Sentences with phrase «periods like last year»

Experience tells us that in weak performance periods like last year, good opportunities often arise and that our patience is typically rewarded.

Not exact matches

In the wake of last year's results, the Liberals moved up the opening of the application period, then extended it by two weeks in January when it looked like there would be a shortfall in businesses applying for the program.

There have certainly been periods when the rich, the middle class and the poor all have done well (like the late 1990s), as well as periods when all have done poorly (like the last year).

This diversification strategy, like the value strategy, goes through time periods like the last five years when it delivers below - market returns.

The cadence of the quarter really worked exactly like we thought it was going to work, with the shift of Easter into the second period, March, out of the third, which is April last year, obviously March was a better months than April.

I think if we take a moment and look «through time,» over a period of many years... just look at the last 30 years, if you like, we definitely can see «more» equality happening for Gays.

With guests like President Obama and Jay Z under his belt, Letterman continues his run of excellent biographical interviews with one of the most important comedic voices of the last 20 years and one of the most important voices, period, of the last 30.

I made it last year for my birthday and frankly ate the entire cake (over the period of several days... don't judge) since no one else really likes it here at our home.

Thus in order to do well and win a league in the future, we have to start well like last year and then MAINTAIN the consistency or atleast get results closest to the prime / high points gathering period.

nope thats your opinion, walcott is doing great (what a lot like to forget was, even last year he was pretty good till his injury) but sanchez has not been better than the beginning of last year, last year before and after the lei - ars game, he had that period where he scored 6 in 6 i think.

I know that at first glance, not many people would compare Arsenal with Man City at the minute, because the last 10 years or so have seen the two clubs operating about as differently as possible, with Arsene Wenger working on a shoestring and our trophy winning ability dwindling year on year, while a succession of City bosses have been throwing money around like lottery winners and propelling the club to it's most successful period.

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

well folks this season is a big one for some of the arsenal under achievers like diaby, nasri, walcott, deneilson, vanpercy, all these players have had their setting in period now they must deliver after this season we will no who can cut it and who can't no more excuses walcott had a long rest lets see if he is worth that tag world class that they like to give every english player nasri, he had a good rest as well no excuses diaby more experience he better come good and deneilson had been at arsenal two long to not produce and every bodies favorite mr vanpercy they say he is world class he has a fantastic technique but you need more to be world class i know he has had injury problems most time and stats show he has not scored a free kick in two years for arsenal this is last chance for robin if he get injured sell make no sense but he most of all must play well and score lots of goals he has been at arsenal a long time and must produce.............

This is the time of the year when Arsenal, and every other club, seem to be caught in the footballing equivalent of the doldrums, once the bane of every sailing ship known to man, where a relatively calm period occurs out of nowhere, and during which time no wind has the temerity to stick its nose in, and indeed prefers to disappear like ice cream in a hot oven, trapping sailing ships for lengthy periods lasting days, weeks and sometimes months, where for what seemed an eternity to their crews — nothing happened.

In 2015, he came to the University for Development Studies, Navrongo Campus for NPP TESCON programme when I was NDC TEIN president and preached a very terrible message by asking Ghanaians to make sacrifices like the people of Ivory Coast did some years ago and that «a country smaller in size and population compared to Ghana, which had endured bloody dispute in their last election, resulting in the loss and displacing of thousands of lives, had, in a short period, turned around their fortunes.

And the return to ocean conditions last seen in the Ediacaran period more than 540 million years ago — when jellies last ruled the seas — has been a boon for certain fishes in habitats like the Benguela Current in the South Atlantic off Namibia in Africa, where jellyfish - eating gobies have replaced sardines in the food chain.

Astronomical factors also play a role in relation to the great changes like the shift between ice ages, which typically lasts about 100,000 years and interglacial periods, which typically last about 10 - 12,000 years.

The most prominent of these in the last 200 years — the 1940s and the 1830s — were also periods of unusual El Niño activity like the 1990s.

The Persian carpet flatworm, the cuttlefish and the black ghost knifefish look nothing like each other — their last common ancestor lived 550 million years ago, before the Cambrian period — but a new study uses a combination of computer simulations, a robotic fish and video footage of real fish to show that all three aquatic creatures have evolved to swim with elongated fins using the same mechanical motion that optimizes their speed, helping to ensure their survival.

The sediment cores used in this study cover a period when the planet went through many climate cycles driven by variations in Earth's orbit, from extreme glacial periods such as the Last Glacial Maximum about 20,000 years ago, when massive ice sheets covered the northern parts of Europe and North America, to relatively warm interglacial periods with climates more like today's.

The app of the moment, the most popular one, it was launched a few years ago and rose to prominence only in the last period with the help of web influencers, like the legendary Chiara Ferragni.

For the last year, I have been enjoying a subscription to the Acorn streaming media service, as it has all my favorite British period and mystery series, like Midsomer Murders, Foyle's War, Vera, and Poirot.

In a low inflation period, like we have been in for the last 10 years, it is easy to forget about factoring in inflation to your investing portfolio.

Assuming you invest # 50,000 today and get an annual return of 8 percent over 40 years (which is the average annual return on a large stock index like the FTSE 100 or the American S&P 500 over the last 30 years), you can expect to cash of over # 1 million at the end of the investment period.

It was easy from 1982 to 2000, but what about relatively stale periods like the last seven years?

And Florrie has somehow missed the essential point that CO2 is not the only forcing of climate, and that CO2 is not the only thing that has varied over the last x years (pick what ever time period you like for x).

They found periods of predominantly El Niño - like patterns for several hundred years that alternate with La Niña patterns, impacting on global climate over the last 2000 years.

For instance, the peak years of the Texas drought in the 1950's took place when there was a period of strong La Nina, much like the current drought started last year during another strong La Nina.

I presented links to the possible causes of the warming of the period 80s and 90s (just like the scientists debating the possible causes of «hiatus» of the last 13 years) and you dissmiss that as irrelevant?

Like the emergence from the last glacial period about 15,000 years ago.

Scientific perspectives are important in the discussion of specific periods (not unspecified period as you have done) like the last 18 years compared to the last 36 and like the period since 1850 as compared to natural temperature cycles of the geologic timescales.

Pekka, yes, it looks like you are right that a longer period was used which makes it harder to understand why their sensitivity fails to explain the last 43 years.

The problem here is that humans and their precursors, didn't live long like us today, and that if they had a warm period that only lasted 100 years that could account for 4 generations.

IPCC referred to it as «a widely acknowledged «climate shift» (e.g. Trenberth, 1990)», and, indeed, it did look like an upward shift (which lasted 30 years, like the earlier warming period, which started in 1910 (before much human GHG).

These warming periods lasted for 5,000 to 10,000 years (the cooling periods lasted more like 100,000 years!)

They know it from days and nights that are hotter than in the past; from more frequent and more intense hurricanes or freak years like the last one when there were none; from long periods of dry weather followed by unseasonable heavy rainfall and flooding; and from the recognisable erosion of coastal areas and reefs.

We've no evidence of losses like the ones I mentioned in such a short period for over the last 1400 years.

Current GCM models may have realistic - seeming weather patterns, but are totally incapable of producing phenomena that look like the Holocene (Little Ice Age, Medieval Warm Period, Roman Warm Period, Holocene Optimum, the steady decline of temperature on average over the last 3,000 years, etc.) The Climate Science community has, instead, taken the path of trying to claim that these swings didn't occur (Michael Mann's «Hockey Stick», etc.) This does not give me a lot of confidence in the rest of their «science».

The fact that it is NOT definatively rising like the 1975 - 1998 period means there is more going on in the climate system than just CO2 emissions, which have clearly risen during the last 10 years.

The late 20th century warming period is therefor eclearly not «unprecendented» even within the last 100 years let alone 100 years as Michael Mann's (and Keith Briffa's) cherry picking of proxies and use of «novel statistical methods» like de-centred PCA would have us all believe.

It does a reasonable job of looking like the real temperature record for the last ~ 40 years and that's what you'd expect for a period of roughly constant average solar output & El Nino.

So we look at the last ten thousand years, and we see a warming like all the others which have never stopped alternating with coolings; we see a dribble of sea level rise since the late 1700s which is as normal as cornflakes in the morning; we see polar ice variations well in line with what everybody USED to know about the medieval period till recently...

Due to the way in which these various cycles have been relative constant over the last 35 million years, the earth has settled into a relatively recent cycle of approximately 100,000 year long declining climates and ice ages, and brief 12,000 - 18,000 year long warm spells we call inter-glacial periods like our current Holocene.

Rhetorically speaking, was glacial melt and SLR from warming «equally measured» in 150 year increments from 20k years ago at the end of the LIA to 10k years ago when the last glacier receded from New York; or did the velocity of SLR increase over this period as factors, like the before mentioned, accelerated the velocity of melt through the period?

Sweden, over the last five or so years, has reduced its carbon output or emission by something like 11 %, and their economy during that period has grown by something like 40 %.

Authorities are closely watching the accumulated heat stress it is demonstrating just like in the same period last year, when it experienced the worst bleaching incident.

the reason the period of the last 1000 years isn't much of a priority in terms of paleo simulations is that you need some specified change to external forcing (solar, atmospheric composition) or bottom boundary conditions (like continents moving around) to get a simulation that is different from present.

A like - for - like comparison for the equivalent 12 - month period puts revenues 6 % up on a projected turnover figure of # 106m for last year.

It's usually only very major things like a recent bout with cancer, or a heart attack / stroke in the last year that cause people to have to endure a waiting period.

As Series 2 introduced GPS functionality last year, this new Apple Watch may have the potential to bring users to leave their iPhone behind, if only for short periods like during exercise.