Sentences with phrase «year trend amounted»

At the end of 2014, the 30 - year trend amounted to a 2.3 to 2.5 mm (9 to 10 inches) increase per year.

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All told, Saland landed $ 425,202 in contributions, a huge amount in an off - cycle fundraising year for a candidate who usually has little competition, even in an area that's trending toward Democrats.

Among the top reasons for this split included the more conservative upstate region holding more clout in the State Senate, as well as Long Island, where voters were increasingly trending towards the Democrats on the state and local levels (Long Island was once overwhelmingly Republican) but continued to re-elect their incumbent Republican state senators (some of whom served for many years, such as 30 + year veteran Caesar Trunzo, and most of whom raised considerable amounts of money to deter challengers).

Information on the amount of snow is also sent to the Global Cryosphere Watch service of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMP) where the information is combined with trends and statistics of past years.

The predictions matched actual rainfall measurements during the 75 - year period, both in the magnitude (amount) and the trend (increase or decrease) of precipitation.

Scientists claim that the rate trend of pH lowering in the last 200 years has amounted to ~ 0.00004 per year, which is below the uncertainty range.

«It is difficult to detect trends in rainfall, because the number of storms and the amount of rain in individual storms both vary so much from year to year.

Still, given that the last decade has not seen a significant amount of warming (although any trend is swamped by noise), 20 years of little warming would give skeptics a little wiggle room.

I have always wanted to go to Coachella but being from NY it is quite an expensive trip... not to mention tickets for just one weekend at Coachella are like a $ 1,000 or some crazy amount (or maybe that is simply because I looked into going too late haha) either way... heading to Coachella was not in the cards for me this year, but shopping the trends sure is

Off the shoulder is clearly a trend again this year, the amount of ots tops and dress I have is a little embarrassing but I can't help myself.

It's never too cold or too warm to add some denim in your everyday life, over the years the «denim» or «jeans» trend gained a great amount of loyal followers, taking it's special place to almost every wordrobe and eventually was labeled as a «closet essential».

So instead I've spent many times that amount on cheap sunglasses over the years, amassing a huge variety, most of which I never wear, constantly replacing sunnies as the trends changed.

It's a trend that does tend to mellow out slightly as January continues but, if previous years are any indication, the amount of Kiwis registering for online dating will remain high right up until Valentine's Day — meaning that this is a great time for singles to try online dating.

Not only has the amount of words increased, but actually our English data has trended up for the first time last year on a cohort to cohort basis.

Washington — Continuing a trend documented in 1987, the number of federal awards for independent research in education declined in the past two years, as did the amount of federal resources devoted to evaluating education programs, a General Accounting Office official reported last week.

When one includes these costs with fringe benefits, the trends are less clear, because contribution amounts to defined benefit plans vary from year to year depending (in part) on stock market performance over time.

We are encouraged by the improved bookstore sales trends that are enabling us to close the least amount of stores since fiscal 2000 and are excited to introduce our new store concept later this year, with the opening of four new stores throughout fiscal 2017.

Therefore, the trend with paperbacks — which used to mean sometimes as much as a year or more following the release of the title in hardcover — is to decrease the amount of time it takes for a title to reach the trade paperback consumer.

Till now I was investing this amount in FDs every year but seeing the lowering trend of FD's interest rates, I am planning to switch to other instruments.

As the names imply, a fixed - rate mortgage locks in your interest rate for the life of the loan, while the interest on an adjustable - rate mortgage (ARM) is normally fixed for a limited amount of years, then rises and falls with trends in the markets.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

I have been showcasing my art on Facebook, Google, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, YouTube and other social networks for years, but with little success — I guess the overall amount of artworks and artists on the net is so large, that it has become very difficult to get noticed at all, and even harder to make sales at all... I have changed my artworks and my gallery appearance several times over the years, adjusting to the latest SEO trends, but the big success is still waiting... http://www.artprintsposter.com/

Still, given that the last decade has not seen a significant amount of warming (although any trend is swamped by noise), 20 years of little warming would give skeptics a little wiggle room.

In press briefings and interviews I contributed to, I mostly focused on two issues — that 2014 was indeed the warmest year in those records (though by a small amount), and the continuing long - term trends in temperature which, since they are predominantly driven by increases in greenhouse gases, are going to continue and hence produce (on a fairly regular basis) continuing record years.

The average temperature each year fluctuates by a considerable amount and to see an effect one has to average over some period of time just as the technical analysts of the stock market look at the moving average over some number of day to discern trends.

The short - term trend in total water storage adjusted over this 7 - year time span is positive and amounts to 80.6 15.7 km3 / yr (net water storage excess)... Expressed in terms of equivalent sea level, total water volume change over 2002 — 2009 leads to a small negative contribution to sea level of — 0.22 0.05 mm / yr.

I would interested to know the trends in (1) the total amount of grant money over the years for climate research, (2) the number of climate researchers and (3) the ratio of funding from government / academic to private sources.

Snowfall varies across the region, comprising less than 10 % of total precipitation in the south, to more than half in the north, with as much as two inches of water available in the snowpack at the beginning of spring melt in the northern reaches of the river basins.81 When this amount of snowmelt is combined with heavy rainfall, the resulting flooding can be widespread and catastrophic (see «Cedar Rapids: A Tale of Vulnerability and Response»).82 Historical observations indicate declines in the frequency of high magnitude snowfall years over much of the Midwest, 83 but an increase in lake effect snowfall.61 These divergent trends and their inverse relationships with air temperatures make overall projections of regional impacts of the associated snowmelt extremely difficult.

As part of an ever - growing trend, today green power communities are already purchasing close to 2.6 billion kWh of green power each year, which is equal to the amount of electricity that is currently being used in more than 226,000 average American homes.

Of course, if the NYTimes or WAPO or CNN or CBS or the AP were ever to report the actual cooling trend over the last 15 years (despite the massive amounts of human CO2 emissions) this would establish that they have been grossly misleading the public for years about consensus «global warming.»

The linear trend of global mean SLR from 2004 to 2015 amounts to 3.38 ± 0.10 millimeters per year, and the σ of the detrended global mean is 3.90 millimeters (Table 1).

Most of these models project a global warming trend that amounts to about 7 degrees Fahrenheit over the next 100 years.

In order to produce a visual apple - to - apple comparison of the amount of warming for the two periods, the prior period's 5 - year averages were offset to start at the exactly same point as the modern warming period («offsetting» the datapoints does not affect the slope of the earlier period's warming trend, nor the amount of warming).

There will never have been statistically significant global warming is the last few years, because statistical significance is heavily dependent on the amount of data points and hence the length of the record you are trending.

Meanwhile, the logarithmic effect of CO2 is excellent «concession» to make in the rhetorical sense, since it concedes the obvious state of our knowledge about the effects of CO2, while at the same time providing us with the solid argument that even if we double atmospheric CO2 levels from 400ppm to 800 ppm over the next 100 years the largest amount of warming possible — assuming all else remains the same and Gaia has no homeostasis negative feedback systems which tend to moderate any runaway trends — is 1.2 c.

«There is an overall increasing trend in the number of bright sunshine hours, amounting to about 100 h in the last 100 years (0.96 h / year), which represents an increase in bright sunshine hours of about 4 % in a century.»

The drift correction serves to «reduce» the 100 - year trend in the raw analyses by a substantial amount.

Dr. Whitehouse can try and head this argument off at the pass about using previous years as starting points by calling this «cherry picking» but that's - nothing - compared to the slight - of - hand it takes to present this amount of data as if it were a meaningful representation of climate trends.

I have a proposal to all the AGW faithful who think this flat trend is temporary and that within 5 years it will take off up again to pledge a substantal amount of money to the charity of your choice should you be wrong.

So if 13 years is a foolish amount of time to rule out a 2C trend, what would you say isn't a foolish amount of time?

Gavin, I think it would be worth adding to the post 1) the main reason why there was so much doubt about the Lyman et al results (the unphysical melt amounts for 2003 - 5), 2) the expected role of GRACE in obtaining a reliable result, 3) the fact that the ARGOs don't measure the deep oceans, and 4) that it's inappropriate to take the remaining ARGO data (shown in the Lyman et al correction to be essentially flat for the last two years) and draw any conclusions about ocean heat content trends for that period.

The trend line has value of 0.117 °C / decade which amounts to a total temperature increase of 0.702 C over the 60 years from 1950.

Whether a trend is statistically significant does not depend only on the number of years, it depends also on the frequency of data collection, the amount of noise in the system (and the noise in the data collection system), the size of the trend (a smaller trend will take longer to achieve significance), and the amount of autocorrelation in the data series.

The blue 1 - year (12 - month) trends show the dramatic global warming trend reversal over the most recent months - from a peak in March 2016 to what now amounts to being a significant cooling trend by October 2016.

Over the past 100 years there is a statistically significant upward trend in the data amounting to about 0.7 oC per century.

The first new study calculates the statistical likelihood of various amounts of warming by the year 2100 based on three trends that matter most for how much carbon we put in the air.

Finally, a review of this year's Canadian biotech and pharma licensing trends shows that even facing a patent cliff, pharmas (as licensing payers) still wield a fair amount of bargaining power.

«There seems to be a general trend at the OSC and other securities regulators to order greater [amount] of administrative penalties and cost awards particularly in the last five years,» says Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP partner Shawn Irving.

In terms of actual dollars spent annually on health insurance, a 40 year - old nonsmoker, for example, will pay over $ 716 more on premiums in 2017 if her premium amount matched the annual trends for the last two years.