The policies it bought were all past the standard two-year contestability period, Mr. Thomas said.
The BR500's four-stroke engine is five times cleaner than the standard two-stroke models.
Another, Pure Alpha, which has the standard two-and-twenty charges, aims at beating the market return but also at limiting risk.
Organisms with more than the standard two base pairs would be able to make more than the standard 20 amino acids.
Sometimes, standard two dimensional photos, even those taken by a 41-megapixel sensor, simply aren't enough to accurately depict a three dimensional object.
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She started the infant on a three-drug cocktail of antiretroviral medications for HIV treatment, as opposed to the standard two-drug regimen for prophylaxis (prevention) of infection.
Mind you, the standard two testicles would be equally concerning.
While those are the only countries in the world selling citizenship directly, in the Dominican Republic, foreigners who invest in real estate or local businesses can obtain citizenship after a minimum residency of just six months (as opposed to the standard two years that other people would have to wait).
Bollinger bands, were developed by John Bollinger and generally are calculated by plotting two standard deviations above and two standard deviations below a 20-period moving average.
The current issue of the Weekly Standard contains two articles which lay bare this basic truth.
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Except for twenty-five years (1797-1821) the British pound was on a gold-coin standard for two straight centuries (1717-1914).
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The gray area around the average line shows the two standard deviation range of the data.
The yellow and red lines represent one and two standard deviations from the mean ratio, respectively.
Two standard deviations above the historical average is 50.7%, and levels above that mark are outliers.
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Bullish sentiment is more than two standard deviations from its historical mean, making it a statistical outlier.
Its two standard bearers - Meretz and Labor - were effectively wiped out.
Bullish sentiment is unusually low, but it would have to fall below 18% to be considered extraordinarily low (two standard deviations below average).
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Section IV defines a 21st-century standard for a two-MRC force structure.
The 2.20 score indicates more than two standard deviations above the mean, meaning the Niners were more than twice as good as a typical NFL team that year.
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Only eight teams in MLB history have outdone the league by more than two standard deviations, including the 1984 Tigers, the 1986 Mets, and the Yankee clubs of 1998 and 1941.
Johnson would like to see a single CAFE standard rather than two separate ones, as cars overseas are more fuel efficient and then the car companies could count their good miles per gallon European cars with their gas guzzling American trucks.
We found that when earnings yield spreads during the prior five years averaged more than two standard deviations above the average, investors on average earned (annualized) returns on stocks of 21.3% for the following year, 17% for the next two years, 14.6% for the next three years and 8.3% over five years.
Bearish sentiment is at unusually high levels, but not so high that it would be considered extraordinarily high. (In statistical terms, pessimism is less than two standard deviations away from its historical average.) The sharp increase comes as the market has pulled back, some large-cap stocks have declined notably over the past several weeks and uncertainty about the fiscal cliff looms.
Still, at the moment, the primary campaign is heading to an odd conclusion: two underdogs are setting a standard for an election that the two probable nominees are unlikely to meet.
The gold standard, in only two years, has moved from a perceived-fringe prescription to the mainstream.
In my view, a gold standard system must have two basic elements.
If Evercore or JPMorgan advises a corporation on making an acquisition, the standard fee is about two per cent of the purchase price.
One standard is good, two standards do not constitute an improvement.
Similarly, in Britain, the Bank of England this week said it would extend the maturity of its standard repo facility from two weeks to three months.
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