"In the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured".
But I have always regarded the characters on the "Up" series as a monitory advance team, like older siblings, forever one step ahead of me on the path through adolescence, the onset of adulthood, and, now, the long, narrowing years of middle age.
Or the way parking spaces at the mall seem to get narrower year by year?
Coaker added: "While the Tories try to do down the state education system, the truth is that the gap between the poorest children and the rest is narrowing year on year, and schools in the poorest areas have seen the biggest rises in results over the last decade.
"Despite the Tories' warm words on raising standards, their record speaks volumes – the attainment gap between poorer pupils and their peers is widening, after narrowing year on year under Labour, and there are chronic shortages of teachers in our schools, harming our children's education," Powell said.
In the last three months of 2009 Sprint said it lost $980 million, or 34 cents loss per share, narrowing year-earlier losses of $1.6 billion, or 57 cents loss per share.
Then, they examine many samples of the same species taken from the same location, noting the sequence of wide and narrow rings, year-by-year, decade-by-decade.
For the present study, the age range for inclusion was somewhat more narrow, 7 16 years.
Samples were cross-dated visually by reference to narrow marker years (Yamaguchi, 1991) induced by periodic jack pine budworm (Choristoneura pinus Freeman) defoliation (Volney, 1988).
Our age range was narrow (8 10 years at baseline), and future studies should have a wider age range and longer follow-up.
Although the range for age was narrow (5.75 6.5 years), we included it in the regression models because it was associated with folate and tHcys as well as %MMA.
