Sentences with phrase «higher than in previous years»

«While the contribution of cryptocurrency mining to our business is hard to quantify, it is likely to have been higher than in previous years.

This has increased the amount of grip and downforce and as such cornering speeds are much, much higher than in previous years.

The scores for fourth - graders and eighth - graders were higher than in previous years, but psychometricians have yet to untangle the degree of improvement attributable to No Child Left Behind (no NAEP math test was given in 2002, when No Child Left Behind began).

«The compliance bar for companies to go public is much higher than in previous years, so things like pending litigation and accounting irregularities need to be clean,» says David Zilberman, partner at venture capital firm Comcast Ventures.

After the three stock acquisitions (Britvic, ReckitBenkisser and Imperial Brands) and due to further organic dividend growth on my existing positions, my current projected dividend income for the year now is well above USD 6» 000, one third higher than in the previous year (2017: USD 4» 500).

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While the high level of existing debt means rate hikes will have a stronger impact in cooling demand than they did in previous years, it is still too soon to know just how much of an effect the bank's three rate hikes have had, Poloz said.

Add another one to the list: for one year, it smashed all records for the highest executive compensation in Canada, awarding its former CEO Michael Pearson $ 179 million in company stock, for a total take - home of $ 182 million, more than double paid to the previous year's highest paid CEO, BlackBerry's John Chen.

Bonuses, in fact, were up at Goldman in 2010, with all executive officers receiving higher paychecks than they had during the previous two years.

Tesla also reported first quarter revenue of $ 3.41 billion, up more than 6 % from $ 3.2 billion in the previous quarter and 19 % higher than the same quarter last year.

The dollar retreated from an 11 - year high in the previous session, falling about 1 percent to the euro EUR = after weaker - than - expected orders for U.S. durable goods in December.

While there is a strong correlation between growth in gross domestic investment and growth in real GDP, the slope of that relationship is only about 0.2, meaning that even if the growth rate of real gross domestic investment was driven from the recent growth trend of zero all the way back to the previous post-war growth rate of 3.5 %, the overall impact on real GDP growth would only be about 0.7 % annually, placing the level of U.S. real GDP about 2.8 % higher 4 years from today than it would otherwise be.

-LRB-...) Eurostat said wages were 2.0 % higher in the three months through June than a year earlier, the fastest rise since the first quarter of 2015 and up from 1.3 % in the previous three - month period.

The Shanghai Gold Exchange's announcement of the full year figure for gold withdrawals for calendar 2015 show that a huge new record of 2,596.4 tonnes was taken out — 19 % higher than the previous record of 2,182 tonnes recorded in 2013.

In the three months to July, the average level of recorded employment was 2.1 per cent higher than a year earlier, but lower than the average level in the previous three months (Graph 33In the three months to July, the average level of recorded employment was 2.1 per cent higher than a year earlier, but lower than the average level in the previous three months (Graph 33in the previous three months (Graph 33).

For existing homes, sales dipped 3.4 percent in October but were still about four percent higher than the previous year, while sales prices rose for the 44th straight month and were up 5.8 percent from the same time period.

Half - year profits of the 158 companies in the ASX 200 index that reported for the half year to December 2004 amounted to $ 29 billion, 91 per cent higher than in the corresponding period of the previous year (Graph D1).

That was 10 % higher than the same time in the previous year, the result of steady appreciation in the housing market.

According to the Canadian Organic Growers Association, there were 3,780 certified organic farmers in Canada in 2007 — an increase of more than 200 from the previous year and the highest number on record.

Have you noticed if the totals recently are higher than earlier in the year or previous Septembers?

For the third straight season, the Patriots are at the top of the opening list, though +500 is higher than their January odds in either of the previous two years.

Rare, with usage of 0.004 % for Adora and Dora as baby names in 2016, higher than 0.004 % the previous year.

Actually, in 2017 it ranked 53 higher than the previous year, but I don't have high hopes for the name.

More than two - thirds of high school students in Ontario used alcohol at least once over the previous year.

Participant characteristics: all enrolled in WIC program; mean age 23.1 years; 87 % African Americans; 26.5 % with less than high school education; 79.6 % single; 17.4 % not employed or in school; 26.6 % caesarean births; 50.6 % first time mothers; 32.3 % with previous breastfeeding experience

That total is nearly 60,000 votes higher than the previous record of 183,672 set by Sen. Chuck Schumer in 2010 (Gillibrand, who was running to fill the remaining two years in the term of her predecessor, Hillary Clinton, received 182,624 on the WFP line that year), and approximately 80,000 over the party's highest 2008 statewide total, which was 159,613 for President Obama.

The Labor Department now says the private sector added 607,000 jobs during Cuomo's first four years in office, 71,700 higher than the previous estimate.

The property - tax cap for counties, towns and other local governments will rise 1.84 percent next year, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli announced — a mildly higher rate of growth than in previous years.

The 2014 electoral threshold is higher than it has been in previous years, so PAN will likely join forces with smaller parties that have been deemed ineligible to compete for the election, including the Prosperous Peace Party, a moderate Christian party.

Mortgage approvals by mutuals were up 50 % in April compared to the same month last year, and were 20 % higher than the average over the previous six months.

In the first two years, property tax payers would get a rebate for any tax charges that are higher than the previous year's levy.

«The overall trend is going to be higher than we saw previous years,» a national spokeswoman for the industry, Marilyn Tavenner of America's Health Insurance Plans, said in a recent interview.

The FY 1998 budget relies on sustained economic growth over the past two years, more optimistic economic forecasts, and greater cuts in non-discretionary programs to call for still higher levels of discretionary spending than previous budget plans.

A similar study that specifically addressed the relationship between burnout and suicidal thoughts found half of the 4287 surveyed medical students were feeling burned out and 11 % had thought about suicide in the previous year, a figure substantially higher than that in the general population.

The team found during 2000 - 2014, temperatures in the river's Upper Basin were 1.6 degrees F (0.9 C) higher than the average for the previous 105 years.

Minor winter storms the previous year contributed to less snowfall, drier soil, and recorded temperatures of more than 30 degrees Fahrenheit higher in some states than in summer 2011.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday raised its forecast for China's imports in 2013/14 to 8.5 million metric tons from 3.2 million metric tons in the previous year, prompting U.S. wheat prices to rally to more than two - week highs.

The National Academy of Sciences supported the key point of your hockey stick calculation, which showed higher temperatures in the 20th century than in the previous thousand years, but others criticized you for not releasing the information behind it.

Run 15 will produce higher collision rates than in previous years, thanks to a number of machine upgrades at RHIC.

Note that the old GISS model had a climate sensitivity that was a little higher (4.2 ºC for a doubling of CO2) than the best estimate (~ 3ºC) and as stated in previous years, the actual forcings that occurred are not the same as those used in the different scenarios.

A previous warm period about 130,00 years ago, is the Eemian — sea level 5 - 9 meters higher than today, and enormous storms, not seen in the Holocene.

Ice core records prove that current levels of carbon dioxide and methane, both important greenhouse gases, are higher than any previous level in the past 400,000 years.

To minimize the confounding effect and test for potential modification by an overall lifestyle pattern, we further performed a stratified analysis according to a priori — defined healthy lifestyle pattern, as characterized by never smoking or ever smoking for fewer than 5 pack - years, never or moderate alcohol intake (< 14 g / d in women and < 28 g / d in men), body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) of at least 18.5 and less than 25.0, and physical activity of at least 150 min / wk at a moderate level or at least 75 min / wk at a vigorous level (equivalent to ≥ 7.5 metabolic equivalent h / wk) as recommended.18 Likewise, given the previous report that protein intake was associated with a higher risk for diabetes - related mortality, 8 we examined the protein - mortality association according to the history of diabetes.

«We had just received the results of last year's CTBS test,» says McCrory, «and our test scores in reading were even higher than the previous year's.

Specifically, the average teacher's students score 0.05 standard deviations higher on end - of - year math tests during the evaluation year than in previous years, although this result is not consistently statistically significant across our different specifications.

There is a combination of reasons why this is the case; it is believed that many teachers are feeling pressured for their students to perform to qualify for school funding, and some parents are more eager for their children to obtain high grades than they have been in previous years.

In reading, students in all three grades showed higher growth than they had the previous year; growth in math was similar to the previous year, except for 7th graders, whose improvement was slightly betteIn reading, students in all three grades showed higher growth than they had the previous year; growth in math was similar to the previous year, except for 7th graders, whose improvement was slightly bettein all three grades showed higher growth than they had the previous year; growth in math was similar to the previous year, except for 7th graders, whose improvement was slightly bettein math was similar to the previous year, except for 7th graders, whose improvement was slightly better.

The graduation rate, which has risen 1.7 percentage points from the previous year and more than 7 percentage points in the past decade, has reached its highest point since the late 1970s.

If VA estimates capture teachers» true impact on their students, students entering grade 4 in that school should have higher year - end test scores than those of the previous cohort.

One teacher, for example, observed a much larger gap between her high - achieving and low - achieving students than in previous years.

According to a study of lottery data, students who apply to charter schools, on average, scored higher in the previous year than the students who didn't submit an application.