Sentences with phrase «for over a period of several years»

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«As a long - term value investor, we remain cautious and recognise that to generate good real returns over time, we have to be prepared for periods of underperformance relative to the market indices, some even for a stretch of several years.»

While some companies like Tesla already offer semi-autonomous technology — where the driver can take their hands off the wheel for brief periods of time — it is likely to be several years before people can turn over the majority of the driving to the «brains» in their vehicle.

But in a given plant there may be 3,000 workers eligible for six foremen's jobs over a period of several years.

I made it last year for my birthday and frankly ate the entire cake (over the period of several days... don't judge) since no one else really likes it here at our home.

they should sack him at end of season for his failure to understand how his own actions (and inactions) have led to his failure to reach his own stated objectives consistently over the period of several years.

Republican lawmakers in the Senate continue to express reservations with the proposal to increase the state's minimum wage to $ 15 over several years with different phase in periods for different regions of the state.

Singh allegedly paid Mangano's wife Linda $ 450,000 over a several year period for a «no - show job» at one of his restaurants.

It will provide funding for banks over an extended period of several years, lending against a much greater value of collateral in the form of loans to the real economy.

Until 2001, she worked at the NationalAcademies» National Research Council over a 17 - year period, serving in several capacities — Executive Director of the Board on Sustainable Development, where she directed the Sustainability Transition Study and the Global Change Research Program; director of international organization programs for the Office of International Affairs; and Director of the Polar Research Board.

«In this study we show how the Eurasian siskin is able to form stable group relationships lasting for periods of several years in addition to travelling in each other» company over distances spanning more than 1,000 km,» points out Juan Carlos Senar, lead author of this study and a scientist at the museum.

It also showed the potential for putting existing water supplies on a roller coaster, with a several - inch increase expected in rainfall in some years compared to the annual average, as well as some years of decrease over the same period.

This does not seem a very large loss rate, but it has taken place relentlessly for more than 2 billion years, and the equivalent water or CO2 lost over this time period is in excess of several meters of liquid water spread over the whole surface of Mars.

That's a pretty impressive result, because The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has only been out for 6 months, while Twilight Princess total sales «accumulated» over a period of several years.

Washington — By 1978, three years after the enactment of P.L. 94 - 142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, school officials had successfully adopted most of the law's procedural safeguards, according to a federally - supported study of several school districts over a period of four years.

SMALLab was developed by educators for educators over a period of several years by an interdisciplinary team of dedicated faculty and graduate students at Arizona State University's School of Arts, Media and Engineering.

While a TransACT Parent Notice subscription has very high usage in the first several years, the most effective way to ensure a positive outcome over an extended period is for all levels of the district to be engaged and committed to the ongoing use of a parent notification system.

The thing is, my only job before this was raising children — four of my own and then providing day care for four of my grandchildren for various periods over the next several years.

How, then, do you explain that the small epress I worked for is capable of keeping track of the percentages paid to authors authors and editors (typically 35 % for the author and 10 % for the editor) for several hundred books sold through multiple retail outlets (all with different net payouts to the publisher) over a period of four years?

Indeed, most of the studies that highlight our love for print over digital are several years old (or more) at this point, a period in which large - format, high - resolution smartphone adoption (much better for reading) and new all - you - can - read ebook services, such as Oyster, Scribd, and Kindle Unlimited, have emerged.

A contrarian's attitude toward a sector that has been underperforming for several years may well be that the protracted period of time over which the sector's stocks have been performing poorly in relation to the overall market average only makes it more probable that the sector will soon begin to experience a reversal of fortune to the upside.

As indicated by a performance chart for one of the funds mentioned in the articles, AQR Risk Parity Fund (AQRIX), it is not easy to beat that benchmark even over a period of several years:

In return for proving that you simply can not afford their demands, the IRS will reduce the amount of money you owe, and offer you an easier repayment schedule, typically extending the payments out over a period of several years, rather than requiring that you pay everything all at once in a large lump - sum.

Comments: Several commenters supported the Department's proposal to amortize the median loan debt of students completing a GE program over 10, 15, or 20 years based on the credential level of the program, as opposed to a fixed amortization period of 10 years for all programs.

For the artist, reexamining and reworking prints functioned as a form of internal dialogue over a several year period.

Co-organised by The Art Institute of Chicago and Tate Modern, this is the first major Lichtenstein retrospective for twenty years, bringing together over 125 of the artist's most definitive paintings and sculptures as well as several works from his later period.

Over the next several years Okada spent long periods in Kyoto and Paris, funded by Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships, interspersed with periods of working as a commercial artist for the Boeing company in Seattle.

Over recent years several exhibitions have thrown a spotlight on Eastern European work, for instance Ostalgia (2011) at the New Museum in New York; Les Promesses du Passé (2010) at Centres Georges Pompidou in Paris which focussed on the utopian dimension of much Eastern European art during the socialist period; and Modernikon (2011) organised by the Fondazione Sandretto in Turin and Venice, presenting a survey of contemporary Russian work.

In the course of the research for this show — carried out jointly by Kunsthaus Zug, the Hochschule für Musik / Musik - Akademie Basel, and Edizioni Periferia over a period of several years — a large amount of unpublished material was brought to light from the artist's archives in Iceland, Hamburg, and Basel.

The award - winning creator of the artful Moonlight Chronicles and author of Radical Simplicity is well - known for his hobbit - style home in Oregon, that he built himself over a period of several years out of reclaimed materials.

Stocks follow a pattern of a random walk, but over the past several hundred years (admittedly an atypical period for human civilization), they have followed a random walk with a slight upward trend.

They found periods of predominantly El Niño - like patterns for several hundred years that alternate with La Niña patterns, impacting on global climate over the last 2000 years.

So if the second half of the 20th century had the highest average absolute levels of solar activity for «several thousand years» (Solanki) and at least 350 + years (Lean), then this could well have been a significant cause of late 20th century warming (building in all the «time lags» one might envision), despite the fact that the absolute level of solar activity was declining over this period.

Glacier runoff does not increase or decrease the long term runoff for a basin, total runoff over a period of several years is determined largely by annual precipitation.

For the period prior to 1985, the same time constant (one year) was used to smooth noisy data, preserving the integral of optical depth over several years around time of a given volcano.

I have already made it clear elsewhere that the additional resistor effect of human CO2 would be insignificant in relation to that from the rest of the air and the oceans together with the varying solar and oceanic heating and cooling effects but we still need to know for sure whether it is significant at all over periods of less than several hundred years because that may be the time we need to solve our energy, pollution, resource and population problems.

While their conservative physiology — retention of needles for one to several decades — provides a buffer to year - to - year changes evident in the high autocorrelation of ringwidth series, the critical factors limiting growth are growing - season length and mean temperature over that period.

My arithmetic for a 2x C02 would be: Present Warming: 0.75 deg C Current warming Rate 0.15 deg C per decade Time to 2x C02 (BAU scenario) approx 100 years So 0.15 x 10 +0.75 = 2.25 deg C Further warming due to time lag at end of 100 year period ~ 0.75 deg, probably over several decades.

I don't know offhand about the rate of warming over the last 30 years relative to other 30 - year periods **, but I do know offhand that evidence supports the most recent warmth is unusual for the last several hundred or more years.

He spent 10 years in Queensland before returning to Canada (although, he notes, he has returned to Australia several times over the years to teach for short periods of time).

Casey and other lawyers we spoke to say the best way for clients to use the rankings is to view them over a period of several years and not to read anything into a firm rising or dropping one or two spots.

There are several insurance companies which are likely to offer a discount for a clean record over a period of 3 years, if your company doesn't.

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While vacancy rates were on the decline over the past year (from 5.60 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2007 to 4.50 per cent in 2008) and rents continued to escalate ($ 21.36 to $ 22.90 per sq. ft. for the same period), softening demand due to weak economic conditions and the expected supply of several million square feet of new office space will pose challenges for some of the prestigious towers in Toronto's financial district during 2009 and 2010.

Over the past year, the Council has suspended the licences of 29 licensees, for periods ranging from a few days to several months.