Sentences with phrase «now than a few decades»

Allowing for undersampling, measurement uncertainty and all the other things that make scientific pronouncements fuzzy, Himalayan glaciers are indeed losing mass, and it is more likely than not that they are losing mass faster now than a few decades ago.

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DeMars observes that in the U.S. alone more than 300 colleges and universities now offer ethics curricula, whereas a decade ago it was fewer than 10.

For more than a decade, a few prescient scholars have been warning about the coming conflict, now commonly referred to by Samuel Huntington's phrase «the clash of civilizations.»

Many of us are now jumpy, if not panicky, because of the astounding and dramatic form and pace in which it has accelerated and come upon us in the last few decades, and because of the manner in which it has taken place under auspices other than ourselves and outside our political, ideological, and religious control.

It is not difficult to imagine that within the next few years this pattern will become almost universal in Reformed churches, together with an even wider observance of the Christian Year than is now the case (and the present practice is far more extensive than it was a decade ago).

So how and why is the gap not bridged????? The other important thing to remember is that in the last ten years Wenger has won NOTHING of note so his repuatation amongst the world elite players is less than it was a decade ago and there are few of them that actually WANT to play for the club now our reputation for having no ambition is paramount now rather than our repuatation for winning competitions.

The other important thing to remember is that in the last ten years Wenger has won NOTHING f note so his repuatation amongst the world elite players is less than it was a decade ago and there are few of them that actually WANT to play for the club now our repautation for having no ambition is paramount now rather than our repuatation for winning competitions.

The 2010 Census found 30,000 fewer black residents in the district than a decade prior; blacks now make up only 26.5 percent of the area's population.

The change has been happening for more than two years, with a few former Republicans switching parties over the past decade, most notably Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano and former District Attorney - now New York State Chief Judge Janet DiFiore.

Nowhere is that effort more lacking than in the realm of reform, a decades - long need in New York exacerbated by the embarrassing fall from power of two of the three men in the room with Cuomo only a few years ago and now magnified by the conviction of a one - time gubernatorial buddy in a blistering corruption trial.

Though there are fewer than 2 million people in that category in the United States today, forecasts suggest there will be 10 — 12 million a few decades from now.

Over the next few decades, Laron studied more than 60 patients with the disorder that now bears his name.

With the proliferation of satellite - based communications that enable global positioning systems (GPS) as well as certain Internet, television and phone services in the past few decades, «we're more reliant on space technology now than we ever were before,» says APL scientist and principal AMPERE investigator Brian Anderson.

«This may all be playing out within the next few years, rather than decades from now as had been thought,» says Scambos from the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

That estimate was based in part on the fact that sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid change of ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].

He later continued: «Now that ocean temperatures are considerably warmer than they were a few decades ago, the maximum potential intensity a hurricane can reach is higher, and we should expect to see a few Patricias sprinkled among the inevitable phalanxes of major hurricanes that will assault our shores in the coming decades.»

Fast - forward a few decades (OK, more than a few), and now my eyes light up at the sight of olives.

That means Americans now consume 80 % fewer trans fats than they did a decade ago, says Joy Dubost, PhD, RD, a spokesperson with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

In only a few decades, there are now more obese people on the planet than there are undernourished.

Definitely scored a few fabulous thrift store finds from brands that are now defunct — I still find garments from Petite Sophisticate, which went under more than a decade ago — or from small brands that never bothered to establish a web presence.

Now if you are a young girl and belong to group of those who crave to get into relationship with a mature guy who is a decade older than you then few things you need to follow that if you are ready to understand strange world or mature man.

We have been around for over a decade now and we've run more than 5,600 successful dating events around the UK and Ireland including singles evenings, speed dating events and singles weekends to name but a few.

Touting a special position as a gay hookup site and community that is owned by gay men and built for them, Gaydar was first launched in the UK more than a decade ago and has gained an international following in the recent few years, with close to 6 million gay members now.

U.S. Private Schools Increasingly Serve Affluent Families (Vox CEPR's Policy Portal) Richard Murnane discusses how fewer middle - class children are now enrolled in private schools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decades ago.

The school opened its doors that fall to fewer than 125 students and two decades later, now serves 298 students through its K - 12 program.

BMW Z3s have been «just another used car» for over a decade now, but with the cheapest examples costing just a few thousand dollars, it's unlikely they'll ever get more affordable than they are currently.

They cost more than your standard term life insurance policy, but if you really want that money back a few decades from now, they're worth considering.

While this decrease in euthanasia is and should be applauded, it also means that although we have had fewer animals taken into the shelter than in the past decades, the animals that do come into the shelter are now being housed longer instead of being euthanized to create space for other incoming animals.

There are fewer stray dog populations now than in previous decades, and the need for the iconic town dog catcher has been reduced to almost nil.

Thanks to advancements in veterinary technology and the fact that pet owners are now caring for their pets better than ever, the life expectancy of a pet today is much higher than it was a few decades ago.

Less than two decades ago there were very few sightings of these majestic giants of the ocean now we are proudly monitoring the increase in numbers and working with local researchers to document and identify each individual whale we see.

With innovations like driverless cars, commercial space travel and Elon Musk's much - touted hyperloop lurking just beyond the horizon, travelers are closer than ever to knowing what exactly travel will look like a few decades from now.

I've been here now for more than a decade, and the investments we're making in developing for digital are profound, compared to even a few years ago.

CFCs have plateaued, and will almost certainly be lower a few decades from now than they are presently.

There is no «proof» that these are more than natural occurrences (or, admittedly, neither that they are not) and require, for now, really contorted tortuous explanations (snow / ice getting covered with soot, Arctic really getting lots warmer than the few tenths of a degree of the global average just the past 2 - 3 decades, etc.) why AGW is causing them — though they are professed with religious conviction.

«Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course... If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future we wish for human society... No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminished... A great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated.»

(2) Alpine glaciers receded more during the 1860s - 1880s and 1920s - 1950s than in recent decades, and the Alps are over 3 °C colder now than a few thousand years ago.

Polar bears are one of the most sensitive Arctic marine mammals to climate warming because they spend most of their lives on sea ice.35 Declining sea ice in northern Alaska is associated with smaller bears, probably because of less successful hunting of seals, which are themselves ice - dependent and so are projected to decline with diminishing ice and snow cover.36, 37,38,39 Although bears can give birth to cubs on sea ice, increasing numbers of female bears now come ashore in Alaska in the summer and fall40 and den on land.41 In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.45

That estimate was based in part on the fact that sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid change of ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].

Current figures are averaging in the 20 % range globally, but in some areas, like Russia, the total amount of sun that now reaches the ground is some 30 % less than only a few decades previous.

As the gas level rose, temperature would rise with a time lag — although only a few decades, not centuries, for the rates of change were now enormously faster than the orbital shifts that brought ice ages.

Over the past 10 to 15 years, transactional law clinics have gained some traction — there were fewer than two dozen a decade ago, and now half or more law schools have them.

As such, the qualifications we look for in Supreme Court justices are more likely to be found in inside - the - beltway types, appellate judges and government attorneys now than they were a few decades ago.

This is a great time to be a Canadian labour and employment lawyer, but Canadian law schools now employ fewer full - time labour and employment professors than they have in decades.

Last word: The first Apple computer was sold in 1976, a few decades later it was the largest company on the planet by market cap and more than 2.5 billion people now own a smart phone.

Both computers and books have come a long way since then, and while some of us have fewer books in our libraries now than a decade ago, the majority of us are still surrounded by some books.

As we all know that people are right now living in smaller space than few decades back.