While the 2009 stimulus projects had an average completion time of 2 years, according to Barclays, the NDRC projects have a live span of three to five years, while the regional government plans could be completed within eight years furthermore several of these plans still have no funding plan.
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ICO's ten satellites fly about 9, 000 kilometres higher in medium-earth orbit and have a life-span of 12 years.
Sceptics point out that if big cats have been surviving, and breeding, in the wild for all this time, they only have a natural life span of some 20 years.
It is true: many beneficial new therapies have extended the average life span and have driven a lot of the rise in costs.
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"We are working intensely under a very short time span to have a maximum amount of information to able to find the black boxes, " she said.
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At the start of a bull market you will often find a number of stocks that have completed basing patterns that span a year or longer, which when completed makes them strong candidates to move higher over the next year or more.
Second, I have the attention span of a gnat, so I am the last person who should be developing anything.
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Roman Abramovich may appear to have the attention span of a squirrel on crystal meth but the one thing you cannot argue with is the success he has brought Chelsea.
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Meanwhile, that mismanaged outfit known as the Detroit Red Wings, who have won four Cups in that span, including a 1997 sweep of the Flyers, have only 10 final fours.
The new regulations have doubled the life span of a Formula One engine in an attempt to cut costs and reduce speeds, forcing teams to use the same ones for two successive races.
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Engineers will have a huge job recovering pieces of the span from the Mississippi River and reconstructing what happen that caused this collapse.
Environmental campaigners have lost a legal battle to limit the life-span of a landfill site near their homes in Wrexham.
We have now had a truly ominous streak of chip warnings that span the spectrum of economic activity.
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We have, after all, become a nation of short-attention span clickers when presented with a computer screen.
Over the span of just a few years, Facebook logins have become so pervasive that they are nearly second nature.
Some of the Nazca Lines, mysterious geoglyphs that span a vast swath of the rugged Peruvian desert, may have once been a labyrinth with a spiritual purpose, a new study suggests.
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Of course, they also have a .466 winning percentage during that span.
These folks have funds that truly span the globe, and European names account for a fifth to a third of their assets.
In the same time span, going back to June 2000, a Freddie-fuelled England have won 39 of 67 completed matches over the same stretch.
Capital expenditure may have a pay-off in the long run but, given the ever-shortening career span of the average chief executive, few may be willing to take a chance that they will be around for the long term.
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Some of them have actually gone from price boom to price bust to boom again, all within the span of a decade.
While the media form is still nascent, I can share that I have found it to be worthy of at least a few measures of my already well-divided attention span.
If you have participated in my workshops on analytics at various the Enterprise2.0 Conferences, you will find a wider span of the methods and metrics available.
Scientists have long speculated that the key to a person's "natural" life span lies in so-called diseases of aging, those that emerge only as the body begins to wear out.
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Novak says DLP sales have been growing 300% a year across the various mobile device categories and now span more than 20 brands and 30 types of products.
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