Sentences with phrase «longer span of years»

But his lively presentation and his method — extensive personal interviews with people over a long span of years — make this book a model for future efforts.

This exhibition examines in - depth the work of a community of artists — Birgir Andrésson (1955 — 2007), Douwe Jan Bakker (1943 — 1997), Hreinn Friðfinnsson (b. 1943), Kristján Guðmundsson (b. 1941), Sigurður Guðmundsson (b. 1942), and Magnús Pálsson (b. 1929)-- artists who have worked in conversation with one another over a long span of years (both in Iceland and abroad, specifically, in the Netherlands), often tackling similar concerns from various unique perspectives.

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But, for the most part, cities have not yet fully bought in to them, largely because of the inflexibility they introduce: Cities lose their ability to repurpose community - entrusted land for other uses, such as zoning it for commercial use if necessary, because the land is often locked into long - term leases, usually spanning in the 75 - year range.

Long - term investing seems to be a thing of the past and shorter term attention spans are affecting the investment markets more and more each year.

Hold Stocks for Long Term -: As much as possible; hold shares for long periods of time, usually in a span of 5 to 10 yeLong Term -: As much as possible; hold shares for long periods of time, usually in a span of 5 to 10 yelong periods of time, usually in a span of 5 to 10 years.

Using very long - term data for U.S. stock and bond markets spanning hundreds of years, he concludes that: Keep Reading

Christianity, like a lot of other religions that have been co-opted by governments as a means of manipulating the people, has a very long and very bloody history spanning about 1700 years.

Look at the age of fossilized bones, look at DNA evidence and all the other mountains of evidence about the LONG - TERM DYNAMICS of LIVING ORGANISMS on this planet over the span of BILLIONS of years.

The average life - span in those days was around 45 years — the likelihood of any original eyewitnesses still being around to testify to the Gospel authors is extremely low, not to mention the fact that even the classical historian Josephus said that 20 years is long enough to render witness testimony useless.

Leisuretime activity is more frequently consummated within a brief span of time as compared with the years - long cumulative character of most work.

That is, it was I, Norman Pittenger, then a young man and a somewhat eager theological student, looking forward to a long and I hoped successful span of years, who was brought face to face with the inevitability of my own entirely personal death.

A long series of fossils through the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, a span of 140 million years, document the evolutionary transition from reptile to bird.

Maybe it is the grindingly long, 162 - game season, which allows for so many promising and disheartening plotlines to take shape, only to dissolve again along the way, and which sustains even the most improbable hope past any rational span; or maybe it is simply the course of the year's seasons, from early spring into mid-autumn — nature's perennial allegory of human life, eloquent of innocent confidence slowly transformed into wise resignation.

Known as the Mayan Long Count Calendar, it is a wonderfully complex system that spans around 5,200 years and is of huge spiritual significance to the Maya people.

At 29 years of age, he will gradually lose his pace for those runs down the left wing, so I believe Wenger is going to be using him more and more as a centre - back as time progresses, and defenders usually have a longer life span than any other players except keepers.

At around 2 years of age children begin to have a longer attention span.

Through decades of research, including long - term studies spanning over 30 + years, we know that SEL is the most proactive and preventative mental health initiative available.

These connections span not only long distances over space but also over time, from the beginnings of LLL almost 60 years ago right up to today and moving on into the future.

However, that year of difference is a very long span of time.

The 60 - year - old first became MP for Aylesbury in 1992, and held a long series of opposition posts, including shadow environment secretary and shadow Northern Ireland secretary, spanning 1999 - 2010.

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.

Since poodles have a long life span of 12 - 15 years, this dog food also helps support healthy aging.

Having shown that IGF -1-deficient mice also live longer, Bartke's study suggested not only that these pathways are important in mammals, but that they might have been crucial in controlling life span in a range of creatures evolving over hundreds of millions of years from a common ancestor of worms and mammals, says Miller.

They live entirely in underground tunnels and never see the sun; have long life spans for their size (30 years compared to a common rat's 4 years); feel no pain in their skin; survive and thrive in oxygen - poor environments; and are resistant to strokes and a number of diseases, cancer included.

Studies show that Seventh - Day Adventists, whose church encourages behaviors that promote healthy aging, have a well - documented average life span of 88 years, approximately eight years longer than the average U.S. citizen.

They came from the Lorraine Group, a rock formation that spans much of the northeastern United States and dates to the Ordovician period (about 485 million to 444 million years ago); it has long been a mecca for trilobite hunters because of the pyritization.

Living several decades longer than its shallow - water relatives, Escarpia laminata has the longest known life span for a tube worm, aging beyond 300 years, researchers report in the August Science of Nature.

Good genes no doubt explain why, despite smoking cigarettes for some 90 years, Frenchwoman Jeanne Louise Calment died in 1997 at 122 years of age, the longest life span yet recorded.

A recent study found that fire seasons grew longer by almost 20 percent in a span of 35 years in most parts of the world, and linked this lengthening to climate change.

This is a long term project spanning many years that allows us to answer some questions about the natural trajectory of learning and how it's affected by variations in learners and their environment,» said Levine.

After nearly two years of planning, a team of scientists from the United States and Cuba has explored never - before - studied mesophotic coral reefs during a month - long circumnavigation of the entire coast of Cuba, which spans about 1,500 miles (2,729 kilometers).

In rodents, differences in life expectancy and morbidity during aging are particularly high: Despite close relationships with regard to genetic aspects, small rodents like mice or rats live no longer than two to three years, whereas mole - rats or chinchillas have an average life span of 20 to 30 years while staying comparatively healthy.

It is a red dwarf, considerably smaller and cooler than our current sun but with a life span of 4 trillion years, roughly 400 times as long.

The impatient gene It's long been known that evolution sometimes happens very quickly — as in the development of resistance to antibiotics in bacteria — but the discovery that lizards on two islands in Croatia evolved significant differences in body type and social structure in the span of fewer than forty years is shocking enough to warrant publication in a top - shelf journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

For the better part of 50 years he has dedicated his life and his research to the belief that threescore years and fifteen is woefully short for a human life span and that we should all live decades longer.

Even during the scale down, the fleet size dropped down to 83 because of the animals» long life spans — typically the late 20s for the sea lions and upward of 30 years for the dolphins.

And with an expected life span of more than three years — six times longer than traditional refugee tents — these houses may out - survive the crisis, in which case they're designed to be disassembled and rebuilt on more permanent ground.

The extra data spanning many thousands of years that this study uncovers will go a long way to matching model projections with past observations, helping scientists identify the most accurate models for making predictions of future climate change.

We are very impressed by Fred Kavli's design of these new awards, which span from the very grand scale of astrophysics to the microscopic level of nanotechnology, and to the level in between: the brain - no doubt the most complex organ created by the biological evolution over a very, very long time... billions of years.

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 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.

Cutting daily calorie intake by 30 percent may put the brakes on the aging process, have beneficial effects on the brain, and result in a longer life span, according to a new 20 - year study of monkeys published in the journal Science.

I can go through long (30 - year - spanning) bouts of indecisiveness.

Regardless of the fact spin - offs such as Happy Home Designer (2015,) amiibo Festival (2015) and the New Leaf expansion «Welcome amiibo» and the mobile app has graced our presence since, it has been well over 4 years since the last true instalment and even though I am not an Animal Crossing fan myself, it is just too long a span of time.

Though her career spans an extraordinary sixty years, Doris Roberts seems certain to forever be identified solely as Marie Barone or «the mother from «Everybody Loves Raymond»» for less than devout viewers of that highly - rated, long - running CBS sitcom.

One of the most technically accomplished directors working today, he avoids all temptation to impress us stylistically to draw us into a complex story and a complicated investigation that spans years and reverberates through the culture even longer.

The Rainbow Six line of games has been a long established franchise spanning many years and a multitude of platforms.

For all of those hunkered snug in the cold and goin» crazy down by the lake after a year of anticipation over the third season of the FX anthology series Fargo — inspired, of course, by the Coen Brothers dark comedy of the same name, not to mention a buffet - filled bevy of narrative and thematic homages that span across their entire filmography — here's a home baked slice of warm comfort: the official trailer for the long - awaited return has finally been released.

By featuring vampires, who live forever, the game highlights the impact of long - term savings over a 45 - year span in a 15 - round game.

Everyone knows that the attention span of a 14 - year - old can be short, but we intended to create a year - long project for our freshmen course.