Sentences with phrase «periods of several years»

You need to conclude that either the additional natural net flux that's larger than ANF over periods of several years can be excluded or that the reaction to the existing deviations from partial equilibrium can not be as large as 150 % or more of the ANF.

Even the annual variations are, however, a significant fraction of the total human influence, but over periods of several years the fraction is smaller.

In other words, there have been several short periods of several years over the last 16 years of steady sea level rise where sea level appears not to rise.

The last part of the paper discusses two possible explanations for mean reversion: time varying required returns, and slowly - decaying «price fads» that cause stock prices to deviate from fundamental values for periods of several years.

«In this study we show how the Eurasian siskin is able to form stable group relationships lasting for periods of several years in addition to travelling in each other» company over distances spanning more than 1,000 km,» points out Juan Carlos Senar, lead author of this study and a scientist at the museum.

Shiller has argued that the CAPE is remarkably good at predicting returns over the period of several years.

Tanaka will be temporarily replaced by Chairman Masashi Muromachi after an independent inquiry found the CEO had been aware the company had inflated its profits by $ 1.2 billion over a period of several years.

However, ARM rates can increase after an initial period of several years, inflating your monthly payments and upsetting your finances.

Essentially, this means that private companies may be the only U.S. - based launch providers for a period of several years.

Historically, commodities vastly outperform stocks for a period of several years, then everything reverses and stocks vastly outperform commodities.

Vangheluwe abused a boy over a period of several years in Bruges, Belgium, said Eric de Beukelaer, the spokesman.

The protesters say they are upset, but not surprised, that three priests, Edward Avery, Charles Engelhardt and James Brennan, as well as a teacher, Bernard Shero, were charged with sexually assaulting and raping two young boys over a period of several years.

If it is desirable for Harvard Law School to reject every white applicant whose credentials fall within a certain range while accepting every similarly qualified black applicant, why not apply this practice to the entire range of applicants, and reject all whites for a period of several years?

Maybe the most obvious warning sign was the attack on General Eric Shinseki, who had suggested that an Iraq invasion would require a force of several hundred thousand American troops over a period of several years.

But in a given plant there may be 3,000 workers eligible for six foremen's jobs over a period of several years.

Cunningham also says that UNC hired former federal prosecutor Kenneth Wainstein in January to independently investigate the allegations, which have now covered both the football and basketball programs over a period of several years.

they should sack him at end of season for his failure to understand how his own actions (and inactions) have led to his failure to reach his own stated objectives consistently over the period of several years.

It will provide funding for banks over an extended period of several years, lending against a much greater value of collateral in the form of loans to the real economy.

A former Cuomo Administration official is among those named in a criminal complaint by US Attorney Preet Bharara, and accused of carrying out kickback and bribery schemes over a period of several years.

The city would sell those parcels over a period of several years.

In fact, highly social people have a 50 percent better chance of survival than loners over a period of several years, according to Brigham Young University psychologist Julianne Holt - Lunstad.

The surface now appears dry, though the changing appearance of some crater gullies over a period of several years has hinted at the existence of subsurface aquifers that occasionally release bursts of water.

The Demonstration Project, which has been developed over a period of several years under the auspices of the AAAS - American Bar Association Science and Technology Section National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, would be implemented over a period of five years, be national in scope, and available to the federal courts.

The study assessed ambulance - dispatch patterns in New York state, over a period of several years, to examine how otherwise similar groups of patients fare when given varying levels of treatment; different hospitals tend to provide different levels of treatment, and thus expenses, in emergency care.

This massive viral replication leads to a progressive loss of CD4 cells over a period of several years to as long as a decade.

Woodward is the director of USArray, a mostly mobile set of seismographs operated by the National Science Foundation that are moved in regions from west to east over a period of several years, collecting data on Earth's motion as it progresses.

Nuclear warhead design takes place over a period of several years.

If sustained over a period of several years, such a temperature decrease could be sufficient to trigger an ice age!.

Some astronomers, however, have recently detected starspots which can result in false non-periodic detections and also a long - term variation in «seasonal» averages with a period of several years which deserves further study (Hargis et al, 2000).

However, there is a period of several years before menopause when a woman has eggs and is still ovulating but can no longer get pregnant.

The following questions have been compiled by the authors over a period of several years and should cover most situations encountered by parents giving homemade formula to their babies.

If this effect were to persist over the long term, it could have a dramatic influence on body weight over a period of several years.

It may seem easier to eat a donut and sit on the couch today, but over a period of several years, bad habits will lead to dangerous health problems such as heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and even cancer.

Longevity trials were conducted over a period of several years with laboratory mice receiving antioxidants in their everyday food.

I started getting serious with treating psoriasis patients in the early 1990's, and began to develop my own methods over a period of several years after studying over two dozen books on psoriasis.

I find it nearly impossible to watch a movie more than once within a period of several years, but I can almost always sit down with this film and get something out of it.

I find it nearly impossible to watch a movie more than once within a period of several years, but I can almost always sit down with this film and

Over a period of several years, the brothers have been browbeaten by their self - deluded mother, Dorothy (Graham), and charmed by their incarcerated father, to the point of sincerely believing Gary is an unfortunate, and innocent, victim of circumstance.

The figure around whom the film revolves is not Banksy himself, but Thierry Guetta (aka Mr. Brainwash), a boundlessly charismatic but borderline - insane amateur filmmaker whose obsessive camcorder chronicling of street artists at work over a period of several years provides the film with the bulk of its fascinating footage.

That's a pretty impressive result, because The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has only been out for 6 months, while Twilight Princess total sales «accumulated» over a period of several years.

But what happens if a child, for example, scores a 150 on the test, but then fails to demonstrate any kind of higher performance in any subject whatsoever for a period of several years?

Any larger - scale environmental changes can be achieved once the staff have the necessary knowledge and understanding to make informed judgements on the purchase of equipment and landscaping, if necessary over a period of several years, once a play policy has been agreed and a proper action plan has been devised.

Even in cases where a principal «s tenure extends over a period of several years, teachers may remain alienated when principal turnover is the result of a district leadership rotation policy.208 Teachers may become cynical and resistant to change because of the «revolving door syndrome» — the uncertainty and instability turnover causes, and the perception of the new leader as a «servant to the system.

It appears to take intensive efforts over a period of several years to produce lasting effects, but the fact that even the least intensive models of early intervention produce strong immediate effects suggests that a combination of approaches within a comprehensive preventive program will have great promise in increasing children's cognitive functioning and reducing future dropout.

Not incidentally, district test scores increased each year over a period of several years in all three cases.

SMALLab was developed by educators for educators over a period of several years by an interdisciplinary team of dedicated faculty and graduate students at Arizona State University's School of Arts, Media and Engineering.

In a report on school safety released last October, Eden reached the conclusion that New York City's charter schools were «safer» than traditional district counterparts not by comparing raw data from the Big Apple's school climate survey or even using more - objective data such as incident reports over a period of several years.

Her applied research documents the impact of a social - competence program on teachers and students over a period of several years.

So it is not unreasonable to estimate a cost of $ 5k or more in conference expenses over a period of several years.

Both argue that the proposed settlement would hurt their business by forcing the publishers to give up the agency pricing model for a period of several years.