Sentences with phrase «growing cycles of the year»

Each table is a different height and shape, to replicate the growing cycles of the year, and features an accompanying

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My father and I counted at least five Ford Taurus (including several Taurus station wagons) as having cycled through our family while I was growing up — overlapping some of the car's peak years — including my first car.

If we assume a 2 - year average upgrade cycle for smartphones and growth trends remain the same, the global smartphone installed base will grow from 2.2 billion in 2014 to about 4.2 billion by the end of 2017, according to our estimates.

He expects a new product cycle in the second half of the year, adding «if you take a step back at Apple, even with this slowdown in earnings growth, they're growing at 10 percent.»

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High - yield bonds are in the eighth year of an investment cycle that has seen assets under management grow threefold, to $ 300 billion, so interest among investors remains high.

* Information efficiency * Economic slack * Contained inflation * Coordinated Central Banks * The growth of China and India and their continued purchasing of US debt * The growing perception that US dollar denominated assets are the safest assets in the world * A 30 + year trend of declining rates that is telling us we're more adept at managing inflation with each new cycle that passes

While the U.S. economy is entering its ninth year of expansion, economies in the rest of the world are much earlier in their cycle and may have room to grow.

The second is that the full growing cycle takes more than a year, and several points of the process are extremely time - sensitive.

Q: Dear Dave, I have around 8 varieties that I plan on growing this year — all of them have growth cycles below 85 days.

As they get older, their cycle will grow in multiples of 90 - staying awake for 3 hrs, then 4.5 etc. until they are around 1 year and begin to follow the clock (ie set naps at the same time each day).

«As such, our firm grew last year to handle the rigorous demands of the 2013 city - wide campaign cycle.

Six years later with the growing number of bikes on our roads, more and more cycle lanes being introduced and the introduction of excellent schemes which I take advantage of such as the cycle hire scheme in London.

Muller - Landau is interested in year - to - year variation in the cycles by which different species of trees grow and shed their leaves, fruit and flower.

A new ring grows on a tree every cycle of the seasons, meaning each ring stands for a particular year.

That should give you a few years of easy gift giving (and in the meantime your children will grow and you can start the cycle again with more recent photos).

What's clear after just a few minutes with Lucy and her classmates is that the six - year - olds have become experts: They can guide you through the life cycle of a frog — from the laying of the eggs (called frog spawn, Lucy explains) to the full - grown frog 12 - 16 weeks later.

However, the guidelines were published almost 15 years ago, and during this time we have grown older and maybe more critically aware of the hype cycles and the techno - romance of emerging technologies.

It's important that consumers know there is help available, and the time to reach out and get it is now — to overcome the cycle of scrimping for every penny every month, year after year, only to watch your debt grow.

, and many are trapped in a cycle of payments, the following is also true: the world economy that has grown largely through borrowing and spending has created a standard of living for most that no one could have dreamt of 100 years ago.

Target date mutual funds are also known as target - risk funds, life cycle, target year, life style funds, and the list of things marketers call them continues to grow.

Over recent years we have witnessed a growing trend in outdoor adventure sports such as Scuba diving, hiking, rock - climbing, paragliding, and cycling — the primary draw being the combination of impressive mountains and valleys, perfect climate and numerous areas of outstanding natural beauty

The situation represents a stark contrast with other big productions of the Japanese developer released over the last five years, and perhaps signals a change of cycle in which brands like Monster Hunter grow more popular at a global scale, while other classic properties might not able to recover from their current situation.

Thanks to NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (launched 2014) there are some very nice 3D data - based visualizations of the yearly biological CO2 cycle in the northern hemisphere as well as of the main human centers of fossil CO2 emissions, and this shows how the atmospheric CO2 is growing each year.

On multi-decadal timeframes, GH gas forcing and the PDO / AMO combination have been having fairly even in their relative forcing over the past century, but the GH gas forcing is growing so large that it now dominating these longer - term natural variations... so the kicker is that the rapidly increasing GH gases, now at their highest levels in millions of years, are very likely influencing the nature of ENSO, PDO, AMO, and other formerly «natural» cycles.

So we knew for civilization and a technological economy to work in the southwestern US that water resources, which were abundant in high elevations where people didn't live and came in short cycles of 4 years dry and 1 year wet, with a deluge every so often, could be developed to grow cities and economies.

annual plants terrestrial plants that complete their life cycle in one growing season; plants that die off each year during periods of temperature and moisture stress but leave behind seeds to germinate during the next favorable climatic season

Sunlight is a limiting factor in that there isn't enough of it in higher latitudes for crops which requires longer growing seasons and / or for getting more than one crop cycle per year.

It differs from how I would do it, as does the British Columbia Revenue Neutral Carbon Tax (successful and growing in popularity for 4 years now), the Australian Pricing Mechanism, or any of the Cap & Trade schemes or various carbon taxes that return nothing to the owners of the carbon cycle.

The planet has undergone cyclic ice ages for millions of years, but about 850,000 years ago, the cycles of ice grew longer and more intense — a shift that some scientists have attributed to falling CO2 levels.

Do you think you can convince me that we aren't in a interglacial period that is getting a bit long in tooth, that the Milankovitch cycle that helps the glaciers grow by making northern hemisphere winters warmer and summers cooler isn't moving in the direction favorable to glaciation, and that the next once - per - thousand year volcanic eruption won't happen in this century, and it won't be the straw that breaks the camel's back by lowering the earth's temperature a couple degrees for a few years to mark the end of the Holocene?

Sea levels are rising (ask the Mayor of Miami who has spent tax monies to raise road levels), we've had 15 of the hottest years eve measured, more precipitation is coming down in heavy doses (think Houston), we're seeing more floods and drought than ever before (consistent with predictions), the oceans are measuring warmer, lake ice in North America is thawing sooner (where it happens in northern states and Canada), most glaciers are shrinking, early spring snowpacks out west have declined since the 1950's, growing seasons are longer throughout the plains, bird wintering ranges have moved north, leaf and bloom dates recorded by Thoreau in Walden have shifted in that area, insect populations that used to have one egg - larva - adult cycle in the summer now have two, the list goes on and on.

Furthermore, «the reproductive cycles of mammals that live in seasonal environments are tuned to seasonal cycles,» Gingerich said «If an animal has a one - or two - year period in which to grow to maturity and reproduce, and it's trying to do that on a diet that's difficult to digest and not very nutritious, it's not surprising that it would evolve to be smaller.]

Join a two - year rotational programme, and experience the full cycle of over a dozen operational teams which support our growing business.

Almost half of today's active duty forces are parents, and continuing hostilities in Iraq and Afghanistan ensure that growing numbers of military families will experience repeated cycles of separation in a context of danger that may span across years of each family's development.

The Experience ArborCrowd's leadership has weathered more than 30 years of changing market cycles — consistently succeeding and growing, even during tumultuous times.

The amount of equity almost always grows in a home over the years, but it follows along with the economic times and cycle.