Sentences with phrase «recent years the maximum»

In addition, it assumes that the contribution is fixed at a currently allowed maximum amount, even though in recent years the maximum has been revised upwards to approximate inflation (granted, historical maximum contribution was fixed at $ 2,000 between 1981 and 2001).

Not exact matches

The wound was not grave, but, probably in part because a medical examination showed evidence of recent sodomy by Verlaine, the court gave him the maximum sentence of two years of hard labor.

Tim will also have to use the party's diminished resources with maximum impact — a skill used to great effect in the past but somewhat lost in recent years.

The New York Public Interest Research Group, unions and other groups want the Legislature to raise the maximum award from $ 5,000 to $ 6,500, since public college tuition has exceeded the maximum amount in recent years.

For instance while they limit the amount individuals give, there have been plenty of examples in recent years where millionaires have given the maximum amount, as have their wives, children, grandchildren and gardener.

But she will lose her position not because of the recent amendments but because of the current laws: She has reached the current maximum term of 7 years.

However, in recent years, the sea ice has retreated and with it the region of maximum heat exchange.

The critical maximum temperature for activity for the water fleas from the recent sediment layer is half a degree more than 40 years ago.»

Other factors, such as El Niño, also affect the region's ice and could be responsible for it not hitting a record maximum this year as it has in recent years.

One recent study examining the Palaeocene — Eocene Thermal Maximum (about 55 million years ago), during which the planet warmed 5 - 9 °C, found that «At accepted values for the climate sensitivity to a doubling of the atmospheric CO2 concentration, this rise in CO2 can explain only between 1 and 3.5 °C of the warming inferred from proxy records» (Zeebe 2009).

[ii] These so - called «protections» are not effective: In reality, CRL's recent research of actual checking account activity found that bank payday borrowers are in debt for 175 days per year (twice as long as the maximum length of time the FDIC has advised is appropriate).

She estimated that recent graduates who borrowed the maximum in undergraduate loans could see their payments drop by $ 1,000 a year and total interest paid over the life of the loan could be cut nearly in half.

Name, address and contact details of painter - Where you heard about Beep2016 (name of magazine, website, etc.)- A submission of up to TWO paintings (high quality JPEGS) with title / s, dimensions in cm, medium, year - 250 words maximum statement (Word document or in an email) on the submitted paintings relating to the theme and a brief artist biography (this will be used for the online catalogue)- link / s to website or recent works (this will only be used by exhibition judges if needing additional information picking a winner)

I would like to see discussion about the most recent period of rapid global warming... leading to the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) about 55 million years ago... including differences and similarities to the climate projections for this century... and beyond.

The Holocene maximum was a period about 5,000 years ago when global temperatures were about 1» C above the recent historical norms.

The result is that temperatures in recent decades exceed the maximum proxy estimate (including uncertainty range) for the past 1,300 years.

A recent study shows that the emission of a CO2 molecule reaches its maximum warming potential within ten years, then continues to warm the planet for well over a century.

A recent study for Friends of the Earth Europe by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research found that EU countries can afford just nine more years of burning gas and other fossil fuels at the current rate before they will have exhausted their share of the earth's remaining carbon budget for maximum temperature rises of 2 °C.

Using a large volume of 126 proxy temperature records from the Northern Hemisphere, they found (1) a clearly discernible Medieval Warm Period (MWP)(950-1150) and Little Ice Age (LIA)(1450 - 1850), (2) «likely unprecedented» modern temperatures (relative to the last 1,000 years), as well as a (3) «significant» link between the high temperatures of the MWP and recent times and the high solar activity that characterized both periods (the Medieval Maximum and the Modern Grand Maximum).

The earth has been speeding up in recent years due to Glacial Isostatic Adjustment from a combination of the Last Glacial Maximum and the Little Ice Age.

Solanki had it pegged (his letter to nature, «Unusual activity of the Sun during recent decades compared to the previous 11,000 years», Oct 2004) considering strength and duration, at about a 8000 year maximum.

Finds that observations over the past decade continue to support the finding that the area experiencing much above - normal maximum and minimum temperatures in recent years has been on the rise, with infrequent occurrence of much below - normal mean maximum and minimum temperatures

The maximum summer temperatures for Abilene are no greater than for previous years, and the most recent winter temperatures are actually colder than several earlier periods during the previous 120 years ``

This case appears to be based on recent research taking two different approaches: looking at recent climate changes, and changes during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) about 20,000 years ago.

As for solar activity, it has decreased in the second half of the 20th century after the 1957 — 1958 maximum, and it is low in recent years.

Average maxima have been getting hotter over recent years at station 9225 but media reports would be more accurate if they read: «METEOROLOGISTS say 2011 will be Mt Lawley's hottest year in history - the suburb's third consecutive hottest year since records began in 1994.»

To express it another way, if the recent century of warming is followed as some here suggest by a century of cooling back to 1913 temperatures and Marcott was using proxies a few thousand years in the future the method almost certainly WOULD indicate the spike, but probably with a lower maximum and extended over more than two centuries.

The most recent ice maximum occurred 20,000 years ago, but few are aware that similar maxima and minima occurred over a 3 million year period called the Pleistocene Ice Age.

To better understand these discrepancies, a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters investigates the drivers of changes in deep ocean circulation across a range of modern and Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, ~ 21000 years ago) climate simulations from the latest Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP).

The plateau that we can observe in the maximum annual temperatures observed in the last few years is negated by a recent increase in the minimum observed temperatures.

Quite evident in the most recent several hundred years of the isotopic records is a seventy - year period of very low solar activity in the 17th and early 18th centuries — known as the Maunder Minimum — and following it, an unsteady, long - term rise to the present - day era of high sunspot numbers, called the Modern Maximum (Fig. 2 c, d).

The most recent glacial period peaked 21,500 years ago during the Last Glacial Maximum, or LGM.

The most important result found by these researchers is that the warming in recent decades has brought global temperature to a level within about one degree Celsius (1.8 °F) of the maximum temperature of the past million years.

For the 2012 scheme the maximum upper age of a qualifying child is 20 and not 19; benefit claimants ar no longer obliged to apply for child support; and the assessment basis is gross income with the income returned to HMRC for the most recent tax year being generally used.

An average resume should be three pages maximum for an applicant who has over five years» experience and a minimum of two pages for recent graduates and new workers.