Sentences with phrase «increase over the last few years»

For all the reasons mentioned above, font sizes have increased over the last few years to the point that many view 14 px as the very minimum font size, and many sites go even bigger with 18 px as a minimum, especially when a lot of reading is involved.

Food additives can either be natural or synthetic, with the demand for the former witnessing a steady increase over the last few years.

A national study of concussions reported by high school athletes shows a dramatic increase over the last few years.

«The union workers received far more increases over the last few years than elected officials,» he said.

Social hostilities and physical conflicts arising from religion is increasing over the last few years.

There has been a definite increase over the last few years in the trend for rooftop games areas.

Recent studies have also demonstrated this marked increase over the last few years (see another forthcoming with my former doctoral student Clarin Collins in Teachers College Record), but this article in the Huffington Post provides a decent graphic illustrating where the nation currently is in terms of these initiatives / policies.

Enrollment of students in the United States from varying cultural and linguistic backgrounds has significantly increased over the last few years.

If you are still paying PMI and believe your home's value has increased over the last few years, contact your lender and ask about their PMI policy.

Auto lending volume to subprime borrowers has increased over the last few years.

As home prices increased over the last few years Canadians went on a spending spree (a binge, really) by tapping their HELOCs and treating their homes as ATMs.

The reports first started coming in about five years ago but have drastically increased over the last few years.

Spurred on by the region's wildfires, which have been steadily increasing over the last few years, and droughts, the region's remaining swaths of forest and grasslands risk being lost in a single summer - leaving behind a spare, «semidesertic» ecosystem.

Law firms have seen the time between sending invoices and receiving payment increase over the last few years as clients struggle to make ends meet, and these delays effectively reduce practice income.

Employment related lawsuits have been steadily increasing over the last few years.

The quality and number of education apps has increased over the last few years.

These neighborhoods are west of downtown and have already seen a significant price increase over the last few years.

Not exact matches

That last line is key: «Increased bank reserves held at the Fed don't necessarily translate into more money or cash in circulation, and, indeed, broad measures of the supply of money have not grown especially quickly, on balance, over the past few years.»

Yet fewer than half of employers (47 %) plan to pay holiday bonuses this season, according to the same poll, a slight increase over last year's 45 %.

Over the last few years, the amount of people telecommuting has dramatically increased.

It's still a new industry and while the general awareness has increased dramatically over the last few years, it's not quite a household thing yet.

If there are two things marketers and advertising people have heard and talked about ad nauseam over the last few years, it's the importance of social media engagement and the increasing value of live sports on TV.

Those families who have benefited the least from the big increase in stock prices over the last few years have the most to gain, proportionately, from the drop in oil and gas prices.

However, Delta claims steep increase in the number of animals on flights over the last few years reflects an abuse of the policy.

The Senate Special Committee on Aging has had quite a few questions for price - hiking pharmas over the last year; in April, the committee grilled Valeant's then - CEO J. Michael Pearson for at least 9 hours in advance of a public hearing on price increases.

Every tech company has increased political spending over the last few years, and the amount of tech money circulating in D.C. will skyrocket now that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been hauled before Congress to answer questions about the myriad ways in which his company is harming America and the world.

If you are using Google AdWords to generate leads and drive sales, you've probably noticed increasing competition for many of your keywords over the last few years.

The overall supply - and - demand situation in Dallas has been relatively flat over the last few years, but inventory increased a bit during 2017.

Each dollar in additional savings is invested to generate passive income which helps to gradually increase the savings rate as well (over the last few years, our active income has been more or less stable).

The growth in consumption over the last few years have been driven by the «wealth effect» created by people feeling richer as the value of their property has increased (have a look at my blog post from June 19th last year).

Moneris, which facilitates card payments for 220,000 Canadian merchants, said last month that its purchases over its systems increased by about 5 per cent in the first quarter from the same period a year ago, following the pattern that the company has observed for the past few years.

Hispanics have seen some heartening gains over the last few years, with a decline in the poverty rate, an increase in annual income, and college attendance rates at a higher percentage than whites.

Natural and organic products have been General Mills» strongest growth sector over the last few years, with a ten percent average annual increase since 2005.

«Land planted [with] canola, legumes (such as peas) and cereals [has] increased in value with prices for these commodities fairly consistently high over the last few years,» he said.

Demand for organic milk and related products has been increasing substantially over the last few years.

Over the last few years, the highest - finishing team with a negative goal difference has typically ended the season around eighth or ninth, a slight increase on the late 70s, 80s and early 90s, when somewhere between 10th and 13th was more normal.

The NBA has seen a big increase in totals closing above 200 points over the last few years, but are sportsbooks keeping pace with this trend?

Julie Fisher, an insurance expert from moneysupermarket, said: «The cost of running a car has been increasing markedly over the last few years, with petrol prices on the up and car insurance a yearly necessity for all drivers.

Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

The Manifesto Club says that it hears of new orders almost every day and is planning to send out Freedom of Information requests to local councils later in the year to see how far the use of PSPOs has increased over the last few months.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures claim full - time employment has been on the rise over the last few months and over the past year had seen the biggest annual increase in full time employment since 2005.

New Economic Development Spending: Over the last seven years economic development spending has expanded greatly, with few documented results.1 New York State spent $ 4.0 billion in fiscal year 2016.2 The Executive Budget increases Empire State Development (ESD) capital spending by $ 338 million to $ 1.9 billion and non-ESD economic development capital spending $ 234 million to $ 633 million.

«While one can argue with the governor's assertion that there are trend factors in some areas of the budget which have made increases automatic, there can be no doubt that institutions of public higher education have consistently seen nothing but cuts over the last few years,» Glick, a Manhattan Democrat, said.

Macy's workers have grown increasingly frustrated over the «clear increase in income inequality» and «corporate greed» at Macy's over the last few years, according to the RWDSU website.

As the city's budget has increased dramatically over the last few years, the Council's spending has followed suit, though at a different scale.

Under the plan, the state would gradually increase the city's minimum wage to $ 15 per hour over the next few years — requiring businesses with at last 11 employees to comply by 2018, and requiring smaller businesses to comply by the end of 2019, Cuomo said.

The PBA stepped up its involvement in local races in the 2017 election cycle, hoping to increase the sway it holds over members of a body that has, in the last few years, proposed and passed a slew of policing reforms.

The proportion of women entering physician - scientist training programs has increased steadily over the past 20 years such that, for the last few years, nearly 50 % of the trainees enrolled in M.D. - Ph.

A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system; emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate; confidence in the ability of models to project future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.

Over the last few years, the use of nanomaterials for water treatment, food packaging, pesticides, cosmetics and other industries has increased.