Sentences with phrase «leap years which»

Years with 365 days — as opposed to leap years which have an additional day added — are known as «common» years.

Not exact matches

The number of distributed denial - of - service (DDoS) attacks — which are designed to paralyze a target network with a deluge of messages, often sent from a bevy of hijacked computers — leaped more than 170 % last year, and Cisco projects it will jump again by a factor of two or more by 2021.

Under Armour, which on Wednesday also announced that 2014 sales leapt 32 % from the prior year, will pay $ 475 million to buy MyFitnessPal and $ 85 million for Europe - based Endomondo.

He stayed at Youthstream as an employee for less than two years, then took the leap again, forming Mr Youth, which later became MRY.

The fiscal cliff, off which U.S. taxpayers may have to leap on Jan. 1, 2013, if the Bush tax cuts expire, is seen as being the inevitable consequence of Washington lawmakers» infighting unless President Obama and Congress honestly confront this deadline in an election year.

Although the cars will then need to leap the hurdle of regulatory approvals, which the exec and perennial inventor said would tack on another «one to five years.»

As we begin the first quarter of 2017, we are mindful of the comparison we face against first quarter 2016 results, which benefited from leap year, favourable weather and continued momentum from All - Day Breakfast in the U.S.»

Some stocks also trade LEAPS ® (Long - term Equity AnticiPation Securities), which are simply longer - term options that expire as far as 2 1/2 years into the future.

A decade after having proclaimed the «end of history» and the arrival of a new world order of prosperity based on «democracy and the market», globalised financial capital has subjected the majority of the planet's working populations to the burden of international recession, which has spread out in leaps and bounds, from Asia: recession and deflation in the world's second economy, Japan; recession and even depression m various east Asian countries, since the first quarter of 1997; the collapse of the Russian economy six years ago and financial bankruptcy in July 1998; brutal recession in the leading economy of Latin America, Brazil; the beginning of the downturn in the economies of the OECD countries.

@NAH, can rebut each of Colin's points in a reasonable manner, specifically let me call out two (both sort of related)-- the Christianity refers to only 600 years of history, and only refers to a small geography (not even the entire earth)-- why «leap of faith» argument is valid for Christianity and not for other independent faiths, which have many contradictory beliefs compared to Christianity, and if they are equally valid, how can they all be equally valid

It is a complicated system based on a period of eight years which includes three leap years, with the total number of days divisible by both seven and five.

The latest news from BluePrint, which was acquired by Hain Celestial in December for a reported price of $ 25 million, comes amid a dramatic leap in awareness and demand for cold - pressed juices, as well as the introduction of a variety of similarly positioned brands over the past year.

The latest news from BluePrint, which was acquired by Hain Celestial in December, comes amid a dramatic leap in awareness and demand for cold - pressed juices, as well as the introduction of a variety of similarly positioned brands over the past year.

The $ 10.25 million total purse makes The Open the second-most lucrative event in golf behind the U.S. Open, which this year leapt to a $ 12 million total.

There's still a long way to go, Spurs are only 1 point ahead and let's hope United loose at West Ham tomorrow, remember Spurs are away at Liverpool Tuesday so we could easily leap frog them again which will be all the more sweeter seeing as we lost to them today and their fans are gobbling off yet again about how they will apparently finish above us this time when they haven't even managed to do that in the last 20 years or whatever it is.

The 22 - year - old's leap of 6.75 m in Birmingham, which she backed up with 6.72 m in the final round, saw her claim the British long jump title ahead of world silver medallist and UK record - holder Shara Proctor and it also secured her spot on the Great Britain team for her first Olympics in Rio next month.

A hamstring tear sustained at the IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting in Karlsruhe at the beginning of the month means the 26 - year - old can't aspire to repeat her 2016 and 2017 levels of indoors success, which included world and European long jump medals, an overall World Indoor Tour series win and a British indoor record leap of 6.97 m. Instead, her focus is now on rehabbing right to make sure she is in the best possible shape for Australia in April.

In 2015, five years after it started to gain popularity, Chance the Rapper named his daughter Kinsley which could have influenced the giant leaps it came since 2016.

«I am pleased with the friendly relations between Turkey and Nigeria, which has grown in leaps and bounds over the years.

For DeFrancisco, the leap into the GOP governor's race and a potential matchup with Cuomo in November will culminate a 40 - year career in public office in which he has never lost an election.

But don't expect lawmakers and the governor to necessarily leap at new ethics legislation, which has been passed virtually every year Cuomo has been in office.

It was followed a few years later by the 60 - foot - long, cylindrical Sealab III, which was designed so a dozen aquanauts at a time could conduct experiments at a depth of 600 feet, a giant leap out onto the continental shelf.

But the following year the Poinars made a huge leap back in time when they managed to sequence the DNA from a weevil which was 130 million years old.

Scientists are trying to find out how the disease, which had made inroads into southern Europe over the past 8 years, made the giant leap north, and what its potential for further spread is.

Their analysis concluded that whale body length had varied randomly for about 30 million years before making a leap to more than 10 meters between 4.5 million and hundreds of thousands of years ago — a stretch of time that straddles the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, commonly referred to as the Plio - Pleistocene — which was more recent than previous research suggested.

A leap year occurs every four years to help synchronize the calendar year with the solar year, or the length of time it takes the earth to complete its orbit about the sun, which is about 365 1/4 days.

A leap year has 366 days, as opposed to a common year, which has 365.

While, at its heart, this wasn't too much of a leap away from the typical gameplay of similar titles, this extra element just made it seem so much more involved, which is why Groove Planet was our Game of the Week in December of last year.

Which is probably why Tom Cruise is jumping out of an airplane at 25,000 feet for «Mission Impossible — Fallout,» the latest entry in a consistent, star - driven franchise and, seemingly, the best Cruise can do these days since taking another famous leap (the one off Oprah's couch) 13 years ago.

Cameron Mitchell took a major leap this year with Rabbit Hole, which, if all goes well, could be headed for the Best Picture ten.

Sure, the explosions and the porcupine cars and the flamethrower guitar wielding Doof Warrior leap most quickly to mind, but what makes Mad Max: Fury Road special enough to be the second best film of the year is the care with which the rest of his world is treated.

The achievement distribution makes another leap forward the following year (2004), which was the first year that began with a sizable number of retained students due to implementation of the policy.

Pope Gregory XIII then introduced the civil calendar we follow today, which takes care of the extra 11 minutes or so by eliminating the extra day in leap year centuries that can not be divided by 400, such as 1700, 1800 and 1900.

While 3D printing has come on leaps and bounds in the past few years, buyers need to start thinking out of the box when it comes to purchasing solutions which have a lasting impact.

Their calendar would eliminate all leap years, which are added ever 4 years to keep our 365.2422 day year from getting our calendar out of sorts.

Last year the state saw an estimated 60,000 students opt out, which leapt to nearly 200,000 this year.

Toyota's plug - in Prius, which won't be available in the retail market for another two years, represents a cautious approach to test the performance, durability, manufacturing consistency and safety of new - generation Li - ion batteries before making the next leap into full EVs.

The new Phantom has been five years in the making, and as Rolls - Royce officials acknowledge, it really needed to take a two - generation leap, given that the model it replaces is 14 years old — which may as well be 80 in car years.

With 510 sales of the Honda Ridgeline (which wasn't on sale at this time a year ago), a 34 - percent Nissan Frontier increase, and a massive 265 - percent leap from the Chevrolet Colorado / GMC Canyon twins, the midsize pickup truck segment doubled its November volume despite a downturn reported by the typically segment - leading Toyota Tacoma.

Ineos insisted it would not directly copy the Land Rover's design, which saw resale values leap around the world after its demise last year, but would use its simplistic philosophy.

The test car had a six - speed manual transmission, which has improved by leaps and bounds over the past few years.

Hyundai has lowered the starting price on the 2014 Azera premium sedan to $ 31,000, a reduction of $ 1,250, while offering significant new features and refinements to this award - winning model, which has seen a sales leap of 34 percent this year.

The Kerala State Central Library, which happens to be one of the oldest in India, has made the big leap to the digital age by digitizing hundreds of books, some which date back hundreds of years.

Rushdie leaps forward 1,000 years from now, when future chroniclers look back to our fraught, accelerating epoch to tell a tale of «the time of strangenesses, which lasted for two years, eight months and twenty - eight days, which is to say, one thousand nights and one night more.»

One of my biggest concerns about taking the leap from traditional publishing to self - publishing is my writing speed, which is currently a book a year.

The story, which unfolds in a series of dispatches from a 13 - year - old agent dubbed «Pygmy,» leaps enthusiastically over the line of good taste but lands squarely on its feet.

While WellPet has grown by leaps and bounds over the years, the company has held onto the small - company approach that has been essential to consistently producing the level of quality for which all four of its brands are known.

Theyve learned its smarter to release a console from the very start that can withstand the test of time than a ps4 which wasnt that great of a leap and then 3 years later a pro version.

The Order: 1886 is the best looking and most cinematic game I've ever played, making it one of the few titles for PlayStation 4 (or the Xbox One), that actually encapsulates the visual leap many people expected from the fancy «next - generation» consoles which launched over a year ago.

It actually look over a year to make the leap onto the PS3, by which time the interest in the title had died down considerably!