Sentences with phrase «lives over the past century»

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No local Church over the past two centuries has invested more in the intellectual life than German Catholicism.

Over the past century, life expectancy has been increasing primarily because of the development of effective medicines.

Yet despite the controversy over formula, for the past century formula has served as a life - saving option for babies who can not be fed breast milk for whatever reason.

First published in 2013, A Healing Landscape: Environmental and Social History of the Site of Mass Audubon's Boston Nature Center by Scholar - in - Residence Steven Pavlos Holmes, PhD, tells the stories of the people who have lived and worked on the land over the past two centuries — including early farming families, a Revolutionary war soldier, pioneering birdwatchers, the residents and staff of the Boston State Hospital, and, of course, the Clark Cooper Community Gardens and Mass Audubon.

It was not always like this, it would be wise for us to remember that the early part of the 20th Century and even up to the middle part of that century, over 50 % of people did not live past the age of 65 and that infections were the leading cause ofCentury and even up to the middle part of that century, over 50 % of people did not live past the age of 65 and that infections were the leading cause ofcentury, over 50 % of people did not live past the age of 65 and that infections were the leading cause of death.

While average life expectancy has been rising steadily in most countries over the past century, new research led by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that life expectancy declined significantly and rapidly in three countries where policy changes increased access to prescription opioids, alcohol or illicit drugs.

OVER the past half - century, our efforts to create machines in our own image have been stymied by three things: life, consciousness and intelligence.

THE MOTIVE Some researchers have proposed that the sharp rise in asthma and allergy cases over the past century stems, unexpectedly, from living too clean.

Dubbed the «Age of Obesity and Inactivity» by the Journal of the American Medical Association, this runaway weight gain threatens to decrease average U.S. life span, reversing gains made over the past century by lowering risk factors from smoking, hypertension, and cholesterol.

However, coastal cities worldwide have experienced enormous growth in population and infrastructure over the past couple of centuries — and a global mean sea level rise of 10 to 20 feet could be catastrophic to the hundreds of millions of people living in these coastal zones.

Thanks to advances in medical science over the past century, humans have never lived longer than we do right now.

These medicines and innovations have increased life expectancy by more than 30 years over the past century.

In concept, «Jobs» is certainly an ambitious film in its own right, as it genuinely tries to condense the life of one of the most recognized technological innovators of the past half - century into a little over two hours.

This story raises questions about the changes that have occurred in society over the past century and the direction that life will take in the next that will provide fodder for classroom discussion.

Christensen, Overall, and Knezek (2006) pointed out that the use of computers has evolved over the past half century from a single mainframe to individual computers to ubiquitous computing where individuals fluidly use technology throughout their daily lives.

Amid this dramatic shift, another sea change was afoot: As seen in the accompanying graphic, «The Gap Between Life Expectancy and Retirement Ages,» over the past half century the average life expectancy has increased significantly while the average retirement age has decreaLife Expectancy and Retirement Ages,» over the past half century the average life expectancy has increased significantly while the average retirement age has decrealife expectancy has increased significantly while the average retirement age has decreased.

However, over the past century as human kind has move from living on farms to living in cities, dogs have changed their role in our lives and moved from living in our barns, to living in our homes.

Tracing the influence of abstraction through society and politics over the past century, the exhibition stands in ardent defence of the artistic practices of Malevich and his contemporaries, an ambitious attempt to corroborate his rebuttal from more than 80 years ago that «the Black Square is real life.»

Over the past half century, Gerhard Richter (born 1932) has built up a stylistically heterogeneous and conceptually complex body of painting, photography, sculpture and artist's books that firmly establishes his status as the most important living artist of our time: today, this diverse oeuvre totals in excess of 3,000 individual works.

Over the past half - century, Gerhard Richter (born 1932) has built up a stylistically heterogeneous and conceptually complex body of painting, photography, sculpture and artist's books that firmly establishes his status as the most important living artist of our time: today, this diverse oeuvre totals in excess of 3,000 individual works.

Over the past nine years, Al - Maria has been finding ways to describe 21st Century life in the Arabian Gulf through art, writing, and filmmaking.

Considering that fossil fuels played a major part in our economic success and improved health and living standards over the past century, such a plus factor would be enormous.

I believe that this might already be happening because average house sizes, for example, have been steadily declining in Europe and the UK and while Australia (where I live) is by far the largest, I note that the average size of building lots here have steadily declined over the past century.

In fact, if humankind was really as dumb as the fans of DPS would have us believe, we wouldn't be around today to hear their doomsaying, because Homo sapiens would have been wiped out during vastly larger environmental swings (in and out of ice ages, for example) in our past, than those expected as a consequence of the burning of fossil fuels to produce the energy that powers our world — a world in which the human life expectancy, perhaps the best measure of our level of «dumbness» or «smartness» — has more than doubled over the last century and continues to grow ever longer.

Food availability per capita and access to clean water have risen dramatically over the past half - century, reducing malnutrition and water - borne diseases and increasing life expectancy.

None of these could have been caused by an increase in atmospheric CO2, Model projections of warming during recent decades have greatly exceeded what has been observed, The modelling community has openly acknowledged that the ability of existing models to simulate past climates is due to numerous arbitrary tuning adjustments, Observations show no statistically valid trends in flooding or drought, and no meaningful acceleration whatsoever of pre-existing long term sea level rise (about 6 inches per century) worldwide, Current carbon dioxide levels, around 400 parts per million are still very small compared to the averages over geological history, when thousands of parts per million prevailed, and when life flourished on land and in the oceans.

Marriage and family trends have changed drastically over the past century, with more people delaying marriage and having kids much later in life.

The real thrust of the project is to act as a catalyst for integrating the School's history, library collections and archival resources into the life and work of the Osgoode community by involving the students in developing and curating exhibitions, both physical and virtual, that illustrate the dramatic changes in legal education and the profession over the course of the past century and document Osgoode's role in them.

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As a result, life expectancy for Australian women increased 26.7 years over the past century; while for males it increased 28.7 years.231 This overall gain can be linked to a raft of smaller gains in specific areas.

Floods claimed more lives and property than any other natural disaster in the U.S. over the past century and have been declared in every state, along rivers and anywhere rain falls or snow melts.