Sentences with phrase «in at least the past decade»

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Whereas Silicon Valley has been at it for at least three decades, the funds in Chile have only been investing for the past five or six years.

Here's the likelihood that a person has been married at least once at some point in his or her life for every year of age over the past few decades:

And for investors, private deals offer real income and asset appreciation that, over the past decade at least, has been elusive in the public markets, argues Jim Sand, CEO of Fast Track Capital, a registered exempt - market dealer based in St. Albert, Alta.

Even with a boost in ticket sales potentially on the way, though, Birdman is currently among the lowest - grossing Best Picture winners at the Academy Awards over at least the past four decades.

It is a growing business that has taken part in at least $ 7 billion of acquisitions over the past decade.

I am not sure that what happened last week is proof of anything I've been saying, but I do think that the framework I have used over the past decade has been useful, at least to me, in understanding both the rebalancing process in China and the events that led up to the global crisis of 2007 - 08.

I have gotten rambling a little here but my question to you your thoughts on this statement: «If money or rather the established institution that is the world market, is the reason that throughout at leastthe past few decades, than it would be right to take from those who have much much more than they need and give to those who are at least the poorest of the world, those in need.»

Nearly every major work in theology written in the past two decades makes at least passing reference to him.

As is evident from Prof. Levenson's full (rather than selectively edited) comments, he was referring to the instinctive repugnances of the past, which, at least in the United States, have, over the past few decades, been significantly overcome.

The New York Times: City Urges Requiring Consent for Jewish Rite New York City health officials proposed on Tuesday that Orthodox Jewish parents be required to sign a consent waiver before they can take part in a circumcision ritual that is believed to have led to the deaths of at least two babies in the city over the past decade.

For at least the past decade, in both Canadian and U.S. federal elections, network newscasters have «announced» a winner long before millions of voters in the western parts of each nation had an opportunity to vote.

I myself was drawn back toward the church in which I was reared, in part by the discovery that at least the history (if not always the present reality) of the Holiness churches was a most significant incarnation of values that I had discovered in the student movements of the past decade.

I first traveled there in 1994, and have returned at least yearly for the past two decades.

The report found, among other things, that 43 of the lower 48 U.S. states have set at least one monthly heat record since 2010, sea levels are expected to rise between one and four feet by the end of this century, winter storms have increased in intensity and frequency, and the past decade was warmer than every previous decade in every part of the country.

It is derived from a fruit that has been consumed in China for at least several hundred years and used as an herbal medicine for the past several decades, so it may well be safe, although any chronic adverse effects might easily have escaped detection.

......... Fact that we deserve better than the FA cup or that if we had a proper organized team under an excellent managerial leadership, we could have had at least one major trophy in this past decade!

This system has had only one losing year over the past decade -LRB--3.93 units in 2012) but has earned at least +9 units in eight of the nine additional seasons.

GENT and WOLFSBURG are the only a couple of knockout stages of the Champions League that has not already met at least once in European competitions for the past decade.

Infidelity has been a topic of interest in scholarly literature for at least the past two decades, but humans have been talking about it, and engaging in it, since biblical times.

In Oregon, there have been at least 19 newborn deaths reported to the state over the past decade for a death rate more than 4 times higher than low risk hospital birth.

If you've shopped for kids» clothes even once in the past decade, you know that if that's true, then what clothes make the baby girl, at least, is ready to fit right into her assigned gender category.

The AP program has grown exponentially in the past decade, meaning more high school students are taking at least one AP course.

But while cheerleading has not traditionally been considered a Title IX sport in college athletics, at least one major high school athletic association has granted cheerleading competitive status for most of the past decade.

Not one but four sheriff's deputies hid behind cars instead of storming Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS in Parkland, Fla., during a school shooting, police claimed — as new records revealed the Broward County Sheriff's Office had received at least 18 calls about the troubled teen, Nikolas Cruz, over the past decade.

NORTH COLLINS, N.Y. — Nine school districts in Erie County have seen their enrollment drop by at least 11 percent in the past decade.

In the past decade or so, the Labour government has been at least complicit in a lamentable erosion of civil liberties, including freedoms to demonstrate and protesIn the past decade or so, the Labour government has been at least complicit in a lamentable erosion of civil liberties, including freedoms to demonstrate and protesin a lamentable erosion of civil liberties, including freedoms to demonstrate and protest.

Road slides are a huge issue in this section of Erie County with at least four major failures in the past decade.

An exclusive USA analysis of legal filings across the U.S. finds that Trump and his businesses have been involved in at least 3,500 legal actions in federal and state courts during the past three decades.

There have been at least ten deaths in England and Wales over the past decade.

At least any president in the past six decades.

A longtime vocal critic of the school board, Paladino chose to run in opposition of teachers union head Phil Rumore and superintendent Pamela Brown, whose hiring (as well as every other non-interim superintendent hire in the past two decades) Paladino has speculated was at least partially motivated by race.

Though he was a Long Island guy, Mr. DiNapoli was an adopted son of this former outer borough, at least for the day, for the good news he was bringing: economic growth in Downtown Brooklyn had outpaced the rest of the city over the past decade, according to a new report prepared by the comptroller's office.

The current boom in private spacecraft designs (for example) shows the kind of inventiveness and flexibility that NASA could have practiced or at least funded for the past few decades if not for the shuttle.

My colleagues and I have detected a sharp jump over the past decade in the number of such school shootings worldwide — excluding gang - related incidents — that were intended to kill at least two people or a school official.

Although large freight railway traffic (measured in carloads) is down 19 percent this year due to the recessed economy, it grew 47 percent between 1990 and 2007, and railroads have been more fuel - efficient than trucking for at least the past few decades, according to the Association of American Railroads.

The strength and path of the North Atlantic jet stream and the Greenland blocking phenomena appear to be influenced by increasing temperatures in the Arctic which have averaged at least twice the global warming rate over the past two decades, suggesting that those marked changes may be a key factor affecting extreme weather conditions over the UK, although an Arctic connection may not occur each year.

In the Bering Sea off Alaska, the population of Chrysaora melanaster has jumped at least 10-fold over the past decade, reaching record numbers last year, reported biologist Richard Brodeur of the National Marine Fisheries Service in Newport, OregoIn the Bering Sea off Alaska, the population of Chrysaora melanaster has jumped at least 10-fold over the past decade, reaching record numbers last year, reported biologist Richard Brodeur of the National Marine Fisheries Service in Newport, Oregoin Newport, Oregon.

Now researchers report in ACS» journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters that exposure to at least one of the newer compounds has increased significantly over the past decade.

Living a town away is the same as being stuck decades in the past, at least according to white - crowned sparrows.

«I may be biased on this one, but I think it is perhaps the most important development not only in string theory, but also in theoretical physics at least in the past two decades,» says Harvard physicist Cumrun Vafa.

An international team of researchers have shown that vulnerable coral populations in the eastern tropical Pacific have been completely isolated from the rest of the Pacific Ocean for at least the past two decades.

Yet there has been growing concern over the past 3 decades that the workforce of physician - scientists, at least in the form we have come to know them in previous generations, may be vanishing.

This shift from cool to warm in the North Atlantic has already had an impact; this past year at least 89,000 individual fires burned 9.5 million acres in the western U.S. Worse yet, forest management practices that have increased the number of trees in western woods — as well as relatively wet preceding decades — have put in place an abundance of fuel for future fires.

Indeed, over the past 2 decades, researchers have turned up considerable evidence that homosexuality isn't a lifestyle choice, but is rooted in a person's biology and at least in part determined by genetics.

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Materials & Manufacturing Directorate (ARFL / RX), based at Wright — Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, has been investigating applications for carbon nanotubes for at least the past decade, mixing them with polymers in search of stronger, lighter materials that could replace aluminum and even copper wiring, which can represent as much as a third of the aircraft's total weight.

Spencer does this by both mis - characterizing the recent National Academies Report on the subject which indeed pointed out that there are numerous lines of evidence for precisely this conclusion, and by completely ignoring the recently - released IPCC Fourth Assessment report, which draws the stronger conclusion that the warmth of recent decades is likely anomalous in at least the past 1300 years.

In discussing their findings, Fountain et al. report that «no significant spatial or temporal patterns of terminus position, flow speed, or calving emerged, implying that the conditions associated with ice tongue stability are unchanged,» at least over the past six decades.

I was hounded by elected officials, threatened with violence and more — after a single study I co-wrote a decade and a half ago found that the Northern Hemisphere's average warmth had no precedent in at least the past 1,000 years.

Of course, its been a topic of research for at least the past decade and we discuss this in Chapter 10, in our exercize section.

It is derived from a fruit that has been consumed in China for at least several hundred years and used as an herbal medicine for the past several decades, so it may well be safe, although any chronic adverse effects might easily have escaped detection.