Sentences with phrase «many times last year»

Today, so - called Amazonians occupy more office space in Seattle than the next 40 largest employers in the city combined, according to a study by real - estate data firm CoStar for the Seattle Times last year.

Forty - eight percent of them used all their vacation time last year, up three percentage points from 2015.

With Memorial Day weekend on the horizon, the overall domestic summer box office is ten percentage points lower than it was at this time last year.

At this time last year, there were 986 rigs in U.S. fields.

As the always - incisive Bryan Roberts, framed it for me in a conversation around this time last year, hospitals «are essentially big capital assets trying to stuff people through them.»

Twitter said it is «taking action» against 10 times more abusive accounts than it was at the same time last year, which means the company is levying account suspensions — or, limiting users» ability to use the service — on «thousands more abusive accounts» per day.

Perth's CBD office market recorded $ 740 million worth of major transactions in the 12 months to March 2018, more than three times higher than it was this time last year, according to research undertaken by Savills Australia.

The number of iPhone units sold fell from a year ago, despite expectations of modest growth — this time last year, Apple sold 78 million iPhones.

With its yield above 7 % at this time last year, the warning signs were there.

The giant oil and gas company reported dismal earnings on Tuesday, down 53 % from the same time last year.

«This is only a few billion below the figure at a comparable time last year, and above the figures reported for some earlier years (almost 60 % of the full year's refunds are typically received by this point in the year).»

Europe's largest oil firm Royal Dutch Shell has beaten analyst expectations, reporting profits for its second quarter that are three times larger than this time last year.

The company lost $ 69.3 million in the first six months of 2013, compared with $ 49.1 million at the same time last year.

It hit 500,000 users this quarter, a 67 percent increase from the same time last year.

Chances are, you're not any wealthier now than at this time last year.

Conversely, investors in Canada, China, Germany, India and Japan were more confident in investing domestically than they were at the same time last year.

When you consider the company added $ 1.4 billion dollars to its gift and loyalty card platform this time last year, it's clear that it has ample resources for marketing.

This time last year, things were going well for QuickContractors.com — very well.

If the name sounds familiar, it's because this time last year Wired named it the world's hottest startup.

Total cloud revenues made up 13 percent of Oracle's overall sales, up from 8 percent this time last year.

It was a blockbuster product for Nintendo a few years ago, but the company sold fewer than 900,000 in the last quarter, down from 1.4 million at this time last year.

The median residential rent fell to $ 2,826, the first decline so far this year, though only a.8 percent drop from the same time last year, according to the Elliman report.

There were also 76 million active users, compared to 70.1 at the same time last year.

Cheapflights, meanwhile, is offering up a list of 10 destinations to consider where the airfares are more than 15 percent lower than they were at this time last year.

The share of new leases with landlord concessions last month was more than double seen at the same time last year, according to Douglas Elliman's latest market report.

Profits from mobile devices jumped to 3.3 trillion won compared with just 100 billion won at the same time last year, when the company booked the costs of the withdrawal of its fire - prone Note 7 gadget.

Now, if someone had told me this time last year that practicing gratitude would be so important, I'd have laughed!

Buffett, who for much of his career avoided tech stocks, has capitalized on that rally by doubling — or, if you will, sextupling — down on Apple stock: He owns six times as much of it now as he did at this time last year, making him one of the iPhone maker's largest shareholders.

It is better for me to be meeting people all around the building,» Hastings told The New York Times last year.

«They punch themselves into the market, break glass, upset people and then figure out how to bring everybody together in a more friendly way,» as Thilo Koslowski, vice president and automotive practice leader of research firm Gartner, put it to the Los Angeles Times last year.

Around this time last year, when Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, attempted to introduce «Qwikster,» a Netflix spin - off that would, essentially, just cost more money for customers, he addressed complaints, abandoned the effort, and he, too, issued an apology.

IDC says that's a 3.9 % dip from the same time last year; Gartner says it's down 5.7 %.

According to AAA, the average cost of a gallon of unleaded regular is about 25 cents more than this time last year.

Merger activity this year is down 14 percent from this time last year, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence, which cited the lower dollar value of deals in the health care and materials sectors.

There's no risk of losing phone service during a power outage (which happened to me five times last year).

At the McIntire School, 70 % of students have already secured full - time offers, up from 60 % at the same time last year, Fitch said.

The company reported that sales at its showroom on St. James's Street hit over $ 12.7 million in March, up from $ 3.6 million the same time last year.

This time last year, Exxon had already paid $ 54 billion in taxes.

The number of Series A, or first - round, deals also fell, to 255 from 339 at the same time last year, according to VentureSource.

Supercar manufacturer McLaren made a profit for the first time last year, on demand for its # 1m P1 model and a boom in Asian demand.

This time last year, fund managers in Perth were talking bullishly about continued strong investment returns and plans to rapidly expand funds under management.

Booking site Hipmunk reported that its reservations for Trump hotels are down nearly 60 percent over this time last year, the Globe said, while a survey of more than 2,000 Americans by travel trend tracking website Skift found 56.9 percent of respondents said they were less likely to stay in a Trump hotel because of his campaign.

His trademarked TW Nike hat is selling 850 % higher compared to this time last year.

U.S. refineries are processing about a million barrels a day less oil than at this time last year due to impacts from Harvey.

In the third quarter of 2013, O's ad dollars were $ 34.1 million, down 22.2 percent from $ 43.8 million the same time last year, according to The Association of Magazine Media, a non-profit industry association for multi-platform magazine companies.

Despite the previously overstated metrics and 4 % decline in ad revenue from this time last year, Twitter's growth results and signs of approaching profitability sent shares soaring 12 % in premarket trading on Thursday.

Kelly wrote an op - ed in The New York Times last year arguing for the labeling of genetically modified organisms, so that consumers can better understanding the benefits of genetically engineering a product or plant to give it certain qualities.

The company has been on the hunt for Canadian outlets since this time last year.

Chen clearly feels strongly about them — he took an advertisement in The Times last year that called on the U.S. to accept the islands as Chinese territory.

In his regular press conference after the ECB's governing council meeting, he said the uptick is «overwhelmingly» due to energy prices having hit a seven - year low this time last year, creating a base effect that exaggerates today's modest rebound.