Sentences with phrase «over past»

The rush to build over the past five years has left China drowning in overcapacity in many key sectors.

Over the past few years, we've seen both young startups and established organizations adopt this pricing approach with overwhelming success.

Almost all GrowthWorks's funds have posted negative returns over the past decade.

Over the past year, Tumblr has gone from 2 billion pageviews a month to over 13 billion and from 1 billion total posts to more than 10 billion.

Chief Louie touted his corporation's proven track record of managing major projects — $ 220 - million worth of capital spending over the past decade — as well as its ISO 9001 certification, a seal of quality management.

The rumor mill has heated up over the past few days, when it was reported that Apple had asked employees not to take vacation time during a week - long stretch later this month.

Over the past four years, Exusia, No. 18 on the Inc. 5000, grew from nine to 185 employees, and to $ 15 million in revenue.

Over the past year, Alphabet has trimmed some of the «other bets,» leading some analysts to question the company on whether it was shedding its key talent in the process.

Buffett's investments in newspaper companies including Graham Holdings (ghc)(former owner of the Washington Post) and Lee Enterprises (lee)(which publishes dozens of regional papers), are among his worst performers, with Graham's shares down 24 % and Lee's down 30 % over the past year.

That last line is key: «Increased bank reserves held at the Fed don't necessarily translate into more money or cash in circulation, and, indeed, broad measures of the supply of money have not grown especially quickly, on balance, over the past few years.»

The company, which develops self - driving and self - parking systems, has seen its shares double in only two years and is up 46 percent over the past year.

Over the past 12 months, its stock price has shot up from $ 29 to $ 48, then slid back down to $ 23, then jumped up to $ 40, and it now sits at $ 27.50.

In interviews over the past two weeks, many activists cited two key events over the past year that paved the way for the deal.

It turns out that over the past 20 years, we haven't seen a drastic increase in tuition costs, but rather a shift to a new rebate model.

On Tuesday, Calgary - based Calfrac Well Services Ltd. reported it more than doubled its first - quarter revenue compared with the same period last year and is reactivating equipment it parked over the past three years.

Over the past year, the number of CLOs, which are also significant investors in energy companies, holding defaulted debt has skyrocketed.

Recently released preliminary data from the 2012 Survey of Business Owners — the Census Bureau's effort to take stock of American companies every five years — show that the fraction of businesses owned by women improved substantially over the past five years.

We've already over the past year opened up and aggressively sought licensing deals in lots of different areas.

Gravity's 91 percent retention rate over the past three years — far above the industry average of about 68 percent — has been crucial to its success.

If you want further testimony about how much personal bankruptcies have dropped over the past decade, talk to Susan Grossberg, a Springfield, Mass., attorney.

Bob Lachky, a marketing executive who spent 25 years working at competitor Anheuser - Busch gave this campaign some high praise: «It was arguably one of the greatest campaigns over the past 30 to 40 years.»

While the share of sales going to women - owned businesses rose over the past five years, after having declined over the previous half decade, the actual fraction remains small.

O'Reilly, whose company produces technology books and events, has been at the forefront of nearly every major development in computers over the past three decades.

It reflects the type of commercial venture that's become more common over the past decade, fueled by decreases in launch costs and an influx of venture capital.

There have been multiple reports over the past six months about limited trials of Facebook's Camera feature in Ireland, Canada and Brazil.

This has caused us over the past month to set up and enforce the rule that all meetings have to be on Tuesday or Thursday and none on Monday, Wednesday or Friday.

Canada's resource sector was one of the primary drivers for employment over the past decade, according to Statistics Canada, so a correction in China would also rob this country of a key engine for job growth.

Nadal could be seen this fall on CNBC, BNN and Business Insider, offering confident reassurances on the state of the ad business and boasting that while the Big Four chose to batten down the economic hatches over the past couple of years, MDC saw it as a key time for bold investment.

Target has grown its digital sales almost 30 % annually over the past two years, a rate it claims surpasses the rest of the retail industry.

Over the past decade, the traditional sources of venture capital funding have dried up.

Over the past few months, the experts on our Team Digital have dished on everything from 12 Social - Media Mistakes That Entrepreneurs Make to How to Get Your Marketing Mojo Back.

The entrepreneurs I have interviewed over the past 20 years and the ones we met on our «Main Street Entrepreneur» tour are masters of efficiency.

It has doubled over the past decade and is projected to reach $ 350 billion by 2020, according to the province's own Financial Accountability Officer.

Regardless, the fact that this metric has fallen into the lower range of readings over the past ten years — outside of the very low readings during the crisis — suggests that recent movements in volatility have come amid relatively subdued trading volumes.»

The Dick Smith chain of technology and electrical goods shops is probably a poor example of the wider problems confronting retailing but its collapse this week is a reminder that the shake - out which has rattled the retail world over the past few years is far from over.

Over the past 12 months, over 3,000 people suspected of violent crime, murder, rape and sexual offences have been released on bail without conditions, according to the BBC.

Getting a boost from readers who want the paper to fight back against Donald Trump has helped over the past three months, but that's not enough to get it over the hump completely.

The resilience of Canada's oilsands industry over the past few weeks has been something to behold.

Over the past several years, the insurance industry has increasingly had to assess claims from natural disasters like the one tearing through northern Alberta.

Mining their massive archive of over 80 million images, the company found images of some of our favorite well - known personalities, to see how they have changed along with Getty over the past 20 years.

Barrick ended up mired in debt and dysfunction in part because it tried to boost production numbers over the past decade, just for the sake of boosting numbers.

And yet — here's where things get interesting — Canadians are far better off than one would tell looking at our dismal productivity performance over the past 20 years.

Thanks to sports» increasing value over the past two decades, Teachers» was able to parlay a $ 50 - million investment in 1994 for a 49 % stake in the Maple Leafs and Maple Leaf Gardens, one of the biggest, most profitable sports companies in the world, selling its stake for $ 1.32 billion.

As for M&A, there has been $ 500 billion worth of activity over the past three months, according to UBS, which says the annualized rate is «well above prior peaks.»

The story draws on the reporting of many journalists and stories published by other news organizations over the past two weeks.

Over the past two years, the world's top 10 happiest countries have remained the same, but have slightly shuffled positions.

In fact, over the past two years, while the S&P 500 has jumped nearly 30 percent, the utilities sector has gained only 6.5 percent — besting only the consumer staples and real estate sectors during that time.

Over the past year, we've seen volumes go up from 80 times.

The Zika virus, which is mainly transmitted by mosquitoes, has been spreading around the Americas and parts of Asia over the past year.

Apple has invested in new Apple Music video content over the past year, added peer - to - peer Apple Pay options, and has revamped its stores to deliver better customer care.