Sentences with phrase «over years or decades»

Users of Opendime sticks can choose to pass their stick along to different owners only a few times before being emptied and destroyed, or they can treat their stick like physical cash, allowing it to change hands many times over years or decades.

The issue is that differences in mineral content, salinity, density, and temperature all affect how the ocean reacts to, and drives, changes in weather patterns, climate variations over years or decades, ocean current circulation, etc..

Sugimoto (who was born in Tokyo in 1948) deviated from his usual process of continuously working on and expanding a series over years or decades for this sequence, instead finalising a closed set of images over the course of ten days.

The primary trend is the major market direction over years or decades.

These firms have paid out dividends — not just over years or decades, but for generations... BCE Inc. (NYSE: BCE) is a perfect example.

When a product will be paid for over years or decades, quoting the fee as an amount payable over an arbitrary fraction of that time frame, i.e. one year, is nonsensical.

Compounding can help fulfill your long - term savings and investment goals, especially if you have time to let it work its magic over years or decades.

The symptoms are subtle and may develop over years or decades (17, 18).

But the health effects of chronic low - level radiation exposure over years or decades are far from clear.

In an earlier generation, this might have taken the form of separation or divorce, but now, it seemed, more and more women were unwilling to abandon the marriages and families they'd built over years or decades.

The successful financial advisors serving these clients have been able not only to win their clients over, but more importantly, retain this clientele over years or decades, often across generations.

«please can somebody give me good reasons to believe that a teensy weensy extra increase in high tide over a year or a decade or a generation is going to bring about severe disruption.»

Not exact matches

The rise of the numbers for women - owned businesses over the past five years is cause for cheer among those who would like to see more equality of business ownership, particularly given the stagnant numbers or declines over the previous half decade.

Here's the likelihood that a person has been married at least once at some point in his or her life for every year of age over the past few decades:

Buffett's performance has not tapered off over the decades, despite Berkshire Hathaway's size, with its legendary 1,063,315 % shareholder returns over the years (or 22 % annualized).

Which goes to show it takes more than a bad year or two to dent a reputation forged over decades.

During the past two decades, Maitland, now 71, who generally takes four or five vacations a year, has flown in a hot - air balloon over the Swiss Alps, ridden a camel by the Great Pyramid in Egypt, seen India from atop an elephant, and taken in Bangladesh while floating down the Ganges aboard a barge.

In legal filings, the four attorneys representing Redstone (including CBS board member David Andelman) called the claim over the 1972 transaction an «unprecedented abuse,» noting that Redstone was «now 90 years old; material witnesses have been dead for decades; documents have long since been discarded or have disintegrated; memories have unquestionably eroded.»

«Over the next 10 years — come hell or high water — I fully expect that Lower Manhattan will continue to grow as a neighborhood, as a business district, as a creative community and as a destination for visitors,» he told a business audience a decade after the terrorist attacks.

Depending on where you live, $ 1 million in savings could last you less than 10 years or over two decades.

While I continue to believe that the dollar faces substantial risk of further erosion in its exchange value, as well as a near doubling of the CPI over the coming decade or so (both reflecting the massive increase in U.S. government liabilities in recent years), those prospects are not likely to emerge until risk - aversion about credit default materially abates.

As a dividend growth investor, you can look at several metrics to evaluate the performance of a stock over the last months, years or even decades.

The new threshold in 2016 would be $ 970 a week, or $ 50,440 a year, about where it would be if it had kept pace with inflation over the decades.

Instead of being stretched out over decades, your payments are compressed into 5 or 10 years, requiring you to pay more each month.

Maybe you're at the helm of a rapidly growing startup and need to find enough space to put all of your new hires over the next couple years, or you're the global real estate director for an established company looking to expand your campus size to support decades of growth.

While the appreciation of the Australian dollar over the past year or so has restrained commodity prices in Australian dollar terms, they remain close to their average of the past decade.

The previous Liberal government having increased spending 47 per cent in its last six years in office; the Conservatives having increased spending another 19 per cent in its first three years («good times»), and a further 20 per cent over the next two («bad times»); after doubling spending, in short, in the space of a decade, the government's notion of restraint is more or less to leave it there.

Those are great returns but when long - dated Gilts have generated 9 - 10 % annualized over the last 25 - 30 years, shouldn't we wonder whether we might just have already PVed upfront a chunk of the investment gains for the next decade or two?

Gerardo D.: I've been involved in the resource space in one way or another for just a little over a decade, about 11 years now.

Based on the valuation measures most strongly correlated with actual subsequent total returns (and those correlations are near or above 90 %), we continue to estimate that the S&P 500 will achieve zero or negative nominal total returns over horizons of 8 years or less, and only about 2 % annually over the coming decade.

Raising the growth rate of the economy by 0.3 per cent (the difference between the underlying productivity growth rate in the 1990s cycle and the average of the earlier cycles) makes little difference over a year or two; over a decade or two, however, the cumulated effect on living standards is substantial.

So, as a small business owner, the substantive relationship you have with your local banker, or the social capital you've built within your community over years, if not decades — which propels enormous goodwill, customer loyalty, and economic value — means little, if anything, to regulators.

This can be expected to have a positive influence on the Australian economy in coming years, given Australia's proximity to the east Asian region and the strong trade links that have been cultivated with it over the past decade or so.

While Bitcoin has significantly expanded over the last year or so, its roots as an open source and innovative project are likely to reverberate for decades to come.

Donna's, which sits on the corner just down from the townhouse our founder [Richard John Neuhaus] bought over three decades years ago, has closed after 30 or more years, the victim of a rise of (local rumour has it) $ 16,000 a month in rent.

Every year or so, over the last decade, I would happen upon Brett at one literary event or another.

The fish catch had been growing at a record rate for two decades prior to 1970, but since 1970 the fish catch per person fell by 13 per cent or over 1 per cent per year Then fifteen years later in the mid-1980s there was an upturn of nearly 20 per cent due largely to the recovery of the depleted Peruvian anchoveta fishery.

And then there's the individual interpretations of what they think Jesus would DO as if we knew every motivation of a man that may or may not have lived over 2000 years ago of whom we only have these va - gue and ambiguous accounts from other people that were written DECADES after this Jesus guy died.

One of my advantages over most of my contemporary rivals is that, decade after decade, in eighty or so years I have gone on gaining additional clarity on a number of topics which interested me from the start.

We are on the cusp of greatness again and if this opportunity is ignored due to the Board and AW's financial reluctance and timidity, then we may just have to spend another ten years as the runners up or the «nearly but not quite» team we have been over the last decade.

Eight members of the American team have played professionally in the German first or second division over the last decade, and most of them, a German would be quick to point out, weren't able to survive more than a year or two.

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!

Snow has wreaked havoc over the past few days but what if it's just the start and the global warming, sorry, climate change means we're all facing months, years or decades in freezing conditions?

Since he has become one of the key Premier league defenders over the last decade, the 34 - year - old was expected to secure a quick to move to another Premier league or French Ligue 1 club.

Working with TLC or Kids, a premiere placement agency in St. Louis and co - creator of FindtheBestNanny.com, Debbie has been placing professional Sitters and Nannies for over a decade; not to mention she's a mom of three children of her own under four years of age!

As a consequence, today's HIV - positive mothers are enabled to avoid both the stigma and the risks of formula - feeding because current HIV and infant feeding guidance is once again more closely aligned to WHO recommendations for their uninfected counterparts, in place over the last decade: exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months and continued breastfeeding with the introduction of age - appropriate complementary feeding for up to 2 years or beyond.

Whether you've adopted a teenager who was abused over a decade ago, or you've never received help for the traumatic experiences you endured 40 years ago, treatment can still be effective.

The volunteers were affiliated with the Greater Chicago Food Depository, which over the last decade has arranged to make food shows week its best operation of the year: more than 200,000 pounds of food, or about 25 semitractor trailers» worth of everything from pizzas to bananas to boxes of macaroni and cheese.

You really don't want to go ten or fifteen years and THEN buy some when all of your vendors have archived the drawings and nobody has made the parts in over a decade.

This has been the call over the past decade or so from those still within the party responding to the fall out over the Nu Labour years.