Sentences with phrase «periods of a few»

However, after a period of a few weeks, sales dropped.

Personal installment loans - also known as cash advances - are typically paid back on a fixed schedule over a period of a few months or years.

It doesn't mean that stocks have to fall in the short term, or even over a period of a few years.

Director compensation typically consists of a cash component (retainer), smaller cash amounts paid for attendance at board and committee meetings, and incentive compensation in the form of stock and stock option grants which vest over a period of a few years.

Many of the card offers you will see from the different card companies will come with an introductory APR offer, usually 0 % on either balance transfers or purchases for a period of a few months to sometimes over a year.

I've been retired about 6 months now — to see see the relative effect of saving and compounding over a human - scaled period of a few years check out this graph of my fund value over this period (hope the link works for people)

This simply means that many traders are missing out on lucrative trades which can bring in substantial rewards over a period of a few weeks or even months.

Even over a period of a few years, the market can show about as much maturity as a middle school lunchroom, complete with pubescent gossip and inane popularity contests.

In a period of a few months, revolutions took place in seven Eastern....

One example is insects developing a resistance to pesticides over the period of a few years.

If this is the uncertainty over a period of a few years, what is the case with purported periods of centuries, millennia, or millions of years?

The Secular City was written during a hectic period of a few months in 1964 while I teaching at Andover Newton, working in a lively new black parish in Roxbury and serving a few days» time in a southern jail.

I just made my third batch of these (over a period of a few weeks) using the only sorghum flour I can get (brown as you know!)

Over a period of a few weeks and at the right time / dose, medication can gradually help these moms feel normal.

Often the best clue that a diaper rash is due to yeast is that it does not respond to regular rash ointments over a period of a few days but responds rapidly to an antifungal cream.

They work directly with families, often for a period of a few months.

Cluster feeding, also known as bunch feeding, is when your little baby feeds several times over a period of a few hours.

Some babies breastfeed after one bath and some need to take three or four baths over a period of a few days, before they start nursing again.

And we got there over a period of a few days - despite my attention being «diverted» by child # 2, Imogen, who was by now at 9 months old very mobile, and very accomplished at wandering into piles of wee!

This can also happen if you switch from breastfeeding your baby to giving them the bottle — so ideally do this gradually over a period of a few weeks to ease the transition — depending how long you wish to breastfeed for.

Or if you prefer a softer approach, sit next to your baby's cot and progressively move further away over a period of a few nights.

Is this normal, and any advice on how to get him to nurse, even if it's only for periods of a few minutes?

But even ordinary G - class stars like our own have been known to double in brightness for a period of a few minutes to a few days.

In order to describe the mechanism of a membrane sensor which measures the degree of lipid saturation in the yeast cell, the researchers used genetic and biochemical methods and simulated the motions and underlying forces of membrane lipids over a period of a few milliseconds by means of extensive molecular dynamic simulations.

The scientists also found eight strains of M. leprae whose genomes harbored an incredibly large number of random mutations, accumulated over a period of a few years or perhaps decades.

Subsequently bits and pieces swirl into the black hole and thus produce huge flares of radiation that can be as luminous as all the rest of the stars in the host galaxy for a period of a few months to a year.

Remember, things have to happen quickly because these small NEOs are only visible to even the most powerful of telescopes for a short period of a few days during their flyby of Earth.

Using the multiple measurements, they were able to reposition the images to create an estimate of what the activation over a period of a few minutes would look like.

Volcanoes can — and do — influence the global climate over time periods of a few years but this is achieved through the injection of sulfate aerosols into the high reaches of the atmosphere during the very large volcanic eruptions that occur sporadically each century.

Between 5 and 10 percent of stars surveyed have planets at least 100 times as massive as Earth with orbital periods of a few Earth years or less.

In contrast to the constant crustal movement seen on Earth, Venus is thought to undergo periodic episodes of plate tectonics, in which the crust is subducted rapidly within a few million years separated by stable periods of a few hundred million years.

Unless a person's endocrine system is severely damaged, he or she should be able to transition to a low - carb diet over a period of a few months without any adverse health reactions and see weight loss and health improvements as the body adjusts.

I took Dr. Gregers recommendation for a handful of nuts once a week and gained 20 pounds over the time period of a few months....

This nutritional consultation will be easy and private, and will provide space for you to think through questions over a period of a few days rather than rushing to ask questions in a 1 hour session.

It is generally recommended to completely eliminate all high - FODMAP foods for a period of a few weeks.

I have used solely the tallow balm on my son's inflamed skin over a period of a few days, and have not seemed to notice a difference yet.

So even if you find them easy only go part of the way down at first and work up to the full range over a period of a few weeks.

When I was on the GAPS Introductory Diet five years ago, my gut detoxed so quickly that I couldn't eat anything but Stage 1 (soups) foods lest I felt like dying (alone, in the bathroom...) and stayed the program course as designed over the period of a few months.

Over a period of a few to several weeks, the red ring slowly enlarges and spreads.

But I can't see how the argument that the ratio of amino acids is different can hold much validity - I don't think the ratio is very different for vegans and omnivores when you take into account our natural protein combining behavior over a period of a few meals.

The best approach would be to gradually increase your calories from 900 to 1900 over a period of a few weeks to allow your metabolism to speed up and acclimatize.

Now if I had just taken a small slice or two nobody would have noticed and I could most likely have eaten the whole cake, a slice or two, over a period of a few days without making anyone angry.

#KarinKnows If you are concerned with expensive food allergy tests but feel that something is not right with your body, try the elimination diet where you take out most of the inflammatory foods for a period of a few weeks and then slowly, little by little you reintroduce them back into your diet and watch for a reaction.

I tried online dating three separate times over a period of a few years, and each time wound up hiding my profile in discouragement or disgust just a couple of months in.

But it's not just married couples - a 2009 study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that after studying 7,000 individuals over a period of a few years, those who were in relationships and moved in with their significant others were twice as likely to be overweight than their single peers.

1.8 - million - year - old skull shakes mankind's family tree — The fifth such skull from the region spanning a period of a few centuries, it's known at present only as «Skull 5» — it hasn't received a clever name yet like Lucy, the remarkable African skeleton found in the 70s and dating back 3.4 million years.

The Gregorian calendar has gradually replaced the Julian calendar over a period of a few hundred years from October 1582 to re-align dates with the Calendar Years.

If you are not teaching in a true project - based learning environment, the following tips can be applied to a variety of scenarios where groups of students work over a few days or a period of a few weeks to create a final product that demonstrates their understanding of a concept.

They have begun to realize that their children are being stripped of an authentic educational experience that instead hinges on how they perform on a series of test over a period of a few days.

This information from Kobo is apart of their recent white paper on digital reading that dirived from 16,000 customers over a period of a few months.