Sentences with phrase «larger than in recent decades»

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Finding # 1: Racial disparities in student debt are larger than previously understood, and have grown dramatically in recent decades.

The difference in earnings between college graduates and nongraduates has risen in recent decades, and research indicates that attending selective colleges yields a larger economic return than attending less - selective institutions.

When we looked for some of the largest new hatchbacks on the market, we found that automakers have really pushed the styling boundaries that define a hatchback in recent years, and while some are better looking than others, they're far from the awkward - looking hatches of even just a decade ago.

However, in their recent publication in Climatic Change Letters, Howarth et al. (2011) report that their life - cycle evaluation of shale gas drilling suggests that shale gas has a larger GHG footprint than coal and that this larger footprint «undercuts the logic of its use as a bridging fuel over the coming decades».

It appears from their analysis that the amount of freshwater added in recent decades was much larger than previously assumed.

Increases in GrIS melt and runoff during this past century warm period must have been significant and were probably even larger than that of the most recent last decade (1995 - 2006).»

Annual global temperature variations derived from these datasets typically agree to better than 0.1 °C for recent decades, but the spread in values has been larger than this for the last two years.

Temperatures in large parts of the Arctic have risen far faster than the global average in recent decades, a development that experts say is linked to global warming.

The release showed a similar trend for two groups: the largest overall increase in the Indigenous population was in western Canada over the last decade, while the share of recent immigrants to the Prairies more than doubled over the last 15 years.