Sentences with phrase «gaps of a few years»

Of course that potential gap of a few years could have also been used by Bruce Wayne as a cooling off period before he again stalked the streets, a time in which the criminals could believe Batman to be truly dead before what looks like the demonic spectre of the Dark Knight returns, seemingly from the grave.

While you should ask your life insurance company for more details about this option — especially to get the price — it doesn't always make sense if you only want to cover a gap of a few years.

Not exact matches

There are fewer than two dozen Athleta stores now, but by the end of the year Gap plans to have about 50 (compared to Lululemon's 185 worldwide).

Just ask Gap or Pepsi, both of whom famously announced and then backed away from new logos a few years back, episodes that were in equal measure expensive and embarrassing.

While sales of the company's Banana Republic and Gap brands have been falling for some time now, recent declines at Old Navy — the sole bright spot in the past few quarters — pose a bigger headache for the 46 - year old retailer.

David Nierengarten, head of health - care equity research at Wedbush, told CNBC, «Celgene has a big revenue hole to fill over the next few years» and Juno's treatment could potentially «fill that gap.»

«Returning Gap brand to growth has been the top priority since my appointment four months ago — and Jeff and his team bring a sense of urgency to this work,» said Gap CEO Art Peck, who a few years ago oversaw the shrinkinkg of the store fleet.

If you multiply the sum of these two gaps by the total amount of household and farm deposits (very roughly around 80 - 100 % of GDP a few years ago, when I last checked), you get an estimate of the total transfer from the household sector to banks and borrowers.

2) May I remind you that this God of the Gaps has been steadily on the retreat in the last few thousand years and especially in the last couple of hundred years.

The seven - year study was designed to «fill the gap» left by the United States census (no questions on religion), the self - reporting of denominations («widely differing criteria»), and smaller surveys (too few questions or people).

Just look at his life story... oh wait we only have his birth then about a 33 year gap, then a few years of wandering around jobless pandering John the Baptist's version of monotheism, and not helping raise his young «ns.

Oftentimes you hear science indicate something is between X and Y number of years old and the gap is usually a few million years.

So how and why is the gap not bridged????? The other important thing to remember is that in the last ten years Wenger has won NOTHING of note so his repuatation amongst the world elite players is less than it was a decade ago and there are few of them that actually WANT to play for the club now our reputation for having no ambition is paramount now rather than our repuatation for winning competitions.

Everton are actually level on points but the gap to West Brom of seven is not that big, so even though we have played two fewer games than both teams, I reckon that Ronald Koeman and Tony Pulis may just be harbouring ideas about finishing above Arsenal this year.

Perhaps, in a few more years when there's even more money in football and UEFA doesn't manage to bridge the gap between UCL money and other sources of income, your argument may hold true.

We love finding fun summer stories to fill the gap between school years, but few things charge us up more than a new season of competition to start covering.

When I interviewed Eric Anderson, an American sociologist at England's University of Winchester, a few years ago, when his provocative book, The Monogamy Gap: Men, Love, and the Reality of Cheating, was published, I was disturbed by his claim that cheating is a rational choice for people constrained by the social dictate of monogamy.

When I spoke with The Monogamy Gap: Men, Love, and the Reality of Cheating author Eric Anderson a few years back on why monogamy is failing men, he told me that the assumption of monogamy puts everyone, men and women, into a sexual straitjacket:

A few years ago, Kleine's group began looking at isotopes of molybdenum, another metal, and found a Warren gap there, too.

A smarter type of memory A recently announced alliance between HP and Hynix Semiconductor aims to fill the imminent gap with a denser and more energy - efficient technology called resistive random access memory (RRAM) that could roll off the assembly line in the next few years.

This gap is expected to close over the next few years, making thin - film cells — which cost half that of silicon - wafer cells — a better bet.

Perhaps the most urgent space issue our nation faces in the next few years is the human spaceflight gap between the retirement of the Space Shuttle and the start of Constellation Program operations.

We were unaware of any other stations with daily measurements over a period of more than 80 years, with few missing values or large data gaps.

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After just a few weeks on GAPS, I was full of energy and felt properly clear headed for the first time in years.

When I was on the GAPS Introductory Diet five years ago, my gut detoxed so quickly that I couldn't eat anything but Stage 1 (soups) foods lest I felt like dying (alone, in the bathroom...) and stayed the program course as designed over the period of a few months.

I do have a couple of pairs of Gap jeans that are okay, but I've also had a few pairs of Gap jeans that have fallen apart after a year or so.

I got a camel sweater from Gap last year but there's a giant hole in it out that came out of nowhere, so I got this one from J.Crew factory during the 50 % off sale a few weeks ago.

In my experience, many people think that a gap of 10 years in a Ukrainian - Western relationship is OK, but anything beyond this tends to raise a few eyebrows.

It does take a few scenes to get used to their long - in - the - tooth appearance, but eventually, their characters do manage to take hold, and you forget the 20 - year gap from the last time we've seen these actors fill the shoes of Christmas and Dunne.

That story has a lot of differing source material to draw from but since we expect it to feature a five - character roster with at least a few characters from X: DOFP, that story could take place in the two - year gap before The Wolverine mid-credits scene, where Logan - and this is just our speculation - may recruit his own squad of mutants in the two - year gap before encountering Professor X and Magneto.

Over the past few years, the districts profiled in the report — the Houston Independent School District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white students.

When asked how they «reduced their budget gaps» over the past two years, fewer than half had eliminated or limited cost of living raises for teachers, only 30 percent cut automatic step increases, and just 13 percent trimmed benefits.

As we've seen in New York, which is a few years ahead of the curve when it comes to making its tests much harder, a higher cut score will make achievement gaps look much bigger, and the achievement of most high - poverty schools look much worse.

Today, only about 25 percent of U.S. classrooms have teachers whose students learn enough to close achievement gaps in a few years and make further progress like the world's top students.

On the basis of these projections, McKinsey's Global Institute estimates that over the next few years there will be a gap of nearly 2 million workers with the necessary analytical and technical skills.

The growing popularity of BYOD is a trend that has appeared in the workplace and schools over the past few years; partly, this has been in response to gaps between the technology found at work and school, and what people are using in their spare time.

Improvements in primary schools over the past few years mean that the gap between the proportion of disadvantaged pupils with at least a good pass in English and maths and all other pupils is set to reduce from 24 percentage points (ppts) to 21.5 between 2017 and 2021.

Working on just a few problems daily (or more, if your child enjoys math) can help students of all ages close the gaps in their math skills, preserve what they learned during the previous school year, and prepare for the next.

Our calculations using a school improvement approach based on data from Massachusetts suggest a national gap of perhaps $ 8 billion a year, concentrated in a few states.

If the statistics of age - achievement gaps are anything to go by, your class of 27 Year 1 kids will be spread out over P - 3 levels and it's highly unlikely that a levelled class would be 90 % one age, with a few outsiders.

«We know that many billions are required over the next few years to fill the gap in climate finance, but the money pledged today is vital to help some of the most vulnerable people on the planet cope with the immediate impacts of our rapidly warming world,» Ishii continued.

Some have argued that the only way for districts to close the comparability gap is to force experienced teachers to transfer to high - poverty schools, which typically employ teachers with fewer years of experience and lower salaries.

The available data enabled the researchers to derive measures of changes in the black - white gap for only a few years for each cohort's educational career.

Just a few years ago, the schools were considered «focus schools» which means they were not only low - performing but also had some of the largest achievement gaps in the state.

If current trends continue, we would see as few as 200,000 available teacher hires each year by 2025, resulting in a gap of more than 100,000 teachers annually.

In both studies, the gender gap developed early at the top of the achievement distribution and spread throughout during the first few years of elementary school.

The gap between Hispanics and whites on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation's Report Card, has stayed fairly stagnant over the past few years in both math and reading, even as the country has become more focused on closing achievement gaps as required by the 2002 federal education law, No Child Left Behind.

Just a few years ago, Clarence Edwards Middle School in the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts, typified the achievement gap challenge we face across the United States.

This is clear in a project called the Schools of Opportunity, launched a few years ago by educators who sought to highlight public high schools that actively seek to close opportunity gaps through research - proven practices and not standardized test scores (which are more a measure of socioeconomic status than anything else).