Sentences with phrase «past two»

The past two years have seen a frenzy of venture investment in new media companies.

However a rapid fall in lithium ion battery prices over the past two years — driven by the proliferation of electric cars — has made the technology far more viable.

Few owners in the National Football League have been as successful as New England Patriots Owner Robert Kraft in the past two decades.

Over the past two decades — since the mainstreaming of the Internet and the fall of communism — the twin forces of rapidly advancing technology and globalization have been reshaping every aspect of life.

Surveying industry data, Ian Russell, CEO of the Investment Industry Association of Canada estimates 65 boutiques consistently lost money during the past two years.

Alibaba's success has also provided a financial crutch for Yahoo, whose stake in the company is the main reason Yahoo's stock price has more than doubled in the past two years.

In the past two years, bitcoin prices have soared by more than 3,000 percent.

Since its passage in 2010, the health care law has undoubtedly helped consumers, with 11 million additional people getting coverage in the past two years, mostly through an expansion of Medicaid.

Still, few observers think Mozilla can continue to win converts at the astounding rate of the past two years.

«Net interest income has remained quite stable over the past two years,» Draghi noted about the balance sheets of European banks.

Speaking of the volatility of the past two to three weeks, he said that was due to position clearing and that it was similar to October 1998.

The company has seen its retail and grocery distribution increase by about 30 percent in 2017, and its food service business has grown on average by 50 percent in the past two years.

Though the artist didn't originally refer to her work as specifically for adults until the trend gained traction within the past two years, Morrison recognizes how adult versions are different from more elementary editions because of their complex and intricate designs.

He and other analysts cut their iPhone sales estimates, and Apple stock is down almost 8 % in the past two weeks.

The station tried morning shows in both Montreal and Toronto, but cancelled both in the past two years for financial reasons.

American parent AMR Corp. lost $ 1.47 billion last year — and $ 3.59 billion in the past two years — as traffic fell during the recession and competition limited American's ability to raise fares.

The past two years had battered the formerly charmed brand, but now he'd show the world that the company still had that old GoPro magic.

Over the past two years it's been FDA approved for an increasing number of procedure types, including for repairing existing artificial valves that are breaking down.

Despite a 39.5 percent decline in gasoline prices since June, consumer spending has been soft in the past two months.

With some early stage investors worried about valuations, financing of new startups has been declining for the past two years.

But the past two years have been a cautionary tale: botched product rollouts, sweeping layoffs, a giant new initiative shuttered.

They've played six quarterbacks over the past two seasons, and traded picks that became Carson Wentz and Deshaun Watson.

While India has benefited from impressive GDP growth and watched its IT sector blossom into a $ 100 billion industry in the past two decades, its focus on developing engineering talent has left the country dry of Indians with leadership and management skills, says Srini Kandula, vice president of human resources for iGATE, a Freemont, Calif. - based outsourced software developer with 28,000 employees and operations in Bangalore.

Also in the past two days, opposition leaders in the Ukrainian parliament have demanded impeachment proceedings against President Petro Poroshenko, who allegedly owned assorted assets through a British Virgin Islands holding company.

For the past two years, Gartner estimated that Amazon (amzn) ran more than ten times the computing capacity as the next 14 cloud providers combined.

The moves are the latest ways Trump is seeking to reshape the Federal Reserve, which has seen a high level of turnover in the past two years.

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.

The gold sector in Western Australia has undergone remarkable change in the past two years.

Twice in the past two days, and many times in past months and years, have I heard people fault scientists for things like

«The large increase in profitability over the past two years demonstrates that the industry can prosper with the regulations and consumer protections adopted after the financial crisis.»

The estimated 22 million watches Apple (aapl) has sold over the past two years, for example, disappointed Wall Street and is a drop in the bucket compared to the 3 billion smartphones sold worldwide over the same period, including over 400 million iPhones alone.

Lawmakers in Greece, as well as Spain and Portugal, struggled over the past two months to slash government budgets and avoid economic ruin.

While tech turned lower over the past two weeks, the first quarter proved profitable for the sector.

Over the past two or three years a bloody shakeout has occurred, with many solar manufacturers going bankrupt, including some in the U.S. (like Solyndra, which received $ 535 million in Department of Energy loan guarantees).

In fact, of the biggest sports — NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, college football, college basketball — only two or three of the championship events in the past two years were not dramatic or historic.

The commercial crew program follows the successful cargo delivery effort underway for the past two years, also under NASA contract.

SpaceX has wheeled out, raised, tested, and re-tested all of Falcon Heavy's systems at Cape Canaveral over the past two months.

Why it's hot: KFC has made a comeback over the past two years with the return of Colonel Sanders in marketing, and it launched an effort to improve its food quality.

As Uber's biggest competitor, Lyft has spent the past two years defining itself — with the most obvious example being the fuzzy pink mustache.

Its most recent foray outside of its traditional menu are Angus burgers, a premium line of hamburgers that were introduced across North America in the past two years.

But in the past two years, local competitors poached two of his executives, offering them nearly double their salaries.

Schroeder has for the past two years cleared his calendar so that more than half his time is spent doing what he loves: nurturing new ideas while getting his hands dirty in the greenhouse, and calling impromptu brainstorming sessions.

A person familiar with the matter told Reuters these coal operations have increased Mylan's net earnings by around $ 40 million to $ 50 million in each of the past two years.

The company's stock has barely moved, inching up a cumulative 6.5 % over the past two years, vs. 23 % for rival Colgate and 29 % for the S&P 500.

Women purchase more tablets, laptops and smartphones; download more music, movies and games; make the majority of household technology purchasing decisions; and utilize devices and services, from games to social media, more than their male counterparts, according to research over the past two years from the market intelligence firm Park Associates.

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.

These past two years I think we sold 18 million Cabbage Patch Kids.

What we've seen recently (especially in the past two years) is that both companies have taken exciting steps forward.

Hospitality operators are cashing in on Perth's love affair with the coast, with seven new beachside venues opening in the past two years and more on the way — from Trigg Beach to Port Coogee.

Allen, for instance, has made $ 8.2 million over the past two years at Aaron's, a much smaller company than Coke.