Sentences with phrase «very near the peak»

The Rev. Albert Barnes — that distinguished Presbyterian minister and careful scholar whose Commentaries sold over a million copies — stood very near the peak in 1840 when he wrote:

«But even in areas where the housing market has slowed, home values are at or very near peak levels, selection is limited, demand is high and competition is fierce.»

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Momentum, the statistical measure of the pace of the rally's increase, very likely peaked in January near all - time record levels.

Momentum — the statistical measure of the pace of the rally's increase — very likely peaked in January near all - time record levels.

This chart pattern is complete when the price peaks, pulls back and then rallies back to very near the first high.

A nanocrystal can be doped with 5,000 to 10,000 impurities so it emits a certain color in the near - infrared with a very narrow spectral peak.

Twenty thousand years ago, near the peak of the last ice age, the world was a very different place than it is today.

The iPad mini follows that tradition — it has an accurate White Point and a very accurate Intensity Scale, except for a 5 percent compression near the Peak Intensity, which we discuss in more detail below.

Property Description: Arthur's Seat lays claim to the most spectacular lookout on the Mornington Peninsula and Summit Views architecturally designed western red cedar residence which hugs the steep terrain near the peak, captures this very same view.

During our most recent visit, we stayed in Peak House Garden Pension, a cozy lodge with comfortable AC rooms very near the main beach area and walking distance from the top cafes and bars in El Nido.

Thus, a very thin layer near the top of the stratosphere will essentially only be heated (absent solar heating) by radiation from below at the peak of the CO2 band near 15 microns.

That coincided with the period of peak demand a very hot day (near record temperatures).

Many reports have predicted that peak oil has been reached or will be reached in the very near future, which will drive these costs up further.

We are very near the seasonal peak of hurricane season, and we have not yet logged a hurricane.

Is it the wide distribution that CPDN get with their tripple peak distribution or is it some ditribution that samples quite heavily «near» the centre but is very poor at sampling the extremes.

So while 2016 is expected to be another strong production year, most life insurers remain very focused on managing risks, particularly in some property sectors and geographic areas that may be nearing the peak.

«We're seeing the index near a peak that we've seen only three times since 2001 and Canadians remain positive about investing, even through some very interesting and sometimes difficult periods,» Gordon says.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.