Sentences with phrase «year as a fluke»

Cuomo said he expects the state to improve on last year, but cautioned that some observers viewed last year as a fluke.

Not exact matches

Even if you think Blackmon's 2016 season was a fluke, that would still mean he's roughly the same hitter as Desmond, just a year younger and a lot cheaper.

Additionally, it makes no sense to say «the sixers are artificially bad because embiid didn't play his rookie year» as if it was a fluke.

My issue with your theme is you are comparing 30 plus plate appearances this year to almost 400 last year, dismissing above average numbers as a fluke and stating that the first ten days of this season is the real deal.

This is not a one - year fluke, as Pinnacle has now been the best performing Steam Move for five straight MLB seasons.

After an improvement of his PB this year of nearly five metres, Egyptian javelin thrower Ihab Abdelrahman proved his 89.21 m from Shanghai was no fluke as he launched the javelin out to 87.10 m to win from 2007 world champion Tero Pitkamaki with 86.63 m.

And last winter may not have been a fluke: Those kinds of extremes — years of deluge and years of drought — are already becoming more common as climate change accelerates.

But alas, as much as it would help the climate change cause to link yet another heat wave to global temperature rise, a new study says that Russia experienced a fluke unrelated to the trend last year that made 2010 the hottest on record.

At age 11, she was the second - youngest winner of all time (Tatum O'Neal was only 10 when she won for Paper Moon), and her performance turned out to be no fluke: Not only is she still around 20 years later, the star of a hit TV series, but her stunning work in Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret recently made her a critical darling all over again as an adult.

stars in his breakthrough role as 8 - year - old Kevin MacAllister, who through a fluke gets left behind at his Chicago home while his family takes a vacation in France.

... as we watched movies produced and distributed by Amazon Studio and Netflix (last year's «Beasts of No Nation» was, thankfully, no fluke)... and we savored a bumper crop of deserving films about the African American experience, directed by and starring African Americans.

Waterston is just as good, proving that breakthrough in «Inherent Vice» last year was no fluke.

Director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal prove that The Hurt Locker was no fluke in the superior Zero Dark Thirty, as gripping and masterful as any of last year's films.

Worse, the four - cylinder 328i is nearly as quick, and it uses less fuel (although the EPA revised the 328's fuel economy number down to the same 23/33 mpg that the 335i received — a fluke that we hope will be corrected for the 2013 model year.)

That outperformance is neither a fluke nor a one - time occurrence: Gargoyle leads Gateway over the past one, three, five, seven and ten - year periods as well.

My 3 year old Belgian Shepherd (DOB: January 2014) had elevated levels found on a fluke during blood work for a pre-dental cleaning as well, back in August 2016.

It seemed to me that the hiatus in the warming, which by then was approaching ten years in length, should not be dismissed as a statistical fluke.

July represented a 160 % increase in deforested areas over the previous year, from 323 sq km in 2008 to 836 sq km in 2009, as recorded by satellite data, so perhaps the decrease is just a fluke in numbers.

«Viewed as a fluke when it hit the study's top 10 list five years ago, Austin's rise to the top of the list signals the durability of the city's long - term appeal to investors,» says Mitchell Roschelle, real estate research leader and PwC partner.