Sentences with phrase «closer than in recent years»

Yes but this time we seem to get closer than in recent years.

Not exact matches

Last year's surprising acquisition of Country Style Food Services Holdings, Ontario's second - largest coffee chain, boosted MTY's store count by nearly 50 %, and the most recent addition — Quebec hot - dogs - and - fries specialist Groupe Valentine, a deal that closed earlier this month — has brought the total to more than 1,700 restaurants that ring in about US$ 400 million in annual sales.

While much of the venture capital activity in the United States is concentrated in Silicon Valley, in recent years a sector of the economy with closer ties to Washington, D.C., than San Francisco has been upping its investments in start - up technology companies — America's defense industry.

In an effort to stop the bleeding, the company has closed more than 1,000 stores in recent years, and in January, it sold its Craftsman tools brand to Stanley Black & Decker for about $ 900 millioIn an effort to stop the bleeding, the company has closed more than 1,000 stores in recent years, and in January, it sold its Craftsman tools brand to Stanley Black & Decker for about $ 900 millioin recent years, and in January, it sold its Craftsman tools brand to Stanley Black & Decker for about $ 900 millioin January, it sold its Craftsman tools brand to Stanley Black & Decker for about $ 900 million.

However, the various expenditure reduction exercises over recent years, without major cuts to programs and services, have forced departments to operate «closer to the edge», implying that the lapse at the end of the year will be lower than in previous years.

This game feels closer for me than it has in recent years, so with a little bit of luck, organization, and swift counters we can prevail.

Even though Tottenham have been doing a little better in recent years they have never come really close to the Premier League title and the last piece of silverware they won was that funny three handled thing that has had more names than Zsa Zsa Gabor and although Rose was at the club back then he was not a first team player.

They had one of the best seasons in recent history last year when they racked up 120 points, 11 more than the next closest team, the Stars.

Over recent years, away games in the league have become more and more infiltrated by fans who live closer to the ground we are playing out than Islington.

But Hawkins, who helped the Green Party achieve automatic ballot access four years after receiving more than 50,000 votes, says he's technically running closer to Astorino than Astorino is to Cuomo in a recent Marist College poll.

Only 55 million lightyears away, SN 2017cbv was one of the closest supernovae discovered in recent years, found by the DLT40 survey using the Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarimetry Telescope (PROMPT) in Chile, which monitors galaxies nightly at distances less than 40 megaparsecs (120 million light - years).

Touting a special position as a gay hookup site and community that is owned by gay men and built for them, Gaydar was first launched in the UK more than a decade ago and has gained an international following in the recent few years, with close to 6 million gay members now.

I do think kids will enjoy this, and parents will probably be more engaged with the film than some of the other recent releases of a similar ilk in the past year, but this is not a knockout by any means, not even close.

«According to publishers the rate of growth and penetration of eBooks has slowed with value penetration estimated to be around 15 % — 18 %, with growth closer to 20 % than the 100 % we have seen in recent years.»

In a recent opinion piece, Delisle and Cooper wrote that a closer look at the CBO score reveals that rather than cutting funds to student aid, the Prosper Act will actually increase federal spending over the next 10 years.

Given the documented preference by companies to buy back shares in recent years, the contribution from dividends going forward may be closer to the 2001 - 2014 experience than the average experience of the last 130 years.

Rates have been on the rise in recent years making it more important than ever to pay close attention to the APRs associated with your credit cards.

We also note that BGP has a seasonal business, and this most recent quarter sees BGP in a much better position than the same quarter last year, at which time we estimate that its liquidating value was closer to - $ 4.87 per share.

Dog food, dog treats, flea and tick prevention: These product categories have all been given a closer than usual scrutiny in recent years, and with valid reason.

After more than 12 years in business, Tonic Nightclub at 634 State St. in downtown Santa Barbara has closed its doors, a possible victim of the recent wildfires and flooding.

Upon watching it in action, it's pretty obvious that this is more than the lower - budgeted licensed games that Platinum has made in recent years and closer to the level of games like Bayonetta.

It both kills time and brings closer attention to the conceptual base of the artists work in recent years — namely an interest in production rather than consumption and new forms of work and life.

For instance, ground source heat pumps tend to have higher efficiencies than air source units during the heating season due to the relative stability of ground temperatures below certain depths, though air source units — which involve much lower capital costs — have closed the gap in recent years as manufacturers have refined their design, and there is evidence to indicate that space heating demand in many Irish buildings may be peaking in Ireland's frequently relatively mild but windy weather, as the guide to air source heat pumps in Issue 24 of Passive House Plus discussed.

This new generation of models, featuring forcings closer to observations in recent years, will likely show better correspondence with tropospheric temperature observations, but may not be any more or less sensitive to CO2 than the prior generation of models (CMIP5).»

We do not propose to engage in semantic quibbles about whether the word «projection» would be better than the word «prediction» when describing the IPCC's predictions: the captions on our graphs make it sufficiently clear that the basis of our graphs is the IPCC's A2 emissions scenario, which we reasonably use because it is closest to actual emissions over recent years.

He noted that China in recent years had tripled its capacity for wind generation, enacted vehicle fuel standards tougher than those in America and closed hundreds of obsolete, coal - fired power plants.

In recent years, as I have said, the curve has been decaying from the exponentiality that would be expected given that aggregate anthropogenic emissions are closer to the IPCC's A2 emissions scenario than to any lesser scenario.

It happened in 2016, and it's happening like clockwork again in 2018: Venture firms are closing new funds with more money than they ever have before, just two years after closing their most recent funds with more money than they'd ever raised before.

While voice recognition technology advanced in a significant manner in recent years, it still requires users to be relatively close to the microphones that are capturing their commands, which is why not even shouting at one's smart speaker across the room is always a reliable method of controlling smart devices and even if it was, its efficiency is less than ideal.

«Although the imbalance of supply in relation to demand in recent years continues to put many sellers in the driver's seat, they're still looking for a Realtor ® now more than ever to price their home competitively, market their home to the widest number of eyes possible and ultimately help close the deal within a given timeframe,» says Salomone.

«With demand holding firm this spring and homes selling even faster than a year ago1, the notable increase in closings in recent months took a dent out of what was available for sale in May and ultimately dragged down contract activity,» he said.