuel or the «tailings» left over from the enrichment process.

She added, «It is clear that growth has improved for infants and toddlers with Down syndrome over the past few decades, and that males are taller.

The increasing use of computers over the past few decades has fuelled an explosive growth in the microelectronics industry.

The U.S. saw a period of rapid economic growth and increased consumption of fossil fuels over the last few decades, leading to a corresponding large increase in carbon dioxide emissions.

GUARDIAN.CO.UK — Jan 3 — Over the past few decades, we've seen a growth of riches in a small slice of the population.

A track record of dividend growth is what we call our Profitability Litmus Test since rising dividends over the course of a few decades can ultimately not be faked.

These businesses, regardless of the growth they have delivered over the last few decades, are still nowhere near saturation.

Although I've referenced Markel's book value growth over the past few decades, I don't really value Markel relative to book value.

Buyer demands in Saskatchewan were influenced by a steady growth of immigrants over the past few decades.

This has helped fuel the remarkable growth in EM investing over the last few decades.

The growth of consumerism and instant gratification over the last few decades of the 20th century has also had a huge impact on visual art.

Of course, there are changes in economic growth too — who could have imagined rapid growth seen in Asian cities over the last few decades?

and the benefits of increased CO2 over at least the next few decades... if the increased CO2 produces increased vegetation and crop growth....

The House in the summer of 2009 passed a bill outlining a cap - and - trade system that could, over the next few decades, lead to an early end to conventional use of coal and oil, fuels that have underpinned prosperity and growth for more than a century.

At high latitudes, there has been a major, wide - scale change in tree - growth over the past few decades.

And this has not helped Germany's slow growth economy over the last few decades.

I have made no attempt to relate the past CO2 growth rate to any exponential function, except to note that it increased at an exponential rate of around 0.45 % per year and over the past few decades it appears to have stabilized at an exponential rate of around 0.5 % per year.

The optimistic energy scenario is a continuation of the accelerating rate of energy use that has occurred over the last few decades, and exceeds the projected energy supply of any published account, yet even this amount of energy fails to bring global growth rates to zero.

Recent studies have shown a reduction in individual coral growth in the Great Barrier Reef, southern Thailand, and the central Red Sea of between 13 percent and to 24 percent over the last few decades.

Though few expect a complete melt — the glaciers have weathered warmth before — a 2016 study in Nature found that continued growth of greenhouse gas emissions over the next several decades could trigger cause an unstoppable collapse of Antarctica's ice.

Developed countries continue to produce the highest emissions on a per capita basis, but most of the growth in global emissions over the past few decades has occurred in developing countries.

That means the growth rate in carbon dioxide over the next few decades is likely to be the same as the rate for the last few.

These countries account for 80 % of the world's population and the great majority of growth in CO2 emissions over the next few decades, and they are not even included.

We also find little direct evidence that tropical forests should not be able to respond to increases in [CO2] and argue that the magnitude and pattern of increases in forest dynamics across Amazonia observed over the last few decades are consistent with a [CO2]- induced stimulation of tree growth.»

«If we look at the legal profession demographically, it has grown significantly over the past few decades in the big cities but in small towns and cities it hasn't been keeping up with population growth.»

With fewer than 55,000 residents in 1970, it is fair to say the city has seen substantial growth over the past few decades.

The eastern superpower of China has demonstrated astonishingly rapid economic growth over the last few decades and now has a GDP second only to the USA.

Over the past few decades, the aviation industry has undergone massive shifts thus showing considerable growth and development.