Sentences with phrase «made over the period of a decade»

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And so what better place to teach persons personally than in a congregation where you have access to everything that makes up their personhood — their families, their work, the weather, their neighborhood, their sins, their stories — and over a period of years, sometimes decades.

They abandoned their Christianity gradually, as a result of many decisions made by many people over a period of decades.

Billions in HUD and DOT funds, over a period of decades, have helped make it so.

«It's the Olympics, it spans over four decades and there's a lot of things that make it expensive, it was a period script.

Unfairly disposed to doomed distribution prospects and perhaps unfortunate dismissal during its initial reception comes Lucrecia Martel's long - awaited fourth feature, Zama an epically staged period piece, which premiered out - of - competition at the 2017 Venice Film Festival after over four years in the making and arriving nearly a decade after her last film, 2008's The Headless Woman.

It's possible to develop a pretty good picture of how schools and districts are doing using samples of students and samples of test items — that's what the National Assessment of Educational Progress has been relying on for decades — and there's nothing magical about a school year that makes it the inevitable time period over which to assess changes in school and district performance.

Dividends have been paid for more than three decades, and payments have increased over that period, making AT&T one of the most reliable stocks currently on the market.

In our view, your goal as an investor, particularly if you follow a conservative investing strategy like the one we recommend, is to make an attractive return on your investments over a period of years or decades, but with lower risk.

In reporting their findings, the researchers made clear that the breeds of dogs said to be involved in human fatalities had varied over time, pointing out that the period 1975 - 1980 showed a different distribution of breeds than the later years.8 Subsequently, Karen Delise of the National Canine Research Council reported that, in the decade 1966 - 1975, fewer than 2 % of all dogs involved in fatal attacks in the United States were identified as of the breeds that figured prominently in the CDC study.

Nintendo's evolution over nearly four decades of video game making mirrors the way Disney matured over a similar period in animation.

It presents more than 50 color reproductions of graphite, watercolor and ink on paper drawings made by Richter over a period of five decades, from 1966 to 2005.

The sculptures, Playground, Wall, and Maze, were made over a five - year period starting in 1962, and they provide an overview of Smith's signature style during this formative decade.

«Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963 - 2016» features 40 sculptures made over a period of five decades, presenting publicly for the first time a previously unknown aspect of his practice.

This presentation is comprised of approximately 50 graphite, watercolor, and ink on paper drawings made by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932, Dresden, Germany) over a period of five decades from 1966 to 2005.

Over a period of five decades during his time on the Greek island, Whitten explored various aspects of sculpture made with a variety of materials.

AGW means that the heat content of the whole Earth system increases, but it does not make unique predictions on the relative rates of warming of various parts of the Earth system over periods up to a couple of decades.

The essay was mostly about the failure of the environmental movement to make much progress on its agenda over the previous decade, but we could just as well have written it about any of the other liberal interest groups over that period.

A certain amount of continued warming of the planet is projected to occur as a result of human - induced emissions to date; another 0.5 °F increase would be expected over the next few decades even if all emissions from human activities suddenly stopped, 11 although natural variability could still play an important role over this time period.12 However, choices made now and in the next few decades will determine the amount of additional future warming.

During this period, the rate of this rise has varied on multidecadal time scales making identifying exact reasons behind upswings, such has been observed over the past few decades, difficult.

-- Warming trend of +0.16 °C / decade observed over [1910 — 1940] and [1970 — 2000] periods [c] A 60 years averaging also makes PDO variability disappear so that only background trend of +0.06 °C / decade, as observed since 1880, remains.

Short - term cyclical factors (ENSO, solar variability, etc.), noisy annual variation, and unpredictable factors like the precise amount of sulfates we're going to emit or whether we're going to have any large volcanic eruptions make predictions over very short time periods (like a decade) next to worthless.

If fossil fuels were made to pay their costs to society, costs of pollution and climate change, carbon - free alternatives might supplant fossil fuels over a period of decades.

No climate model can predict climate changes at a local level where the effects are felt - predictions are only made for averages collated at a continental spatial scale and over periods of decades.

The Medieval period is found to display warmth that matches or exceeds that of the past decade in some regions... Considerable progress has been made over the past decade in using climate «proxy» data...»

Wouldn't a natural climate system response time of several decades make it almost impossible to get meaningful averages out of climate system variables, if they could be significantly influenced by random fluctuations accumulated over such long time periods?

Parenting interventions that are delivered during this developmental period are necessary in order to capture the groups of youth and families (i) currently experiencing problems, but who did not receive an intervention during early childhood; (ii) those who received an intervention in early childhood, but who continue to experience problems and (iii) those who are not currently experiencing problems, but are at risk for developing problems later in adulthood.7 In Steinberg's 2001 presidential address to the Society for Research on Adolescence, a concluding remark was made for the need to develop a systematic, large - scale, multifaceted and ongoing public health campaign for parenting programmes for parents of adolescents.8 Despite the wealth of knowledge that has been generated over the past decade on the importance of parents in adolescent development, a substantial research gap still exists in the parenting literature in regards to interventions that support parents of adolescents.