Sentences with phrase «than a few decades ago»

Mexican genomes could not have changed in just 20 years, yet there are more diabetes cases in the country today than a few decades ago.

With climate change, spring is getting warmer and coming an average of 3 days earlier across the U.S. than a few decades ago.

It is still possible to find opportunities in the U.S. equity market, but we believe it will continue to be more difficult and less profitable than a few decades ago.

Air and water are cleaner and pesticides less toxic than a few decades ago, at least in some parts of the world.

Allowing for undersampling, measurement uncertainty and all the other things that make scientific pronouncements fuzzy, Himalayan glaciers are indeed losing mass, and it is more likely than not that they are losing mass faster now than a few decades ago.

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These struggles have left them with 22 % fewer workers than they employed a decade ago (on average), and net capital assets (such as factor floor space and machinery and equipment) that have shrunk 2.2 % per year on average.

Over a decade ago, when government deficits led The Wall Street Journal to list Canada an «honorary member of the Third World,» more than a few observers insisted our currency was destined to be worth less than half a U.S. buck.

DeMars observes that in the U.S. alone more than 300 colleges and universities now offer ethics curricula, whereas a decade ago it was fewer than 10.

Mexico declared war on drug cartels and organized crime a decade ago, a conflict that claimed more than 200,000 lives and shows few signs of slowing up.

Over the last few years, China's debt - to - GDP has ballooned to more than 300 percent from 160 percent a decade ago, causing many people, including Chinese officials, to warn of a financial - sector debt bubble that's waiting to burst.

With total manufacturing output flat over the decade, this adds up to far fewer manufacturing jobs in North America than 10 years ago.

But it's not just size that matters — the average cost of fighting fires per acre burned is also much higher than it was a few decades ago.

Mariano notes that roughly 75 percent of sellers within the industry are women, down from about 90 percent a few decades ago, but more men and married couples are joining the ranks and finding a better work / life balance than the corporate world provided.

Though it's trading significantly higher than it was a few months ago, there is a huge potential upside in what could be the most disruptive technology we've seen in decades.

A decade ago, author Scott Shane estimated that only 30 % of startups live longer than 10 years, fewer than 10 % ever grow, and just 3 % grow substantially.

As Mann explained, the rising temperatures in the region add up to 1 °C to 1.5 °C higher temperatures than average a few decades ago.

That means the stock market rally can only directly benefit around half of all Americans — and substantially fewer than it would have a decade ago, when nearly two - thirds of families owned stock.

They might have more friends than ever online but, on average, Americans have fewer friends to confide in than they did a decade ago.

Anthropologists don't know exactly what led to the extinction of Neanderthals, but we know a heck of a lot more than we did just a few decades ago.

It is not difficult to imagine that within the next few years this pattern will become almost universal in Reformed churches, together with an even wider observance of the Christian Year than is now the case (and the present practice is far more extensive than it was a decade ago).

This is helpful when you will be away from home for long periods of time because today's slow cookers cook much «hotter» than they did a few decades ago.

So how and why is the gap not bridged????? The other important thing to remember is that in the last ten years Wenger has won NOTHING of note so his repuatation amongst the world elite players is less than it was a decade ago and there are few of them that actually WANT to play for the club now our reputation for having no ambition is paramount now rather than our repuatation for winning competitions.

The other important thing to remember is that in the last ten years Wenger has won NOTHING f note so his repuatation amongst the world elite players is less than it was a decade ago and there are few of them that actually WANT to play for the club now our repautation for having no ambition is paramount now rather than our repuatation for winning competitions.

A few years ago, nobody could have contemplated Jack Wilshere leaving Arsenal or being anything less than the mainstay of the England midfield for the whole of the current decade.

He had been with Manchester City for the last few years, after joining Arsenal more than a decade ago.

Moms know a lot more about childbirth and pregnancy than they did just a few decades ago.

Theresa May's government has fewer women than Gordon Brown's had a decade ago and the proportion of ministers who attended state schools has fallen to less than half.

Nowhere is that effort more lacking than in the realm of reform, a decades - long need in New York exacerbated by the embarrassing fall from power of two of the three men in the room with Cuomo only a few years ago and now magnified by the conviction of a one - time gubernatorial buddy in a blistering corruption trial.

In all, the city's total workforce is expected to shrink by about 10,000 people, with the police force down to 34,413 members by June 2012 — a 12 percent drop from a decade ago — and the fire department down to 10,281, about 1,000 fewer than in 2002.

Student numbers have also swelled, with more than 35 % of school leavers entering university today compared to fewer than 10 % 3 decades ago.

«We haven't applied the same level of effort to engineering lightweight trucks — they're excessively heavy and the on - road fleet doesn't look much different than it did a few decades ago,» she said.

More than a decade ago, Discover covered the concept of a coffee - maker - like device that could, overnight, turn a few animal muscle stem cells into a nice hunk of meat.

More than a century ago, New York City's East River would freeze over every few decades, creating major issues for commuters who relied on ferries for access to Manhattan from the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens.

We can also say, more confidently than even a few decades ago, that our family tree isn't a tall pine, with a single trunk progressing upward to a lone pinnacle (us).

«We aren't much wiser than we were a few decades ago» — when mouse embryonic stem cells were first isolated — said Harvard diabetes researcher Douglas Melton.

Only a few decades ago, for example, scientists recognized less than 10 bacterial phyla, large groupings of related life forms.

Over the last few decades, however, as subsequent discoveries pushed back the date for the earliest stone tools to 2.6 million years ago (Ma) and the earliest fossils attributable to early Homo to only 2.4 - 2.3 Ma, there has been increasing openness to the possibility of tool manufacture before 2.6 Ma and by hominins other than Homo.

The ability to find and study the remains of animals, plants and other organisms that lived millions of years ago is extraordinary, and as technology has improved over the past few decades, scientists have realized that fossils contain more information about the stories of extinct life forms than even Charles Darwin could have imagined.

Europe has 421 million fewer birds than just three decades ago, according to a new study led by Dr Richard Inger from the University of Exeter's Environment...

That gap has since narrowed to once every five to six years, with water temperatures often hotter during cool La Niña years today than they were during warm El Niño years a few decades ago.

He later continued: «Now that ocean temperatures are considerably warmer than they were a few decades ago, the maximum potential intensity a hurricane can reach is higher, and we should expect to see a few Patricias sprinkled among the inevitable phalanxes of major hurricanes that will assault our shores in the coming decades.»

Statistically, we all cook less than we did a few decades ago, and we eat out more often.

That means Americans now consume 80 % fewer trans fats than they did a decade ago, says Joy Dubost, PhD, RD, a spokesperson with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Research supports that these chronic daily stressors that are ever present and not being properly dealt with are far worse than the occasional stressors that may have been prevalent just a few decades ago.

Definitely scored a few fabulous thrift store finds from brands that are now defunct — I still find garments from Petite Sophisticate, which went under more than a decade ago — or from small brands that never bothered to establish a web presence.

Some are divorced and facing a dating world that is radically different than it was just a few decades ago.

Touting a special position as a gay hookup site and community that is owned by gay men and built for them, Gaydar was first launched in the UK more than a decade ago and has gained an international following in the recent few years, with close to 6 million gay members now.

Dating today is slightly more complicated than it was a few decades, or even years, ago.

He resents the fact that he has become an object of academic curiosity in the modern, politically correct German society when just a few decades ago he entire race was nearly wiped out by the Third Reich, and wants nothing more than to be an «ordinary Jew.»

When: June 20th Why: It's incredible how much can change over the course of just a few years, and no one knows that better than Paul Haggis, who went from being one of the most sought - after writer / directors in Hollywood to a filmmaker that peaked a decade ago.