Sentences with phrase «decades of lull»

The cycle typically involves two or more decades of lull and two or more decades of high activity.

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Recent results suggest that the era of finding new icy Pluto - sized bodies has come to an end or at least a lull until much bigger telescopes equipped with wide - field cameras come online in the next decade.

Written in 1944 during a lull in the 40 - year - old's World War II service, the story takes place over the previous two decades and considers issues of class, religion, and the heart.

After a remake of those three for the Super Nintendo, there was a lull of nearly a decade before the franchise triumphantly returned with Ninja Gaiden on the Xbox.

There was a bit of a creative lull in the ensuing decades, but for the past two years the Downtown Development Authority (DDA) has been molding the staid landscape among the office buildings while boldly infusing energy into the place with a three - day festival of public art and activities called Dwntwn Art Days.

Leaving aside the misconduct of top climate scientists, the other problem facing climate scientists is that the past decade or so has shown a lull in global warming although the AGHGs continue to increase in total and in yearly rate.

«Sure, they'll probably try to confuse us with trick questions: Like why, apart from natural 1998 and 2015 El Nino spikes, satellites haven't recorded any statistically significant global warming for nearly two decades; why sea levels have been rising at a constant rate of 7 inches per century without acceleration; and why no category 3 - 5 hurricanes have struck the U.S. coast since October 2005 — a record lull since 1900.

The slowed surface air warming over the past decade has lulled many people into a false and unwarranted sense of security.