Sentences with phrase «past number of decades»

It's gotten a bad rap over the past number of decades, so companies have been doing everything possible to make everything low fat and «healthy!»

C - section rates have risen quite dramatically in the past number of decades with millions of babies being delivered by this way every year.

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Additionally, the number of people who report having a close confidante in their lives has been declining over the past few decades.

In Canada, the opportunity to improve is immense — the number of people with inadequate literacy skills has increased to almost one in two the past decade.

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.

Two - thirds of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, a number that has been rising steadily for the past three decades.

Far from an economic powerhouse, China's economy remains a middleweight when its vast number of poor people is taken into account — the country's per capita GDP is only around US$ 4,500, 1 / 10th that of the U.S. And as a share of the economy, household incomes have actually declined over the past decade.

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.

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.

In the last couple decades, the growth in the number of women's businesses (up 68 percent), employment (up 11 percent), and revenues (up 72 percent) blows past the growth rates of all but the largest publicly - traded businesses, and tops growth rates among all other privately - held businesses over this period.

His thesis is that the primary drivers of the banks» growth over the past two decades (lower corporate taxes, a favourable regulatory environment allowing consolidation in the sector) will no longer be as significant, and a number of challenges — including new regulations — will slow their growth.

The number of investments by Canadian VCs, and their size, has sagged dramatically in the past decade and a half.

As John Herrman at The Awl described so thoroughly in a recent piece he wrote about the disintermediation of journalism by the web and social media, one of the biggest shifts in media of the past decade has been the ability for anyone — journalist or not — to pick up a phone and share information with vast numbers of people.

«The number of established small businesses that are not micro-enterprises used to increase about the same rate or more than micro-enterprises in the past decades,» Morelix says.

Why, after a number of Facebook privacy scandals over the past decade, are users finally thinking about why they trust Facebook?

Indeed, a recent study suggests the number of retail gas stations has been slowly dropping over the past two decades, with a «continued lack of profitability» as the driving force behind the decline.

The number of $ 1 million to $ 2 million funding rounds has grown sevenfold over the past decade.

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 decadeOf 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 decadeof decades.

Given that sort of longevity, you'd expect Motel 6 to have flat growth, but the number of U.S. franchises has quadrupled in the past decade, from 197 in 2007 to 801 in 2017.

Over the past two decades, this seed has grown into a snaking vine, nurtured by a number of vocal conspiracy theorists.

For most of the past decade, in fact, the number of natural gas vehicles (NGVs) on North American roads has been declining.

While the number of startups has increased exponentially, the number of active venture capitalists has shrunk by more than 2 / 3rds in the past decade to less than 750 today and still shrinking.

In fact, more than one third of the U.S. population is now officially obese while the number of people classified as morbidly obese jumped more than 350 % in the past three decades alone.

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.

«In the past decade they've seen three times the number of natural disasters, but the cost is 10 times the cost.

Over the past decade, the number of knowledge workers in Columbus grew by about 34 percent, with the share of knowledge workers increasing from 22 percent to 26 percent.

But, then, the number of shark attacks also increased over the past two decades, a function in part of how many people spend time at the shore.

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

Headquartered at Dubai International Financial Centre, NBK Capital Partners has advised on investments of over US$ 1 billion and has a track record of 17 realizations from 30 investments, the highest number of profitable exits by an alternative investments firm in the region over the past decade.

However, as with all mature businesses, P&G's sheer size has caused a number of growth and innovation challenges over the past decade.

One factor supporting the Australian dollar over the past couple of years has been that interest rates right across the yield curve in Australia, and perceived returns on other assets, have been higher than those in a number of other countries, particularly those which experienced a recession and a collapse of share prices in the early part of this decade.

According to Dr. Chen Duanjie at the University of Calgary, even though the number of SOEs has been reduced substantially over the past decade, the number of non-financial SOEs in China numbers over 114,000.

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.

[2] Consequently, over the past decade the number of households has no longer been growing faster than the population.

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.»

Over the past three decades, the number of homeschooled children has grown by at least 7 percent a year» the number may now exceed the number attending charter schools» and between 6 and 12 percent of all students are educated at home at some point between kindergarten and twelfth grade.

Over the past three decades, the number of homeschooled children has grown by at least 7 percent a year....

Outside of small dips in 2004 and 2009, the number of attacks has steadily increased in the past decade, according to START.

The Association of Theological Schools (ATS), which includes more than 270 institutions in the US and Canada, found that extension enrollment has dipped by about 26 percent over the past decade, according to self - reported and adjusted figures, while online numbers have more than doubled.

The past decade has seen a rapid transformation in public opinion and legal norms around sexuality, same - sex marriage, transgender rights, and religion in the public square — changes that have caused anxiety for a great number of traditional religious believers, including Christians, Muslims, and Orthodox Jews.

In the past decade it has reappeared as the major tenet of an undetermined number of LDS fundamentalist sects with a total membership estimated at somewhere between 3,000 and 20,000.

The study indicates that over the past decade the number of allegations of sex abuse against churches and church agencies has averaged about seventy per week.

Historical changes that each find disturbing, whether the reduction of marriage to a private relationship in the past century or the increased number of working mothers in recent decades, are described as unprecedented, ominous or cataclysmic.

The number of new recruits to the priesthood has fallen sharply in the recent decades - and as Ireland has become engulfed in a series of child sex abuse scandals over the past few years.

«During the past decade the number of high school youth in our congregations increased fivefold, and the number of young adults increased sixfold,» said Buehrens, who this fall is a visiting professor at the UUA's Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley.

In the past few decades, cinema has shown us an increasing number of anti-heroes — lead characters we love despite themselves.

There have been a number of articles written in the past decade on how young men are staying single longer and maturing later.

I have retraced and reviewed these conversations, and attempted to assess their contribution to our contemporary understanding of process metaphysics, in a number of other works (e.g., The Rehabilitation of Whitehead, «The Compositional History of Whitehead's Writings,» «Outside the Camp: Recent Work in Whitehead's Philosophy»), which help contextualize historically the many contributions Ford has made in over 100 scholarly articles published during the past three decades.

The number of those who profess to be Christian has been declining steadily over the past few decades, and the numbers of those who say they regularly attend church has declined dramatically, to fewer that 10 % of those who profess Christianity or simply a belief in God.

Tireless lobbying by that California - based society for the past decade is largely responsible for the introduction in a number of states of legislation that would require giving equal time in science classes to the teaching of the alleged single account of creation as recorded in Genesis.