Sentences with phrase «less than a century»

In the case of petroleum we shall have consumed in less than a century nature's endowment for all time.

We've only been advertising our presence with radio signals for less than a century.

But the modern era of science - driven assisted human reproduction is less than a century old.

Dating has only been around less than a century in time.

Global temperature is much too easy to be a real test over less than a century.

Less than a century ago, nobody knew if other galaxies even existed.

According to a study published in 2017, humans have produced a total of 9 billion tons of plastic in less than a century.

And it's less than a century since the average American Lutheran church conducted services in German, Swedish, or Norwegian.

(He was, after all, born less than a century after the dawn of the Reformation and undoubtedly knew the religious violence that saturated Europe in the early 17th century.)

Most climate records, Wolkovich said, cover much less than a century — after climate change had already begun — making it difficult to gain insight into how the climate system functioned in the past.

If from the standpoint of today Mohammed's countenancing of the practice seems an evil thing, it should be remembered that Christian people held slaves in America until less than a century ago.

Look at how much trouble less than a century of nuclear power has already caused on this planet... what are the chances of something more catastrophic happening with that and / or more powerful technologies that develop over the next several hundred years?

The Founding Fathers were less than a century removed from the Salem Witch Trials and not too far removed from the Inquisitions in Europe.

In the last 20 years, a despised Catholic church has become allies with those who less than a century ago would have gladly snuffed them out.

Less than a century before Christianity, it appeared in Mithraism.

The New Testament books were all written in something less than a century, though their canonization, as now determined, took a much longer time.

Even though the advent of hospital birth is still less than a century old, the hegemony of «birth as a medical event» is overpowering.

Modern cosmology depends so thoroughly on Einsteinian notions of curved space - time, the large - scale homogeneity of matter, and the equivalence of all reference frames that many scientists forget that these ideas were radical speculations less than a century ago.

The terrible days of deserted cities and heaps of the dead fell into the dim past on the Continent, although plague never disappeared — more than 10 million died of it in India less than a century ago.

In truth, women won that right less than a century ago in the U.S. and the U.K. And though the victory feels inevitable in retrospect, it was a painful struggle at the time.

In addition to the undersea treasures, Belize is home to Caracol, a fascinating 500 - year - old Mayan city rediscovered in the jungle less than a century ago.

Hegel's type of idealism had great influence on the formal discipline of Christian education, which has been in existence for less than a century.

It wasn't until less than a century ago that we finally developed a magic - bullet treatment for gonorrhea, and for a handful of decades it was quickly and easily treated with a dose of penicillin.

Biology's concept of information is less than a century old, deriving from computer science.

And they failed in less than a century.

MARCH 1959 DARWIN»S MISSING EVIDENCE «Less than a century ago moths of certain species were characterized by their light coloration, which matched such backgrounds as light tree trunks and lichen - covered rocks, on which the moths passed the daylight hours sitting motionless.

Yet, less than a century and a half before, an 11 - year - old boy and his partly crippled great - grandfather had maintained a valley bottom outpost, unaided, against Indians, ice storms and wild animal depredations for almost six months until the rest of their family could return from a trip to Louisiana marked by a rash of mishaps.

As a species we've had less than a century to explore the issues of quantum physics and let me remind you that what we know for sure is that you have a computing device based upon solid state electronics and the control of the flow of electrons.

The city that less than a century ago was a fur - trading post known as Fort Garry was alive and throbbing last week with its birthday offering for Canada, the fifth Pan-American Games, and extraordinary charity was at work all over town.

IN LESS than a century, humanity destroyed the Aral Sea.

It was less than a century ago that Einstein was the most radical physics thinker around.

In less than a century, the Japanese toilet industry has achieved the equivalent of persuading a country that drove on the left in horse - drawn carriages to move to the right and, by the way, to drive a Ferrari instead.

Yet in less than a century it has given rise to strains resistant to a heavily used antibacterial treatment.

In less than a century, humanity destroyed the Aral Sea.

Less than a century ago, for instance, the Melungeons» hazy racial status was enough to win them a long list of enemies.

Less than a century ago, hundreds of thousands of northern white rhinos roamed the landscape of Central Africa.

In less than a century and a half, the U.S. has gone from a country with virtually no long - term financial provisions for retired workers to a whole palette of options.

It is closely related to the Welsh Springer Spaniel and very closely to the English Cocker Spaniel; less than a century ago, springers and cockers would come from the same litter.