Sentences with phrase «years over the past century»

These medicines and innovations have increased life expectancy by more than 30 years over the past century.

Sea level there has been rising steadily at 2.3 mm / year over the past century.

showed a decrease in marine phytoplankton biomass of approximately 1 % of the global median per year over the past century.

As a result, life expectancy for Australian women increased 26.7 years over the past century; while for males it increased 28.7 years.231 This overall gain can be linked to a raft of smaller gains in specific areas.

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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.

«Over the past half century, your odds of identifying a growth stock you can hold for 20 years are 4 % and only 15 % for 10 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.

With all the hoopla over the past few years regarding digital technologies and social media, it is easy to lose sight of this most basic principle, which has existed for 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.

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.

= > 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)

The US Environmental Protection Agency points out that Earth's average temperature has risen by 1.5 °F over the past century, and is projected to rise another 0.5 to 8.6 °F over the next hundred years.

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.

They have been stellar all year on both ends of the floor and this past Sunday we saw Team Zimmerman get over the century mark on them..

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 year.

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

And one thing that I found helpful over this past quarter - century of being a dad: While the days may seem long, the years are really short.

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.

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.

Indeed, tree - ring chronologies provide much longer histories than observational records and corroborate that variability and synchrony have risen over the past hundred years, and to levels that are as high as any observed over the past three centuries, according to the researchers.

Helping the spread The Northeast had about 30 percent fewer extreme - cold days over the past 30 years compared to the century before, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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 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.

The overall retreat of several kilometers that has occurred over the past 20,000 years was interrupted by a stillstand or a re-advance of several hundred years at the beginning of the ACR, and then by increasingly minor glacial episodes at the end of the YD, at the beginning of the Holocene (around 10,000 years ago) and during the Little Ice Age (13th to 19th centuries).

They have concluded that the global average temperature over the past 1,000 years has been relatively stable until the 20th century.

Despite repeated promises over the past 18 years, the US Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) is unlikely to deliver on its mission to develop and demonstrate an advanced nuclear reactor by the mid-21st century.

While both trade and financial shocks have worsened over the past year, the financial shocks will likely be much milder than during the major crises of the late 20th century, Ocampo said.

We must now explain two mind - boggling phenomena related to Boyajian's star: slow dimming over at least four years (and possibly the past century) and deep, irregular dips spanning days or weeks.

This means that despite the more frequent El Niño - like conditions, we should now expect an extreme La Niña once every 13 years instead every 23, as we've seen over the past century.

According to the AAAS What We Know report, «The projected rate of temperature change for this century is greater than that of any extended global warming period over the past 65 million years.»

It's the ocean «These small global temperature increases of the last 25 years and over the last century are likely natural changes that the globe has seen many times in the past.

The global mean temperature rise of less than 1 degree C in the past century does not seem like much, but it is associated with a winter temperature rise of 3 to 4 degrees C over most of the Arctic in the past 20 years, unprecedented loss of ice from all the tropical glaciers, a decrease of 15 to 20 % in late summer sea ice extent, rising sealevel, and a host of other measured signs of anomalous and rapid climate change.

Thanks in large part to satellite measurements, scientists» skill in measuring how much sea levels are rising on a global scale - currently 0.13 inch (3.4 millimeters) per year - has improved dramatically over the past quarter century.

In the paper Retreating Glacier Fronts on the Antarctic Peninsula over the Past Half - Century published this week in Science, we presented new data describing trends in 244 marine glacier fronts on the Antarctic Peninsula over the last 50 years.

It requires that the Sun's brightness increased more in the past century than at any time in the past millennium, including over the past 30 years, contrary to the direct space - based observations.

Picture this, Garner says: the prospects that the 500 - year - floods from past centuries could, with the boost from sea - level rise, become the projected five - year floods over just the next three decades.

This single - year snapshot of the planet's warmth fits with the pattern of ever - warmer temperatures that has been in place over the past century, particularly since the early 1980s as the warming fueled by an accumulation of greenhouse gases clearly emerged.

As we leave 2011, the ninth warmest year on record since 1880, NASA has produced a new animation illustrating the warming of our world over the past century plus.

Thanks to improvements in chemotherapy over the past half - century, survival rates have improved, but about 1,000 Americans still die from the disease every year, mainly from a subtype called high - risk B - ALL.

While the planet's surface temperatures over the past century have risen to unprecedented levels, records have shown a slowdown in the pace of warming over the past 15 years.

As soil has been rapidly depleted over the last century and even more intensively in the past 30 years, it's not a surprise that diseases of every kind have accelerated rapidly over the same period:

That losing streak is almost certain to be ended in February, this film and this year being the obvious vessels to recognize not just a fearless, committed, and physical performance full of snot and beard but a body of work over the past quarter - century seemingly unrivaled by any other actor.

And so, in choosing it as the film from the past ten years I would most like to discuss in the context of the future of the medium, I might be asserting, against my better judgment, the primacy of the auteur over and above national cinemas and identity art — the ferocious and aggressively confrontational cinema of Lucrecia Martel serving as evidence that an ethos long - since debunked in serious academic circles still has credence or at least value in the second century of the movies.

Twentieth Century Fox is celebrating its 75 years of award - winning filmmaking with the release of over 300 films on Blu - Ray and DVD that will showcase the greatest movies featuring the stars and directors of the past and present.

The first sentence reads, «Over the past few years, Governors and Chief State School Officers have developed and adopted rigorous academic content standards to prepare all students for success in college and careers in the 21st Century.