A retired engineer, 76-year-old Wilson has been offering free rides to college students for the past eight years.

According to the Overseas Development Institute Odi, however, just 12% of disaster-relief funding in the past two decades has gone on reducing risks in advance, rather than recovery and rebuilding afterwards.

Actually I'm going to meet with professor smith at ten past two.

An express train was due to go past about thirty minutes later.

As we move away from an industrial-based economy to a knowledge-based one, office designers have come up with alternatives to the traditional work environments of the past.

At some time in the past Yellowstone must have blown up with a violence far beyond the scale of anything known to humans.

But during the past decade declining rainfall has allowed him to plant highly profitable crops.

China's high-speed railways are growing from 9,000 to 25,000 kilometers in the past few years.

Corn production has jumped nearly 125 percent over the past 25 years, while rice has increased only 7 percent.

For the past two years, Gordon's students have been studying ways to kill bacteria in zero gravity, and they think they're close to a solution.

History is much more than the study of dusty old objects and events long past.

In fact, I haven't got much sleep this past week, and I feel really tired.

In the past two decades, however, continued connection with and dependence on family,thanks to cellphones,email and social media, have increased significantly.

Of the outstanding ladies listed below, who do you think was the most important woman of the past 100 years?

Parents today are more protective than those in the past.

Summer has not even started yet, but temperatures have reached 40 degrees centigrade in the past three days.

They think tradition means old things from the past.

This is usually interpreted as a sign that today's parents are trying to manage their children's lives past the point where this behavior is appropriate.

This nature of data makes the antitrust measures of the past less useful.

This phenomenon is neither good nor bad; it is a fact of college life, today and in the past.

Those words made me see clearly that when I had fallen short in the past, it was seldom because I had tried and failed.

Trust is a learned behavior that we gain from past experiences.

While the decline over the past decade is steep for teen readers, some data in the report shows that reading remains a big part of many children's lives.

Where are you in the cycle of renewal: Are you actively preserving the present, or selectively forgetting the past, or boldly creating the future? What advice would Leah give you to move you ahead on your journey? Once we're on the path of growth, we can continually move through the seasons of transformation and renewal.

Viewing the past in high definition can make it very difficult to get over pain and regret.

This means they often have to make a special effort to lay the past to rest.

Some people are absorbed in the past but not open to new memories, but that's not the case for me.

Product transitions take much less time now than in the past.

People with HSAM often have to make efforts to avoid focusing on the past.

Not everyone with a tendency to fantasise will develop HSAM, though, so Patihis suggests that something must have caused them to think so much about their past.

Most people do not have clear memories of past events.

For most of us, letting go of the safety and security of the past gives us great fear.

Ask Nima Veiseh what he was doing for any day in the past 15 years, however, and he will give you the details of the weather, what he was wearing, or even what side of the train he was sitting on his journey to work.

As much as we would like to cling on to our past, even the saddest moments can be washed away with time.

And such research might even suggest ways for us all to relive our past with greater clarity.

The surge in world grain prices in 2007 and 2008—and the threat they pose to food security—has a different, more troubling quality than the increases of the past.

The report warns that 200 million poor workers are at risk of joining the ranks of people living on less than two dollars per day in the past three years.

And based on past experiences, it takes four to five years after economic recovery for unemployment to return to pre-crisis levels.

Sara Johnson acknowledges that the global economic benefit from a fall in oil prices today is likely lower than it was in the past.

Over the past three decades, the industry has made some efforts to improve the quality of its offerings.

Many of the reductions over the past 30 years have been achieved either by reducing the amount of sugar, salt or fat in a product, or by finding an alternative ingredient.

In the past, falling oil prices have given a boost to the world economy, but recent forecasts for global growth have been toned down, even as oil prices sink lower and lower.

Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-ofthe- century steel magnate ( ' , 巨头) Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.

Saving money is becoming a thing of the past.

Her past record might stand in her way to a new life.

The number of British films being made has declined in the past few years, according to new figures.

If you think so, you're not alone, because energy independence has been the dream of American president for decades, and never more so than in the past few years, when the most recent oil price shock has been partly responsible for kicking off the great recession.

Although Kodak anticipated the inevitable rise of digital photography, its corporate（企业的） culture was too rooted in the successes of the past for it to make the clean break necessary to fully embrace the future.

They are deeply stuck in their glorious past

For the past two months they haven't paid a cent.

And that is what put Mr Jobs on the right side of history, as technological innovation （创新）has moved into consumer electronics over the past decade.

Today, given the job losses of the past year, fewer unhappy couples will risk starting separate households, Furthermore, the housing market meltdown will make it more difficult for them to finance their separations by selling their homes.

Size isn't everything, but it does matter, and the past decade has seen a noticeable counter trend toward smaller schools

The past 15 years or so have been a noticeable period of improvement for food in England, the English chef says, citing the trend in British cuisine for better ingredients, preparation and cooking methods, and more appealing presentation.

In the approximately 20 deep-sea crashes over the past 30 years, only one plane's black boxes were never recovered.

Sure, in the past electric vehicles have their problems, namely, a limited driving range, and very few recharging points, which limited their use.

Americans today have different eating habits than they had in the past.

He is soon going to have an evaluation interview with his supervisor and the personnel director to discuss the work he has done in the past year.

Chris has made several changes for his Division in the past year

But if you know about past values, it helps you to understand the present and many of the older values are still strong today.

A search is now under way to confirm the suspected existence of particles of matter that move at a speed greater than light, and therefore, might serve as our passports to the past.

It has gone up 25% in the past decade.

To me, neon represents memories of the past, says photographer Sharon Blance, whose series Hong Kong Neon celebrates the city's famous signs.

A new batch of young women—members of the so-called millennial (千禧的) generation—has been entering the workforce for the past decade.

Are you actively preserving the present, or selectively forgetting the past, or boldly creating the future?

Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-of-the-century steel magnate (巨头 Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of

For the past several decades, it seems there's been a general consensus on how to get ahead in America: Get a college education, find a reliable job, and buy your own home.

He says demand has boomed in the past couple of years.

However, Dr Mehmood Khan,chief scientific officer, said the company had doubled research and development spending in the past five years and was committed to sustaining investment, adding that companies cannot cost-cut their way to increasing sales.

In the past we had to have a taste trade-off.

Indoor pollution, which includes sources like home heating and cooking, has remained constant over the past several decades despite advances in the area.

lions have disappeared from much of Africa, but for the past few years scientists have wondered if the big cats were hanging on in remote parts of Sudan and Ethiopia.

On the other side are parents like Mike jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American professionals who have moved to the district in the past decade,who said Aderhold's reforms would amount to a dumbing down,of his children's education.

On the other side are parents like Mike Jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American professionals who have moved to the district in the past decade.

So Jude reached out to Peter Houde, a professor at new Mexico State University who had experience with the same type of fossil in the past.

The center of American automobile innovation has in the past decade moved 2, 000 miles away.

viewing the past in high definition can make it very difficult to get over pain and regret.

Some socioeconomic differences in child rearing have shrunk in the past ten years.

Of families earning more than $75,000 a year, 84% say their children have participated in organized sports over the past year, 64% have done volunteer work and 62% have taken lessons in music, dance or art.

In the past few years, MathCounts added two new middle school programs to try to diversify its participant pool—the National Math Club and the Math Video Challenge.

In the past decade, even as income inequality has grown, some of the socioeconomic differences in parenting, like reading to children and going to libraries, have narrowed.

In fact, in line with past experience, capital expenditure in the oil sector has dropped sharply in many producing countries, including the United States.

American parents want similar things for their children, the Pew report and past research have found: for them to be healthy and happy, honest and ethical, caring and compassionate.

In the past, health experts warned us that the day would come in which it would become very difficult to provide medical care for even common problems such as lung infection or severe sour throat.

Within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, anything goes mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

In the past, the young have eagerly participated in national service and civic affairs, often with lots of energy and idealism.

How much is today's spirit of harmony a change from our more turbulent past? A mere generation ago, parentchild relations were described as the generation gap.

And perhaps parents are acting more like parents than in the recent past.

In just the past few weeks, the world has witnessed the destructive power of earthquakes in Indonesia, typhoons in the Philippines, and the destructive sea waves that struck Samoa and neighboring islands.

find digital devices simply indispensablecommunicate primarily by mobile phonelight their homes with stored solar energydistribute power with wires and wooden polesbenefit their business transmit power faster promote innovationencourage competitionIt might become a thing of the past.

Even the technology press conferences, which have been high-profile in the past and reached a level of drama and theatrics fitting for a Las Vegas stage, have a different bent to them.

In the past few months, I’ve been travelling for weeks at a time with only one suitcase of clothes.

Devils Tower is a relic of the past.

Professor of Sociology at WashingtonUniversity, has written numerous articles and books on the issues facing older Americans in our graying society for the past 15 years.

And I was up well past midnight.

But over the past few decades a unique class of satellites has been created that fits the bill: CubeSats.

Electronics giants like Best Buy and Samsung have provided e-waste take-back programs over the past few years, which aim to refurbish (翻新) old electronic components and parts into new products.

Even the technology press conferences, which have been high-profile in the past and reached a level of drama and theatrics fitting for a Las Vegas stage, have a different bent to them.

How much is today's spirit of harmony a change from our more turbulent past?

I want to tell you about the past, present and future of the human population.

If you are walking past a pizza restaurant at lunchtime, your emotions and feelings probably will be stronger than your knowledge that pizza may not be the best food for your health.

In part, the authors wrote in HBR, this pattern may have to do with the way work itself has changed over the past several decades.

In response to past critics, Twenge and her co-researchers stress they are not trying to prove that the use of digital devices reduces young people's well-being.

In the past 12 months, Nigeria has suffered from a shrinking economy, a sliding currency, and a prolonged fuel shortage.

In the past few months, I've been travelling for weeks at a time with only one suitcase of clothes.

In the past few years, Math Counts added two new middle school programs to try to diversify its participant pool—the National Math Club and the Math video Challenge.

In the past, scientists often worked alone.

It studies these populations, in the past, present and future, using quantitative data and mathematical models as tools of analysis.

My grandfather spoke of his greatest fear, that of leaving the only home they had known for the past 60 years.

Over the past few years, we have made dramatic breakthroughs.

Researchers in psychology, a field rocked by findings of irreproducibility in the past few years, have been especially vocal supporters of the drive for more-open science.

Satellite observations and submarine surveys over the past few years had shown less ice in the polar region, but the recent measurements show the loss is more pronounced than previously thought.

Senator Hokkons Baules, lead sponsor of the Palau National Marine Sanctuary Act, said the sanctuary will \help build a secure future for the Palauan people by honoring the conservation traditions of our past\.

Staff from the Norwegian government have carried out conservation work on 10 of the churches over the past two years.

The Amish are often 33 perceived by other Americans to be relics of the past who live a simple, inflexible life dedicated to inconvenient out-dated customs.

The fundamental limitation of machine learning is that it needs to learn from large volumes of past data.

These buildings offer vital insight into Scandinavia's Viking past.

This is opposed to just price and performance they were concerned about in the past.

This means minors enjoy material benefits and legal protections that would have been the envy of those living in the past.

Whereas local collaborations sometimes persist past the point of usefulness because of social or academic obligations, international ones can be cultivated and dropped more freely.

within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, \anything goes\ mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

You said you did the purchase here this past weekend?

Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods Amazon.

Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century,perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.

Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition.

One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium - television - and television is defined by downloading.

As a condition of receiving state approval for the sale, the company agreed to seek permission from state regulators to operate past 2012.

In the past couple of weeks a quarrel has illustrated the value to advertisers of such fine-grained information: Should advertisers assume that people are happy to be tracked and sent behavioural ads? Or should they have explicit permission?.

As so often, the past holds the key to the future: we have now identified enough of the long-term patterns shaping the history of the planet, and our species, to make evidence-based forecasts about the situations in which our descendants will find themselves.

It is long past time to make the program work.

Hawaiian culture is not a relic of the past; it is a living culture undergoing a renaissance today.

Optimists point out that technological upheaval has benefited workers in the past.

As so often, the past holds the key to the future: we have now identified enough of the long-term patterns shaping the history of the planet, and our species, to make evidence-based forecasts about the situations in which our descendant will find themselv

Despite graduating into the best economy in the past 50 years, Gen Zs know what an economic train wreck looks like.

Grade inflation—the gradual increase in average GPAs grade—point averages over the past few decades—is often considered a product of a consumer era in higher education, in which students are treated like customers to be pleased.

Happiness is not a point future and not a moment from the past, but a mindset that can be designed into the present.

If you are surrounded by problems and cannot stop thinking about the past, try to focus on the present moment.

In the past couple of weeks a quarrel has illustrated the value to advertisers of such fine-grained information: Should advertises assume that people are happy to be tracked and sent behavioural ads?

In the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an average lifestyle.

Instead, the digital services tax is part of a much larger trend, with countries over the past few years proposing or putting in place an alphabet soup of new international tax provisions.

Last year, the Transportation Security Administration found in a secret check that undercover investigators were able to sneak weapons—both fake and real—past airport security nearly every time they tried.

Many of us are weighed down by the past or anxious about the future.

Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century, perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.

One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium - television - and television is defined by downloading.

Over the past decade, many companies had perfected the art of creating automatic behaviors — habits — among consumers.

Over the past decade, the focus has been on climate change——how the warming of the Earth from greenhouse gases is leading to conditions that worsen fires.

Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods.

since his \action\ is in the past, the photograph is its sole embodiment.

The cost of solar panels has dropped by 80 percent and the cost of wind turbines by close to one-third in the past eight years.

Their reactions may be a complex combination of instant reflexes, input from past driving experiences, and what their eyes and ears tell them in that moment.

They cite past research by several authors to show that this is the gap that must be narrowed to close the achievement gap.

This could be no more than a passing literary craze, but it also points to a broader truth about how we now approach the past: less concerned with learning from forefathers and more interested in feeling their pain.

This was the tradition which revolutionized our appreciation of the past.

You may feel guilt over your past, but you are poisoning the present with the things and circumstances you cannot change.