Sentences with phrase «fluctuate from year to year of»

That's not ideal if your child's financial needs fluctuate from year to year of study, or if she goes to university for more than four years.

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In tracking all the comings and goings to the S&P 500 for the last 50 years, the study shows that the duration companies spend on the list fluctuates in cycles mirroring the overall state of the economy and disruption from new technologies, including biotech breakthroughs, social media, and cloud computing.

While the amount companies spend on CEO security varies from year to year, the percentage of Fortune 100 companies that provide personal and home security to their chief executives has held steady, fluctuating only slightly in the range of 45 % to 54 % over the past five years.

While NASA's budget for 2016 is $ 19.3 billion, the amount of money the organization gets fluctuates from year to year, depending on the amount the president requests for NASA and the amount that Congress actually approves.

Looking at a simple asset allocation, a theoretical allocation to long - dated U.S. bonds (+20 years) fluctuates from as low as 3 % to as high as 25 % based on changes to the risk model, i.e. correlation of different asset classes.

Rather than let your investments drift with market movements, it may make more sense to rebalance your holdings periodically (say, once or twice a year) or when your mix drifts a set amount from your target (you may allow your mix to fluctuate a maximum of 10 percentage points above or below the level you target).

The US oil - rig count plateaued near the highest level in three years and showed signs of declining in late March (to 797), though it still stood 50 rigs above the year - end 2017 total.2 This contributed to expectations for a further increase in American crude production, which has topped 10 mb / d each week since early February, when WTI prices began to recede from their intra-quarterly high of US$ 66.14 a barrel.3 The amount of crude in US storage occasionally exceeded weekly estimates given the higher domestic output and fluctuating net import figures, reigniting fears that US production may thwart OPEC's efforts to clear global oversupply.

Growth of non-farm GDP over the latest four quarters for which we have data was just over 4 per cent; domestic demand, while slowing a little from its most recent peak, expanded by 5 1/2 per cent over that period; employment growth over the past year has been around trend, though lower in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained close to the lower end of the range in which it has fluctuated over the past two decades.

Traditionally the industry has been a heavy user of fossil fuels, primarily oil, the price of which has fluctuated from under $ 15 a barrel 20 years ago to peaks of $ 90 to over $ 100 now, making fossil fuels such as bunker oil vastly more expensive.

An individual legislator's score may fluctuate from year to year, subject to the nature of the issues before the legislature, political dynamics, or absences due to illnesses or personal commitments, among other variables.

Over the past several years, fluctuating advice regarding the relative risks associated with bed - sharing, and a certain amount of media scaremongering, has prompted NHS trusts to remove bedsharing information from patient areas and introduce restrictive policies on what health professionals can say to parents about where their new baby might sleep.

«The quirks and vagaries of the cap formula mean it can fluctuate widely from year to year and district to district.

Still, there are growing numbers of skeptics, particularly teachers who over the past several years have often seen their state ratings fluctuate from year to year in a complex system that many regard as statistically unstable.

The weather fluctuates from one year to another and individual cold snaps in the Arctic area are not, as such, proof of the progression of climate change.

He told me that grey squirrel numbers fluctuate considerably from year to year and that at the moment we are suffering from a population explosion as the result of a combination of relatively abundant broad - leaved seed crops and mild winters in recent years.

It has long been known that the presence of some night butterfly species varies greatly from year to year, but why some species fluctuate and others are stable has been shrouded in mystery.

Portrait of a young planet The Jack Hills zircons show that a magnetic field existed as early as 4 billion years ago, fluctuating in strength from a value similar to today's — around 25 microteslas — to about 12 % of that.

His results showed that around 1 billion years ago, Earth could have transitioned from a modern - looking field, having a «strong» magnetic field with two opposite poles in the north and south of the planet, to having a «weak» magnetic field that fluctuated wildly in terms of intensity and direction and originated from several poles.

Electricity generation from hydropower, historically the largest source of renewable electricity generation, fluctuates from year to year because of precipitation patterns.

For instance, the models suggest that around 1 billion years ago, Earth may have transitioned from a strong dipolar field to a weak magnetic field that fluctuated wildly in terms of intensity and direction and originated from several poles.

From a hormonal perspective, we enter menopause, a transition that is very gradual and involves fluctuating hormone levels and a wide range of symptoms for sometimes up to several years.

AB: The numbers of the alternative school (QTLC) fluctuate from year to year, and currently there are 41 students with ages between 12 - 18 years.

Even if the students are being drawn from the same families and the same neighborhoods, the average performance of a school can fluctuate from year to year depending on the attitudes and abilities of the students in each cohort.

However, the percent of test - takers who are eligible for free and reduced lunch has fluctuated from year to year, and NAEP results have increased not just across race, but across all subgroups such as gender, disability status, and ELL status.

It would be like saying that the teacher's weights are stable from year to year but the average weight of the staff fluctuates wildly from year to year.

More specifically, the district and its teachers are not coming to an agreement about how they should be evaluated, rightfully because teachers understand better than most (even some VAM researchers) that these models are grossly imperfect, largely biased by the types of students non-randomly assigned to their classrooms and schools, highly unstable (i.e., grossly fluctuating from one year to the next when they should remain more or less consistent over time, if reliable), invalid (i.e., they do not have face validity in that they often contradict other valid measures of teacher effectiveness), and the like.

The proportion of the teacher workforce with 10 or fewer years of experience has fluctuated from 37 percent in 1988 to nearly half in 2008 and 45 percent in 2012.

But the volume of such cases — at least as reported by school districts — appears to have fluctuated dramatically in recent years: The number of districts reporting they were party to such orders or plans nearly doubled from the 2013 - 14 Civil Rights Data Collection to the 2015 - 16 collection that was released by the Education Department last month.

If your income fluctuates from year - to - year, mortgage lenders use the lower of the two figures.

The amount of your monthly payment will fluctuate from year to year depending on your insurance and taxes, but you can use an online mortgage calculator to get a good idea of what your payment will be.

A mortgage in which payments are fixed for a period of one to two years although interest rates may fluctuate from month to month depending on market conditions.

The rest comes from growth or capital gains, which year by year will fluctuate or even be negative, but over the long haul can be another 1 % to 3 % on top of the more assured yield from income investing.

Over the last decade, and particularly the last 4 - 5 years, we have seen the price of gas fluctuate from $ 1.70 per gallon, all the way up to $ 5.50 per gallon in some areas of the country.

Adding complexity to the way universal life insurance works is the fact that this type of coverage offers flexible premiums — as in, the amount you pay into your policy can fluctuate from year to year.

Depending on the type of investment, you can either contribute to your RRSP early in the year (for fixed income investments) or at regular intervals throughout the year (for most mutual funds) rather than at the end of the contribution year — that way, you can benefit from income sheltering and dollar cost averaging (for investments that fluctuate in value).

CommonBond offers three types of interest rates you can choose from in your refinanced loan: a variable rate that fluctuates when the market changes, a fixed rate that stays permanent for the life of the loan, and a hybrid rate starting off as fixed and switching to variable after five years.

Since July of 2006, all federal student loans feature fixed interest rates, although the set rates have fluctuated from year to year and from one loan type to another, so that different loans have different rates.

Cat intake trends also show promise: while intake year - over-year fluctuated that eventually lead to a slight decline, the euthanize of cats from the city declined.

Furthermore, to determine with confidence the effects of any spay / neuter program on the animal population, which naturally fluctuates somewhat from year to year, population trends must be examined over a period sufficiently long to absorb those natural fluctuations.

His role has fluctuated over the years, ranging from vehicle to ally to baby delivery man to tennis player, but Yoshi's role as one of Mario's choice sidekicks will never be forgotten.

Samples of gas trapped in ice cores taken from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have enabled scientists to determine that the level of CO2 in the atmosphere has fluctuated between approximately 180 ppm (glacial advance and colder climate in the higher latitudes) and 280 ppm (glacial retreat and warmer climate in the higher latitudes), over the past 400,000 or more years.

But if you look at the ten year running average (the thick black line), you can clearly and indisputably see that from 1400 to a little past 1900, the range of values fluctuates erratically between about -0.25 and -0.6 ˚C.

But from year to year, the number of animals killed by the program fluctuates significantly, from 1.5 to 5 million.

As can be seen, there are considerable fluctuations in the rate of SL rise: the decadal average rate fluctuates from -1 mm / year to +5 mm / year, with a 20thC average of +1.74 mm / year.

Although global temperature fluctuates from year to year, overall the decade of the 2000s is likely the warmest decade in the past 150 years covered by the report.

This will vary from time to time due to changes in volcanic activity, but over millions of years, CO2 will fluctuate around an equilibrium value.

-- the decadal rate of SL rise has fluctuated dramatically (from a net SL decline to a rise of 5 mm / year)-- there has been no increase in the rate of SL rise over the 20th century — the rate of SL rise was higher in the first half of the 20th century (around 2 mm / year) than in the second half (around 1.4 mm / year)-- the most recent rate of SL rise has been around 1.6 mm / year

Tropical cyclones are relatively rare, averaging around 90 a year, and that number fluctuates annually and from decade to decade − largely because of natural causes.

True, but fails to explain why the longer - term mean about which those cycles fluctuate is trending up other than curve - fitting an «approximation by three sinusoids of periods 1000 years, 210 years and 60 years,» ANSWER: The curve fitting exercise is labeled as such «heuristic»; the lengths of the cycles are from other observations, some displayed on figures 5 - B & C; only the amplitudes and phase of the 215 and 60 years sinusoids are subject to optimization; Singular Spectrum Analysis has been applied by Diego Macias et al (note 18) to the HadCRUT series with equivalent results, and among many others by Liu Yu et al..

Just in the last two years, the price of natural gas has fluctuated from $ 6.00 / MMBtu to $ 13.31 / MMBtu to less than $ 4.00 / MMBtu most recently.