Sentences with phrase «doubles about every decade»

The talent agency had argued its profits were wiped out after Sheindlin's salary doubled about a decade ago.

Not exact matches

Sales roughly doubled in the decade after Lundgren became CEO, hitting a peak of about $ 28 billion in 2014.

He says that Canadian oil production is projected to double over the next two decades to about six billion barrels, but finding markets and getting the oil to market is not assured.

Both versions of the bill would cut taxes by about $ 1.5 trillion over the next decade, slashing the corporate tax rate and doubling the standard deduction used by most Americans.

While I continue to believe that the dollar faces substantial risk of further erosion in its exchange value, as well as a near doubling of the CPI over the coming decade or so (both reflecting the massive increase in U.S. government liabilities in recent years), those prospects are not likely to emerge until risk - aversion about credit default materially abates.

Alternative lenders have already doubled their share of the $ 1.4 trillion residential mortgage market in the past decade to about 13 per cent, according to the finance department.

The Association of Theological Schools (ATS), which includes more than 270 institutions in the US and Canada, found that extension enrollment has dipped by about 26 percent over the past decade, according to self - reported and adjusted figures, while online numbers have more than doubled.

In spite of all the talk about so - called «boom years» we saw a situation where almost a million and a half people spent the last decade out of work — and the number of households where no one had ever worked doubled.

While the number of electricity - hungry transistors that can be squeezed onto a silicon chip has doubled about every two years over the past few decades, it took more than 20 years (from 1970 to 1990) to double the amount of energy that rechargeable batteries can store per pound.

«Our evidence suggests that the first levees were built to be about 6 - 7 feet high, but within a decade the one at Anshang was doubled in height and width,» Kidder said.

Widespread use of newer «atypical» drugs which are less likely to affect fertility than the older «typical» antipsychotics, combined with the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric patients, is attributed to doubling the use of antipsychotics during pregnancy in the past decade, yet, clinicians have little information regarding the safety of these drugs for the developing fetus and concerns have been raised about a potential association with congenital malformations.

Five decades ago, Intel Co-Founder Gordon Moore predicted that computer chips would double in power about every 2 years, and chip manufacturers have used this prediction to guide development since then.

However, for the globe as a whole, surface air temperatures over land have risen at about double the ocean rate after 1979 (more than 0.27 °C per decade vs. 0.13 °C per decade), with the greatest warming during winter (December to February) and spring (March to May) in the Northern Hemisphere.

Opioids, like morphine and tramadol, are highly addictive and the NHS have recently raised concerns about prescription of these drugs, due to opioid overdoses more than doubling in the last decade.

As I understand Hansen he's saying: if we double CO2 this century (so upto about 550 - 600 ppm), that will mean a forcing of about 4 W / m2 and 3 degrees C warming in the short term (decades), and thru slow feedbacks (albedo + GHG) another 4 W / m2 and 3 degrees in the long term (centuries / millennia).

«The idea behind this index is to determine what the temperature increase will be by the decade when anthropogenic greenhouse gas forcing — which is dominated by CO2 — doubles what it was in about 1880,» Christy said.

In 2013, market research firm IBISWorld estimated that there are about 1,500 online dating Web sites, or almost double the number a decade ago.

I estimate that nationally these costs have more than doubled in the last decade, from about $ 500 per pupil in 2004 (in $ 2015) to over $ 1,000 today.

That means homeschooling would approximately double in a decade, which is indeed about what happened between 1999 and 2009.

About one in five school - aged children speak a language other than English at home, a figure that has more than doubled in the past few decades.

Over the last decade, it focused on acquiring the Shell, Statoil & Esso chains in Ireland, building up a 35 % market share, about double Applegreen's current market share (a deceptive comparison, as dealer sites are a majority of the Topaz estate).

Sean Velasco, Director of WayForward, had the following to say about their latest project, «It's WayForward's love letter to the decade that spawned the franchise — the music, the style, and culture of the 80's pulse through the nucleus of Double Dragon: Neon.

I note that the rate of acceration of melting of Greenland in the Meier reference does lead to doubling of the melt rate in about a decade (although of course they assume that subsequent doublings will take longer).

The same for land occupation and sea algues: a doubling of CO2 will increase the amount of carbon fixed over decades, but that is less than double: even with all other necessities available in unlimited quantities (which are the limiting factors in many cases), that gives about 20 - 40 % extra growth, not 100 %.

EMBARGOED till 1100 GMT on Wednesday 3 July In the first decade of this century global sea level rise increased at about double the rate of the preceding hundred years, the World Meteorological Organization says.

The rate of increase of the increase (that is not the same as the rate of increase itself, which is about constant over the past decade) did stall in the past decade, as good as in a few other periods, but in adjacent periods, the rate of increase of the increase doubled.

The US Geological Service issued a press release last Friday on an article / study about the threats sea - level rise create for US coasts, In Next Decades, Frequency of Coastal Flooding Will Double Globally.

This emissivity is what determines CO2 sensitivity (forcing for a doubling of CO2) and the IPCC is still looking for a way to narrow the range of sensitivities which has not improved since the sleight of hand of the Charney report 4 decades ago (3 °C + - 1.5 °C, talk about the «settled science»!).

They find that the global warming trend in the updated data set over the 1998 - 2012 period is just over double of that in the old data set, about 0.086 °C per decade, compared to 0.039 °C per decade.

As I understand Hansen he's saying: if we double CO2 this century (so upto about 550 - 600 ppm), that will mean a forcing of about 4 W / m2 and 3 degrees C warming in the short term (decades), and thru slow feedbacks (albedo + GHG) another 4 W / m2 and 3 degrees in the long term (centuries / millennia).

Monsanto: Double yields in 20 years Grant, who presents Monsanto as a charitable outfit for the better good, is all about the numbers, insisting that the way to solve the world's food problems is to double yields over the next two decades, while reducing water and fertilizer Double yields in 20 years Grant, who presents Monsanto as a charitable outfit for the better good, is all about the numbers, insisting that the way to solve the world's food problems is to double yields over the next two decades, while reducing water and fertilizer double yields over the next two decades, while reducing water and fertilizer usage.

«Overturning the «Consensus» in One Fell Swoop» gloats Planet Gore, which says the study «concludes that the Earth's climate is only about one - third as sensitive to carbon dioxide as the IPCC assumes» and so we «should expect about a 0.6 oC additional increase in temperature between now and 2070» [0.1 oC per decade] if CO2 concentrations hit 550 parts per million, double preindustrial levels.

Since the county has undergone significant growth in the past decades, there are currently about 470,000 people living within its boundaries, more than doubling its population since 1980.

Over the next two decades, the number of individuals aged 65 to 74 will almost double, from 2.3 million to about 4.5 million.

The number of colleges offering real estate degree programs has more than doubled to 62 from about 30 a decade ago, says Don Moliver, director of the Real Estate Institute at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, N.J. Those programs typically focus on commercial real estate and residential development, Moliver believes.