Sentences with phrase «than one's grandparents»

I've written before about how much more stuff the modern family has than our grandparents did just two generations ago.

Nowadays, people spend a lot more time indoors than our grandparents and great grandparents did.

Be thankful that you can still get a better interest rate than your older brother or sister did ten years ago, a lower rate than your parents did twenty years ago, and a better rate than your grandparents did forty years ago.

Did you know that according to the Insurance Bureau of Canada, we now get 20 more days of rainfall a year than our grandparents did back in the 50s?

This wine is older than my grandparents.

while I do worship with a little more spunk than my grandparents traditional hyms the gospel music of most baptist churches is a little too much for me.

Martin Weisman of the Department of Health says the chief culprit for people's increasing weight must be decreasing physical activity, because on average people today eat fewer calories than their grandparents did («For a few burgers more...», New Scientist, 22 April).

You may be head and shoulders taller than your grandparents, but the shocking truth is that humans have been growing smaller for the past 200 000 years

Worldwide, between 1971 and 2010, production of meat tripled to around 600 billion pounds while global population grew by 81 percent, meaning that we are eating a lot more meat than our grandparents.

Along with Vitamin D3, magnesium is another nutrient that many are deficient in mainly because our food supply has generally less magnesium than our grandparents time, largely due to industrialized farming practices which have stripped our soil of many essential nutrients.

Unless they become more active, Australian children are expected to live shorter and unhealthier lives than their grandparents.

I can think of no more heartwarming relationship than a grandparent and grandchild.

A 2015 study by personal finance website NerdWallet found the average 2015 college graduate will need to work until age 75 — 13 years longer than their grandparents did and two years longer even than the class of 2013 — due to high student debt and lack of saving.1

These offspring would range from almost the same as one grandparent to almost the same as the other, with every possible combination in between and while most of these would be more heterozygous than the grandparent generation most of them would be less heterozygous than the parent F1's.»

It is still not possible to know if we are better or worse prepared for civic discourse than our grandparents — but behavior in Congress, where the art of reaching across the aisle seems altogether lost, and recent news highlighting the struggles we still face with diversity in the world reinforce a sense that the balanced viewpoint is a thing of the past.

Looking after yourself Some grandparent carers have higher levels of depression and anxiety and more physical and emotional health problems than grandparents who aren't carers.

For Kay Stanley, there was no happier place growing up than her grandparents» Wisconsin lake home.

They felt so much more modern than my grandparents» old hand - me - downs we were using, and in case you couldn't tell, gray was THE best color apparently.

Though you may have missed getting the lowest mortgage rate ever offered, you can still get a better interest rate than your older brother or sister did ten years ago, a lower rate than your parents did twenty years ago, and a better rate than your grandparents did forty years ago.

William Shatner may be older than your grandparents, but this famed actor, singer and cheeseball refuses to throw in the towel.

Be thankful that you can still get a better interest rate than your older brother or sister did ten years ago, a lower rate than your parents did twenty years ago, and a better rate than your grandparents did forty years ago.

Also, trying to care for young children and a special needs child at the same time may be more than a grandparent can handle.

than their grandparents, she says.