Sentences with phrase «little over decades of»

Having landed in Atlanta by way of a small town in South Carolina, he was initially in awe of the big city and its public transportation system that had a little over a decade of service to its name.

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«When the decision to end a decades - long practice is made with so little warning and clear communication, it raises the likelihood of misunderstanding and miscalculation and sets the stage for a crisis between the United States and China over Taiwan.»

In a little over a decade, it had expanded from a scrappy upstart into a thriving outfit with dozens of employees, a database of 1,500 contractors and such industry giants as Lowe's, Home Depot and Canadian Tire as clients.

Over the decades, its consultants have shaped the world of business in profound, if little seen, ways.

Over the past decade there has been little growth in manufacturing output and the level of employment has declined, particularly over the past couple of years (GraphOver the past decade there has been little growth in manufacturing output and the level of employment has declined, particularly over the past couple of years (Graphover the past couple of years (Graph 3).

«Our research into the proportion of senior business roles held by women has revealed precious little movement over the past decade,» said Francesca Lagerberg, global leader, tax services and Europe, Grant Thornton, in a statement.

Since October, Chinese economic policymakers have expressed little interest in tackling the country's mountain of debt, which has accumulated rapidly over the past decade.

To conclude, over the past decade and in a very volatile world, Australia has achieved the inflation target, avoided a major economic downturn, seen remarkably little variability in real economic activity in the face of enormous shocks, experienced a fairly low average rate of unemployment, and had a stable financial system as well.

Currently, business investment is equivalent to around 16 per cent of GDP — not far below its peak level in the past four decades — and is expected to rise a little further over the next couple of years (Graph 2).

In a little over a decade, millennials are projected to make up roughly 75 % of the global workforce.

The state currently charges a little over 39 cents in total taxes and fees for every gallon of gas — quite a difference from the 52 cents it collected per gallon a decade ago.

Since its inception a little over a decade ago, Cherwell has been rapidly gaining traction in the competitive ITSM space — but they're still one of the newer kids on the block with other new competitors emerging rapidly.

The decision to not release detailed documents could signal a desire for the government to shift away from the public quarterly budget updates, which are meaningless in terms of fiscal planning due to the province's dependence on fluctuating natural resource commodity prices and have become little more than public relations exercises for the government over the past two decades.

Growth of non-farm GDP over the latest four quarters for which we have data was just over 4 per cent; domestic demand, while slowing a little from its most recent peak, expanded by 5 1/2 per cent over that period; employment growth over the past year has been around trend, though lower in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained close to the lower end of the range in which it has fluctuated over the past two decades.

Absent a major shift higher in US growth — something I see no evidence of — there is little reason to expect big returns from US stocks over the next decade.

Raising the growth rate of the economy by 0.3 per cent (the difference between the underlying productivity growth rate in the 1990s cycle and the average of the earlier cycles) makes little difference over a year or two; over a decade or two, however, the cumulated effect on living standards is substantial.

While the measured participation rate has been quite volatile over the past year, in recent months it has stabilised at around 63 3/4 per cent, a little above the average of the past decade.

A little over a decade before Lincoln issued his declaration two views of providence were enshrined in two novels that remain with us today.

But over the last few decades it's remarkable how little of that growth has trickled down to ordinary families.

The first problem here is that, minus signs or not, the fluctuating growth rates for the oldline churches (quite healthy growth during the postwar revival; decline during the 1970s; some recovery in the first half of the «80s) tell us little if they are not compared, and compared over a number of decades, with the growth rates for the conservative churches.

The nearly quantum leap in campaign spending over recent decades, propelled especially by the use of television, has provoked a growing sense that something should be done, even if there is little agreement on what this something might be.

But recent trends do point toward a changing wind in culture — a sense that sex and nudity and female actors in particular might be deserving of a little more respect than they've been getting over the past decade.

Many of them have little knowledge of the enormous changes that have taken place among theologians and clergymen over the past decade.

They saw lots of talk, but little change over the decades.

Notwithstanding substantial increases in expenditure on education over the past decade, national and international assessments of student achievement in Australia show little improvement and in some areas standards of achievement have dropped.

But in a meantime, I will probably make again some mocha éclairs that remind me of a little Warsaw patisserie «Po Schodkach» that used to be our favourite sweet treats source over the decades.

But for now, this is just what's up in Brooklyn (with a short little hop up to Queens for She Wolf), and hopefully a helpful visual rundown of the restaurant group that's grown over the past decade out of just one beat - up old diner under the Williamsburg Bridge.

Arsenal fans will tell you that over the past decade we have seen numerous players switch the Emirates for pastures new, perhaps a few of which have been a little closer to home than a lot of fans would've liked.

The division is littered with the big names of former Premier League giants — Leeds United, Nottingham Forest, and Blackburn Rovers to name just three — but there's been little to suggest over the last decade that anyone can't beat anyone on their day.

Think of all the little things over the last week, year, and decade that led us to Watson rolling right with Hunter Renfrow open in the end zone.

As Bo knows, life in Clipperland over the past decade has been a lot of playground and very little heaven.

A little trickier, since membership for many of these has often been fluid over the last decade, which makes rivalries harder to group.

(His 2017 class ranked No. 115, but part of that was because of size; the per - recruit average was almost identical to UMass» 2016 class and only a little bit behind that of Temple, another team that has seen fortunes shift drastically over the last decade.)

A little over a decade ago the former Prime Minister of Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra, was just another billionaire seeking the greatest plaything of the impossibly rich — ownership of a European football team.

They've been in the business of stationery for over a decade and have an ever growing selection of products and services to help make life a little bit easier and a lot more fun!

The inventor of the Little Balance Box, Dr. Shannon Davis PT, DPT, is a mother of two with Doctorate and Masters degrees in Physical Therapy and over a decade of working with developmentally disabled children.

The measure has been pushed for the last decade at the Capitol to little avail in the Senate as lawmakers there have raised concerns over a one - year look back window for old cases of abuse.

Many of Kenya's most popular Malls have very little security, despite the significant terrorist threat that has existed for well over a decade.

The adoption of mass protest over armed conflict is to be welcomed after decades of vicious civil wars, often perpetrated by small groups of armed men with no broad - based political agenda and little desire to shape one.

What I'm being asked now is to start from scratch after three decades and, if I am a good little migrant, spend enough money and bend over backwards, at the end of the process, I may be given a piece of paper to say «alright then, you can stay I s «pose».

What Mr. Silver didn't say: He is trying to keep his taxpayer - financed pension, trying to stay out of prison and trying to forfeit as little cash as possible from the schemes that the federal government says netted him more than $ 5 million over the decades.

Perhaps, this little story of less than two decades ago, serves to remind us that the Nigerian military may have been untactical in its Sunday hurried declaration of three persons wanted over the latest video released by the psycopaths called Boko Haram.

«I recall how he worked tirelessly to ensure that peace reigned in his domain and beyond; little wonder that his over two decades on the throne witnessed monumental development which no doubt has positively enriched the people of Omu - Aran in particular and Kwara State in general,» Saraki stated.

The San Francisco metro area saw just over 9,000 new affordable units created in the course of more than three decades, and the D.C. area gained a little more than 15,000 in the same time frame.

Jack Conway, now town supervisor of East Greenbush, met Mary Pat Donnelly at a zoning board hearing a little over a decade ago, when she served as the board's attorney.

Nationally, women hold 24.9 percent of state legislative seats, according to the Center for American Women and Politics, a number that has seen little change over the last decade.

The Michigan Republican said last week that he isn't running for re-election this fall, after serving a little over a decade in office, the last few years as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

This outfit derives its resources from the liquidation of the Communist Party's assets built up over many decades by British workers (with a little help from their Soviet comrades) Therefore Progress can have no principled objection to another political tendency with impeccable socialist credentials and a much longer relationship with the organised labour movement to join them in the fraternal contest to shape the direction of Labour's policies and influence the selection of candidates.

In races for local office over the last few decades, he has been booted from the ballot before, showing little mastery of the city's arcane election rules.

In particular, devotees of genetics might want to cede a little ground to their colleagues in epidemiology, who over the past decade have amassed a provocative, interlocking set of studies implicating urban birthplace and migrant status as persistent risk factors.