Sentences with phrase «large span of years»

This means that your preparations must be flexible enough to cover a large span of years.

Not exact matches

The three CEOs, over the span of a dozen years, followed a strategy that has become the norm for many big companies during the past two decades: large stock buybacks to make use of cash, coupled with acquisitions to lift revenue.

Zigwheels, launched in 2008, has made its mark as one of the large automotive research website and review destination in India in a short span of 7 years.

The losses were so large that only upper - income families realized notable gains in wealth over the span of 30 years from 1983 to 2013 (the period for which data on wealth are available).11

By: Robyn Wilkinson 16th December 2016 Mining services company Murray & Roberts Cementation will complete its contract at diamond miner Petra Diamonds» Gauteng - based Cullinan mine this month, concluding the largest portion of the R4 - billion Phase 1 expansion project that will initially extend the diamond mine's life span by about 15 year →

The authors of the paper note «In this study, we found evidence supporting the occurrence of extremely large clones (up to 15 km) and life spans of thousands to tens of thousands of years.»

Easyfairs is the organiser of the largest global portfolio of packaging events, and has developed a specialism in events that create value for the packaging community that it serves; its collection of shows spans 38 events across 19 cities and 12 countries, attracting over 100,000 visitors and 3,500 exhibitors each year.

Within a span of four months, at a pace that would make even top dealmakers envious, the influential trade association checked off three items that had loomed large on its agenda for years.

To get a sense of how important this thing is for the mayor, consider how he describes his overall initiative: «The largest affordable housing program that any city, any state has attempted in a ten - year time span in the history of the republic.»

The winner will represent one of the larger geographic districts in Queens that was redefined during last year's district process and spans from the tip of the College Point neighborhood to Little Neck bordering Long Island.

In this respect the NIAMS R03 awards resemble the old NIH - wide R29 (FIRST) awards, which were discontinued 5 years ago; FIRST awards, however, were larger, granting up to $ 350,000 over a 5 - year span, with a maximum of $ 100,000 in any year.

The world's ample supply of uranium could fuel a much larger fleet of reactors than exists today throughout their 40 - to 50 - year life span.

In «Our Place in the Cosmos,» the astronomers Noam I. Libeskind and R. Brent Tully detail the discovery of Laniakea, a supercluster of about 100,000 large galaxies that includes our own Milky Way and spans nearly a half - billion light years.

Spanning well over half a million light - years, NGC 6872 (seen in white and pink in this image acquired with the European Very Large Telescope) is at least five times the size of our own Milky Way, astronomers reported here on Thursday at the 221st meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

Although smaller than the Milky Way, the Large Magellanic Cloud boasts something our own galaxy can't match: Its greatest star - forming region, named 30 Doradus, spans 700 light - years — 28 times the size of the Orion Nebula, the best - known stellar nursery in the Milky Way.

Large craters can achieve a life span of several 100 million years, depending on the region in which they are located.

The researchers analysed the images to build a map of dark matter spanning 10 billion light years, the first direct glimpse of dark matter on such a large scale.

One of the best known examples of large scale structure in the modern Universe is the cosmic Great Wall, a gigantic filamentary structure spanning over 500 million light - years.

The most highly cited Geophysical Laboratory papers of the past forty years demonstrate the breadth and evolution of science in the department, ranging from seminal discoveries to breakthroughs in technique, spanning small research teams to large - scale collaborations.

The plasma science frontier is often, but not limited to, the extremes of the plasma state, ranging from the very small (several atom systems) to the extremely large (plasma structure spanning light years in length), from the very fast (attosecond processes) to the very slow (hours), from the diffuse (interstellar medium) to the extremely dense (diamond compressed to tens of gigabar pressures), and from the ultracold (tens of micro kelvin) to the extremely hot (stellar core).

Dr. Dvorak brings more than 20 years of clinical research experience that spans from academia to both large and small companies, including Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Tercica, Leptos, and Vivus.

These filaments, spanning across millions of light - years — much larger than the largest galaxies — constitute the cosmic web, and account for most of the ordinary matter (as opposed to dark matter) in the universe.

The entire galaxy spans 260,000 light - years across - a distance so large, it took 10 GALEX images stitched together to produce this view of the galaxy next door.

The entire galaxy spans 260,000 light - years across — a distance so large, it took 10 GALEX images stitched together to produce this view of the galaxy next door.

One example published last year was a large study in Europe reporting that a higher intake of polyphenols, particularly stilbenes from grapes and nuts and lignans from flax, was associated with a longer life span.

The results of the largest coffee study to date were recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine involving more than 400,000 U.S. men and women ages 50 to 71, over a 14 year span of time.

The inhabitants of Crete, for example, are remarkable for their good health and longevity.19 A study of Puerto Ricans revealed that, although they consume large amounts of animal fat, they have a very low incidence of colon and breast cancer.20 A study of the long - lived inhabitants of Soviet Georgia revealed that those who eat the most fatty meat live the longest.21 In Okinawa, where the average life span for women is 84 years — longer than in Japan — the inhabitants eat generous amounts of pork and seafood and do all their cooking in lard.22 None of these studies is mentioned by those urging restriction of saturated fats.

This is a large study that spanned ten years and included 135,335 individuals 35 to 70 years of age from 18 countries in 5 continents.

By all accounts, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained is a massive film in both scope and scale, boasting a large ensemble cast, a story that spans years, and a mix of locations and climates.

Derek Wheaton's education career spans 34 years and includes 14 years as a teacher in both inner city and urban elementary schools, and 18 years as a practicing principal of a large K - 2 center in southwest Michigan.

The final presentation at this year's FutureBook event, hosted by The Bookseller and sponsored by Kobo, Ingram, Atwood Tate, Nielsen, and YUDU, was to give out the Innovation awards in a large number of diverse categories that spanned the major functions in digital publishing.

Having held the position of Regional Manager / Director of Underwriting and Real Estate Default Management for over 15 years, and holding various positions at CMHC spanning over 25 years, TJ was responsible for managing and overseeing the real estate mortgage insurance operations in the Prairies and Territories Region - the largest geographical region in the country.

Over the five years through the end of the third quarter — a span that included both bull and bear markets — only 29.1 percent of large - cap funds managed to beat the S. & P. 500.

Several years and a number of brands later, PetIQ now offers a large product portfolio that spans diverse categories such as flea and tick, dental care, health care and treats — with more in development.

Larger / giant breed dogs tend to have shorter life spans compared to smaller breeds and are often considered senior when they are 5 to 6 years of age; Medium - large breed dogs are considered seniors at 7 years age, while smaller / toy breed dogs are considered senior at around 1o years of age.

Hit by cars, mauled by dogs and other larger animals, poisoned, and notably dying of a host of parasitic diseases, feral and stray cats have an average life span of less than 3 years.

Billed as the country's largest charitable pet fashion show, now in its 14th year, the event's theme was Global Couture for Animal Rescue with fashions that spanned from Russia to Paraguay strutting down the runway (and a poignant moment when three generations of Armenian women appeared in handmade outfits commemorating the Armenian genocide of 1915).

The French pavilion inspired building houses a collection that spans 4,000 years, featuring European painting and sculptures, Mediterranean ancient art, and the largest collection of works on paper in the American West.

Bringing together almost 250 works by 16 iconic photographers, and spanning the 1960s to the late»80s, the exhibition will be one of the largest overviews of North American photography in the UK in recent years.

A larger room concentrates on the span of a year or two, when she is experimenting with layered surfaces and figurative themes.

The largest ever retrospective survey of Damien Hirst's work, including both iconic, and previously unseen artworks, spanning 27 years of the artist's career.

On view from September 22 to November 19, 2016, the exhibition is the largest showing of Lee's work in recent years and spans his career over the past four decades in New York City.

Its holdings span 4,000 years and include European painting, sculpture, and decorative arts; ancient art from the Mediterranean basin; and the largest collection of works on paper in the American West.

The Royal Academy currently has the largest collection of Jones's work brought together since 1995, spanning his entire career; five decades from his drawings submitted to the Royal College of Art in 1959, through his early experimental works such as The Artist Thinks (1960) and Interesting Journey (1962) to those made this year like To Be Or Not To Be (2014).

As the title indicates, the show will be comprised of four large video installations spanning 6 years of creation The 588 Project (2009); Multipilori (2010) and two new ones Buried Metal (2011 - 2015) and Quad (2015).

Grace and Joshua conclude their visit to the large retrospective of David Hockney's art at Tate Britain spanning 60 years.

With nearly 200 works spanning 1,000 years of art history, Phoenix Rising is emblematic of the increasing sophistication and cultural commitment of the city's greater metropolitan area, the sixth largest in the nation.

His latest retrospective at Open Eye Gallery highlights a number of large - scale oils, drawings and watercolours from a career spanning over fifty years, which was heavily influenced by the artist's life - long muse and inspiration, Helen Bellany.

While his work spanned less than twenty years - his life was cut short due to AIDS at the age of 37 - from 1979 to 1992 he created a large body of work in collage, paintings, performances, sculpture, writing and video.

Following this exhibition, Gagosian Gallery, New York presented «Corpus» in 2006: a large show of drawings spanning twenty - five years of the artist's career, including works dating from Hirst's teenage years, such as «Emma» (1983) and «Study after Delacroix (the Orphan Girl in the Cemetery)» (1981)-- completed by the artist at the age of sixteen.