Sentences with phrase «than generations ago»

There are many theories as to why food allergies and sensitivities have become so common, especially in children — much more common than generations ago.

True, many things are cheaper to buy than a generation ago, but the big - ticket items like shelter and post-secondary education are taking a much bigger bite out of household budgets today.

The average length of the highest - capacity U.S. lines currently is four times greater than the smaller lines used more than a generation ago.

If the recipients of LRPs and early career awards are successful at the next stage of their careers, the average age of physician - scientists should begin to decrease during the next decade (that decrease in age may not be dramatic, however, since research careers now begin later in life than a generation ago because of lengthened training requirements).

American youths are reading less in their free time than a generation ago, a statistic that bodes poorly for their academic performance, job prospects, civic participation, and even social well - being, a report by the National Endowment for the Arts says.

More than a generation ago, the U.S. used to lead the world in education achievement with the highest high school graduation rate and college - going rate.

The improvements in compounding of winter tires, plus restrictions on when studded tires can be used, make them less popular than a generation ago.

People interested in compact sedans like the 2017 Volkswagen Jetta have much higher expectations than customers would have had in the same class less than a generation ago.

Minimally invasive procedures at UC Davis are dramatically changing the face of veterinary surgery with equipment and technology allowing for new procedures to be performed that were not available less than a generation ago.

Austrian artist Erwin Wurm works at the crossroads of sculpture, performance and documentation mapped more than a generation ago by Joseph Beuys, Vito Acconci and the Viennese Actionists.

The Amazon basin gets more visibility today than a generation ago, but consider the difficulties of preserving forests in places like California, Oregaon and Washington, with green - minded citizens galore living and traveling close to and through the forests there.

Steel recycling started climbing more than a generation ago with the advent of the electric arc furnace, a technology that produces steel from scrap using only one fourth the energy it would take to produce it from virgin ore.

Sharing a home can also strengthen family ties in a world where the traditional family unit is far less common than a generation ago.»

But it's far simpler to qualify than a generation ago, and you probably could qualify for more than one, maybe based only on where you live.

There was a time — not much more than a generation ago — when Barolo was considered a drink for men.

Not exact matches

Two years ago, the house, constructed from untreated woods and equipped with water - saving laundry equipment and compact lighting, was the subject of a story in the Burlington Free Press under the headline «Greenhouse» — which raised the hackles of many hard - core Vermonters, including more than a few former Seventh Generation employees.

Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million paGeneration Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million pageneration that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

With many people having long ago converted to the wireless N standard of Wi - Fi, which has better speed, throughput and range than its G predecessor, the next generation of the technology is already on its way.

Online banking began over thirty years ago, and mobile banking took off more than ten years ago — which means that there are at least one if not two generations that haven't experienced the old fashioned passbook savings account, nor have they learned financial responsib...

Today's working - age households score much lower on retirement readiness than their parents» generation did 30 years ago.

Less than a year ago major shale firms were saying they needed oil above $ 60 a barrel to produce more; now some say they will settle for far less in deciding whether to crank up output after the worst oil price crash in a generation.

Buying hundreds of shares in a stock market in proportion to their overall market capitalizations is much simpler today than it was even a generation ago.

In 1994 in North America many of these commitments and characterizations are much shakier than they were one or two generations ago, but the best aspects of Lutheran particularism are still identifiable.

Scholars at present seem inclined to recognize more history in it than their predecessors did a generation or two ago.

Yet people seem to be less worried about God and more concerned about themselves than they were a generation ago.

Because of the diversity of programs in seminaries and the number of students who are not oriented toward congregations, the seminary agenda is probably wider than it was a generation ago, when most students were bound for congregations.

This BS about the generation gap and how people today are so much more smart than people from 150 years ago is dumb.

This is where human morality originated as even the burried remains show that our ancient ancestors cared for those in their social groups and cave paintings show that knowledge was being passed down from one generation to the next more than 45,000 years ago.

That in a place such as China, which scarcely a generation ago had to contend with starvation, people are now eating better than anyone has in previous history.

(See Carl F. Burke, God Is for Real, Man [New York: Association Press, 1966], p. 39) A generation ago, a viable model was «Railways to heaven,» which at least was closer to the truth than «God is my co-pilot.»

Two generations ago, people probably were in closer touch with some specific practices than we are now, given the forces of consumer society.

More than a decade ago, David Brooks described a generation of America's elite university students as «organization kids.»

On the other hand, if it is underway yet not complete, there is more at stake than in appraising a transformation that occurred generations ago.

The complexity that federal loans bring to the relationship between private institutions and the government is such that the whole notion of a public accommodation is now potentially far more extensive than could have been imagined a generation or two ago.

As a result of his efforts, along with those of the mental health societies (the change from «hygiene» to «health» came in the 1940s) and many other groups, including the professionals, it is safe to say that most mental hospitals are better now than they were a generation ago.

Second, consider the fact that some miracle stories in the Bible are more easy to believe now than they were a generation ago.

But it wasn't always like that — just a few generations ago, families were consuming less than 10 pounds a year.

He's a burly man — a University of Texas lineman in the mid-1950s — but he's a little heavier now and a lot softer than he was when he was putting the Alvin High Yellowjackets through their paces a generation ago.

Indeed, fatherhood today is a much different kind of responsibility than it was some generations ago.

Studies also tell us that both mothers and fathers want fathers to play a much more active role than was usual a generation ago.

Today's teenagers are more independent and more self - sufficient than many of their counterparts were a generation ago, and opportunities for learning and growth come in all shapes, sizes, and locations.

A park district consultant hired to analyze the radiation problem at the site - a former city garbage dump where dirt laced with thorium and radium was left a generation ago - has reported that the contamination is more than 12 times greater in volume than had been suspected.

Just as what our society experienced with La Leche League International's breastfeeding revolution, begun more than 50 years ago, we at Attachment Parenting International (API) hope to be looking at a different kind of society in coming generations — one where disconnection is discouraged and healthy, securely attached relationships are valued above competition and shame.

In the US, kids have much less freedom than they would have done a generation or so ago.

I have seen babies who are upset every time they go near a breast because they have been handled roughly by hospital staff (mothers» breasts have been grabbed and their baby's head shoved onto a breast); I have seen women who have been told they don't have enough milk or «your milk isn't strong enough» (this is never true and usually comes from an older relative who may have been told this a generation ago); women who have been advised to give their babies a top - up bottle only to have the baby find the fast milk flow easier than working at the breast so consequently, weaning begins before breastfeeding even becomes established.

In addition, contraception and family planning have led to women carrying far fewer pregnancies than two or three generations ago, which means better health over all.

Hydropower a decade ago was the leading source of power, contributing more than half of the country's electricity generation capacity — which perhaps explains why the cost of buying power is now high following the reversal in the country's power generation capacity.

They recognize what's happening isn't so different than their own story a few generations ago,» said Shelly Callahan, executive director of Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees.

In light of that, the only person who «stole» the previously shared resource was the first guy who claimed ownership of that resource, more likely than not many generations ago.

The Greatest Generation deserves the greatest of honors â $» even if the battles they fought were more than a half - century ago.