Sentences with phrase «last for years past»

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The complaints from media outlets have been coming for the past several months, with some reports of sudden traffic declines as high as 40 % compared with last year.

Add the opportunity for customization — last year the chain experimented with allowing diners to add 22 different toppings, including guacamole and chili - lime tortilla strips, to their burgers — and wait times have pushed past seven minutes.

It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, «If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?»

Amulet, which has been in testing for four years, released its first product line last year and has seen a surge of interest after every mass shooting in America — particularly over the past week.

No mean feat, considering Adafruit has shipped more than half a million kits in the last seven years, and revenue has doubled every year for the past three.

After phasing out her work last year as creative director for a packaging company to give Tweedle Press her full attention, she found that running the company with only one employee — her husband — made for an easier work - life balance than when she used part - timers in the past.

«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 a report published last fall by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, awards for damages caused by «mental injury» in the workplace have soared 700 % over the past five years.

UConn won the NCAA Championship the last four years while she led them in scoring and rebounds per game for the past three.

In years past, there might be a handful of teams fighting for last in the NBA and the 25 % shot at the first overall draft pick (and assurance that you'd fall no lower than fourth) that comes with it.

Last year, the bank lost nearly $ 7 billion and its capital ratios have been headed in the wrong direction for the past few years.

«We believe the bogey for investors is a 15 percent increase to Apple's total reported capital return number (shares repurchase plus past dividends), which would imply a $ 150 billion headline number, up from $ 130 billion announced last year,» said Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, in a recent note.

The raw figures tell the tale: net migration to Ontario, for example, has averaged 82,000 annually over the past decade, and reached 141,000 last year.

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings told CNBC last month at the United States Conference of Mayors that the broader Texas «red state» reputation is an issue, especially given the tech industry's focus on social tolerance, but he stressed that Dallas is «a blue city in a red state,» which has scored 100 on the LGBT Index for the past three years.

One of their past «joint ventures» was with Steven Friedland, whom the B.C. Securities Commission last fall banned from dealing in securities for 20 years.

Last month, unit sales were the lowest for any August in the past dozen years, and nearly 40 % below the 10 - year August norm.

Indeed, for the past several years, analysts recall geopolitics having little to no lasting effect on global stocks.

And listen to an important piece of advice from Tracy Wald, who has counted Microsoft as a client for the past 15 years, the last 10 during his tenure as chief financial officer with Leonhardt Fitch.

We talked for a few minutes about William's childhood (he dropped out of high school in Amsterdam at 15 to become a DJ), his past work experience (he was a party planner for years), and how he had heard about us (he attended Hustle Con last year).

The search for authenticity has led organic food sales to more than triple over the past decade and increase 11 % last year alone to $ 35.9 billion, according to the Organic Trade Association.

In the past two years, Unilever has used its mountain of free cash (about $ 5.1 billion last year) to snap up small brands — ones that sell for higher prices in stores.

Over the past four months, desktop use for Internet browsing has been consistently below the recorded amounts for the same time period last year.

Ackman, who has been betting against Herbalife stock for the past four years, made the allegations during a presentation to his investors Wednesday about why he was still shorting the nutrition products company even after Herbalife's settlement with the Federal Trade Commission last week.

A recent survey of small - business owners conducted for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce by Harris Interactive reported an 11 percentage point rise in the last year in the number of owners who are unsure of whether their business will be better off in the future than it has been in the past.

Cook went on to say that, in China, «growth in iPhone activations has actually accelerated over the past few weeks, and we have had the best performance of the year for the App Store in China during the last 2 weeks.»

Also hogging headlines last week was Larry Ellison, who announced last Thursday that he was ceding the driver's seat at Oracle - the software firm he founded and has led for the past 37 years.

This company reduced the out - of - pocket costs of EpiPen for some patients last week amid a wave of criticism from lawmakers and the public over the rapid escalation in the product's price in the past few years.

In the past, Ackman had been openly critical of Ullman, saying as recently as last May that the department store operator had been chronically mismanaged and had failed to create value for shareholders for the last 20 years.

In the past year, a lot of ink has been devoted to China's slowdown after its phenomenal spending boom over the last decade, but there are signs that spending is perking up — a tailwind for resources.

Ms. Stewart has been thinking about how to reach China's growing middle class for some time; she told The Guardian last year that Alibaba founder Jack Ma had encouraged her, arguing that her past experiences at Kmart in the U.S. could have a parallel in contemporary China.

Yussuff and one of the other task force members, Alberta Federation of Labour President Gil McGowan, were at the centre of the effort to secure McKenna's commitment to set up the task force and ensure financial support for laid - off coal miners, after the minister led the formation of the Powering Past Coal Alliance during last year's UN climate change conference in Bonn.

As with other lenders, if your business has sufficient cash flow to support a loan payment, you haven't declared bankruptcy in the past 24 months, and are current with your personal obligations like your rent or a mortgage for the last year, you may qualify.

Since the last housing crash, the nation's homeownership rate dropped to a record low and has hovered near there for the past year.

It's up 31 % in constant currency for fiscal year 2012 coming in, as Mark said, at $ 3.7 billion, and that's on top of a 30 % growth number last year, over $ 1.5 billion of incremental revenue over the past 2 years.

The NYSE Arca Airline Index recently reached levels last seen before 9/11 and is up 30 % over the past year and 5 % YTD compared to 14 % and 10 %, respectively, for the S&P 500.

ST. PETERSBURG — While protesting is an intrinsic part of American culture, protests have had a huge resurgence in the past couple of years, with events like last year's Women's March and this weekend's March for Our Lives.

However, in one sense, the stock's sharp decline last year is a positive for future investors, making it cheaper (in proportion to its earnings over the past year) than most other stocks in its industry.

Concho Resources (NYSE: CXO), for example, spent about $ 2.5 billion on acreage acquisitions last year, while Parsley Energy (NYSE: PE) completed a slew of deals over the past year, the largest being a $ 2.7 billion transaction.

United Airlines employees have also come under fire for coercive behavior in the past, particularly when they dragged a man off of a flight last year.

Just last month, it was reported that Credit Suisse strategist Andrew Garthwaite lamented dismal yields for the past couple years in a client report, writing that «his team has come across almost no one who seems to have outperformed or made decent returns this year» and «we have never had so many client meetings starting with statements such as «we are totally lost».»

«Poland's economic performance in the past five years has been nothing short of amazing,» Witold Orlowski, former chief economist to the president of Poland and chief economic adviser at PwC, wrote in a blog for the London School of Economics last September.

Although US Treasuries have been sliding since the beginning of the year, the uncertainty and volatility that we have seen in the past few weeks have pushed yields back down, forcing 10 - year Treasuries to close last week at 2.77 % — a level far away from the psychological 3 % level many have been waiting for.

Shares of Wynn Resorts more than doubled over the past year, and the company recently announced it would be building a new hotel on property it bought last December, which is a vote of confidence for the city.

Productivity growth is another major contributor to economic expansion, and the last five years have come up short: productivity grew just 0.5 % a year on average over the last five years versus 2.2 % average gains for the past 70 years.

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From January 2015, the margin of the debt / GDP ratio of the NYSE has risen in the last three months about 35.9 basis points — that is the biggest basis point registered for the past eight years!

Calgary MLA Dave Taylor gave Dr. Swann a verbal lashing when he left the Liberal caucus earlier this past year and last week Tony Sansotta resigned as President after co-signing a letter with Dr. Swann appealing for cooperation with other opposition parties.

While LNN currently has a low relative yield its annualized dividend growth rate has been impressive at 11.17 % for the past ten years while growing its dividend annually for the last 11 years.

Reflecting on this financial year just past, it may be helpful to look at the returns of the major asset classes over this year and then for the last 20.

While past deviations haven't spelled doom for equities, the impact has rarely been as stark as in the last two months, when American shares lurched to the worst start to a year on record as companies stepped away from the market while reporting earnings.