Sentences with phrase «mere decades»

And the risk to some low - lying areas will rise in mere decades, not centuries.

In the same square four centuries ago, the Holy See burned alive the philosopher Giordano Bruno, mere decades before Galileo's run - in with the Church.

They found, once again, that Ata was most definitely human, but also that she was female and, based on the preservation of her DNA, was born within the past 500 years — though her skeleton was discovered so well - preserved that she is probably mere decades old, Nolan says.

What Pleistocene humans did in 1,500 years to terrestrial life, modern man has done in mere decades to the oceans — «almost,» Jackson says.

Did the results jive with earlier studies that covered a mere decade or two and which found that personality pretty much stays the same?

BOSTON (Reuters)- Studying at Harvard, meeting for group French lessons, volunteering at a hospital and spending a day in the wilderness are just a glimpse into a typical day of home schooling, which looks dramatically different today from just a mere decade ago.

The numbers are staggering in regard to hunger in America, far above what may have been expected a mere decade

A mere decade ago, the burly, jut - jawed crowd was known as a dead - end species that lost out to us, Homo sapiens.

Significance The number of passenger pigeons went from billions to zero in mere decades, in contrast to conventional wisdom that enormous population size provides a buffer against extinction.

The passenger pigeon was once the most abundant bird in the world, with a population size estimated at 3 — 5 billion in the 1800s; its abrupt extinction in 1914 raises the question of how such an abundant bird could have been driven to extinction in mere decades.

He began his career a mere decade ago, in his mid-twenties, with films in which he and his friends played characters based on himself and his friends (among them was Greta Gerwig, whose first major role was in his 2007 film «Hannah Takes the Stairs»).

In what became an unfortunate trend that continues to this day, the modern breed of animated features relies a bit too much on crude gags and up - to - the - minute pop - culture references rather than on a magical sense of eternal appeal — Shrek falls into that camp, and even a mere decade - and - a-half later, much of it feels dated.

Ebooks have made an amazing penetration of the book market in just a mere decade.

A mere decade ago, rates were as high as 6.39 percent.

In a mere decade, they have gone from the company that had legions of faithful fans to the company who have legions of disillusioned fans.

The theme excludes too much by detaching Picasso's line from his innovations in paint and sculpture, yet remains too broad for the kind of deep dive the Kimbell Art Museum has taken — tellingly, with far fewer works drawn from a mere decade — in Monet: The Early Years, which manages to make another seemingly overexposed artist look incredibly fresh.

The first Biennale was in 1995 — a mere decade ago — and now the sixth installation is expected to open in September 2006.

Western European countries took centuries though some rapidly developing countries like the Economic Tigers are transforming in mere decades.

Many scientists used to think that only periodic changes in earth's orbit — so - called Milankovitch cycles — could change climate, over thousands of years, but Broecker has shown that ocean currents can influence climate in mere decades — and could do so again.

Believers in the literal truth of the Bible insisted that the Earth was only a few thousand years old, and defended their faith by claiming that ice sheets could form and disintegrate in mere decades.

Perhaps the most noteworthy thing about the University of Florida conference in its sixth year is that it's a conference that wouldn't have existed a mere decade ago.

It's my understanding that «life expectancy topped out at 30 or 35» statements about Europe of centuries ago include infant mortality, so it is not correct to assume that most people married at 20 or so and died a mere decade or so later.

A time span of 30 years — more substantial than mere decades, but more manageable than a century — provides useful perspective on technological innovation.

Real estate brokerage has become so specialized, mechanized, computerized, and centralized that it only vaguely resembles the industry of a mere decade ago.