Sentences with phrase «more than the norm»

Some companies are so prolifically innovative that they don't realize that they innovate far more than the norm.

Loaf pan cakes also need a little more than the norm, as there is further proportionally for them to rise.

The company will cull more than 3000 cows more than the norm, and earlier in the year.

The ceramic technology within it is 3x more than the norm.

Graham has a unique way of interviewing people that really brings out more than the norm.

In each of them, teachers collaborate far more than the norm, supporting each other and jointly taking responsibility for the students» success.

That leads his asset allocation advice to be more geared to stocks, and more than the norm to foreign stocks.

Charities that spend much more than the norm to raise each $ 100 get a lower grade.

The result is that a fee - based adviser is becoming more than the norm than the exception.

Given that all four of them work for Kotaku, the coincidence is far more than the norm, and I find it hard to believe.»

After all, we have no difficulty understanding why you must pay considerably more than the norm for a bottle of wine that has won numerous recognised awards or more than the norm for a meal at a three Michelin star restaurant.

These are drivers designed to move more than the norm, letting them create the long wavelengths of bass frequencies at the level of a larger driver.

Well not A LOT, but more than the norm I think.

Not exact matches

Right now, for the S&P 500, that ratio stands at more than 29, its highest valuation since 2002 and well above its historical norms.

Studies show that people who are able to pursue their passions at work experience flow, a euphoric state of mind that is five times more productive than the norm.

Through my years of experience advising and investing in startups (and founding my own), it's clear that mistakes in the beginning stages of startup development are far more the norm than the exception.

It is more the norm than the anomaly, but you might want to think about whether you are over-using PowerPoint.

Equal splits among siblings are still the norm in estate planning, yet a new study finds that more parents are writing wills that favor some of their children more than others.

The virtual workplace is now more the norm than the exception.

They expect less than 10 percent of the cohort born between 1990 and 1999 to have a traditional pension in retirement, and defined contribution plans like 401 (k) plans to be much more the norm.

Since the early 2000s, splitting the Chair / CEO roles has become the norm in Canada, and with good reason: more than any other individual governance best practice, Chair / CEO split with an independent chair is highly correlated with adoption of other good governance practices and disclosure.

Whereas the traditional «actives» skewed heavily to the baby boom and senior generations, this new group is driven by members of gen X and Y, and sees more males spending on luxury goods and services than has traditionally been the norm.

Other questions genotype analysis could answer include whether a given athlete is at elevated risk for tendon ruptures or cartilage tears, whether her muscles require more or less recovery time than the norm, and why certain diets work for some people and not others.

Nevertheless, forecasts for no more than 2.7 % annual growth hardly bring performance back to the historical norm.

While the mythology of the self - taught entrepreneur still pervades Silicon Valley, it's more the exception than the norm.

These days, even the sin sectors are more expensive than their historical norms.

«There's a lot more upside potential than downside risk,» says David Elstone, an analyst with Gibsons, B.C. — based ERA Forest Products Research, who notes that those improved 2012 housing starts were still less than half of historical norms.

Right now, home prices stand at more than five times incomes, well above the historical norm of 3.5.

Studies have shown that people who are able to pursue their passions at work experience flow, a euphoric state of mind that is five times more productive than the norm.

Still, women are more likely than men to say that deviating from traditional gender norms is a good approach to take in raising both girls and boys.

In the presence of a broad range of reliable valuation metrics uniformly at more than twice their historical norms, coupled with the most severe overvalued, overbought, overbullish, rising - yield syndrome we define, it is instructive how shorter - term action has evolved near those points.

At present, the better question is «do I prefer a zero loss to the prospect of a 40 - 60 % interim loss in a market that is strenuously overbought and overbullish, and has returned to valuations that are more than double reliable historical valuation norms?»

With a community of more than 2 billion people, all around the world, in every different country, where there are wildly different social and cultural norms, it's just not clear to me that us sitting in an office here in California are best placed to always determine what the policies should be for people all around the world.

FOMC members now seem more eager than ever to «normalize» policy, that is raise short term rates into line with historic norms and, to the extent possible, unburden their balance sheet of the huge bond holding they had acquired over the last few years.

In any event, the problem for investors is that whatever increment we could possibly observe in GDP growth pales in comparison to the fact that the most historically reliable market valuation measures are far more than double their historical norms.

Even if the growth rates of nominal GDP and U.S. corporate revenues (including foreign revenues) over the coming 20 years match their 4 % growth rate of the past 20 years, and even if the most reliable valuation measures merely touch their historical norms 20 years from today, the S&P 500 Index two decades from now will trade more than 20 % lower than where it trades today.

«He really thrives when he can subvert the norm,» says someone who has known him for more than a decade.

We allow that short - term interest rates may be pegged well below historical norms for several more years, and we know that for every year that short - term interest rates are held at zero (rather than a historically normal level of 4 %), one can «justify» equity valuations about 4 % above historical norms — a premium that removes that same 4 % from prospective future stock returns.

Again, the problem is that market valuations are presently more than double those norms on the most historically reliable measures.

«Premier Clark's visit to Likely yesterday raised more new questions than it answered,» said New Democrat energy and mines spokesperson Norm Macdonald.

Semi-annual payments and special dividends are more the norm than the exception in international markets.

Over the next few years deficit spending in excess of $ 1 trillion US dollars per year will be the norm in the US, but there is more to this than the headline figures reveal.

Governments should consider taking a more eclectic range of economic measures than have been the norm over the past generation or two.

Last week, the most historically reliable equity valuation measures we identify (having correlations of over 90 % with actual subsequent 10 - 12 year S&P 500 total returns) advanced to more than double their reliable historical norms.

Many now see this as more than just a temporary development, with wage increases of 2 point something per cent now the norm.

Even after the market's recent correction, stocks are more expensive today than historic norms.

That may say more about the social norms and sizes (most are pretty small) of those countries than the incentive effects of lower tax rates.

Even if you don't believe in a religion or God more than likely the morals you identify do come from a religion at some point that then became the norm for society.

Whether or not there is a heaven, as reward, I would rather strive to a truly higher ideal, than live down to a common «social norm» that degrades us to mere animal status, living for our own pleasure and telling us that our more base desires are good, natural and should not be considered something to be overcome.

At the time of Christ slavery was the norm much as it is today, in fact there is more slavery today than at anytime in human history.