Sentences with phrase «over a long span»

Still, over a longer span, our simple Recession Warning Composite has proved to be an invaluable rule of thumb.

Buffett says academics, regulators and some market practitioners prize the formula — named after the economists Fischer Black and Myron Scholes, who popularized its use it in a 1973 paper — for its capacity to estimate a precise value for an option over a long span.

First, since the market's May high, our stock selections haven't outperformed the S&P 500 or Russell 2000 (as they have generally done over longer spans).

High dividends will generate a good rate of income over long spans of time.

But his lively presentation and his method — extensive personal interviews with people over a long span of years — make this book a model for future efforts.

To extend the analogy to television, the World Series is a serial drama, like True Detective or Homeland, something that can bore you, thrill you, confuse you, make you debate its value and worth over a long span of time.

Stable isotopic compositions — variants of particular chemical elements — of such remains, recovered from soil and lake sediment, may help us better understand climate change over a long span of time.

It seems to me that the China Study research FINDINGS are sound because of its longevity and breadth; using both animal and human subjects and multiple studies over a long span of time.

They have taught many students over a long span of time and are well versed with the nature of their work.

It shows how you can handle big debt over a longer span of time.

We trick ourselves into thinking clothing, electronics and big - ticket goodies will benefit us over a longer span than a brief experience such as skydiving.

For this reason, lenders will charge a higher interest rate for long - term loans because the guaranteed higher return on their money helps to shield them from the ups and downs of the market over a longer span of time.

Over the longest span, the numbers were particularly brutal.

This gives a better perspective of percentage increases / decreases when viewing over longer spans of time.

Combat in many MMOs is often methodical and strategic over a longer span of time, lacking the genre's signature twitchy action.

At the Morgan Library, a generous sampling of 150 works from the Thaw Collection's more than 400 sheets offered a more leisurely journey over a longer span of time, from a group of crisply delineated standing saints by Mantegna, made in the mid-fifteenth century, to a cluster of spiky, unidentifiable, compelling forms drawn by Jackson Pollock five hundred years later.

This exhibition examines in - depth the work of a community of artists — Birgir Andrésson (1955 — 2007), Douwe Jan Bakker (1943 — 1997), Hreinn Friðfinnsson (b. 1943), Kristján Guðmundsson (b. 1941), Sigurður Guðmundsson (b. 1942), and Magnús Pálsson (b. 1929)-- artists who have worked in conversation with one another over a long span of years (both in Iceland and abroad, specifically, in the Netherlands), often tackling similar concerns from various unique perspectives.

I've never been to Sicily, so I can't say much more than that it does seem to me that agriculture is a factor in keeping the land deforested over long spans of time.

The bridge represented an engineering feat unrivalled in its day, allowing the steel truss bridge to carry more weight over longer spans than ever before.

But over that long span of time, the ways of measuring that data have changed dramatically, and differences in data collection mean that temperatures collected by ships in the early 20th century might be different from the data collected today.

And if I also went out of my way over a long span of time to never even mention the viewpoints of skeptics, wouldn't unavoidable questions arise about my bias?

In general, climate change is inevitable: the Sun's output is not perfectly constant; continents rise and fall over long spans of time; and the composition of the atmosphere shifts as carbon dioxide is outgassed from the Earth's interior, and its carbon is slowly recycled into living bodies, and eventually into new rock.

This is an alternative to standard life insurance policies, whose premiums are paid periodically over a long span of time.

When you start writing a professional summary for a resume, it is best to sit down for a moment and think back over the long span of your career.

Whether goals are met quickly or over a longer span of time, treatment is focused and goal - oriented.

«Looking at pending home sales over a longer span, contract activity over the past three months is fairly comparable to the first three months of the year, and well above the low seen in April,» Yun said.

Most of the rooms in our home had been decorated little - by - little, over a long span of time, so when we found out we were expecting a little girl, I was thrilled for the opportunity to design and decorate the whole room at once!

Not exact matches

Turns out, the secret to retaining the highest level of productivity over the span of a workday is not working longer — but working smarter with frequent breaks.

«Turns out, the secret to retaining the highest level of productivity over the span of a workday is not working longer — but working smarter with frequent breaks,» she explains.

No other country on Earth can boast what they have achieved; either over long or short time spans, through good times and adverse, war and prosperity, no other empire, kingdom or republic has been able to match their level of industrious activity or ingenuity.

Dan Caplinger: One surprising area that has been extremely lucrative for long - term investors is the auto - parts industry, and, among its major players, AutoZone (NYSE: AZO) has scored impressive returns over the past decade, seeing its stock price rise from less than $ 100 to almost $ 700 over that time span.

However, the combination of smart capital management and a uniquely diverse product portfolio (spanning medical device sales, pharmaceuticals, and consumer products) has ensured that the healthcare titan's returns trounced the broader market over the long term.

No single investment must last for the entire span of the investor's life, because the investor ideally has a diversified portfolio of several dividend - paying companies, but the better the investments perform over the long - term, the lower the turn - over rate of the portfolio needs to be.

Seen over a long time span stocks has been a safe investment.

Look at the age of fossilized bones, look at DNA evidence and all the other mountains of evidence about the LONG - TERM DYNAMICS of LIVING ORGANISMS on this planet over the span of BILLIONS of years.

Since one - hundred - foot spans were difficult for the ancients to roof over (long enough timbers being rare and expensive), the builders raised a narrower set of walls on colonnades, dividing the floor into a central nave under the raised roof and two side aisles under shed roofs.

That is, there was no conscious attempt on the part of individual reptiles to seek such biological changes, since a series of random genetic mutations (over a sufficiently long span of time) took its natural course to achieve an environmentally adaptive bird - like species.

Through artificial insemination, this process is repeated over the span of the cow's life until it can no longer produce milk.

While Nielsen - Massey Vanillas has been producing vanilla products for over a century, vanilla itself has an even longer history that spans nearly 1,000 years.

The Cubs no longer have to deal with an ever - growing championship drought that spanned over a century: they are the 2016 World Series champions, and it'll take decades before they can be considered losers again.

The question is, Will Smith — who has been tackled more in his first six years than any other player over a similar span — last long enough to do it?

Lukaku, for his long drawn career spanning over 357 games and scoring 167 goals, is yet to bag a trophy in senior football.

Tremendous relief spread over every part of my body, heart and mind, as I finally watched the team that adorns red and white, with a golden cannon on the chest, after a long mind - searing hiatus that spanned 21 days.

Through decades of research, including long - term studies spanning over 30 + years, we know that SEL is the most proactive and preventative mental health initiative available.

A unique aspect of our training site is the opportunity to closely observe (weekly and long - term, over the span of nine months) healthy mothers and fathers and their newborns.

These connections span not only long distances over space but also over time, from the beginnings of LLL almost 60 years ago right up to today and moving on into the future.

Your child's longer attention span allows him to extend a play theme over a few days or across multiple playdates now.

When remuneration packages are tied into the performance of shares over a very short time - span, the long - term result is often a weaker corporate sector.

Cuomo has been reluctant to divulge details on how the tolls on the bridge will be affected after the multi-billion-dollar project to replace the over three - mile - long span is completed.

Within a span of just five days, Teachout's long - shot Democratic campaign won round one of a legal battle with Cuomo over her residency, though the governor is appealing the Brooklyn judge's ruling; got a much - needed infusion of some $ 50,000, thanks to a boost from the political action committee of Harvard law professor and leading campaign finance reform advocate Lawrence Lessig; and announced an endorsement from the Public Employees Federation, New York's second - largest public union.