Sentences with phrase «much over more than a decade»

To my surprise, the dating platform really hasn't changed that much over more than a decade.

Not exact matches

Last August, at the time of the announcement of the sale of the Washington Post, I noted that Washington Post Co. shares had proved a mediocre investment over the past two decades, trailing the S&P 500 by more than 2.5 percentage points on an annualized investment (although starting at the time Buffett began accumulating shares, in 1973, the performance was much better, with an estimated annual return of 11.5 %).

With the ten - year yielding just 2.2 %, it makes little sense to think your returns will be much more than this over the next decade.

For all the talk about Arsenal are now something more than what they have been over the past decade or so — the kind of club that would find a legit star like a van Persie or a Sánchez only to let them go win titles elsewhere in England — moves like this latest transfer seem to say that Arsenal remain who they've long been, and they don't have much interest in changing that.

In north America the rates of teen pregnancy have fallen over the years, but, interestingly, teen mothers are much more obvious in communities than they were in the past decades.

When it resumes next year, the case is expected to feature much of the Niagara County Republican establishment over which Maziarz presided as a behind the scenes political boss for more than two decades.

The mayor's office projected that this housing could yield as much as $ 600 million over the next decade, far more than Mr. Bloomberg ever predicted for his plan, which Mr. de Blasio said was due to increasing property values.

Problem 1: Housing costs are rising, and this is pushing up government expenditure Over the past few decades rents and house prices have risen much more rapidly in the UK than other countries.

Much of what makes cloud computing tick — the Internet, mobile computers, networked data storage, software housed in data centers and delivered over the Web, et cetera — has been available since the beginning of the dot - com era more than a decade ago.

The climatic impact of the Toba supereruption, estimated to have erupted between 10 and 360 times more H2SO4 than Pinatubo (9), has consequently been the focus of much research over the past three decades (1, 3 ⇓ — 5, 10 ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ — 16).

Over more than five decades, Dresselhaus has made multiple advances in helping to explain why the properties of materials structured at the nanoscale can vary so much from those of the same materials at larger dimensions.

Evincing many lucid and extemporaneous qualities, Linklater doesn't do catching up though, as «Boyhood» feels much less like a greatest hits package and more analogous to being in the moment, watching the sprawling, occasionally dull home videos of family over more than a decade's time.

The need for a method of reporting to parents that serves the purpose of «tracking a student's development in an area of learning over time» (Forster, 2005) has been under discussion for more than a decade and has gained much traction among educators in recent years.

The state, which took over the McDowell public schools nearly a decade ago, has failed to make much of a dent in the county's abysmal test scores and a dropout rate more than three times the national average.

In terms of optimism over whether schools are better than a decade ago, countries such as China, India, South Korea and Vietnam were much more likely to think schools had improved.

Scientific research over the last few decades reveals, however, that our brains are much more flexible and fluid than that and, like any muscle, the more we use it, the stronger it gets.

While market participants may expect interest rate hikes to negatively affect Asian high - yield stock performance, it is notable that their performance has been much more sensitive to economic cycles than to U.S. interest rate cycles over the past decade.

Of course, there's more to selecting a mortgage than a low rate, but it does prompt the question: how much have rates shifted over the decades?

We have discovered over the past decade that our pets demonstrate their pain in much more subtle ways than we realized, and that they have been suffering in silence for years.

The Frieze Art Fair opened in 2003 to much fanfare, and in little over a decade would be joined by more than 260 art fairs held annually and 180 contemporary art biennials worldwide.

For the most part, I've not seen much evidence to suggest that internal variations alone can bring the climate to a new state on decadal timescales, even if the internal fluctuations do not completely average out over decades (e.g.,, the PDO being in a positive phase more than a negative phase during the timescale of consideration).

But the current paper shows that the differences in midcentury warming rates occurred much more rapidly than previously thought (over a few years, not a few decades).

They've caused electricity to be far more expensive than it could and should be, caused global GHG emissions to be 10 - 20 % higher than it could have been and caused the rate of emissions reductions over the coming decades to be very much slower than it would be of not for their irrational, ideologically driven scare mongering.

One can logically wonder at just how much Dr. Dorney knows if he begins his testimony with «Today the surface ocean is almost 30 % more acidic than it was in pre-industrial times, and over the next few decades, the level of acidity of the surface ocean will continue to rise...» when the worries about acidic oceans is pointless since where is the base line?

I don't think we should have much more confidence in what the Sun's going to do over the next couple decades, than having confidence in global temperature prediction.

As a consequence, between 1971 - 2000 and 1981 - 2010 the Dutch average temperatures have risen by 0.42 degrees (per decade)-- more than twice the global average and indicative for relatively rapid warming over much of Western Europe.

We present new evidence from a compilation of over two decades of accurate satellite data that the top - of - atmosphere (TOA) tropical radiative energy budget is much more dynamic and variable than previously thought.

The company expects energy demand to grow at an average of about 1 % annually over the next three decades — faster than population but much slower than the global economy — with increasing efficiency and a gradual shift toward lower - emission energy sources: Gas increases faster than oil and by more BTUs in total, while coal grows for a while longer but then shrinks back to current levels.

Over the longer term the sun varies (there is uncertainty as to how much) and in the medium term the oceans vary much more than we previously thought possible in that they can act as net absorbers or net emitters of previously acquired solar energy for decades at a time.

So apparently you are pretty much certain that the rate of anthropogenc CO2 - caused warming over the past 5 or 6 decades would not = more than 50 % of warming if projected on a centennial scale (so certain that it would be «foolish» to think otherwise)... but the effect that you do think is attributable to anthropogenic CO2 will obviously increase proportional to a greater rate of CO2 emissions.

Yes, CA and several other websites have certainly showed intellectual fortitude and some very high quality street smarts for a decade «digging here» — much more than I ever had the statistical knowledge or time for over the last 10 years

There are two prominent and undeniable examples of the models» insufficiencies: 1) climate models overwhelmingly expected much more warming to have taken place over the past several decades than actually occurred; and 2) the sensitivity of the earth's average temperature to increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations (such as carbon dioxide) averages some 60 percent greater in the IPCC's climate models than it does in reality (according to a large and growing collection of evidence published in the scientific literature).

But, suffice it to say that an insignificant difference of 0.01 °C / decade in the global trend measured over more than 30 years is pretty small beer and doesn't give model apologists very much to get happy over.

In other words, the natural gas touted as a good way to power the US over the coming decades could be worse than using coal and make it much more difficult to cut greenhouse gas emissions more broadly.

The lack of warming for more than a decade — indeed, the smaller - than - predicted warming over the 22 years since the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began issuing projections — suggests that computer models have greatly exaggerated how much warming additional CO2 can cause.

You do get a slightly different slope in one experiment, the «1 % / yr» experiment, where only CO2 rises, and much more slowly than it has over the last few decades.

By the way, raw CERES data over the past decade doesn't show any imbalance i.e. the earth spends as much time losing a bit more than it gains as it does gaining a bit more than it loses.

They will also be paying much more for a house than their parents and grandparents did and it's unlikely they will see the kind of rise in property values that have fuelled much of the rise in wealth over the past few decades.

Meeting, convention and event planners, who typically work for or with the hospitality industry, held more than 71,000 jobs in 2010, and these occupations are projected to grow 44 percent over the forecast decade, much faster than the average occupation.