Sentences with phrase «year freezing period»

Pecans can be thawed and frozen repeatedly during the two - year freezing period without loss of flavor or texture.

Not exact matches

In 2011, when Justin Woolverton began experimenting with a dessert of frozen Greek yogurt blended with fruit, he wasn't trying to start a business — much less one that would draw in revenue of $ 49 million in 2016, up almost 21,000 percent over a three - year period.

United States Segment Adjusted EBITDA increased 32.9 percent versus the year - ago period to $ 1.5 billion, driven by gains from cost savings initiatives and favorable pricing net of commodity costs that were partially offset by volume declines in ready - to - drink beverages and frozen nutritional meals.

«The two - year pay freeze follows a long period of real terms cuts for teachers, when their pay awards were well below inflation.

«Over the past five years, the operating costs of owners of rent - stabilized apartments have increased 16 percent, while the RGB has limited rent increases on a 1 - year lease to a fraction of that, 2.25 percent, over that same period — including two consecutive rent freezes,» said RSA president Joseph Strasburg.

They dated a subset of the bryophytes and found that the plants ranged in age from 404 to 614 years old, confirming that were frozen during the Little Ice Age, a period of cooling lasting a few hundred years, which ended in the 19th century.

For example, the polar bear specimen from roughly 120,000 years ago survived in Svalbard during a warm interglacial period because that Arctic archipelago remained more frozen than other areas.

In each of the two years prior to the study, freezing periods were longer, with about 150 - 200 hours below that temperature.

«Then both before and after the arrival of an oxygen atmosphere, the planet went into partial or potentially total snowball periods — millions of years when the Earth's mean temperature was well below the freezing point.»

In Ireland, there is no limit to the duration of such storage, in contrast to the UK, where embryos are frozen for a maximum period of ten years.

Of course this is temporary, given the fact we are going towards the end of the year, but it gives me time to recover and recharge before we are going into another freezing period.

It's winter time and no matter how much we hate the cold and freezing weather we all love the cozy and warm outfits that we can combine during this period of the year.

The experiment is designed to monitor physical changes in cryogenically frozen subjects over a period of a year.

Next, a school district in Illinois just awarded its teachers a 10 - year contract that includes a 40 percent salary increase over its term, preserves a pre-retirement, 6 percent yearly pay spike to boost teachers» pensions, an increase in sick - days from 15 to 24 per year, and a freeze on health insurance and prescription drug costs for district employees for the 10 - year period.

Your salary schedule for the next 10 years — assuming there are no pay cuts or step freezes which keep teachers at their current step for an extended period of time.

In return for paying back what you can realistically afford each month (after living costs and essential expenditure has been accounted for), usually for a period of five years (you may also be required to release any equity that is available in your home - only if you can afford to), your creditors will agree to freeze interest and write off any outstanding debts.

It's also in talks with the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation to receive financing that freezes lending at today's interest rates for a 10 - year period, Keesmaat said.

It features work made over the course of his career, including Tropisme (2015), a work in which plant species that existed during the Cretaceous period were flash - frozen and sealed in a glass vitrine, preserving 65 million years of plant life for a future that might not support it.

The Spot Paintings were perhaps the most iconic images which populated most of Hirst's ground breaking exhibitions of this period from Freeze in 1989 when he was painting directly onto the walls, to his much celebrated installation at the Saatchi Gallery in 1992 which included the iconic works The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living and A Thousand Years, to his exhibition of the Mother and Child Divided at the Venice Biennale in 1993, which announced his presence on the global scene, and his nomination for the Turner prize in 1994, the year the present work was executed.

The ice is a frozen archive of the climate of the past, which has been dated back all the way to the previous interglacial Eem - period more than 120.000 years ago.

These rings form when temperatures drop well below freezing for extended periods during the tree's growing season, and are evidenced by physical scarring of that year's growth ring that can be caused by volcanically induced climate dislocation — an idea first suggested by LaMarche and Hirschboeck in 1984.

Use a clothes line: The sun and wind are very effective at drying clothes throughout the year (it even works in the winter, unless we hit long periods of below - freezing temperatures or snow and rain), and when drying clothes outside wasn't an option, we used clothes racks to dry them inside.

There was a warm period about three thousand years ago with an open arctic that replenished ice, then it got cold, polar oceans froze, snowfall diminished and ice depleted until it got warm in the Roman warm period about two thousand years ago.

This winter, we got our first serious frost period (several consecutive days to a week of deep night freezes and no thawing of the soil during the day) in late February, just when it looked like winter might be cancelled entirely for this year.

According to the researchers, the first abrupt warming period beginning at 14,700 years ago lasted until about 12,900 years ago, when deep - freeze conditions returned for about 1,200 years before the onset of the second sharp warming event.

Once a temperature threshold is breached, abrupt events follow due to amplifying feedbacks, even within a few years, examples being (1) freeze events which followed temperature peaks during past interglacial peaks due to influx of cold ice - melt water into the north Atlantic Ocean; (2) the Dansgaard — Oeschger warming events during the last glacial period; (3) the Younger dryas stadial freeze and the Laurentian stadial freeze.

Dr Gauci told us that the authors had made an «enormous leap» assuming that the entire 50 billion tonnes of frozen methane trapped in ocean sediments would end up in the atmosphere over a ten - year period.

Scientists have proposed a whole range of theories for what might have caused the world to freeze over in the «Snowball Earth» period 700 million years ago, and a new study has now suggested the root of them all could have been the beginnings of plate tectonics.

This sounds similar to what's being worked on in Alberta, except Shells» Shale plan is to generate scads of electricity, use that energy to pump a chilled refrigerant around and over buried tar shale deposits - this is to freeze the groundwater enough to encapsulate a 2000 - foot deep segment of shale - followed by pumping out the groundwater inside the frozen periphery and inserting giant electrodes into the isolated shale body to heat the now - dried interior to 700 degrees Fahrenheit for a period of three years, before extracting the oil liberated by the interior heat.

This effectively freezes time for the period of the Agreement, which is contractually agreed between the parties and can easily vary from a month to several years.

It points out that rates of pay have been frozen for 12 years, while costs have risen by 50 % over the same period.

It is a tax saving scheme and has the lowest freezing period of 3 years.

Employment for general accounting and finance professionals has been on the rise since 2014, but with universities so often operating with fixed budgets and extensive budget freezes during different periods of the year, bursar jobs are often filled quickly and taken off the market.