Sentences with phrase «over long spans of time»

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Using an accelerator mass spectrometer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the geologists measured how much beryllium - 10 was in their samples — giving them a kind of clock to measure erosion over long time spans.

«It's possible that the mobility of charcoal on the landscape and it's tendency to become concentrated in low - lying spots could make it more likely the charcoal from wildfires becomes buried and incorporated deep in soils and that these deposits act as a kind of charcoal reservoir that releases charcoal into the soil over long time spans.»

«Our research has showed that while the development of La Niña and El Niño events is chaotic and hard to predict, the strength of these events can change over long time spans due to changes in the global climate,» said one of the paper's authors Dr Steven Phipps.

We are very impressed by Fred Kavli's design of these new awards, which span from the very grand scale of astrophysics to the microscopic level of nanotechnology, and to the level in between: the brain - no doubt the most complex organ created by the biological evolution over a very, very long time... billions of years.

They suggest that further research should be performed over a longer time period and in a greater number of animals to determine whether these improvements are maintained, and look forward to further work utilizing membrane - spanning peptides for presentation of bioactive molecules for stem cell therapy.

When I eat out and my meal spans over a longer period of time (such as 90 minutes last Saturday!)

Regardless of the fact spin - offs such as Happy Home Designer (2015,) amiibo Festival (2015) and the New Leaf expansion «Welcome amiibo» and the mobile app has graced our presence since, it has been well over 4 years since the last true instalment and even though I am not an Animal Crossing fan myself, it is just too long a span of time.

Over the span of two and a half hours, MCU fans were thrown answers left and right, some resolving plot threads that have been dangling for a very, very long time...

Duration and span of the professional development activities were also important; with activities lasting longer and occurring over time having a greater effect on teacher learning.

It seems the production record of the Lamborghini Gallardo will not last very long anymore, remember a total of 14,022 Gallardo were built over a time span of 11 years before the Lamborghini Huracan took over in 2014... it took Lamborghini only 4 years to build 10,000 Huracan...

Moreover, most research is done over a span of a longer period of time.

For long - term investors, this recent activity won't make too much noise, as little has changed in the fundamentals of the precious metal over a long time span.

These can range from single day - long affairs to continual, persistent actions over a span of time.

Spanning a record 7 time zones, this is the longest continuous rail line on earth, covering 9,289 km (5,772 mi) or over one - third of the globe.

Composed by long - time Bethesda collaborator Mick Gordon, his dark and intense vision channels industrial metal to mirror DOOM's trademark brutal power fantasy gameplay across 31 synth and metal - filled tracks1, spanning over two hours of runtime.

The PC version of Tomb Raider has been developed in tandem between Crystal Dynamics and long - time partner Nixxes; a collaboration that has spanned over a dozen PC titles and dates back fifteen years.

Over the longer time span of 50 to 100 years, it is well established that there has been a decrease in the rate at which low temperature records are being set relative to all - time high temperature records at stations across the United States.

(AP failed to state over what span of time, leaving the earlier «this century» mistakenly attached to the longer term number).

Some commentators have made much of longer - term trends in ice thickness, but there, too, winds and patterns of atmospheric pressure have played a powerful role over longer time spans.

While others have pointed out already that weather & climate (weather trends over very long spans of time) are different, I can offer you my observations on recent Alaskan weather.

The size of the imbalance varies with the time span you consider, because it is larger in periods of weak surface warming such as the last decade, when 0.9 W / m2 pertains, but smaller over longer periods that have more warming at the surface such as the last 20 - 30 years.

For example, the climate we observe today could be compared to that of the 1800's or over a longer time span such as several million years ago.

The amount of long - term increase for the last 4 shifts equals +0.4 °C, the same as the earlier «up» shifts, but it occurred over a shorter time span.

I'm saying, sure, but if this very credible physical forcing is real — and the huge weight of evidence says it is — then this trend is just going to continue over longer time spans.

Again like global temperatures, if we want to detect any long term trend we need to look at what is happening over spans of time of about a decade.

The evidence in favour of such a link is the observation that the ITCZ and other air circulation system components have changed over those longer time spans.

If over a long period of time that portion of the ocean accumulates heat, then the index (a statistic calculated from temperatures and pressures) running mean will change over that time span.

I think the crux of the problem is that we don't have data over a long enough time span to adequately inform climate theory.

Tamino you stated: «There are lots of fluctuations and lots of dynamical processes, but over the entire globe and over long time spans it's the changes in energy inputs that dominate the trend.