Sentences with phrase «grown over billions of years»

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Similar data for China was not available, but the country's consumption has been growing, Last year, Chinese consumers reportedly spent 840 billion Chinese yuan (just under $ 140 billion) in retail and catering services over the week - long holiday, an increase of 11.4 percent from 2016.

Over the last five years, Catamaran has grown from an $ 80 million revenue business into a $ 9 billion dollar revenue generating company and he expects it to make $ 16 billion by the end of next year.

The pet industry has doubled in size over the past 12 years to an estimated $ 70 billion in 2017, with the Pet Services portion of the industry being the fastest growing.1

Sales for the first quarter were up 144 percent year over year, revenue is on track to top $ 1 billion this year and its paid active users has grown from 600,000 in 2012 to 9.5 million in the first quarter of 2015.

The Yankees» value, which grew 9 % over the last year, dwarfs that of the second - place Los Angeles Dodgers, who are worth $ 2.75 billion.

Apple's long - term debt has grown to almost $ 100 billion over the past few years partly because it needs a source of funds to buy back stock and pay dividends.

WeWork, which is said to be raising a new round of financing at a valuation of more than $ 20 billion, has grown its offerings over the last year.

According to the market research firm IBISWorld, the U.S. digital forensics industry is expected to grow at an average annual rate of 6.7 % over the next five years, from $ 1.2 billion in revenues today to $ 1.7 billion by 2019.

«With $ 17 billion in content commitments over the next several years and a growing library of owned content... we remain quite comfortable with our ability to please our members around the world,» Netflix said.

The market size of online supplemental education opportunity in India is expected to touch $ 2.5 billion in 2016 and is poised to grow at 15 % over the next three years, driven by innovative ways of delivering courses and study material by players in the space, according a report by research and advisory firm RedSeer Consulting.

To justify the current price of $ 47 / share, Jarden must grow NOPAT by 13 % compounded annually for the next 16 years, at which point, Jarden would be generating over $ 66 billion in revenue.

The business has grown significantly over the years, from 30 employees and global sales of CDN$ 150,000, to now employing more than 20,000 people with global sales in excess of CDN$ 9 billion.

Our approach was and continues to be to take a long - term approach, modeled after the way we experimented and invested in a lot of things during the early years at Zappos (and made a lot of mistakes along the way), and then eventually scaled from almost no sales in 1999 to over $ 1 billion in gross merchandise sales in 2008 (9 years)-- and continuing to grow and scale afterwards.

Best of all, Wells Fargo has grown its interest earning assets by $ 123 billion, or 8 %, over the past year alone, which is significantly greater than its competition.

The shrinkage amount will grow gradually until October of this year when the Fed will roll over $ 30 billion less each month in Treasuries going forward than it had in prior years.

Nordstrom, the $ 14 billion apparel retailer long famous for its strong customer advocacy, has grown its revenue by 50 % over the past five years in part through a series of investments to get even closer to customers.

With 70 per cent of people over the age of 40 years, and 90 per cent of people over the age of 70 years, requiring corrective eyewear, the current market of over 4 billion people is growing daily.

For the full - year 2017, Under Armour expects revenue to grow 11 % to 12 % over 2016, which equates to a range of roughly $ 5.36 billion to $ 5.41 billion.

Over the past few years, green bonds have raised billions of dollars to help fund environmental and other sustainable development projects: rapidly growing from $ 1 billion issued in 2012 to more than $ 30 billion in 2014 globally.1

Berkshire has Warren Buffett guiding a $ 55 billion cash hoard, and ExxonMobil frequently enjoys years of undervaluation coupled with earnings and dividend growth that make it a godsend for people that want to generate meaningful (and growing) dividend streams over the decades.

The PBOC's foreign exchange reserves have grown from $ 416 billion in 2004 to close to $ 3.7 trillion in 2015, which is the result of a consistently positive balance of payments (BOP) over the years.

This is why the industry revenue is believed to grow over the five - year period at an annualized rate of 9.1 % to $ 42.9 billion.

Ever since King Camp Gillette invented the world's first double blade safety razor at the start of the 20th century, razor manufacturers have been fighting against one another to dominate what has grown to be well over a $ 15 billion a year business — all while seemingly paying no mind to the wishes of their customers, let alone the science behind getting a close shave.

Similarly, the urban population is projected to grow about 1.6 % per year over this period, and this can be used as a proxy for growth of the middle class to a lower bound of 3 billion.

Use of these products is expected to continue to grow over the next few years — by 2020, the Internet of Things will comprise over 30 billion devices.

As flavor innovation catches consumers» eyes, Mintel research shows that flavored milk is the fastest growing segment of the dairy milk category over the last five years, with sales estimated to reach $ 1.74 billion in 2017, an 18 percent increase since 2012.

Industry revenue is forecast to grow at a compound annual rate of 1.3 % over the five years to 2022 - 23, to total $ 14 billion, with favourable weather conditions.

We grow over 1 / 3rd of the potatoes produced in the United States, harvesting more than 13 billion pounds of Idaho potatoes each year on about 325,000 acres.

The early pioneers («Organic 1.0») paved the way for the formation of the organic movement and the codification of standards and enforced rules that have established the organic sector and helped it grow to a market value of over US$ 80 billion per year («Organic 2.0»).

The business has grown significantly over the years, from 30 employees and global sales of CDN$ 150,000, to now employing more than 20,000 people with global sales in excess of CDN$ 9 billion.

In the face of growing public concern about price promotions and underage drinking the government has taken steps to reduce alcohol - related harms on health and crime and disorder, which together cost over # 10 billion every year.

Already Buhari has started giving excuses for the abysmal performance.He attributed the quagmire to drop in the price of oil globally and cleverly laid the blame on the doorsteps of all Nigerian accusing them of relying solely on oil.All renowned rating agencies including fitch continue to downgrade Nigeria ever since Buhari took over and it is projected that Nigeria will not be able to repay its debt obligations.Fitch for instance downgraded Nigeria's longterm foreign currency issuer default rating to B + from BB - and longterm local currency IDR to BB - from BB.The general position expressed by almost all the Briton wood institutions is that Nigeria's fiscal and external vulnerability has worsened under Buhari and it is projected that the government's general fiscal deficit could grow up to 4.2 % by the end of 2016 after averaging 1.5 % under the previous regime.A recent capital importation report by Nigeria Bureau of Statistics confirms that, last year, the country recorded total inflow of capital into the economy stood at $ 9.6 billion which was a 53 % drop from previous year and the lowest recorded total since 2011.

The announcement of the penalties for senior - level DOC officials comes the same day City Comptroller Scott Stringer released a report showing the Department's spending has soared to a record $ 1.36 billion this year, growing 44 percent over the past decade, even as the inmate population hit a record low — an average of 9,500 inmates each day.

As illustration, even if the legislature were to impose $ 4.2 billion in new tax and fee measures - as recommended by the Executive Budget — it would still leave the state with $ 11 billion in an accumulated structural budget gap over the next five years; a figure that will likely grow given the ongoing deterioration of state tax collections.

The system over the years has grown unwieldy, with hundreds of authorities, corporations and development agencies cropping up around the state, taking out billions of dollars in debt and for the most part operating with little sunlight or accountability.

In order to mask the full size of the budget gaps that his multi-year tax cuts would create, the Governor is proposing large service reductions, growing in value from close to $ 2 billion in 2006 - 07 to over $ 3 billion the following year.

Immersive environments like the ones you'll see in the following pages allow scientists to watch a tumor grow, observe molecules binding together — or even see a re-enactment of the Big Bang and witness the transformation of the universe over billions of years.

That's less than biotechnology (at $ 365 billion) and pharmaceuticals (at $ 1094 billion), but it's a big industry — according to a report by the consulting firm Frost & Sullivan, it's projected to grow over the next 3 to 5 years at an annual rate of 9 %, a growth rate comparable to big pharma.

As RR Lyrae stars typically reside in ancient stellar populations over 10 billion years old, this discovery suggests that the bulging centre of the Milky Way likely grew through the merging of primordial star clusters.

And, in the latest indication of a growing partnership between the government and Britain's research charities, the Wellcome Trust pledged $ 2.8 billion to the strategy over the next 5 years.

Wildlife smuggling is a major headache all over Latin America, but in Brazil it has evolved into a growing and profitable industry that is worth up to $ 2 billion a year, according to the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources.

The new census provides the most complete picture yet of how galaxies like the Milky Way grew over the past 10 billion years into today's majestic spiral galaxies.

Over billions of years, they build up structure in the universe — merging with adjacent clusters, like growing cities absorb nearby towns.

Professor Cootes added: «We have a growing problem with arthritis which affects more than 30 % of over 65s and costs around # 30 billion to the UK economy year.

«California produces over $ 1 billion dollars in edible nuts each year, and the value of the eastern black walnut growing stock east of the Mississippi is in the neighborhood of $ 500 billion.

Through this process, and over the course of more than a decade since the inception of the NNI, Federal nanotechnology R&D funding has grown from $ 464 million per year to $ 1.2 billion requested in FY 2018.

May 18, 2011 Errors in protein structure sparked evolution of biological complexity Over four billion years of evolution, plants and animals grew far more complex than their single - celled ancestors.

Over four billion years of evolution, plants and animals grew far more complex than their single - celled ancestors.

Mapping dark matter's distribution in space and time is fundamental to understanding how galaxies grew and clustered over billions of years.

We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $ 2 billion company with over 4000 employees.