Sentences with phrase «often years or decades»

In Berkshire's property & casualty (P&C) insurance businesses, premiums are collected up front, but claims are paid out often years or decades later, allowing the float to be used for investments.

Not exact matches

No newbies; everybody brings at least some sales experience — two years for small - business reps; often two decades or more for enterprise - level account execs.

This CEO of the Year award is a testament to a mind that thinks in decades, not months or years, and often defies industry trends.

The successful financial advisors serving these clients have been able not only to win their clients over, but more importantly, retain this clientele over years or decades, often across generations.

It is normal that any new theory goes through the usual ridicule / attack / acceptance stages, often taking years, decades or even centuries to develop through the stages.

Some of the insults appear to have little or no short - term effect, but often become serious years or decades later.

In the past several decades, scientists have discovered that the North — South distributions of certain plants often result from a single jump across the tropics, not as a result of gradual movements or events that occurred over a hundred million years ago.

To make things worse, recorded messages are often noisy, short and can be years or even decades old.

These symptoms often begin years or decades after players have ended their athletic careers, according to the Boston Universitycenter.

NASH is often a slow - growing disease than can take years or decades to progress.

She has integrated decades of patient care experience with 40 years of yoga teaching into a unique teaching style, and teaches workshops throughout the US, Canada, and Europe, often focusing on the anatomy of asana or therapeutic applications of yoga.

Single midlife women reentering the dating pool often haven't dated in many years --- or decades.

Political rifts between couples often don't emerge until years or decades have passed, or until a firebrand candidate (such as Donald Trump) emerges on the scene.

While many Catholic schools have closed, consolidated, or suffered financial hardship over the last few decades [v], Cristo Rey Schools are Catholic schools that have often succeeded in many important ways, expanding to 32 high schools this past year.

A sometimes cautionary, often humorous, and always sad tale involving a friend, sibling, or father who brought home a brand - new Fiat decades ago only to be subjected to years of breakdowns, engine fires, and other mishaps until the car finally put the owner and itself out of their mutual misery by rusting into the ground.

While traditional business loans can take several years or decades to pay off, short - term business loans are often paid off in a matter of months, although some can last for up to three years.

Often, but not always, online brokers with a physical presence have more extensive insurance experience because they have been out there for years or even decades.

A good bankruptcy lawyer is going to ask for all sorts of documents, often going back years or decades.

Driven by personal and political motivations, many of the photographers sought to provide an authentic representation of the disenfranchised communities with whom they spent months, years or even decades with, often conspiring with them to construct their own identity through the camera lens.

To point out just a couple of things: — oceans warming slower (or cooling slower) than lands on long - time trends is absolutely normal, because water is more difficult both to warm or to cool (I mean, we require both a bigger heat flow and more time); at the contrary, I see as a non-sense theory (made by some serrist, but don't know who) that oceans are storing up heat, and that suddenly they will release such heat as a positive feedback: or the water warms than no heat can be considered ad «stored» (we have no phase change inside oceans, so no latent heat) or oceans begin to release heat but in the same time they have to cool (because they are losing heat); so, I don't feel strange that in last years land temperatures for some series (NCDC and GISS) can be heating up while oceans are slightly cooling, but I feel strange that they are heating up so much to reverse global trend from slightly negative / stable to slightly positive; but, in the end, all this is not an evidence that lands» warming is led by UHI (but, this effect, I would not exclude it from having a small part in temperature trends for some regional area, but just small); both because, as writtend, it is normal to have waters warming slower than lands, and because lands» temperatures are often measured in a not so precise way (despite they continue to give us a global uncertainity in TT values which is barely the instrumental's one)-- but, to point out, HadCRU and MSU of last years (I mean always 2002 - 2006) follow much better waters» temperatures trend; — metropolis and larger cities temperature trends actually show an increase in UHI effect, but I think the sites are few, and the covered area is very small worldwide, so the global effect is very poor (but it still can be sensible for regional effects); but I would not run out a small warming trend for airport measurements due mainly to three things: increasing jet planes traffic, enlarging airports (then more buildings and more asphalt — if you follow motor sports, or simply live in a town / city, you will know how easy they get very warmer than air during day, and how much it can slow night - time cooling) and overall having airports nearer to cities (if not becoming an area inside the city after some decade of hurban growth, e.g. Milan - Linate); — I found no point about UHI in towns and villages; you will tell me they are not large cities; but, in comparison with 20-40-60 years ago when they were «countryside», many small towns and villages have become part of larger hurban areas (at least in Europe and Asia) so examining just larger cities would not be enough in my opinion to get a full view of UHI effect (still remembering that it has a small global effect: we can say many matters are due to UHI instead of GW, maybe even that a small part of measured GW is due to UHI, and that GW measurements are not so precise to make us able to make good analisyses and predictions, but not that GW is due to UHI).

Why do some glaciers surge, that is, accelerate suddenly every few decades, flowing rapidly for a year or two before returning, sometimes suddenly but more often gradually, to normal?

The climate record for the past 100,000 years clearly indicates that the climate system has undergone periodic — and often extreme — shifts, sometimes in as little as a decade or less.

Often, people will take years or even decades to decide that they are ready to begin the legal process.

New data in the report, A life sentence for young people, shows that hundreds of thousands of people are being affected every year, and often many decades later, because of mistakes they made when they were children or young adults.

Often, couples come to me after years or decades participating in unsuccessful therapies, reading self - help books and even enrolling in expensive inpatient treatment programs — all without success.