Sentences with phrase «years in the past century»

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Some industry observers predict that retail will change more in the next five years than it has over the past century, and that the extinction of brick - and - mortar stores isn't far off.

As the Wall Street Journal noted on Thursday, Snapchat parent company Snap Inc. has signed development deals in the past year with Walt Disney's ESPN, Discovery, the NFL, A+E Networks, Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting, and Vice Media, while the company is also reportedly in discussions with CBS and 21st Century Fox.

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.

The pace of loan growth — 100pc of GDP over five years — is unprecedented in any major economy, eclipsing the great boom - bust dramas of the past century.

There's also no mention in the Casey article that over the past 10 years China has experienced the greatest mal - investment in centuries.

If one excludes the 1980 - 1997 period, the historical correlation between 10 - year Treasury yields and 10 - year prospective (and actual realized) equity returns is actually slightly negative over the past century, and is only weakly positive in post-war data.

Further, Christians are still persecuted in much of the world up until today, and this last century has produced more martyrs than all the past 2000 years combined.

The president's 325 commutations for the month of August is the largest number ever granted by a president in a month, and in a year within the past century, according to the White House.

He is the author of one of the most important commentaries on the Gospel of Matthew published over the past century, and a reviewer has called him one of the five most important thinkers in Jesus research over the past 125 years.

The past two years have seen the appearance of an informative Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (4 vols., edited by Leonard W. Levy [Macmillan]-RRB-, several outstanding studies on its intellectual background (including Forrest McDonald's Novus Ordo Seculorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution [University Press of Kansas] and Morton White's Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution [Oxford University Press], at least one pathbreaking effort to trace the document's role through the years (Michael Kammen's A Machine That Would Go of Itself The Constitution in American Culture [Knopf]-RRB- and a gaggle of good books on its religious themes (see Martin Marty's review in The Century [«James Madison Revisited,» April 9.

The orthodox are stuck in the 19th century believing that they are following the religion of 3000 years earlier, when, in fact, most of their traditions are based on experiences in the diaspora of the last 1900 years, but mostly limited to the past 200.

His influence has grown with the passing of the years and has never been so powerful as in the past century and a quarter.

In fact, the only two times in American history when the gap between rich and poor grew were at the turn of the last century and in the past 30 yearIn fact, the only two times in American history when the gap between rich and poor grew were at the turn of the last century and in the past 30 yearin American history when the gap between rich and poor grew were at the turn of the last century and in the past 30 yearin the past 30 years.

= > nonsense as atheism has resulted in the deaths of over 50 million in the last century alone, and it has been shown that «religion» (that's all religions) have only been responsible for 7 % of ALL wars to date (which would mean approximately 25 million in the past 2000 years)

It was a very popular view in the Nineteenth century, but two world wars and all of the atrocities that have taken place in the past 50 years or so has really put a damper on postmillennial teachings.

In the past two centuries and especially in the past 50 years, and most especially since the fall of communism, it has gotten much, much richeIn the past two centuries and especially in the past 50 years, and most especially since the fall of communism, it has gotten much, much richein the past 50 years, and most especially since the fall of communism, it has gotten much, much richer.

A century later, we are living in the closing years of a pontificate that has, above all, taught Catholics not to be afraid» afraid of those who hate the Church so that we do not honestly contemplate the failings of our own past; afraid of the progress of science so that we needed to be reminded by the Pope «that faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.»

This past year I observed an Easter ritual in Jerusalem that will be repeated soon, unchanged, exactly as it has been performed each year for centuries — the Miracle of Holy Fire.

Although scholars of the Revolution have disagreed on many things, the past fifty years have witnessed strong agreement that one significant aspect of the ideas motivating the American Revolution was the Whig or Country party beliefs which supported the Glorious Revolution and then resisted the growth of monarchical power in the eighteenth century.

If a gain of fifty years of life expectancy during the past thousand years — and a thirty - year jump in the twentieth century alone — has immeasurably improved the quality and security of our lives, why shouldn't we envision similar benefits from much longer lives?

This protest has, however, taken the form of an equally dangerous distortion of the gospel in the opposite sense which was brought forward in the most impassioned terms at various times in the course of the nineteenth century and then especially during the past twenty years.

the priesthood ended at the destruction of the temple, the old testament ended, and the new testament began in the first century, we no longer have a priesthood after the destruction of the temple, these people are liveing two thousand years in the past,

In honor of a national culture that has survived conquest after conquest and rather amazingly still thrives today, Hungarians this year are celebrating, not the future, but their distinguished past, with a huge assemblage of artistic events» concerts, operas, art shows, ballets» all under the title «Farewell to the XXth Century.»

Both that spread and that rootage have been mounting in the past 150 years and especially in the present century.

«The British Empire in India lasted the better part of two hundred years,» wrote Peter Chapman (no relation to Pat) in Bon Appetit in 1992,» but it's only in the past quarter century that curry houses have established themselves in the British culinary imagination.

The company has spent the past three years building new theaters, upgrading its current facilities and retooling its presentation package to suit the changing needs of patrons in the 21st century.

By TREVOR HORN Contributor CLOVIS — In the year the California Interscholastic Federation celebrated 100 years of athletics, the 2015 CIF State Track and Field Championships will go down as one of the finest over the past century.

In what was a truly dismal season considering the standards Manchester United have set over the past quarter century, there have been a lot of murmurs that they need up to six or seven players in order to compete next yeaIn what was a truly dismal season considering the standards Manchester United have set over the past quarter century, there have been a lot of murmurs that they need up to six or seven players in order to compete next yeain order to compete next year.

This practice has been around for centuries and over the past several years has been gaining ground in the US.

Emilee began the Free Birth podcast early this year that shares personal narratives of women birthing in power away from the oppressive medical model that has monopolized childbirth in the past century.

Alexander & Emily Alexander has held steady at # 8 for the past 3 years, while Emily continues its very slow descent from its # 1 perch in the early 21st century.

Richard Tollner, a 57 - year - old real estate agent and town assessor in the Capital Region, has lived with his wife for the past quarter - century in a cozy country bungalow filled with family antiques.

A recent study of bank credit in 17 countries over the last 120 years by Oscar Jorda, Mauritz Schularick and Alan Taylor found that the share of mortgage loans in banks» total lending portfolios has roughly doubled over the course of the past century — from about 30 per cent in 1900 to about 60 per cent today.

Steve Greenberg, a political analyst who is the spokesman for polling at Siena College, says Cuomo enjoyed the most successful first year for a governor in the past half century.

«The study demonstrates a robust century - scale link between ocean circulation changes in the Atlantic basin and rainfall in the adjacent continents during the past 4,000 years,» said UTIG Director Terry Quinn, a co-author on the study.

Because of the strong recent warming, the updated trend over 1906 to 2005 is now 0.74 ± 0.18 degree C. Note that the 1956 to 2005 trend alone is 0.65 ± 0.15 degree C, emphasizing that the majority of 20th - century warming occurred in the past 50 years.

There have been substantial declines in smoking prevalence over the past half century in the United States, although the rate of this decline has decelerated in recent years among various groups.

Looking at data from 1855 through 2005, Webster and Holland found that the total number of tropical cyclones per year doubled in that time, from an average of six at the beginning of last century to 14 over the past decade.

In previous research, Overpeck and other colleagues showed current climate models simulated 20th - century conditions well, but the models can not simulate the 20 - to 60 - year megadroughts known to have occurred in the pasIn previous research, Overpeck and other colleagues showed current climate models simulated 20th - century conditions well, but the models can not simulate the 20 - to 60 - year megadroughts known to have occurred in the pasin the past.

Inertia toward continued emissions creates potential 21st - century global warming that is comparable in magnitude to that of the largest global changes in the past 65 million years but is orders of magnitude more rapid.

The Pioneer 10 space probe — the farthest - traveling man - made object in the universe — came to the end of its mission this past year, after a quarter of a century of scientific exploration.

But over the past century, the rate of land loss in coastal Louisiana has averaged 15 to 20 square miles per year.

Over the past few centuries, and accelerating ever more quickly in the past 50 years, a steady stream of human innovations has begun to drastically speed up processes that were, until very recently, the sole province of nature.

In a study published last year in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Hopkins and other scientists measured the stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen in the hair and bone of Yosemite bears over the past century and found that since 1999, the proportion of human - derived food in bear diets has dramatically declineIn a study published last year in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Hopkins and other scientists measured the stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen in the hair and bone of Yosemite bears over the past century and found that since 1999, the proportion of human - derived food in bear diets has dramatically declinein the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Hopkins and other scientists measured the stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen in the hair and bone of Yosemite bears over the past century and found that since 1999, the proportion of human - derived food in bear diets has dramatically declinein Ecology and the Environment, Hopkins and other scientists measured the stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen in the hair and bone of Yosemite bears over the past century and found that since 1999, the proportion of human - derived food in bear diets has dramatically declinein the hair and bone of Yosemite bears over the past century and found that since 1999, the proportion of human - derived food in bear diets has dramatically declinein bear diets has dramatically declined.

Over the past 200,000 years, replacement - level fertility rates have ranged from 2.1 to 3.0 children per couple, he said, noting that global population remained remarkably stable until the beginning of the 19th century, when decreased mortality in newborns resulted in fertility rates exceeding replacement levels.

This simple problem has been compounded in the past century, and in particular in the past 30 years, by an ever - increasing role of teamwork in research.

Our planet has warmed by 1 degree Fahrenheit since the beginning of the century, but for reasons that aren't entirely clear, the Antarctic Peninsula — the stretch of land that reaches up toward South America — has warmed 4.5 degrees in just the past 50 years.

Some show far more variability leading up to the 20th century than the hockey stick, but none suggest that it has been warmer at any time in the past 1000 years than in the last part of the 20th century.

And while the drought that hit the region in 1986 stands as one of the worst of the past 350 years, the 20th century — when the agreements that govern the basin's water use were first established — was the wettest period in the region since the late 1600s.

Scientists are also investigating why outbreaks of exotic organisms have been reported only in the past 20 years, when water has been used as ballast for more than a century.