Sentences with phrase «months than this country»

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Chinese customs officials earlier this month caught a woman trying to smuggle more than 100 iPhones into the country.

Grocery shopping shouldn't set you back more than $ 150 a month at one of the country's western style supermarket chains such as Lucky or Thai Huot or well - stocked minimarts like the famously named 7 - Elephants.

Shell — a cash machine that racked up $ 9 billion in profit in the first nine months of 2017; a colossus that employs 90,000 people in more than 70 countries; a corporation that, were it a nation, would have the world's seventh - largest carbon footprint, behind Germany; and the No. 7 company on Fortune's Global 500 list last year, with $ 240 billion in sales — is in an existential squeeze.

It's not every day that a startup looking to disrupt one of the most change - resistant industries in the country manages to raise $ 150 million less than five months postlaunch.

But rather than politics, Darby, in a Dec. 3 report, wrote it's the country's monetary policy — the Bank of Thailand surprised analysts with an interest rate cut last month to boost growth — that «ought to be setting the alarm bells ringing in investors ears.»

In a little over two years, the service has registered 31 % of Zimbabwe's adult population, a group responsible for more than $ 200 million in transactions per month — that's about 22 % of the country's GDP — using their mobile phones.

Success: She's still out $ 20,000 in savings, but by the end of 2012 the website had nearly 2 million users in more than 160 countries, increasing at a rate of 30 percent every month.

However, many countries will not accept a passport with less than six months of remaining validity.

More than 2,600 drugs have some stage of manufacture in Britain and 45 million patient packs are supplied from the U.K. to other European countries each month, while another 37 million flow in the opposite direction.

Last year's surprising acquisition of Country Style Food Services Holdings, Ontario's second - largest coffee chain, boosted MTY's store count by nearly 50 %, and the most recent addition — Quebec hot - dogs - and - fries specialist Groupe Valentine, a deal that closed earlier this month — has brought the total to more than 1,700 restaurants that ring in about US$ 400 million in annual sales.

Users of digital currency bitcoin more than doubled in the Philippines in the first half of last year from a year earlier, Espenilla said, while bitcoin transactions purportedly passing through registered companies in the country range from $ 2 million to $ 3 million per month based on available estimates.

The country has seen a steady rise in killing since around 2015, and last month and the first six months of the year both had more homicides than any of the same periods over the past two decades.

In the months following its international launch, Netflix's subscriber growth was weaker than many analysts expected, and many argued that this was partly because broadband Internet access is not as widespread in many developing countries.

The collapse, the third catastrophic incident at Bangladeshi factories in five months that have killed more than 200 people, could taint Bangladesh's reputation as a source of low - cost products and services and call attention to Western retailers and other companies that obtain products from the country.

The restrictions — which currently apply to English - speaking countries — will be rolled out in more than 150 languages in the next six months.

A deal with the French oil giant Total to sell d.light's new S300 (about $ 30) and S20 (priced in the mid-teens) in its gas stations in countries like Cameroon, Indonesia and the Republic of Congo, has boosted shipments from less than 30,000 to more than 500,000 lanterns each month.

A few months ago, the blogosphere was filled with amazing comparisons of Apple's size to not just other companies — including the combined market caps of Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon at one point — but entire countries and industries as the Things Apple Is Worth More Than tumblr details.

After only nine months, our company has more than 3 million users — with paying clients from more than 100 organizations in approximately 160 countries.

China may have played an early card in this week's trade summit with the United States as officials pegged the yuan at the lowest levels against the greenback in more than three months as the country's trade surplus swells to $ 58.25 billion.

The balance of opinion reached its highest level in five years and indicates that, by a solid margin, businesses across the country saw better indicators of future sales than 12 months ago.

A purchasing managers index for factories across more than 40 countries rose to 53.5 in April from March's six - month low of 53.3, IHS Markit said in a report on Wednesday.

BERLIN — Throughout the month, countries caught in the eye of the European financial storm, including Italy, Spain and France, have repeatedly defied expectations, selling big batches of bonds to the public at interest rates significantly lower than investors demanded at the height of the euro crisis late last year.

Each month, more than 1 million visitors in 223 countries across the globe turn to InvestingAnswers.com as a trusted source of valuable information.

Further, if Tribune is successful at buying the Orange County Register and Riverside Press - Enterprise out of auction this month, he would become the business head of the biggest monopoly newspaper company in the country, serving an area of more than 20 million residents.

But the magnitude of what they had accomplished in less than two months, she said, hit when she saw images of protests across the country and around the world.

More than four months after the disclosure of the Equifax data breach, state legislatures around the country are starting to...

«The Movants have had ample opportunity to intervene in the multiple cases challenging the so - called «Fiduciary Rule» in district courts around the country, in appeals in two other circuits courts, and in this appeal, which was decided by this Court more than a month ago,» the filing said.

With more than 175 studios across the country and more opening every month, Pure Barre offers clients an effective, results - oriented workout that allows them to take control of their bodies and lifestyles.

Which has been almost universally strong, including a GDP report last week that confirms the country is in the middle of its strongest growth spurt in more than a decade and eating into slack much more quickly than the Bank of Canada had anticipated only two months ago.

The country's economy has turned out to be much stronger than anyone was predicting only a few months ago, giving policy - makers scope to bring rates back up to more normal levels.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Donald Trump's campaign expenses more than doubled last month, even as the Republican presidential nominee held his payroll to about 70 employees, aired no television advertisements and undertook no significant operational buildout across the country.

Juwai.com has more than 2million users per month from more than 400 cities in China and 165 countries around the world.

In a span of just two months in the third quarter, Morgan Stanley underwrote more than $ 3bn worth of green bonds issued by six borrowers, domiciled in three countries and issued in four different fixed income asset classes.

Over the next few months, the Canadian Labour Congress will host town hall meetings in more than 25 communities across the country.

His personal expenditures averaged more than $ 500,000 including monthly rent of $ 12,275 for his primary residence in Pound Ridge, mortgage payments on a vacation home in Stratton, Vermont, fees for multiple beach and country clubs, including a $ 30,000 payment to the Stratton Mountain Club in July 2017, and miscellaneous items charged to credit cards in amounts averaging more than $ 15,000 a month.

More than a month after shocking the market by saying that Russia was ready to join OPEC's efforts to reduce global oil supply, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that his country was ready to freeze production at «today's level», injecting more optimism that OPEC and non-OPEC producers might really pull off a deal.

Majot U.S. stock - indexes were set for their worst day in more than three months on Monday, as President Donald Trump's orders to curb travel and immigration from some countries sparked uncertainty.

From mainland China, more than $ 1 trillion dollars has left that country in the past 12 months and I am told we have a few more years of this coming (plus their currency has gained a lot against the Canadian dollar).

Syrian troops going house to house have detained more than 3,000 people in the past three days in a rebellious town that government forces recently retook in some of the worst fighting since the country's uprising began six months ago, an activist said Monday.

With less than two months left on the clock, 17 countries, including Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands, are still scrambling to convert MiFID into national law, according to Bloomberg.

From whirlwind celebrity romances to your best friend moving halfway across the country to be with a guy she's known for a month, the phrase «love makes you do crazy things» is never more true than in our current culture of immediacy.

They were released on bail from Evin Prison more than four months later, with the Azeri men returning to their home country.

Since that visit, more than a quarter of a million Americans have been initiated into TM; an estimated 15,000 per month are brought into the fellowship through 200 recruitment centers strategically located across the country.

In the months immediately after, the government arrested more than 40,000 people, including one American missionary who had worked in the country more than 20 years.

Last month, more than 500 Muslim students from around the country took an oath to call Christians Masihi (People of the Messiah), which Pakistani Christians say has a more positive connotation.

We'll be in the Capital of your country in less than a month.

August 28, 1963: Two hundred thousand Americans participate in the March on Washington and hear Martin Luther King, Jr., proclaim his dream of a country in which his children will be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin; ten months later, Congress enacts the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

When Pope Francis arrives in America next month, he will undoubtedly find a very different country than did Paul VI, John Paul II, or Benedict XVI.

When Pope Francis arrives in America next month, he will undoubtedly find a very different country than did Paul VI, John Paul II, or Benedict XVI.In the past decade, the culture of death has gained momentum (even as pro-life marches and valiant efforts to chip away at it continue), the sexual....