Sentences with phrase «much longer spans of time»

The action of meshed gears is introduced as a metaphor to illustrate how responses occurring within a brief time frame, for example, immediate reactions to stressors, can influence developmental and health processes unfolding over much longer spans of time.

Not exact matches

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 an accelerator mass spectrometer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the geologists measured how much beryllium - 10 was in their samples — giving them a kind of clock to measure erosion over long time spans.

With so much non-fiction footage available, culled from such a long time span, the last thing the case would seem to cry out for is a conventional dramatization, the kind in which glamorous actors put on just enough makeup to look 10 percent like the people they play, without any hope of imbuing the roles with the intensity already captured on film.

Novels can be put down and picked up again at will, allowing much greater freedom for long expository sequences and character development, and yet the skill of a great filmmaker is to convey the information concisely, such that we feel we know the characters and plot as well as were they written, but within the time and attention - span limitations that are inherent on screen.

Good digital games also have the advantage of holding the player's attention span for much longer periods of time.

So, my current plan is to go for something «as close to perfect as possible, given a reasonable span of time and amount of effort» (don't ask me how many years is too long, and how much effort is too much).

For long - term investors, this recent activity won't make too much noise, as little has changed in the fundamentals of the precious metal over a long time span.

Some commentators have made much of longer - term trends in ice thickness, but there, too, winds and patterns of atmospheric pressure have played a powerful role over longer time spans.

I've never been to Sicily, so I can't say much more than that it does seem to me that agriculture is a factor in keeping the land deforested over long spans of time.

Indeed, it can be argued that one of the problems with current climate science is that it contains too many meteorologists (who have access to thermometer records spanning a grand total of 150 years) and too few geologists (who view climate change through the prism of much longer time frames).

Everyone's keeping inadequate records for detailed enough climate analyses on any span of time much longer than 8 years, compared to what they are capable of and ought want.

New homeowners and long - time residents alike will find much practical wisdom in the pages of the Clean Mama Homekeeping Planner for keeping their house spic and span.