Sentences with phrase «recent span of time»

He returned from a recent span of time off to a desk covered in handmade, 3 - D birds hanging from the ceiling and perched next to his computer.

Not exact matches

And while Cuomo has spent plenty of time touting big - ticket transportation projects in recent months — the opening of the Second Avenue Subway, the debut of the new span of the Kosciuszko Bridge — he's remained fairly silent on the rash of issues on the subway.

Mr. Bellone pointed to a recent report that showed nitrogen concentrations in one of Long Island's three aquifers rose by 40 percent between 1987 and 2013, while levels in the island's largest aquifer rose by 80 percent during that same time span.

«Climatologically speaking, 15 years is a very short span of time, but it is safe to say that the current California drought rivals any in recent memory,» said Mark Svoboda, a climatologist at the National Drought Mitigation Center.

While the brain - protecting and memory - enhancing benefits of blueberries have been known about for quite some time, more recent studies show that blueberries may actually help to delay the aging process and prevent low life span.

Now, with interest in De Palma's career as a whole on a rise thanks to the success of the recent career - spanning documentary «De Palma» (itself now available on Blu - ray), it seems the perfect time to revisit «Raising Cain» and finally recognize it as one of the most formally daring and deliriously entertaining works of his entire career.

Verdict: 4 - Stars Spanning several generations and evolving over the course of some of the worst times in recent history for the Jewish people, I Am Forbidden (Hogarth) is Markovits» haunting account of what happens to a people who are so at odds with both the world and their own spirituality.

Spanning several generations and evolving over the course of some of the worst times in recent history for the Jewish people, I Am Forbidden (Hogarth) is Markovits» haunting account of what happens to a people who are so at odds with both the world and their own spirituality.

Though most of us can't attest to that, we can all confirm that the excess of information and ways to consume it have dwindled our attention spans in recent times.

With so many ways to shrink our attention spans in recent years, there's a limited amount of time to capture anyone's interest and share information with them.

For long - term investors, this recent activity won't make too much noise, as little has changed in the fundamentals of the precious metal over a long time span.

For instance, we have argued many times, with Paulo Coelho as a recent example, that selling in volume at a lower price has the potential to make far more money in a shorter span of time.

The heads are a perfect illustration of the dual mission Mr. Marshall has been pursuing with a kind of holy fervor for almost 40 years now: building a sturdy bridge for figurative painting from the 15th century to ours, over treacherous spans of recent history that declared both figuration and painting to be finished — and at the same time trying to rewrite history itself.

A veritable feast of exhibitions showcasing Brazilian artists has materialized in major museums around the world in recent months, most prominently the important retrospective of Mira Schendel at Tate Modern (running through January), where over 250 artworks spanning the arc of her career are on view, many for the first time.

Spanning three floors, the exhibition presents for the first time in New York recent works, notably from the series Homage to Francis Bacon and the Transcendent Attacking a Whirlwind fresco, exhibited this past October at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

Inspired by a recent trip to Peru, Ancient Future, is an exploration of the relationships between civilizations, spanning time.

In Camden, there are more than 60 artists included in the show — an unusually high proportion of them women — spanning a multitude of media, including painting (Dorothea Tanning, Alice Neel), photography (Irving Penn, Claude Cahun), sculpture (Wangechi Mutu, Sheila Hicks), weaving (Anni Albers, and West African textiles from Mr. Olowu's personal collection) and collage (the 25 - year - old fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner, recent winner of the LVMH prize for emerging talent, has a piece on display for the first time).

The MCA is proud to present a major retrospective of his paintings, featuring fifty works that span three decades of his career, from the artist's earliest mature works — many of which are being shown in North America for the first time — to his recent, monumentally scaled paintings.

With collections spanning from the early 20th century to the most recent and exciting compositions of our time, the fair roams fearlessly across a world of ideas, evoking complex topics and pushing boundaries.

Cloud Illusions I Recall features works that span generations and includes some of the most important artists of recent times - Marcel Broodthaers, James Coleman, Peter Doig, Dominique Gonzalez - Foerster, Lady Clementina Hawarden, Chris Marker, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Andrey Tarkovsky and Cerith Wyn Evans.

Still's resolute refusal to «explain» his work, for example, has frequently been interpreted as uncommunicativeness, although it could be argued that no other artist in recent times has been more concerned about communication; one need only look at Still's recent and important gift of 28 paintings, spanning 40 years of his career, to the newly redesignated San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

The brief time span of the most recent data, and the strong autocorrelation of temperature time series, combine to make the error range considerable.

While others have pointed out already that weather & climate (weather trends over very long spans of time) are different, I can offer you my observations on recent Alaskan weather.

A rough estimate of the time taken to increase anthropogenic CO2 (column 3 of the above 4 - row table) by a factor of e (2.718) in the recent past can be had by dividing ln (93.2 / 31.5) = 1.0848 into the 45 year span of the table, giving 41.5 years.

Leif Svalgaard's argument, as I understand it, is that with the most recent and reliable reconstructions of the history of solar activity, temperature change and solar activity are almost perfectly uncorrelated over a time span of 300 years, and the association apparent in Alec Rawls» graph only appears in the 20th century.

ie There were very likely a huge number of equivalent (to the recent record) or greater spikes and dips across the whole time span.

[Poitou & Bréon] Over the first 700 m there is surely no decrease of the oceanic heat content, even if the recent warming is less than the warming of past decades: on the figure below in green, the time span since 2003 carefully selected by sceptics to support their talks