Sentences with phrase «more than a quarter of century»

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.

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

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...

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

It was Gardner's first publication of a skeptical nature (he was the math games columnist for Scientific American 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

University Animal Hospital has been providing the highest quality, state - of - the - art medical care, possible to pets and their owners in New York City for more than a quarter of a century.

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

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.

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.

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.

Dr. Willie Soon is an independent solar physicist at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who has been studying the Sun and its influence on the Earth's climate for more than a quarter of a century.

Unfortunately, after more than a quarter of a century working in climate science, I have seen at first hand that these simple rules of science are too often honoured more in the breach than in the observance.

Girma, my sincere apologies if I failed to draw sufficient attention to my definition of «long - term climate» as «more than quarter of a century.»

As I outlined last week, scientists have been studying the links between bushfires and climate change for 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.

For more than a quarter of a century, the personal injury and wrongful death attorneys at Galligan Law have been a strong and effective voice for injured or killed Iowans and their families.

He has been a member of the IBA Management Board since 2003 and a member of the IBA for more than a quarter of a century, initially representing the Czech Bar Association on the IBA Council.

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.

Vermont About Blog A New England Housewife of more than a quarter of a century.

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

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.

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For more than a quarter century the federal government has approved almost all foreign takeovers of Canadian companies.

Chevron (cvx) continued on its «longest losing streak in more than a century,» surprising Wall Street with a loss of $ 1.47 billion, or 78 cents, for the quarter.

For the past quarter century, the answer more often than not has been the Vancouver design firm of Osburn / Clark Productions — specialists in designing and building the most beautiful cabins (please, not cottages) in the most difficult spots.

A quarter - century down the line, analysts say, there's little reason to expect that the consumer will be more often flipping the pages of an e-book on their tablet computer than picking up a hardcover, and streaming video through their Web - enabled TV rather than turning on their Blu - ray player.

«The Smith Barney name stood for investment excellence for three - quarters of a century, and Morgan Stanley Wealth Management will provide the first - class service that has distinguished Morgan Stanley as a firm for more than 75 years.

More members of the U.S. House of Representatives are choosing not to seek re-election than at any time in the past quarter - century.

It's been more than a quarter - century since the world's first exchange - traded fund debuted right here in Canada, and over the years those of us in the industry have got pretty adept at rhyming off the benefits of ETFs.

As Germany prepares to mark Karl Marx's 200th birth anniversary, the revolutionary philosopher's legacy remains divisive more than a quarter century after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

As mainline Protestantism ceased to be a culture - forming force in American public life, the void was filled by a new Catholic presence in the public square and, perhaps most influentially in electoral terms, by the emergent activism of evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Protestantism in what would become known as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - century.