Sentences with phrase «bigger number this year»

That is 692 items per second, so that is a staggering number, and it's going to be an even bigger number this year,» said Amazon spokeswoman Julie Law.

I think the Rump disaster is bringing out Dems in big numbers this year!

Update: these goals I set were a bit big... I'll go permafree later but haven't yet because I'm using KDP / KU, so I may not hit the big numbers this year.

Not exact matches

The slowdown in mining project work has resulted in a 26 per cent fall in the number of environmental professionals employed at the state's biggest consulting firms over the past year.

That result might seem surprising given the recent headlines declaring the demise of Canadian law firms (not to mention the hordes of law grads struggling to find articling positions), but lawyers are big earners, and over the past five years their numbers have swollen by 10,000.

Leader - Chivée is one of the individuals I was fortunate enough to interview for a series on the year ahead, Big Ideas for 2018, where I asked a number of my favorite award - winning marketing experts, authors, and other thought leaders — as well as some of Firebrand Group's own digital strategy and branding experts — to recommend one «Big Idea» that companies can take advantage of to get ahead in 2018.

In recent years, an increasing number of tech startups have turned into big - time investments opportunities for VCs, and as a result, these funds have wanted to get in on the action to bolster investor returns too.

Finnegan is one of the individuals I was fortunate enough to interview for a series on the year ahead, Big Ideas for 2018, in which I asked a number of my favorite award - winning marketing experts, authors, and other thought leaders — as well as some of Firebrand Group's own digital strategy and branding experts — to recommend one «Big Idea» that companies can leverage to get ahead in 2018.

Home ownership has experienced the biggest decline in two decades, and the number of renting households has been growing by about 700,000 a year since 2006.

Most expensive wedding planned: $ 350,000 Biggest wedding (by attendance): 700 Smallest wedding: 19 Number of weddings planned per year: 20 — 25 Average planning time per wedding: 1 year Shortest planning time: 5 weeks

Doing the minimum required by a franchise system is not the way to make big numbers — he recommends doing as much as possible in the beginning, theorizing that if franchisees are scrimping on advertising or labor in the first year just to keep the doors open, they didn't have enough operating capital to begin with.

Distilled puts on a number of big events every year; you can check out upcoming events here.

The big automakers are also running leaner operations — they closed a number of underperforming plants during the crisis — and their balance sheets are the cleanest they've been in years.

One of the biggest supports to me psychologically over the past year setting up my firm is the number of unsolicited InMails I get from competitors.

More than 110 million Americans watched last year's Super Bowl, and this year's edition — played between two big markets, New England and New York — is expected to surpass those record - setting numbers.

Prince, who won a bronze medal in the 400 in London and finished sixth in the 200 metres in Rio, said the biggest difference that he has seen between the 2012 Paralympics and this year has not been a new piece of technology, but rather the number of competitors who are using the best equipment available.

In the last few years, the number of clinical trials in this field has exploded, along with the flurry of money from Big Pharma and investors, stirring optimism in the fight against cancer.

A number of characters from Marvel's X-Men comics have already found major success on the big screen this year.

Headquarters: Columbus, Ohio Year it began franchising: 1991 Number of franchises: 105 franchises plus 51 company - owned units Startup costs: $ 405,000 to $ 705,000 Overall 2012 Franchise 500 rank: 250 No matter how you slice it, the Super Bowl is a big event for this proprietor of pizza, subs, salads and wings.

Anheuser - Busch holds exclusive advertising rights in the alcohol category during the big game each year — hence the high number of Budweiser and Bud Light ads.

His small team, which is working on a game called The Long Dark (due next year), is comprised of industry veterans who have collectively worked at a number of the big studios in Canada, including Ubisoft Montreal, BioWare and Relic Entertainment.

«As recently as three years ago, Black Friday — dominated by Big Store brands — was clearly better than smaller brand - focused and clothing - focused Cyber Monday, in terms of the number and quality of deals, as well as the number of participating retailers,» says de Grandpre of DealNews.

To put that last number into perspective, Crash the Super Bowl, a 2008 Doritos contest in the U.S. that awarded the creator of the best 30 - second chip ad US$ 1 million and showed the commercial during the big game this year, generated fewer submissions with a population 10 times the size.

«For the last several years, Walmart, Best Buy, Staples and a handful of major Big Box retailers have made extremely limited numbers of doorbusters — traditionally the hallmark of Black Friday — available both in - store and online on both Black Friday and Cyber Monday,» says de Grandpre of DealNews.

«When you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you, and that's of concern when you come to big issues that large numbers of people have fought for, for years in this country,» Feinstein said.

We've seen a number of major hacks this year — in fact, some of the biggest.

Since last year, there's been a 7 % drop in the number of firms planning big capital investments.

Some of the numbers weren't a big surprise, given the company's financial forecast in March, when the company said it expects to hit as many as 96 million subscribers this year.

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

It added 337,000 new customers in the second quarter, with strong growth in both TV and broadband and its highest numbers of new customers in its biggest UK and Ireland market for 10 years.

Taser has also added the business of a number of other big city police departments — including Pittsburgh and San Francisco — over the past year.

The number of graduating law students has increasingly outstripped available articling positions in recent years, and the breakup of prominent Bay Street firm Heenan Blaikie has insiders wondering which will be the next big firm to fall.

Despite a heightened level of political uncertainty, a potential US - led trade war against China and fraught Brexit negotiations, companies have embarked on an unprecedented number of big acquisitions this year.

While the value of M&A deals globally increased 67 percent year - on - year in the first quarter of 2018, the number of deals dropped by 10 percent to 10,338, preliminary Thomson Reuters data show, reflecting how deals on average are getting bigger.

The numbers, provided by comScore, also underscore The Post's commitment to provide engaging experiences across all platforms, with mobile and desktop visitors seeing big increases year over year (80 % and 26 %, respectively).

Analysts rightly predicted that 2016 would be a big year for healthcare industry mergers, but 2017 is on pace to top it, with a number of blockbuster mergers between big - name health systems headlining the year in M&A.

At the point the growth began to slow, the multiple would contract, meaning that even if its earnings do grow 600 % in the next few years, if it becomes subject to the law of big numbers - that ever increasing amounts eventually forge their own anchor - the result would be a market capitalization substantially similar to today, leading to no increase in the stock price over a long period of time.

Looking at the bigger picture, however, the latest numbers said the labour market expanded 2.1 per cent compared to a year earlier with the addition of 374,300 net new jobs.

For over a year, Mintz has been manufacturing big job numbers for use as political propaganda in selling business tax cuts.

The strength on big - caps also helped the Shanghai Composite to almost break a 25 - year record in the number of consecutive days of gains.

These are pretty big numbers, and there are likely to be many similar examples, many of which will not be recognized for months or even years.

San Francisco Bay Area Situated in Silicon Valley's big backyard by the sea, the San Francisco Bay Area capped the ITM rankings, holding the Number Two spot for a second year in a row.

TREB numbers show the region saw the biggest year - over-year price declines in April.

As readers of this site know, I'm not a big fan of gold as a core exposure in portfolios (although I've been very, very wrong about this for a number of years).

While that's a pretty big number, it's actually very achievable for many people who have at least 30 years until retirement.

His biggest concern is that his investors take the cash he returns them and place it with a manager putting up big numbers over the past few years, especially the last two.

Well, I'd say demographics are part of it: those big city condos suit retiring boomers, and also suit the twentysomethings (the latter of which have been growing in numbers over the past few years) so there is some natural growth that comes from that.

One the most amazing things about this budget is that one of its three focuses will actually be the opposite of what itâ $ ™ s touting. Youâ $ ™ ll likely hear that $ 14 billion will be spent on infrastructure over the next 10 years (actually you may hear much bigger numbers but they just re-announce existing programs like the -LSB-...]

Monday February 12: Five things the markets are talking about Investors are bracing for another bumpy ride this week after market volatility has returned with a vengeance, delivering the biggest rout in global stocks in a number of years.

As I argued when the second quarter GDP numbers confirmed the recession, the big issue is not whether GDP growth is slightly positive or slightly negative. The big issue is why it has been so close to zero in the first place. The July GDP numbers do not change that analysis. And they do not change the empirical fact that the Harper government's overall economic record — even before this year's downturn — is uniquely weak, on both historical and international criteria.