Sentences with phrase «than the hockey stick»

To get the answer they needed, the higher scoring runs had to be made to be lower than the hockey stick, but left in the calculation.
Some show far more variability leading up to the 20th century than the hockey stick, but none suggest that it has been warmer at any time in the past 1000 years than in the last part of the 20th century.
The Turner Prize, and the artists it favours, may not appeal to everyone, just like I was always more adept with a paintbrush than a hockey stick at school.
Some show far more variability leading up to the 20th century than the hockey stick, but none suggest that it has been warmer at any time in the past 1000 years than in the last part of the 20th century.
And it was no good simply removing runs which had a higher score than the hockey stick, since this would not increase its position enough - they would have been reducing the total number of runs as well as the number of runs which were scoring better than the hockey stick.
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