Sentences with phrase «less than a few decades»

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Over a decade ago, when government deficits led The Wall Street Journal to list Canada an «honorary member of the Third World,» more than a few observers insisted our currency was destined to be worth less than half a U.S. buck.

Advances over the past three decades have allowed fetuses that are a few weeks less than 24 weeks old to survive outside the woman's womb.

So how and why is the gap not bridged????? The other important thing to remember is that in the last ten years Wenger has won NOTHING of note so his repuatation amongst the world elite players is less than it was a decade ago and there are few of them that actually WANT to play for the club now our reputation for having no ambition is paramount now rather than our repuatation for winning competitions.

The other important thing to remember is that in the last ten years Wenger has won NOTHING f note so his repuatation amongst the world elite players is less than it was a decade ago and there are few of them that actually WANT to play for the club now our repautation for having no ambition is paramount now rather than our repuatation for winning competitions.

A few years ago, nobody could have contemplated Jack Wilshere leaving Arsenal or being anything less than the mainstay of the England midfield for the whole of the current decade.

Theresa May's government has fewer women than Gordon Brown's had a decade ago and the proportion of ministers who attended state schools has fallen to less than half.

He notes, however, if an older adult's risk for dementia continues declining as it has in some high - income countries over the last few decades, «that increase in number of cases may be a little less eye - popping than it would be if the risk were staying the same.»

In the past few decades, average Arctic temperatures have warmed roughly 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius); average temperatures in Antarctica have warmed slightly less than 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius).

«Thanks to the new anti-HIV medications, the rate of transmission has been lowered from 26 percent to less than 1 percent during the past few decades, and that has been a miracle of life for the children involved.

Only a few decades ago, for example, scientists recognized less than 10 bacterial phyla, large groupings of related life forms.

I can understand that approaching equilibrium takes a long, long time, while TCR gives a better measure of what will happen over the next few decades (and that technology and society may be very different in 200 years time); but on the other hand, I thought nations had agreed to try to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C overall, and not just to limit it to less than 2 degrees C by 2100.

In the past few decades since dense earthquake monitoring has been in place, very few earthquakes have broken the plate interface, less than a half dozen with M4 to M5.

Statistically, we all cook less than we did a few decades ago, and we eat out more often.

The only way it works is to get over the diet mentality, the idea the «calories - in needs to be less than calories - out for weight loss», and all of the other myths we've been told in the last few decades.

His latest nonfiction foray is about no less than what's changed life as we know it these last few decades: that coursing, unseen river called the Internet.

U.S. Private Schools Increasingly Serve Affluent Families (Vox CEPR's Policy Portal) Richard Murnane discusses how fewer middle - class children are now enrolled in private schools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decades ago.

Despite that growth, however, fewer schools — less than one - fourth this year, compared with nearly one - third a decade ago — connect service activities to learning.

They are less teachable and more difficult to manage than their counterparts of even a few decades ago.

Times have changed radically in the last decade... even more so, the past few years — today's author has to be prepared to work their butt off to get his book noticed by the media, the public, you name it; they often are disconnected from the editor who «acquired» the book and the one that does the editing; and advances have shrunk, even disappeared (many authors work for far less than minimum wage).

Without going into too much detail of statistics and standard deviation, I can tell you that there is a lot of research evidencing less than a 0.5 % default rate for investment grade municipal bonds for the last few decades.

30 - year swap yields should not be less than Treasury yields — they are more risky, but do do the arbitrage, one would need a very strong balance sheet, with an ability to hold the trade for a few decades.

It is still possible to find opportunities in the U.S. equity market, but we believe it will continue to be more difficult and less profitable than a few decades ago.

What makes the growth of the ETF space even more remarkable is that as recent as a decade ago there were fewer than 50 ETFs available in Canada with less than US$ 20 billion in assets.

But interest rates are sometimes less competitive, and loans usually need to be paid back within a few years, rather than a few decades.

By comparison, hamsters have been kept in captivity for less than a century, and it's only been the past few decades that the best breeders have begun to focus on the idea of raising a more socialized animal.

Less than two decades ago there were very few sightings of these majestic giants of the ocean now we are proudly monitoring the increase in numbers and working with local researchers to document and identify each individual whale we see.

Air and water are cleaner and pesticides less toxic than a few decades ago, at least in some parts of the world.

Climate change is a lagged result of cumulative emissions, so errors in forecasts of what will happen after 2050 are of much less importance than getting projections right for the next few decades — this is fortunate because of course we can't know what will happen many decades into the future.

Why has the rate of smoking in California declined from 44 % to less than 10 % over the last few decades?

http://notrickszone.com/2017/04/13/new-paper-northern-hemisphere-temperatures-rose-4-5c-within-a-few-decades-14700-years-ago/ «Northern Hemisphere temperatures increased by 4 — 5 °C in just a few decades [Lea et al., 2003; Buizert et al., 2014], coinciding with a 12 — 22 m sea level rise in less than 340 years»

This period, known as the «last deglaciation,» included episodes of abrupt climate change, such as the Bølling warming [~ 14.7 — 14.5 ka], when Northern Hemisphere temperatures increased by 4 — 5 °C in just a few decades [Lea et al., 2003; Buizert et al., 2014], coinciding with a 12 — 22 m sea level rise in less than 340 years [5.3 meters per century](Meltwater Pulse 1a (MWP1a)-RRB-[Deschamps et al., 2012].»

CO2 is not driving the climate; it caused less than 20 per cent of the global warming in the last few decades.»

But «big changes in less than a decade» is how paleoclimatologists typically characterize all of the abrupt warmings and coolings in the best ice cores, though the full time course from one stable state to another may take a few decades.

Polar bears are one of the most sensitive Arctic marine mammals to climate warming because they spend most of their lives on sea ice.35 Declining sea ice in northern Alaska is associated with smaller bears, probably because of less successful hunting of seals, which are themselves ice - dependent and so are projected to decline with diminishing ice and snow cover.36, 37,38,39 Although bears can give birth to cubs on sea ice, increasing numbers of female bears now come ashore in Alaska in the summer and fall40 and den on land.41 In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.45

The correlation between sunspots and magnetic activity on the sun is less than one, and has been going down in the last few decades.

For the Eastern Fraim Strait, the Southeast Barents Sea, and North Iceland, there was considerably less sea ice coverage (as assessed in months - per - year) during the late 1600s to early 1700s than there has been during the last few decades.

Current figures are averaging in the 20 % range globally, but in some areas, like Russia, the total amount of sun that now reaches the ground is some 30 % less than only a few decades previous.

There is no reason that America ought not have been consuming 80 % less fuel on the roads for the past decade or more, other than the profit of a few obtained by subsidies and chicanery.

I can understand that approaching equilibrium takes a long, long time, while TCR gives a better measure of what will happen over the next few decades (and that technology and society may be very different in 200 years time); but on the other hand, I thought nations had agreed to try to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C overall, and not just to limit it to less than 2 degrees C by 2100.

But since ENSO is not predictable more than a few months ahead, you aren't going to be able to do better on timescales for which the phase of ENSO matters (i.e. less than a decade or two).

Hansen and Sato (7) argue that the climate of the most recent few decades is probably warmer than prior Holocene levels, based on the fact that the major ice sheets in both hemispheres are presently losing mass rapidly (9) and global sea level is rising at a rate of more than 3 m / millennium (25), which is much greater than the slow rate of sea level change (less than 1 m / millennium) in the latter half of the Holocene (26).

«It caused less than 20 percent of the global warming in the last few decades.»

We are vastly more energy efficient than we were just a few decades ago, much less a few centuries ago.