Sentences with phrase «country in a number of years»

The gold award is the ultimate prize after successfully undertaking a number of tasks across the country in a number of years.

Not exact matches

The number of data professionals in Canada — people employed as statisticians, mathematicians and actuaries — has increased by 48 % over the past five years, making it the fastest - growing job category in the country.

Any chilling effect on diplomatic relations could also affect the Chinese market's strict and complicated regulatory system, which limits the number of foreign - made movies that are released in the country each year.

«Taking a look at a country like New Zealand — number four in the ranking — we can see the impact of a program they implemented 10 years ago,» says Farrington.

But researchers looking at data from the Department of Homeland Security believe that the number of people entering the country illegally has fallen to historically low levels in recent years.

They have also demanded a new vote on the budget for next year after the government approved the spending plan by not putting it though parliament, but holding the vote in an nearby chamber, with a high number of government supporters — something that the country's opposition deemed as «illegal.»

The number of Canadian homes sold in March plunged 23 per cent and the national average price was down 10 per cent from the same month last year amid double - digit plunges in most housing markets across the country, according to the latest monthly sales data released Friday.

He's the number one professor six years running at Wharton, one of the leading business schools in the country; a New York Times bestselling author multiple times over; and a frequent keynote speaker, researcher and consultant.

Airports across the country are seeing lines balloon in size, thanks to a «perfect storm» of conditions — the number of airline passengers has increased to 700 million; there's massive attrition of TSA security screeners each week; TSA has cut staff by 10 percent over the last three years; and not enough passengers have enrolled in TSA's PreCheck program, the Associated Press reports.

With 5,000 independent repair technicians, known as iTechs, in over 500 cities in the U.S. — and expecting to more than double that number by the end of the year — Forsythe says his company is the largest company of its kind in the country.

Western Australia has recorded its highest number of insolvencies for a month in nearly two years, with 841 companies entering external administration across the country in July.

Already the most diversified food franchisor in the country, MTY has quickened its pace of growth in the past three years, during which it almost doubled its number of outlets.

Today, Brazil sits at No. 5 in a 2010 UN ranking of countries receiving FDI, and early numbers from the Central Bank of Brazil put the economy on pace to eclipse the previous year with US$ 43 billion in FDI for the first six months of 2011.

Birch ranks Nebraska 49th in the country in two categories: the percentage of people working at companies that are less than 15 years old and the number of jobs lost to layoffs and closings.

Vice has said it wants to expand into offering more traditional types of programming in more than 80 countries this year, and has signed a number of deals with media companies and telecom providers in the Middle East and Asia for distribution.

«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.

Turns out, a number of countries have voiced interest in owning the North Pole over the years, including the U.S., Russia, Canada and Norway.

Age she received her first camera: 13 Year she won a MacArthur Fellowship: 2009 Countries she's worked in: 40 + Number of kidnappings: 2

This past April, the United States Energy Information Agency released an estimate that fracking has effectively increased the volume of recoverable gas in the world six times over, to the point where it could satisfy current demand for 250 years — and that isn't counting a number of countries including Russia where the necessary geological data were unavailable.

The Bank of Georgia, a leading bank in the Eurasian country, has had a return on equity of more than 20 % for a number of years, despite trading at book value.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

A number of oil and gas discoveries have been made in recent years in the waters off the coast of that country, especially in a large basin called the Nam Con Son.

In its early years, a number of her students in the program were teenagers who had come to the country, unauthorized, at a young age and finished high school, but then could not obtain citizenship or receive any state or federal funds for collegIn its early years, a number of her students in the program were teenagers who had come to the country, unauthorized, at a young age and finished high school, but then could not obtain citizenship or receive any state or federal funds for collegin the program were teenagers who had come to the country, unauthorized, at a young age and finished high school, but then could not obtain citizenship or receive any state or federal funds for college.

The order weighs how to make the country's immigration program «more merit based,» calls for site visits at companies that employ foreign workers, and tasks the Department of Homeland Security with producing a report twice a year on the total number of foreign - born people — not just nonimmigrant visa holders — who are authorized to work in the United States.

As in a number of other countries, bond issuance in Australia in recent years has shifted away from the public sector toward the private sector.

Director of Industry Development Kenya Kondo has over ten years of experience in international marketing and strategic planning focused on initiatives for Canadian based interests in a number of countries in the Middle East, Africa, and South East Asia.

In the years immediately following these problems, credit outstanding grew more slowly than nominal GDP and, in a number of countries, fell in absolute terms as businesses and financial institutions sought to correct the excessive debt positions built up during the 1980In the years immediately following these problems, credit outstanding grew more slowly than nominal GDP and, in a number of countries, fell in absolute terms as businesses and financial institutions sought to correct the excessive debt positions built up during the 1980in a number of countries, fell in absolute terms as businesses and financial institutions sought to correct the excessive debt positions built up during the 1980in absolute terms as businesses and financial institutions sought to correct the excessive debt positions built up during the 1980s.

Like a number of other countries, Australia has benefited from the rapid growth in China's trade, with its merchandise exports to China more than doubling over the past four years.

The «payback» for that has been fiscal contraction and slower growth in a number of countries in subsequent years.

One factor supporting the Australian dollar over the past couple of years has been that interest rates right across the yield curve in Australia, and perceived returns on other assets, have been higher than those in a number of other countries, particularly those which experienced a recession and a collapse of share prices in the early part of this decade.

Germany's chronic care crisis — the care industry suffers from lack of workers and soaring costs — has for years been mitigated by eastern Europeans migrating to Germany in growing numbers to care for the country's elderly.

China only allows a certain number of foreign films to showcase in the country each year, however the backing of companies in its own country could mean The Last Race is one of the select few which gets shown.

The children — who range from 13 to 17 years old (one of the youngest of whom was being pimped and videotaped by her own father)-- came from all over the country, but the largest number of them were recovered in San Francisco.

I can count on one hand the number of years ago in which the majority of Americans in this country held the same moral position as I do.

Over the last twenty years the countries of the Third World have seen the re-emergence of the worst scourges of malnutrition, even famine, sickness, often pan-epidemics and, in OECD countries, a rise in the number of unemployed, weak homeless and those without rights.

Meanwhile, reports show the number of restrictions adopted throughout the country against abortion during the year are far more than in any previous year.

In recent years, transborder sex trafficking has been accelerated, and more and more Thai women are sent abroad by trafficking organizations: Japan is the country receiving the largest number of trafficked women from neighboring Asian countries and they are treated as sex slaves.

This decline has continued in subsequent years, despite the rise in the number of mental patients admitted each year and the country's growing population.

Even though no tribunal is likely to execute homosexuals ever again, a shocking number of gays are murdered by «straights» every year in this country.

Of the more than 600 movies released in this country each year, a substantial number of them are «guilty» of proselytizing on behalf of a worldview that celebrates greed, trivializes violence and winks at sexual activity among people of all ages at all timeOf the more than 600 movies released in this country each year, a substantial number of them are «guilty» of proselytizing on behalf of a worldview that celebrates greed, trivializes violence and winks at sexual activity among people of all ages at all timeof them are «guilty» of proselytizing on behalf of a worldview that celebrates greed, trivializes violence and winks at sexual activity among people of all ages at all timeof proselytizing on behalf of a worldview that celebrates greed, trivializes violence and winks at sexual activity among people of all ages at all timeof a worldview that celebrates greed, trivializes violence and winks at sexual activity among people of all ages at all timeof all ages at all times.

Religious ownership of stations would not have been a major factor in 1971 at the time of the Broadcast Institute's study, but it may be a more significant factor in recent years because of the growth in the number of religious television stations across the country.

So we have to consider that possibility in considering the sheer number of natural disasters in our country in the past year.

«Every year we host a number of country pavilions, but in 2013 we are thrilled to host a new country's pavilion, and a number of new international companies, as well,» Graham noted.

Over the past 10 years, Chef Segarra has developed a broad range of skills and experience working with top chefs in a number of acclaimed and Michelin - starred restaurants across the country.

Wine consumption is following the same trend and is expected to gain further momentum over the coming years, in view of the sharp increase in the number of Chinese vineyards producing wines from organic farming, especially in Yanqi in the country's Xinjiang province.

The 2014 DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation program received nearly 200 entries from 31 countries, marking the second - highest number of entries and broadest reach in the program's 26 - year history.

Competitions are held in a growing number of countries and regions around the world, including Italy, the UK, USA, Germany, Scandinavia, Belgium and other locations, with more competitions added each year.

QAI has over 25 years of experience certifying organic ingredients and products, and the QAI experts in Querétaro, Mexico can now issue LPO certification for organic ingredient importers allowing entrance into the country with the third largest number of organic food producers.1

As in previous years, the countries with the highest number of producers were India (650» 000), Uganda (189» 610) and Mexico (169» 703).

Rainforest Alliance (RA) received a seven - year, $ 12 million grant to increase the number of certified farms in six Latin American countries: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil.