Sentences with phrase «over the last few decades more»

While there isn't as much research on the causes of canine cancer as there is on human cancer, over the last few decades more studies have came out.

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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.

Seems to me seniors, together with many more Albertans, have finally realized that the PCs squandered the tremendous opportunities handed to them over the last few decades.

With the dramatic growth of the nonreligious in the last few decades, more atheist leaders are emerging as spokespeople for atheism, but the Christmas rift speaks to growing disagreement over how atheists should treat religion.

«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.

«There are few things more telling about a culture's cuisine than street food,» said Chef Chris Santos, who is credited with turning the Lower East Side into a premier dining, nightlife and cultural destination over the last decade with his establishments Beauty & Essex and The Stanton Social.

Read more about the history of the coffee industry over the last few decades at TechnoServe and an article about bird diversity in Tanzania at the African Bird Club web site.

McKee says the only thing that has done more to keep Senate Republicans in the majority over the last few decades is their ability to draw district lines.

Their numbers have dropped substantially over the last three decades, from more than 150,000 individuals to fewer than 100,000.

Researchers have also found that over the last few decades the rate of trees dying under more normal conditions has increased dramatically in many parts of the world — including in Sequoia National Park.

Over the last three decades, giraffes are in dramatic decline across their range in Africa with their numbers dropping from more than 150,000 to fewer than 100,000.

Over the last few decades, we've learned a lot more about how humic materials found in the earth's soil, including fulvic acid, can offer a host of benefits in the human body.

Brian Caldwell: Over the last few decades schools, especially public schools, have been given more authority to make their own decisions on a range of matters.

Redesigned inside and out and dressed in a more stylish suit, the Passat no longer seems like the dull - looking people's car we got used to over the last few decades.

Scientific research over the last few decades reveals, however, that our brains are much more flexible and fluid than that and, like any muscle, the more we use it, the stronger it gets.

I wish there had been more of these platforms available to me when I first started investing — if so, I would have probably saved myself some serious money over the last few decades.

More than anything, I wonder how it backtests over the last few decades.

With only a few exceptions, the company has given investors year - over-year dividend increases of more than 10 % over the last two decades.

However policy over the last few decades has been to transfer more of the costs onto students in order to reduce the costs borne by the government and to increase investment.

We've gotten more and more attached to our pets over the last few decades.

Shar - Pei is one of the more unique looking dogs but they aren't rare due to their growing popularity in the U.S. over the last few decades.

Discover has had a range of different cards over the last few decades, including the original Discover Card, the Discover Motiva Card, and the Discover More ® card.

Over the last few decades, scientists have been sounding the alarm about the Great Barrier Reef, which has lost more than a quarter of its corals in the last three decades, due to bleaching brought on by climate change, storms and coral - munching starfish — and quite possibly even sunscreen.

Given all the independent lines of evidence pointing to average surface warming over the last few decades (satellite measurements, ocean temperatures, sea - level rise, retreating glaciers, phenological changes, shifts in the ranges of temperature - sensitive species), it is highly implausible that it would lead to more than very minor refinements to the current overall picture.

«Average temperature in the West rose by more than 1 degree Fahrenheit over the last few decades,» researcher Phil van Mantgem said.

The shift from coal to natural gas over the last few decades has had more influence than any clean - air legislation.

Using the NDVI, one team this year reported that «over the last few decades of the 20th century, terrestrial ecosystems acted as net carbon sinks,» i.e., they absorbed more carbon than they were emitting, and «net greening was reported in all biomes,» though the effect had slowed down in recent years.

The campaign «has paralyzed implementation of what could have been a reasonable ramping up of control efforts over the last few decades, putting the nation and the world now into a situation where much more aggressive action to limit emissions is needed,» MacCracken said.

Despite the extreme cold of the last ice age, the BRT reported «more than 20 so - called Dansgaard - Oeschger oscillations have been documented... each with rapid warming to near inter-glacial temperatures over just a few decades.»

Over the last few decades, however, that ice has been thinning due to increasing greenhouse gases, so when it does melt in the summer, as it normally does, more of the sun's energy gets absorbed into the Arctic Ocean, which then contributes to even more melting.

This is such an utter non-story — amounting to no more than «NSIDC have another year's worth of winter Arctic ice data» — that the only reason we can see for the BBC giving it the time of day is to guard against the possibility that people start filling their pretty heads with silly notions that the extent of summer Arctic sea ice varies from year to year, and that while it seems to have been reducing a bit over the last few decades, it hardly follows that it spells the end of the world as we know it.

The northern U.S. and Canada have already experienced a sharp rise in wildfires over the last few decades, with more to come.

If you want even more info about the study and want to know how the NOAA team came to its conclusion that there has not been a slowdown in warming over the last decade or so, you will find links to a few places where you can start your reading below the chart.

You do get a slightly different slope in one experiment, the «1 % / yr» experiment, where only CO2 rises, and much more slowly than it has over the last few decades.

The Walrus has an article by Alex Hutchinson, «The People's Court, A case for universal legal care,» that looks at some of the changes that have happened to legal aid over the last decade and a few of the changes to civil procedure expected in British Columbia... [more]

Over the last few decades, Canadians have been eating more commercially prepared foods because of the convenience and taste.

These alterations have resulted in some policy owners having to pay 40 % or more in additional premiums over the last few decades (see here).

Along with the Sennheiser HD 280 Pro, the Beyerdynamic DT 770 headphones are one of the more recognizable staples of recording studio audio gear over the last few decades.