Sentences with phrase «year span like»

It's one thing to say that, faced with something like the near 60 % decline in stock prices like we saw from late 2007 to early 2009 or a 10 - year span like 1999 through 2008 when stocks lost an annualized 1.4 %, you'll just draw from the bonds in your portfolio and remain confident that the market will eventually recover as it has in the past and everything will work out fine.

Not exact matches

With innovations like these continuing to come out of Dyson's company (another of its noteworthy offerings was the suspended Cu - Beam light series), he thus began to be rightly recognized as a pioneer in his field in a span of just over 10 years, which, in turn, heralded the next phase of his career.

GDX has plunged more than 60 % over the past two years with the likes of Barrick Gold (ABX) falling more than 65 % during that same time span and Newmont Mining (NEM) falling 59 %.

Christianity, like a lot of other religions that have been co-opted by governments as a means of manipulating the people, has a very long and very bloody history spanning about 1700 years.

Like you get to be Kings and Gods of your own planets after you die, oh, wait, that's already taken by the Mormons... but seriously, why are you so self centered to think you get to live on even though your life span is no greater than that of some tortoises (in fact one tortoise named Hanako lived to the very ripe age of 226 years).

Theists think they already have all the answers in their 2,000 year old book written via hearsay from a couple dozen different people covering a span of time of something like 5,000 years and conveniently geographically focused on one very small area of the Earth.

First of all, that human life in our span of years and so far as man's history is concerned is, like the created world itself, derivative from a realm of heavenly existence which abides eternal over against the transient, mortal, and uncertain span of our years.

Though the period spans for around hundred and fifty years that marked a state of transition and flux because of dalits» courtship with religions like Islam, Christianity and Buddhism, the study could afford to treat as single ere for the aim of the paper is to only trace out the liberative motifs in dalit religion.

Kansas» incredible dominance in the Big 12 stretches back to Bill Self's second year in charge and spans players like Wayne Simien, Mario Chalmers, the Morris twins, Joel Embiid, Perry Ellis and Frank Mason III.

After a four - year wait which felt like it spanned multiple decades, we finally have the full gauntlet of allegations the NCAA is levying against the University of North Carolina.

Instead of jumping on an early diagnosis of ADHD for your child, you might consider that many three and four - year - olds still have short attention spans, are hyperactive and like to play, and wouldn't be expected to sit still for 2 hours at a time.

But Congressman Higgins says, instead of prolonging the life of the span for 20 - years, Albany should replace it like they're doing with other old bridges.

Even if the near future doesn't unfold like the 2004 climate - gone - haywire film The Day After Tomorrow, scientists need to be able to produce accurate models of what abrupt change (more likely spanning hundreds or thousands or years, rather than days) would look like and why it might occur, explains Zhengyu Liu, lead author of the study and director of the University of Wisconsin — Madison's Center for Climate Research.

The hazard is expressed in terms of the probability of exceeding a certain level of shaking in 50 years — not only because the hazard in places like California is not expected to change much over that time period, but also because 50 years — the typical life span of a building — is a useful period of time for engineers.

Although their lifetimes span billions of years, galaxies age, just like people.

Over its 10 - year life span, the spacecraft observed the Martian surface and atmosphere repeatedly, exposing details — like the shrinking carbon dioxide ice cap on the south pole — that would have been lost to onetime measurements.

To create their new temperature record, which spans 3.5 million years at the end of the Cretaceous and the start of the Paleogene Period, the researchers analyzed the isotopic composition of 29 remarkably well - preserved shells of clam - like bivalves collected on Antarctica's Seymour Island.

My home town of Austin, Tex. is, like many cities, experiencing rapid growth and all of the challenges that go along with adding hundreds of thousands of people to a region in the span of several years.

In rodents, differences in life expectancy and morbidity during aging are particularly high: Despite close relationships with regard to genetic aspects, small rodents like mice or rats live no longer than two to three years, whereas mole - rats or chinchillas have an average life span of 20 to 30 years while staying comparatively healthy.

Most accounts of the natural evolution of wolves place it over a span of about 15,000 years, but within a decade, Belyaev and Trut's fox breeding experiments had resulted in puppy - like foxes with floppy ears, piebald spots and curly tails.

The oldest and biggest trees in the study — those with rings spanning 150 years — might have had extra advantages in their youth, like extra light, that allowed them to grow more vigorously.

The oldest of the old increase rapidly The dramatic extension of life spans across the world, increasing from 70 years in 2010 to 2015 to 83 years in 2095 to 2100, may seem like unadulterated good news, but what that means for quality of life is not as straightforward.

Young has thirty - five years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, spanning all areas of the business from sales representative to country - level general manager and CEO; and companies ranging from multinationals like Abbott and Glaxo to start - up biotechs.

The collection spans 300 million light years, stretching both above and below the galactic plane like an ogre hiding behind a lamppost.

This has all occurred in a span of about five years, and nobody can remember anything like this happening in my family before.

It is a gradual process with damage accumulating in the span of several years resulting from poor dietary and lifestyle habits as well as improper treatment of developing diseases like diabetes.

A few years ago, I had a three - week span of waking up every morning and feeling like I had been hit by a truck.

The so called thirty year cycle in design has become shorter and lost it's attention span, just like everything else.

That is the eHarmony way and with our experience in the dating industry spanning over thirty years we would like to add your name to the list of happy members.

1.8 - million - year - old skull shakes mankind's family tree — The fifth such skull from the region spanning a period of a few centuries, it's known at present only as «Skull 5» — it hasn't received a clever name yet like Lucy, the remarkable African skeleton found in the 70s and dating back 3.4 million years.

From French North America, 2010's Incendies was like a brand new film for me, its illumination on love, hate and strength of spirit span beyond any given film year.

Spanning the years of 1946 through 1972, the picture unfolds against assorted glamorous backdrops in cities like New York, Paris, Mallorca and London.

Like Orlando, her adaptation of Virginia Woolf's centuries - spanning novel which established her name internationally 20 years ago, there's a strong female protagonist through whose POV the movie unfolds.

And remember it was just a year ago that Tarantino was talking like his feature directorial career has a very finite span; how many of these ideas will he realistically make?

Like its two neighbors, Martian Child finds Cusack in a parental role, though this is actually aimed at family audiences, a rarity in the expansive filmography that spans well over half the actor's 41 years.

Kenney is undeniably one of those, despite writing classics like «Caddyshack» and «Animal House» within a 3 - year - span.

We usually get one actor that has to play the character spanning a twenty - year period, which inevitably leads to some bad prosthetics or someone like John Lloyd Young who was far too old to play a sixteen - year - old Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys.

Like last year's entertaining Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, sexual orientation is moot in first - time feature director Jim Fall's breezy, single - day - spanning romantic comedy.

So what does lifelong learning look like in the span of a school year, with limited time for professional learning?

Over the span of three years, dozens of education experts and researchers, 3,000 teacher volunteers in six urban districts, 20,000 videotaped lessons, student surveys, and student performance on state and supplemental higher - order thinking skills tests, have given us a much better understanding of what great teaching looks like.

In the span of just two years, 51,616 students started attending schools like Morris Academy — more students than in the entire District of Columbia school system.

The plan, which addresses the issue over a span of time (building upon each teacher's salary year by year) may not be as effective as plans in other states, like Iowa.

Near Yellowknife, in Canada's remote Northwest Territories, Volkswagen showed us some of the science that goes into creating massive ice highways like those you've seen on shows such as «Ice Road Truckers» — or, for locals, routes like Dettah Road, which traverses a portion of the Great Slave Lake's 300 - mile span, enabling vehicular access to areas reachable only by boat most of the year.

Even for a conservative company like Volvo, 11 years was a long wait, as in the same time span some Japanese carmakers would have covered three model cycles, and even the Germans would have done two.

The RLX Sport Hybrid SH - AWD faces an uphill battle; Acura would certainly like to move more than the 100 or so that are sold each month, and that volume is down more than 40 % from the same January to September span in 2015, which was down by half from the year before that.

Looking back at the books Lee & Low has published over our 20 - year span of publishing is like leafing through a family album.

With «incantatory prose» that «sweeps over the reader like a dream,» (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future, with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years.

The large age difference didn't bother me — my sister is 20 years older than I. With that age difference, there were times when she was more like a mother to me than a sister, which I think is normal when there is such an age span.

Though Ron's 30 - year career has spanned being a songwriter, recording engineer, record producer / arranger and A&R executive, he is known to have a strong talent for recognizing new talent and mentoring the likes of Christina Aguilera and Vanessa Carlton.

A qualified mortgage is one that is free from terms that can prove risky to borrowers, like loans that span more than 30 years or payment structures that allow the borrower to pay less interest than is actually owed (which causes the loan to be more expensive over the long run).