Sentences with phrase «past decade years»

Over the past decade years, thousands of megawatts of clean renewable energy have been installed in the West thanks to the declining cost of wind and solar power and state policies like the Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS).

I've spent the past decade years visiting the world's finest luxury hotels.

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Over the past decade, public stock markets have outperformed the average venture capital fund and for 15 years, VC funds have failed to return to investors the significant amounts of cash invested, despite high - profile successes, including Google, Groupon and LinkedIn.

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

The ECB, however, said after its latest policy - making meeting Thursday that it still doesn't expect to raise its own interest rates until «well past» September next year — and even then, only if it is absolutely sure that inflation is back on track after a decade of undershooting.

I'm not sure that in the past year or, honestly, in the past decade or two, there has been a single deal that will be regarded as a more impactful transaction across multiple industries and the entire omni - channel economy than Amazon's recently announced acquisition of Whole Foods.

That operating wizardry has allowed the sports - apparel Goliath to push its dividend up steadily, at 18 % a year over the past decade, an «astonishingly good number,» says Kilbride.

In the past decade, Goldstein's three businesses, which include the subprime lender Enova, which he started a year after graduating college in 2004; real estate site and Inc. 5000 company Pangea Properties, and 2015 30 Under 30 listee lender Avant, have added 2,200 new jobs to the economy.

There was some positive news last year: Women - led companies made up 4.94 % of all VC deals in 2016 — the highest percentage in the past decade.

Over the past three decades, companies less than five years of age have added an average 1.5 million new jobs annually, while older firms have tended to just shed jobs.

In 2016, women got just 2.19 % of venture capital funding — a smaller piece of the pie than in every year this past decade, with the exception of 2008 and 2012.

Adam Belsher, who left his job in September as vice-president of the Verizon business unit at RIM after seven years with the company, says the lack of accountability is partly a result of the company's rapid growth over the past decade.

Yet there is one economist who has made big and bold predictions for the past five decades with exacting precision, and in doing so, he has shown it's possible to be a 79 - year - old economist and still be in the game.

Last year's prize in the category went to composer Dun Yu's album «Angel's Bone,» and the past several decades of awards in the category have largely gone to instrumental LPs.

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.

Whereas Silicon Valley has been at it for at least three decades, the funds in Chile have only been investing for the past five or six years.

Over the past decade, determining the cause - and - effect relationship between medical debt and bankruptcy has become a political football, particularly during the years the Obama administration was trying to pass the ACA through Congress.

The rise of the numbers for women - owned businesses over the past five years is cause for cheer among those who would like to see more equality of business ownership, particularly given the stagnant numbers or declines over the previous half decade.

Store brands» market share has risen to 17.5 percent over the past two years after hovering around 16 percent for over a decade.

Over the past decade, the number of two - year - old - in - training sales has risen, Wagner notes, a symptom of racehorse investors» looking for a quick route to the winner's circle.

Lewis managed to meet his goal of «one dollar more» than the previous year for all but six of his 45 years on air to date, earning around $ 60 million annually over the past decade, for a career total of nearly $ 2.5 billion.

Waugh says the constant travel and punishing hours of the past two decades were not easy on his wife of 38 years, Lynne, or their three sons, now in their late 20s and early 30s.

In the past half - decade, the company that started making tractors for Italian farmers more than 55 years ago has unveiled the $ 242,300 Huracán — known for its smoother, sleeker (more affordable) demeanor behind the wheel — and the $ 200,000 Urus, its first SUV since the LM002 went out of production decades ago.

Here's the likelihood that a person has been married at least once at some point in his or her life for every year of age over the past few decades:

The problem, he warned, is that Canada's workforce is rapidly aging, while its companies are stuck in a low productivity gear, putting the country on track to generate only half of the annual growth in the next few decades that Canadians have come to expect over the past 50 years.

The privately held Levi Strauss is also, importantly, self - insured — and has a fairly significant share of employees who stay at the company past a decade, including many who've been there 20 years or more.

According to the Solar Energy Industries Association, solar energy has grown by an average of 68 percent per year in the past decade.

Had it not been for Tiger's absurd run for the better part of a decade between 2000 - 2010, more people would be talking about Dustin Johnson's run of top - tier performances over the past year.

One of the patients was 82 — decades past her childbearing years.

The country has seen a steady rise in killing since around 2015, and last month and the first six months of the year both had more homicides than any of the same periods over the past two decades.

During those years, and especially the past decade or so, the store has been veritably overrun with toys and collectibles.

The raw figures tell the tale: net migration to Ontario, for example, has averaged 82,000 annually over the past decade, and reached 141,000 last year.

The ratio has previously been this low only six times during the past two decades; whenever that happens, stocks have rallied over the next year by more than 50 %, on average.

Microsoft, for one, has successfully employed such a strategy for years, and has managed to double both sales and profits over the past decade.

But its runway the next several years could rival the huge growth in the U.S. over the past half - decade.

In the past year, Smith also became co-director of eConventus Holdings (B.C.) Ltd., the latest venture of one Mohammed (Mo) Jiwani, who has left a trail of hapless investors across the country over more than a decade.

A study by the Pew Research Center has found that in the last 20 years migration flow from Mexico to the U.S. has been cut down significantly, and in the past decade more Mexican immigrants have been leaving the country than coming in.

This unit has seen revenues increase from $ 2 million to $ 20 million a year over the past decade.

Companies have been using the strategy for decades, but recapitalizations have become increasingly popular the past few years, thanks in large part to the fast - growing private equity market.

Based on its track record, it should have no problem doing that: it has doubled in size every four years for the past two decades.

During the past two decades, Maitland, now 71, who generally takes four or five vacations a year, has flown in a hot - air balloon over the Swiss Alps, ridden a camel by the Great Pyramid in Egypt, seen India from atop an elephant, and taken in Bangladesh while floating down the Ganges aboard a barge.

More than one million people die from AIDS each year — an enormous number, but one that has decreased steadily throughout the past decade thanks in large part to anti-retroviral medicines that can slow its spread within the body.

Of course, the move would also cost them billions in revenue — the FCC estimates that the average American household pays $ 231 in set - top box rental fees per year, a number that's only gone up over the past couple of decades.

The search for authenticity has led organic food sales to more than triple over the past decade and increase 11 % last year alone to $ 35.9 billion, according to the Organic Trade Association.

He ran wireless antenna designer Antenova for a decade and then headed Aero, a contract installer of wired and wireless network equipment, for the past four years.

But three years — the legal cask - aging requirement for Canadian rye — is a long time to wait for a product in whisky - thirsty Ontario, which has seen a 264 % increase in sales over the past decade.

He cast Clinton as a Washington insider, digging up past scandals and reframing her decades in the political arena as a liability in a year when voters voiced increasing frustration with the political status quo.

Over the past decade and a half, they and the major insurers have snapped up most of the biggest properties — OMERS bought Brookfield Place in Toronto four years ago, for example, while London Life and Great - West Life jointly spent $ 382 million on Calgary's Gulf Canada Square in 2007 — and today are believed to own almost 90 % of downtown Toronto's commercial space.

I've had my eye on Israel for several years now, since working on my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, and learning that much of the country's economic success over the past few decades has been the result of a meshing between technology and the military.

What most agree on is that the coming years will be very different from the past decade for real estate.