Sentences with phrase «very early years of this century»

In the very early years of this century, before online booking had really caught on, I used to take the morning off (or throw a sickie) to queue up at the old box office in Avenell Road to buy tickets for certain key fixtures, instead of risking the phone.

Not exact matches

The late Pope did more than any pope of the last century to defend and reassert beyond any doubt the stable and objective character of Catholic teaching - more even than Pius X with his great encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, since modernist incursions had become very much more powerfully established during the pontificate of the unhappy Pope Paul than they had been in the early years of the century.

This is a very serious question for anyone attempting to revive the glories of earlier centuries, and although Hoodbhoy may risk making the same mistake himself when he recruits Ibn Sina or al - Razi to prove that «the seeds of modernism» can be detected among famous Muslim scientists a thousand years ago, it is an area in which conservative Muslims, Christians, Hindus or anyone else ought to take great care.

As stated in the post of 1990 - 2000, the late years of the 20th century and the early years of the 00s are very much alike.

I very much enjoyed reading this memoir; it was both inspiring and informative about the struggles missionaries endured living in Mainland China in the early years of the 20th century.

Elizabeth and Her German Garden was first published in 1898; it was very popular and frequently reprinted during the early years of the 20th century.

In 1982, at the documenta 7 exhibition, Haacke exhibited a very large work that included oil portraits of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in 19th - century style, facing on the opposite wall a gigantic photograph of the demonstration against nuclear arms held earlier that year — the largest demonstration in Germany since the end of the Second World War.

In fact, over the centuries, it has premièred many modern masters and nowadays it still support and present first class emerging or established artists.Last year the exhibition program was closed with a survey of the «tomboy» Sarah Lucas, whose ironic and iconic pieces — from the early the very last production — have been exposed together for the first time in United Kingdom.

But the wild colours enflaming art in the early years of the century still portray a very recognisable world.

I don't know if it's fair to say there's been an acceleration detected in the rate of warming (relative to the early part of the 20th century), but certainly the situation is very different from 20 years ago when one would have been hard pressed to point to any consequences that were conceivably linkable to global warming.

Dr. Polyakov was among those who said that the well - known, and very dramatic, natural warm - up of the Arctic early in the 20th century was very much centered on Greenland and Scandinavia, and not a pan-Arctic phenomenon of the kind unfolding in recent years.

For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.

The Titan project is being led from the University of Edinburgh and climateprediction.net's role will be to focus on the contribution of different climate drivers (greenhouse gases, aerosols) to extreme weather events of the early 20th century, including the «dust bowl» years in North America and the series of very cold European winters in the 1940s.

Quite evident in the most recent several hundred years of the isotopic records is a seventy - year period of very low solar activity in the 17th and early 18th centuries — known as the Maunder Minimum — and following it, an unsteady, long - term rise to the present - day era of high sunspot numbers, called the Modern Maximum (Fig. 2 c, d).

Seven years later, English engineer Guy Callendar, something of an outsider (a steam - engine specialist but with a very keen interest in meteorology), revived the idea, having discovered evidence of a warming temperature trend in the early twentieth century from compilations of temperature records.

The NHMRC report references very little recent primary research into human and animal health published in respectable science journals; the research must be recent because large turbines (> 1MW) have only been in common use since the early years of this century.