Sentences with phrase «past dozen years»

Approximately 93 percent of small business owners in one small survey overpaid their taxes over the past dozen years.

More bracing still, other leadership surveys over the past dozen years have consistently concluded the same.

Last month, unit sales were the lowest for any August in the past dozen years, and nearly 40 % below the 10 - year August norm.

Denton told POLITICO Media that he is not concerned about giving up some control to an outside investor — which is a reversal of virtually everything he's said for the past dozen years — because having to justify his decisions to someone outside Gawker would lead him to make better decisions.

The stock's relative price / earnings ratio, as can be seen in the Top Label, implies that its valuation is higher than it has been in the past dozen years, as displayed in the Array.

Over the past dozen years of buyer research and buyer persona development, I can boil the acquiring of profound buyer insights down to two big things: qualitative synthesis and context.

It has varied cyclically over the past dozen years, but around a flat trend.

During the past dozens years, best - in - class organizations, from Fortune 500 to mid-size companies, have made use of persona - based...

Over the past dozen years or so, I've watched as faith has grown more brash in it's certainty, and less tolerant of dissent, and more determined than ever to force it's doctrines and dogmas on to the rest of us.

With good reason: the term has come into prominence only in the past dozen years (after Newsweek named 1976 «The Year of the Evangelical»), and evangelicals themselves fight over what the term does and should mean.

-- during the past dozen years has suffered more stigma and shame through these links than it has enjoyed favor and prosperity.

When two major classical Pentecostal bodies in the past dozen years established graduate theological schools, both avoided the term «theological seminary.»

For the past dozen years, I've been co-chairing, with Professor Robert Millet of Brigham Young University — the respected Mormon school - a behind - closed - doors dialogue between about a dozen evangelicals and an equal number of our Mormon counterparts.

«Some fans, like myself, think that Saban's 20 - year track record (and certainly the past dozen years) already make him at least the equal, and maybe better, than Bryant,» Roll «Bama Roll manager Erik Evans said.

His regular gig involves training business folk to use solar energy, but Conte has also moonlighted as an NHL off - ice official for nearly three decades, including the past dozen years as the sin bin supervisor.

In January, Whitney Donhauser will take the helm at the Museum of the City of New York, an organization that has battled its way from financial jeopardy over the past dozen years.

For the past dozen years, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown has delivered budget proposals that held the line on property taxes or, in some cases, offered slight decreases.

Prosecutors said Silver has pocketed $ 6 million in the past dozen years from two law firms — Weitz & Luxenberg and Goldberg & Iryami, which was not formally named in the complaint — in exchange for no discernible legal work.

The Assembly Democrats have passed the measure to extend the time frames for victims to bring cases several times over the past dozen years, including in 2017.

As the Citizens Union reports, 96 % of state incumbents won re-election over the past dozen years.

During the past dozen years, crews from the Natural History Museum of Utah, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and several other partner institutions (e.g., the Utah Geologic Survey, the Raymond Alf Museum of Paleontology, and the Bureau of Land Management) have unearthed a new assemblage of more than a dozen dinosaurs in GSENM.

The Richard Tapia Center for Excellence and Equity has helped 89 minority students earn Ph.D. s in those fields over the past dozen years, a record unmatched by any other university, much less a single professor.»

Over the past dozen years, scientists using molecular techniques have identified all sorts of bacteria that dwell inside insects» cells.

«Research at the Center for Sustainable Systems over the past dozen years has focused on helping consumers navigate this complexity and identify opportunities for cost savings and lower environmental impact,» said Keoleian, who is also a professor at the School for Environment and Sustainability.

Such radiative forcing is easy to see in the recent climate record: 11 of the past dozen years «rank among the 12 warmest years in the instrumental record of global surface temperature (since 1850),» the scientists note in the summary.

In the past dozen years, however, numerous exoplanetary discoveries have been announced, including a suite of 30 new planets unveiled in October by the European Southern Observatory's HARPS planet - finding collaboration that boosted the full set of known exoplanets to more than 400.

In the new study, Charles Hailey, an astrophysicist at Columbia University, and his colleagues scrutinized the past dozen years of data gathered by the Chandra X-ray Observatory, an orbiting craft whose instruments are designed to detect high - energy radiation emitted by the immensely hot material surrounding exploded stars and near black holes.

NEWCOMB said she had tried internet dating over the past dozen years with varying success.

In the past dozen years, he has mostly got stuck in a loop of romantic comedies, deploying that low, indolent drawl of his as a tool of come - hither charm; it's no less effective in «Killer Joe,» but the snares in his voice are now baited with money and lust.

Rachel also works in film production and has produced / directed short films for the past dozen years.

After turning out over the past dozen years or so a series of blunted, would - be crowd - pleasing and essentially second - or third - rate films — Primary Colors (1998), The Birdcage (1996), Wolf (1994), Regarding Henry (1991), Postcards from the Edge (1990), Biloxi Blues (1988) and Working Girl (1988)-- I don't think Nichols has anything to complain about.

American movies today are in a worse state than ever, to judge by the recent Academy Award nominations — the sorriest list of honorees I've ever seen in a 90 - year - old process that has, for at least the past dozen years, steadily declined.

A mawkish drama about a wealthy patriarch (Richard Jenkins) who gathers his family around his Manhattan hospital bed to witness his decision to go off life support after fighting cancer for the past dozen years.

Death is just about everywhere in this version of Boston, which makes it close to almost every version of Boston filmed in the past dozen years.

Whether you find director Peter Jackson's work majestic and whimsical, or just bombastic and twee, his Tolkien films have created an indelible set of cinematic images over the past dozen years.

The film's title refers to the number of top movies directed by women over the past dozen years.

While reaching out to fellow Democrats, choice proponents in the minority community have sought to build alliances with Republicans and with libertarian organizations like the Institute for Justice, which has represented poor parents in every voucher case that has come before the courts in the past dozen years, including Zelman.

Kennedy School economist Ron Ferguson has assembled here eight of his better papers, written over the past dozen years, that deal with the achievement gap and how to tackle it; he has updated several and integrated them via a perceptive new introduction and conclusion.

Over the past dozen years, he has served as a teacher, dean of students, assistant principal, principal, and education officer.

For the past dozen years — the No Child Left Behind era — the primary metric for measuring school performance in most states and in federal policy has been the proficiency rate.

Neoliberal reformers — the ones who have been assessing you for the past dozen years — act as if cognitive «skills» can somehow be taught in the abstract, independent of content.

A Mercury News investigation published in April revealed how the state's online charter schools run by Virginia - based K12 Inc., the largest for - profit charter operator in the country, has «a dismal record of academic achievement» but has won more than $ 310 million in state funding over the past dozen years.»

But would the work of the past dozen years, which had featured a relentless, top - down focus on goal setting and metrics, enable the system to organize itself to meet these challenges?

A Mercury News investigation published in April revealed how the state's online charter schools run by Virginia - based K12 Inc., the largest for - profit charter operator in the country, have «a dismal record of academic achievement» but has won more than $ 310 million in state funding over the past dozen years.

* A Mercury News investigation published in April revealed that the state's online charter schools run by Virginia - based K12 Inc., the largest for - profit charter operator in the country, have «a dismal record of academic achievement» but have won more than $ 310 million in state funding over the past dozen years.

And a Mercury News investigation published in April found that the state's online charter schools, run by Virginia - based K12 Inc., the largest for - profit charter operator in the country, have «a dismal record of academic achievement» but have won more than $ 310 million in state funding over the past dozen years.