Sentences with phrase «span of a few decades»

So somehow, in the span of a few decades, the Lord's Supper goes from referring to the once - a-year observance of Passover to being a more frequent meal of fellowship with other believers.

I understand that it's somewhat riskier in the short term, but over the span of a few decades, realistically speaking it should perform at least as good as a portfolio invested in a total market kind of fund.

The researchers determined that the local temperatures plunged several degrees over the span of a few decades, a cold snap called the «Little Ice Age.»

I hope this made my viewpoint clear, why your formula may be right for a short time span of a few decades, but doesn't hold for longer time spans in the past, while our formula holds for any time span, from a few years to one million years...

Then, increased winter precipitation in the mid-latitudes will ice up the winters, thus increasing albedo, plunging us 8 degrees C. over the span of a few decades, as it would appear to have happened in one of the last ice ages.

Not exact matches

Americans, in the span of just a few short years after World War II, all but completely shunned butter and this behavior pattern continued for decades because saturated fat was supposedly the demon of heart disease.

That becomes something of a crutch in The Cut, his decade - spanning, continent - hopping look at the aftermath of the Armenian genocide, because the film's narrative requires that its embattled protagonist, a refugee named Nazaret (Tahar Rahim), navigate a whole slew of unknown territories and political ideologies over the course of a few decades in the early 20th century.

«The String Arcade» spans a few decades in video game history from arcade classics including «Galaga», «TRON» to 8 - bit eras with «Legend of Zelda» to more recent hits with «Portal 2» and «Minecraft».

There's a lot going on in this narrative — much of it densely complex, and the action spans more than two decades — but its verve, sense of place and a few truly excellent performances were enough to buoy me through the slower and knottier patches.

For local educators, the assessment consortia's work adds to a running list of education reform efforts that spans more than a decade, but has accelerated in the past few years.

Rather than listing the individual records of every player, which can be found elsewhere, the Sourcebook offers batting and pitching averages listed by decade, age, and time - span (as in best five - year stretch, seven - year, etc.), just to mention a few of the many sections.

Also, because dogs have a shorter life span than people, it is possible to study mammary lesions and invasive tumors that develop after a few years instead of decades.»

Over the past few decades, this district, which spans the area between the ocean and Highway 101 and is adjacent to the Amtrak station, has enjoyed an upswell of boutique tasting rooms, cafes, galleries, and shops that cater to Santa Barbara's contemporary side.

Looking at the span of my creative and professional work over the last few decades (which ranges from releasing albums and carving out a freelance career to making games and writing books), I've failed a TON.

It also means that the few quotes that have been gleaned over a career spanning five decades — first as a young artist making his way in LA, where he was influenced by West Coast conceptualists Bruce Nauman and Chris Burden, then in New York, where he became involved in the avant - garde black art scene centered around the pioneering gallery Just Above Midtown — tend to get quite a bit of recycling.

With a prolific career spanning seven decades — starting in the late 1930s in Paris and culminating in New York — Louise Bourgeois (1911 — 2010) is one of the few artists associated with both «modern» and «contemporary» sensibilities.

Recently, curators have given light to Hershman Leeson's otherwise overlooked work, which spans nearly four decades, for its remarkable prescience on the role technology has played on personhood, voyeurism, and gender, to name a few of the interwoven themes that Hershman Leeson treats.

In a photographic project spanning five decades, Bernd and Hilla Becher documented the soon - to - be-forgotten architectural forms of industry — Mine Heads, Blast Furnaces, Water Towers, Coal Bunkers, Cooling Towers, Industrial Facades, Gas Tanks, Grain Elevators, to name but a few.

Join Sussman for a talk that traverses a few of her fascinating projects — from a decade - long endeavor of photographing 2000 - year - old organisms, to a collaborative handwritten timeline of the universe starting before the Big Bang and spanning to 100 billion years into the future.

The works span the last few decades, with two of the paintings completed just this year.

Sudden climate transitions during the Quaternary Abstract The time span of the past few million years has been punctuated by many rapid climate transitions, most of them on time scales of centuries to decades or even less.

But (from memory) they aren't: they reflect a very very few measurements from a few years in a span of decades.

Increasingly dependable and emitting few greenhouse gases, the U.S. fleet of nuclear power plants will likely run for another 50 or even 70 years before it is retired — long past the 40 - year life span planned decades ago — according to industry executives, regulators and scientists.

This revolution may or may not make use of violence: it may be sudden or it may be a relatively gradual process spanning a few decades.

All the warming occurred within a span of a «few decades».

Our team has worked with a number of job seekers who have careers spanning decades, or generalist career paths — making it a challenge to build a resume that encapsulates all the important information in as few pages as possible.