Sentences with phrase «world during the past century»

This is almost exactly the average increase recorded all over the world during the past century!

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It involves policies that can be traced at least as far back as the «American System» of the early 19th Century, and it has been implemented in various forms by many different countries around the world during the past 100 or even 200 years.

While it might be true that those who lived in the time of the Prophet could understand religion better than the people of today who must study Islam by means of documents only, we can not ignore the considerable change in the social situation and world conditions during the past fourteen centuries.

The oceans have heaved up and down as world temperatures have waxed and waned, but as new research tracking the past 2,800 years shows, never during that time did the seas rise as sharply or as suddenly as has been the case during the last century.

But the discipline the Braggs founded, X-ray crystallography, has continued to thrill during the past century, giving scientists a window on the atomic world.

During the past century, the United States led the world in the expansion of its education system, contributing to the dominant position of the United States in the world economy.

Although Ford Motor Co. casts a longer shadow over automotive history, Buick has been far from invisible during the past century and enjoys at least one distinction: It was the cornerstone of the world's largest automaker.

During the past fifty years, because twentieth - century postmodernist art eschews aesthetics, women were freed to carve out a large part of the art world for themselves, by focusing on their own narrative and processes.

The oceans have heaved up and down as world temperatures have waxed and waned, but as new research tracking the past 2,800 years shows, never during that time did the seas rise as sharply or as suddenly as has been the case during the last century.

But over the last century, during which the IPCC claims the world experienced more rapid warming than any time in the past two millennia, the world did not experience significantly greater trends in any of these extreme weather events.

In fact, if humankind was really as dumb as the fans of DPS would have us believe, we wouldn't be around today to hear their doomsaying, because Homo sapiens would have been wiped out during vastly larger environmental swings (in and out of ice ages, for example) in our past, than those expected as a consequence of the burning of fossil fuels to produce the energy that powers our world — a world in which the human life expectancy, perhaps the best measure of our level of «dumbness» or «smartness» — has more than doubled over the last century and continues to grow ever longer.

During the past century, fossil fuels — petroleum liquids, natural gas and coal — were the dominant source of world energy production.

(b) The world has been warming during the past two centuries, in a succession of warming, cooling, and pauses.