Sentences with phrase «risen over the last few decades»

Thanks to a number of significant global initiatives, breastfeeding rates around the world have slowly risen over the last few decades.

It's widely known that correlations have been rising over the last few decades.

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Moore's Law says that the number of transistors that can fit on a chip doubles every two years, resulting in the exponential rise in computing power we have seen over the last few decades.

Over the last few decades there has been a huge rise in western men going online and searching Russian dating sites for Russian brides to marry.

These trends may reflect decreasing enrollment in teacher preparation programs over the past few years as well as high rates of attrition among teachers within their first five years.4 5 Turnover rates for new teachers have risen for the last two decades.

The landscape of retirement has changed dramatically over the last few decades, however, and with traditional pension plans dwindling, the future of Social Security uncertain, the rising costs of health care, and now retirement right around the corner, people are rethinking their approach to retirement income.

Over the last few years, and particularly in recent months, the home studio where the 83 - year - old painter Rose Wylie has lived and worked for decades in Kent, England has undergone what amounts to a décor change.

Referencing the rising popularity of appropriation art during the 1980s, Theft is Vision is Bob Nickas» ingenious take on art production over the last few decades.

As on the Peninsula, temperatures over the WAIS have risen significantly in the last few decades, but this is a symptom, rather than a cause.

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

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.

These and other phenomena mark the rising importance and influence over the last decade of the lawyer's personal brand, something that was once foreign to all but a very few outstanding practitioners.

The landscape of retirement has changed dramatically over the last few decades, however, and with traditional pension plans dwindling, the future of Social Security uncertain, the rising costs of health care, and now retirement right around the corner, people are rethinking their approach to retirement income.

If you look back over the last few decades, home prices in the U.S. tend to rise somewhere around 3 % to 5 % annually.