Sentences with phrase «past year meaning»

No fancy dining room here and some losses in the past year meaning fewer chairs around the table.

The Treasury Single Account, the collapse of the oil market, and the humbling of the naira have in the past year meant that there isn't much for people to steal, but current stealing has never been the issue for this government, as it does not admit of corruption within its ranks.

The loss of Borders in the past year means fewer retail outlets for print editions to be sold, as well as more people turning to online retailers and e-reading in the absence of a local book store.

Not exact matches

Tightening of monetary policy meant to cool the housing market over the past year, combined with a wind - down in public works, has served to slow GDP growth into the single digits.

That means that this year's VC haul in the field has already zoomed past 2016's — and that year was the previous record.

Unfortunately, Temple is 0 - 2 the past two years in their bowl games, meaning there are seniors on this team who were snubbed from a bowl game their freshman year, and then lost twice in the final game of the season.

It isn't within everyone's means to obtain aircraft for a prison escape, but it's easier to get out of prison by air than underground: Over the past 40 years in particular, there has been trend of convicts and their partners on the outside busting out from high security facilities in hijacked helicopters.

However, that doesn't mean you can't look to others for ideas — a number of business people have inspired me over the past few years.

No mean feat, considering Adafruit has shipped more than half a million kits in the last seven years, and revenue has doubled every year for the past three.

That doesn't mean it's all smooth sailing: An equal number say they've had to make layoffs in the past year.

Even if you set the issue of employment aside, the U.S. trade deficit over the past five years increased, meaning that the rest of the world was more successful at selling us more stuff than vice versa.

Its rate of new entrepreneurs has increased 14 percent in the past two years, meaning people are starting to discover this hidden gem.

Rents have risen 20 % over the past five years while they city's vacancy rate is below 1 %, meaning investors should not have to work very hard to find a tenant.

The days are long past when retirement meant a gold watch and a few years dozing in a rocking chair.

Our sense is that in light of the oil shock and weak economic growth recorded in Canada this past year, the SEPH is likely telling the more accurate story, meaning we could see employment as measured by the LFS slow significantly during the first half of 2016.»

On Friday, Tesla shares climbed above $ 160 for the first time ever — meaning the stock is up more than 400 percent in the past year.

This metropolitan area (which includes Oakland and Fremont, Calif.) saw the largest proportion of venture capital - backed business exits over the past year compared to other major cities, meaning there are a large number of what Kauffman identifies as «growth companies» in San Francisco and the East Bay.

Barbara has been the Chief Marketing Officer of TripAdvisor for the past few years, and we spoke about redefining and growing her company's brand what innovation means at TripAdvisor, and how she jumped from a career in law to marketing.

In the past year, our business has seen a shift to a younger generation, which means that we are processing a lot more mobile purchases than ever before.

In years past, some rental companies suggested leaving car doors and trunks unlocked, figuring that theft is inevitable and leaving your car unlocked means it will suffer no damage, but I haven't seen that recommendation lately.

If years spent out of the workforce in the past means you don't have 35 years of earnings history, those extra years of even part - time work could help increase your Social Security check, too.

These guidelines, which we have introduced at almost all our companies over the past few years, effectively mean that as long as they do their work, our employees can work whenever they want, from wherever they want.

As Boomers become Zoomers (A moniker meant to describe their continued momentum past the 65 year mark — and one I personally love since I'm smack in the midst of that cohort!)

Like I mentioned earlier, it's not perfect by any means — the controllers lack headphone jacks, and I've avoided using the Switch in tabletop mode because of its flimsy kickstand and bottom - facing USB port — but I'm guessing Nintendo will release new - and - improved hardware in a couple of years, as the company has done in the past (think: Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS).

According to Euromonitor, domestic whiskey sales have soared by 40 % in the past five years — NASCAR - fast numbers in a sector where good growth often means 2 % or 3 % a year, and a revolution for a spirit whose sales declined almost without a break for 30 years.

That would mean a typical mixed portfolio of stocks and bonds would deliver a 1 % to 3 % per annum return, down from about 10 % over the past seven years.

While the three letters C, E, and O in my title signify leadership, I in fact played a slightly modest role in my company, winning numerous number - one Best Places to Work awards the past several years — and I mean that in a good way.

The role means not only will she be handing out the awards like past Mr. and Ms. Golden Globes, but it also entails representing and speaking out about the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's charitable efforts from the past year.

Worse, over the past 12 years, these low numbers have barely budged, meaning that the vast majority of employees worldwide are failing to develop and contribute at work.

The rollercoaster ride in oil prices over the past three years may be old hat to investors familiar with the commodity's historical sensitivity to macro events (see chart below), but oil price volatility is by no means endemic and several factors are now lining up to suggest a calmer period for crude may lie ahead.

This ought to mean that unless there is a very severe slowdown in the world economy, the trade sector of the economy should still do pretty well, even if the growth rates are not quite as high as in the past year.

A faster than expected downturn in print advertising and slower increase in digital revenues, combined with the costs of international expansion, means that the company's outgoings have outpaced revenues over the past five years.

This is an unusual way for a company to conduct an earnings call, and an unusual role for a journalist, so let me give you a little context: For the past couple of years, Netflix has been allowing outsiders — usually Wall Street analysts who cover the company, though CNBC's Julia Boorstin has also participated — to conduct its earnings calls, which means they are essentially conducting live interviews.

Desai said that high - yield bonds also mean high risk, and pointed to the volatility of high - yield energy bonds, especially in the past year.

Over the past three months, the revenue for both Tencent and Alibaba jumped more than 50 percent from a year ago, meaning they are growing more quickly than both Facebook and Alphabet, the parent company of Google.

Thus the past 10 years contained a mixture of the positive and negative, with no reliable means of separating them (Macfarlane and Tease 1989).

That said, the oldest Boomers are past their «peak consumption years», meaning less spending on key categories like transportation, housing and apparel, with the windfall more than picked up by their children, netting out to about an average 0.77 % demographic driven annual growth rate across sectors through 2060.12

The massive boost in unstructured data in the past few years means that businesses need to rely on the raw data more often to reveal the story, rather than parse data through pre-defined filters.

Assuming those were all indexed to Libor, the 1.19 percentage - point increase in the rate in the past year would mean $ 1.45 billion in additional income.

This means NFL salaries have increased by almost 400 % over the past 20 years.

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After slowly increasing its secure searches over the past two years, increasing the amount of (not provided) keywords in your analytics, Google has now made all of its searches encrypted using HTTPS, meaning search in the very near future, keyword data will no longer be passed to analytics applications.

These aren't sexy returns by any means, but I sleep very well at night and have also never lost money in this portion of my wealth for the past 13 years.

This is by no means a recommendation on what you should invest in — just what has worked well for me over the past few years.

Over the past four years, they have provided merchants the means of accepting bitcoins without the risk of price volatility.

CAPE indicates stocks are currently valued at nearly twice what they have been in the past, but even Shiller himself admitted earlier this year that high stock prices don't necessarily mean it's time to sell.

Well, to kick things off, it is important to mention the fact that during the last five years, bitcoin's value has increased with around 25,000 %, which means that if you would have bought the digital currency in the past, you may have been able to earn 250 times more than your initial investment today.

The market rally in September that saw US markets post one of the biggest monthly gains in the past 10 years meant that the Sleepy Portfolio gained 9.4 percent since our last update.

The difference between the mean estimated return and the mean actual return is +11.5 % per year, a significant overstatement of past performance.

Its absurdly high weighting to banks and resources companies meant that it underperformed an equal weighted index by some 7 per cent during the past financial year.