Sentences with phrase «occurred over a number of years»

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«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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

The trend in the courts seems to be a rise in the number of large damages awarded, especially in cases of ongoing abuse occurring over a period of years.

The number of large damages awards is rising, especially in cases of incest occurring over several years.

With a population of over 10,000 people, each year a number of accidents occur in the city.

With a population of over 29,000 people, there are a number of accidents that occur each year in Atascadero.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

In recent years, the USPTO has come under increasing scrutiny over the quality of its patent examinations.1 The growing push for reform of the patent system is fueled by the rapid rise of technology, financial services, telecommunications, and other innovations driving the information economy, all straining the USPTO's ability to evaluate and issue quality patents.2 Problems with patent quality occur when the Patent Office grants patents on claims that are broader than what is merited by the invention and the prior art. 3 In fact, a number of these problematic patents have been issued and publicized to much fanfare, including the infamous Smuckers» peanut butter and jelly patent where the company asserted a patent on their method of making the UncrustiblesTM crust-less peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, among others.4 These «bad» or improvidently granted patents impact the USPTO's ability to promote overall patent quality which, I will show, has serious implications for the public domain.

Over the past couple of days, MacRumors has received several reports from users who have been able to upload music libraries of greater than 25,000 tracks to iTunes Match or Apple Music's similar scan - and - match feature, and Macworld's iTunes expert Kirk McElhearn has also noted a number of reports on his personal blog.Just ahead of the launch of Apple Music in late June, Eddy Cue revealed on Twitter that Apple was working to raise the matching limit from 25,000 tracks to 100,000 for iOS 9, but the increase did not occur in September when iOS 9 debuted.MacRumors checked with Cue back in October for an update, and he indicated Apple was «definitely working on it» with the expectation the increase would go live «before the end of the year.

Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental disorders during childhood and adolescence, with a prevalence of 3 — 5 % in school - age children (6 — 12 years) and 10 — 19 % in adolescents (13 — 18 years); 1, 2 and the prevalence of anxiety disorders in this population tends to increase over time.3 Anxiety is the most common psychological symptom reported by children and adolescents; however, presentation varies with age as younger patients often report undifferentiated anxiety symptoms, for example, muscle tension, headache, stomachache or angry outbursts.4 According to the standard diagnostic systems, there are various types of anxiety disorders, for example, generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), social phobias (SOP), social anxiety disorder (SAD), panic disorder (PD), overanxious disorder, separation anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD).5 Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents often occur with a number of comorbidities, such as autism spectrum disorders, 6 depressive disorders, 7 conduct disorder, 8 substance abuse9 or suicide - related behaviour.10 Youths with anxiety disorders experience serious impairment in social functioning (eg, poor school achievement; relational problems with family members and peers).11, 12 Childhood and adolescent anxiety disorders can persist despite treatment, 1 and they are associated with later adult psychopathology.13, 14

«The poetry I have been writing over the years has been one way of dealing with a number of changes that have occurred in my life,» he says.

The survey found that the largest price increases over the past year occurred in Saskatchewan, where jobs in the booming oil and gas, grain and potash industries are attracting record numbers of new residents.