Sentences with phrase «whereas years past»

Not exact matches

McLean points out that it took Atlantis 15 years to raise its first $ 30 million, whereas Blue Ant zipped past the same milestone in only 14 months.

Whereas Silicon Valley has been at it for at least three decades, the funds in Chile have only been investing for the past five or six years.

(Sales are up 40 % in the past four years, whereas cereal sales are down by as much as 3 %.)

Long - term investors who intend to buy and hold a stock should focus on longer - term beta to gain a better understanding of volatility, whereas short - term holders might not be concerned about the volatility experienced by a stock five to 10 years in the past.

Martin Feldstein, a long - time euro skeptic, in this month's Foreign Affairs magazine made the point this way: «During the past year, Germany had a trade surplus of nearly $ 200 billion, whereas the other members of the eurozone had trade deficits totaling $ 200 billion.

At the same time a Wall Streeter who was not investing in Real Estate in the past few years would have gotten a lot of flack from his bosses as his competitors were making a lot of money whereas he was «hiding» behind safe stocks.

Whereas the normal American way of breaking - the - ice is to say, «I'm John Doe and I work at Boeing» or «I'm Jane Smith and I'm an attorney,» these folks would begin rather differently: «I'm John Doe / Jane Smith and I was born again on such - and - such - a-date,» usually in the past 10 or 15 years.

Whereas in the past, the differences between years — between 1967 and 1968, or 1978 and 1979, or 1991 and 1992 — felt immense.

The notion that certification of existing farms with a conventional farming past takes 3 years of transition whereas if a farmer clears virgin forest for coffee the land can be certified from day one is particularly bothersome.

These guys are in our plans until 2020 whereas the past classes were almost exclusively 1 year prove - it deals except for a few long term defensive options.

There is no fool like an old fool and whereas you live in the past, happily and repelling vital change, I — though also long in years — live firmly in the present age and look forward to a better still future, even though a silly and wilfully blind, but mercifully small, minority like you do all they can to keep us suffering.

Picture this, we don't come out of the gate firing on all cylinders, Wenger speaks of how there wasn't enough time for the first - teamers to build chemistry, several key players aren't even playing because of Wenger's utterly ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the Confed Cup or the under21s and the boo - birds have returned in full flight... if these things were to happen, which is quite possible considering the Groundhog Day mentality of this club, how long do you think it will take for Wenger to recant his earlier statements regarding Europa... I would suggest that it's these sorts of comments from Wenger which are often his undoing... why would any manager worth his weight in salt make such a definitive statement before the season has even started... why would any manager who fashions himself an educated man make such pronouncements before even knowing what his starting 11 will be come Friday, let alone on September 1st... why would any manager who has a tenuous relationship with a great many supporters offer up such a potentially contentious talking point considering how many times his own words have come back to bite him in the ass... I think he does this because he doesn't care what you or I think, in fact he's more than slightly infuriated by the very idea of having to answer to the likes of you and me... that might have been acceptable during his formative years in charge, when the fans were rewarded with an scintillating brand of football and success felt like a forgone conclusion, but this new Wenger led team barely resembles that team of ore... whereas in times past we relished a few words from our seemingly cerebral manager, in recent times those words have been replaced by a myriad of excuses, a plethora of infuriating stories about who he could have signed but didn't and what can only be construed as outright fabrications... it's kind of funny that when we want some answers, like during the whole contract debacle of last season, we can't get an intelligent word out of him, but when we just what him to show his managerial acumen through his actions, we can't seem to get him to shut - up... I beg you to prove me wrong Arsene

After having been away for five years, the free agent Hershiser has returned like the ghost of greatness past to find that the O'Malleys had sold the club to television people, that L.A. was on its third manager in three years (whereas Walter Alston and Tommy Lasorda had managed for the previous 42) and that there was talk of the Dodgers abandoning Vero Beach, their spring training site since» 48, for... Las Vegas.

It was a typically self - deprecating comment, whereas in reality the 40 - year - old had been training hard for this race for the past few months and was determined to go down fighting.

For the past 6 million years, human beings have evolved while breastfeeding and sleeping together — whereas a mere 1000 years ago, the Catholic Church recommend that babies sleep in their own cradle.

WHEREAS, Erie County's first Agricultural and Farmland Protection Plan was developed in 1996 and, in the past 16 years, much has changed throughout the region;

Whereas last year's debate was very much about the past, this time it is about the future.

the fixed term change has meant that MPs think they know when the next election is whereas in the past the temptation must have been to advise retirement after year three so a candidate could be chosen in time for a snap election..

Mutations shared by all Native Americans today must have existed prior to the peopling of the continents, whereas many of those that vary among indigenous American populations arose during the past 15,000 years.

Indeed, it is because of the progress and activism of recent years that «the expectations» of many postdocs «have moved on» past that type of arrangement, whereas the «expectations of many mentors have not,» said Ruth Kirschstein, special adviser to the director of the National Institutes of Health, during a talk at the NPA meeting.

It seems that whereas most kinds of insects can switch their scent attractants on and off, mosquitoes are stuck with the females» song willy nilly, as they have been, I suppose, for the past 60 million years or so.

«Even though some Arctic locations haven't been as warm this year, you can still melt through 3 feet of the ice, whereas in the past, you might have needed to melt through 6 or 8 feet of ice in that area,» Meier said.

In the past 50 years, as regional temperatures have warmed, the growth of bristlecone pine trees at high altitudes has been accelerating, whereas that of trees lower down the slopes has not, according to the results of a study published November 16 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

For context, the New Horizons mission that flew past Pluto is visiting a Kuiper Belt object on January 1, 2019, whereas the Voyager missions that launched 40 years ago won't escape the Oort Cloud for at least another 14,000 years.

This more finessed approach to investing in clothes is only something I've truly started to master in recent years as I near thirty, whereas in my past id find myself over buying and hoarding (the novelty of a pay check and my own space I expect).

Whereas Janet Leigh's heroine merely showered at the Bates Motel before meeting her end, Dressed's protagonist Kate Miller (Angie Dickinson, just two years past her four - season stint as the star of NBC's «Police Woman») erotically washes her breasts and privates, both of which are on display, while nearby a shaving man pays her no notice.

AFI's list looks EXACTLY like an Oscar pundits chart, whereas in year's past they seemed to be about 70 % Oscary 10 % populist and 20 % random.

Figures showed 37,000 pupils sat the January exam, up by 7,000 on the previous year, whereas schools «entered their most able learners early in the past».

Whereas a year ago, I had some fun driving the Four Seasons Miata out from Paso Robles in central California and through Yosemite before connecting with I - 15 and ultimately I - 70, my route this time will not tax even the 500X's chassis: High - tail it out of L.A. on I - 15 past Las Vegas, hang a right onto I - 70 at Big Rock Candy Mountain, Utah, continue through the Western Continental Divide in Colorado, connect with I - 76 outside of Denver, merge onto I - 80 in Western Nebraska, continue through Iowa and Northwest Illinois, and then detour up to New Glarus, Wisconsin, to get the freshest Spotted Cow available.

Chevy's midsize pickup has only been around the past three years, whereas Ranger has a long and proud history as a midsize truck.

The new Barnes and Noble CEO Demos Parneros was promoted within the company, whereas the past few CEOS had no bookselling experience and were all fired within a year or two of taking the position.

A dollar invested with Tillinghast in 1989 would have grown to $ 32 over the past 27 years, whereas that same dollar invested in an index fund would have grown to $ 12.

Over the past five years, the iShares ETF has returned 41 % whereas the main Canadian index climbed 27 %.

The bank's actually made huge progress in the past year — 2012 NIM (before ELG fees) was at 1.25 %, whereas 2013 NIM reached 1.84 %.

Now granted, that $ 100 investment into stocks would have taken you on a pretty wild ride of ups and downs over the past 88 years, whereas the investment into the 3 - month treasury bills would have bored you to sleep with consistent (albeit small) returns year after year.

But the hidden story is that portfolio A's stocks have had price returns of -85 % or worse over the past four years, whereas portfolio B's stocks have has price returns of 1000 % or better.

Whereas canine chronic pain has been well documented, studied, and publicized over the past 20 years, 3 the same is not true for cats.

S - E are consistently getting better than the FF13 days and this has been the case for the past 4 - 5 years whereas Nintendo had to fill in the holes with mediocrity making the purchase of the WiiU more of an insult as the years went by.

Picking the number one entry was difficult because while there was plenty of games that I enjoyed there wasn't really anything that stood out as the immediate contender, whereas in past years there has almost always been a title or three vying for the top spot.

In mythology, those perished in battle are taken to Walhalla by the Valkyries, whereas in history, Walhalla references the homonymous 1842 hall of fame and memorial built by King Ludwig I of Bavaria, honoring the heroes and distinguished German personalities of the past two thousand years.

Whereas the exhibition features selected past award recipients, the book represents all SECA artists from 1967 through 2010, arranged chronologically by award year and accompanied by a work or installation view from their respective award exhibition.

The unrealized warming has been fairly constant over the past ~ 50 years whereas the radiative forcing increases the further back in time you choose your initial point.

UN has a mid-range estimate of 10.5 billion by 2100, which would represent an exponential growth rate of 0.46 % per year from today, whereas we saw an actual rate over the past 25 years of 1.35 % (from 5 billion in 1987 to 7 billion today).

As others have noted, the IPCC Team has gone absolutely feral about Salby's research and the most recent paper by Dr Roy Spencer, at the University of Alabama (On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth's Radiant Energy Balance), for one simple reason: both are based on empirical, undoctored satellite observations, which, depending on the measure required, now extend into the past by up to 32 years, i.e. long enough to begin evaluating real climate trends; whereas much of the Team's science in AR4 (2007) is based on primitive climate models generated from primitive and potentially unreliable land measurements and proxies, which have been «filtered» to achieve certain artificial realities (There are other more scathing descriptions of this process I won't use).

Whereas the delicate balance between imports and domestic production in China, and to a lesser extent India, made import volumes volatile in the past few years, stability in Northeast Asia (Japan, Korea and Chinese Taipei) provided a level of comfort for coal exporters.

lolwot — people with an agricultural background point out that northern latitude areas that can not grow certain temperature sensitive crops today, whereas in past years, such as the MWP, the same crops could be grown in those areas disprove Mann's hockey stick temperature reconstruction.

... past climate changes were natural in origin (see FAQ 6.1), whereas most of the warming of the past 50 years is attributable to human activities.

[3] Ironically, the whole of Latin America has contributed only 4 percent of energy related global emissions over the past 50 years, whereas the European Union accounts for 22 percent.

«Another unusual aspect of recent climate change is its cause: past climate changes were natural in origin, whereas most of the warming of the past 50 years is attributable to human activities.»

Marks said that 48 - hour track forecast errors today are the same as 24 - hour track forecast errors 10 years ago, whereas there has only been slight improvement in 48 - hour intensity forecasts during the past two decades.