Sentences with phrase «now than in past years»

In all fairness, I did see less of this faux pas but they seem even more prevalent now than in past years.

While the CDC reports that more moms are breastfeeding now than in past years, we saw that less than 50 % of babies are exclusively breastfed until 6 months of age?

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More than half have updated their resumes in the past three months, and 43 % say they are more likely to consider a new job offer now than they were a year ago.

Battered by nearly a year of off - and - on declines from record highs because of fears of a slowdown in iPhone sales, Apple «s stock now is valued closer to IBM, which has disappointed Wall Street for the past four years with declining revenue, than to Silicon Valley technology pioneers Alphabet and Tesla Motors.

The company now has more than 400 employees, and has doubled the number of engineers in the past year.

For long - term growth, the company must continue its international expansion, and its record in the American market is decidedly middling.While it doubled its U.S. presence over the past five years, now boasting more than 645 outlets, it was also forced to close 54stores there in 2010.

Women have largely flocked to medical and law schools in greater numbers over the past few years, but they are now turning to business school as well in part because business schools are mindful of the shortage of women students and are recruiting them more aggressively than they have before.

In fact, there are more unicorns now than at any other time in the past four years, thanks in part to free - flowing venture capital, and investors seeking big payoffs for companies they hope will be the next Facebook or GooglIn fact, there are more unicorns now than at any other time in the past four years, thanks in part to free - flowing venture capital, and investors seeking big payoffs for companies they hope will be the next Facebook or Googlin the past four years, thanks in part to free - flowing venture capital, and investors seeking big payoffs for companies they hope will be the next Facebook or Googlin part to free - flowing venture capital, and investors seeking big payoffs for companies they hope will be the next Facebook or Google.

Instead, her costs have gone up nearly 30 percent in the past year alone, and she now pays $ 10,000 for a high - deductible plan that covers less of her health care needs than in prior years, Olsen says.

He's now president and CEO of the company which has more than $ 300 million in sales, has grown by almost 200 percent in the past five years and plans to hire nearly 200 employees this year.

Investors over the past few years who had the foresight to lock in yields that are far better than they are now currently have been rewarded.

I have spend the past 7 years building up my company from startup to success and it has been richly rewarding in experience and economically, but unlike gadgetmind and King of Cornwall I am more excited about this investing phase than I am now about my own business.

Specifically, management's business transformation is «deeper» than what it committed to over the past few years, including the merchant organization now focusing on differentiated products and digital merchandising, opening a sourcing office in Shanghai, and an evaluation of the supply chain that could result in greater investments in fulfillment.

British households now conserve significantly less than # 1 in every # 20 of cash flow — half the rate at which they put money away forty many years in the past British households now conserve just four.8 pc of their income — significantly less than half the fee at which men...

The more general forces that have influenced the exchange rate over the past year or so have been the relative strength of the Australian economy, the associated yield differential in favour of Australian dollar assets, and the continued improvement in Australia's terms of trade, which are now at their highest level in more than 25 years.

Two of the most vaunted physics results of the past few years — the announced discovery of both cosmic inflation and gravitational waves at the BICEP2 experiment in Antarctica, and the supposed discovery of superluminal neutrinos at the Swiss - Italian border — have now been retracted, with far less fanfare than when they were first published.

We now have examples from seven or eight African countries where the proportion of men and women reporting more than one sexual partner in the past year has declined significantly, and this is followed by a general decline in HIV prevalence at the national level.

To those atheists who kept on attacking Christianity and Judaism: Without the Christianity factor in the past 2000 years and Judaism in the more than 2000 years, you would not be living in the kind of civilization you are living now.

The incidence of consumers ordering food described on the menu as «gluten - free» or «wheat - free» has grown over time and is now more than double what it was four years ago — accounting for more than 200 million restaurant visits in the past year, NPD reports.

Totally see where your coming from Jon.I believe he has become frustrated at Dortmund as they have not progressed as a club over the past 4 - 5 years and he has previously touted himself for a move to Madrid that never materialised.This is his chance to play for the biggest club he is now ever likely to play for so you would trust he recognises this and proves he is the talent his build up portrays.The EPL is a much tougher and more competitive league than he has ever played in before so he has a lot to prove both to us and to himself.He appears a confident player so let's hope the hype is worth it

I wanted Wenger to leave for the past 4 years, but now he is taking the club to a lever where I would want him dead than retire, as even if he retires he would take up a position in the board and would not let anyone do a better job than him.

Why the media got it for Arsenal, we bottle some games we are expected to win, proving some pundits that hates the club right time after time, games are not comfortably won, last season we had a better away record than home, We have an overall poor result against the big teams for the past 5 years, we haven't won the league for 12 years now, we haven't made a proper challenge in Europe for 10 years and on top of it we have an Owner who doesn't care about football, just the money he makes, so many reasons.

Why are we trying to postpone the situation that will surely happened, Wenger go Wenger stay, that Man can't be there forever even if he's winning trophies yearly, if winning champions league and premier league in between 10 years now is primary joy of the fans then Wenger can go now, another history can happen bad today good tomorrow is the process to greatness and success, all the more successful club have got some difficult past, it's better than remaining in limbo and zombie, no fail no passed

The thing that really bothers me is the thing we've disagreed on in the past and that's imo Wengers apparent lack of Urgency and decisiveness when moving into the transfer window I know that Scheweinsteiger would be a great addition but He is somewhat over the hill in comparison to the others that are being toted about and while I know that we are not the cash Rich Man Poo or Man Sh!tty or Chelski I do know that we are at a point for the first time in ten years where we don't need to replace many players or are being frced to sell the quality ones we have, we are for the first time in a spot where we only need to add two or three players and we are there in terms of being able to compete, Id hate for the financial Exuberance to stop us taking that final stride forward into the competitive team we nearly are IMO spend the money now, get the striker, get the DM and we wont need to look at transfers in a big way again for several seasons and with that in mind Id rather have the likes of Benzema or Lacazetta or even Cavanni than a nearly over the hill Scheweinsteiger.

I would rather want quality over quantity, and in the past he was forced to buy cheap and ultimately not really get the best players... but now I feel I would rather buy one world class player at a time and bind them in for the long term, than buy 2 mediocre players and then moan about them a year down the line when they are not consistent enough and under performing.

The past year has been a hairpin turn for Armstrong: divorcing Kristin, buying another house in Austin a 60 - second walk from the one his three children still live in, falling in love again «way sooner» than he figured he would and now having to leave the kids (the oldest a four - year - old) to train in Europe for two months.

The fact is spurs now play better and attacking football better than us, though they may have 2 trophies in d past 30 years, but tell me from what you av watched, who is closer to the EPL title between us and spurs in character and talent and gameplay....

Arsenal have now just begun what should be a delivery phase of Wenger's tenure and, with more than # 100 million spent on the squad in the past two years, the old mitigation of a lack of funds or experience is markedly less convincing.

The public perception of United is that they are now a pragmatic side who is more cautious in their approach than in past years.

Visit the library — The library has been an invaluable resource this school year, and I know we've saved so much money by utilizing our local libraries more now than we ever did in the past.

Although having to go through IVF and gestational diabetes and 2 c - sections and Joey's NICU / nursery stays and both kids self weaning were all huge emotional and physical traumas for me (and my husband), now that they're in the past and I'm a mommy to two amazing toddlers, I can see that it all worked out how it was supposed to.And my advice to all new mothers who hope / plan to nurse take a breastfeeding class when pregnant, have a breastpump in the house before the baby is born, buy nursing bras that have front panels that you can open easily (and bring some to the hospital with you when you go to give birth), don't be afraid to pump and let someone else give the baby a bottle of your milk when you need to sleep, hold off on introducing baby food until much closer to 1 year old than 6 ohtnms, and be prepared for it to be hard and possibly painful at first (think cracked, bleeding nipples and breasts that are so full of milk you think they will explode so also have lanolin and / or nipple cream in the house, and nurse or pump well before you let yourself become engorged and in pain).

Most interventions are used less now than in the past — those that were routine just five or 10 years ago are currently used only on an as - needed basis.

It's a less stressful job than in years past, now that the city has inked contracts with most of the municipal workforce and with a budget the mayor himself has admitted isn't exactly as exciting as his previous ones.

«It probably makes it less predictable,» the Rochester Democrat said, «in the sense that people in the past with leadership that had been around for many years might have opined on what they thought would happen with perhaps greater degree of confidence than maybe is the case now.

The bill, which now has 40 sponsors in the Senate — eight more than is needed - has died in the Senate the past two years.

Conservatives have more reason now to be optimistic than they have had in the past 50 years.

Downtown Brooklyn's residential population has almost quadrupled in the past 15 years from 5,733 in 2004 to more than 20,000 now, according to the letter.

Growth rates for concentrations of carbon dioxide have been faster in the past 10 years than over any 10 - year period since continuous atmospheric monitoring began in the 1950s, with concentrations now roughly 35 percent above preindustrial levels (which can be determined from air bubbles trapped in ice cores).

In comparable interglacials in the past half million years, when temperatures were less than 1 °C warmer than they are now, sea level was around 5 metres higheIn comparable interglacials in the past half million years, when temperatures were less than 1 °C warmer than they are now, sea level was around 5 metres highein the past half million years, when temperatures were less than 1 °C warmer than they are now, sea level was around 5 metres higher.

In 2013, around 2.5 % of people across the country reported having used the devices in the past month; among adolescents, e-cigarettes are now used more than conventional cigarettes, said the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in April this yeaIn 2013, around 2.5 % of people across the country reported having used the devices in the past month; among adolescents, e-cigarettes are now used more than conventional cigarettes, said the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in April this yeain the past month; among adolescents, e-cigarettes are now used more than conventional cigarettes, said the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in April this yeain April this year.

The ice cores showed the glaciers on Mt. Hunter are melting more now than at any time in the past 400 years.

«Our estimates show that the growth in Chinese emissions has slowed a lot in the past two to three years, and is now much lower than at any point since the early 2000s,» said study lead author Jan Ivar Korsbakken, senior climate economics researcher at CICERO.

The expansion of BSL -4-lab networks in the United States and Europe over the past 15 years — with more than a dozen now in operation or under construction in each region — also met with resistance, including questions about the need for so many facilities.

Research in recent years has suggested that young Americans might be less creative now than in decades past, even while their intelligence — as measured by IQ tests — continues to rise.

Comparing data from the 2001 - 2002 and 2012 - 2013 NESARC waves, the researchers found that the prevalence of drinking at levels two and three times or more the standard binge thresholds in the past year was significantly higher in the most recent NESARC wave, suggesting that more adults are engaging in extreme binge drinking now than a decade earlier.

Growing interest in the unconventional therapy is due in part to the fact that C. difficile colitis cases have tripled in the past decade and now afflict more than half a million people a year.

Illegal drugs are now cheaper and purer than at any time in the past 20 years.

The past year has been a huge one for the Instagram app, which now has more than 100 million users, up from 15 million in December 2011.

As a result of Brazil's mounting economic woes, federal funding for science and technology is now at its lowest level in modern history, dropping by more than half over the past 5 years.

With the primarily positive developments of 2007, the potential for a long - term agreement between the United States and DPRK is greater now than at any time in the past five years.