Sentences with phrase «until less than a century»

And yet, until less than a century ago, his story was by far the better known, more influential, and more vital of the two.

It wasn't until less than a century ago that we finally developed a magic - bullet treatment for gonorrhea, and for a handful of decades it was quickly and easily treated with a dose of penicillin.

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Yet, less than a century and a half before, an 11 - year - old boy and his partly crippled great - grandfather had maintained a valley bottom outpost, unaided, against Indians, ice storms and wild animal depredations for almost six months until the rest of their family could return from a trip to Louisiana marked by a rash of mishaps.

Less flawed than tape, they dominated the market until the end of 20th century when digital downloads, first introduced in 1993, started to take off.

Geologist Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, Emeritus Professor at Western Washington University, who has authored eight books and 150 journal publications, predicts that temperatures should cool between 2065 until 2100, and that global temperatures at the end of the century should be less than 1 degree cooler than at present.