Sentences with phrase «occurred over a number»

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While just over half of them felt it is «wrong» when such wide income disparities occur, around the same number of business leaders felt income inequality shouldn't be viewed as a problem.

Where an ISP is adjudged by a regulator to have monopoly power over final access to a customer a different view may be taken as has occurred in a number of recent decisions.

The «canonical» market peak typically features rich valuations, rising interest rates, often a reasonably extended and «flattish» period where, despite marginal new highs, momentum has gradually faded while internal divergences have widened, and finally, an abrupt reversal in leadership, from a preponderance of new highs over new lows (both generally large in number) to a preponderance of new lows over new highs, with the reversal often occurring over a period of just a week or two.

So, if we know the number of speciation events that occurred over evolution's history, we could calculate the number of species that have lived on the earth.

One undeniable pattern within the current global dairy market over the last 13 months has been the emergence of a number of similar investigations into allegations of dairy price fixing occurring from the US to the Mediterranean region.

«It was a series of blows that stretched out over a number of years,» he said, starting with the fact that liability insurers were reluctant to cover the facility in the case of an adverse medical incident, although one never has occurred at the center.

«Random number table with blocks of 10»; «block randomization was chosen to control for any variation that might occur over time in recruitment strategies or resident education».

Number 4 — Difficult birth, I am very weak in a bed, baby in ICU, no one is telling me what is going one, I did not see him for over 24 hours after the birth, it did not occur to any of the nurses or team to let me know what was going on, or update me about his situation, or take me there.

Number of pages: 195 Publication date: 2010 Languages: English ISBN: 9789241599573 Download the report [pdf 2.91 MB] Overview Countdown to 2015 is a global movement of academics, governments, UN agencies, foundations, health care associations and nongovernmental organizations formed in 2005 to track progress in reducing maternal and child deaths in the 68 countries where over 95 % of these deaths occur.

IPAC also accepted a working definition for «over-voting» as follows; «Over voting would be deemed to have occurred where the number of ballots in the ballot box exceed the number of verified voters.»

Researchers discovered that the greatest injury risk occurred when players accumulated a very high number of short bursts of speed during training over a three - week period.

Most of the new cases are in the capital Freetown, but worryingly, small numbers of cases also continue to occur in many districts throughout the country, meaning that the virus is still spread over a wide area and that many control interventions are needed.

They found that the length scale over which softness was correlated was identical to the size of rearrangements, or the number of particles that move when failure occurs.

After many years of reviewing CVs and resumes, I can tell you that problems don't occur when the writer went over or under a certain number of pages.

For this work, he has used a number of ultra-high vacuum surface science techniques to, for example, identify and explain several very unusual mechanistic features of the heterogeneous chemistry occurring in a catalytic converter including: a) the dramatically different CO oxidation reaction mechanism on ruthenium metal relative to other late transition metals; b) the structure sensitive selectivity of the NO reduction reaction on rhodium metal; c) deactivation of rhodium metal at high oxygen partial pressures; and d) the significantly different CO oxidation reaction mechanism over oxidized rhodium metal.

In the United States, over 200 amateur natural (drug tested) bodybuilding contests occurred during 2013 and the number of contests is expected to increase in 2014 [1].

The good news is that the number of women over 40 with this disease is small since in general, stenosis usually occurs after 60.

As a song - and - dance number unfurls over the end credits, it occurs, too late, that Down with Love would have been markedly better as a cheesy musical.

Dr McGrath said the rapid rate of decline in male teacher numbers occurred in both primary and secondary government schools over the past 50 years, and that this trend was generally echoed in non-government independent schools and Catholic secondary schools.

Wilson notes the dramatic withdrawal from arithmetic in the elementary grades that has occurred over the past two to three decades, reflecting the mistaken but increasingly popular view that learning whole number operations (such as the multiplication tables) to the point of instant recall is bad for a student, not necessary to higher math, and impedes students» ability to understand mathematical principles.

Reimers says he looked at a number of case studies and evaluations, as well as conducted interviews of business leaders, military officials, and the intelligence community in order to gauge how much change has occurred in foreign area expertise and foreign language over the past 50 years.

The potential for serious fires to occur in schools and other educational establishments has been highlighted over a number of years by fire professionals.

Over the entire 20 - year - period, nearly all states increased the number of staff per 100 pupils, but most of those gains occurred prior to 2002.

Rhode Island, which has implemented a student - based formula, specified that losses and gains from the new system would occur gradually over a number of years so that no district faced a sudden shock.

The ideal test would be for your mechanic to drive your vehicle, perhaps over a weekend for a good number of miles, and if the fault occurs he would have first hand knowledge of whats going on.

With a limited number of four - lane highways, trips at over 100 km / h speeds rarely occur.

As far as a ceiling goes, I highly recommend the book Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds which offers insight on a number of mania that have occurred not just in the past few decades, but over the centuries.

Equifax Inc. said last Thursday that a security breach occurred over the summer that compromised the private information of up to 143 million Americans, along with a undisclosed number of Canadians.

Avoid excessive inquiries - A large number of inquiries occurred over a short period of time may be interpreted as a sign that you are opening numerous credit accounts due to financial difficulties or overextending yourself by taking on more debt that you can or can not easily repay.

Their calculation occurs once a day and is based on the number of deals executed over the past day.

Creditors can close accounts for a number of reasons and some seem quite legitimate, like late payments occurring, going over the limit, and filing a bankruptcy.

Mean reversion occurs because growth is constrained, when measured over a number of years.

A greater life expectancy adds additional premium payments, and also reduces the NPV of the death benefit (because it's discounted over a larger number of years waiting for the payout to occur).

This is occurring despite the number of pets in the USA increasing over the same period.

Most tumors occur in dogs over age 10 with a greater number in males.

If you increase the fiber content of your pet's food to over 10 % a number of bad things might occur that include digestive upsets and blockage of nutrient absorption.

Skin cancers make up over half the total number of cancers that occur in dogs they are considerably less common (but more worrysome) in cats:

Winter is officially over (the vernal equinox occurred on March 20), but as we all look forward to nicer weather, we need to remember that spring poses a number of hazards to our pets, including burgeoning populations of fleas and ticks.

Even though the teeth will eventually need professional cleaning again in the future (most people get their teeth cleaned several times per year), proper brushing will decrease the amount of dental disease that occurs and the number of times we will have to clean your pet's teeth over its lifetime.

Although a proportion of the ROH observed in both English bulldog and Standard Poodle can be attributed to natural selection pressures occurring over thousands of years [33, 34], the differences in ROH size and number are better explained by the comparative changes in outward appearance.

The exhibitions that rippled through our cultural fabric over the past year, at least those occurring in and around New York, have registered the predictable number of highs and lows, though 2014 did manage to plumb one nadir unlikely to be matched for a good long time.

2) The discussed problem (the formation of a nocturnal boundary layer) over mid-latitudes only occurs for a number of nights during summer, i.e. for perhaps 30 - 60 days a year.

The details on a molecular level determine how likely a given transition is likely to occur — in other words, the fraction of photons of some frequency, polarization, and direction, that are absorbed over some path through an amount of material, and the number of photons of the same type which are emitted per unit time.

It revealed that, over the past 7,000 years, a number of huge, highly explosive eruptions had occurred.

States that while no significant trends have been identified in the Atlantic since the late 19th century, significant observed trends in TC numbers and intensities have occurred in this basin over the past few decades, and trends in other basins are increasingly being identified

The likelihoods are computed from the excess, delta.r2, of r2 over its minimum value, minr2 (occurring where the model run parameters provide the best fit to observations), divided by m, the number of free model parameters, here 3.

So perhaps less than 1 m / s over ocean and so some number closer to 10 m / s occurs over smaller the surface area of land.

The new numbers generated by these experts implied that the insurance industry needed to raise $ 82 billion to guard against hurricane losses expected to occur over the next five years.

Mohapatra said wind speeds during the storms were not record - breaking — 43 miles per hour over Delhi, and 126 kilometers per hour over Agra — but the incident occurred over a large area and affected a large number of people.

This analytical document provides insights into the issues associated with 100 per cent renewable energy targets, as it is understood that over the next decades a number of changes are likely to occur in technology, economics and regulatory environment.