Sentences with phrase «harder than in past years»

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The Small Business American Dream Gap Report examined today's economic landscape compared to a year ago and found that despite the positive outlook for small businesses, nearly three out of 10 small businesses reported finding it harder than in the past to reduce operating costs.

That is one reason why (as the briefing explains) it will be harder to take a billion more people out of extreme poverty in the next 20 years than it was to take almost a billion out in the past 20.

«My fear is that Treasury yields fell so much in the past year that if they continue to rise,» he added, «their prices will fall much harder than those of investment - grade corporate ETFs.»

If the borderland remains its protean self, in one respect it's as hard as a barrier can be: While Juàrez becomes an ever more Hobbesian hell of drug violence, in which more than 8,000 people have been murdered over the past three years, El Paso remains virtually immune.

This really is a testament to all the hard work that has gone in to making the polo club what it is today, one which is bigger and better than it ever has been, and we would like to thank you all for the support that has been given to the Club over the past few years, and particularly this year.

, and the baby «s head is bigger than my boob, its fine (laughs) my everything is fine and I remember just lifting up my shirt you know my son was underneath of this very light receiving blanket, I remember lifting up my shirt and I was like, for up untilnow and for this past 6 weeks I had really been helping him to latch on and stufflike that and because I was making sure the blanket wasn't falling off the next thing I knew he latched on all by himself and I was like, «oh my gosh», and I waslike we have arrived (laughs) and ever since then I was totally not nearly as hard as I thought it was going to be but I actually needed my 6 weeks old son to show me that we knew what we were doing because clearly I was not confident enough yet but that was 6 1/2 years ago and it still really stick in my mind.

Although having to go through IVF and gestational diabetes and 2 c - sections and Joey's NICU / nursery stays and both kids self weaning were all huge emotional and physical traumas for me (and my husband), now that they're in the past and I'm a mommy to two amazing toddlers, I can see that it all worked out how it was supposed to.And my advice to all new mothers who hope / plan to nurse take a breastfeeding class when pregnant, have a breastpump in the house before the baby is born, buy nursing bras that have front panels that you can open easily (and bring some to the hospital with you when you go to give birth), don't be afraid to pump and let someone else give the baby a bottle of your milk when you need to sleep, hold off on introducing baby food until much closer to 1 year old than 6 ohtnms, and be prepared for it to be hard and possibly painful at first (think cracked, bleeding nipples and breasts that are so full of milk you think they will explode so also have lanolin and / or nipple cream in the house, and nurse or pump well before you let yourself become engorged and in pain).

In the past year, we've hired more than 30 team members — they are a phenomenal group of truly sweet and hard - working people.

I'm on year four of my day - by - day five year memory book, and find it hard to believe that a blogger dinner at Crios or a weekend spent with friends, both of which feel like they happened last week, are now more than a year in the past.

Nothing more sad than seeing a guy try too hard to cling to a look from his distant past, (i.e. No guy past twelve years old should have a baseball cap on backwards) or high - waisted, stone - washed jeans with the shirt tucked in!

It's hard to imagine leaving 2017 in the past; however, when it comes to an unsuccessful love life, we can hope for nothing more than that in the coming year.

I think this was the hardest I laughed at a horror comedy since Zombieland, and while I won't say Hell Baby is on the same level that Zombieland is, I will 100 % admit that it was a whole hell of a lot funnier and more creative than any spoof movie to come out in the past 15 or so years.

Some observers doubt the trigger will ever be tried (or succeed) in LAUSD, given the past two years of struggle: «It is hard for me to believe that it will go much further than it has,» said one longtime education journalist via email on Friday, calling it «a waste of time, energy and money.»

Rather than a hard cutoff at 75 percent domestic - parts content, as the AMI did in past years, the index now disqualifies cars below the top 40 percent of all domestic - parts content ratings among U.S. - built models.

A quick recap of the major changes in market regulations in the past five years suggests that it is much harder to borrow now than it was five years ago.

Business development centers that work with the SBA are the best source of information about lenders who offer SBA loans, but even SBA loans are harder to come by than in years past.

When it comes to engaging youngsters in the local community, one would be hard pressed to find a pet store that does a better job than Petland in Albuquerque, N.M., which has been hosting a free program for children called Learning Safari for the past four and a half years.

To obtain a challenging posistion, utilizing abilities developed through my experience and past training, with the opportunity for growth based on performance.Dependable and hard - working with more than 18 years in the construction industry and oil and gas industry.

«The past few years have been the hardest of our life, and you helped more in such a short time than all previous therapists we have seen.»

We both worked harder in the past year than in any other year of our lives.»

Refinance applications have more than doubled over the past year, though they're not as high as in previous refinancing booms because it's harder to qualify in the current atmosphere of tighter credit standards, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

According to Distil Networks, securing your real estate listing data is harder than ever and real estate industry scraping has gone up 300 percent in the past year.