Sentences with phrase «since at least»

Since at least 2005, researchers have been deliberately creating influenza viruses that are both highly virulent (killing several percent or more of those infected) and spread easily among humans.

Bee venom has been used as a treatment in East Asia since at least the second century BCE.

The study, published in this month's edition of Emerging Infectious Diseases, demonstrates that Ebola virus has been circulating in the region since at least 2006 — well before the current outbreak.

They then either escaped or were intentionally released into the wild, where they've been thriving since at least the mid-1990s.

The results showed that the eastern Pacific corals (from Baja California in the north to the coastline of Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands in the south) have been completely cut off from the rest of the Pacific since at least the 1998 El Nino.

MONTREAL — Humans are dumping extra carbon into the atmosphere at a rate unprecedented since at least the time the dinosaurs went extinct about 66 million years ago, new research suggests.

Diamond - studded saws and drills have been around since at least the time of the Napoleonic wars.

They write, «The occurrence of humid periods previously identified in lacustrine or speleothem records highlights the complexity and heterogeneity of the Arabian paleoclimate, and suggests that interior migration pathways through the Arabian Peninsula may have been viable approximately every 23,000 years since at least marine isotope state (MIS) 6,» about 191 thousand years ago.

Neural networks have been used for machine translation since at least 2010, and other features of the system have been employed in other models in the last several years.

Since at least the 1960s, astronauts and satellites have been snapping photos of planet Earth from on high.

Recent studies have shown that Earth's tropical belt — demarcated, roughly, by the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn — has progressively expanded since at least the late 1970s.

In point of fact, the mercury in our social minds has been of interest since at least the 1940's, when landmark work on impression - formation by the pioneering social psychologist Solomon Asch demonstrated the «striking and consistent differences of impression» created by substituting the words «warm» and «cold» into a hypothetical person's personality profile.

State - sponsored malware has been spying on computers in Russia, the Middle East and Europe since at least 2008, says security firm Symantec

Sharks do get cancer — and we've known that since at least 1908, when a malignant tumor was found in a blue shark.

Since at least the 1930s, archaeologists have been trying to piece together the story of Angkor's cities and understand their role in the collapse of the Khmer Empire.

Since at least the Bronze Age, seafaring has been key to cultural progress.

People have been talking about one crisis or another since at least the early 1970s, for so long that the term has nearly lost its meaning.

Beneath the Skin Figuring out why we experience pleasure from touch has preoccupied scientists since at least the 1960s.

And for the composite microblade tip — modeled microblade technologies seen in Alaska since at least 13,000 years ago and a rare, preserved grooved antler point from a more recent Alaskan site used more than 8,000 years ago — Wood used a saw and sandpaper to grind a caribou antler to a point.

Sex selection, in fact, had been linked with population control since at least the 1950s, when research emerged showing that around the world, couples kept having children until they had a son.

Record of melt from two west Greenland ice cores showing that modern melt rates (red) are higher than at any time in the record since at least 1550 CE (black).

The cores reveal that the ice layers became thicker and more frequent beginning in the 1990s, with recent melt levels that are unmatched since at least the year 1550 CE.

Under the FY 2018 request, NIH also projects a success rate of 13.7 percent in FY 2018, the lowest funding rate since at least 1970 (see graph at right for recent years).

But gravity - measuring satellites have shown that the continent's ice sheets have been losing mass since at least 2002.

City law dictates that elected officials must disclose any rental income, but de Blasio's filings with the city's Conflicts of Interest Board since at least 2007 do not disclose the income on a Park Slope rental property that he owns.

The child poverty fell 10 percentage points to 44 percent, the lowest rate since at least 2010.

Schneiderman said that NYSPAC and Vrendenburg, a convicted felon, collected thousands of dollars in legal fees since at least 2012.

Eliot Spitzer is still officially married to his wife Silda Wall Spitzer, but rumors that the two were growing apart have been going around since at least the spring, and they've reportedly been living apart since the summer.

Albany has been engaged in deficit spending since at least 2007, the mayor said, and has extinguished its formerly healthy rainy - day fund in order to deal with increased pension costs and other consequences of the 2008 Wall Street meltdown.

«Senator Abaribe merely criticised this regime which is his duty to do as an opposition lawmaker since at least on paper Nigeria is still a democracy.

Corning has a close relationship with the economic development agency: the company has had a seat on the IDA board since at least 1985.

Town board members have earned $ 10,000 each since at least 2008 — ass far back as the budget document goes.

The committee's August 2012 report concluded that Lopez had been engaged in «an escalating course of conduct with respect to multiple female staff members since at least 2010.»

In the end, the congestion zone became a losing battle, the latest in a long line of failed congestion pricing efforts since at least the 1970s.

Mahoney has been empowered to convene the panel's first meeting since at least May 4, but she hasn't done so yet.

First PMQs Clegg, who told his party conference last year that he wanted «to be prime minister», becomes the first Liberal leader to answer questions to the prime minister since at least 1922.

Inwood residents have been complaining since at least 2013 about noise in and around the bars lining Dyckman Street.

Because he's Rev. Ruben Diaz, Sr., that's why — the Democrat state senator from the Bronx who's been a vocal opponent of LGBT progress in New York since at least 1994, when he tried to keep the Gay Games from his city.

New York state has had the highest state and local government debt per capita since at least 2011.

But changes that Uber made to its contract in 2015 suggest that the company has been aware of the issue and grappling with it since at least that year.

It is the first time since at least 2006 that the Syracuse Police Benevolent Association, a 450 - member group, endorsed a candidate in the local congressional race.

Log Cabin Republicans have sought a booth at the convention since at least 1998, when the group's members protested outside the event after a party spokesman compared them to pedophiles and the Ku Klux Klan.

They with the help of the media have been slandering and lying about republicans since at least the 1980 election.

Instead, the U.S. has found ways to cut taxes at the corporate level and has applied in recent years lower tax rates to dividend income, so that the combined burden of taxation on distributed income is lower, but it is still a sub-optimal solution which has been widely recognized to exist since at least the 1950s.

Nadler claims authority officials and New Jersey elected officials aren't doing enough to involve him and his colleagues in the bus terminal replacement efforts, and he argues that the Port, which has been working on the bus terminal project since at least 2013, is rushing things.

The West Yorkshire trio of Bradford, Calderdale and Kirklees have all been hung since at least 2000, but this could be about to change.

It was the largest rise in payroll since at least 2011, when Suffolk began keeping track of the payroll in its current form.

The perception of Cuomo as ruthless has been around since at least the 1980s, when he was working for his father's gubernatorial campaign, and the press dubbed him the «prince of darkness» for his take - no - prisoners style.

It is more or less the same proposal that Schwartz has been championing since at least 2012, though early plans for pedestrian and bike bridges have been removed.

Had the vote gone the other way, Depew, with 15,146 residents, would have been the largest village in New York state to dissolve in decades and the first village in Erie County to dissolve since at least 1900.