Sentences with phrase «less than a quarter century»

Beginning in 1983 with modest investments in two small mines in Ontario and Québec, he and his partners, including Bob Smith, the legendary mining engineer, grew Barrick into the world's largest gold miner in less than a quarter century.

In less than a quarter century, Man Man had appeared in over 100 titles, but after the release of Mega Man 10, and creative leader Keiji Inafune announced he was leaving the company to begin work on new projects like Recore and Mighty No. 9.

Which is still less than a quarter century.

Not exact matches

China «s official unemployment rate has been around 4 % for years, despite the rapid slowdown in the economy from double - digit growth to quarter - century lows last year of less than 7 %.

The employment share of full time jobs was less than in 2008; and, the quality of jobs had sunk to its lowest level in a quarter of a century.

This trend suppresses the demand side of the housing market, while the supply - side has been hindered by builders eschewing starter homes and moving up the value chain, as evidenced by the fact that the average size of a new single - family home is almost 2,700 square feet today, versus less than 2,100 square feet a quarter century ago.

Or that I'll be a quarter of a century in less than two weeks.

CHICAGO — For the first time in a quarter century, Chicago teachers walked out of the classroom Monday, taking a bitter contract dispute over evaluations and job security to the streets of the nation's third - largest city — and to a national audience — less than a week after most schools opened for fall.

California Water Service Group has grown its dividends slowly, compounding them at a rate of less than 2 % over the last quarter century.

manacker, it means that the proponents of natural variability have to find something with this exponential - like shape over the last century or so, or maybe it is a less than quarter - wavelength section of some new multi-century several - degree oscillation that hasn't been noticed before -LRB-?)

In the United States, annual federal spending for all energy research and development — not just the research aimed at climate - friendly technologies — is less than half what it was a quarter - century ago.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).

They found that the sun contributed only about 10 % of surface warming in the last century and a negligible amount in the last quarter century, less than in earlier assessments.»

In addition, because workers» compensation benefits depend largely on the worker's salary, schedule loss awards have not increased for workers who earn less than $ 600 per week since 1992, nearly a quarter - century ago.