Sentences with phrase «years of growth spurts»

Teenagers go through years of growth spurts, hormone shifts and body adjustments.

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About half of Splunk's data analytics software sales derive from its security business, which has seen a growth spurt in recent years.

That year also saw a significant cable television growth spurt, exploding the number of channels needing content.

Revenue growth has slowed as many companies sink more resources into developing the next blockbuster drug; what's more, the «patent cliff» for the last round of megabillion - dollar drugs — when generics firms typically see a sales spurt — happened a few years ago.

Don't let the exhilaration of the initial growth spurt distract you from the fundamentals necessary to grow for years.

The pace of growth last year reflected the nation's best economic spurt since 2005.

An estimated three - per - cent expansion overall in 2017 — driven by an out - sized first - half growth spurt of more than four per cent — will likely be followed by slower output of 2.1 per cent next year.

Society president David Miller, dean of Wittenberg University's school of music, offered a progress report: the 55 - year - old hymn society, with 2,000 members — including clergy, church musicians, poets and hymn writers — was reorganized last year, has recently taken a spurt of growth and seems to have potential for further growth (one place the society is recruiting is among the ranks of the American Guild of Organists» 24,000 members).

Babies tend to have lots of growth spurts in their first year, the major ones being at 2weeks, 6weeks, 3 months and 6 months.

While growth spurts in older kids happen over the course of years, infant growth spurts often happen in just a few days.

Although growth spurts can be the root of your baby's different behavior through the year, consider other issues that may be occurring as well.

A baby's first year is full of difficult growth spurts.

This condition typically arises during the growth spurts in the adolescent years; between the ages of 8 and 13 for girls, and 10 and 15 for boys.

Throughout the first year, babies may have times when they wake up more often because of growth spurts, sickness, teething, or changes in routine.

She did a huge growth spurt this year and is now 12 and needs a little older design of clothes.

In fact, a good measurement of her height and weight could show where she is with her growth spurt compared to the year prior.

For the first year of her life, your baby will go through several growth spurts.

Growth spurts are common during the first year of a baby's life.

A major growth spurt happens at the time of puberty, usually between 8 to 13 years of age in girls and 10 to 15 years in boys.

The two - year span of puberty is generally marked by a major growth spurt.

If he experiences some incredible emotional growth spurt over the summer, we can always decide to go ahead and send him to K at the last minute, but otherwise he'll be enjoying another year in preschool along with a lot of other Baby Bunched friends with summer birthdays.

Spurts of growth during this period are often reflected in your baby's appetite — but towards the end of the first year, the rate of growth slows and many babies» appetites reduce accordingly!

Pegging the trend toward giant sizes to the Plio - Pleistocene ruled out other hypotheses such as the threat of predation by the huge shark megalodon — which had already been around for millions of years before the whales» growth spurt — or the advent of filter feeding, which had been around for more than 15 million years at that point.

But «the jury is still out» on whether cooking was responsible for the first dramatic burst of brain growth in our lineage, in H. erectus, Martin says, or whether our ancestors began cooking over a fire later, when the brain went through a second major growth spurt about 600,000 years ago.

That means it created all its stars in a cosmic eye - blink — a growth spurt of 100 to 500 million years.

A new analysis of tree rings suggests that the growth spurt is indeed unprecedented: bristlecone pines have grown faster in the past 50 years than they have in 3.7 millennia.

By comparing the bones of modern whales to fossils, a team of scientists has traced the growth spurt to about 4.5 million years ago, when climate change increased the food supply.

As it happens, both young men and women experience a growth spurt in adolescence that is second only to the rapid growth that occurs in the first year of life.2 With the onset of puberty come increases in height, weight and bone mass; cognitive changes; and reproductive maturation.3 Adolescent boys gain more in bone size and mass than adolescent girls.3 To support this intensive and multifaceted period of growth, the total nutrient needs of adolescents are higher than at any other life stage.

The teenage years are a time of growth spurts, so teenagers need to consume sufficient calories to meet the needs of their developing bodies.

George has three friends, Buddy (Curtis Cotton III), whose 12 year - old girlfriend has just dumped him, Vernon (Damien Jewan Lee) experiencing a growth - spurt making him nearly twice the size of the others, and Sonya (Rachael Handy), a little white blonde girl who does not physically fit in with her male black friends, but identifies perfectly with their sense of boredom and hopelessness.

As many of you know, there is a major growth spurt in learning during those two years.

In the first 3 - 5 years, there is a dramatic growth spurt, as approximately 90 - 95 per cent of cells organize and create pathways to more sophisticated brain functions

When digital publishing first began experiencing its major growth spurt only a handful of years ago, many critics argued that a digital book was no better than its print counterpart, mostly since many e-publishers at that time were simply creating an identical page format on a screen - based devices.

Another facilitator of this growth spurt came from online holiday spending, which increased 18.1 % this year, according to the Mastercard data.

Although it's one of Maine's smaller towns, there's been a growth spurt in recent years as the health care and tourism industries continue to create new job opportunities.

While smaller dog breeds tend to grow quickly during the first year of life, larger breeds stop growing quickly after their initial growth spurt.

In fact Newfoundlands can be 2 years old before they reach maturity, leaving you months of growth spurts to look forward to.

Starwood's The Luxury Collection, the hotel industry's original «collection brand,» featuring some of the world's most iconic independent luxury hotels, is in the midst of its most prolific growth spurt in its 21 - year history.

Nintendo, which set up shop in Redmond a year before Microsoft came to town in 1986, sold Microsoft some of the land that became its campus during one of the company's growth spurts.

I'll try to maintain the discipline to be «caustically honest» (to steal a phrase used by a climate scientist in a story of mine on tipping points last year) in weighing the issues and opportunities confronting humanity as its astonishing 200 - years - and - counting growth spurt crests.

National Geographic magazine has kicked off a yearlong series of articles related to humanity's remarkable growth spurt, with the first story focusing on the consequences of hitting 7 billion humans later this year and the basics of demography, from Malthus forward.

A new analysis of tree rings suggests that the growth spurt is indeed unprecedented: bristlecone pines have grown faster in the past 50 years than they have in 3.7 millenia.

Scientists have been surprised in recent years to learn that this factor is causing a growth spurt even in mature forests, a finding that overturned decades of ecological dogma.

Another facilitator of this growth spurt came from online holiday spending, which increased 18.1 % this year, according to the Mastercard data.

Lee suggests that the Bitcoin price could see a growth spurt by mid-2018, which may continue into the latter half of the year.

The mean age at menarche in this sample was13 years (range, 8.5 - 15 years), and 46 % of the adolescent boys had their growth spurt from ages 13 to 15 years.

Having had the opportunity of listening to Hedy's inspirational talk on the miracle of connection almost 2 years ago, listening to her CD's and absorbing the message embedded in her the «vist across the bridge» video, I felt that I had made another spurt of growth and heightened awareness in my spiritual development.