Sentences with phrase «over billions of years little»

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Zients noted on the Tuesday afternoon call that a little over a year ago President Barack Obama «called for action to crack down on conflicts of interest in retirement advice, which costs American families billions of dollars every year.»

Issuance by non-financial corporates either onshore or offshore totalled a little over $ 3 billion, following a record $ 10 billion of issuance in the December quarter of last year.

A little over a year after poaching Eastdil Secured's star investment sales brokers, Doug Harmon and Adam Spies, Cushman & Wakefield swooped in to capture the No. 1 spot in the city's hypercompetitive investment sales arena with $ 6.36 billion across 190 deals, The Real Deal's analysis of closed sales in 2017 shows.

Oh, so in the vast known Universe, which reaches out for 15 BILLION light years in all directions, with over 100 BILLION galaxies, containing an average of 100 BILLION stars each, with most of those stars now thought to have multiple planets orbiting around them, you can't imagine that there would be at least ONE little planet SOMEWHERE with the right conditions for life without divine intervention?

Little drops of ink, blotched together, soon evolved into letters, then letters formed words, words in turn broke off and became sentences, all of a sudden paper appeared, and over 10 Billion years a book formed itself out from nothing.

The system over the years has grown unwieldy, with hundreds of authorities, corporations and development agencies cropping up around the state, taking out billions of dollars in debt and for the most part operating with little sunlight or accountability.

For example, they want to measure the planet's inventory of stable noble gases, such as xenon and krypton, which change little in abundance over billions of years and hold clues to planetary origins.

Over billions of years, Neptune's gravitational influence might have given it little kicks that stretched out its orbital far point all the way to the inner part of the Oort cloud — a cluster of frozen bodies thought to start 2000 or more AU from the sun.

Rather than catastrophic resurfacing that would take as little as 10 million years, Venus may have had gradual turnover of a thin crust stirred by mantle plumes or asteroid collisions that renewed the surface 1 percent at a time over billions of years.

«Americans spend over $ 2 billion a year on dietary supplements promoted for weight loss, but there's little evidence they actually work,» said Anne L. Thurn, Ph.D., director of the ODS Communications Program.

Moreover, such programs bring enormous economic benefits and can pay for themselves in as little as one year and, over time, save the states and the federal government billions of dollars.

It's important to keep in mind, however, that Starbucks will gear itself a little more, as part of the aforementioned plan to return $ 15 billion to shareholders over the next three years includes additional leverage.

With more than $ 3 billion worth of art on display at last year's Art Basel and a host of «satellite» art shows taking place all over town, there are treasures to be had at this year's fairs, but knowing a good «get» when you see one sometimes requires a little help.

It is beyond awesome that we little lumps of protoplasm squinting out at the Universe from our shaky platform in the outskirts of an insignificant galaxy can, after four decades of indefatigable effort, detect and characterize a black hole merger over a billion light years away.

By way of comparison, consider that the rich countries currently spend a little over $ 100 billion per year in foreign development aid.

Since the mantle lubricates the crust - core boundary one can expect some slippage resulting in the core always rotating a little faster than the Earth over billions of years, lapping the Earth once every one or two thousand years by some estimates.

The 20 billion / year distributed through the EEG are not a problem — over 70 % of the Germans think that Germany spends too little to speed up Energiewende — so no political drama here — slowing Energiewende in Germany is a political suicide — look what happened to FDP in the last elections.

We have an unknown climate sensitivity which has some how kept life on earth going for 2 billion years through extremes but is now going to roll over and die because of a little Co2 burp by an organism that has only been around 100,000 years.

The amount of power produced from the three plants, assuming a generous 30 percent capacity factor, would equal a little over 1.6 billion kWh of electricity per year.

The median company spends $ 4.3 million per $ 1 billion of revenues on legal spending in the U.S., a figure that has changed little over the past three years.

For the rest, the dates have little foundation in actual food safety science, as a result, Americans throw away billions of pounds of food every year over concerns that it has gone bad.

Walmart today took its biggest step yet in its bid to compete against Amazon in the world of digital commerce: today the retail giant announced that it would be acquiring Jet.com — an online - only shopping site that has been live for a little over a year — for $ 3 billion in cash, plus up to $ 300 million in shares for the founders and others at the company.