Sentences with phrase «higher than in past years»

It received more than 40 applications for new schools, which was slightly higher than in past years.

The rate of detainee deaths in custody this year is far higher than in past years.

The average temperature across the contiguous United States from January through August 2012 was far higher than in any past year, a full 4 degrees Fahrenheit above the twentieth century average, according to the National Climatic Data Center.

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That's better than not surpassing the high, but many stories failed to mention the drastic increase in the cost of healthcare and education that's occurred over the past 18 years.

It isn't within everyone's means to obtain aircraft for a prison escape, but it's easier to get out of prison by air than underground: Over the past 40 years in particular, there has been trend of convicts and their partners on the outside busting out from high security facilities in hijacked helicopters.

Battered by nearly a year of off - and - on declines from record highs because of fears of a slowdown in iPhone sales, Apple «s stock now is valued closer to IBM, which has disappointed Wall Street for the past four years with declining revenue, than to Silicon Valley technology pioneers Alphabet and Tesla Motors.

South Korea's new management - minded approach is a dramatic turnaround from its energetic regulatory crackdown on cryptocurrency exchanges this past year, alarmed at a heated market that saw local prices of Bitcoin and other virtual currencies in South Korea trade for higher than international levels.

Moreover, the rate of growth in the fraction of non-employers (28.2 percent) run by women has been higher than the rate of increase in their share of non-employers (23 percent) over the past five years.

But unlike in past years, consumers will have to shop around to get the best deal, as some of the major wireless carriers have decided to sell the new Samsung models for 10 % or more higher than the list price.

In the past year, major cities have occasionally seen bidding wars — not for homes but for prime rentals, with choice units renting for higher than asking price.

Their average five - year growth rate of 1,933 % is also higher than that of any other class in the past five years.

For instance, agriculture has produced record levels for the past few years and yet inventories are the lowest in 40 years because consumption keeps going higher and higher, faster than production does.

Instead, her costs have gone up nearly 30 percent in the past year alone, and she now pays $ 10,000 for a high - deductible plan that covers less of her health care needs than in prior years, Olsen says.

While they have higher costs than Spirit because they target business travelers and must maintain multiple types of planes, lower fuel prices in the past year have let them profitably chop their fares.

According to The Wall Street Journal, desktop Internet use had its highest active month over the past three years back in March of 2015 with 567 billion total minutes of measured Web activity in the U.S. Not only have we not seen that figure go up over the past year or so, but the amount of time people are spending browsing the Web on their mobile devices is trouncing desktops: more than one trillion minutes in March of this year.

The shares are down more than 30 % in the past year (although the stock is still higher than the $ 13 it was trading for when Mayer was hired in 2012).

Benjamin Graham was fond of averaging profit per share for the past seven years to balance out highs and lows in the economy because, if you attempted to measure the p / e ratio without it, you'd get a situation where profits collapse a lot faster than stock prices making the price - to - earnings ratio look obscenely high when, in fact, it was low.

In fact, over the past 35 years, the market has experienced an average drop of 14 % from high to low during each calendar year, but still had a positive annual return more than 80 % of the time.

Oil volumes of 65,800 bbl / d were 2 percent higher than the most recent quarter and 69 percent higher vs. the same period a year ago, led by a 149 percent increase in the Delaware Basin over the past 12 months.

In fact the experience of the past year, as the Deputy Governor noted recently, is that while growth seems to be turning out weaker than expected at the end of last year, underlying inflation seems to be turning out higher.

The variability of inflation has been a bit higher over the past 10 years than in the preceding decade.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

2016.02.12 Overspenders in overdrive this past holiday season, shifting into savings mode in 2016 — RBC Despite their best intentions, the number of Canadians who are spending more than they expect to each holiday season continues to grow, reaching the highest point in five years this past December...

2017.01.30 Canadian holiday season shoppers overspend again, planning cutbacks in 2017: RBC poll Canadian shoppers overspent once again this past holiday season - and did so in much higher numbers than last year...

The rally in oil prices over the past year likely had more to do with higher demand rather than merely the supply taken off of the market by the OPEC / non-OPEC Continue Reading

Soyabean prices have risen more than 10 per cent in the past month to hit a peak of $ 15.09 a bushel on Friday, the highest in four years.

Recent movements in the exchange rate have also been reflected in indexes of trade prices; the export price index rose by more than 16 per cent over the past year, with higher prices for base metals, chemicals, and petroleum aided by higher world prices and increased demand.

Following declines over the past three quarters, driven by significant price falls, expenditure on imports of goods and services rose by 6 per cent in the September quarter, to be 3 1/2 per cent higher than a year ago.

This figure is a good deal higher than the 1.7 per cent for the latest year - ended rise in the CPI, but the pick - up includes the effect of dropping out the impact of the health insurance rebate, which reduced the CPI in the March quarter 1999, some further effects from past movements in crude oil prices, and an increase in tobacco taxes in the December quarter.

Over the past year, the VIX usually has been in contango and the forward expectations of VIX levels usually have been higher than the levels of the VIX Index.

Research on these pastures also shows that the management practices developed over the past 80 years has resulted in higher levels of biodiversity and soil quality than in comparable privately - owned lands - factors that may become increasingly important with the advent of climate change.

One factor supporting the Australian dollar over the past couple of years has been that interest rates right across the yield curve in Australia, and perceived returns on other assets, have been higher than those in a number of other countries, particularly those which experienced a recession and a collapse of share prices in the early part of this decade.

The more general forces that have influenced the exchange rate over the past year or so have been the relative strength of the Australian economy, the associated yield differential in favour of Australian dollar assets, and the continued improvement in Australia's terms of trade, which are now at their highest level in more than 25 years.

While, in trend terms, the prices of these services tend to increase more quickly than the overall CPI, the recent outcomes partly reflect the relatively high wage increases in these sectors over the past year.

In addition, the information technology sector has provided the highest contribution to return of the Oakmark Fund over the past three years, with several holdings returning more than 20 % annually (Apple, Microsoft and Texas Instruments).

Not only did the number of attendees break records, the festival also saw more sponsorships and a higher number of ticket sales than in years past.

Owens says bold flavors are in higher demand than in years past.

Treasury Wine Estates» strong sales in China have powered the stock 30 % higher over the past year and more than triple since 2014.

The 24 year old has been in superb form over the past 18 months and is believed to be valued at as much as # 50m by his Premier League employers, comfortably higher than the current record paid for custodian, the # 33m paid by Juventus for Gianluigi Buffon.

Valencia have suffered financial problems over the past few seasons that has led to the sales of stars David Silva, Raul Albiol and David Villa and there may well be a need to sell once again to balance the books and Soldado may well be interested in a high profile move that could help assist in his pursuit of a return to the Spanish national team after more than three years out of Vicente Del Bosque's squad.

please stop with the financial constraint crap... one of the top 8 wealthiest clubs on planet owned by some fringe member of the walmart clan the richest family in the us charging fans amongst the highest ticket prices in the world... and anyway even clubs below arsenal in the wealth ranking have over the past 10 years won more top trophies than we have.

Those combined with Alexis and Ozil at the high end along with others costing less, have kept Arsenal in the top four until last year when teams with more resources threatened Arsenal, and none more than ManCity that was not really a top four club in the past.

As it stands, this squad is fairly well positioned to compete for the Wenger Cup and make a deep run in the Europa, if and only if we play first stringers in Europe and use the bench for the League and FA Cups... that being said, and based on the fragility of the manager and the team in recent campaigns, it's more likely that Wenger will focus on a top 4 finish and the FA Cup... while the reasons for such an approach may appear logical, it would confirm a rather disturbing trend and appear counter intuitive for any team which claims to have higher aspirations... I feel that Wenger simply can't afford to put all his eggs in the Europa basket because if he fails the potential backlash could cripple any top 4 chances due to the aforementioned fragile psyche that tends to rear it's ugly head like our own personal groundhog day each and every February... furthermore, can you even imagine Wenger bringing in the necessary recruits to adequately supply top quality lineups in a Thursday / Sunday dominated schedule; based on everything I've seen in recent years, I can't see that happening... in fact, mark my words, it's more likely that we see Lacazette playing out wide in Alexis's position with Giroud at striker, than we see Wenger make the necessary moves to right this ship... god, I hope I'm wrong but is it really that far - fetched considering what we've witnessed for past several years

I looked up the COLA for the past decade and found that on average the reimbursement rate for free has gone up 7 cents a year since the 2000 - 01 school year; in recent years it was higher than average (up 11 cents from 08 - 09 to 09 - 10, up 10 cents the year before that) but it was lower in other years (up 5 cents each year from 01 - 02 to 04 - 05).

While the teen birth has dropped significantly over the past 20 years, it remains high in Original Aurora; teen births in the four target zip codes were actually a bit higher in 2013 than in 2012.

«Last year we spent $ 9,000 total, so it appears this year could be higher than in the past.»

People are losing their homes, and their jobs, in record numbers; unemployment is high and more people than ever need food stamps to get by (Newsweek say 59 % more families on food stamps in just the past 3 years.)

In the past ten years alone, energy costs have risen eight times higher than earnings (1) forcing millions to choose between heating their homes or putting food on the table.

If Mermel stays in, too, then there could be a three - way fight for the No. 2 slot, which has been raised to a higher level of scrutiny and importance than in years past due to the Eliot Spitzer - David Paterson hand - off.

A spokesman for Governor Cuomo says New York «spends three times as much per pupil in high needs districts than it does on low needs districts, and that funding has only increased over the past four years».