Sentences with phrase «other periods last year»

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In other words, the three - year period doesn't start ticking away until after the end of the calendar year in which the last contribution was made.

Major transfers to other levels of government were up $ 1.9 billion (3.1 %) compared to the same period last year, primarily reflecting legislated increases in the various components.

«Other transfer payments» are currently $ 5.8 billion lower in the April 2011 to February 2012 period than in the same period last year.

We saw a brief period of turmoil regarding Dubai late last year, and more recently the public finances of Greece have been under the spotlight, with some other European countries just in the background.

I've marked in the chart a number of other periods over the last ten years where we've likewise experienced a quick drop in the number new weekly highs.

Over at iMonk last week, Chaplain Mike wrote a lovely post about how, after a period of wandering through the denominational wilderness, he found a home in an ELCA Lutheran church «with a simple liturgy, wonderful music, a healthy and grounded pastor, a hospitable congregation, and an emphasis on Christ, grace, vocation, and other Lutheran essentials that answered questions I had been turning over in my mind for years in my evangelical settings.»

«The scientific materialism and the Cartesian Ego were both challenged at the same moment, one by science and the other by philosophy, as represented by William James with his psychological antecedents; and the double challenge marks the end of a period which lasted for about two hundred and fifty years.»

And for most of the last three - hundred - and - fifty years this effort to ground all human knowledge has focused upon the physical sciences; indeed, «since the period of Descartes and Hobbes, the assumption that scientific discourse was normal discourse and that all other discourse needed to be modeled upon it has been the standard motive for philosophizing.»

On the other hand, if we attend to the last eighteen years for which they offer figures, surely the most important period for extrapolating into the future, then we find that economic well - being improved only one - sixth as rapidly as per capita GNP grew!

Come on mate everyone knows our club has gone threw a transactional period that we will probably never see in our life time again football has changed since the billionaires have come in we had to make the changes no other manager could of kept us in the top four while we had to change our whole structure I'm not saying wenger is perfect he does fustrate us all sometimes but were in safe hands and were going in the right direction not that I know a lot about the ffp but something is happening and every year we seem to becoming in a stronger position to what wenger is trying to achieve for our club we all know this is wenger last contract and even if he win the cl or the epl he won't sign another contract it just fustrates me that the way people act sometimes our time is coming even wen wenger leaves we will still have hope that we can compete for honours lets just enjoy beign arsenal fans and what will be will be cause wen in a very stable position and that is all the hope I need that our time will come in the future COYG

I remember a period last year were we where holding each dm stats up against each other and L Bender was the stand out with Schneiderlin nearest to him.

This is the time of the year when Arsenal, and every other club, seem to be caught in the footballing equivalent of the doldrums, once the bane of every sailing ship known to man, where a relatively calm period occurs out of nowhere, and during which time no wind has the temerity to stick its nose in, and indeed prefers to disappear like ice cream in a hot oven, trapping sailing ships for lengthy periods lasting days, weeks and sometimes months, where for what seemed an eternity to their crews — nothing happened.

In other words, the disclosure period should be based on when the disclosure provisions of last year's ethics law went into effect, June 1.

The justices seem to have chosen the 25 - year time period for no good reason other than that it has been 25 years since they last took up the issue (15).

In the last few years, Sweeney, a professor of physiology and medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and a small cadre of other researchers have learned how to create genes that repair weak, deteriorating, or damaged muscles, bones, tendons, and cartilage in a relatively short period of time.

The Persian carpet flatworm, the cuttlefish and the black ghost knifefish look nothing like each other — their last common ancestor lived 550 million years ago, before the Cambrian period — but a new study uses a combination of computer simulations, a robotic fish and video footage of real fish to show that all three aquatic creatures have evolved to swim with elongated fins using the same mechanical motion that optimizes their speed, helping to ensure their survival.

«In this study we show how the Eurasian siskin is able to form stable group relationships lasting for periods of several years in addition to travelling in each other» company over distances spanning more than 1,000 km,» points out Juan Carlos Senar, lead author of this study and a scientist at the museum.

Woolly mammoths disappeared from Siberia and North America about 10,000 years ago, along with other giant mammals that went extinct at the end of the last glacial period.

While the nation's weather in individual years or even for periods of years has been hotter or cooler and drier or wetter than in other periods, the new study shows that over the last century there has been no trend in one direction or another.

Other scientists are exploring the origin of economic strategies, such as fishing, hunting and gathering, in modern humans over the last few thousand years, and how the development of these strategies may have contributed significantly to human survival at the onset of huge climatic changes at the beginning of the Holocene period.

I have invested in 5 pairs over the last 3 years and as a Seattleite that deals with rain constantly, i will not wear any other boots, period.

Last year, Antioch Middle School borrowed time from other periods to give students recess for the first time.

Both economies grew quickly over the last 15 years, and the benefits were widely shared, unlike in other periods in both countries» histories.

Revenue from other sources increased $ 1.8 million or 22.0 % to $ 10.0 million for the 13 - week period ended December 30, 2017 compared to $ 8.2 million in the same period last year as higher plum breakage was partially offset by lower café revenue.

For example, if you retire at age 65 and feel comfortable that the combined income from your annuity and Social Security will meet your income needs after you reach age 85, you could focus on funding your earlier retirement years from other savings and investments for a 20 - year period, rather than guessing how long your savings might have to last.

If you sold then, you would have been out of the market for the last 20 + years, other than for a brief period in 2009.

How about comparing the real return of the 12 holding portfolio with the proposed 2 holding portfolio and for periods of other than the last 5 years which was a bull market for stocks, int» l, and commodities.

John Woinarksi: Australian mammals have suffered a terrible crisis over the last 200 years, probably a greater rate of extinction than any other group of animals in the world over that time period.

PC and other decreased to 15.2 % for the nine months ended December 31, 2015, as compared to 20.7 % for the prior year's period, as last year's period benefited from the PC release of Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth in October 2014.

No other post-modern painter has developed an oeuvre this rich in the last 30 year period.

In AR4, the relevant statement was: Average Northern Hemisphere temperatures during the second half of the 20th century were very likely higher than during any other 50 - year period in the last 500 years and likely the highest in at least the past 1,300 years..

What observations do you offer that would encourage this other than claiming the last 3 years (2005 hottest) or last twelve (’98 hottest) equal global cooling when they are all among the hottest years in the last 2 million (a fundamentally flawed assertion that shows 100 % ignorance, or willful disregard, of basic scientific principles, namely that a three — twelve year period is not a long - term trend, but is variability until proven otherwise.)

Looking at the last decades, of all possible 15 - year periods around half had significant warming and the other half didn't.

If there was more natural variation in the past millenia, specifically due to solar changes, then that goes at the cost of the GHG / aerosol combination, as both are near impossible to distinguish from each other in the warming of the last halve century... Solar activity has never been as high, and for an as long period, as current in the past millenium (and even the past 8,000 years).

He completely dismisses all other explanations for the ice - age - periods during the last half billion years than the passing of our solar system through areas with higher production of cosmic rays when it rotates around the center of our galaxy.

Since pollution prevention laws in the US and other first world nations resulted in a lowering of such aerosols after the period in question, the steep runup in temperatures during the last 20 years of the 20th century is then explained by the unleashing of heretofore suppressed CO2 emissions, no longer inhibited by industrial aerosols.

And we could say this because we had historical records for hurricanes and ocean temperatures, as well as other studies of proxy records of temperatures, suggesting that these busy and quiet periods tend to last 25 to 40 years each.

But looking back over the last 30 or so years, I see other periods of time that had similar «lulls», but afterward the long - term upward trend always resumed.

The Mann reconstruction appears much flatter than other reconstructions before 1900, and it seems that NAS see pretty good evidence for a «Little Ice Age» and reasonable evidence for a «Medieval Warm Period» (though they think it's plausible that the last 25 years were warmer than any comparable period during the last 1100 yPeriod» (though they think it's plausible that the last 25 years were warmer than any comparable period during the last 1100 yperiod during the last 1100 years).

It is very likely that average NH temperatures during the second half of the 20th century were warmer than any other 50 - year period in the last 500 years and likely the warmest in at least the past 1300 years.

that average NH temperatures during the second half of the 20th century were warmer than any other 50 - year period in the last 500 years and

While the nation's weather in individual years or even for periods of years has been hotter or cooler and drier or wetter than in other periods, the new study shows that over the last century there has been no trend in one direction or another.

Our monopolist will have definitive explanations for the Younger Dryas, the 2200 BC cooling / drought, the great monsoon failures of eg 1770s, 1790s, 1870s, the great pluvials of eg Genghis Khan period, Peru AD 1100... and all other major climate shifts within the last few thousand years.

They tend to show more variability than the original hockey stick (their sticks are not as straight), but they all support the general conclusions the IPCC TAR presented in 2001: late 20th century warming is anomalous in the last one or two thousand years, and the 1990s were likely warmer than any other time in that period.

Two components are harmonic sine waves that run constantly through the record one with period of 20 years and magnitude of 0.1 C and the other a 60 year period and magnitude of 0.2 C. Another component is a linear trend of 0.1 C per century that runs through the record and the last is a linear trend of 0.66 C per century that begins in 1950.

On the global mean sea level rise during the last interglacial period (129,000 to 116,000 years ago), the UK, Austria, US, Germany and others supported providing a policy relevant context and linking paleoclimatic observations on sea level rise to temperature.

Our present warm period has been relatively mellow for the last 8,000 years, with fewer fluctuations than any other similar period in the climate record.

Phil Jones is on the record, stating that the late 20th century rate of warming was in fact no greater a rate of warming than 3 other periods within the last 100 years alone..

Overall, the team concluded that current temperatures are probably warmer than any other 30 - year period in the last 1,400 years.

The biggest hand wave of all is you saying at one moment that there are no resonances in the Sun lasting more than 5 minutes, then in the next moment invoking a 120 year modulation of a ~ 11 yr «dynamo cycle» in order to be able to claim that the other peaks in the spectrum at 9.93 and 11.86 are just sideband harmonics of the 120 yr and ~ 11 yr periods and only coincidentally the orbital period of Jupiter and the tidal period of Jupiter and Saturn's synodic cycle.