Sentences with phrase «past decades there»

Whereas in past decades there may have only been room for one outstanding female photographer, or one mystifying female Surrealist painter, today, as Schoenstadt's work proved, women artists are apt to support one another, rather than compete.

Though in the past decades there has been an appreciable cooling off of the fervor displayed at the beginning of the twentieth century by the advocates of the psychology of religion, still today the various schools of depth - psychology and psychoanalysis offer clues to the understanding of the unconscious and its workings.

In the past decade there has been no lack of best - customer clubs, point programs, new twists on airline frequent - flier plans, and contests with spectacular prizes.

Over the past decade there has been little growth in manufacturing output and the level of employment has declined, particularly over the past couple of years (Graph 3).

For much of the past decade there has been a growing recognition that Chinese growth has been seriously unbalanced, as Premier Wen put it, and that at the heart of the imbalance has been the very low consumption share of GDP.

The first example relates to the interchange fees in the MasterCard and Visa credit card systems in the United States, where over the past decade there have been a series of competitive increases in these fees (Graph 1).

I think I spent much of the past decade there.

In fact, over the past decade there has only been one season in which bettors would have lost money by taking all favorites — 2012 when favorites went just 40 - 46 with -15.17 units lost.

More and more women are breastfeeding for a longer period of time, but I think this is more because in the past decade there has been a change in attitude toward it.

But over the past decade there has been a major change in education.

«Over the past decade there have been dramatic improvements in breast reconstruction that utilize various types of surgical innovations, implants, and biologic tissue,» notes Dr. Small.

The misunderstanding stems from data showing that during the past decade there was a slowing in the rate at which the earth's average surface temperature had been increasing.

In the past decade there has been growing awareness of the important role of the human microbiome — all the bacteria, viruses and fungi that live on and in our bodies.

Compared to the average year in the 1970's, in the past decade there were:

Over the past decade there has been growing concern about the levels of engagement with Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects by Australian students (Chubb).

Over the past decade there has been a lot of buzz about the maker movement and maker - centered activities.

The report finds that in the past decade there has been backward movement for desegregation in U.S. schools, especially for Latino and African - American students, and particularly in the South; and that Asian students are the most integrated and most successful students by far.

For every vehicle manufactured in the past decade there is plethora of detailed material.

However, in America, over the past decade there has been a significant increase in the number of cats reaching the age of ten.

Over the past decade there have been tremendous advances in the field.

Over the past decade there has been a steep increase in natural and eco-friendly pet product sales, and there is a trend responsible for this upsurge.

During the past decade there has been a proliferation of cultural practitioners interrogating the global politics and ethics of food production, distribution and consumption.

Also in the past decade there have a number of papers, for example, Liu et al. (2012) who in Impact of declining Arctic sea ice on winter snowfall — noted circulation patterns that have ``... some resemblance to the negative phase of the winter Arctic oscillation.

Adult Attachment Over the past decade there has been significant interest in adult attachment styles and how these patterns of attachment influence adult intimate and romantic relationships (Johnson 2008; Levine & Heller 2010).

Over the past decade there have been so many changes in the daily lives of our fellow Canadians — not only in our lives as Realtors — that have eroded our rights and freedoms.

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I'm not sure that in the past year or, honestly, in the past decade or two, there has been a single deal that will be regarded as a more impactful transaction across multiple industries and the entire omni - channel economy than Amazon's recently announced acquisition of Whole Foods.

There was some positive news last year: Women - led companies made up 4.94 % of all VC deals in 2016 — the highest percentage in the past decade.

Yet there is one economist who has made big and bold predictions for the past five decades with exacting precision, and in doing so, he has shown it's possible to be a 79 - year - old economist and still be in the game.

In tandem with our annual Giving Well Guide, we anaylse trends and issues in philanthropy, an area where there has been substantial development as Western Australia's wealth has grown in the past decade or so.

The IOC, which ultimately holds the rights for past Games, knew there was likely a global market for decades» worth of Olympic - themed merchandise.

There's a commonality between some of the most popular food brands founded over the past decade, including Beyond Meat, Noosa Yoghurt and Nona Lim: Whole Foods.

The privately held Levi Strauss is also, importantly, self - insured — and has a fairly significant share of employees who stay at the company past a decade, including many who've been there 20 years or more.

If you've taken an Econ 101 course in the past decade or so, there's a good chance that somewhere on your bookshelf is a dog - earred copy of Gregory Mankiw's Principles of Economics.

However, there has been a striking decline in the important social infrastructure of local communities over the past few decades.

There are perhaps many explanations for this trend, but it does correlate nicely with the technological explosion — especially of the Internet — over the past few decades, which invites a sobering conclusion.

Over the past half - decade, there's been some consolidation.

Over the past few months, there's been a flurry of launches, releases and unveilings in the market, ushering with it a level of competitive optimism not seen in half a decade.

Today there are more Airstreams on the road than ever before, and, remarkably, most of those were made in the past decade or so.

«I don't think there are enough people now who believe we can continue these outsized price gains we've seen over the past decade,» he says.

That was made harder by the climate for funding: there might have been a fair amount of funding over our past decade, especially in Silicon Valley, but that wasn't the landscape in 1987.

The majority of the fuel - cell industry is rooted in the Northeast, but fuel - cell businesses there have only been cooperating for the past decade or so, says Joel M. Rinebold, director of energy initiatives at the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, the East Hartford, Conn. - based organization that oversees the cluster.

The ones that get past this level take significantly longer to get there than Builder DNA companies — often decades.

While there have been many iterations of the gaming device over the past few decades, the Oculus Rift has most notably brought the concept of VR to the consumer forefront in the 2010's.

The Chinese government says that GDP growth there has slowed to 6.9 % in 2015, and that it will grow by 6.8 % next year after averaging more than 10 % for the past decade.

In the past year, a lot of ink has been devoted to China's slowdown after its phenomenal spending boom over the last decade, but there are signs that spending is perking up — a tailwind for resources.

«Toronto has been a leader in AI over the years, really for the past two decades, and there is finally a realization that there is incredible talent, and this talent was mostly being exported to the U.S.,» Urtasun said.

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).

The average absolute value of current account balances as a share of GDP is higher today than it was three decades ago, with much of the run - up occurring in the past decade, and there is less dispersion around the average.

Over the past decade, there have been times (such as in 1988) when higher interest rates have pushed up the exchange rate (i.e. a positive relationship between the two), but there have also been episodes (such as in 1985 and 1986) when a weakening exchange rate caused the Bank to raise interest rates (a negative relationship).

That is, there has been a reasonably high correlation in the timing of recessions and expansions among developed countries over the past few decades.