Sentences with phrase «over the past decade there»

Over the past decade there has been little growth in manufacturing output and the level of employment has declined, particularly over the past couple of years (Graph 3).

The first example relates to the interchange fees in the MasterCard and Visa credit card systems in the United States, where over the past decade there have been a series of competitive increases in these fees (Graph 1).

In fact, over the past decade there has only been one season in which bettors would have lost money by taking all favorites — 2012 when favorites went just 40 - 46 with -15.17 units lost.

But over the past decade there has been a major change in education.

«Over the past decade there have been dramatic improvements in breast reconstruction that utilize various types of surgical innovations, implants, and biologic tissue,» notes Dr. Small.

Over the past decade there has been growing concern about the levels of engagement with Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects by Australian students (Chubb).

Over the past decade there has been a lot of buzz about the maker movement and maker - centered activities.

However, in America, over the past decade there has been a significant increase in the number of cats reaching the age of ten.

Over the past decade there have been tremendous advances in the field.

Over the past decade there has been a steep increase in natural and eco-friendly pet product sales, and there is a trend responsible for this upsurge.

Adult Attachment Over the past decade there has been significant interest in adult attachment styles and how these patterns of attachment influence adult intimate and romantic relationships (Johnson 2008; Levine & Heller 2010).

Over the past decade there have been so many changes in the daily lives of our fellow Canadians — not only in our lives as Realtors — that have eroded our rights and freedoms.

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There's a commonality between some of the most popular food brands founded over the past decade, including Beyond Meat, Noosa Yoghurt and Nona Lim: Whole Foods.

However, there has been a striking decline in the important social infrastructure of local communities over the past few decades.

There are perhaps many explanations for this trend, but it does correlate nicely with the technological explosion — especially of the Internet — over the past few decades, which invites a sobering conclusion.

Over the past half - decade, there's been some consolidation.

Over the past few months, there's been a flurry of launches, releases and unveilings in the market, ushering with it a level of competitive optimism not seen in half a decade.

«I don't think there are enough people now who believe we can continue these outsized price gains we've seen over the past decade,» he says.

That was made harder by the climate for funding: there might have been a fair amount of funding over our past decade, especially in Silicon Valley, but that wasn't the landscape in 1987.

While there have been many iterations of the gaming device over the past few decades, the Oculus Rift has most notably brought the concept of VR to the consumer forefront in the 2010's.

In the past year, a lot of ink has been devoted to China's slowdown after its phenomenal spending boom over the last decade, but there are signs that spending is perking up — a tailwind for resources.

«Toronto has been a leader in AI over the years, really for the past two decades, and there is finally a realization that there is incredible talent, and this talent was mostly being exported to the U.S.,» Urtasun said.

Over the past decade, there have been times (such as in 1988) when higher interest rates have pushed up the exchange rate (i.e. a positive relationship between the two), but there have also been episodes (such as in 1985 and 1986) when a weakening exchange rate caused the Bank to raise interest rates (a negative relationship).

That is, there has been a reasonably high correlation in the timing of recessions and expansions among developed countries over the past few decades.

For turnover in FX derivatives, several things stand out (Graph 4): (i) activity has generally risen over the past decade even when scaled by a measure of cross-border transactions; (ii) developed Asian markets stand out as having a high degree of turnover; (iii) there was a particularly strong increase in turnover in these markets between 2013 and 2016; and (iv) FX derivatives turnover in emerging Asian economies has also increased significantly in the past few years, but remains a small part of the global market.

There was nothing new in their proposed strategy that could not be found in policy statements made by G - 7 leaders, G - 20 leaders, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and most credible Economic think tanks over the past decade.

There have been a number of recent articles pointing out that despite having to compete with several giant beer companies, the craft brewing industry has dramatically expanded over the past decade.

Over the past decade or so, there have been dozens of attempts to create a new kind of electronic currency that people could use for online transactions — there was CyberCash and DigiCash, and even smaller startups with bizarre names like Beenz and Flooz.

There are various studies that have tracked the probability of success of technology startups over the past decades, such as MIT's Edward Roberts.

If there is one lesson that investors should learn from market history over the past several decades, it's that the best time to buy stocks is when the market is tanking.

There's been a 46 % increase in the number of women running businesses over the past two decades, of which «mumpreneurs» -LSB-...]

But voters will astonish us sometimes, and so they did on May 5 — so there is a strong possibility that that today's Throne Speech will also make history in part because it charts a policy course genuinely different from that all those old Tory governments wanted to take over the past four decades, and possibly because it says forthrightly what the government actually intends to do.

 There have been increases during recessions but otherwise the trend has been steeply down over the past two decades.

In light of the issues around the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and other benchmarks that have arisen over the past decade, there has been an ongoing global reform effort to improve the functioning of interest rate benchmarks.

There has been monetary policy madness in spades over the past two decades, but within this context there is nothing especially mad about the Fed's plan to raise rates and undertake quantitative tightening at the same There has been monetary policy madness in spades over the past two decades, but within this context there is nothing especially mad about the Fed's plan to raise rates and undertake quantitative tightening at the same there is nothing especially mad about the Fed's plan to raise rates and undertake quantitative tightening at the same time.

Over the past decade, there has been no corporate instrument of mistruth more powerful than buybacks, an issue we have dissected in these pages for years.

According to the Investment Company Institute, over the past decade, the average expense ratio of actively managed equity funds has declined 21 basis points.2 With participant protection front and center from a regulatory perspective, there is a lot more riding on the investment decisions made by plan fiduciaries.

The fact is that over the past decade, the EURO countries have not been willing to take policy actions to ensure the stability of the EURO, because they involved issues related to sovereignty and fiscal integration: two areas where there were opposing entrenched views.

Over the years, military experts and prime ministers have told the Israeli public that there is simply no effective way to stop the katyusha missiles fired on the north, and over the past decade they have repeated the slogan regarding the kassam rockets in the soOver the years, military experts and prime ministers have told the Israeli public that there is simply no effective way to stop the katyusha missiles fired on the north, and over the past decade they have repeated the slogan regarding the kassam rockets in the soover the past decade they have repeated the slogan regarding the kassam rockets in the south.

An important disclaimer here is that there have been many scorecard approaches for measuring customer value over the past two decades.

There is no doubt that this debt has grown quickly over the past decade, and this has prompted a number of people to suggest that it is too high and that it presents a threat to the future health of the economy.

These numbers compare with 69 % of all people surveyed who «believe there is solid evidence that the average temperature on Earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades» and 57 % who «believe humans and other living things evolved over time.»

There seems to be renewed interest in systematic theology over the past decade or two.

If there's one thing I've learned over this past decade of parenting, it's that questions about religion demand my attention, and all the more so if they inadvertently reference a history of discrimination.

But things have changed dramatically in the past decade... perhaps because so many of my fellow ministers went through the same situation... so there is hope yet for other issues... It seems the way of the majority usually wins over time...

While it is true that great strides have been taken in furthering the equality of men and women over the past decade, feminists believe there is much work yet to be done.

But there is much more to be done, and the FAITH Movement in this Spring of 2017 sees an increasing need for the specifc message of its New Synthesis of science and the Catholic Faith, with its dynamic of understanding that has fostered so many vocations to the priesthood and so much dedicated lay activity over the past decades.

Moreover, you'll see that there has been a huge shift in attitudes over the past few decades, and no sign this is slowing down.

Benbrook and Mellon argued against genetically modified food because they say the technology hasn't done what it promised over the past two decades, it has not been determined if there are long - term health risks, weeds are becoming resistant to Bt and requiring the use of more herbicides and biotechnology can't prove it will solve the world's hunger crisis.

Over the past decade or so there have been concerns raised about market concentration in a number of key sectors.