Sentences with phrase «decade or quarter»
It does not matter at all whether the last decade or quarter century or whatever has been warm — the air has no «memory» for this sort of thing.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
«While it's not uncommon for commodities and USD to rally or sell off at the same time, especially when we look at their returns at a higher frequency (daily or weekly), 4Q 2016 was actually the first quarter in more than a decade to see such a sizable divergence,» the analysts added.
(a) Quarterly data in the table are for the decades to: Q3 1986; Q3 1996; Q3 2006; and the 38 or 39 quarters to the latest available data for 2016.
«This is why people didn't figure out that it was the Great Depression until two years after the worst point in the crisis in the 1930s; and why it took decades, not months, quarters or even years, for the complete transition to the next sustainable economic expansion and bull market.
Earnings results for any one quarter or even the next few years are fundamentally the result of decisions that were made years and even decades earlier.»
It's what helped lead to a relentless focus on a company's next quarter, to the detriment of its next year or decade.
Of the trillion or so barrels of oil produced since the dawn of the Oil Age in the 19th century, a full quarter have been burned in just the first decade of the 21st century.
In the 1950s about one third of the world's population lived in cities, by the second decade of the new millennium this proportion had risen to about one half and it is projected that by 2050, almost three - quarters of us will live in urban, rather than rural or other, areas.
More than 10.6 million people worldwide fell ill and 1.7 million died from tuberculosis last year while a quarter of the world has latent TB, which will develop into active tuberculosis for one in ten victims years or even decades later.
For decades I have been suggesting that women who need estrogen take only half or a quarter of the usual recommended dosages.
Given the time frame — just a decade or two before Europe is engulfed in nearly a quarter century of turmoil — the film becomes an elegy of sorts: a secular memento mori, an after - the - fact portrait of loss and mortality.
Still, in the past three decades, average state and local funding per enrolled student has dropped by one quarter, or $ 2,337 (see Figure 1).
This is a problem that needs addressing since a study just published in the Harvard Business Review found that «The time spent by managers and employees in collaborative activities has ballooned by 50 percent or more over the last two decades and that, at many companies, more than three - quarters of an employee's day is spent communicating with colleagues.
Likewise, if we have a really good quarter personally — say get a new promotion or exercise much more than average, it doesn't mean this will happen every single quarter indefinitely... Although getting a promotion every quarter sure does sound nice — in a decade, that's 40 promotions!
Consumers pay less on a 15 - year mortgage — anywhere from a quarter of a percent to a full percent (or point) less, and over the decades that can really add up.
Many investors habitually think in terms of what we gain or lose in a short period: a month, a quarter, a year, a decade — or even all the years until we will retire.
The theatre was intended to be one of the first jigsaw pieces in a modernised (and modernist) city centre in previous decades had become part of the overcrowded — and unhealthy - Scheunenviertel, or Jewish quarter.
Roughly a quarter of the works on view for the opening have never been exhibited before or haven't been seen for decades.
I see that mr. Boone, has run into trouble and right now oil is dirt cheap (let us see how long that lasts) but now that we are officially in recession (two consecutive quarters down) and the oil and gas companies boast record profits and the oil, natural gas, and coal resources will all last longer than 25 years by most projections (coal about a hundred years give or take a decade?)
-- What's the mean avg growth in global CO2 and CO2e last year and over the prior ~ 5 years — What's the current global surface temperature anomaly in the last year and in prior ~ 5 years — project that mean avg growth in CO2 / CO2e ppm increasing at the same rate for another decade, and then to 2050 and to 2075 (or some other set of years)-- then using the best available latest GCM / s (pick and stick) for each year or quarter update and calculate the «likely» global surface temperature anomaly into the out years — all things being equal and not assuming any «fictional» scenarios in any RCPs or Paris accord of some massive shift in projected FF / Cement use until such times as they are a reality and actually operating and actually seen slowing CO2 ppm growth.
A quarter of the land area of the planet could experience a 5 °C heatwave every two decades or so.
Only a third of lawyers use a case, matter or practice management system — just a slight increase from a decade ago, when a quarter of all lawyers used such a system.