Sentences with phrase «last year the maximum»

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Last year, a drone was used to try to smuggle phones, marijuana and tobacco into a South Carolina maximum security prison, but it crashed outside the facility's walls.

It is unclear when Uber began using Wickr, but the company said that in October of last year it began paying for a business version that gave it the ability to preserve messages for as long as a year instead of a maximum of six days.

Pharmaceutical companies have insisted since last year's Brexit referendum that a comprehensive agreement is needed to ensure maximum alignment between EU and British pharmaceutical regulations.

The program applies to homes with a maximum value of $ 750,000 and the interest - free portion of the loan will last for the first five years, with the repayment schedule at current interest rates over the remaining 20 years.

«To date, we've been able to make the maximum contribution level of 15 %, which added up to $ 59,996 last year.

2017 policy maximum of $ 26,010 is increased at 2.2 % per year going forward — in line with the average increase over the last 5 years.

If you're looking for maximum home equity, this could be a great place to live: home values are up 4 percent from last year and the 3 percent unemployment rate is lower than the national average.

Last year, he reduced the maximum amortization period for a government - insured mortgage to 25 years from 30 years.

For example, an undergraduate borrowing the maximum of $ 5,500 for the first year, $ 6,500 for the second, and $ 7,500 for the last two years of college would save a pretty penny on the aggregate amount of $ 27,000 — more than $ 59 per month after payments start.

Since then, MAV is based a 3 % increase of last year's MAV except in cases when the property's market value is lower than its maximum assessed value.

In addition, max out all deductible savings plan - for example if you started a job mid-year you can withhold nearly all of your paycheck to a company retirement plan the last few checks of the year to get the maximum amount in for the year - and make sure you contribute to HSAs - or any other deductible plans you are eligible for.

For couples, child benefit plus the maximum amount of child tax credit now covers 94 % of the basic cost of a child, compared with 98 % last year.

Working with Worms to Fight Climate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative impacts.

An entirely unprecedented loss, for the observer who had not watched Florida State lose to Clemson or Wake Forest last year on the road, or to N.C. State in 2010, or at Boston College in 2009, or at Georgia Tech in 2008, or any of their other blindside road defeats preventing FSU from attaining maximum «backness.»

«Though they can not formally make an offer until Wednesday, sources say that the Cavs for months have planned to extend a five - year, maximum contract for Love in excess of $ 110 million despite his shoulder and back injuries last season.»

Thirdly, please acknowledge the fact that he spent 3 1/2 MONTHS on the sidelines last year, and he managed one goal off your supposed maximum goal - scoring evaluation of his capabilities this season, despite him converting an extremely difficult chance yesterday.

There are many other examples of the clubs lack of ambition and ineptitude over the last ten years and I don't have either the patience or the time to go through the whole catalogue, its clear to anyone who is clear headed and able to for a reasonably intelligent opinion that our beloved club is being run by a bunch of silver spooned business men who car nothing for the clubs status within the areana that it operates only for the share prices and profit and loss margins and they are aided by a stubborn and deluded manager who has failed to deliver the EPL to his clubs fans for over ten years and who has failed to move with the times simply because he can retain his role in the club and deliver the minimum of results but maximum profit to the shareholders and board.

In regards his form and injuries over the last few years it is easy to understand the clubs and fans frustrations with Ramsey.But he is the ONLY midfielder we have who hits the box and makes runs ahead of the ball.There are very few players in this country with the ability to do this.I have not been his greatest fan over the years but he is a player that NEVER hides and ALWAYS gives his maximum (which is not always apparent with some of his team mates).

That's one defeat away from maximum defeats a premier league champion has had in the last fifteen years.

Citeh will not pay him 400k, as that is almost double their maximum salary at the moment and would irritate the other pre madonnas, he would not be the star at Citeh, and could not guarantee being played every week, I don't think Citeh will win either the EPL or CL next year they weren't even close last year, he would cut off all his ties completely with Arsenal by moving to Citeh — no Arsenal Legend, no contact with the club after his playing days are over, which a lot of players find very important.

Some sections of the fanbase felt that Hazard was not putting in maximum effort under the self - proclaimed «Special One» and took against him when the Portuguese manager was sacked by the club's owner Roman Abramovich in December last year.

They didn't make the most sensible decision — a decision I was hoping they would make from May last year — and offload him abroad for maximum cash.

Players of FIFA 16 will know that Dembele had bags of potential in last year's edition of the game, but he's capable of surpassing those feats in FIFA 17 by reaching a maximum rating of 90.

The special knitting and weaving techniques Babylonia uses have been perfected over the last 17 years to provide maximum comfort for both you and your child.

They talk tough about increasing penalties to tackle drinking in public but in the last three years not a single person has received the current maximum fine of # 500 for refusing to surrender alcohol.

The report by a committee set up in December last year by the Speaker of the Lords, Norman Fowler, said that to maintain confidence in the chamber it must for the first time be given a maximum size.

Under rules agreed last year, all Labour Party members, registered supporters and affiliated supporters - including union members - will be allowed a maximum of one vote each on a one member, one vote system.

Mark - Viverito last year was collecting maximum individual donations of $ 3,850, which is the ceiling on what a candidate for borough president can receive, according to the New York City Campaign Finance Board.

It raised eyebrows that one - quarter of senior staff - the maximum permitted proportion - received bonuses of up to # 12,000 last year.

David Sweat was sentenced to 3 1/2 to seven years in prison for his escape last year from the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora.

His prisonmates included David Sweat and Richard Matt, who cut their way out of the maximum - security facility last year.

And, for the first time among primates, the scientists observed that the maximum lifespan had increased: almost a third of the calorie - restricted animals were still alive when the last animal in the control group died at the aged of 11.3 years.

The land bridge connected Siberia and North America beginning 38,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Maximum.

But some researchers have argued that the transition from the frigid climatic period known as the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)-- about 20,000 to 25,000 years ago — to the current warm Holocene Epoch brought habitat changes that killed off the mammoths with little or no help from humans.

Such piracy was rampant as the colossal ice sheets of the Last Glacial Maximum began shrinking around 18,000 years ago.

A 33,000 - year - old incipient dog from the Altai Mountains of Siberia: Evidence of the earliest domestication disrupted by the Last Glacial Maximum.

«Challenging events such as the Last Glacial Maximum, around 20,000 years ago, do not lead to massive population replacement, but instead to a bottleneck,» he says.

But after gradually receding for years, the water body shriveled last year to a mere 10 % of its maximum.

«In fact from the end of the Last Glacial Maximum some 19,000 years ago, its genetic component reappeared in Spain.

The last glacial maximum was about 18,000 years ago, when the Patagonian ice sheet expands to include about 10 meters [33 feet] of global sea level.

There are between two and five solar eclipses every year and they can last for a maximum of 7 minutes, 32 seconds.

«Those are enormous slips,» Wald says, running about two to three times the maximum slip reported for the magnitude - 8.8 Maule, Chile, quake of last year.

Neanderthals, with whom we shared the planet until just before the last glacial maximum, 20,000 years ago, may have struggled to survive as the rising and falling ice ate away at their habitat — although many other explanations for their extinction have been suggested.

Nearly 21,000 years ago, during what scientists call the Last Glacial Maximum, thick ice tracts swaddled much of North America and Europe.

As elsewhere on the planet, tropical glaciers (located on either side of the equator between 23 ° N and 23 ° S) have been retreating since the Last Glacial Maximum around 20,000 years ago.

The sediment cores used in this study cover a period when the planet went through many climate cycles driven by variations in Earth's orbit, from extreme glacial periods such as the Last Glacial Maximum about 20,000 years ago, when massive ice sheets covered the northern parts of Europe and North America, to relatively warm interglacial periods with climates more like today's.

During the Last Glacial Maximum in the Pleistocene Epoch, approximately 26,000 years ago, many areas and islands in Asia were connected.

However, 21,000 years ago, at the peak of the last Ice Age, a period known as the Last Glacial Maximum, the Southwest was wetter than it is today — much wetter — and the Northwest was drier — much drlast Ice Age, a period known as the Last Glacial Maximum, the Southwest was wetter than it is today — much wetter — and the Northwest was drier — much drLast Glacial Maximum, the Southwest was wetter than it is today — much wetter — and the Northwest was drier — much drier.

Last year's blockbuster observations of two neutron stars merging revealed a collapse as it happened, enabling four different groups to converge on the maximum mass — about 2.2 times that of the sun.

At the end of the last glacial maximum, when ice sheets reached their maximum extent 20,000 to 25,000 years ago, the ice covering Antarctica was even thicker than it is today.