Sentences with phrase «past couple of decades as»

Significant attention has come the way of human growth hormone (HGH) in the immediate past couple of decades as a result of the great benefits that have been associated with it.

Not exact matches

Though the US dollar has remained the strongest fiat currency in a pool of rapidly devaluing fiat currencies over the past two years, if one calculates the declining purchasing power of the US dollar in the past couple of decades when using real rates of inflation inside the US (versus the bogus rates produced by federal entities), then one can easily reach the conclusion that the US dollar has crashed as well.

Still more broadly, the Internet as it has evolved over the past couple of decades is essentially a data gathering machine, in which we all trade information about ourselves — our likes and dislikes, what we look at on the Web, our countless online utterances — in exchange for free services we need, or merely enjoy.

For the past couple of decades, writers who must use these terms quite often, such as ourselves, have reached an informal agreement on style.

Mr Tyrrell, whose own company's volume has halved to «a couple of hundred thousand cases» over the past decade as it closed bottom - end labels and sold its once - iconic Long Flat brand to Cheviot Bridge says the only part of the market that is «really firing» is the top end.

As you might have seen written in this space and elsewhere at SB Nation over the past few weeks, MLB's owners are engaging in what we've dubbed a «legalized» form of collusion: The cartoonish villainy of the collusion of the»80s has been replaced by a far more subtle force that has given nearly all power to the owners over the past couple of decades.

Regardless of the quality of their playing squad over the past couple of decades, one thing Scotland has never lacked in is decent managers, with names such as Sir Alex Ferguson, Kenny Dalglish and Sir Matt Busy at the forefront of footballing folklore.

But the basic thesis of my book is that, in this country for the past couple decades, we've been overemphasizing IQ as the one measure of whether a child will succeed or fail.

Traditionally confined to latitudes north of European cities like Frankfurt and Brussels, over the past couple of decades they have been observed in the Northern Hemisphere at latitudes as far south as Budapest, Hungary, (47 degrees) and Logan, Utah, (41 degrees).

As it happens, smartphones, laptops and all kinds of electronic screens have become brighter and bluer over the past couple of decades because of the addition of powerful blue LEDs.

«Some fungal outbreaks over the past couple of decades, such as Dothistroma needle blight, could likely have been anticipated by tracking how temperature and precipitation were changing together,» said Mahony, who has worked as a forester in British Columbia for 10 years and has witnessed the impacts of climate change on the ground.

In the past couple of decades, for example, Mediterranean butterfly and dragonfly species have been found flying around places previously off limits to them — new new northern climes such as Germany.

There have certainly been some large El Nino events over the past couple decades, and this leverages any linear trend estimates of the long - term behavior (such as those shown in the recent Vecchi et al paper, which we'll be talking about more in a follow - up post to this).

Hey, I think it's a cool enough novelty to have this war biopic star the guy it's about, and it would have been really cool if they coupled that with the novelty of making him old as dirt, so I would have dug it if they waited another couple decades to make this... even though Murphy didn't live past 1971 (Poor guy didn't live to see the formation of Metallica).

The video game cutscene has undergone a lot of transformations over the past couple of decades, and many games these days present elaborate, dazzling CGI sequences that are often billed as «Hollywood - caliber.»

His films exist on the fringes of an industry in South Korea which enjoys massive commercial and international success but, for the past couple of decades Hong, as it is with some of the finest filmmakers, has created his own medium of formally inventive and wholly original films that seem to exist in a genre — perhaps even an industry — of their own.

The past couple of decades have seen the appearance of so many gigantic CG waves in big - budget movies that they almost qualify as stock henchmen, popping up as bonus disaster - porn footage in movies that don't actually take place in the ocean or even on a shoreline.

As we step further into 2018, it's now dawning on me that we're only a couple years away from looking back on the last ten years of filmmaking and assessing major industry trends that have happened over the past decade.

Throughout the past couple of decades he has worked for various publications such as medical magazines and Readers» Digest until he realised sometime around 2000 that the traditional publishing and media industry was in long term decline and the future of publishing was digital and would be driven by independent authors and publishers.

Obviously trying each out over a couple of decades isn't possible, and as you quote Buffett «if past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians».

Interestingly, this exception to the rule has been the norm for most of the past couple of decades — as this article will illustrate.

Also, as mentioned in our previous blog, the crucial baitfish species that they are utterly dependent on for survival are all declining in drastic and alarming ways in the past couple of decades.

Although it has been around for several centuries as an artistic medium, only in the past couple of decades has photography turned into a medium that fills your senses, blots out the background and enfolds you.

She has over the past couple of decades become nothing less than a cultural force majeure — a «monstre,» in the sense of sacré, as she was described in Connaissance des arts last fall when her current traveling retrospective opened in Paris at the Centre Georges Pompidou.

There have certainly been some large El Nino events over the past couple decades, and this leverages any linear trend estimates of the long - term behavior (such as those shown in the recent Vecchi et al paper, which we'll be talking about more in a follow - up post to this).

As you also point out, that kind of linear trend is very unlikely to be useful much past a couple of decades which is where the trajectory of forcings we choose as a society will really make the differencAs you also point out, that kind of linear trend is very unlikely to be useful much past a couple of decades which is where the trajectory of forcings we choose as a society will really make the differencas a society will really make the difference.

If the surface has warmed in the past couple of decades, as the surface datasets now pretend, CO2 can not have been the cause.

There's been global warming over the past couple of decades, as observed in ocean warming, surface warming, warming of the troposphere, and Earth's energy balance (i.e. comparing the amount of energy the Earth takes up vs. the amount of energy the Earth releases):

And as Figure 2 demonstrates, there has been absolutely no pause over the past couple of decades in the warming found in the upper 700 meters of the ocean.

# 55 Allen As per your comments on the flattened temperature slope over the past decade or so, here are a couple of graphs which might help.

The radar readings from both teams show that the grounding line for some areas of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has retreated by as much as 20 miles (37 kilometers) over the past couple of decades, apparently due to the interaction with warmer seas.

Although the traditional version of universal life insurance was a popular and safe option a couple of decades ago, as the financial situation of the past two decades has seen periods of instability, the advantages of the traditional universal life policy have diminished and become more risky.

As we describe in a forthcoming study in The Journal of Marriage and Family, the association between a non-traditional division of labor at home and couples» sexual satisfaction and frequency has changed dramatically over the past two decades.

Also, as we have noted, the major energy metro, Houston, has diversified its economic base significantly over the past couple of decades.