Sentences with phrase «now than in recent decades»
«It's no secret that children play outdoors less now than in recent decades, and research shows maternal fear as one reason why.»
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That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».
The thinking behind the cap is straightforward: welfare spending has somehow managed to get out of control in recent decades, rising from less than five per cent of GDP in the 1950s to around 13.5 % of GDP now.
Research in recent years has suggested that young Americans might be less creative now than in decades past, even while their intelligence — as measured by IQ tests — continues to rise.
Comparing data from the 2001 - 2002 and 2012 - 2013 NESARC waves, the researchers found that the prevalence of drinking at levels two and three times or more the standard binge thresholds in the past year was significantly higher in the most recent NESARC wave, suggesting that more adults are engaging in extreme binge drinking now than a decade earlier.
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.
Coinciding with cycles of reduced sea ice, glaciers on the island Novaya Zemlya in the Barents Sea, also underwent their greatest retreat around 1920 to 1940.61 After several decades of stability, its tidewater glaciers began retreating again around the year 2000, but at a rate five times slower than the 1930s.47 The recent cycle of intruding warm Atlantic water45 is now waning and if solar flux remains low, we should expect Arctic sea ice in the Barents and Kara seas to begin a recovery and Arctic glaciers to stabilize within the next 15 years.
Consider the different perception that results from «sea level is rising no more rapidly than it did in 1940» instead of «sea level rise has accelerated in recent decades,» or from «heat waves are no more common now than they were in 1900» versus «heat waves have become more frequent since 1960.»
(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.
The market has now clearly signaled that fossil fuel energy will remain lower cost than «green» energy despite some reductions in green energy prices in recent decades.
Weather fluctuates, and as a consequence itâ $ ™ s easy enough to point to an unusually warm year in the recent past, note that itâ $ ™ s cooler now and claim, â $ œSee, the planet is getting cooler, not warmer!â $ But if you look at the evidence the right way Ââ $» taking averages over periods long enough to smooth out the fluctuations â $» the upward trend is unmistakable: each successive decade since the 1970s has been warmer than the one before.
While Okami has always been a gorgeous game, it was released more than half a decade ago on a console now considered «last gen.» Thus, as we've seen in other recent high definition remakes like the Ico & Shadow Of The Colossus Collection, Okami had to be equipped with new, modern features that simply didn't exist when it was initially developed.
Myth — There has been a cultural reversal in recent decades in which both women and men now find their primary fulfillment in outside work, rather than in the home.