Sentences with phrase «years preceding the period»

Tree rings in the last half a century have been 0.58 millimetres wide on average, compared to 0.38 mm wide in the 4750 years preceding the period, the study found.

Tree growth is not this simple, but the article quotes «Tree rings in the last half a century have been 58 mm wide on average, compared to 38 mm wide in the 4,750 years preceding the period, the study found.»

Not exact matches

As I have written recently, I think the period going forward will be more challenging for central banks than the preceding few years.

Likewise, when we examine secular lows like 1974 and 1982, we'll find that actual returns over the preceding 12 - year period fell short of the returns one would have expected on the basis of valuations 12 years earlier.

Now, it's true that when we examine pre-crash extremes, like 2000 and 2007, we'll typically find that actual returns over the preceding 12 - year period were higher than the returns that one would have expected on the basis of valuations 12 years earlier.

In contrast, the largest positive deviations (where the actual S&P 500 total return over the preceding 10 - year period exceeded projections) were in August 1987, January 1999, February 2007, and today.

2) For child - rearing, the finance ministers agreed to a formula to drop in the average income over the preceding five - year period before a new parent took time to raise children under age seven.

The minimum amounts are set by a calculation: The account balance at the end of the preceding calendar year divided by the distribution period from the IRS's «Uniform Lifetime Table.»

The last time we saw this much bullishness was at the start of 2001, which preceded an awful 2 - year period for stocks.

The latest report shows for example that in 2012, 62 % of those who were unemployed had paid EI premiums during the year preceding their unemployment period.

The RMD amount is calculated by dividing the amount in the account as of the end of the immediately preceding calendar year by a life - expectancy - based distribution period specified in the IRS's «Uniform Lifetime Table.»

In the first half of 1998, AWOTE increased at an annual rate of 3.6 per cent, compared with annual increases of around 4 per cent prevailing over much of the preceding two - year period.

(ii) Any accrued but unpaid Annual Bonus earned with respect to any fiscal year ending on or preceding the Termination Date («Earned Bonus»); plus for the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs, a pro rata Annual Bonus based on actual performance for the entire performance period and calculated and paid at the end of the performance period, at the same time as continuing executives are paid their bonuses (but no later than March 15 of the year following the year with respect to which the bonus is calculated)(«Pro-Rata Bonus»);

In fact, the prospect is disquieting: professionals churning out Holocaust materials for a diminishing Jewish population that learns more and more about the period from 1933 to 1945 and knows less and less about the 4,000 years of Judaism that preceded it.»

If death were always preceded, however, as unfortunately on rare occasions it sometimes is, by a period of slow decay, as long in years as the original period of growth to physical maturity, until any kind of personal communion had been rendered virtually impossible, then we would not only welcome death, as a merciful release, but be less inclined to assume the survival of the deceased in an «after - life».

The turbulent period preceding the revolution of 1848 seemed indeed far removed from the «halcyonic quiet between the storms» that prevailed during Humboldt's declining years.

We can trace its existence for not much more than a hundred thousand years, a period so short that it has left no mark on the majority of the animal forms that preceded us on the earth and which still surround us.

Thus the rise of the Gospels, let us say, belongs in the last thirty years of the first century; the tradition that underlies them must, by the same token, be assigned to the period preceding.

In 1929 he received the Remington Honor Medal, the American Pharmaceutical Association's top award «to recognize distinguished service on behalf of American pharmacy during the preceding years, culminating in the past year, or during a long period of outstanding activity or fruitful achievement.»

It marks the seventh straight year that no more than two English teams advanced past the Round of the 16 — a period of waning influence that was preceded by seven glorious years that produced six quarterfinalists, six semifinalists, five finalists, and two European champions.

Where it is proved before the Electoral Commission that any person who is registered or who applies for registration as an elector of a district has, within the immediately preceding period of 3 years, --

They explain that the extension of the review period to cover the seven years preceding that period is only a ruse designed to give the political exercise a semblance of objectivity and balance.

He admitted «it is sad to note that thirty - eight years on, the vices of corruption, nepotism, cronyism, etc., which led to the eruption of June 4th in 1979 have slowly crept back into our everyday life and arguably surpassed the obnoxious period preceding the June 4 event,» adding «our nation is once again grappling with the canker of widespread, extreme corruption that has permeated the whole of our society, including officialdom.»

These commissioners were not permitted to have held elected office within the preceding five - year period, nor could they be employees of Congress or the state legislature.

As it turns out, the STC lost $ 5.13 million during the two - year period preceding its sale, according to financial statements from the deal filed by Akoustis with the SEC on Sept. 12.

They found that in the intervals preceding die - offs that occurred at the ends of the Ordovician, Devonian, and Triassic periods (about 443 million, 371 million, and 201 million years ago, respectively), only selenium dropped precipitously.

«In addition, this early phase of evolutionary divergence appears to have preceded the extreme climate changes that led to Snowball Earth, a period marked by severe long - term global glaciation that lasted from about 720 to 635 million years ago,» Dohrmann says.

The Manson impact could have occurred either 200 000 to 300 000 years before or after Chicxulub — that is, during the preceding or the following period of normal polarity.

In the past half million years, this homeodomain has experienced more amino acid substitutions than it did in the preceding 700 million years; during this period, it has also evolved faster than other parts of the protein or even the introns.

However, Goddard said the results don't fully show the slowdown has disappeared when comparing the past 15 years to the decades preceding that period and that understanding the natural fluctuations in climate on a year - to - year (or even decade - to - decade) basis provides important context to the warming trends driven by carbon dioxide.

Nigeria embodied the trend that the rate of new HIV infections per 1,000 people per year (vertical axis) rise especially during periods preceding armed conflict.

Assuming you believe that the Arctic's temperature rise since the mid-1990s has been caused by CO2, how do you explain the ~ 40 years of cooling that preceded the warming — since CO2 was rapidly rising during both the cooling and warming periods?

About 120,000 years ago, in the warm period that preceded our most recent ice age, modern type Homo sapiens was probably walking around Africa with dark skin — and sporting a brain that was three times larger than before the first ice age chatters 2.5 million years ago.

The metric - which ranks journals by the average number of citations their articles attract in a set period, usually the preceding two years - has become «an obsession in world science», says a coalition of academics, editors, publishers and research funders, in a declaration published on 16 May.

A clear, direct, one - to - one relationship between pesticides and polio over a period of 30 years, with pesticides preceding polio incidence in the context of the CNS - related physiology just described, leaves little room for complicated virus arguments, even as a cofactor, unless there exists a rigorous proof for virus causation.

Conversely, within non-diabetic populations, periods of IER (75 - 85 % ER on restricted days) do not typically affect fasting glucose levels 37, 41, 45, 48 or HbA1c 41, 48; results of which can often be replicated by short term CER studies.62 - 65These findings are unsurprising given that frank hyperglycaemia within the T2DM diagnostic range is effectively a late - stage manifestation of IR, which along with compensatory increases insulin secretion, can precede the onset of T2DM by many years.66, 67 Findings from one large scale prospective cohort study, Whitehall II, reveal a sharp increase in the trajectory towards fasting hyperglycaemia which is only detectable three years prior to diagnosis with T2DM.67 Consequently, it can be argued that changes in circulating insulin concentrations, fasting (hepatic) insulin sensitivity and glucose uptake / clearance are more sensitive markers of deteriorating glucose control than fasting glycaemia in non - diabetics.68 - 70

Perimenopause refers to the ten years of hormonal upheaval that precede a woman's final menstrual period.

The Evidence for a Recent Dating for Adam, 14,000 to 15,000 years ago Courtship is the period in a couple's relationship which precedes their engagement and marriage, or establishment of an agreed relationship of a more

Courtship is the period in a couple's relationship which precedes their engagement and marriage, or establishment of an agreed relationship of a more I dated an older woman for years.

New Year's Day - January 1 Chinese New Year - 1st day of 1st lunar month Labor Day - May 1 Dragon Boat Festival - April Courtship is the period in a couple's relationship which precedes their engagement and marriage, or establishment of an agreed relationship of a more

Courtship is the period in a couple's relationship which precedes their engagement and marriage, or establishment of an agreed relationship of a more The Evidence for a Recent Dating for Adam, 14,000 to 15,000 years ago

Anna Faris «furious» over claims ex Chris Pratt is secretly dating Olivia Munn... two years after blonde beauty said actress was husband's «dream woman» Courtship is the period in a couple's relationship which precedes their engagement and marriage, or establishment of an agreed relationship of a more

The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.

Over the preceding twenty - year period, furniture expenditure averaged growth of 1.1 per cent each year (with high volatility), which is lower than inflation and lower than average school and resource budgets.

They do not include people who have remained displaced for prolonged periods of time following disasters in preceding years.

Acknowledging that the number of new teachers produced since 2008 has declined, NCTQ president Kate Walsh points out that «the drop was preceded by a three - decade period of enrollment growth, far outpacing the demand year - in and year - out.

We analyzed the presentation schedule and corresponding proceedings publications of the Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education (SITE) for the 2 - year period preceding this study (2010, 2011), with particular attention paid to the presentations representing the following special interest groups: Digital Storytelling / Media, English Education, and Information Literacy Education.

The allotment to any State under the preceding sentence for any fiscal year which is less than $ 50,000 shall be increased to that amount, and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, no State shall receive less than the amount necessary to cover up to 90 per centum of the cost of continuing projects assisted under section 4 (a)(2)(A) of * the Vocational REHABILITATION ACT, except that no such project may receive * financial assistance under both the Vocational REHABILITATION ACT and this ACT for a total period of time excess of three years.

The problems Toyota experienced just a few years ago with unintended acceleration and other mechanical and safety issues over a preceding period were grossly overplayed by government and the media.

A Qualified Fleet User is defined as a company that has purchased and registered or leased five (5) or more new cars / or trucks solely for use in its operation during the current or preceding calendar year, model year, preceding twelve (12) month period, or that owns or leases fifteen (15) or more cars and trucks.