Last year, the traffic fatality rate -- which peaked in 1910, when there were only 469,000 cars on the roads -- continued its nearly century-long decline and dropped to its lowest level ever, 1.5 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled.
This strengthens the evidence for a century-long decline in rainfall, which would have parched winter fields, Haug says.
They exploited their strategic geography during the Ottoman Empire's centuries-long decline, by playing off rival world powers.
The discovery of man-made synthetic dyes in the mid-19th century triggered a long decline in the large-scale market for natural dyes.
Or is it no more than the final chapter in this country's century-long manufacturing decline?
But if you look over the past 150 years, we are a little blip at the end of a long decline … throughout the entire 20th century.
At the heart of this book is Pinker's careful, compelling account of why the 20th century does not invalidate his thesis that violence is in a long decline.
The Cockney accent has suffered a long decline, beginning with the introduction in the 20th century of received pronunciation, and the more recent adoption of Estuary English, which itself contains many features of Cockney English.
His book has stoked controversy for several centuries, but when a 19th-century Danish geographer branded Zen the Younger an out-and-out liar, his reputation tumbled into long decline.
Overall family income declined by 5% between 1999 to 2009, the first decade long decline since statistics were tallied at the start of the twentieth century.
Union leaders see the bill as crucial for reversing labor's long decline — unions represent just 7.5percentt of private-sector workers, down from nearly 40percentt a half-century ago.
