Sentences with phrase «periods lasted a few»

The faux fasting periods lasted a few days and were followed by cycles of eating as much and as often as subjects wanted.

[3] The course of a D - O event sees a rapid warming of temperature, followed by a cool period lasting a few hundred years.

What is most remarkable to me during the period the last few years during the long and deep solar minimum is that we didn't see global temps even fall more, nor did we see the Arctic Sea ice mount more of a recovery.

R. Gates says: August 20, 2010 at 7:28 am ``... What is most remarkable to me during the period the last few years during the long and deep solar minimum is that we didn't see global temps even fall more, nor did we see the Arctic Sea ice mount more of a recovery...»

You have two artificial temporary cold weather periods lasting a few years and tapering off in the beginning half of the series, El Chichón in 1982 and Mount Pinatubo in 1991 injecting aerosols / SO2 and cooling the surface temperature, then we have a temporary warm period at end of the series caused by recent El Niño in 2015 - 6.

Not exact matches

The first half of 2005 - 06 has been one of the most active sales periods in the Perth CBD for many years according to Knight Frank, which has sold more than $ 50 million worth of buildings in the last few months.

And it's more effective: in the last six months of 1999, IMC made only seven police calls, fewer than half the number for the same period in 1998.

Apple's investors have witnessed a «miserable, dark period» over the last few months, and there are no signs of this abating, analyst Daniel Ives said.

The last few months have been a period where securitisation has come to the fore, for better or worse.

But in the last few episodes of sharp stock market drops, bonds went up (US government bonds are a safe haven asset and appreciate in crisis periods) so the only thing better than 3 months worth of expenses in a money market fund is having 3 + x months worth of expenses in the bond portfolio due to higher bond yields and negative correlation between bonds and stocks.

The announcement comes during a red - hot period for the marketing technology industry that has seen $ 6.2 billion in funding and acquisition in the last few months, according to business tracking service VB Profiles.

Moneris, which facilitates card payments for 220,000 Canadian merchants, said last month that its purchases over its systems increased by about 5 per cent in the first quarter from the same period a year ago, following the pattern that the company has observed for the past few years.

[10] Cardinal Henri de Lubac a great colleague and ally of Joseph Ratzinger in the turbulent period after the Second Vatican Council, made a very similar comment about modern biblical critics: «they are primarily specialists, and their function has become very necessary and very important during the last few centuries.

Last year 70,000 fewer 16 - year - olds in England gained a qualification in Religious Studies, compared with the same period in 2013, a drop of 15 %.

At Bournemouth, Wilshere is yet to put a foot wrong and has stayed injury free for probably the longest period of time in the last few years.

Jack Wilshere's physical powers have been intensely tested in the last few weeks as Arsene Wenger has picked the 25 year - old for every single Arsenal game over the intense Xmas period, and he showed he was just as fit today as when he first played by being as impressive as usual and even scoring his first goal in the Premier League for two and a half years.

After a few years where he was widely considered to be the best winger in the world â $ «a period which took in a Championsâ $ ™ League victory â $ «many believed Giggs was on his way down after a run of poor form over the last couple of seasons.

Gibbs has found himself largely out of the team for the last few seasons, but has remained very loyal to the club during that period of time.

Despite their resolute defending though, Arsenal have actually conceded fewer goals per game across the last 10 games in all competitions and scored an average of twice as many goals per game across the same period.

the wilshere goal against norwich and that rosicky goal against «do nt know against whom anymore» but i think where our decisions differ is that i think that till the season 11/12, maybe 12/13 overachieved / had success, cause some year ago in the 12/13 season you wrote that he underachieved in this period, haha i still remember that xD but after that he should have won atleast one title and its a disappointment that we never had more than 80 points in the last few years..

Alexis took his spot this season, but he is now starting to find his way back into the team these last few weeks with a number of goals over the festive period.

If Ramsey is in the mood / form to get back and defend with as much passion as he has at going forward then I would choose him to partner Coquelin (Once before he had this for a consistent period and we all got wow'd by him then), Ramsey has played a lot of AM roles after the injury and Cazorla being used there but his last game shown a good willingness to get back and defend, maybe it can come back in a few more games playing in the middle.

«It's positive because last year during this period we got some bad news and a few long - term injuries and it was a handicap in our season.

It is not getting any better for Arsenal fans and Arsene Wenger, and instead of the last few days of the transfer window being a period in which the problems of the team could be sorted by spending some big money on the right players after a poor start to the latest Premier League campaign, it is turning into a time of even more misery as we lose key stars to direct rivals and are unable to replace them because players do not seem to be too keen on signing for the Gunners anymore.

which is certainly not a slight on the young french national player; like him or not, Sanchez has provided some real world - class performances for club and country in recent years... if you do this move, you need to really clean house or face some serious consequences for the foreseeable future... half measures are rarely rewarded, that's how we got here... tear down the wall... we need to get rid of Giroud, not because he isn't a talented player, his skill - set simply doesn't make sense if we hope to maximize the offensive potential of a quick passing, one - touch scheme... we need to evolve, like Barcelona, who realized you needed to have clinical finishers or face a mind - numbing future of horizontal passes and largely ineffective crosses... Barca went and got Suarez, even though they had Messi and Neymar on the roster (just imagine the possibilities — another in the litany of Wenger «what ifs»)... we need to be as clinical in the boardroom as on the pitch... accept nothing less or move on... personally I would move on from Welbeck, Giroud and Walcott, even Ox if he isn't all in... I think the most intriguing player might be Perez, which runs counter to the thoughts in my head when he arrived late last summer... we need a deep lying DM with quick feet and long ball potential, midfielders who can counter quickly even when they are spread out and 4 or 5 players who know how to attack the lanes (kind of a cross between Barca, Dortmund and Monaco)... this is seriously an achievable goal, one that logically should have been achieved quite a few years ago... did no one in the Arsenal organization see the financial restructuring of the football universe... think of the players we could have had but we weren't willing to cough up the dough only for those individuals to have their value double or triple within a 12 to 24 month period... even if just from an investment perspective these «no deals» represent a failure of monumental proportions... only if you cared, of course

Few would argue that Villa have it tough over the festive period, with Tottenham Hotspur first up on Boxing day at Villa Park — A game you can see live on Sky Sports — before they tackle the wealth of Manchester City at Eastlands in a match which last season, because of their 3 - 1 defeat in the closing stages of the season, meant they could no longer finish in the top - four.

Linden says of the professional handicappers they monitor, unlike last century, there are fewer who simply excel by focusing on a specific team or conference, but instead they do notice, «The elite services do consistently go for or against the same teams for extended periods.»

Since the original publication of The Birth Partner, new mothers» partners, friends, and relatives and doulas (professional birth assistants) have relied on Penny Simkin's guidance in caring for the new mother from the last few weeks of pregnancy through the early postpartum period.

These changes in your baby's behavior should only last a few days during your period.

The regression lasts for a period, and there are a few typical months you can count on experiencing one.

We are still in the adoption waiting period but one thing we have really come to understand is that our decision to adopt will literally last at least a few lifetimes — our child's lifetime, our lifetime and the birth families lifetime.

Sometimes women will have periods of contractions that return at a certain point each day or some will seem to have non-stop contractions for the last few weeks.

Your baby may seem to stop breathing for long periods, but almost always those pauses last just a few seconds before normal breathing resumes.

Don't get complacent: Manage your expectations even if you've had a few good weeks of your baby sleeping for longer periods, don't assume this will last, unfortunately, it often doesn't and there will be periods of disruption from time to time.

Im almost 4 months pp now, after 1 month i think i got my period but it only lasted for a few days i think it was just leftover blood from the uterus, is that possible?

Light bleeding is normal during implantation, but if you notice a heavy flow or the bleeding lasts more than a few days, you may have had a miscarriage, or your period may have come.

the last few days he has been latching on and staying on the breast for long periods of time but drinking little to nothing each feed.

One of the flagship policies of the last few months of the coalition government was the introduction of an additional compulsory one year supervision by the private companies for anyone sentenced to prison for a short period.

Typically we would expect at least 50 % of all bets on an event like this to be placed in the last two weeks, but judging on current trends [these few weeks] are set to be bigger than the last general election period put together.

The GMD explained that the concomitant effect of the efforts was a significant growth in domestic gas supply in the last few months, adding that during the period, domestic gas supply had increased from an average of 700MMscf in July 2016 to an average of 1,220 MMscfd currently, with about 7 of the volume supplied to thermal power plants.

During the period between the creation of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 and the end of the last Labour government in 2010, the West Lothian Question had few practical ramifications.

The wash - up period is the last few days while a Parliament of the United Kingdom continues to sit after the Prime Minister has announced the date when Parliament will be dissolved so a general election can be held but before Parliament has been formally adjourned, prorogued or dissolved.

CIVIC CENTER — There were more than 2,800 fewer major crimes this year compared with the same period of time last year, but homicides and reported rapes were still higher, the NYPD announced Monday.

The deputies have been wearing the cameras for the last few months to get used to operating them but the official testing and evaluation period starts today, Zylka said.

During equinox, which lasted only a few days, unusual shadows and wavy structures appeared and, as they sat in twilight for this brief period, the rings began to cool.

Timmerman and others showed in 2013 that El Niños have been stronger in the last few decades than in any period over the past four centuries.

In all, 94 percent of hospitals treated fewer uninsured patients, and 88 percent had more Medicaid - covered patients, in the last 9 months of 2014 compared with the same period in each of the two years before expansion.

They dated a subset of the bryophytes and found that the plants ranged in age from 404 to 614 years old, confirming that were frozen during the Little Ice Age, a period of cooling lasting a few hundred years, which ended in the 19th century.

«That part is not new, but they point out a few other occasions in the last millennium where there has been low snowpack in the West were also periods that were unusually warm.

In the last few years, Sweeney, a professor of physiology and medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and a small cadre of other researchers have learned how to create genes that repair weak, deteriorating, or damaged muscles, bones, tendons, and cartilage in a relatively short period of time.