Sentences with phrase «well over a quarter of a century»

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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».

Since losing control of the Florida Congressional Delegation over a quarter - century ago, the Democrats have their best opportunity to regain control in 2018.

In 1978, Douglas Adams penned the script for British radio an eccentric SF comedy entitled «The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy» (or H2G2), and its success led to a run of five best - selling books (the first appearing in 1979), a BBC television series (1981), a computer game (1998), and now, over a quarter of a century after its first radio outing, a big - screen feature film.

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.

Now, after over a quarter century and several failed sequel attempts, it appears the likelihood of Michael Keaton resurrecting the legendary character is better than ever.

For well over a quarter century, the NEA and the AFT have been the most powerful groups in the politics of education — with more than four million members, formidable sums of money for campaign contributions and lobbying, well - educated activists manning the electoral trenches, and organizations that blanket the nation, allowing them to coordinate all these resources toward political ends.

Over the past quarter of a century — and since well before NCLB was enacted — access to arts education in the public schools has become less and less equitable, with minority students and students attending high - needs schools most often shortchanged (Rabkin & Hedberg, 2011; Yee, 2014; GAO, 2009; Stringer, 2014).

Mao tse - tung, who for decades held absolute power over the lives of one - quarter of the world's population, was responsible for well over 70 million deaths in peacetime, more than any other twentieth - century leader.

Celebrating over a quarter of a century of the timeless Ys series, the Ys: Memories of Celceta Silver Anniversary Edition will come packaged with a host of celebratory bonus items including a 3 - CD collection of original and arranged music spanning the entire history of the franchise, as well as game - specific items such as a cloth map detailing the lands of Celceta, a logo - emblazoned compass, and «Adol's Travel Journal» containing adventuring strategies and artwork, all within an exclusive commemorative package.

But, he also says: «teams offering projections say ice extent will remain well below the average for the last quarter century and a downward trend in summer ice around the North Pole has not abated,» and we readers are then linked to his October, 2007 article and an August, 2007 image of a «warmed over» Artic.

An Arctic scientist who has consistently sounded alarms about the approach of global warming, Smith is best known for determining the role of climate change in the disappearance of more than a thousand Arctic lakes over the last quarter of the 20th century.

Still, the extent of sea ice recorded in November was well shy of the median extent observed over the past quarter century, as the image from Nov. 14 (above, right) shows.

In addition, it has been well - documented that the measured global warming of about 0.5 C during the 25 - year period of 1970 - 1994 was accompanied by a downturn in Atlantic basin hurricane activity over this quarter - century period.»

Our Northern Virginia electricians have been providing commercial and residential customers with the best - trained, most - responsive, safety - minded service for over a quarter of a century.