Sentences with phrase «by more than»

I know a consultant who used to travel every week, and he's cut his business travel by more than half with teleconferencing.

That led to Jones defeating Moore by more than 131,000 votes there.

Oil prices have fallen by more than 50 % over the past year, but how much further can they really fall?

An FCC report released this month said the number of Americans without access to both fixed and mobile broadband fell by more than half from 72.1 million in 2012 to 34.5 million in 2014.

One of the most popular gold ETFs, the SPDR Gold Shares Trust (GLD), has seen assets increase by 28 percent, or by more than US$ 20 billion, this year alone.

It did that by exploding a watermelon with rubber bands, a broadcast that was simultaneously seen by more than 800,000 people at its peak.

Kane notes that Eli Pariser, former executive director of MoveOn and co-founder of media - curating site Upworthy, has called this «The Filter Bubble,» using the term in both a TED talk viewed by more than 3 million and a 2011 book of the same title.

A beta version of the Uber Health platform released in July 2017 is already being used by more than 100 healthcare organizations in the US.

A few simple tweaks to the BIOS and to Windows» power settings can cut your PC power bill by more than half.

Since the publication of a bombshell report in The New York Times in early October, the Weinstein Company co-founder has been accused of sexual assault and intimidation by more than 50 women including Oscar winner Lupita Nyong «o, Salma Hayek, Minka Kelly, and Rose McGowan.

The company's share price — which has already risen by more than 80 % in the past year — climbed another 10 % or so on the news AMZN.

In other words, if you tighten monetary policy, certainly by more than is discounted in the market — and what's discounted in the market is very minor rising market — that will reverberate through asset class prices, as well as then you can have a situation in terms of the economy.

Amphastar became yet another drug price - hiking villain facing intense public scrutiny when it raised the price of naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote, by more than 100 %.

When the 2000 bubble burst, private tech funding fell by more than 80 percent and didn't recover for a decade.

Biotech investors seem to think so, boosting the IBB biotech ETF by more than 2 percent Monday, and the XBI (in which both Bioverativ and Juno are among the heaviest - weighted stocks) by 3.5 percent.

«In 2016, we grew revenue by 34 %, loans outstanding by 30 %, and operating income by more than 400 % over the prior year.

Waymo's engineers have brought the cost of LiDAR down by more than 90 %.

The restaurant's patronage declined by more than 70 %, costing the couple $ 24,000 in profits for March and April, the Manns» lawsuit alleges.

Due to this increase, Basile closed new deals and contracts that helped increase his sales by more than 75 percent within that same time period.

In fact, «member communities» are now visited by more than two - thirds (67 percent) of the global online population, including social networks and blogs, according to The Nielsen Company, a global research firm.

The S&P / TSX composite index was down 228.57 points to 15,442.68, led by a more than six per cent decline in the energy sector.

U.S. drugmaker Turing Pharmaceuticals, led at the time by hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli, caused outrage last year by raising the U.S. price of Daraprim, an old anti-infective drug, by more than 5,000 % to $ 750 a pill.

While this feature is new on mobile, it has been available on the desktop version of YouTube since last fall, and is already used by more than one million channels, Google says.

Alibaba faces the challenge of living up to the high expectations of investors and analysts after its IPO in September, but its shares have increased by more than 20 % since then, and its $ 285 billion market cap exceeds that of Walmart by about $ 30 billion.

Over the last two years, Chili's traffic has decreased by more than 10 % as casual dining chains have struggled to stay relevant.

It was more subdued in Greece, where the economy has contracted by more than a quarter between 2008 and 2016.

And yet, the stock (DIS) sank by more than 6 %, and it has lost 25 % since November.

But it also turns out that we phone users are a price - sensitive bunch and reduce our phone usage by more than 1 percent for each percentage point increase in our bills.

(In an e-mail to Canadian Business, a spokesperson for Strategic stated that the grid note «included funds loaned to Concrete to deal with the significant real estate issues in their portfolio» and that the firm agreed to reduce the total by more than $ 1 million «as a courtesy.»)

Shares of Fiat - Chrysler were up by more than 4.61 percent on Friday after a steep fall in the previous session.

The company hopes to trim operating expenses by more than $ 400 million by the end of the year.

Shares of the carmaker were up by more than 6.9 percent, reaching the top of the European index.

Since the iCloud debacle, Boroditsky says his download volume increased by more than 100 percent.

JERSEY CITY, N.J. / BOSTON, May 2 (Reuters)- Goldman Sachs Group Inc leaders said more than 87 percent of shares were voted in favor of its executive pay at its annual shareholder meeting, and that a stock plan for employees was approved by more than 65 percent of votes cast.

Rent prices in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area — already among the highest in the world — have risen by more than 8 % in 2015 alone.

Backed by more than $ 15 million from Warner Bros. and Turner Sports unit, the two built an empire around athletes, focusing on the moments, words, or emotions that could often be ignored by traditional media outlets.

Just 5 % cited foreign - exchange fluctuations as a risk inherent in operating outside Canada, he notes, yet among the 500 companies engaged with foreign customers and suppliers, this was the largest single concern, mentioned by more than a third of respondents.

After declining for nine days in a row, the S&P 500 is trading higher by more than 2 %, at 2,127, as of 11:48 a.m. ET.

As the community settled into its new normal, the food truck continued its free service, fueled by more than $ 200,000 in donations.

By eliminating the «cart» page and shortening the process, we decreased our «abandoned carts» rate by more than 10 percent — which means we're closing more sales.

Others spend big bucks to pull off elaborate multi-day affairs, such as the planned three - day New York celebration for 83 - year old billionaire investor George Soros starting Friday that will be attended by more than 500 guests, including hedge fund titans and prominent political leaders.

In Africa, where the vast majority of malaria deaths occur, the malaria death rate has come down by more than 70 percent.

Launched in 2013 by founders Ali and Hadi Partovi, Code.org offers courses in more than 30 languages and its intro class has been used by more than 1.5 million students worldwide.

When investors buy call contracts, they are hoping the stock will rise above the strike price by more than the cost of the trade.

Dane Street grew by more than 500 percent between 2011 and 2014, when it earned more than $ 21 million.

In the past two years, bitcoin prices have soared by more than 3,000 percent.

In fact, the number of Canadians under 25 with university degrees has gone up by more than 50 per cent since 2002.

The number of digital video viewers in the U.S. is expected to increasen by more than 22 million between 2013 and 2017, according to eMarketer.

But that total is dwarfed by the more than $ 1.5 trillion invested in intermediate - term portfolios (3.5 - to six - year average duration), which include core bond funds hewing to the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate index.

It's important to note that the steps I'm about to lay out, as to how we accomplished increasing our online sales by more than 500 percent in 60 days, may seem basic for those of you that have companies with departments or divisions built around social media and / or online customer acquisition.