Sentences with phrase «past year increased»

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The number of data professionals in Canada — people employed as statisticians, mathematicians and actuaries — has increased by 48 % over the past five years, making it the fastest - growing job category in the country.

As seen in the chart below from the IIF, the vast majority of that $ 25 trillion increase over the past five years occurred in emerging markets, swelling from $ 42 trillion to $ 63 trillion.

Tram ridership has decreased for eight of the past ten years as new forms of public transit have increased competition.

Increased business confidence has been unmistakable this past year.

Rent increases in neighborhoods that experienced the biggest influx of those workers have risen 65 percent faster over the past five years than areas with the smallest influx, according to Zillow.

Google has dramatically increased its lobbying activities in Washington in the past few years: it spent US$ 8.95 million on lobbying just in the first half of 2012 (compare that to the US$ 9.7 million it spent in all of 2011).

WESTERN Australia's hotels increased their total earnings by 20 per cent in the past financial year despite low occupancy rates.

The average American uses 176 gallons of water per day, and municipal water prices have increased 27 percent over the past five years.

Over the past 10 years, the former have been responsible for the most net job increases.

Balsillie and Lazaridis have so badly lost the confidence of the market that investors and analysts no longer seem to care about the billions in revenue or the 35 % increase in subscribers over the past year.

That's better than not surpassing the high, but many stories failed to mention the drastic increase in the cost of healthcare and education that's occurred over the past 18 years.

This Toronto - based property and casualty insurance company has increased its dividend by more than 50 % over the past three years while its stock price has climbed from $ 35 to $ 62.

In the past five years, Canadians in their twenties have increased their startup ownership by nearly 10 %, says CIBC.

«We saw this trend [of increasing popularity of gift cards] rise over the past five years or so,» Gonzalez said.

It turns out that over the past 20 years, we haven't seen a drastic increase in tuition costs, but rather a shift to a new rebate model.

That last line is key: «Increased bank reserves held at the Fed don't necessarily translate into more money or cash in circulation, and, indeed, broad measures of the supply of money have not grown especially quickly, on balance, over the past few years.»

The beef and veal index has surged 17 % since the beginning of the year through September, while prices for dairy - related products have increased for 10 of the past 11 months, according to the Commerce Department.

Increased bank reserves held at the Fed don't necessarily translate into more money or cash in circulation, and, indeed, broad measures of the supply of money have not grown especially quickly, on balance, over the past few years.

But in the past few years, observe several academics, there has been a markedly increased interest in personality surveys.

In Germany, prices in major cities have increased more than 30 percent over the past five years, according to Berlin - based research firm Bulwiengesa.

Moreover, the rate of growth in the fraction of non-employers (28.2 percent) run by women has been higher than the rate of increase in their share of non-employers (23 percent) over the past five years.

Lunch container sales in Canada have seen double - digit increases for each of the past four years and more than a 40 % hike in the past year alone, says Hugh McDonald, executive vice-president of sales and marketing for Canadian Thermos Products.

In the past couple of years, Sanders has voted against the Keystone XL Pipeline, vetoed by the president in March, as well as for bills that would have prohibited corporate interference with women's health care and increased environmental standards for damaged national infrastructure.

The Canadian drugmaker has faced intense political and investor scrutiny in the past year for its steep drug price increases and unorthodox use of a specialty pharmacy.

Barclays said, given the growth in Netflix's programming over the past year, the number of hours viewed per subscriber should arguably have increased, not held steady.

After the 2008 financial crisis when Goldman became a bank holding company, it could take in more customer deposits, which led to an increase in its holdings of more than $ 40 billion over the past six years.

A recent working paper from the University of Oxford reports that every Olympics in the past 50 years has gone over budget, with an average increase of 179 %.

As a result, the company has significantly increased message open rates in the past year, says Pegi Klein - Webber, the chain's director of marketing, loyalty and digital communications.

Mermaid Marine has enjoyed a strong recovery in its share price during the past fortnight after forecasting an increase in full - year pre-tax profit to $ 12 million.

Huawei Technologies, the globe's second - largest equipment telecommunications supplier by revenue following Ericsson, has increased its annual R&D expenditures fourteen-fold in the past ten years, from $ 389 million in 2003 to $ 5.46 billion in 2013.

The authors claimed that an «Increasing numbers of academic studies are finding that mental health problems have been soaring among girls over the past 10 - and in particular five - years, coinciding with the period in which young people's use of social media has exploded.»

But the tool's development over the past two years is another illustration that a broadening array of devices can be manipulated in unpredictable ways and that attackers increase their advantage over defenders as gadgets grow more complex.

According to Custom Content Council, spending on branded content has increased 13 % over the past two years.

The number of marketers who said social video was «most important» increased by 10 percent in the past year.

Perhaps because of this, employee growth has exploded over the past five years, increasing 40 %.

Business owners like Andrew who idolize, revere, adore and like to make money are the ones who have contributed to an enormous increase in living standards for billions across the world over the past two hundred years.

In the past year, Geotab revenues have grown 40 %, while its workforce increased by more than 30 % (up to 370 people).

The industry is in a time of transition anyway as it prepares to roll out 5G tech, and in some cases, investment has increased over the past two years.

Among the findings: Technically proficient attackers are spending an average of $ 1,367 for specialized tool kits to execute attacks; 63 percent of respondents claim the use of such kits has increased over the past two years; and 64 percent say the tools are highly effective.

Providing clients with an average of 20 percent increased revenue annually, WebpageFX has generated over $ 115 million in revenue for clients in the past year alone.

As lawmakers and the public scrutinize dramatic price increases for other old drugs — most recently with the Mylan - owned EpiPen, which saw its cost go up by 500 % in the past nine years — the next flash point may be insulin, a drug both ubiquitous and complicated.

Although tummy tucks were not among the most popular procedures in past years, they're regaining popularity, with 129,753 performed in the US this year, a two percent increase from 2016, according to the ASPS annual plastic surgery statistics report.

Though the search volume for «account - based content marketing» has increased massively over the past two years, the term still has a little work to do when compared to more established concepts like inbound, content marketing, Facebook advertising, and so on.

The cost of the state government's Aubin Grove train station project has increased for the second time in the past year, with the cost now revised to $ 120 million.

Scott is a huge proponent of replacing legacy technology with more modern and secure cloud software; federal cloud use has increased 15.8 percent in the past year.

Camera technology has also increased over the past year, so expect a lot of those drones to be capable of shooting 4K video and capturing high - quality stills.

While seed and early - stage investments in Canadian companies have steadily increased over the past three years, later - stage financings have dropped.

Over the past year VCs have increased their funding of tech start - ups, in virtually every corner of the economy, by 92 % compared to two years ago.

Apprentice commencements in the construction industry decreased by 22 per cent during the past financial year - a situation Mr Dawson said did not bode well for increasing activity.

Though CEO compensation has fallen slightly in the past few years, it has increased by more than 930 % since 1978.