Sentences with phrase «of a few decades»

The term unheard of a few decades ago is a buzz - word in new generation.

Over the course of a few decades, if not sooner, hundreds of millions of people may be compelled to relocate because of environmental pressures.

It was one of the biggest news stories of a few decades ago.

Due to the effect of compounding interest, even average returns over the course of a few decades can amount to substantial increases in wealth.

But there was a steady flow of articles on smoking and health over a period of a few decades, along with persistent denial.

The challenge before us is to transform our 20th century carbon based energy model into a low or no carbon system within a matter of a few decades.

Forecast temperature trends for time scales of a few decades or less are not very sensitive to the model's equilibrium climate sensitivity (reference provided).

«It's an evolution in our ability to use climate models to make predictions, particularly on timescales of a few decades,» says McKinley, also an affiliate of the Center for Climatic Research at UW - Madison's Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.

Not only has this research produced evidence that well - known nutrients such as vitamins A, C, E, and B complex, can prevent ageing, but new compounds found in foods which we were not aware of a few decades ago, are constantly being added to the anti-ageing arsenal.

January 1, 2014 • Over the course of a few decades at Life magazine, Dominis not only worked in just about every photographic genre but also seemed to have mastered them.

To those who profess this suspicion J.S. Haldane's reflections of a few decades ago on the uniqueness of biology would be embarrassingly out of date:

The American writers of a few decades later seem to have tapped into the «age of anxiety» conventions of popular existentialism, where the absurd surfaces of modern life tell us nothing more about God than that belief in him will consist of a radical leap of faith for which no thought of man, no human experience, can prepare one.

In other words, Pentecostals and charismatics are growing and influencing, but they also look a lot less like the Pentecostals and charismatics of a few decades ago.

In other words, their loss of a few decades of life on Earth to typify the removal of sin from one's character (i.e., the Israelites were instructed to obliterate the heathen nations among them to picture a Christian's need to obliterate sin in their lives today; 1 Cor.

Foods, which were unheard of a few decades, back.

To the young readers of a few decades ago Albert Payson Terhune, a prolific writer, revealed collies as more than dogs.

The current focus of earthquake prognostication research represents a retreat from its ambitious aims of a few decades ago.

«Of the three spore types, two disappear from the core's sediment layers within 2 centimeters of each other, which would be the equivalent of a few decades,» Williams says of the mammoth dung - loving fungus.

In fact, you could say that the whole aerobics explosion of a few decades past was one of the biggest mistakes in the health and fitness industry.

That becomes something of a crutch in The Cut, his decade - spanning, continent - hopping look at the aftermath of the Armenian genocide, because the film's narrative requires that its embattled protagonist, a refugee named Nazaret (Tahar Rahim), navigate a whole slew of unknown territories and political ideologies over the course of a few decades in the early 20th century.

We have come out of a few decades that thanks to a warm Pacific resulted in a dominance of El Ninos and its typical southern storm tracks and warm, dry western North America.

Upstream someone mentioned tobacco, and there are parallels to the tobacco - science wars of a few decades ago.

Terrestrial permafrost emissions of CH4 and CO2 likely can occur on a time scale of a few decades to several centuries if global warming continues [215].

So somehow, in the span of a few decades, the Lord's Supper goes from referring to the once - a-year observance of Passover to being a more frequent meal of fellowship with other believers.

That's enough extra heat that, in the space of a few decades, we have melted most of the summer sea ice in the Arctic — millennia old, meters thick, across a continent - size stretch of ocean that now, in summer, is blue water.

Sandberg has made some rough calculations of how much computing power that would demand and how fast computer power is rising, and he's fairly confident a whole - brain emulation will be possible in a matter of a few decades.

Not only has this research produced evidence that well - known nutrients such as vitamins A, C, E, and B complex, can prevent aging, but new compounds found in foods which we were not aware of a few decades ago, are constantly being added to the anti-aging arsenal.

Over the course of a few decades at Life magazine, Dominis not only worked in just about every photographic genre but also seemed to have mastered them.

A track record of dividend growth is what we call our Profitability Litmus Test since rising dividends over the course of a few decades can ultimately not be faked.

Today's work environment bears hardly any resemblance to that of a few decades ago.

And while Angkor was overwhelmed by climate change at the scale of a few decades, Buckley says, «a more nimble society might be able to adapt in response.»

I understand that it's somewhat riskier in the short term, but over the span of a few decades, realistically speaking it should perform at least as good as a portfolio invested in a total market kind of fund.