Sentences with phrase «so dramatic this year»

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The past 20 years or so have seen a dramatic shift in the industry, as newspapers and news organizations have moved to publish stories both online and in print.

To get there, Lemann recruited a team of young, fresh - faced executives, led by 33 - year - old Daniel Schwartz, to oversea a turnaround effort that's so far focused on relentless cost - cutting and a dramatic reorganization of Burger King's business.

«We don't really see dramatic declines over, say, the next five years or so,» Iger said about its cable business.

The change is less dramatic for what the Commerce Department calls «intellectual property,» but still the statistics show an increase, a 4.6 percent annualized rate of increase this year so far from 4.2 percent a year during that earlier five - year period.

There was no explanation given for this dramatic change, but I can't help thinking it was the cumulative effect of so many years spent in close proximity to one of God's outposts of peace.

It is to be hoped that the dramatic rise in SNP party membership from about 25,000 a year or so ago to around 77,000 signifies a grassroots willingness to get involved in politics that will spread to other parties.

If this is so, then the role of Tertullian in preserving, through redaction, [22] the dramatic, movingly vivid account of the martyrdom of a recently baptised young woman, the Roman citizen, Perpetua, in the amphitheatre of Carthage in about the year 203, ought to give us clues to the understanding of his attitude towards women as members of the church as opposed to women as martyrs.

«Over the past decade, more of those admitted to the US have been Christians than those of any other faith background, so the dramatic reduction in refugee arrivals this year means far fewer persecuted Christians will have the opportunity to rebuild their lives in safety in the US,» World Relief president Scott Arbeiter said last summer.

I've been slowly moving towards real foods for years, but this has been the most dramatic change I've seen so far.

FFP measures spending over a three year period and doesn't take full effect until 2015 anyway so one year's spending isn't going to be critical and dramatic decisions are unlikely to be taken this summer.

My daughter Alexandra broke her nose, which was so dramatic she decided not to play and hasn't played ever since her senior year in college.

So who won in this dramatic battle, fought late into the first night of the New Year?

The only dramatic action happens as passing stars stir things up every few million years or so, puffing the Oort cloud up like a bag of Jiffy Pop and stripping off its outer layer.

Over the past 50 years or so there has been a veritable war on fat in our culture and in that time we've also seen a dramatic increase in the rise of illnesses such as CVD, diabetes, Syndrome X, stroke, obesity, and a variety of inflammatory illnesses.

Okay that's overly - dramatic lady, what I'm trying to say is that this original curler remains a great ally in the last eight or so years since I had it.

In the last 30 years or so, we've seen a dramatic shift in how society views single, unmarried parents.

Make your search and view members» profiles without In the last 30 years or so, we've seen a dramatic shift in how society views single, unmarried parents.

With her role as the epnoymous character in Frida (2002), Hayek disappeared into her subject so convincingly that not only would she return to the good graces of critics, but earn an Oscar nomination as well.Hayek would spend the coming years enjoying superstar status with everything from comedic turns on sitcoms like Ugly Betty (which she produced) and 30 Rock, to meaty roles in dramatic thrillers like Savages.

Wiig has had some difficulty in recent years trying to make the transition to the dramatic side of things in quickly forgotten flops like Girl Most Likely and Hateship Loveship but here, aided by the support of Hader and the strong writing of Johnson and Heyman, she's able to stretch her legs and fully convince as a woman so troubled by her life and her own self - destructive actions while never being able to properly express them to anyone around her.

The 39 year old has made his name in dramatic films with roles in movies like End of Watch, Shooter and Fury, so he was worried he would mess up as the sidekick of Ant - Man's alter ego, Scott Lang, played by Paul Rudd.

In recent years, De Niro has seemed more eager to cash paychecks than anything else, so it's good to see some dramatic investment from the legendary actor.

Meanwhile, in 1998 Manhattan, 28 - year - old Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish) longs to become pregnant and takes the dramatic step of in vitro fertilization treatment so that she can conceive a child with her wealthy, emotionally absent psychiatrist husband (Richard Coyle).

So much has changed in this period, from the fall of the Labour Government shortly after the project's launch, to the dramatic revision of the National Curriculum and the overhaul of GCSEs and A Levels over the last four years.

Elsewhere, students participating in the Kansas Reading Initiative — a two - year pilot blended - learning program that provides Lexia Learning's Lexia Reading Core5 at no cost to the participating schools so long as they meet and maintain minimum usage requirements, which cleverly insures some implementation fidelity — saw dramatic gains in the first year of the initiative with roughly 20 % — or 225 — of elementary schools in the state participating.

Beach Court saw a dramatic change in CSAP proficiency scores from the low 40's to the upper 60's in 2007 with numbers growing into the upper 80's, amongst the highest in Denver, and certainly the highest for any elementary school serving so many low - income students (growth was also in the 80 and 90 percentage points for many of those years).

The results during our first year using Accelerated Reader 360 were so dramatic that we saw increased demand from parents to include more of their children in the program.

On the one side, the contrary document changed the assumption so it could presume 4133 students, a 40 % increase that makes the bill's costs appear somewhat more dramatic if extended four years.

Amid Amazons strong 1st Quarter results, that saw a dramatic 68 % stock increase from this time last year, the winner this year so far in sales, is the Barnes and Noble Nook.

«I've maintained a science blog for years, so I was already in the habit of keeping up with posts, responding to comments, keeping my blog eye - catching, and the like, so creating a second blog strictly dedicated to my writing was not a dramatic undertaking.»

How your portfolio performs during those ten or so vital years can make a dramatic difference to your quality of life in retirement.

Revving up this calculator every year or so and making small tweaks as needed can prevent you from falling behind in your planning and help you avoid having to make dramatic and painful adjustments to your lifestyle later in life.

These included claims suggesting that so - called seasonal trades produce dramatic profits year - in and year - out; claims regarding historic price moves in particular commodities that suggested that the same record setting move was likely to occur again; claims of dramatic profits made by customers based on isolated trades in specific customer accounts (so - called «cherry picked» trades); and claims concerning projected profits, (e.g., «turn $ 10,000 into $ 40,000»).

The FOTAS volunteers, who work on bookkeeping, social media, and special fundraising events; who work with FOTAS Fix - a-Pet and curbing the population of community cats; who organize and work on special fundraising and on - site events; who foster mamma dogs and cats and all their progeny, who care for animals designated for transfer; who shuffle animals to off - site adoption events; who greet the public and man the front desk, walk the dogs, love up the cats, work with play groups, and show animals to potential adopters — the dramatic and steady increase in the Shelter's live release rate since 2009 (84 % so far this year) is directly related to their efforts; and

One problem: the island where the researchers found the greatest seroprevalence of T. gondii infection among the birds, Molokai, just so happens to be home to perhaps the most dramatic increase in their numbers in recent years.

«So the leaps in monetization and efficiency over the years from selling games to the same audience were dramatic.»

The key issue is that since last year's dramatic summer ice anomaly, the winter ice that formed in that newly opened water is relatively thin (around 1 meter), compared to multi-year ice (3 meters or so).

Thus, it paints a picture of less dramatic temperature headlines for the next few years (so Ted Cruz can once again claim global warming has ended).

If it does not do so, the country's toxic burden threatens to stall or even reverse the dramatic health gains of the last 60 years, which raised average life expectancy from 45 to 74 years and slashed infant mortality from 122 deaths per 1,000 births down to 20.

These assume a continuation of the past exponential growth rate of atmospheric CO2 of around 0.5 % per year despite a dramatic decrease of the population growth rate to less than one - third of the past rate so, even if the world per capita fossil - fuel based energy use increases by 50 %, these are most likely «upper limits» themselves.

If the earths climate had varied so little over the last few thousand years it is difficult to see how that could precipitate the dramatic advances and retreats we have witnessed

I did pen a wee suggestion about what Michael Mann should do around a year or so ago if he had any integrity, but ctm rightly cut it as it was a bit too dramatic, despite having its merrits.

So if human activity were causing a dramatic increase in glacier retreat, that change should have happened in the last seventy years or sSo if human activity were causing a dramatic increase in glacier retreat, that change should have happened in the last seventy years or soso.

Lead author Dr Anna Hogg, from the Leeds» School of Earth and Environment, said: «Dramatic changes have been reported in this part of Antarctica, so we took a closer look at how its glaciers have evolved using 25 years of satellite measurements dating back to the early 1990s.»

1C after 170 years (or 110 if you prefer more dramatic starting points to make the graph slope more steep so wish to start at 1910), just doesn't bother me.

64) Michael Mann of Penn State University has actually shown that the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age did in fact exist, which contrasts with his earlier work which produced the «hockey stick graph» which showed a constant temperature over the past thousand years or so followed by a recent dramatic upturn.

Verdier's war with his government began he published a book called Climat Investigation, which he wrote after being infuriated last year when his Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius imperiously summoned all France's weather forecasters and urged them to tell dramatic stories about so - called «climate chaos.»

I believe that because the temperature drop over the last year has been so dramatic.

The IPCC * itself * acknowledges that there has been no such warming now for the last 16 - 17 years; that no dramatic imminent change is seen to that for the next couple of years at least; that the previous spell of 15 years or so was precisely the duration of warming that underlay so much of the evidence cited for its alarms of the long and terrible global trend if forecast; that not a single model the IPCC had or has seems to have come even close to predicting what we've now seen; that the IPCC can only suggest possible explanations for all this so logically meaning it can have no reason to believe that whatever is causing it isn't going to continue forever; that more and more studies are coming in attributing global temperatures not to CO2 but instead other things such as solar fluctuations; that a number of predictions are now coming in that in fact say we are now in for a lengthy period of * cooling.

But was it not scientists, with their words printed in the Guardian, repeated by policy - makers, which warned of «Arctic death spirals»; «ice - free Arctic summers»; the proliferation of disease; worsening, intensifying and increasing frequency of storms, flood, drought and fire; dramatic decreases in agricultural productivity in Africa; increased warming between 2009 - 14; the immanent demise of Himalayan glaciers and the consequent denial of water to over a billion people; The deaths of 150,000 and then 300,000 people in the developing world each year; and so on?

I did notice in the graphs that a dramatic drop in sea ice extent is predicted (by CCSM3) to occur around 2030, only to be followed by a «recovery» which lasts about 5 - years or so, before the decline sets in again.