Sentences with phrase «occurred over a decade»

You will be surprised when you type the word «terrorist» on google as you will discover pages upon pages of news stories from all over the world describing numerous terrorists» attacks that occurred over decades.

For most of human history, people could do nothing about environmental changes occurring over decades.

In addition to the multitude of goodwill writedowns and asset impairments which occurred over the decade, it was believed that the Gateway, Memphis, and Nashville tracks collectively operated at a $ 5 - $ 6 million annual loss and had never been profitable.

Rather we are talking about the big, secular shifts that occur over decades.»

Rather, excess CO2 returns toward baseline at a multitude a different rates, with chemical equilibration in the ocean occurring over decades (depending on depth), ocean carbonate buffering through sediment dissolution requiring centuries to millennia, and eventual restoration of carbonate sediment levels by terrestrial weathering occurring over hundreds of thousands of years — a long «tail» that can account for as much as 20 to 40 percent of CO2 excess in the estimates described by David Archer et al in CO2 Atmospheric Lifetimes.

The researchers» findings point to changes that occur over decades rather than in a single year, and that makes it hard to predict exactly how the Sahara's continued growth could affect the wildlife and people near its changing borders.

Note that there is evidence that Heinrich events (rapid NH cooling) occur over decades so we should be very concerned regarding the possibility of future rapid cooling.

such a triggering warming occurs over decades to centuries....

In MacQueen, for instance, the court ruled that any negligence stemming from steel plant emissions would have occurred over decades, during which time environmental standards have drastically changed.

Not exact matches

A good starting place would be some transparency about the changes that have occurred to the tax system over the past decade and how the measures he is proposing will address both the overall fairness and efficiency of our fiscal system.

That last drop, of nearly 13 per cent, occurred over four days, a shift that a decade ago might have occurred over the span of months.

If this loss of trust were to occur, we would have given up the hard - won credibility of the monetary policy frameworks that has been built up over the past couple of decades.

On the other hand, the earlier increases in dwelling prices were very large, and even with the latest data showing declines, a big cumulative rise in wealth has occurred over the past decade, most of which has not been tapped.

The country would need roughly 4.5 percent sustained growth to pay for the entire tax plan — two - and - a-half times the 1.8 percent that CBO projects to occur over the next decade.

These focused on changes that had occurred over the past three decades in culture, church and educational practices.

Surely most people over age forty have noticed that in the past two decades a dramatic change has occurred in our attitude toward the fortunes of the West.

I would take what you said seriously if there was even a glimmer of change in AFC but for well over a decade it is the same issues and weaknesses that occur over and over again season to season.

Even with the strides Americans have made over the decades to encourage moms to use their naturally occurring milk to provide nourishment to their infants, there is still a shocking amount of stigma tied to breastfeeding.

It seems as though many parents have missed the total evolution of the cloth diaper that has occurred over the past decade or so.

The senator said he doubts that the Senate will even vote this year on Sen. Brad Hoylman's bill, which would allow victims to file lawsuits over child sexual abuse incidents that occurred before 2006, in many cases decades ago, against abusers and their employers.

«The Assembly plan released today by the Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment (LATFOR) is the culmination of a months - long process to reshape New York's electoral map based on shifts in population that have occurred over the last decade.

Misty Heggeness of the U.S. Census Bureau described to the next generation committee the «extreme shift in the biomedical workforce» that has occurred over recent decades.

Will the tremor be of mild magnitude — say, a magnitude 4 on the Richter scale, the kind that occur all over the world every day — or a 9, which happens no more than once a decade on average?

And this didn't occur overnight, this occurred over a period of decades.

Over the past decade, however, scientists have begun to decipher how neurogenesis occurs and the anatomical location where neural stem cells are born and maintained inside the brain.

The strength and path of the North Atlantic jet stream and the Greenland blocking phenomena appear to be influenced by increasing temperatures in the Arctic which have averaged at least twice the global warming rate over the past two decades, suggesting that those marked changes may be a key factor affecting extreme weather conditions over the UK, although an Arctic connection may not occur each year.

Although the impact of SAM events over the short term was an interesting finding, it was the long - term trend over multiple decades of observations that gave a crucial indication of the changes occurring in the Southern Ocean.

Peak tornado activity, which occurs in the region from early May to early July, has moved an average of seven days earlier in the year over the past six decades.

«The climate transitions that we studied took place on millenial time scales, less than a thousand years, with some occurring over just decades to centuries,» Gibson says.

An analysis of trends in sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) over the past two decades finds that the drop in such deaths that took place following release of the 1992 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) «back to sleep» recommendations, did not occur in infants in the first month of life.

Several large severe wildfires have occurred in the state over the past decade, leading some to hypothesize that the beetle's destructive spread may be a contributing factor.

In the past several decades, scientists have discovered that the North — South distributions of certain plants often result from a single jump across the tropics, not as a result of gradual movements or events that occurred over a hundred million years ago.

According to WHO, deaths from heat exposure will be especially pronounced over the coming decades, from 92,000 to as much as 250,000 deaths worldwide per year by midcentury, with the greatest rates of death occurring in the world's poorest regions.

The findings show that losses of fertilizer N towards the groundwater occur at low rates but over many decades, says Mayer, U of C professor of geochemistry and head of the Applied Geochemistry Group.

STORM enables scientists to examine, over multiple decades, the details of where rainfall occurs and how much fell on a per - minute basis.

«What we didn't realize until now is that over the past decade, changes in the global water cycle more than offset the losses that occurred from groundwater pumping, causing the land to act like a sponge.

A similar New York City team assigned to review building codes in order to enhance the city's energy efficiency and cut greenhouse gas pollution took over a year to complete its work, and implementation of its plan is expected to occur gradually over the next decade.

And even if we assume it's accurate, when we consider that pH naturally rises and falls by about + / -0.5 over the course of a single decade, this means that natural changes in seawater pH occur at rates 100s of times faster than the trend attributed to anthropogenic CO2.

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In addition, most of the rise from 1900 to 2010 occurred in the middle of the period, in just over one decade, and has been level the last 50 years.

Much of this change has occurred over the last several decades indicating that the warming trend accelerated over the 1925 — 2016 period.

The abrupt transitions into and from stadial conditions could occur over a few decades and even few years.»

This is due to the fact that it has the strongest potential to warm the globe in the long - run based on its long lifetime in the atmosphere (ranging from decades to centuries, and a tail end that extends to millennia, and with many climate impacts occurring over these slow timescales).

A subsequent study by Balmaseda, Trenberth, and Källén (2013) determined that over the past decade, approximately 30 % of ocean warming has occurred in the deeper layers, below 700 meters.

Deep steric changes occur over time scales of decades or longer and aren't expected to explain the discrepancy over the last 5 years (Antonov 2005).

We examined changes in tree growth rates over the past two decades for all species occurring in large (50 - ha) forest dynamics plots in Panama and Malaysia.

According to the American Heart Association (AHA), increases in sugar intake over the past four decades parallel our expanding waistlines, and studies have connected added sugar, not the naturally occurring kind, to heart disease and diabetes.

This more recent article might also be helpful for you: nutritionfacts.org/2014/11/20/how-beans-help-our-bones/ Which includes this quote: «Phytate is a naturally occurring compound found in all plant seeds (like beans, grains, and nuts) that over the decades has been maligned as mineral absorption inhibitors.

Phytate is a naturally occurring compound found in all plant seeds, meaning all beans, grains, nuts, and seeds, which over the decades has been badly maligned as a mineral absorption inhibitor.

Carcinogenesis is a complex process involving multiple sequential mutations, which occur randomly in the DNA of normal cells over many years, even decades, until finally specific genes are mutated and cell growth becomes out of control resulting in the full neoplastic phenotype and often metastasis.