Sentences with phrase «more than a quarter of a century»

The question had been a subject of raging debate among astronomers for more than a quarter of a century.

The conflict began more than a quarter of a century ago and stems from a mining deal made between the two men and their respective corporations in 1988.

If you're looking for responsive, professional service that's backed by more than a quarter of a century of experience, then you've come to the right place.

Allowing our Domestic Adoption program to be successful for more than a quarter of a century.

After more than a quarter of a century in publication, Best Lawyers is designating «Lawyers of the Year» in high - profile legal specialties in large legal communities.

Lister graduated from University College London (UCL), but then spent more than a quarter of a century in Scotland.

After spending more than a quarter of a century writing about science and the environment, more than half of that time here, I am switching gears for the second half of my professional life.

Having been a film critic for more than a quarter of a century now (my God) and a film junkie for more than 40 years, I have never gotten over the joy of surprise when an actor or actress comes out of left field with a performance of such brilliance it eliminates every single bad -LSB-...]

Franklin Templeton pioneered international investing over 60 years ago, and our expertise in emerging markets spans more than a quarter of a century.

It is now more than a quarter of a century since David Watt first approached Carswell regarding the preparation of a new edition of the Tremeears Code.

Washington is now approaching his 60th birthday and he's spent more than a quarter of a century on the big screen, breaking into the big time when he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor on the back of 1989's Glory and became a household name in the 1990s with the likes of Malcolm X, The Pelican Brief, Philadelphia, Crimson Tide and Courage Under Fire.

Shot on location more than a quarter of a century later, Jules Dassin's masterpiece The Naked City (1948), a noir procedural inspired by Italian neorealism, offers a grittier view of Lower Manhattan from street level.

Respected Brand Name Franchisee owners can tap into a reputation and proven business model that took more than a quarter of a century to build.

Supermarket cost war and Black Friday bargains motivate buyers to bring Xmas paying forward The ongoing grocery store cost war and on - line revenue drove the strongest British isles retail income progress in much more than a quarter of a century this thirty day period, as consumers rushed out to bag...

Since the first report of imprinted genes in mammals more than a quarter of a century ago, scientists have known of only one cellular mechanism that keeps these genes inactive — «decorating» the DNA with small molecules called methyl groups.

The European Science Foundation has been in existence as an association of the national research funding agencies for more than a quarter of a century concentrating on coordination mechanisms and support.

Groundbreaking work that began more than a quarter of a century ago has led to ongoing insights about brain organization and consciousness

When the Voyager 2 spacecraft sped through the Saturnian system more than a quarter of a century ago, it came within 90,000 kilometers of the moon Enceladus.

With more than a quarter of a century of experience in surgery, missionary, academic and private medicine, Dr. George Yu, M.D. has been practicing an integrative approach to health, aging and disease.

Because of that factor, I didn't feel Nest seemed terribly fresh, but I could imagine what an impact it packed more than a quarter of a century ago.

Congress mandated the National Assessment of Educational Progress more than a quarter of a century ago.

Furthermore, the one large - scale study on the relationship between concrete operational thought and reading, reported by University of Northern Iowa professor of education Rheta DeVries more than a quarter of a century ago, found that measures of reading in children in the early school years were almost entirely unrelated to measures of concrete operational reasoning on Piagetian tasks.

From 1980 through 2006, stock performance of REITs moved in tandem with the broader market only 47 % of the time, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Citi Private Bank in New York... Since then, as the bank's research shows, REIT correlations have jumped to nearly 80 %, erasing more than a quarter of a century in decoupling.

When Chander Chaddah was starting out as a realtor in Toronto more than a quarter of a century ago, fixer - uppers were everywhere.

It may be more than a quarter of a century old, but Super Mario Bros. is still as enchanting as ever.

The leading art prize will be presented at the North East venue next year, after more than a quarter of a century at Tate locations.

Lynn has spent more than a quarter of a century organizing social group activities for older adults through Maturity and Its Muse.

«Evan has compiled data from records covering more than a quarter of a century and found a distinct correlation between the amount of dust in the atmosphere and the severity of storms.

Boris Johnson has been able to make things happen in the capital precisely because he's been a close — and I mean close — friend of the PM and Chancellor for more than a quarter of a century.

Franklin Templeton pioneered international investing over 60 years ago, and our expertise in emerging markets spans more than a quarter of a century.

It's been more than a quarter of a century since Randy Hibshman first introduced Little League Baseball's Challenger Division in Coral Springs.

Now, more than a quarter of a century later — during which time he settled in the US, began collaborating with his wife Emilia, and acquired the status of one of the most important artists among former Soviet nonconformists — the tone and comportment of his work has changed.

This survey has allowed us to make a revolutionary improvement compared to the IRAS survey that was conducted in 1983 in both spatial resolution and sensitivity after more than a quarter of a century.

And most of all, never been laid in more than a quarter of century.

For more than a quarter of a century, the SCAA has inspired specialty coffee professionals in their quest to learn, grow, and collaborate for the betterment of the specialty coffee industry, «because great coffee doesn't just happen.»

For more than a quarter of a century (making it one of the oldest trade associations in the nation), the NCA - USA has inspired specialty coffee professionals in their quest to learn, grow and collaborate for the betterment of the specialty coffee industry.

Even if you think policy is a crucial deciding factor in elections, it strikes me as odd that you would, more than a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War, attach a lot of importance to the issue of nuclear weapons as a policy matter.

For more than a quarter of a century, Baltimore has balanced his long hours as a leading scientific administrator — founder of the seminal Whitehead Institute, president of Rockefeller University and later, for nine years, of Caltech — with groundbreaking work in cancer, immunology, and AIDS research.

Authors Luca Pasquini (ESO, Garching, Germany) and Massimo Della Valle have been looking for evidence of lithium in novae for more than a quarter of a century.

The foundation was endowed by Alfred Sloan (1875 - 1966), president and chairman of General Motors for more than a quarter of a century.

Nevertheless, for more than a quarter of a century, here in Nutley (about 12 miles from Broadway and 42nd Street in New York City), we operated a research center that was the envy of scientists throughout the world, a Camelot of the biomedical sciences.

For more than a quarter of a century, America's schooling system has remained stagnant, and pupil performance indicators continually reflect this condition.

As a pediatrician in this western Maryland community, Charles E. Wright has ministered to the physical needs of children for more than a quarter of a century.

Let me admit to a prejudice: I have known John Merrow for more than a quarter of a century and greatly admire his single - minded interest in national school reform.

BVHM is also San Francisco's oldest Spanish immersion elementary school, having served the community for more than a quarter of a century.

More than a quarter of a century after the publication of the short story «The Gunslinger» in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (October 1978), the genre - transcending saga...