Sentences with phrase «average than the decade»

The 1950s was the last decade cooler than the previous decade, the next five decades were all warmer on average than the decade before.

Not exact matches

Over the past three decades, companies less than five years of age have added an average 1.5 million new jobs annually, while older firms have tended to just shed jobs.

These struggles have left them with 22 % fewer workers than they employed a decade ago (on average), and net capital assets (such as factor floor space and machinery and equipment) that have shrunk 2.2 % per year on average.

But van Beurden has been slimming down his portfolio of oil projects with the intent of keeping only those lean enough to make good returns in a world in which oil prices average no more than $ 40 a barrel, well below the average price over the past decade.

Despite inflation making our lives more expensive every year, people in these 10 occupations are actually earning less, on average, than they were half a decade ago.

Last year, the CDC found that U.S. life expectancy had actually dropped for the first time in more than two decades to an average of 78.8 years and that every major leading cause of death other than cancer was killing more people.

But it won't happen for a while for one reason: On average the folks who pocketed those nearly double - digit gains in past decades were buying at far lower prices than the big valuations prevailing today.

The ratio has previously been this low only six times during the past two decades; whenever that happens, stocks have rallied over the next year by more than 50 %, on average.

This corresponds to more than one seventh of the average annual OECD growth rate in the last decade.

According to the Wall Street Journal, seven in 10 bachelor's degree recipients were expected to graduate with student loans averaging $ 35,000 — more than twice the inflation - adjusted amount owed by students two decades ago.

At the same time, however, these figures are lower than average U.S. - Mexico trade imbalances for most of the past decade.

But it's not just size that matters — the average cost of fighting fires per acre burned is also much higher than it was a few decades ago.

In the decade leading up to the last lockout, the average NHL salary increased by more than three times, totalling $ 1.83 million for the 2003 - 04 season, according to a 2005 article in the journal Monthly Labor Review.

This is easier said than done because many pressures have tended to flatten real U.S. wages for average employees over the last few decades.

«We can get a glimpse of what may be in store for the United States by looking at Japan, where in a somewhat frightening parallel, economic growth has averaged 0.9 % annually over the past two decades, and just 0.7 % in the 2001 to 2010 period,» BlackRock's paper says, though Koesterich adds that U.S. demographics are considerably better than Japan's.

In Berlin, another booming city, the average price is less than half: 45 000 crowns, or the price point of Stockholm a decade ago.

That's a downward revision of 0.1 percent, smaller than the 0.3 percent average adjustment over the past decade and much too small to change our understanding of how the economy as a whole is doing.

On average, renters earn about half as much as homeowners, and the percentage of families with children that rent rather than buy has increased sharply in the past decade, the study said.

The Chinese government says that GDP growth there has slowed to 6.9 % in 2015, and that it will grow by 6.8 % next year after averaging more than 10 % for the past decade.

Whatever is the current cause of the rise of prices in the housing market, when computed as the mortgage cost in labour time in terms of the average weekly salary, residential properties, with the exception of the 1988 - 1991 period, are now clearly less affordable for middle - class Canadians than they were for the last five decades.

The average absolute value of current account balances as a share of GDP is higher today than it was three decades ago, with much of the run - up occurring in the past decade, and there is less dispersion around the average.

Since the mid 2000s, the unemployment rate has averaged 5 1/4 per cent, a better outcome than in the previous three decades.

The data here demonstrate that the cash cost of the average residential property in Canada is much higher today than through most of the last five decades.

Since the start of this century, The Times found, price fluctuations of 4 percent or more during intraday sessions have occurred nearly six times more than they did on average in the four decades leading up to 2000.

The real cash rate has been about 140 basis points lower, on average, than in the preceding decade.

The speech goes on to note that, although the economy performed well overall, the average growth rate of real GDP has been lower in the past decade than the one before.

Two years ago it was hard to find analysts who expected average GDP growth over the rest of this decade to be less than 8 %.

Washington's mortgage rates have been lower than the national average rates for the past decade.

As seen in the table below, average venture fund sizes have more than tripled over the past three decades rising from $ 53.7 million in the 1980s to $ 179.7 million in the 2000s.

As Mann explained, the rising temperatures in the region add up to 1 °C to 1.5 °C higher temperatures than average a few decades ago.

The new government is targeting real growth of more than an average 2 per cent over the next decade.

As we have seen time and again, the flexible workspace market has experienced incredible growth and is sustaining that growth across the world; Savills found that UK serviced office take - up increased by more than 150 % in 2017, while CBRE discovered that the flexible office market has been growing at an average of 13 % per annum over the last decade.

Local television news programming has shed audience over the past decade, but it still garners more viewers on average than cable and network news programs.

And the idea of consumers supporting hard - pressed farmers may have been a laudable goal decades ago, but it no longer applies: In 2010, the average dairy farm's net worth was well more than $ 2.5 million; the average poultry / egg farm's net worth was almost $ 4 million — far more than all other Canadian farmers, and far, far more than the average Canadian family.

For more than a decade the stock markets have outperformed most of them, and since 1999 VC funds on average have barely broken even.

While rural prices are below the drought - induced peaks of 2002, they remain higher than the average of the past decade in both SDR and Australian dollar terms.

Women - owned businesses account for one - third of all types of businesses in the US, and over the last almost two decades women - owned firms increased 1.5 x faster than the national average.

This is a percentage point lower than average potential growth in the decade prior to the crisis... We estimate that the real neutral policy rate is currently in the range of 1 to 2 per cent... This translates into a nominal neutral policy rate of 3 to 4 per cent, down from a range of 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 per cent in the period prior to the crisis.»

Since 1950, the average retirement age has decreased by about five years and the average life expectancy has increased by more than a decade.

Presently, the likely range of S&P 500 annual total returns for the coming decade is in the 2 - 3 % range based on average and median scenarios, with outside possibilities as low as -3 % in the very bearish case and still less than 8 % in the very bullish case.

In the September quarter, this deficit stood at around 3 per cent of GDP, somewhat smaller than in the previous quarter, but still around 2 percentage points larger than the average over the past decade.

The spread between 10 - year bond yields and the cash rate is currently around 45 basis points, compared with more than 100 basis points on average over the past decade (see the chapter on «Assessment of Financial Conditions»).

About a decade ago, Wisconsin mortgage rates were higher than the national average — sometimes significantly.

This is still higher than the average pace over the past decade, which itself was a period of rapid growth in credit in comparison with nominal GDP.

Overall, Australia's trading partners are expected to grow by 4.1 per cent in 2004, around 1/2 a percentage point faster than the average of the past decade (Graph 1).

They might have more friends than ever online but, on average, Americans have fewer friends to confide in than they did a decade ago.

Civil liberties are still quite high (though W tried to do them in), medical science has allowed people to live longer and better, crime has generally been trending downwards for decades, and the average American lives far, far better than his predecessors 70 years ago.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

I asked Pedro how the harvest was going, and he said it was the best in more than a decade because the better than average rainfall had caused the bushes to set a great many fruits.

While a 1.9 % average annual increase is lower than the market has seen over the past decade, when it stood at 2.1 % on average, it is expected to support an increase of dairy deliveries of approximately 1 % per year to 164m tons in 2025.