Sentences with phrase «last number of decades»

«They don't have a bevy of trade negotiators in Britain anymore — trade negotiations for the last number of decades have been handled by the EU,» he says.

Over the last number of decades, many mutual fund investors have lost sight of this risk.

But for the last number of decades, a car has been a necessity of modern...

While one is called the «turnaround model» and the other is called the «transformation model,» they amount to the same thing: using the same types of interventions applied over the last number of decades to try to improve struggling schools — replacing some staff, improving professional development, changing the curriculum, etc..

This phenomenon is known as the stretch - shortening cycle (SSC) and has been extensively studied over the last number of decades.

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The vulnerabilities can be found in a number of computing products released in the last two decades.

«We would like to be a lot closer to parity, but it is a pretty rapid number of women entering the Senate in the last couple of decades.»

Though his 2012 purchase of the Hawaiian island of Lanai has been his largest overall investment by far, he's made a number of blockbuster purchases over the last two decades.

In the last couple decades, the growth in the number of women's businesses (up 68 percent), employment (up 11 percent), and revenues (up 72 percent) blows past the growth rates of all but the largest publicly - traded businesses, and tops growth rates among all other privately - held businesses over this period.

His co-authored piece called «Stakeholder Capitalism» would do, as would any of a number of papers he's authored or co-authored over the last three decades.

Though Lanai has been his largest overall investment by far, he's made a number of blockbuster purchases over the last two decades.

Over the last decade, the number of adults under age 30 has jumped by 5 million, but the number of households for that age group rose by just 200,000, the Journal reports, citing the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.

CBS has the most at stake among major media companies given the importance of its eponymous broadcast network, which has reigned number one by viewers for most of the last decade.

The number of wildfires touching more than 50,000 acres has been increasing over the last 30 years, and the total acreage burned this decade is more than double the area burned in the 1990s.

ApotheCARE Essentials, Unilever's first new brand of its kind in the last few decades, targets the growing number of consumers seeking natural beauty products.

Over the last decade, the number of mentions of the millennial generation on quarterly corporate earnings calls has jumped from just one in all of 2007 to more than 100 in the most recent earnings season alone, according to Thomson Reuters data.

The Ways and Means Committee voted on a number of tax bills last week, including legislation that would restore and expand bonus depreciation at a cost of $ 360 billion over the next decade (including interest).

His co-authored piece called «Stakeholder Capitalism» would do, as would any of a number of papers he's authored or co-authored over the last 3 decades.

The number of people of color appointed as directors fell in 2016 and the overall rate of minorities serving on boards has been mostly unchanged over the last decade, according to executive recruiter Spencer Stuart.

It's also the number of girls in Asia who have been aborted over the last three decades.

The experience of the last decade has been sufficient to convince great numbers, if they were not convinced before, that civilized life can not prosper, or even survive, without the undergirding of strong ethical convictions.

Last month, the UN reported that the number of chronically hungry people in the world was rising again after a decade of declines thanks to prolonged conflicts and climate change - related floods and droughts.

Over the last three decades the number of Christians in Iran has seen exponential growth.

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

As James Wellman points out, «Evangelical numbers have grown 32 percent in the last decade in Washington, and evangelicals now account for 38 percent of the church - affiliated population.»

During the last two decades an ever - increasing number of books have been published, warning that a frightening nemesis is now appearing on the horizon as a result of our changing relationship with the earth.

In the U.S., the yearly mean number of judicial executions over the last few decades tracks closely with the yearly mean number of deaths from lightning strikes.

This means the number of anti-depressant prescriptions has more than doubled in the last decade - in 2006 there were 31 million such prescriptions.

These «natural disasters» are the result of seasonal weather patterns and global warming, which has in the last decade produced a great number of weather events to move in a Northerly direction.

Over the last decade, the number of wineries in Temecula Valley Southern California Wine County has doubled.

While United have historically dominated Arsenal for much of the last decade or more, there is some sign of the tide turning due to a number of factors.

Over the last decade, the number one overall pick has been named Rookie of the Year on five occasions but never when they were also listed as the preseason favorite (unless you count Blake Griffin who missed the entire 2009 - 10 season before winning the award the following season).

Due primarily to expansion, the total number of players in the major leagues has grown 61.4 % over the last three decades.

Speaking on the Hawksbee and Jacobs show, the outspoken Dutchman said: «If you look at the facts, what you see is that Arsenal are the number one by far in terms of injuries in the last decade in the Premier League.

Berlin could prove a formidable opponent however ««in the last two decades they have won a number of titles including the Korac Cup in 1995 along with eight domestic titles and seven national cup titles.

The number of South American players in the EPL, for instance, has increased dramatically over the last decade.

Obviously, although he's genius and won a number of titles throughout last decade, but recently he has caused too many troubles, he lost the media praise and probably, his colleagues respect as well.

After all, Danny Welbeck showed himself to be hard - worker rather than clinical finisher in the Arsenal attack last season while the fact that one can still count on two hands the number of times Theo Walcott has started as a central - striker during his decade long Arsenal career speaks to the fact that the boss still sees him as a wide - forward.

Over the last decade, the average number of managerial changes per season has been nine, up from an average of six for the previous ten years before that.

The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said that the number of school - related outbreaks reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doubled over the last decade, and generally increased an average of 10 percent per year.

The sheer number of people conceiving multiple pregnancies has increased over the last couple of decades.

The number of Waldorf schools worldwide has more than doubled in the last decade, making it one of the fastest growing educational movements in the world.

But when adoption of children from the overseas orphanages reached big numbers during the last two decades, the monster returned but was not recognized.

For example, during the last decade the number of applicants accepted from Brown University's waitlist has fluctuated between zero and 196 students.

These findings are especially significant in BC [29] where over the last decade, the birth rate is rising, there has been a reduction in the number of family physicians and obstetricians who provide maternity care, and midwives have been added to the register.

Over the last two decades, a growing number of home visiting programs have been implemented in developed and developing countries.

The number of multiple births has increased over the last decade.

The number of at - home dads has also doubled in the last decade.

The number of children fed through the National School Lunch Program has expanded dramatically in the last few decades.

* «Historic low» for households with married parents and children * More Americans now living alone, data show * Nearly 800,000 more households include out - of - work parent By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters)- The iconic picture of the traditional American household has faded over the last four decades as the number of married couples with children has seen a steep decline and more people are living alone, according to U.S. Census...