Sentences with phrase «less than a year earlier»

Comcast added 350,000 high - speed internet customers during the quarter, slightly less than a year earlier, but still the largest source of sales growth for the company.

Especially after burying a baby less than a year earlier?

However, installations slowed in 2013 to about 35.5 GW, almost 10 GW less than a year earlier mostly on a drop in the United States.

Less than a year earlier, I'd been racing ultramarathons while juggling a career as magazine editor and a family (my husband and I were raising a rambunctious toddler).

• • • The young Dr. Thomas Dent Mutter had arrived in Paris less than a year earlier, in the fall of 1831.

As we now know, the government's investment in renewable energy was markedly less than the year earlier.

The median monthly rent in August was $ 3,399, a dollar less than a year earlier, as property owners worked to lure tenants amid a 40 percent jump in listings, according to a report Thursday by appraiser Miller Samuel Inc. and brokerage Douglas Elliman Real Estate.

A newly built home on more than two acres in Malibu's Paradise Cove area sold last year for $ 17.5 million — 56 % off its original $ 39.5 - million asking price less than a year earlier.

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Investigators believed the company's reviews over whether to supply customers more controlled substances were not meaningful and were used as a sales tool; customers were granted threshold increases for reasons, like the 4th of July, or the closure of an area pharmacy years earlier, that the government considered less than compelling.

Japan's short - term yields, of less than three years, turned negative last year, and earlier this month, the five - year JGB slipped close to zero several times.

Household spending fell 0.4 % in October from a year earlier, less than the median estimate for a 0.6 % annual decline, as shoppers spent less on food and transport.

& # 9660 Earlier this year, when Microsoft killed its new line of Kin smartphones in less than two months, its own employees were among the first to admit the Redmond, Wash. - based company had screwed up.

Quantopian's founder and chief executive John Fawcett said its membership has surged to 60,000 from 35,000 less than a year ago, while QuantConnect's founder and CEO Jared Broad saw a jump in its membership to 17,000 from 6,000 a year earlier.

South of the border, Square's November 2015 IPO appraised the company at less than half the $ 6 - billion valuation ascribed to it a year earlier.

Wind, which launched early this year, already offers unlimited data for $ 35 a month — significantly less than the incumbent carriers.

Less than a year after their Indiegogo campaign, Whirlscape has also nabbed $ 500,000 in seed funding from BDC Venture Capital (a Canadian venture capital fund), a U.S. - based fund, and California's renowned Y Combinator incubator, which took Whirlscape on as a participant in its accelerator program earlier this year.

It is also less - than - shocking that Kraft Heinz, the food giant caused by the merger of Kraft and Heinz earlier this year, is closing yet another plant.

Now, the bad: iPhone sales grew less than 1 % over the same quarter a year earlier, the slowest year - over-year growth for the device ever.

In a poll conducted earlier this year among several hundred corporate members of the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC), a nonprofit business - research organization in Houston, more than half the respondents (56.8 %) said they worked in fully walled offices, while less than a quarter (21.4 %) claimed modular settings.

The stock tumbled to $ 18 — less than half its value a year earlier, even as the overall stock market continued to surge.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this year's top - grossing film so far, came out in early - April and the scattering of big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014 films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all films had last year at this point.

It took less than a year for the store to turn profitable — which led to plans for markets in Newark and Chicago's South Side (both slated to open as early as next year).

Apple «s launch of the iPhone 8 kicked off with less fanfare on Friday than new models in previous years in the United States, Asia, Australia and Britain, as fans held out for the premium iPhone X, due out in early November.

HubSpot, a marketing software company in Cambridge, Mass., offers 90 % off its very expensive software for one year to early - stage startups with less than $ 1 million in funding and revenue.

Finally, as in most recessions, entrepreneurs have less leverage because there are more early stage startups than in previous years.

American adults had less sex in the early 2010s than they did in the 1990s, to the tune of nine fewer times a year, according to new research published in Archives of Sexual Behavior.

In the early hours of Monday morning, French drug giant Sanofi said it would buy hemophilia drugmaker Bioverativ, a Biogen spinout that is less than a year old, for $ 11.6 billion.

In the January - March quarter, earnings are expected to climb less than 1 per cent compared with the year earlier, according to FactSet, a financial data provider.

Simon, who was less than a year old and already three feet long, was being flown from his hometown in the United Kingdom to Kansas City in early April when was found dead in a kennel during a layover in Chicago.

Such capital expenditures will most likely total slightly less than $ 3 billion this year, Tesla said, down from its earlier forecast of more than $ 3.4 billion.

Early this week I was with an Australian government representative in Beijing whom I have known for many years and he told me that iron ore prices were currently around $ 83 (I think they dropped another $ 2 last week), and that while some people in Canberra were reluctant to say it too loudly, he and others were increasingly in agreement with my lower forecast of less than $ 50 well before the end of the decade, in part because supply has come off much more slowly than predicted, but mainly because they now recognize that China's rebalancing was indeed going to be a far bigger deal for Chinese demand than sell - side research had predicted.

Last year, in early 2017, you could find gas in Oklahoma for a bargain at less than $ 1.50.

Home prices in 20 U.S. cities rose less than forecast in February from a year earlier, which bodes well for prospective buyers.

With the expansion now in its fourteenth year, there is clearly much less spare capacity available than was the case in its early stages.

A clear, although gradual, shift has occurred in respondents» medium - term inflation expectations, with the share of respondents expecting inflation to be less than 3 per cent per annum declining steadily since early last year.

China's domestic stock markets doubled in value in the space of less than a year only to fall by 30 % during three weeks in late June through early July, before rising sharply again after central bank intervention.

The move comes after Disney raised prices early last summer, as has become the usual tradition, meaning that the theme park giant increased single - day prices by $ 10 in less than a year.

Earlier this year, he claimed it would take his company less than 100 days to solve power problems in the state of South Australia through the production of a giant battery farm.

Extremes in observable conditions that we associate with some of the worst moments in history to invest include: Aug 1929 (with the October crash within 10 weeks of that instance), Aug - Oct 1972 (with an immediate retreat of less than 4 %, followed a few months later by the start of a 50 % bear market collapse), Aug 1987 (with the October crash within 10 weeks), July 1999 (associated with a quick 10 % market plunge within 10 weeks), another signal in March 2000 (with a 10 % loss within 10 weeks, a recovery into September of that year, and then a 50 % market collapse), July - Oct 2007 (followed by an immediate plunge of about 10 % in July, a recovery into October, and another signal that marked the market peak and the beginning of a 55 % market loss), two earlier signals in the recent half - cycle, one in July - early Oct of 2013 and another in Nov 2013 - Mar 2014, both associated with sideways market consolidations, and the present extreme.

The less - volatile core CPI index was up 1.9 % from one year ago and increased at a 2.5 % annual rate over the last three months, which is more in line with the Fed's preference than the headline figures, suggesting deflation hasn't gripped the U.S. economy as it did Japan's earlier this decade.

In early August, yields on 10 - year bonds were around 75 basis points above the cash rate, slightly less than the average differential since the mid 1990s (Graph 66).

Sellers processing less than $ 125,000 accounted for 53 % of its GPV, down from 61 % a year earlier.

For office workers, data from Mercer's December Quarterly Salary Review show a slight firming in the growth rate of base salaries, to around 4.3 per cent in year - ended terms, compared with slightly less than 4 per cent earlier in 2003.

On the acquisition front, Yamana Gold acquired the gold and copper Riacho dos Machados mine for less than $ 50 million from Carpathian Gold earlier this year.

Although there was less capital raised in 2013 than a year earlier, there were more deals, and they were geographically diverse.»

The city had less than a one - month supply of homes earlier this year.

The 2016 Global Gender Gap Report was released earlier this week and revealed that, among various other things, women get paid less than men, but work the equivalent of 39 days more per year than men do.

A 2006 study found that houses with three or more bedrooms made up less than one - fifth of new houses built, compared with more than a third 10 years earlier.

It was the early 1960s, less than twenty years after the end of the war.

This is much less true today than it was twenty - five years earlier.