Sentences with phrase «odd years long»

If you pick a few time intervals for equities that are 30 odd years long, I'm sure you'll find times when equities have been a lousy investment, as surely as you can find the same for ANY asset class.

Not exact matches

It's the kind of long - term thinking guys like Stephen used to enrich our economy 130 - odd years ago, and that smart leaders would do well to emulate today.

Eklund, on the heels of a controversial, year - long stint in California as an adult film star under the name Tag Eriksson, got to work taking odd jobs and hawking paninis outside the set of David Letterman's Late Show.

While spending down his formidable fortune — currently estimated to be $ 78.4 billion by Bloomberg — to fund reusable rocket research and space tourism might seem an odd choice, Bezos said last year that it's all part of a long - held dream.

He was talking about United in the Fergie era and it seems a bit odd as the last few years have seen United happy to finish fourth themselves, but is he right to suggest that Arsenal's happiness with a Champions League place under Wenger is not good enough and one of the reasons we have not won the EPL title for so long?

So with the former German international set for a long injury lay - off it seemed an odd choice for me and as we reported here at Just Arsenal earlier in the week it has now been almost two years since we started a game with the club captain in the side.

Wenger has been at this job far too long, let alone at a club for 20 odd years.

Guzman's been an odd ball since he scored that long ball last year and put a few FKs on target.

The 20 - year - old looks like the next Yaya Toure, breaking forward from midfield with skill and strength, and showing a great eye for the odd long range strike.

International seasons are two years and thirty - odd games long; Hodgson has had two months and six.

Though it has barely started, the Brooklyn district attorney's race has become a very crowded contest with an odd twist: Its central figure, and the man most likely to shape its themes and contours, is no longer alive: the late DA, Ken Thompson, who died of cancer last year.

I doubt Brown will last much longer, I think once the conference is over Brown will know it's time to go, I doubt he would want to stay to the end and be blamed for putting labour out of power for maybe twenty odd years, Thatcher was in power for a long period as people did not trust Labour after two wars, I doubt I'd ever trust Labour again in my life time.

Because the short session (in odd - number years sessions are five months long) is held in an election year, legislative leaders live to highlight good news and keep bad news off the stage.

Last week, down on Long Island while stumping for a Democratic state senator, odd in its own right, Cuomo had this to say: «We're going to go back to Albany, and we're going to do the unfinished business this year, and we're to start with real ethics reforms.

While state legislative sessions in most states are longer and more active in odd years, almost all state legislatures meet in even - numbered years as well.

Here in our Local Group, for instance, some 50 - odd galaxies nestle within a dumbbell - shaped space 10 million light - years long.

If the year - long delay and the fussy maneuver seem like an odd choice, remember that on a spacecraft, fuel is heavy and weight is an expensive commodity.

MONDAY, November 21, 2011 (Health.com)-- Over the past several years, researchers have noticed an odd pattern in the relationship between body weight and Alzheimer's disease: Middle - aged people have a higher long - term risk of developing the disease if they're overweight or obese, while older people have a lower risk of the disease if they're carrying excess weight.

Over the past several years, researchers have noticed an odd pattern in the relationship between body weight and Alzheimer's disease: Middle - aged people have a higher long - term risk of developing the disease if they're overweight or obese, while older people have a lower risk of the disease if they're carrying excess weight.

Longer shadows and golden light signal the gradual change that's been taking place lately, but I've been making the most of the odd warm day to bring out something you've not yet seen this year.

While Jeff Chang's disapproving father lurks in the weeds to assure he makes it through the night's fermented activities, it might strike you as odd that this 21 - year - old guy's body can be an unconsciously limp fish for so long and through so many made - by - Hollywood twists and turns.

I'm always interested to see which American titles resonate with the Cesar voters: this year it was two 2007 titles, «There Will Be Blood» and «Into the Wild,» while the nomination of low - key romance «Two Lovers» (yet to be released at home, reviewed here) continues the odd, long - standing love affair between the French and director James Gray.

It no longer pays to predict outrageous or embarrassing choices: In recent years, the 90 - odd members of the HFPA have for the most part come up with solid nominations, though it's clear they have to stretch to fill the comedy or musical categories most years.

In the 15 - odd years since he started acting — on a whim after seeing a flyer for a sketch comedy group while walking across his college campus — he's starred in a long - running, much - beloved network sitcom, landed supporting roles alongside some of Hollywood's heaviest hitters, become a bona fide leading man in an action film, and donned both a writer's and director's hat.

Odd all the magazine rave reviews: 2013 model: Having not driven a BMW for 14 years I was keen to see how they have moved on, not a lot as it seems Good points: Looks good, its a BMW Outstanding fuel economy 70mpg on long journeys Comfy seats Bad Points: Very noisy road noise, need to turn up radio even at 40 Thin hard steering wheel, cheap plastic bulbous airbag cover Cheap interior, feels like a Kia.

I have 60 odd thousand words of a first draft that I am currently self editing, as well as shownig bits to trusted friends along the way, and should have the completed first draft which I estimate will be a little longer down on paper in the New Year.

The only answer he could give was that his life for the past thirty - odd years seemed to have been one long struggle to stay on top of whatever he was doing, while stumbling toward the next goal — college, medical school, five years in the navy, getting established in practice.

My big assumption is that LTM FCF is indicative of the long term cash generation, I notice most are well below earnings, maybe it was an odd year for them all but I've assumed they reflect long term FCF yields.

Some love it so much they opt to stay for a full year, taking on odd jobs in order to bask in the Land Down Under for a little longer.

There were the odd exceptions, Driveclub, Infamous: Second Son and Shadow of Mordor were games built to take advantage of the current generation technology to show us something we hadn't seen before and I know, and hope that next year will continue to offer us new experiences that will allow us to finally shrug off the longest, and therefore the most persistent gameplay trends of the PS3 days.

2014 will be the year that makes or finally breaks the Wii U. For a long time it feels like Nintendo's home console has been treading water, kept afloat by the odd but brilliant first - party title.

Long - time gamers may want a little more than the same games they played 30 - odd years ago, though.

Some forty - odd years after Bruce Nauman began tweaking the conventions of studio practice and the hallowed persona of the «artist - as - seer,» Pamela M. Lee wrote in Artforum not long ago, «his station in postwar art history rests secure.

That work - 40 - odd metres long - was on show at Tate Britain, London, between January and August this year: as these things turn out, Wallinger had documented Haw's immense protest by way of 600 photographs just four days before 78 police descended on it and removed the bulk of the placards, photographs, flags, information boards and associated flotsam and jetsam that made up this quite extraordinary and motley camp.

All the odder then that Louise Bourgeois, who spent more than 60 years of her extraordinarily long life, making spider images — the first was in 1947, and it looks boisterously, almost harmlessly cartoonish — generally spoke of the spider other than in terms of entrapment.

This is at the heart of the matter how much did the sun vary by over the past 200 some odd years, not what the solar average was over some x long period of time which is meaningless and not of importance.

Odd, the actual measured Antarctic regional air temperatures have showed a general and many - year long decreasing trend.

Fifteen odd years later I'm thinking and hoping that some of these firms have realised that clients no longer want fluff; they want help solving problems quickly.

While all children qualified for a diagnosis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) / Conduct Disorder (CD) before treatment, 5 - 6 years later, two - thirds no longer received such a diagnosis, the same proportion as found at the 1 - year follow - up.