Sentences with phrase «over successive years»

As with all technology, it's taken some years to reach this point, with numerous design innovations and refinements being introduced over successive years.

In North Carolina, many elementary and junior high schools that had introduced the Thinking Maps schoolwide in 1993 — 94 found significant increases in holistic writing test scores over successive years (Hyerle, in press).

Having one expert teacher is good but having a number of expert teachers over successive years has a dramatic effect on student achievement.

«The ideal thing would be to make [the remaining dishes] in, say, two 150 lots, over successive years.

Environmental water use over successive years of lower flows has shown significant benefits for the system through the export of excess salt from the river, as well as through the reduction of the amount of salt imported into the Murray Mouth from the sea.

Not exact matches

Apart from being consistent with the Bank's statutory obligations, it is what has been envisaged in successive formal agreements between two Treasurers and two Governors stretching back now over a dozen years.

These forecasts have been consistently revised downwards in successive surveys over a period of more than a year.

This is very far from being a new analysis: Family and Youth Concern, still battling away, was doing pioneering work over 30 years ago (for which its founder, Valerie Riches, was deservedly made a papal dame), pointing out how disastrous for society the undermining of the traditional family based on marriage - not least by successive governments - really was.

In many books and articles over the years, I have argued that Whiteheadian societies, while not possessing agency in and of themselves, nevertheless possess an objective ontological unity from moment to moment in virtue of the collective agency of their constituent actual occasions2 The unity thus achieved is in my view the unity of an ongoing structured field of activity for successive generations of actual occasions undergoing concrescence within the field.

Blind was signed from Ajax over the summer for # 13.8 m having won four successive Eredivisie titles with his boyhood club and being named Dutch Player of the Year in 2013/14.

Joel Campbell The Costa Rican and his representative have been fuming over Wenger's decision to not let the 22 - year old go out on loan, for the fourth successive season, when it is rather obvious that he is «not» going to enjoy the lion's share of game time in this Arsenal squad.

The last two were made on successive days 40 years ago, over the Memorial Day weekend

Juventus are not only the leaders of Serie A, but they are on course to claim their sixth successive league title and with such a formidable lead in domestic competition, there is a real hope in Turin that this side can be the one to go one step further than they did in 2015 and bring home the UEFA Champions League crown for the first time in over 20 years.

-- Norwich secured their first top - flight victory at Carrow Road for over six - years when beating Sunderland 2 - 1 last month, whereas Swansea still await their first away points in the Premier League following three successive defeats on their travels.

Some unconvincing wins over West Ham and Bolton, both by a 1 - 0 scoreline in games they didn't create an awful lot in, would later be followed by a couple of successive defeats against Man Utd (2 - 0) and Blackpool (0 - 2), the latter an embarrassing result considering they almost went the entire year without losing to anyone bar Manchester United on home soil.

Both teams will fancy their chances of winning this; Sunderland have won three of their previous four home Premier League games − including a 1 - 0 win over leaders Man City at the beginning of the year − whilst Norwich are setting their sights on a fourth successive away win.

«Women teachers have expressed their deep anger at the way in which they have been treated over recent years and about the successive attacks on their pay, working conditions and job security.

When we look back at the historical data summarised in Figure 1 below, we find the period since the mid-1980s has been one in which successive governments have opted for small, year - to - year reductions in the growth of overall public spending, rather than greater reductions over a shorter period.

«Successive governments deserve credit for the improvements they have made to pre-legislative consultation on tax matters over recent years.

Successive Congresses» delegation to Presidents of extraordinary powers over trade, and the next Congress's domination by exceedingly conservative Republican party organisations imply that the crucial first year of Mr. Trump's presidency could be a time of sharp changes in America's relations with the world — if that is what he wishes.

Over the past 20 years, successive governments have entered power with promises to decentralise power and enhance local autonomy.

All the aspirants agreed that the country's association with the International Monetary Fund over the years had done it more harm than good but Mr Greenstreet was of the view that successive governments that went to the IMF were to be blamed as the IMF did not force them to come for loans.

We aim to assess the effects of successive efforts to reform the executive government (the «state machine») of the UK over the past thirty years.

In the final results, the Conservatives received almost 42 % (a lead of 7.6 % over Labour) and won their fourth successive general election, though they now had a 21 - seat majority compared to the 102 - seat majority they had gained in the election five years previously.

That is something that successive Welsh Labour Ministers have signally failed to do over a period of a year or more.

Combining this loss with reductions in state aid, increasing costs and a shortfall carried over from a 2008 restoration that was not continued in successive year budgets, results in a total recurring budget shortfall nearing $ 7 million.

At present, whatever the merits of individual schools under the system, the free schools programme as a whole is in danger of helping to unravel a national school system developed in successive pieces of legislation over the past 70 years.

He could make a welcome return to the cabinet and frontline politics after making such a spirited contribution to the party over the years of opposition by sitting next to Blair on a Europhile platform, calling anyone who disagreed with such a stance headbangers and underming successive leaders.

The lawyer said, «Over the years, successive governments have sold off some of the national heritage in the name of privatisation by alleging that same will bring more economic gain to the nation, however the reverse has been the case.

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, has paid glowing tribute to successive presidents and governments who, he said, played important roles, over the years, in ensuring a favourable verdict was handed down by the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS).

The RTI bill, which is expected to make information easily accessible by the media and Ghanaians to boost the fight against corruption has been in legislation for well over 17 years now because successive governments have failed to implement it despite several assurances.

Over the past 17 million years or so, successive eruptions have flooded lava over wide stretches of Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, and Idaho, forming a string of comparatively flat calderas linked like beads, as the North American plate moves across the stationary hotsOver the past 17 million years or so, successive eruptions have flooded lava over wide stretches of Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, and Idaho, forming a string of comparatively flat calderas linked like beads, as the North American plate moves across the stationary hotsover wide stretches of Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, and Idaho, forming a string of comparatively flat calderas linked like beads, as the North American plate moves across the stationary hotspot.

Figure 2 shows that every successive budget plan over the past two years has allocated more to nondefense R&D than the plan before, in part because of continually improving economic forecasts but also because of concerted efforts to protect R&D programs from projected budget cuts.

They also may mutate as successive generations are grown out over the years in different laboratories.

A: We are planning this to be a long - term study that we will fund over successive budget years.

Working from an extensive Eurasian fossil record going back some 2.6 million years, Adrian Lister of University College London and Andrei V. Sher of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow studied changes in the skulls and teeth of three successive mammoth species (the last of which was the woolly variety) over time.

This film left me speechless at its Sundance premiere back in January, and with each successive viewing over the course of the year, I find it richer and even more accomplished.

Over the last twenty years or so, successive British governments of different political orientations have made educational reform a priority.

Driving along Pacific Coast Highway, you can see the successive layers of earth and rock that have piled up over millions of years to create California's coastal landscape.

Despite lack of empirical evidence that an infusion of federal money into state and urban school budgets improved the education or schools of low - income children, ESEA has been re-authorized over the years, and with increased appropriations in each successive version.

Aspen, Colorado — For years, each successive redesigned Kia model was a quantum leap over its predecessor.

Over the years, each successive generation of Cresta offered more space, pace and upmarket trim options, culminating in the Viscount which could hold its head high against some far more expensive competitors.

He ducked his head into the opening of the thick red chasuble that had been worn by successive Deans of the College over the past twenty years and held out his arms as Zanetti fussed around him like a tailor, straightening and adjusting it.

The drop in debt from one graduating class to the successive class was a 1.50 percent decrease year over year in terms of average student debt per borrower.

Evidence for the maximum lowering of sea level during successive ice ages over the past several millions of years is sparse.

To summarize this theory in general, it is hereby put forward that the Maya specifically created, or rather invented, a 260 day cycle in order to allow them to accurately track the occurrence of successive conjunctions involving the Earth and Venus, over a full 2000 year grand cycle.

Having already released a pair of exceptional DRPGs in the form of Demon Gaze and Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy over the past few years on the Vita, along with Stranger of Sword City as recently as this week, the developer has done a great job of refining their craft with each successive release.

One sees changing views of Notre - Dame, from two successive studios and over fourteen years — and from from Post-Impressionism to a single blue crossed by little more than a tree, a flash of sunlight on stone, and the bare arc in black of a bridge or a quai.

Als, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for criticism and curator of a recent exhibition of Alice Neel paintings (reviewed for Apollo here), will over the next three years curate three successive solo exhibitions of the work of artists Celia Paul, Lynette Yiadom - Boakye and Peter Doig.

Als will have the opportunity to share his interest in contemporary British art with an American audience through a three successive solo exhibitions he is organising at the Yale Centre for British Art over the next few years.