D1 OBITUARIES A21 SCIENCE/HEALTH A Million-Year El Niño The last time the earth was warm, the waters of the Pacific Ocean may have been stuck in an El Niño pattern that lasted more than a million years, scientists reported, providing clues about how the earth's current warming trend could affect climate.
At seemingly random times beginning about 80,000 years ago, average temperatures in and around the North Atlantic rose or fell by 10°C or more in the course of a decade or two a pattern that lasted for 70,000 years.
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As a result of the extended use of the castle for these purposes, the law courts at York Castle began to compete with those in London, a pattern that lasted into the 1360s.
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While Mr. Peacock emphatically slides notes and gives them a muscular vibrato, questioning the absolutism of pitch, Mr. Motian spin webs of melodic percussion; his playing rolls along delicately, almost never falling into patterns that last for longer than one bar.
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The woman, Lori Capobianco Haigh, said that in 1978, when she was 14, the priest, the Rev. John P. Lenihan, began a pattern of abuse that lasted throughout much of her adolescence.
Icy overnight temperatures are set to alternate with days of snow flurries as the UK's delayed taste of winter settles into a pattern that could last up to a month.
