Sentences with phrase «of more than a few decades»

Vehicles with a production history of more than a few decades typically have a model generation they would rather forget.

My understanding is that the major uncertainties in climate projections on time scales of more than a few decades are unlikely to be resolved in the near future.

Not exact matches

Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.

Over a decade ago, when government deficits led The Wall Street Journal to list Canada an «honorary member of the Third World,» more than a few observers insisted our currency was destined to be worth less than half a U.S. buck.

Mexico declared war on drug cartels and organized crime a decade ago, a conflict that claimed more than 200,000 lives and shows few signs of slowing up.

Over the last few years, China's debt - to - GDP has ballooned to more than 300 percent from 160 percent a decade ago, causing many people, including Chinese officials, to warn of a financial - sector debt bubble that's waiting to burst.

The proposal has generated a great deal of often vitriolic debate over the future of the wheat board, and the C.D. Howe Institute recently weighed in with a report arguing that global grain markets have changed significantly over the past few decades, to the point that the CWB is more often than not a price taker.

Mariano notes that roughly 75 percent of sellers within the industry are women, down from about 90 percent a few decades ago, but more men and married couples are joining the ranks and finding a better work / life balance than the corporate world provided.

There were more than 350,000 small businesses created in Canada in 2016 and 42 % of job creation in the country in the past decade stemmed from firms with fewer than 100 employees (CIBC Capital Markets).

By carrying a few big brands in his portfolio, having more than 2 decades of tech industry experience and nurturing startups for more than two years in current capacity, Mukund Mohan needs no introduction and for the startups industry, he is a priced asset.

I have gotten rambling a little here but my question to you your thoughts on this statement: «If money or rather the established institution that is the world market, is the reason that throughout at leastthe past few decades, than it would be right to take from those who have much much more than they need and give to those who are at least the poorest of the world, those in need.»

Indeed, in some parts of the planet, I can not see it continuing more than a few more decades at most.

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.»

But neither of them, any more than Tocqueville a few decades later, proposed an alternative theory in which freedom would be answerable to a fully knowable Order or the right could be logically derived from The Good.

Few doctrines in recent decades have been more injurious than the one that opposes the exercise of parental authority in the name of liberty and democracy.

Anthropologists don't know exactly what led to the extinction of Neanderthals, but we know a heck of a lot more than we did just a few decades ago.

«Over the past decade, more of those admitted to the US have been Christians than those of any other faith background, so the dramatic reduction in refugee arrivals this year means far fewer persecuted Christians will have the opportunity to rebuild their lives in safety in the US,» World Relief president Scott Arbeiter said last summer.

More than a few of the cardinals who rallied to support him in one of the shortest conclaves in modern history did so because they believed Ratzinger, having spent more than two decades in the Curia, would know what was broken and would fix it.&raMore than a few of the cardinals who rallied to support him in one of the shortest conclaves in modern history did so because they believed Ratzinger, having spent more than two decades in the Curia, would know what was broken and would fix it.&ramore than two decades in the Curia, would know what was broken and would fix it.»

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).

HS: Hi Teri - I've had the same «Tortilladora» press for a decade or more, I don't think it cost more than a few dollars... Or, I've had my eye on a few of the wood ones.

Over a few short decades, the number of licensed dairy farms in the United States sharply declined from 4.6 million in 1940 to just more than 40,000 in 2018.

We, union exports are providing services in import and export market since last more than 2 decades, our core business in exports is Home Textile, further in import sectors we work with few other products as well, but most of...

It's late'ish Monday night here in Australia and I've just had the wildest few days of work in more than a decade and I'm back on a plane at 6 in the morning.

This is one of the few evidence - based books for clinicians, but sadly the copyright is more than a decade old without a newer version available.

For the first few decades of the 20th Century, the two towns remained rural hamlets, linked to Chicago more by rail than road.

The next fiscal squeeze could be very different from those of the past few decades if it starts with a debt wall more comparable to that of the 1920s and 1930s, when governments» room for fiscal manoeuvre was sharply limited by their predecessors» decision to fund the huge costs of World War I largely by borrowing rather than by taxes.

During most election cycles, Putnam County, N.Y., is a sleepy backwater, with few donations of more than $ 1,000 coming into the local Democratic committee in the decade beginning in 2004.

In 2016, for the first time in more than two decades, NYC counted fewer than 1,100 shootings in a calendar year, a milestone that officials said was a result of the Police Department's efforts to focus on serious crimes and mend relationships with the communities it serves.

He said the scheme was designed having realised the poor state of living of more than average of Nigerian, saying «it is unfortunate that in last few decades Nigeria's economy began to decline due to lack of government sensitivity to social protection programmes of the people.

Staff reductions in Erie County government, fewer coal - fired power generation, energy conservation projects in county office buildings and other measures allowed the county to meet the Paris accord's 26 percent reduction goal in greenhouse gases more than a decade ahead of schedule, according to an inventory County Executive Marc Poloncarz unveiled.

Despite more than a decade of gentrification, shifting demographics and a wall of glassy buildings that have gone up on either side of the north - south corridor, most of the passersby were black and Hispanic — ordinary workers, residents and shoppers, with a few obviously mentally ill or under the influence individuals tossed in.

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.

As such, the focus is on holding their existing seats, such as the one Sen. Frank Padavan (R - Bellerose) has occupied for more than two decades, and pumping resources into the campaigns of a few strong candidates in districts where the odds favor the GOP.

Staff reductions in Erie County government, fewer coal - fired power generation, energy conservation projects in county office buildings and other measures allowed the county to meet the Paris accord's 26 percent reduction goal in greenhouse gases more than a decade ahead of schedule, according to an inventory Poloncarz unveiled Thursday.

Student numbers have also swelled, with more than 35 % of school leavers entering university today compared to fewer than 10 % 3 decades ago.

After more than three decades that never saw annual U.S. pertussis cases top 10,000 (they usually totaled fewer than 3,000), the number of cases began climbing rapidly in the late 1990s.

About 15 % of the world's land areas — and more than half of the world's cities with at least 3 million people — face what Shedlock calls «high to very high risk» of severe shaking in the next few decades.

According to a 2012 report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the U.S. needs to produce approximately 1 million more STEM professionals during the next decade than is currently projected, yet «fewer than 40 percent of students who enter college intending to major in a STEM field complete a STEM degree.»

Although large freight railway traffic (measured in carloads) is down 19 percent this year due to the recessed economy, it grew 47 percent between 1990 and 2007, and railroads have been more fuel - efficient than trucking for at least the past few decades, according to the Association of American Railroads.

The population of Americans over 65 is also projected to more than double in the next few decades, reaching over 98 million by 2060.

Dozens of research groups across the country have spent more than a decade perfecting the material to achieve standards that Awschalom's group has mastered in silicon carbide after only a few years of investigation.

It seems that the conditions for a real reform of the university system in Germany are more favorable than at any time during the past few decades.

Causes of warming trends at higher latitudes have gained more widespread attention from researchers in the past few decades, but the idea that the Arctic would warm faster than the rest of the planet has been around for more than 100 years.

While the number of electricity - hungry transistors that can be squeezed onto a silicon chip has doubled about every two years over the past few decades, it took more than 20 years (from 1970 to 1990) to double the amount of energy that rechargeable batteries can store per pound.

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.

Britton noted that the duration of the effects people described in their interviews also varied widely, ranging from a few days to months to more than a decade.

More than a decade ago, Discover covered the concept of a coffee - maker - like device that could, overnight, turn a few animal muscle stem cells into a nice hunk of meat.

More than a century ago, New York City's East River would freeze over every few decades, creating major issues for commuters who relied on ferries for access to Manhattan from the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens.

Because most of our energy technologies are relatively mature, my guess is that, over the next few decades, we're more likely to see incremental improvements in technology rather than breakthroughs.

«It's almost crazy to think that they're going to, in just a few decades, be more different than they've become over millions of years,» he says.