Sentences with phrase «larger than past years»

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«In the last two years, we've seen one by one, several strategic moves by the large global brewers to do mergers and acquisitions of smaller craft breweries in a more fast - paced manner than in the past,» says Julia Herz, craft beer program director for The Brewers Association.

According to the company, Indians opened more than 200 million new bank accounts in the past several years, although there is still a large percentage of citizens who are considered unbanked.

Large percentages of respondents expect to see lower profits this year, and contend consumers will be far more price sensitive than in the past.

He expects that next year, as large companies negotiate their benefits contracts, they will be asking much more than in the past «will a carve - out option look better, or does the carve - in option look better?»

«While women still make up less than 20 percent of U.S. boards on average, movement toward greater gender parity is evident with the proportion of new nominees that are women nearly doubling over the past seven years at larger firms,» Kamonjoh said in a statement.

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.

At the same time, companies, particularly large ones, are facing stronger economic headwinds than in the past few years.

The state's largest employer, Boeing, has cut more than 8,400 jobs in Washington in the past year.

In fact, the company is responsible for providing more home loans in the past five years than either Bank of America or Chase, two of the country's largest consumer banks.

Among the largest U.S. defense contractors, Northrop Grumman Corp has spent more than $ 12 billion on share repurchases since 2010, even as revenue has declined in each of the past five years.

We have conducted more than 1,000 sales searches over the past three years for clients that span large multinationals, private equity firms and their portfolio companies, emerging companies, and nonprofit organizations.

What they have constructed, these past thirty years, is not a globalised economy, but the world archipelago of capitalist islands - large or small - where they have concentrated world scientific and technological capacity (more than 92 % of world R&D expenditure, more than 90 % of patents and of the installed computer capacity...), financial power, symbolic power and media power of the present time.

For the past thirty years, all three leading polling organizations have consistently told us that a large majority of Americans, women even more than men, disapprove of the majority of abortions that are performed in this country.

Although overall deforestation rates in the region are still lower than they are in parts of the Amazon and Southeast Asia, deforestation has accelerated over the past few years, driven mainly by the establishment of large - scale agricultural and mining operations.

For the past three years Paul has headed the largest division of Accolade Wines, the UK and Ireland region, where the business is the number one wine company by value and volume, more than double the size of its nearest competitor.

If soils remain wet through cluster elongation periods we could see generally large, tight clusters and the possibility of higher summer rot incidence than the past several years of drought have presented.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

But the Tories have raised # 78m over the past four years, making the imbalance in incomes larger than 2010.

Start - Up NY ads were the largest component of more than $ 161 million spent by the state on advertising and promotional campaigns over the past two years, according to data provided to Gannett News Service after a year - long delay by ESD.

But the bottom line is that aside from what anyone can say about what this administration has been doing here in Central New York — it's working: No region of the state has seen as large a decrease in the unemployment rate than Central New York over the past three years: 8.6 percent in December 2010, 6.5 percent today.

Large areas of both North and South Islands have felt earthquakes with a magnitude greater than 5 within the past 200 years.

Huss gathered more than 100 years of field measurements, aerial photographs, and local weather logs pertaining to 30 large Swiss glaciers to build computer models of each, identifying fast melt in the 1940s and in the past couple of decades.

Both the number and the proportion of women earning master's and doctoral degrees have risen steadily over the past 30 years; nevertheless, the discrepancy between women and men remains much larger than at the baccalaureate level.

As of 3 July, more than half of the 48 contiguous US states had seen drought conditions, the largest percentage for the past 12 years, according to the US Drought Monitor service, run by the National Drought Mitigation Center in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Although large freight railway traffic (measured in carloads) is down 19 percent this year due to the recessed economy, it grew 47 percent between 1990 and 2007, and railroads have been more fuel - efficient than trucking for at least the past few decades, according to the Association of American Railroads.

They reported in the January 2010 edition of the journal Geophysical Research Letters that global warming does increase flood risk significantly, and that large floods have occurred more frequently in recent years than in the past.

Despite the fact that X is much larger than the tiny Y, it seems that both evolved from a pair of conventional chromosomes in early mammals sometime in the past 300 million years — an idea first proposed in 1967.

Historically, China consumed little milk (less than 2 kg per person per year in 1961) but increasing prosperity has lifted consumption more than 25 times over the past five decades, leading to the country becoming the world's fourth largest milk producer, with the growth projected to continue.

The Humboldt Foundation, Germany's largest agency that provides financial support for foreign students, funded German - based fellowships for more than 2000 scientists from other countries in the past year alone.

During the past 3.5 billion years, it is estimated that more than 80 bodies, larger than the dinosaur - killing asteroid that struck the Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, have bombarded Earth.

Most large mammals, termed megafauna (animals weighing more than 100 pounds), became extinct in the past 50,000 years, during the late Pleistocene epoch, when Homo sapiens colonized the earth.

Over the past year the Frog Mortality Project, which was set up in May 1992 to look into the large number of reported frog deaths, was notified of more than 300 cases of dead adult frogs by members of the public.

Though slightly larger than last year, the minimum sea ice extent 2017 is average for the past ten years and far below the numbers from 1979 to 2006.

The draft report says it is «very likely» that the past three decades have all been warmer than any time in the past 800 years; that we could see almost 9 °C of warming by 2300; and that «a large fraction of climate change is largely irreversible on human timescales».

This period was apparently associated with increased meteoric impacts (around 100 times more frequent than today) associated with the break - up in the Main Asteroid Belt of the L - chondrite parent body — the largest documented asteroid breakup event over the past few billion years.

Over the past 20 years, surveys of planets around other stars in our galaxy have found the most common types to be «super Earths» and their somewhat larger cousins — bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune.

October provided a particularly large boost, with a temperature that was above average by more than any other single month in the past 135 years.

The result is an oxygen - depleted area almost 50 percent larger than what has been seen on average for the past five years.

«According to our projections, large areas of the globe are likely to warm up so quickly that, by the middle of this century, even the coolest summers will be hotter than the hottest summers of the past 50 years,» said the study's lead author, Noah Diffenbaugh, in a Stanford University press release.

Over the past seven years, I have directed two large genetic research consortia in East Asians that have identified more than 30 novel susceptibility loci / genetic variants for breast and colorectal cancers.

A brief analysis of 10 European countries published today — the first to use government data on suicide rates from the past few years — suggests that the ongoing economic downturn may have had a larger impact on suicide rates than expected.

For more than 1,800 of the last 2,000 years, China and India were always the two largest economies in the world... the past 200 years have been a major historical aberration.

In the past 150 years, Victor Hugo's 1862 novel has spun into stage adaptations, radio dramas and more than 60 large and small - screen adaptations.

If one were to place bets based on past evidence, the odds favor America's public schools to operate next year with at least as much and probably with somewhat more money and a larger and (modestly) better - paid labor force than they had in 2009.

1 Over the past eight years, the program has proven enormously popular: With more than 13,000 students, it is the sixth largest tax - credit scholarship program in the country.2 Twenty - nine scholarship organizations accept private, tax - credit - eligible donations to offer scholarships to those students.3

And that came on top of several large cuts to teacher assistant funding over the past several years — the state already has 7,000 fewer TAs than it did in 2008.

A Mercury News investigation published in April revealed how the state's online charter schools run by Virginia - based K12 Inc., the largest for - profit charter operator in the country, have «a dismal record of academic achievement» but has won more than $ 310 million in state funding over the past dozen years.

The number of large infant classes in England has more than doubled in the past four years, government data shows.

As Austria's second - largest city, Graz is home to more than 290,000 people, but for the past 33 years, it's also been home to G - Class production.

More than one - hundred - years of cutting - edge automotive innovation and brilliantly imposed aesthetic design seem to issue a silent challenge upon the nation's oldest and largest automobile dealers association — a challenge to produce something bigger, better, and more appealing than years past.