Sentences with phrase «much over the past few decades»

But, he said one thing hasn't changed much over the past few decades: the limited amount of donor hearts.

As Robbins points out in the book, the number of students who want to go to prestigious colleges has soared, but the number of places in those colleges has not changed much over the past few decades.

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Way back in the winter of 2014, when he was sketching the broad strokes of his agenda as the new leader of the then third - place Liberals, Trudeau spoke in Montréal about how pro-free market economic orthodoxy, put into policy by successive governments over the past few decades, was favouring the rich too much.

Much of Canada's growth over the past few decades came from the entry into the workplace of extraordinarily successful women.»

I've had my eye on Israel for several years now, since working on my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, and learning that much of the country's economic success over the past few decades has been the result of a meshing between technology and the military.

The immediate and widespread rebuttal showcases how much America has changed over the past few decades.

This neglect of the AG is unfortunate, for mainline churches can learn much from considering both the Assemblies» growth over the past few decades and the crossroads that the denomination faces.

Much has changed over the past few decades, with some women choosing to forgo the hospital altogether in favor of a birthing center or home birth experience.

Problem 1: Housing costs are rising, and this is pushing up government expenditure Over the past few decades rents and house prices have risen much more rapidly in the UK than other countries.

Instead, much of the work on permafrost degradation over the past few decades has focused on the widespread, slow melting of the icy soils from the top down, says Vladimir Romanovsky, a geophysicist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who was not involved in the new study.

Still, Action on Sugar does have the potential to significantly improve health in the UK, which, like much of the rest of the world, has seen steadily climbing obesity levels over the past few decades.

It is possible that medical advances over the past few decades in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol levels have had a greater impact on people who are overweight — which increases the risk for these conditions — whereas the effect was much smaller in those of normal weight.

«While advances in science and technology and improved safety practices have significantly reduced the threat of oil spills in Canadian waters over the past few decades, much about the fate, environmental impacts and remediation of oil spills remain poorly understood,» said Kenneth Lee, the director of Oceans and Atmosphere, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Perth, Western Australia and chair of the seven - member panel.

Over the past few decades, Marek's disease has become much more virulent — which some researchers believe is the result of vaccination.

Due to the rising population and change in diet in some regions of the world over the past few decades, such as India and China, the demand for renewable resources increased and thus the pressure to produce as much food as possible.

Though the life expectancy of a person with sickle cell disease has increased dramatically over the past few decades, it is still much shorter than the average life expectancy.

Director Polson (Swimfan) leaves no cliché untouched, as this film feels more like an amalgam of much more efficiently constructed movies over the past few decades.

His indispensable new book, Language at the Speed of Sight, lays out in clear, readable English much of what we have learned over the past several decades about reading; he labors to «cheerfully destroy a few myths» about how we process and make sense of the printed word, but Seidenberg is no happy warrior.

The main reason there's been so little achievement gain over the past few decades arising from the reforms that so many of us have been pressing is precisely because neither curriculum nor instruction much changed.

Over the past few decades, education reforms in Brazil and Chile have been widely celebrated as successful, and most students are much better - off than their predecessors were 15 years ago.

He's been behind much of Ferrari's success over the past few decades, and now he's gone: Luca di Montezemolo's final press conference for Ferrari reveals all.

The mainstream view is that this was the result of insufficient regulation (e.g. repeal of Glass Steagall, non-regulation of derivatives, effective elimination of bank reserve requirements, etc.) The Austrian view is that this was the result of too much regulation / gov» t intervention (e.g. repetitive bank bailouts over the past few decades which ingrained a culture of privatizing profits and socializing risks, the «Greenspan / Bernanke put» designed to inject liquidity whenever the stock market goes down, and regulations dating back to the 1930's such as FDIC insurance which, for example, eliminates the incentive for consumers to select their banks based on conservative lending practices.

Much like we have seen a rapid increase in diabetes in humans over the past few decades, an uptick of the condition in our pets has also occurred.

With such an ambition for creating entertaining gameplay, Nintendo has sought out new ways to entertain their all ages audiences with much success over the past few decades.

Over the past few decades, German artist Thomas Bayrle has quietly laid the seeds for much of what fascinates us about contemporary art's engagement with the worlds of popular culture, standardisation and global culture today.

More broadly, well aware of the strategic importance of secure energy supplies, not to mention being on the front lines of what have been energy wars as much as anything else over the past few decades, the military has been a big supporter of energy not derived from fossil fuels.

«Research has suggested that average temperatures may have risen by as much as 3C in some parts of the Antarctic over the past few decades,» said Rod Downie, polar programme manager for the World Wide Fund for Nature.

One, you base much of this discussion on data from past storms, for instance comparing PDI over the last few decades, etc..

(01/04/2011) Many US bumble bee populations have declined significantly over the past few decades, with certain species dropping off by as much as 96 %.

They will also be paying much more for a house than their parents and grandparents did and it's unlikely they will see the kind of rise in property values that have fuelled much of the rise in wealth over the past few decades.

Depression, anxiety, and alcohol or drug - related impairment occur at much higher rates among lawyers and law students than in the general population, according to various studies over the past few decades.

While Progressive is known as an innovative company that draws new customers with an optimized ecommerce solution, Nationwide has its roots in rural America but has evolved to be a much more forward - thinking car insurance provider over the past few decades.

Over the past decade, few professional sports franchises have enjoyed as much success as the Indianapolis Colts.

Over the past few decades, the dramatic increase in maternal labor force participation and dual - earner families has radically changed where and with whom young children spend much of their time.