Sentences with phrase «number of small cities»

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«The reality is that the per - kilometre cost on a small aircraft is significantly higher than a larger aircraft that operates between major cities because the costs are divided by a much higher number of passengers,» he said.

The personal finance site recently crunched through numbers from the Small Business Administration, the Census Bureau, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics among other sources to uncover the best cities with thriving communities of educated, young entrepreneurs.

The number of startups in Detroit is small compared to cities like New York or San Francisco.

In the five years to 2000 — 01, the number of small businesses in Australia's state and territory capital cities increased by 6.4 per cent to 945,320, and only Hobart recorded a decrease in the number of small businesses.

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Compared to cities like San Francisco, New York, and London — where each has several universities within a 60 - mile radius — Las Vegas has a relatively small number of college students.

While the city is small, it also has the second - highest number of engineers per capita in the country, according to Liz Hoffswell, the vice president of the Michigan West Coast Chamber of Commerce.

At last week's Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program graduation at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, N.Y., and again this week at the White House's United State of Women Summit, Buffett offered his number - one tip for business success.

Detroit also has the fourth - largest number of minority - owned small businesses among American cities, though it ranks only 23rd by population.

St. Paul has the smallest number of establishments among the best cities to score a dream job.

Anchorage has the smallest number of establishments in our rankings, along with one other city.

A small number of cities also collect local rates ranging from 0.5 % to 1 %.

«Portland, Oregon attracts investors and a growing number of companies with its big city amenities and small town vibe.»

A number of South Side small business owners find themselves emotionally and politically conflicted between their progressive values and the city's push for a mandatory minimum wage of $ 15 an hour.

[145] Small businesses with fewer than 10 employees and self - employed firms make up 85 % of city establishments, [6] and the number of San Franciscans employed by firms of more than 1,000 employees has fallen by half since 1977.

Thirteen of the 20 cities had smaller year - over-year increases in February; in January only nine saw year - over-year numbers drop.

Although online shopping companies have created hundreds of thousands of jobs, they have not directly made up for the losses at traditional retailers, and the new jobs tend to be concentrated in a small number of large cities.

Such gaps tend to narrow for a number of reasons, including higher marginal productivity on cheaper labor and land costs in lower - tier cities, better economic integration with government - led redistribution of infrastructure and public resources from regional hubs to small neighbor cities, and broader penetration of technology, including smartphones and the internet, according to the Morgan Stanley research.

Its temples were, for example, prominently displayed in most sizeable settlements (and a number of smaller, rural ones) and dominated the public space of the towns and cities in which they were found.

Nativity scenes of Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus added color to the windows of shops across this lively city, a small symbol of the growing number of Iranians embracing the Christian holiday.

Eugene's small number of Christians (it has the fewest churches for a city its size in America) know the church, as do the colorful assortment of folks who stop by for pizza, coffee, books or conversation.

His lifestyle, behavior and piety acquired considerable influence over the small number of Christians in Seoul, now the capital - city of South Korea.

He saw human beings as tending to create a number of small and hospitable polities» the household and the city, especially» whose proportions allow a sane balance between collective duty and individual prudence, universal truth and local idiom, society and the citizen.

As for Hezekiab, the Jew, who did not submit to my yoke, 46 of his strong, walled cities, as well as the small cities in their neighborhood, which were without number, — by escalade and by bringing up siege engines, by attacking and storming on foot, by mines, tunnels and breaches, I besieged and took.

They are concentrated in the South, truer to the stereotype — about half of their members live in these areas — with large numbers, nearly seventy percent, living in small cities, towns, and rural areas.

Being able to buy a castle for the price of a small condo in New York City, a full building and maybe proximity to family given the large number of players that were born within a few hundred miles of here.

I have seen quite a number of smaller teams with much less assembly cost give man city a run for their money.

An honourable mention must go to Wigan who, with a relatively small budget, have managed to create 967 chances from open play, only 94 less than Manchester City who have spent wildly over a number of seasons.

The fees are intended to help pay for making city pools available to the relatively small number of users, officials said.

I work in a small town, so the number of refugees we see is manageable, not the massive arrival of groups like it is in the capital or other major cities.

A significantly greater number of small donors contributed to campaigns in New York City, which matches donations of less than $ 175 at a six - to - one ratio, than contributed to state - level elections, -LSB-...]

Public Matching Funds in NYC Amplify Voices of Small Donors New York City's public financing program provides matching funds for candidates who can raise a certain number of small - dollar contributions from constituents in their distSmall Donors New York City's public financing program provides matching funds for candidates who can raise a certain number of small - dollar contributions from constituents in their distsmall - dollar contributions from constituents in their district.

Last week, a group of upstate legislators, led by Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle, expressed concern in a letter written to Cuomo that lifting the perimeter rule would reduce the number of smaller commuter flights out of LaGuardia to underserved upstate cities like Buffalo and Rochester.

It appears that a relatively small number of people watched the lone debate in the election for New York City Comptroller, which occurred on Tuesday, October 17 between incumbent Democrat Scott Stringer and his Republican challenger, Michel Faulkner.

But it also helps to support everything from summer music lessons for students to the presentation of new musical instruments to a small number of college - bound city students, and music performance opportunities.

«There'll be a number of people that we'll be working with in a different fashion but look, I'm ready to work with anyone who will help New York City whether again it's on those day - to - day issues, the smaller things or whether it's on the big picture issues like saving Obamacare and making sure that the tax code is fair to New Yorkers,» de Blasio added.

And the relative success of the programs in those cities seemed to deliver numbers far smaller than Mr. de Blasio needs for his plan, which calls for the creation or maintenance of 200,000 affordable units in 10 years, to succeed.

A significantly greater number of small donors contributed to campaigns in New York City, which matches donations of less than $ 175 at a six - to - one ratio, than contributed to state - level elections, where no matching exists.

The message was clear: The new reforms will affect all city students, not just 4 - year - olds or the relatively small number of students who attend struggling schools.

The race to be the city's chief fiscal officer has, like the public advocate contest, been a sleepy one, with the incumbent Democrat holding major financial and other advantages, and heavily favored, as the higher profile mayoral race has sucked up the attention of most of whatever small number of voters is paying attention to the municipal elections.

«I ran for NYC Council in 1997 after a career as a teacher, city planner, small business owner, district manager of a community board, and having held a number of civic leadership roles.»

The total number of major felony crimes fell below 100,000 for the first time ever, no small feat for a city now home to more than 8.5 million residents.

Yesterday evening, Quinn's camp announced that the Council speaker had brokered a compromise on «paid sick time» legislation, resulting in a bill that will require some New York City businesses to provide a small number of paid sick days to their employees.

Cork City accounts for most of the smallest local election constituencies, with a number of electoral areas within the Dublin City, Dun Laoghaire - Rathdown and Galway City local authority areas also figuring on this list.

The city's Democratic Town Committee is sending pro-Gerratana delegates to the May 23 nominating convention; a far smaller number of delegates from Berlin and Farmington will also vote.

Looking ahead, DiNapoli noted that a number of large financial firms have announced plans to reduce costs, which could lead to fewer employees in New York City and smaller bonuses next year.

ALBANY — The New York Police Department, the mayor and the city's top prosecutors on Monday endorsed a proposal to decriminalize the open possession of small amounts of marijuana, giving an unexpected lift to an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to cut down on the number of people arrested as a result of police stops.

But the amount of land space taken up by cities is actually relatively small compared with the number of people they shelter: satellite image composites show that urban sites cover only 2.8 per cent of the Earth's land; accordingly the UN estimates that about 3.3 billion people occupy an area less than half the size of Australia.

Although the individual number may sound small, when added up, Facebook's — and the world's — use of row after row of computer servers stored on racks in massive, refrigerated, windowless warehouses in places like Prineville, Ore., and Forest City, N.C., consumes a growing share of the globe's energy.

Funding for astronomy is far more limited than that available for cancer research, say, and compared with most other fields of science, the number of professional astronomers is astonishingly small (the membership of the American Astronomical Society would just about fit into Radio City Music Hall).