Sentences with phrase «time in a quarter of a century»

For the first time in the quarter of a century the polls did not overestimate Labour support.

In the US, for the first time in a quarter of a century, the nation's favourite SUV has been outsold by a passenger car — a Japanese compact at that.

Not exact matches

A quarter century after the Iron Curtain that once divided Europe opened, the European Union nations and Russia are again involved in a tug - of - war, this time over six former Soviet Republics.

The employment share of full time jobs was less than in 2008; and, the quality of jobs had sunk to its lowest level in a quarter of a century.

Looking back in time, global steel production grew strongly in the 1960s and early 1970s when Japan was industrialising, but then was relatively flat for about a quarter of a century (Graph 8).

More members of the U.S. House of Representatives are choosing not to seek re-election than at any time in the past quarter - century.

Thus, even though prisons were among the first places of special need to catch the eye of the churches, it is only in the past quarter - century that the plan of full - time and specially trained chaplains, responsibly related to their churches as well as to their jobs, has become widespread.

The Coptic and Russian Orthodox Church leaders have held a formal meeting in Russia for the first time in over a quarter of a century.

It was estimated in the 1970s that, from the time human agriculture began to develop some 10,000 years ago, one half of the earth's food - producing soil had disappeared and a third of the remainder would be lost in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

Furthermore, in the United States, for over a quarter of a century the writings of Professor Charles Hartshorne, including Beyond Humanism, The Vision of God, Reality as Social Process, The Divine Relativity, The Logic of Perfection, and A Natural Theology for Our Times, as well as many occasional articles and essays, have eloquently argued the case for «process - thought».

Watch all of the action from an enthralling quarter - final as three goals from Cristiano Ronaldo brought up his century in the UEFA Champions League and helped Real Madrid earn a 6 - 3 aggregate win after extra time in 2017.

Moran had his own troubles a quarter of a century ago when he set an unwanted record by going into the history books as the first player to be sent off in an FA Cup Final during Manchester United's 1 - 0 extra time defeat of Everton in 1985.

«It's remarkable to be able to go back to data taken almost a quarter of a century before Cassini arrived and, armed with the discovery information from Cassini, produce this remarkable processed Voyager image which seems to reveal the plume at that time,» says Andrew Coates, a Cassini scientist at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory in the UK.

Time may blur, but the first quarter - century of the newly renamed Shiley Eye Institute — it celebrates that anniversary this year — remains sharply defined in its accomplishments and its focus on the future.

Given the time frame — just a decade or two before Europe is engulfed in nearly a quarter century of turmoil — the film becomes an elegy of sorts: a secular memento mori, an after - the - fact portrait of loss and mortality.

Washington is now approaching his 60th birthday and he's spent more than a quarter of a century on the big screen, breaking into the big time when he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor on the back of 1989's Glory and became a household name in the 1990s with the likes of Malcolm X, The Pelican Brief, Philadelphia, Crimson Tide and Courage Under Fire.

The Observer has just assembled one of the more interesting lists I've seen in some time — a collective of the 25 best British films of the last quarter - century, compiled from the votes of over 60 critics, film professionals and assorted outside voices, ranging from Ben Kingsley to Peter Morgan to our friend Anne Thompson.

Ain't In It For My Health: A Film About Levon Helm Director: Jacob Hatley In Ain't In It For My Health Levon Helm finds himself thrust into the musical spotlight for the first time in a quarter century, but a Grammy nomination and ever - growing audiences force him to confront the dark times that have haunted him since The Band's demise: Throat cancer, bankruptcy, drug addiction and the tragic loss of bandmates Richard Manuel and Rick DankIn It For My Health: A Film About Levon Helm Director: Jacob Hatley In Ain't In It For My Health Levon Helm finds himself thrust into the musical spotlight for the first time in a quarter century, but a Grammy nomination and ever - growing audiences force him to confront the dark times that have haunted him since The Band's demise: Throat cancer, bankruptcy, drug addiction and the tragic loss of bandmates Richard Manuel and Rick DankIn Ain't In It For My Health Levon Helm finds himself thrust into the musical spotlight for the first time in a quarter century, but a Grammy nomination and ever - growing audiences force him to confront the dark times that have haunted him since The Band's demise: Throat cancer, bankruptcy, drug addiction and the tragic loss of bandmates Richard Manuel and Rick DankIn It For My Health Levon Helm finds himself thrust into the musical spotlight for the first time in a quarter century, but a Grammy nomination and ever - growing audiences force him to confront the dark times that have haunted him since The Band's demise: Throat cancer, bankruptcy, drug addiction and the tragic loss of bandmates Richard Manuel and Rick Dankin a quarter century, but a Grammy nomination and ever - growing audiences force him to confront the dark times that have haunted him since The Band's demise: Throat cancer, bankruptcy, drug addiction and the tragic loss of bandmates Richard Manuel and Rick Danko.

For the first time in a quarter century, Chicago teachers walked out of the classroom Monday, taking a bitter contract dispute over evaluation...

CHICAGO — For the first time in a quarter century, Chicago teachers walked out of the classroom Monday, taking a bitter contract dispute over evaluations and job security to the streets of the nation's third - largest city — and to a national audience — less than a week after most schools opened for fall.

TOKYO — This year's Tokyo Motor Show, set to run Dec. 3 - 11, returns to its namesake city for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century.

From 1980 through 2006, stock performance of REITs moved in tandem with the broader market only 47 % of the time, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Citi Private Bank in New York... Since then, as the bank's research shows, REIT correlations have jumped to nearly 80 %, erasing more than a quarter of a century in decoupling.

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There is free time in Sirmione to explore the imposing Rocca Scaligera - a 13th century castle surrounded by a large water - filled moat that dominates the Old Quarter of town and offers beautiful views over Lake Garda from the ramparts.

Today marks a quarter century since the iconic system first went on sale in the United States, becoming the best - selling system of its time while setting the standard by which all future systems would be judged.

Now a quarter of a century old, Super Mario Kart has to rank as one of the most influential titles in gaming; it created a whole new racing sub-genre and established a series which — at the time of writing — has sold over 100 million copies worldwide.

Fortunately, a quarter of a century after uniting Mario, Luigi, Toad (well, a Toad, at least... more on that another time), and Princess Peach Toadstool, Nintendo saw fit to finally reunite the team in Super Mario 3D World.

Well, Jesus walks in Chelsea this month at Gladstone, where an early pair of videos that Barney filmed of 1991 performances at the gallery — which involved such «Cremaster» - era motifs as petroleum jelly, Houdini, and palindromic footballer Jim Otto — will be on view alongside other related pieces, bringing the work together for the first time in a quarter century.

Now, more than a quarter of a century later — during which time he settled in the US, began collaborating with his wife Emilia, and acquired the status of one of the most important artists among former Soviet nonconformists — the tone and comportment of his work has changed.

In an 2012 article written by Holland Cotter of the New York Times, Kelly was described as «one of the most influential American artist of the past quarter century and a pungent commentator on American class, popular culture and youth rebellion».

Meanwhile, a mid-career survey of sculpture by Urs Fischer occupies about half of MOCA's Grand Avenue exhibition space, plus most of the museum's Geffen warehouse in Little Tokyo — the first time both buildings have been turned over to a living artist since the museum opened a quarter - century ago.

The estimated rise since 1990 is 7 - 8 cm, already half the 20th century rise in a quarter of the time.

As time and the solar / climactic cycles march on, natural changes ahead might end up putting a - not insignificant dent - in the harvested energy (measured in kwh / yr) of a larger 20MW PV system over a quarter century.

It appears to have been a long time in coming, Sweet and Maxwell having looked relatively sleepy for almost a quarter of a century.