Sentences with phrase «year stretch of»

During a five - year stretch of one of the most challenging real estate markets in history, his sales volume totaled more than $ 450 million.

He attributed the current seven - year stretch of no major hurricanes to weather patterns that have steered such storms away from the U.S., and cautioned that it doesn't take a major hurricane to cause severe damage, as was proven last year by Sandy.

A new scientific paper tracks these changes and suggests that warm ocean conditions similar to what we see off Southern California today fueled that 2,000 - year stretch of droughts.

But still, that's the name of the game, unless you want to confine yourself to a 30 to 50 year stretch of modern data, and you still have the issue of how it was averaged and kriged.

The paper uses evidence and modeling to explain how the sun - blocking impact from a 50 - year stretch of unusually intense eruptions of four tropical volcanoes caused sufficient cooling to produce a long - lasting shift in the generation and migration of Arctic Ocean sea ice, with substantial consequences for the Northern Hemisphere climate that lasted centuries and left a deep imprint on European history.

Of course, there is the catch: The path to outperformance will involve a five - year stretch of poor relative performance.

The new U.S. administration's reduction in the corporate tax rate to 21 %, accelerated depreciation for capital expenditures, roll back in regulation and potential massive infrastructure spending — combined with the fact that the U.S. has never had an eight year stretch of less than 2 % real economic growth — could result in much higher economic growth in the next few years.

For a nearly 50 - year stretch of Academy Awards history, it seemed that the only costume designer in all of Hollywood was Edith Head.

Behind the camera, after a three - year stretch of Mexican filmmakers winning best director, this year none were nominated.

This grueling, training - wheel romance comedy covers a six year stretch of time in which Generation Y boy toy Oliver Martin (Ashton Kutcher) slowly realizes that he can't wait for his life plans to gel before committing to his affection for his narcissist

For many fans, the disenchantment of the Peter Swales era of ownership was still fresh in their minds — a 20 year stretch of abject failure.

Dickerson, though, also has a four - year stretch of hitting, as he has a 121 OPS + since 2014, and was owed just $ 5.95 million with two years to go before free agency.

Thus, the revenue sacrifice over the two - year stretch of the ABC contract could be hefty if some easing of the no - blackout rule doesn't occur.

After the «great recession» of 2007 - 2009 ended, there was a four year stretch of recovery and the market reached a new high point in 2013.

The nine - year stretch of rising stock prices won't last forever.

As Paul Krugman points out Reifschneider, working with John Williams and using the same FRBUS model, concluded that the ZLB was only a very small issue less than a decade before the financial crisis led to an 8 year stretch of zero rates.

The 31 - year - old forward was a finalist for Ballon D'Or in 2016, making her a top - three nominee for the prestigious award in 12 of the last 13 years, including a five - year stretch of winning it.

«That was followed by a seven - year stretch of waitressing,» she writes.

21 SOLAR SHUTDOWN Back in the 1970s, when it seemed that the sun was not emitting the expected number of particles known as neutrinos, some solar physicists proposed that our star might go through million - year stretches of reduced activity, during which time its brightness could drop by perhaps 40 percent.

Not exact matches

Hogmanay, Edinburgh's New Year's celebration, stretches across four days and features plenty of music and fireworks.

The world learned of the scandal about two weeks later, when the EPA issued a formal notice of violation relating to nearly 500,000 2.0 - liter diesel cars — stretching across seven model years and three generations of exhaust - treatment configuration.

Chief executive from 1993 to 2002, and chairman from 2002 till early last year, Piëch, now 78, infused VW with an ambition and drive that made the most of its political heft, presiding over a culture that was, if not above the law, then not above stretching it, by many accounts.

Initiated by Keith's and then Mick's books, and followed by suspenseful talk of a tour, the public's seduction has stretched over a year.

And many, many sequels aren't executed with the thought or care of their far - superior original films, especially in series that have stretched over many years — as one sees in the chasm of quality between «The Terminator» (1984) and «Terminator Genisys» (2015).

(Roughly 140 million people have some sort of employment or self - employment, though millions of these earn less than $ 10,000 a year, so classifying them as «employed» is a bit of a stretch).

That weeks - long stretch brings in between 30 to 40 percent of all annual retail sales, the NRF states, and this year holiday retail sales are expected to surge between 3 - 4 percent, up from $ 655.8 billion last year.

Led by an expert team with more than 25 years experience in fitness franchising, StretchLab is revolutionizing the stretching industry by offering franchise opportunities across all major markets - making the benefits of stretching accessible to all.

Over one stretch of 2013, its price surged 85-fold; it crashed the following year after a hack of the exchange Mt. Gox shook the confidence of many early devotees.

The average monthly payment for those vehicles leased between April and June was $ 407, with more than 70 percent of those leases stretching out two to three years.

The department, conducting an antitrust review stretching more than a year, so far has failed to persuade any of the states to join a potential lawsuit but has sent them a draft of the complaint, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

So it proved that awards aren't just for that stretch of movies released during the final two weeks of every year.

The University of Hong Kong (HKU), is Hong Kong's oldest tertiary institution, with a history stretching back over a hundred years.

«As a long - term value investor, we remain cautious and recognise that to generate good real returns over time, we have to be prepared for periods of underperformance relative to the market indices, some even for a stretch of several years.»

Some analysts interpreted the data to say that over a five - year stretch, 5 percent of units closed.

The Asian giants were locked in a 73 - day military stand - off in a remote, high - altitude stretch of that boundary last year.

The move comes as Sears tries to bounce back from a five - year stretch during which it lost more than $ 8 billion as it closed hundreds of stores and sales dropped sharply.

With sales numbers expected to eclipse figures from recent years, every independent retail shop and SMB should be preparing for the home stretch of 2014.

The best suit to invest in is one that's made with a bit of stretch, in a three - season wool fabric that can work year - round.

Simply stretching the term of a $ 35,000 federal loan from 10 to 25 years triples the interest due over the lifetime of the loan, from $ 13,000 to $ 39,000.

China intensified its efforts this year to contain risks coming from a long stretch of excessive borrowing, but concerns continued to mount when the country's debt didn't stop climbing.

But this period should be looked at as an anomaly, a mere blip in the stretch of 40 to 70 years during which we amass, manage and consume our life's savings.

They found a huge area stretching for thousands of light years from the Milky Way's core that had very few Cepheids.

Last year, sites all over the web included the standard hero image: a high - definition (HD) picture featured prominently at the top of a website that stretched the entire width of a user's browser window with only a few words of text overlaying it.

Over images of runners stretching and jogging, a deep, documentary - narrator voice says soberly, «for years running a marathon without telling anyone was thought to be physically impossible.»

The late Ted Rogers» family has seen the value of its stake in Rogers Communications go up more than 15 % in the past year, a 12 - month stretch that included the company going halves with bitter rival Bell Media to buy a 75 % stake in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment for $ 1.07 billion.

Overworking members of the team as they near the home stretch of the year can cause morale to plummet, which will lower productivity in a much more damaging way.

The Asian giants were locked in a 73 - day military stand - off in a remote, high - altitude stretch of their Himalayan border last year.

The Senate rejected a measure to privatize air traffic control earlier this year, after the importance of passing other provisions in the bill outweighed stretching the contentious debate any longer.

His greatest stretch of golf began in 1960 and lasted four years, with Palmer winning six major championships and 29 titles on the PGA Tour.

In the U.S., temperatures continue to set new records as the fire season in many parts of the country has now stretched to as many as 300 days of the year.