Sentences with phrase «improvement over a few decades»

This is still an improvement over a few decades ago: «In the late 1960 ′ s 17,000 tonnes of turtles a year were harvested and in 1960 in Mexico over 380,000 turtles were estimated to have been caught.»

Not exact matches

Least of all do frank appraisals and suggestions for improvement seek to denigrate the sincere efforts of parish musicians over the past few decades.

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

Trophies have been few and far between for the Frenchman over the last decade, and despite what appeared to be real improvement in the 2013/14 and 14/15 seasons, they have seemingly digressed during the current campaign.

Although many technological improvements have been made to both grape growing and winemaking over the last few decades, climate is often the wild card in determining year - to - year variations in quality.

Because most of our energy technologies are relatively mature, my guess is that, over the next few decades, we're more likely to see incremental improvements in technology rather than breakthroughs.

The data displayed in Tables 1 and 2 implies few if any improvements have been made in the democratic quality of any of these six polities over the past decade, with longstanding personalist leaders, imperious ruling parties, and oligarchic political opportunists alike demonstrating their ability to continuously manipulate existing political institutions to impose their mandates over substantive domestic opposition.

Larry Cuban is a prolific and insightful chronicler and analyst of our efforts at urban school reform and improvement over the last few decades.

Notably, Poland is «one of the few European countries that achieved strong improvement of student improvement over the last decade.»

Over the several decades that standardized test results have been used as an accountability measure, few have questioned the assumption that these tests provide evidence that actually reflects school quality and that can promote school improvement.

Over the past few decades, far too many reformers have assumed that school improvement is mainly a technical design challenge having to do with organizational structures and systems.

Over the past few years, nearly 6,000 schools across 14 states have used the 5Essentials survey to systematically measure nonacademic factors that decades of research have shown matter most for school improvement and student success.

THE debate over renewing No Child Left Behind, the education reform act that will be 10 years old in January, has fallen along partisan lines even though school improvement is one of the few examples of bipartisan cooperation over the last decade.

Steady improvements in the quality of this care over the last few decades have led to a much higher quality of life for our animal comanions.

Based on the «waggle - free» Gamecube version of Twilight Princess, which I never touched, and boasting quite a few tweaks and supposed improvements, it marked the perfect opportunity for me to revisit the classic adventure with a critical eye, separated somewhat from the perhaps exaggerated criticisms the internet has whipped up over the last decade.

A globally warm medieval period could be a simple forced response to increased solar, in which case it doesn't imply any larger intrinsic variability than already assumed, and since solar has been pretty much constant over the last 50 years, improvements to our understanding of solar forced climate changes are irrelevant for the last few decades.

Over the last few decades, there has been little improvement, with lists still lacking names from Indigenous communities.