Sentences with phrase «larger numbers this year»

Americans are being drawn to athleisure in larger numbers every year.

STANLEY FISCHER: Well, I mean, seeing inflation taking hold when, for the first time in how many years, I don't know, but a large number years.

Potatoes: which were sold in 10 states last year and will be sold in a larger number this year 10.

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Rebuilding or replacing large numbers of damaged transformers could take months or even years: Fixing just 17 of them after the 2013 attack in California cost roughly $ 100 million and took 27 days.

She said that there had been a shortage of white grapes in the past two years, but a large number of white grapes were now being planted.

More favourable growing conditions this season should lead to a sharp increase in the number of red and white grapes crushed, while regions such as Swan and Manjimup should continue to see increasingly larger yields over the next five years.

If you look at this year, small - cap stocks are starting to produce large negative numbers.

Elie Wurtman, managing partner at early stage VC fund Pico, highlighted that a number of Silicon Valley venture capital companies have shut down their Israel funds or folded them into their larger US funds in recent years.

In 2016, Google reports, it removed 1.7 billion ads, the largest number the company has taken down, to date, in a single year.

Analysts say some of the rebound is a result of what happened last year, when large numbers of advertisers put less into the upfront market and kept more of their spending for what is called the short - term «scatter» market, where ads are bought on an as - needed basis.

«I think we have been on this path for a number of years,» GM CFO Chuck Stevens said on a call with reporters on Thursday, after the largest U.S. automaker released first - quarter earnings.

For a nation that isn't officially at war against another nation, the United States dropped an awful lot of bombs on a pretty large number of countries last year, according to research by Micah Zenko, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and research associate Jennifer Wilson.

With 5,000 independent repair technicians, known as iTechs, in over 500 cities in the U.S. — and expecting to more than double that number by the end of the year — Forsythe says his company is the largest company of its kind in the country.

The number of global cruise passengers is set to rise again in 2017 after several years of consecutive growth, according to the largest industry trade group.

Commercial and industrial lending is increasing for larger companies, but according to the Thompson Reuters / Pay Net Small - Business Lending Index, the number of traditional bank loans to small businesses has fluctuated wildly over the past year.

By choosing to include the number of donors and the amounts of some of its larger donations, including one of $ 10.1 million in the first year and another of $ 10.1 million in the last seven months of 2011, the group was somewhat more transparent than the IRS requires.

Sometimes companies respond to these sorts of pointed questions but saying they could run «X large number of months / years on what they currently have in the bank.»

«Our largest increases were in audits of flow - through entities in fiscal year 2012,» says an IRS spokesperson, adding the jump was reflective of the increased number of these types of businesses.

While demand for cranberries is at its highest this time of the year, the number of cranberries in inventories by September was large enough to satisfy consumption numbers, Bloomberg reported.

The FDIC's Summary of Deposit numbers released in October showed for the past several years, community banks have continued to lose deposit share to larger institutions.

U.S. employers added the largest number of workers in nearly three years in November and wage gains picked up, a sign of economic strength that could draw the Federal Reserve closer to raising interest rates.

Five years ago, she was poached from Goldman Sachs — where she made her name convincing a number of large pension funds to hedge in the run up to the financial crisis — by Bank of America to run a first of its kind on Wall Street cross-asset, cross-industry structured - strategies group («It's about solutions, not products,» she says).

The city also has a fairly large high - growth company density at 191.4 — that's the number of companies out of 100,000 with annual revenues more than $ 2 million (and growing by 20 percent over a three - year period).

This metropolitan area (which includes Oakland and Fremont, Calif.) saw the largest proportion of venture capital - backed business exits over the past year compared to other major cities, meaning there are a large number of what Kauffman identifies as «growth companies» in San Francisco and the East Bay.

The report from proxy advisory group Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), called «Gender Diversity on Boards: a Review of Global Trends,» shows that the number of females among new board nominees at the largest U.S. companies has been steadily climbing in recent years.

Instead, I'm referring to a series of ceremonies this year in which an unusually large number of U.S. veterans have been awarded the Medal of Honor.

Apple also reportedly considered a much larger content acquisition last year: A number of news outlets said the company made a takeover bid for content giant Time Warner, which owns HBO and CNN among other things, but the latter decided to accept an offer from telecom player AT&T instead.

«When you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you, and that's of concern when you come to big issues that large numbers of people have fought for, for years in this country,» Feinstein said.

This shift to high - level, high - value engagements in large part explains why the industry revenues in North America were up 8.5 % last year despite the number of searches dropping, reports the global Association of Executive Search Consultants.

More than one million people die from AIDS each year — an enormous number, but one that has decreased steadily throughout the past decade thanks in large part to anti-retroviral medicines that can slow its spread within the body.

U.S. employers added the largest number of workers in nearly three years in November and wage gains picked up.

The large number of immigrants among Fortune 500 founders was first documented eight years ago by an organization called New American Economy.

Fans of AWS have argued in the past that the unit was worth billions, but it wasn't until Amazon started separating out the actual numbers this year that it became obvious just how large a business it is.

A number of large hedge funds were also significant holders of Valeant as recently as the middle of the year.

Today's infographic comes to us from StocksToTrade.com, and it compares the 20 largest stock exchanges in the world in terms of market capitalization, total companies listed, and number of years since they were founded.

Not only will the combined carrier reach about the same customer base as larger rivals Verizon (vz) and AT&T (t), but reducing the number of competitors in the market to three from four should also reduce competitive pressure that led to a fierce price war over the past year.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Late last year, Fusion seemed full of promise: the company was hiring a number of leading writers and editors, such as former Atlantic editor Alexis Madrigal and former Reuters writer Felix Salmon, and was spending fairly large sums of money in order to do so.

While a number of the year's key themes will be carried over into 2015, including even larger digital sales and better integration of on - and offline, below are five less obvious trends that experts predict will shape the retail world in the coming year.

A number of oil and gas discoveries have been made in recent years in the waters off the coast of that country, especially in a large basin called the Nam Con Son.

Officials from the Coast Guard and local law enforcement told CNBC they have not tracked large number of the stolen engines overseas, at least in recent years.

«While a large proportion of British Columbians continue to have reservations about the project, the numbers are very different from what we observed at the start of the year.»

Given the large number of borrowers switching to P&I loans, it's not surprising that scheduled housing loan repayments have increased over the past year (Graph 3).

Over the past few years, TechNode has witnessed a large number of emerging startups grow into unicorns.

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The lackluster performance has revealed a hard truth about the quality of investments made during the peak years: A large number of inexperienced funds bought at inflated prices and settled for taking minority stakes, which left them little room to maneuver when growth slowed in markets like China and India.

In March last year, Reuters had reported that Uber's Indian subsidiary was also reviewing Xchange Leasing India Pvt. Ltd, its cab - leasing programme in the country, after drivers returned their leased cars in large numbers.

More alarming still, for 50 large companies in prolonged stall - out, we found that the onset had usually been sudden: Momentum fell sharply over just a year or two, with growth rates dropping from double digits to low single digits or even negative numbers — a finding consistent with past research (see «When Growth Stalls,» HBR, March 2008).

Fort Lauderdale - based Universal Property & Casualty Co., the state's largest insurer, saw the largest increase both by overall numbers and percentage — from 1,095 suits in January through March 2017 to 2,829 during the same period this year — a 158.4 percent jump.

If you've been investing regularly in the stock market over the past year, you've probably come to expect numbers that seem to grow larger with every passing day.