Sentences with phrase «times over more than a decade»

The Democrat - controlled Assembly has passed the Child Victims Act several times over more than a decade.

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The ratio has previously been this low only six times during the past two decades; whenever that happens, stocks have rallied over the next year by more than 50 %, on average.

Fossil fuels and nuclear power have received eight times more government subsidies than wind and solar over the past six decades.

The percentage stake fell over time, until Buffett began ramping it up more than a decade ago.

This ride is far from over, and more than any time in recent decades we need an activist government to make sure that families are not wiped out.

As we have seen time and again, the flexible workspace market has experienced incredible growth and is sustaining that growth across the world; Savills found that UK serviced office take - up increased by more than 150 % in 2017, while CBRE discovered that the flexible office market has been growing at an average of 13 % per annum over the last decade.

Last August, at the time of the announcement of the sale of the Washington Post, I noted that Washington Post Co. shares had proved a mediocre investment over the past two decades, trailing the S&P 500 by more than 2.5 percentage points on an annualized investment (although starting at the time Buffett began accumulating shares, in 1973, the performance was much better, with an estimated annual return of 11.5 %).

Through the recurrent bubbles and collapses of recent decades, I've often discussed what I call the Iron Law of Finance: Every long - term security is nothing more than a claim on some expected future stream of cash that will be delivered into the hands of investors over time.

The warnings against Jehovah's Witnesses have stacked up over the past decade in particular, with dozens of regional charges of extremism and more than 80 of its books, pamphlets, and other texts (including its magazine, The Watchtower) banned in Russia, according to The Moscow Times.

The company grew steadily Headquarters: Northborough, Mass. over the next three decades, establishing more than Employees: 4,000 + Specialty: Italian food 30 locations in Massachusetts and growing south Jeffrey Tenner, vice president through Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New and executive chef: «It's an exciting time for Bertucci's Corp..

Previously over more than two decades, Pablo had professional policy and management roles at different times in all three levels of government, industry, the tertiary education sector, and not - for - profit organisations.

In Oregon, there have been at least 19 newborn deaths reported to the state over the past decade for a death rate more than 4 times higher than low risk hospital birth.

«There's been a lot of acquisition over a decade, I think by the Milstein group and not a lot of action so I think they would really have to demonstrate that they're really going to do more than talk at this point in time.

At the same time, Republicans and Democrats are more sharply divided in their views than they have been over the past decade.

The town of North Hempstead is suing Nassau County for the third time over tax revenue withheld to cover tuition reimbursement fees at the Fashion Institute of Technology, for a claim dating back more than a decade.

The San Francisco metro area saw just over 9,000 new affordable units created in the course of more than three decades, and the D.C. area gained a little more than 15,000 in the same time frame.

Methane or natural gas is 72 times more potent at capturing heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after release - and to deal with climate change, we need to focus on the next few decades.

An analysis published last year of data on more than 5,000 Americans did not find a decline in lung function among individuals who smoked joints two or three times a month over two decades.

If these rates continue, emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide on 100 - year time scales, will increase 4 percent over the next decade.

Historically, China consumed little milk (less than 2 kg per person per year in 1961) but increasing prosperity has lifted consumption more than 25 times over the past five decades, leading to the country becoming the world's fourth largest milk producer, with the growth projected to continue.

Over the next several decades he ran more than 60 experiments involving more than 10,000 volunteers, all devoted to a single task: taking apart the controllable procedures and testing them one piece at a time.

An earlier study by Goodwin and colleagues showed that the use of cannabis by cigarette smokers had increased dramatically over the past two decades to the point where smokers are more than 5 times as likely as nonsmokers to use marijuana daily.

The climatic impact of the Toba supereruption, estimated to have erupted between 10 and 360 times more H2SO4 than Pinatubo (9), has consequently been the focus of much research over the past three decades (1, 3 ⇓ — 5, 10 ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ — 16).

Over the course of a remarkable career that has so far spanned more than six decades, he has developed innovative yet practical solutions to an exceptionally varied array of scientific and financial problems, while at the same time creating a number of successful businesses with global scope and influence.

So we get the files» original modification times (from the original creators) as UTC and «local» times (from the viewpoint of the hackers), with daylight saving adjustments computed over dates spanning more than a decade.

With revelations spread over more than a decade, between late 2003 and 2017 Brian Deer pursued a landmark public interest investigation for The Sunday Times of London, the United Kingdom's Channel 4 Television network and BMJ, the British Medical Journal, into allegations linking the three - in - one measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) with claims of a terrifying new syndrome of bowel and brain damage in children.

And unlike most things that sound too good to be true, this actually isn't, because we're not talking about the latest fitness fad, but a method of training that has been proven over decades to be far more effective than normal steady - state cardio (where you maintain the same pace for an extended period of time).

Algae has been used by tens of millions of people in Asia for over 50 years — and even Olympic athletes and NASA astronauts have relied on algae for decades as a way to pack a lot of nutrients into a very small volume of food — since algae contains 1,000 times more nutrition than anything else in the world (or if you'd like to think about it this way, one gram of algae — about the equivalent in a tiny tablet — has the nutrition of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetables).

In fact, online dating has spiked to being over five times more popular than it was a decade ago.

«It's Just Lunch has set up more than 2 million first dates over two decades... the service sets itself apart by focusing on low - stress dating scenarios with clear finish times.

Of course the caveat would be that not all of these films are good, and in recent years it's been true that he's had more misses than hits, but 2014 saw him deliver two films in the same year for the third time this century and one of them is the best he's given us in over half a decade.

For the first time in over a decade, RE7 felt like what a Resident Evil game should feel like and focused more on puzzles, survival, and horror rather than fancy gunplay.

Just like last summer's Grown Ups, Sandler's biggest hit in over a decade, this film feels more like a fun time than an artistic endeavor.

June 26, 2012 • College is now four times more expensive than it was 3 decades ago, pushing student loan debt over $ 1 trillion.

Directing with an even more restless energy than he showed in Kings and Queen, Desplechin sketches out a family tragedy, the untimely death of a first - born, that precedes the story by decades and then only overtly references it a few times, even as the shadow of that death hovers over the film: in the cancer that family matron Junon (Catherine Deneuve) has been diagnosed with, in the fragility of her teenage grandson Paul (Emile Berling), and in the odd sibling dynamics that have caused eldest daughter Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) to, in effect, legally separate herself from her brother Ivan (Mathieu Amalric, in a mesmerizingly manic - depressive performance).

Of course, we've already seen plenty of would - be kid - friendly franchises fall by the wayside over the last decade or so, but «I Am Number Four» promises more action than most — and if there's one thing Caruso knows how to do, it's keep you on the edge of your seat with a well - timed set piece or two.

Evincing many lucid and extemporaneous qualities, Linklater doesn't do catching up though, as «Boyhood» feels much less like a greatest hits package and more analogous to being in the moment, watching the sprawling, occasionally dull home videos of family over more than a decade's time.

The seemingly innocuous structure of Kiarostami's film, a series of apparently mundane conversations with wildly spinning depths that over time accumulate such weight, such possibility, that builds to a crescendo with the year's most shattering momentum, wins out over Boal's screenplay that is more than just the effective distillation of a decade of history, but a radical (for Hollywood at least) rethinking of character and a fascinating, open - ended exploration of what counts as evidence and certainty in the post-Iraq War world.

Having worked with more than 160,000 educators over the last two decades, we have been consistently impressed with what teams of teachers can do and learn over time.

Now more than a decade old, at various times the school tried consensus - based governance and failed, struggled to get teachers to collaborate on instructional strategies, and butted heads over race and student favoritism.

For the first time in more than two decades, aspiring teachers in Alabama will be required to pass subject - matter tests, possibly as soon as 2006, under a consent decree reached in a long - running case over teacher testing.

If just one - tenth of one - percent of these funds find their way into charter school development projects, that would mean $ 6 billion in new capital going towards charter construction — nearly three times the amount of investment that the NMTC program spurred over more than a decade.

The need for a method of reporting to parents that serves the purpose of «tracking a student's development in an area of learning over time» (Forster, 2005) has been under discussion for more than a decade and has gained much traction among educators in recent years.

This is a problem that needs addressing since a study just published in the Harvard Business Review found that «The time spent by managers and employees in collaborative activities has ballooned by 50 percent or more over the last two decades and that, at many companies, more than three - quarters of an employee's day is spent communicating with colleagues.

In addition to more than eight out of 10 high school students graduating on time, the number of students enrolled in dropout factories has dropped 47 percent over the last decade and minority students have led the way in increasing graduation rates and leaving dropout factories all while quality standards have grown increasingly strict.

The state, which took over the McDowell public schools nearly a decade ago, has failed to make much of a dent in the county's abysmal test scores and a dropout rate more than three times the national average.

As someone who has been licensed to operate a motor vehicle for more than four decades and who has driven a couple of thousand cars and trucks over that same time period, I try to approach each new test with some semblance of maturity as well as a Spock - like logic.

Whoever the mourning widow is, she's been married to Todd for more than a decade, and with that fact everything Jake thought he knew about the best time of his life — a time he has never gotten over — is turned completely inside out.

Andrea Cagan has been writing, ghost writing, collaborating and editing for over two decades, with more than a dozen books appearing on the best seller lists, including four # 1 NY Times and LA Times best sellers.

Because a typical 25 year old more than likely has over 5 decades of time to hold investments.