Sentences with phrase «significantly over the past century»

Initially, only the 25 founding members were granted coverage, though they have expanded their membership significantly over the past century.

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But this trend has significantly reversed over the past two centuries.

What's more, over the past century, Americans significantly shifted in the way that we see childhood.

Over the past century, Christian populations in the West have either been holding steady or declining, while in Africa, Asia and Latin the numbers have been rising significantly.

A capsule of his findings would include the following facts: Over the past century, Christian populations in the West have either been holding steady or declining, while in Africa, Asia and Latin America — the «global South» in current geopolitical coinage — the numbers have been rising significantly and in some cases dramatically.

In 1987, for example, turnout inequality by class was almost non-existent and age - based differences were significantly lower; cleavages in both have steadily risen over the past quarter century.

While average life expectancy has been rising steadily in most countries over the past century, new research led by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that life expectancy declined significantly and rapidly in three countries where policy changes increased access to prescription opioids, alcohol or illicit drugs.

Amid this dramatic shift, another sea change was afoot: As seen in the accompanying graphic, «The Gap Between Life Expectancy and Retirement Ages,» over the past half century the average life expectancy has increased significantly while the average retirement age has decreased.

Over the past century, stocks have grown at a roughly +10 % annual clip — significantly higher than other asset classes (for example, government bonds have earned ~ 5.5 % annually, real estate ~ 3.8 %, cash ~ 3.4 %).

The actual prevailing view of the paleoclimate research community that emerged during the early 1990s, when long - term proxy data became more widely available and it was possible to synthesize them into estimates of large - scale temperature changes in past centuries, was that the average temperature over the Northern Hemisphere varied by significantly less than 1 degree C in previous centuries (i.e., the variations in past centuries were small compared to the observed 20th century warming).

The paper was accompanied by a press release entitled «Global Warming not a Man - made Phenomenon», in which Shaviv was quoted as stating, «The operative significance of our research is that a significant reduction of the release of greenhouse gases will not significantly lower the global temperature, since only about a third of the warming over the past century should be attributed to man».

Member of the team Alena Kimbrough says, «We've shown ENSO is an important part of the climate system that has influenced global temperatures and rainfall over the past millennium... Our findings, together with climate model simulations, highlight the likelihood that century - scale variations in tropical Pacific climate modes can significantly modulate radiatively forced shifts in global temperature.»

«To conclude, modeled atmospheric circulation and SST trends over the past century are significantly different from the observed ones.

Shaviv and Veizer's paper was accompanied by a press release titled «Global warming not a man - made phenomenon», in which Shaviv is quoted stating: «The operative significance of our research is that a significant reduction of the release of greenhouse gases will not significantly lower the global temperature, since only about a third of the warming over the past century should be attributed to man».

The architectural profession, specifically over the past century, has generated the belief that the art and act of building, while certainly essential to Architecture, is in fact merely but significantly the means by which Architecture presents itself to the world.

But over the last century, during which the IPCC claims the world experienced more rapid warming than any time in the past two millennia, the world did not experience significantly greater trends in any of these extreme weather events.

quote: «global mean temperatures have increased on the order of one degree Fahrenheit over the past century, having risen significantly from about 1919 to 1940, decreased between 1940 and the early»70s, increased again until the»90s, and remaining essentially flat since 1998.»