Sentences with phrase «gain over a short period of time»

Selling home properties for a gain over a short period of time usually demands humble price growth at minimum.

Not exact matches

I do not object to paying 25 per cent of any short - term (one - year) capital gain, but when it comes to gains that include a tax on inflation that occurred over long periods of time, it means severe injury to whatever real gain has been earned.

Large gain of muscle mass over a short period of time (20 lbs.

However, that argument is not supported by the observable facts — when trainees perform the same workout and the same number of reps every workout strength gains slow and then stop over a short period of time.

Intensive case studies were conducted on these schools, some of which made noteworthy student achievement gains in a relatively short (one - to two - year) time frame, while others improved at a slower, steadier pace over a longer period.

A peer - reviewed study of academic gains in New Orleans, conducted by Tulane economists and glossed over in the Times piece, compared the performance of New Orleans students with that of other hurricane - affected students, concluding that «we are not aware of any other districts that have made such large gains in such a short period of time.»

Sure, some people have made solid gains owning over a short period of time, but those results are mainly driven by luck.

Founded in 2011 across just half a dozen US college campuses, the fossil fuel divestment movement has gained remarkable traction over a relatively short period of time.

This time period is too short to signify a change in the warming trend, as climate trends are measured over periods of decades, not years.12, 29,30,31,32 Such decade - long slowdowns or even reversals in trend have occurred before in the global instrumental record (for example, 1900 - 1910 and 1940 - 1950; see Figure 2.2), including three decade - long periods since 1970, each followed by a sharp temperature rise.33 Nonetheless, satellite and ocean observations indicate that the Earth - atmosphere climate system has continued to gain heat energy.34

By the way, there is sort of an analogy here to the stock market: It is often noted by the sort of people who write mutual fund reports that if you just missed a few short periods of time in the market over the last few decades (e.g., say, the N best weeks where N is a fairly small number), you would have missed out on nearly all of the stock market gains.