Sentences with phrase «measured over a number»

Edward Miliband: I do, which is why we unveiled plans in February for «pay as you save» insulation, whereby people will be able to spread the costs of energy efficiency measures over a number of years; it will not be linked to the person in the house but to the house itself, so that the costs can be spread over 20 years or so.

Mean reversion occurs because growth is constrained, when measured over a number of years.

Dividend yields are constrained by earnings yields, when measured over a number of years.

Climate, on the other hand, is the pattern of weather measured over a number of decades.

Not exact matches

In the most recent bout of negotiations over the weekend, the deal reportedly sputtered out over the number of unauthorized immigrants covered under the deal, and certain immigration enforcement - related measures that Republicans wanted to include but Democrats considered nonstarters.

Princeton researchers, for example, assumed that using Twitter alone meant looking at consumer sentiment and not the amount of buzz, measured by the number of tweets over time.

The number who believe that life in the U.S. is better than life in Mexico has fluctuated over the years, but as of last year was measured at 48 %, a slight decrease from 51 % seven years earlier.

Because PE is a measure of earnings over time, you can think of it as representing the number of years required to pay back a stock's purchase price (ignoring inflation, earnings growth and the time value of money).

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

While a number of simple measures of valuation have also been useful over the years, even metrics such as price - to - peak earnings have been skewed by the unusual profit margins we observed at the 2007 peak, which were about 50 % above the historical norm - reflecting the combination of booming and highly leveraged financial sector profits as well as wide margins in cyclical and commodity - oriented industries.

Average Daily Trading Volume («ADTV») is a measure of the number of shares traded per day, averaged over a specific period of time (we use 50 days).

This wage measure, along with a number of others, has been gradually trending upward over the past several years.

Stéfane Marion, who is Arseneau's boss at National Bank, says the more reliable measure of wages is found in StatsCan's quarterly reports on gross domestic product, which rely on hard numbers rather than interviews over the phone.

Gun control measures can help address this by reducing the number of people who own guns, whether over time or immediately.

The exclusion of health services, as well as a number of other services provided by the public sector, largely explains the relatively modest increase in the market goods and services excluding volatile items measure of underlying inflation over the past year.

From a high base, created by rapid growth in 2014, rewards Crowdfunding grew over the last year in excess of 25 % — 27 % as measured by amount raised — with participation (the numbers of pledges) increasing significantly (12 %) while the success rate fell by 2 % as publicity attracted those less prepared for the process.

Seattle's housing inventory — measured by the number of homes listed for sale — has declined over the last year.

It's advantageous over measuring ranks directly, because ranks can be deceptive — after all, what good is a number one position if it doesn't earn you any real traffic?

A number of provisions in the 2018 agenda have already been released over the last several weeks, including measures aimed at combatting climate change, bolstering airports and encouraging shared services on the local government level.

Responding to an increasing number of enquiries over the forthcoming EU Type Approval regulations, the BMF have produced a comprehensive briefing document outlining the current position, explaining the EU process of government, detailing the measures under discussion and by listing a Reality Check, dispelling a few myths over what will and will not reach our home shores.

Nonetheless, there have been a number of high profile clashes between the Government and the courts over several criminal justice and immigration measures since the HRA came into force.

«It was moving to witness the support this measure has, from the petition with over 5000 signatures to countless number of messages my colleagues and I received since the January gun and knife show was announced,» said Legislator Catherine Parker (D - Rye).

Peers from the across the political spectrum (but notably many Liberal Democrats) voted for a number of measures which guarded against the plans, including giving judges, not Ministers, the say over the use of the secret trials.

A significant number of schools that are safe but below average in absolute academic performance (perhaps half to the 10 % of schools that over perform) are excellent by a value added measure.

Looking through the rest of the poll, the Conservatives & Theresa May have a lead over Labour & Jeremy Corbyn on almost every economic measure YouGov asked about (36 on cutting the deficit, 32 points on managing the economy, 15 on providing jobs, 11 on keeping prices down, 11 on improving living standards, 6 on getting people on the housing ladder), the only exception was reducing the number of people in poverty, where Corbyn & Labour had a 7 point lead.

She said her office was weighing which measure to use ---- for example, falling unemployment over some number of months ---- to decide when to implement the benefit.

A generous measure it may be, but the claimant count is not usually used for historical comparisons as the number of people claiming is affected by the changes in the benefit rules over time.

As of Friday afternoon, the number of senators who had voiced support for the marriage measure — 31 out of 62, one short of a majority — had not changed in over a week.

From measuring the number of character changes over time for each branch, they found the average rate of evolution for early placental mammals both before and after the dinosaur extinction event.

The findings are the result of a huge and challenging field effort: over a three - year period, local students and technicians spent several weeks every month at each site to measure each tree's woody growth rate and the number of small roots that had grown.

The number of individual supermassive black hole binaries seen also offers a measure of how often galaxies merge, which is an important measure of how the universe evolved over time.

Each particle has a 50 - 50 chance of being measured as spin - up or spin - down; the sequence of clicks would be a random series of +1's (upper counter) and -1's (lower counter), averaging out over many runs to an equal number of clicks from each detector.

Outcome measures included the number of days spent in hospital, frequency of hospital admission, compulsory hospital admission and prescription of antipsychotics or non-antipsychotic mood stabilisers over a five year follow - up period.

The best way to determine those numbers was to measure the distances to extremely remote galaxies and how much their light had been stretched over time.

In this study, we created a series of three - level food webs and monitored and measured the results over a number of months to provide an understanding of future food webs under climate change.»

«Over the past decade we've been able to identify a growing number of educational interventions that have managed to have notable impacts on students» academic achievement as measured by standardized tests,» West says.

They breezed past the security measures of one the world's biggest electronics companies to steal the names, addresses and possibly credit card numbers of over 100 million people.

A team led by Sae Woo Nam of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., and Blas Cabrera of Stanford University has developed superconducting detectors that can measure photon numbers efficiently at telecommunication wavelengths with a negligible error rate, opening the way to secure quantum cryptography over a distance of 100 kilometers.

The study is important, Hubbard says, because «it shows that we can reliably measure something about number sense and that the number sense is stable over time.»

University of Michigan researchers measure the intensity and number of impacts, along with their distribution over the players» bodies

For example, gravitational way is being a real solid test of inflation, but over the last couple of years, there have been a number of other ideas studying these primordial seeds that John and his collaborators measured.

The quality of research is a measure separate from number of publications, and the Royal Society report measured it primarily in numbers of citations per paper; here, although citations of Chinese papers have increased over the same period, the rise in quality hasn't been as fast as that of output.

He did this by measuring not only the energies and momenta of the electrons, but the number of electrons coming out of the material with particular energies over a wide range of temperatures, and after the electronic properties of the material had been altered in various ways.

Over the past year, a number of prominent Republican voices have argued their party must rethink its long - standing opposition to measures designed to address climate change.

The results showed that the FOXP2 heterozygotes have difficulty producing the complex vocal communication patterns that wildtype mice can create with ease — as measured both by syllable length and the number of unique syllables produced over time.

Over the last decade, astronomers doing large photometric surveys (that is, measuring the light intensities of celestial objects) have found a number of new satellite galaxies, stellar streams, and over-densities around the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies.

One way to measure how an object's brightness changes is to count the number of photons it emits over time.

York laboratories reported that antibodies against soybean proteins were measured in 10 percent of 4,500 individuals in 1996 and that number grew to 15 percent over six - months.

Strength progression is all about how much weight you can lift, over a certain number of reps or sets, here's how to measure your progression.

I wrote awhile back about how I felt that I might be going a little mad obsessing over my blood numbers and measuring my blood glucose and ketone levels.