Sentences with phrase «growing at about»

Fortunately, the job prospects for civil engineers (a group that includes structural engineers) are steady, growing at about eight percent according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

And Crowley told the LA Times recently that the startup is growing at about 180,000 users every 10 days.

As for tectonic changes, basins growing at about the speed of a fingernail, again, don't have much potential for short term dramatic impact.

Of these three, the only one exhibiting clear exponential growth is India, which is growing at about 5 percent per year and is also the highest current emitter of the three.

Global cement consumption is growing at about 2.5 % / yr.

Bigg noted that global man - made greenhouse gas emissions had been growing at about two percent a year.

As a result the world's population is growing at about the same rate as the population gaining access to electricity — meaning 1.3 billion people are permanently left behind if something doesn't change.

The world's current population is now over 8.85 billion, and growing at about 100 million per year or slightly more.

These so - called committed emissions are growing at about 4 percent a year, according to the study, and in 2012 reached 307 billion tons of carbon dioxide.

Agricultural productivity in Africa is growing at about half the rate the population is growing.

«What we were seeing was that while [the raw food category] is big — it's at about $ 230 million [in sales] and growing at about 30 percent per year — there are a lot of people who are interested but nervous about trying it,» says Kent.

Lucy Postins: Overall, The Honest Kitchen is growing at about 40 percent year over year, and the lion's share of our business is at pet specialty retail.

If the p / e of Coca - Cola is 15, you'd expect the company to be growing at about 15 percent a year, etc..

They have confirmed that US e-book sales are holding steady and growing at about the same pace as print and audio books.

Historically education wages have grown each year by about 3 % to 4 %, but since 2015 this has been dropping and education wages are now growing at about 2.5 % each year.

The annual worldwide online dating market is valued at # 600 million and is growing at about ten per cent a year in many countries.

By contrast, subscription journals are growing at about 3.5 %.

And with the human population of Kenya growing at about 3.5 % a year, the competition is going to get sharper and sharper.

Supply is growing at about 2 per cent.

The US economy has been growing at about 2 % annually, which isn't a great rate of growth, but it's decent from the perspective of a fixed - income investor.

The legal maneuvers come amid a slowdown in smartphone sales, which are growing at about 1 percent after several years of double digit annual growth, according to industry research firm International Data Corp..

Over the last few years we've been growing at about 50 % per year.

Real consumer spending increased at a 2.25 percent annual rate over the second half of 2009 and looks to be growing at about that rate in the first quarter of 2010.

«We see air traffic growing and passenger traffic growing at about 6 percent to 7 percent a year, and that's feeding airplane growth throughout the world,» Muilenburg said at the time.

-- Although neither side of the deal provided any revenue figures, Axel Springer said the site's revenue is growing at about 50 % per year, and if it hadn't invested in its new vertical Tech Insider it would have already broke even.

«LNG (Liquefied natural gas) continues to grow at 3 to 4 percent, oil continues to grow at about 1 percent, you've got natural gas growing at 2 percent, as you look long term that supply demand balance is going to be there.

Portugal grew at about 2.7 percent in 2017, Spain rose 3.1 percent and Italy about 1.5 percent.

While Canada's economy as a whole struggles to move forward — GDP growth is expected to hit around 2.3 % this year — the country's fourth most populous province will grow at about 3.7 %, according to the Royal Bank of Canada.

Fenton wants to see CPV grow at about 5 % per year.

Chinese finance minister Lou Jiwei told the meeting he expects the country's economy to grow at about 7 % pace for the next four or five years, according to an account on the central bank's website.

The International Monetary Fund now expects Canada to grow at about 2 % this year and next, down from its earlier expectation of about 2.8 %.

Meanwhile, smartphone sales are forecast to continue to grow at about 7 % per year.

And so in 2012, we are in an industry that grew at about 1.2 % on a same - restaurant sales basis.

In recent years, earnings have grown at about 5 - 6 % annually with dividend growth about that same rate.

Globally, the Muslim population is forecast to grow at about twice the rate of the non-Muslim population over the next two decades — an average annual growth rate of 1.5 % for Muslims, compared with 0.7 % for non-Muslims.

«I think at this stage, we'll continue to grow at about 10 to 15 percent in unit count,» he says, noting that Buffalo Wings plans to grow methodically.

You child will continue to grow at about the same rate as in the last two years: an average of 2 to 3 inches and 3 to 7 pounds each year.

The Executive Budget would allow state spending to grow at about the rate of long - term growth in personal income, which is now about 5.3 percent, Adams said.

We'll drop to just 27 House seats after 2012, the lowest number in 200 years — because the latest Census reveals that our state's population grew at about half the national rate over the last decade.

Honeybee colonies that foraged on treated fields grew at about the same rate as those working the untreated fields, report Maj Rundlöf of Lund University in Sweden and her colleagues.

In 2013, consumers paid $ 2.2 billion worldwide to find a mate, according IBIS World, and the overall market is expected to continue to grow at about 5 percent a year over the next five years.

According to a company statement reported at that time, Author Solutions generated $ 100 million in revenue in 2011, and has grown at about 12 percent per year for the past three years.

In June 2012, Penguin acquired Author Solutions from Bertram Capital for $ 116 million, and according to a company statement reported at that time, Author Solutions generated $ 100 million in revenue in 2011 and has grown at about 12 percent per year for the past three years.

The American Association of Publishers has said that e-books have grown at about 200 percent year over year.

The investment in the non-registered portfolio, and the RRSP would grow at about the same rate, so there is no real advantage of early contribution to the RRSP.

Auto loans have grown at about the same rate, the St. Louis Federal Reserve points out.

Earnings will grow at about 5.9 percent a year if we assume profit margins remain near their current record levels.

In recent years, earnings have grown at about 5 - 6 % annually with dividend growth about that same rate.

Historically, nominal GDP growth, corporate revenues, and even cyclically - adjusted earnings (filtering out short - run variations in profit margins) have grown at about 6 % annually over time.

Over the last 5 years the company's invested asset base has grown at about 5 % a year.