Global warming is projected to occur over a time scale of centuries.
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Sure, the comparable sales growth has declined in the past couple of months, but it is only fair that for a fast food chain with more than 33, 000 restaurants worldwide, we look at data points over a time scale more than 1 or 2 months.
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"If one is concerned about the future of life on a biological time scale, it's relevant to have communities away from the Earth, " Rees notes.
"The Executive remains committed to the project and we also note that the Irish government has committed itself to delivering it on a longer time scale, " they said.
On a geologic time scale, the two events occurred at virtually the same moment, according to new and more precise dating results that they reported in the journal Science.
He said nurses wanted "a sensible pay offer and a sensible commitment to see nurses pay on a level with their allied health professions within a reasonable time scale".
As a recent study confirms, on a much longer time scale, genes are even at the mercy of culture.
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But the venture world has learned some hard lessons on the difficulty of building energy businesses: they face science risk, often take a long time to scale and can be capital intensive.
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The fact that there has not been a big terrorist attack against the West since the one in Madrid last March does not mean that the threat has gone away: as Osama bin Laden's reference to the wrongs done to Muslims in 8th-century Andalucia shows, Islamist terrorists work on a longer time-scale than most people.
Although this is a small scale operation, the Iranians could turn it into a large scale one in a very short time.
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When Greek and Italian debt yields started to spike we witnessed the rare event of a human-time-scale criticality.
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His large portfolio led to him being dubbed "the minister of the earth and the sky", but it also put him in charge of a large proportion of Senegal's government budget at a time of large-scale infrastructure spending.
Von Hippel has for the first time given us a scale to work against when we think of the power of adaptive consumers.
The outcome from the workshop should help ensure consistently comparable quality control of selected chemical data collected on a global scale and over time.
Mr Greenspan has expressed anxiety in the past about the risks of cutting taxes on such a large scale at a time of budgetary pressure.
And now, for the very first time, a large-scale solar power plant -- the largest of its kind in the entire nation -- will deliver electricity produced by the sun to the citizens of the Sunshine State.
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In another view, a system of micro-tasking rather than a full-time job means that it is too small a scale to really price out the cost of these benefits on a per task level.
The day-to-day urgency of a business at scale can easily roll over the time and effort it takes to meaningfully engage a customer.
The electricity distributor said problems had not been on this scale for a long time.
What makes this time different, on a global scale, however, is the reality of floating exchange rates.
Over the New Year the optimists had a good run, but the time-scale for growth returning is forever being pushed back.
This is the first time Zuckerberg has made a large-scale public charitable donation.
That's an impressive total at a time when many athletic departments saw fundraising scale back considerably on account of the recession.
We are looking for really big markets and we are looking to get in at a time where there is leverage to obtain scale.
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The former will take time to scale to make a huge difference day-to-day, and the latter is clearly the most speculative (a subject for another day).
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The return of share repurchases on a grand scale (doubtless at a time when they are far more expensive than today) will be a sign that defrosting is giving way to overheating.
It's going to be a challenge trying to get on with normal life - but it's 16 days for the Olympics and 12 for the Paralympics which is a short amount of time in the grand scale of things for the greatest sporting event in the world.
Cantalupo decided it was time to start grading restaurants on a scale everyone could understand.
On a global scale, this is the third time IEA member-country stocks have been used.
It is the same lesson learned, albeit on a smaller scale, by certain other big time football programs when their head coaches fell from grace.
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