Sentences with phrase «faster than the increase»

Today's rate of increase is more than 100 times faster than the increase that occurred when the last ice age ended.

The earlier report argued that between 1992 and 2009, the number of full - time - equivalent school employees grew 2.3 times faster than the increase in students over the same period.

Similarly, the number of warm nights was increasing faster than the increase in warm days (Alexander 2006).

Not exact matches

Rent increases in neighborhoods that experienced the biggest influx of those workers have risen 65 percent faster over the past five years than areas with the smallest influx, according to Zillow.

Instead, the crucial levers would be productivity (keeping the cost of shipping each carload in check through smart investments to increase the average speed, length, and reliability of trains) and pricing (ensuring that rates consistently rose far faster than costs).

Thanks to the recession, in 2009 consumers used coupons at a faster clip than they did the year before — the first increase in coupon redemption in 17 years, says a new study by Inmar Inc., a company that processes coupon transactions.

In a hugely capital - intensive business, that means increasing its volumes of freight far faster than it adds new employees, locomotives, and boxcars.

And with supplies from Iraq threatened with disruption — in recent years, Iraq was the only major producer increasing its output faster than the U.S. and Canada — that American oil is only going to get more competitive in the marketplace.

He declines to share specific figures but says sales are increasing at a faster rate than did sales of Soylent 2.0, the neutral - flavored meal - replacement drink the company introduced a year ago.

Fast forward 12 months later and my team had increased sales by more than 750 percent without adding any additional team members.

And the latter is increasing in its power much faster than the former.

But the current reality is this: While the number of U.S. companies owned by women is increasing faster than those of other groups, those companies are responsible for just 6 percent of the country's employees and 4 percent of revenue, according to a 2012 report commissioned by American Express Open.

A survey Thursday showed that factories increased production and received a surge of new orders in July, propelling the fastest expansion in more than two years.

But despite a steady increase in their share of entrepreneurial activity, founders from Latino communities along with those from other minority groups — which made up 40 percent of the U.S. population in 2015 — still receive less funding and fail at faster rates than their white counterparts.

The Non-Manufacturing Business Activity Index increased 6.5 percentage points to 63.5 percent, reflecting growth for the 13th consecutive month at a faster rate than in November.

Canadians» buying power increased because the prices of the things we were selling grew faster than the prices of the things we were buying.

While science and tech jobs have increased three times faster than jobs in the rest of the economy, American students are not entering these fields quickly enough.

However, if the economy is near or above its potential, as some measures indicate, it may merely cause faster - than - desired price increases, or a jump in stock and other asset values that raise concerns of a bubble.

In the U.S., he said, housing will «always remain as a primary playbook for stimulating the U.S. economy» and «homeowners will continue to believe that increased home equity is a faster highway to creating wealth than accumulating wealth by working for a living.»

And, for fast - food companies and franchisees, the question of increasing employees» wages is more complex than tacking on a few extra dollars to everyone's salaries.

They say the pollution in the vortex is «increasing exponentially and at a faster rate than in surrounding waters.»

The once fast - growing smartphone market has slowed this year, especially at the high end, with worldwide shipments forecast to increase less than 2 %, according to IDC.

However, post - 9/11, the dynamics began to shift and ticket prices rose faster than the rate of inflation as demand for the seats increased and the industry was reorganized.

Fifty years of Germanic refinement has wrought many measurable improvements — one of which has been to increase power much faster than weight.

Statistics Canada reported in The Daily in November that, «gasoline prices have increased at a slightly faster pace in the central and eastern provinces than in the west, resulting in a spread between some provincial gasoline indices... associated with the dual crude oil market in Canada and the recent price differential between crude oil benchmarks.»

Rental costs are increasing at a faster rate than salaries, Beck said.

With the large number of houses on the market in Michigan right now and the difficulty in selling a house, the number of rental units on the market is increasing — probably faster than the pool of potential tenants.

Research on kiosks in liquor stores in various countries found that kiosks increased the sale of hard - to - pronounce items, while some fast food locations saw results in customers ordering more calorie - rich dishes than they did when speaking to a cashier, apparently to avoid being judged for their dietary habits.

Four major spending categories have increased faster than income growth since 2007: medical expenses (34 %), «other» expenses (30 %), food and beverages (22 %) and housing (20 %), according to NerdWallet's analysis.

If the economy continues to heat up and inflation rises, that might spur the Federal Reserve to increase interest rates faster than expected.

Should they become widely available as intended, they could increase the volatility of home prices, making prices go down faster or go up faster than they otherwise would, Weiss said.

The first is that the demand for services has increased faster than the demand for goods as average incomes have risen.

Wealthy Chinese are snapping up gold, Rolls - Royces and yachts, Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Gucci faster than ever before, with increases registering not in baby steps, as a decade ago, but in giant leaps — 20, 50, even 80 percent, year on year.

Fast - food wages began rising in 2014, and have increased faster than overall wages since.

In Melbourne, where the population is growing very strongly, housing prices are still increasing faster than incomes, although the rate of increase has slowed.

A faster than expected downturn in print advertising and slower increase in digital revenues, combined with the costs of international expansion, means that the company's outgoings have outpaced revenues over the past five years.

Simply put the demand for Bitcoin is increasing faster than the supply.

Investors are likely skittish because the prospect of increased inflation may force the Fed to raise interest rates faster than expected.

This has enabled Box to achieve negative churn: in all of its cohorts the company is increasing its revenue - per - user by a faster rate than it is losing users overall, which means revenue - per - cohort increases over time.

The increase in gross domestic product was faster than Wall Street expected and suggests the U.S. economy remains on a steady if lackluster growth path halfway through the year.

Prices are increasing far faster than incomes, even as the economy and employment improves.

Operating income growing faster than revenue reflects Amazon's expanding operating margin, which is being driven by increased operational efficiencies in North America and AWS, its cloud - computing service business.

Canada recently announced for instance that it would begin phasing out coal faster than it had previously planned due to increased environmental concerns.

First, Brookfield's use of listed entities to raise capital allows them to increase AUM at a faster rate than this competitors.

More than 5.2 million users across 32 countries use Skuid to drive deeper customer obsession and increase pipeline 70 - 90 % faster.

Drug prices are increasing at a faster rate than any other cost related to health care, up 10 % in 2015 and 14 % in 2014.

Spain could therefore either use the imported German capital to (a) increase domestic investment (which it did in the form of a real estate bubble)(b) binge on consumption and sharply reduce its savings as a function of GDP (which it also did)(c) accept higher unemployment (which it is now forced to do) which forces GDP to fall faster than consumption falls or (d) try to emulate Germany by passing off a trade imbalance at the expense of the rest of the world (which Europe as a whole is trying to do and which will go nowhere in the long run because only one country is even remotely capable of accepting such massive inflows, and it is increasingly unwilling to import the unemployment caused by German and Asian policies).

Whether or not they do, if domestic savings rise faster than domestic investment, which is the only way to increase the domestic savings pool available to fund Japanese debt, then by definition the current account surplus must rise.

The customers» return rate has been over 40 % and we have the capacity and the know - how to increase our turnover and market share faster than our competitors by maintaining a better customer service.

If actual investment in the United States is far below desired investment, then transferring savings from abroad to reduce the gap between the two is matched by a commensurate increase in investment; because productive investment makes the economy grow faster than it otherwise would have, a part of the increased productivity can go to pay foreign investors and the bulk of it remain in the United States.