Sentences with phrase «recent years and»

Which the meterologists explained is still a normal time for such a hard frost in our area; it's just that we had quite mild Februaries in recent years and thus aren't used to it anymore.

Thanks to improved research abilities in recent years and the deployment of moored instruments to sense mid-ocean conditions, scientists are now able to better understand and predict these climate phenomena.

Looking at extremes, consider the stark contrast between the severe droughts in California in recent years and the torrential downpours, mudslides and flooding this past winter.

Techniques to extract and analyse ancient DNA have undergone a tremendous improvement in recent years and as these technologies continue to improve we can expect further breakthroughs.

But Vijg argues that the increase in the survival age in even these three countries has significantly slowed down in recent years and so seems to be trending towards no increase.

Similarly, the duo found their model could replicate Facebook's trajectory, which according to the Google search data appears to have plateaued in recent years and has fallen slightly since 2012.

Genome editing — which can directly manipulate the genome information of various organisms without leaving an artificial strand — has seen rapid progress in recent years and it is gradually becoming a revolutionary tool in fields ranging from life sciences to advanced medical research.

Oklahoma has been battered by extreme weather events in recent years and much of the discussion focused on adaptation toward maximizing benefits and minimizing losses for the state.

Versions for preschoolers and middle school students have been added in recent years and are running in hundreds of additional schools.

The issue of seals in Irish waters has been controversial in recent years and there have been calls from some quarters for culls.

The overall rate of stroke in the United States has been declining in recent years and while that has been good news, a new study suggests it may be primarily good news for men.

Most institutions responding to the survey expect the number of students seeking postgraduate study in England to plateau or even decline as a result of the high undergraduate fees introduced in recent years and increasing global competitiveness.

At the same time, Ivory Coast has been in political turmoil in recent years and the government hasn't been focused on monitoring these forest reserves.

It found that, while the representation of women among first authors was significantly higher in 2014 than 20 years earlier, the numbers plateaued in recent years and declined in some journals.

Like many pharmaceutical researchers, he has suffered through the drug industry's R&D downsizing in recent years and now is underemployed in a nonscience job.

«It has been waning in recent years and is currently present at low levels.

Price spikes in recent years and recessions are the inevitable outcome of rising competition from fast - growing developing economies for limited supplies.

Another is increasing the agency's budget, which has dwindled in the recent years and is spent mostly to staff salaries, leaving not enough to run experiments.

If verified, the finding would be one of the most unusual experimental proofs of quantum mechanics in recent years and «a significant milestone», says John Pendry, a theoretical physicist at Imperial College London who was not involved in the study.

Although colorectal cancer screening increased rapidly since the 2000's (from 38.6 % in 2000 to 54.5 % in 2008, primarily through increased use of colonoscopy), screening prevalence has stabilized in recent years and still lags behind that for breast and cervical cancers.

Yet the practice is widespread, in part because oil prices have been much higher in recent years and because it is hard to find new multimillion barrel reservoirs these days, especially in the picked over U.S. Denbury, based in Plano, Texas, controls more than 1,000 miles of CO2 pipelines and has published reserves of 17 trillion cubic feet of the greenhouse gas, used to pump more than 70,000 barrels of oil a day.

Be it in information technology or nanotechnology, the speed of technological advances has been staggering in recent years and is showing no sign of letting up.

It has spread northward in recent years and the scientists found the weed in areas where it had not been found in previous decades.

Assemblyman Jim Skoufis, an Orange County Democrat, has been discussed as a potential candidate for the seat in recent years and said on Thursday that he would make a decision about his plans during the next two weeks.

We should be loudly celebrating the explosion of microenterprises that has occurred in recent years and that the Woolwich attacks have not allowed Nick Griffin to re-emerge from the irrelevance that the quiet dignity of the British people has consigned him to.

Public affairs agencies informed me that they were bringing more clients to conference than in recent years and clients were keener to attend.

Certainly the ring of steel surrounding the conference centre here in Manchester seemed smaller than in recent years and the security was noticeably less oppressive.

(Paul Ciminelli and his development company have donated $ 10,500 to Cuomo's gubernatorial campaigns in recent years and $ 5,000 to Kathy Hochul, his running mate this year.)

The city's homeless program has undergone various changes in recent years and last year, when he took office, de Blasio fought Cuomo for the right to reinstate a rental - assistance program similar to one that had previously been eliminated.

«Nearly all (the) Flushing line has been repainted in recent years and the remaining 3.1 - mile stretch will be done as part of the current Capital Program.»

In a major speech to a security conference in Munich, he will demand: «We need a lot less of the passive tolerance of recent years and much more active, muscular liberalism.»

The NAMM Foundation, a supporting organization of the National Association of Music Merchants, recognized the district's music department for music education for the fifth time in recent years and the second consecutive year.

Brookdale is a sensible target, given the financial troubles it has had in recent years and because it serves a low - income population in and around Brownsville and East New York.

The AA and RAC have been quick to point out that tax as a proportion of fuel prices has climbed in recent years and a rise could mean it creeps above 80 % of the overall cost once VAT is included.

But with the run up in rents in recent years and an increase in vacancies, some neighborhoods are pushing back.

Current obligations are due to reforms necessitated by the Wall Street crash of recent years and a decade of public employers not contributing to the system while employees contributed 3 percent of salary;

When the Erie County Industrial Development Agency reinstated its venture capital activities in recent years and allocated $ 1 million toward that end, it sparked hopes that the ECIDA would be another source of capital for scalable technology startups.

«Teachers» pay has improved in recent years and so too has recruitment and retention.

The chairman of its GP committee's clinical and prescribing sub-committee, Bill Beeby, said: «The PAC report acknowledges that there has been a substantial increase in prescribing generic drugs in recent years and with just over two per cent of the overall drugs bill identified as potential savings it shows that the official advice is already being heeded.»

Typically the party does not turnout in odd - numbered years, leaving Republicans to win local - level races, even in areas that have trended against the GOP in recent years and the Democratic presidential candidates tend to do well.

Enrollment numbers have decreased in both smaller districts in recent years and yet they continue to spend more on administrative costs per student than others.

«The craft beverage industry in New York has experienced unprecedented growth in recent years and as a result, has become a critical driver of regional economies in every corner of this state,» Governor Cuomo said.

[21] According to the newspaper Lohud, «it has been a target of Republicans in expensive campaign battles in recent years and is expected to once again be viewed as a target seat by the state GOP.»

Cuomo recently released a report showing that New York City has 91 failing schools and Syracuse has 18 despite significant aid increases in recent years and per pupil spending way above the national average.

The 3,300 - student district has drawn down its cash reserves at an unsustainable rate in recent years and now must look at possible layoffs and other economies to balance its budget for the 2018 - 19 school year, Superintendent Patrick Brimstein said in an interview.

One of the key provisions calls for an annual bonding cap of $ 2 billion, promoted by Republicans concerned that the state has been borrowing too much money in recent years and can no longer afford the debt payments.

The alarming conclusions of the International Humanist and Ethical Union's (IHEU) report finds the influence of religion in schools has increased in recent years and removed secular options from some courses, leaving it concluding Britain is in «flux».

A female announcer then talks about the number of people New York has lost in recent years and says there's «hope» in the form of Cuomo's budget — «a plan to move New York forward» without raising taxes.

In a statement released by Murphy's campaign, Koch said he has gotten to know the candidate in recent years and has been impressed by his «commitment to Democratic values, his political pragmatism, and his understanding of the issues affecting middle class families today.»

Iranians have said a resounding Yes to President Rouhani who, in recent years and particularly during the last several weeks of campaigning, promised to expand individual and political freedoms and make all those centres of power, like the Revolutionary Guard, accountable.