Sentences with phrase «near decade highs»

Now, though, an improving economy and increasing emerging - market demand for new airplanes have pushed orders back to near decade highs — in 2011 Airbus received 1,419 orders for its planes — and Boeing and Airbus are trying to get through a backlog of about 4,000 aircraft apiece.

The NAB survey of employment intentions for the quarter ahead is at its highest level in almost a decade, while the ACCI - Westpac survey is also near a decade high.

Not exact matches

The labor market is tighter than it has been in decades, with unemployment near an all - time low at 4.1 % and unfilled job openings near an all - time high at about 6 million.

It might be difficult to recall, what with a hit movie out and LEGO sales near an all - time high, but just a decade ago the company was on the brink, bleeding $ 1 million in cash a day and posting record deficits.

Higher growth rates are not impossible, of course, but to get the arithmetic to work for me it would take some fairly implausible assumptions — mainly that Beijing engineers the transfer of 2 - 3 % of GDP every year from the state sector to the household sector — for China to achieve growth rates anywhere near 6 % for the next decade.

Equities have benefitted from interest rates hovering near zero for a decade, leaving little alternatives for investors seeking higher returns.

It's been less than a decade since the housing bubble burst, yet home prices in the UK and US today hover near new highs.

Cech has proved himself at the highest level for near on a decade..

In the near - decade that I spent covering high school sports at a previous Bay Area publication, I'd been interviewed for television while on the sidelines or in the office.

Each year for the last decade, students have planted more than 2.5 acres of prairie grasses near the high school, creating a living laboratory they can observe and study.

Over the last decade, Moldova has dramatically developed its links with the EU: in Levitsky and Way's framework, it is nearer «high linkage, high leverage» in terms of relations with the West.

While teachers» unions remain near the top of the list of the state's highest - spending interest groups, a position they've occupied for decades, they no longer dominate education lobbying in New York.

The mission aims to launch a lightweight space telescope to directly image exoplanets around Earth's nearest star system, Alpha Centauri A and B. With a budget the fraction of the cost of a mid-size astrophysics mission, and a planned launch by the end of the decade, this venture represents an ambitious leap forward in low - cost, high - impact space exploration.

Unfortunately, we've been told this lie for decades and it won't change in the near future (too much money in the low - fat high - carbs business).

Our highest - ranking film from the past three decades, Wong Kar - wai's tremulous near - romance should rightly take its place as one the signature works of atmospheric longing.

Decades of research and reform efforts in K - 12 and higher education have yielded one area of near - universal agreement: exceptional educational institutions have excellent leaders.

High school dropout rates have hovered near 30 percent for the past three decades, with those who do not earn a diploma — who are disproportionately low - income and minority students — more likely to face various social, economic, and health challenges over their lifetimes.

Though single - family construction is nowhere near its mid-2005 peak, according to NAHB data, it's currently at its highest level in nearly a decade.

Market timing, commonly understood as attempting to sell stocks when the market is near a high and buying back in when it is near a low, has fallen into disrepute in recent decades.

Or is it the bears, who see the FTSE 100 at record highs and a near - decade old bull market which must be well into -LSB-...]

It was the only decade where stocks began at the lows and finished right near the highs.

In late October, the «spread» in interest rates between high - yield bonds and Treasury bonds neared the lowest level in a decade, meaning that investors were getting less of a premium for assuming higher risk.2 A November survey found that 60 % of high - yield investors believed the bonds were overvalued.3

Just over a decade ago Sony did exactly that with the pricing of the original PS3, which had an initial price of $ 599, a figure so high it became the source of near endless amounts of internet mockery.

A decade later, the location halfway between Beverly Hills and LAX airport has become home to the one of the highest concentrations of blue - chip galleries in the Southland as well as perhaps the most walkable art scene, since all the spaces are located near the intersection of La Cienega and Washington Boulevard.

Lee has attained near - legendary status in Asia and enjoys a high degree of recognition in Europe: over the past four decades he has held dozens of solo shows in Tokyo, Seoul, London and Paris and during the past 15 years his work has been included in major group exhibitions at the New York Guggenheim and

Titled «Memory as Medicine,» this near - two - decade survey (organized by Carol Thompson and Michael Rooks of the originating High Museum of Art in Atlanta) featured thirty - one works riffing on key chapters from the grand narrative of black history, with frequent allusions to tribal West Africa, aptly demonstrating the artist's inspired ability to present his modern world as a continuum with his genetic past.

Rising production, record end - of - winter storage inventories, and mild weather contributed to spot natural gas prices nearing their lowest levels in a decade until prices rebounded at most trading points to the high $ 2 / MMBtu range by the end of June.

The higher emissions are in the near term, the greater the required emissions reductions in later decades for limiting warming.

''... worked with two sediment cores they extracted from the seabed of the eastern Norwegian Sea, developing a 1000 - year proxy temperature record «based on measurements of δ18O in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, a planktonic foraminifer that calcifies at relatively shallow depths within the Atlantic waters of the eastern Norwegian Sea during late summer,» which they compared with the temporal histories of various proxies of concomitant solar activity... This work revealed, as the seven scientists describe it, that «the lowest isotope values (highest temperatures) of the last millennium are seen ~ 1100 - 1300 A.D., during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, and again after ~ 1950 A.D.» In between these two warm intervals, of course, were the colder temperatures of the Little Ice Age, when oscillatory thermal minima occurred at the times of the Dalton, Maunder, Sporer and Wolf solar minima, such that the δ18O proxy record of near - surface water temperature was found to be «robustly and near - synchronously correlated with various proxies of solar variability spanning the last millennium,» with decade - to century - scale temperature variability of 1 to 2 °C magnitude.»

Despite a record (or near record, depending on who you ask) high for global temperatures in 2010, the general rate of warming over the past decade and half (going on two decades) is generally less than it was expected to be.

But just 32 percent of American oil comes from offshore sources, and total U.S. production of crude oil and liquid fuels in 2011 is expected to stay near 2010 levels, which were higher than any other year in the past decade.

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The U.S. heat wave of 1936 was similarly high, came near the end of two decades of warming, but temperatures starting falling shortly thereafter.

New, satellite - derived precipitation estimates offer the prospect of near - global climatologies covering at least one or two decades, but multi-decadal global changes can not be estimated with high confidence.

A lack of existing home inventory continues to drive growth for residential construction and sustain strong home - builder confidence — now hovering near a two - decade high.