Sentence examples for instead of centuries from inspiring English sources

HFCs decay over decades instead of centuries.

Climate modeler Myles Allen of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom says that the paper's findings suggest a way to buy time while we reduce CO2 emissions: cut emissions of short-lived gases that warm the atmosphere aggressively but persist in the atmosphere for decades instead of centuries, like CO2. "I wouldn't see this as hopeless," he says.

Now viewers need a microscope to tell that the perfectly mimicked canvas was painted mechanically with a nozzle instead of centuries ago with a paintbrush.

The locale is late-20th-century Hollywood instead of 19th-century Russia, and Tolstoy's severe humanism has been grafted onto a scabrous, cynical view of the movie industry reminiscent of "The Day of the Locust" or "The Player".

"It's a sea change," says climate scientist Stephen Schneider of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, adding that "they replaced seniority with 21st century thinking instead of 19th century protectionism for the auto industry".

Instead of taking centuries or millennia, these processes can unfold in a matter of decades or years, sometimes even months, says Kari Cooper, a volcano geochemist at the University of California, Davis.

Because black carbon settles out of the atmosphere in a few weeks, instead of the centuries for which carbon dioxide persists in the air, cutting soot emissions could quickly put the brakes on heating while nations rev up green energy efforts to cut CO2 emissions.

Instead of addressing centuries of violent crimes against women and men, girls and boys, they create a myth about vulnerable people who are simply trying to live authentically.

But instead of "A Century of Failed School Reforms," she might have subtitled her book "The Triumph of American Education".

"Trishna" is similarly eclectic: it's an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's bleak novel "Tess of the d'Urbervilles," set in modern Rajasthan instead of 19th century England.

When "Shtisel" first aired in Israel in 2013, the headline of the review in Israeli news outlet Haaretz began: "Move over 'Downton Abbey'... .. The show's appeal is its sprawling, yet meticulously drawn cast, as if Charles Dickens were writing in Jerusalem's Geula neighborhood instead of 19th century London.