Sentences with phrase «less than a century old»

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

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

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

Not exact matches

The drug at the heart of four lawsuits in New Jersey is insulin — «a century - old medicine that for most of its history cost $ 15 or less,» write Barrett and Langreth, but «whose list price has risen more than 270 percent over the past decade.»

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.

Some kinds have been distinct for centuries but most are less than 400 years old.

According to some estimates, less than 10 percent of forests worldwide can be considered old growth, or undisturbed for more than a century.

Being off by a half century concerning data that is less than two centuries old seems to me to be «in conflict,» as the IPCC put it.

The show's overall tone is less campy than the Flash Gordon movie, but it's more mature, and entertaining, than the old «Battlestar Galactica» or «Buck Rogers in the 25th Century» series.

Housed in a century - old building, Hotel de Point is located less than ten minutes from LaGuardia Airport, and less than three miles from Citi Field.

This program is tailored to art historians with a demonstrated commitment to a curatorial career in the field of old master and nineteenth - century drawings and less than five years of full - time museum work experience.

Unlike Europe, with its centuries old base of culture, America started less than 300 years ago out of wilderness.

Compare any century - old, multi-story building in Rome with those elsewhere in the region built less than a couple of decades ago.

«Methane migration through the 1 - to 2 - km - thick geological formations that overlie the Marcellus and Utica shales is less likely as a mechanism for methane contamination than leaky well casings, but might be possible due to both the extensive fracture systems reported for these formations and the many older, uncased wells drilled and abandoned over the last century and a half in Pennsylvania and New York [where they did their study]... More research is needed across this and other regions to determine the mechanism (s) controlling the higher methane concentrations we observed.»

But the finalized rule — a revision of the Endangered Species Act — closes this loophole and limits the legal trade in elephant ivory only to antiques that are over a century old, as well as certain pre-existing manufactured products that contain less than 200 grams of ivory.

Most of today's nuclear power plants have half - century - old technology with light - water reactors [243] utilizing less than 1 % of the energy in the nuclear fuel and leaving unused fuel as long - lived nuclear «waste» requiring sequestration for millennia.

Methane migration through the 1 - to 2 - km - thick geological formations that overlie the Marcellus and Utica shales is less likely as a mechanism for methane contamination than leaky well casings, but might be possible due to both the extensive fracture systems reported for these formations and the many older, uncased wells drilled and abandoned over the last century and a half in Pennsylvania and New York.

If your car was less than one year old at the time of the accident, 21st Century will also replace it with a brand new version.