Sentences with phrase «higher than at the beginning»

Base metal prices are now over 20 per cent higher than at the beginning of the year.

Nonetheless, Russian equity prices are still more than 50 per cent higher than at the beginning of the year.

Because water expands as it warms, that heat also meant that sea surface heights were record high, measuring about 2.75 inches higher than at the beginning of the satellite altimeter record in 1993.

At the end of the study, assessment scores were much higher than at the beginning of the study.

Not exact matches

At 0847 GMT, the FTSE index was up 0.57 percent to 7,563.38 points, a high since the beginning of February, when sterling was however about 5 percent higher than it is now against the dollar.

Popular interest in digital currencies has taken off in the last several months, helping send bitcoin from less than $ 1,000 at the beginning of 2017 to a high above $ 19,000 in mid-December.

But as the mystery has deepened, US investigators have begun to look more closely at the insular, high - pressure world of the Havana embassy, and they have found a picture that is far more complex than the rhetoric and headlines have suggested.

The government is advancing legislation to move it to C$ 14 at the beginning of 2018, making it the steepest in Canada and higher than U.S. states such as Michigan, one of its main manufacturing competitors.

During the middle of the 18th Century and well into the beginning of the 19th Century India produced far more textiles — and usually much cheaper and of better quality — than did England, but a number of measures aimed at undermining Indian textile producers and protecting British textile producers (tariffs that almost always exceeded 50 %, for example, and by 1813 were as high as 85 %) meant that at some point in the first half of the 19th Century the British textile industry had become the most efficient in the world and was able largely to eliminate the Indian textile industry from global competition.

In Brooke Group Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 98 the Supreme Court formalized this premise into a doctrinal test.The case involved cigarette manufacturing, an industry dominated by six firms.99 Liggett, one of the six, introduced a line of generic cigarettes, which it sold for about 30 % less than the price of branded cigarettes.100 Liggett alleged that when it became clear that its generics were diverting business from branded cigarettes, Brown & Williamson, a competing manufacturer, began selling its own generics at a loss.101 Liggett sued, claiming that Brown & Williamson's tactic was designed to pressure Liggett to raise prices on its generics, thus enabling Brown & Williamson to maintain high profits on branded cigarettes.

Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. have all but erased losses that began June 8, with each rallying at least 5 percent in the past two days, even as broader measures of tech shares remain more than 2 percent from recent highs.

He also said the average rate will likely be higher at the end of 2015 than at the beginning, perhaps reaching 5.0 % by year's end.

The general consensus this time last year was that mortgage rates would gradually rise during 2014, ending the year higher than they were at the beginning.

The tumult that saw global equity markets begin to fall at the beginning of February was triggered by U.S. jobs data that showed wages grew more than anticipated, raising worries that signs of higher inflation might push the U.S. Federal Reserve to increase interest rates more quickly.

The one thing we can say with certainty is that borrowers will encounter higher mortgage rates at the start of 2017 than at the beginning of 2016.

While overall consumer sentiment levels have risen to the highest reading since the beginning of 2004, the current conditions component is at the highest level recorded since the measure was first published more than 40 years ago.

«[Crypto values] went too high, too fast... at the time I urged caution, saying an asset that goes almost vertically up should typically raise alarm bells for investors... Arguable, even before the frenzied peak in December, when the price of one Bitcoin reached an all time high of more than $ 19,000, the market was beginning to become frothy and overheated.»

In fact, 30 - year mortgage rates are ending 2015 only slightly higher than where they were at the beginning of the year.

For instance, if you're under age 30, it's likely that your income and spending during retirement will be significantly higher than it is at the beginning of your career.

«Unfortunately, a few bad actors are taking advantage of the [VA home loan] program as home lenders have begun targeting veterans and servicemembers to generate profit and fees at their expense, often leading to higher loan amounts and putting families in a worse financial position than they started off,» observed Senator Tillis.

Note that the peak in yields at the beginning of 2014 when the taper tantrum had run its course was at 3.00 percent — quite a bit higher than the 2.30 percent level at the end of the most recent upward move.

Mintz does not refer at all to research by developmental psychologists such as Jay Belsky of London's Birkbeck College and Alan Sroufe of the University of Minnesota; nor does he cite the huge, multicenter National Institute of Child Health studies, all of which suggest that more than 20 hours per week of child care beginning before the age of one correlates with a higher incidence of interpersonal difficulties by early grade school.

In due time, this being became man; then after fulfilling his earthly life he died, rose again, and was exalted by God to a place in heaven even higher than that which he had enjoyed at the beginning.

I'm not crazy about the whole «there is no higher calling than motherhood» line at the beginning, but I think this shows that not all those who interpret the Bible from this perspective demand that women fit into the Stepford Wife mold.

Some scientific conflict may relate to time beginning at the Big Bang rather than observable time dependent on higher life forms.

Squid Ink began in 1991, supplying high quality ink jet fluids at a fair price, at a time when the industry standard for drop - on - demand ink was more than $ 300 per 5 - gallon pail.

In the smoke point values presented above at the beginning of this section, we suspect that the coconut oil and EVOO were less refined than the safflower oil and canola oil, such that the much higher smoke points of the safflower oil and canola oil were not due to the plants from which these oils were obtained, but to the way that they were processed.

Spurs would need to win at least 12 PL's, several FA cups, probably one or two CL's and finish consistently higher than us for virtually all the next twenty years before serious consideration could even begin about them being a bigger club.

Lake Ontario's water level is currently higher than it has ever been — at least since records on it began getting collected nearly a century ago.

Repayments will begin at a higher level, when a graduate is earning # 21,000 a year rather than the current # 15,000.

Iannuzzi will begin his latest term at a critical juncture for the labor movement, as issues like collective bargaining and seniority are under attack nationwide, and as public K - 12 and higher education in New York struggle to cope with the devastating effects of more than $ 1 billion in cuts by state government.

It's also possible that the beginning of the next 11 - year solar cycle — which is marked by the emergence of dark blemishes called sunspots at high solar latitudes — may simply be delayed by a few years, rather than shut down for decades.

Around 3 million years ago, when temperatures were just 1 to 2 °C higher than the average of the past couple of millennia before humans began warming the climate, sea level was at least 25 metres higher than present.

While incidence in black, non-Hispanics decreased during the period in individuals 35 or over, incidence rates in those under 35 were higher in 2012 than at the beginning of the period.

The 15 - year study showed medical school graduates involved in the program not only entered family practice residency training at higher rates than nonparticipants, but nearly half began their medical careers in rural locations.

In October or soon after, 14 years after the project's initial approval and 10 years after construction began, a beam will be introduced traveling in the opposite direction, and ATLAS will tell scientists what happens when the protons collide at 7 TeV, a much higher energy than any manmade particle collision in history.

Such a high value of r, for instance, indicates that inflation began even earlier than some models predicted, at one trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the big bang.

However, in the bodies of those with Menkes disease, copper begins to accumulate at abnormally low levels in the liver and brain and at higher than normal levels in the kidney and intestinal lining.»

Overall, African - American women had higher rates of metabolic syndrome, particularly high blood pressure and high fasting blood sugar levels, than white women at the beginning of the study.

June — August 2014, at 0.71 °C (1.28 °F) higher than the 20th century average, was the warmest such period across global land and ocean surfaces since record keeping began in 1880, edging out the previous record set in 1998.

«The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said global land surface temperatures in January and April were likely the warmest since records began in 1880, at more than 1 degree Celsius higher than average for those months.

When Amy turns 40, she begins colorectal cancer screening based on her higher - than - average risk factors, and at age 45 a precancerous polyp is detected in her colon and is successfully removed.

Once the T cell count is less than 200 cells per ml of blood, symptoms of AIDS begin to manifest and the patient is at high risk of recurrent infections that will eventually lead to death.

Once Ulysses was in its scheduled orbit, it began observing the solar wind and magnetic field strength at high solar latitudes, finding that the solar wind from high latitudes was moving at about 750 km / s (slower than expected), and that there were large magnetic waves emerging from high latitudes which scattered galactic cosmic rays.

To begin the glut kickback, slowly lift one leg back, keeping your knee bent, until the sole of your foot faces the ceiling and your thigh is parallel to the floor.You can target the upper glute muscle by raising your leg higher or the lower glute muscle by keeping your leg at less than parallel to the floor.

I continue to feel this way in the beginning half of Luteal and then suddenly, I want to focus my energies more on organizing, taking care of the cleanliness of my house, and sustaining my goals rather than delivering them at a high energy.

As of late, she's been thriftier than ever as she's attended high profile events in dresses that she's worn several times before, including re-wearing her gorgeous white Roland Mouret dress to the Nelson Mandela premiere at the beginning of December.

Enrolled at the Shaffer Conservatory, the best music school in the country, Neyman is recruited by the infamous conductor Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons) to join his band there and so begins Chazelle's tale of two men who want nothing more than to achieve that higher place of artistry that few are able of accomplishing, something which sends both on a violent, aggressive and unrelenting journey in the hopes of reaching it.

YouTube has today begun to support the ability to watch user videos at frame rates higher than 30 FPS.

As a teacher at a small Oakland, California public high school called Life Academy, where each teacher also holds a mixed - grade level advisory class of about 20 students, I began conducting home visits for my advisees as a way to clarify my relationship to them as more than a teacher.