Sentences with phrase «people over a number»

So, many people over a number of years have contributed to where we are now.

The LOS is a longitudinal survey which means it will interview the same people over a number of years in order to assess whether or not life opportunities for people with disabilities are improving.

Employing over 850 people over a number of offices throughout the UK.

The study started in 2002 and will follow people over a number of decades.

Not exact matches

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.

According to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics figures, there has been a surge in the number of people aged 85 and over in WA, with women outnumbering

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

As of 2012, it's estimated that the number of illegal immigrants in the country has actually declined by over 1 million people to a total of 11 million.

Facebook also said that it was trying to promote original content over content that has shown up a lot in people's feeds already, and that may have helped push down the numbers for media companies as well.

The federal agency predicts that the number of people about to enter the labour pool (aged 15 — 24) is set to drop below the number about to exit it (aged 55 — 64) over the next decade.

We can cut down the waste of a person's life to try a medicine just because it was tried on average statistics over a very large number of people.

And the numbers are impressive: Each month, about 25 million people from all over the world visit Wattpad.

As the death toll rose to more than 2,400 people out of 4,784 cases over the past six months, Dr. Chan stated that, «We are very cognizant of the fact that any number of cases and deaths that we are reporting is an underestimate.»

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.

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.

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.»

One major point of contention is the fact that SoundCloud hired a number of people into roles over the last few months knowing full well that they were going to have to make large redundancies, according to TechCrunch.

Over the last 30 years or so, the number of people starting new businesses has been in serious decline.

The unemployment rate in Western Australia was unchanged at 6.1 per cent in September, however it disguised a fall in employment as the number of people working fell by over 9,000 during the month.

«Now they're keeping — actually the number's over 1,100 people,» Trump reportedly told the crowd of about 150 people, «which is so great.»

But offsetting the damage to the entertainment industry is the growing number of people signing up for packages of TV channels delivered over the Internet by services like Google's (googl) YouTube TV, Dish Network's (dish) Sling TV and AT&T's DirecTV Now.

But over time, I figured, if you perform the numbers will talk and the right people will be attracted to your company.»

You are building trust and relationships with a larger number of people over time to increase your sales.

About 44 % of that went to Quebec and almost 15 % or $ 16.8 billion went to the three territories which combined have a population of about 111,000, about 23 % less than the number of people in Prince Edward Island, which received $ 2.2 billion over the same time period.

According to a new study by research provider Custom Products, the number of crimes committed by people over 60 is soaring, with 35 % of arrests for shop - lifting involving the retiree demographic, up from 20 % in 2001.

The goal should not be to fight over disclosing vulnerabilities or blaming people for finding them, but to reduce their number.

Over the course of a number of different companies I've had dozens of different investors, hundreds of people that I've mentored, and I've had a number of mentors of my own over my carOver the course of a number of different companies I've had dozens of different investors, hundreds of people that I've mentored, and I've had a number of mentors of my own over my carover my career.

As I recently wrote in «The IRS Wants to Know If Your Freelancer Should Be Getting a W2,» before working with a freelancer you want to make sure to look at a number of factors including: one) whether the person you hire is truly a freelancer, two) whether you have financial control over the person doing work, three) the extent of control you have over the freelancer's day and four) how the person's work gets performed.

The media startup, valued at $ 11 billion in its latest round of funding, says the number of «pinners,» or people sharing images and links, has doubled on its platform in the last 18 months and the number of searches on its service have increased by 81 % over the last year.

The company said in November when it reported its third - quarter earnings that it was facing a slowdown in the number of people visiting its brick - and - mortar stores, although a stronger housing market seems to have helped lift its sales over the holiday season.

People who stay members are also required to buy a set number of full - priced DVDs over a certain period of time and can only end their membership after they fulfil that obligation.

Over the past year I've spoken with a number of incredibly successful people.

While there have been improvements in some labour market indicators, the number of people who have been unemployed for over a year has remained frustratingly high since the end of the recession, as shown in the graph below.

To illustrate this trend over the last 10 years, we took 2001 and 2011 education expenses for Nova Scotia, Ontario and B.C.. Each province's population of persons aged five to 24 in 2001 and 2011 was used to arrive at a per capita number.

Of all the people I've talked to over the years about starting their own business, the fear of failure is the number one thing that keeps many people from doing what they really want to do.

Vento put up the notices (as the AP put it) «because of concerns over immigration reform and the increasing number of people who could not order in English.»

Get a Better Deal on Phone Services Increasing numbers of people are saving money by using voice over internet protocol (VoIP), such as Skype.

«People look at the growth of the Hispanic community in the U.S. and their eyes will glaze over when they see the disposable income numbers,» he says.

The number of times per year people eat a morning snack — either at home or away from home — has increased by 17 percent over the past six years, according to NPD Group.

What Fraser hears over and over again from Feeding America's food banks is that while more people are working again, «those numbers disguise the fact that so many of these jobs are paying minimum wage or slightly above,» he said.

While getting exact numbers on the size of these marketplaces is difficult and requires a bit of speculation, it's safe to assume that over 1,000,000 people use Ebay as their primary or secondary source of income, there are about the same number of shops on Etsy, and Amazon has over 2,000,000 marketplace sellers.

Stone warns that people should not give out Social Security numbers or bank account information over the phone unless they are certain about who they are speaking with.

But as Neil Dutta, Chief Economist with Renaissance Macro Research points out, if you look at the actual flow data showing the number of people each month entering and exiting the labor force, the rate at which workers are entering the labor force is actually lower today than at any point over the last two years.

A University of Notre Dame researcher found that when people reduced the number of lies they told over 10 weeks they reported significantly improved physical and mental health.

I know people buying over 100 homes a year — and they work the same number of hours as I do, if not fewer.

In 2014, the number of mobile devices exceeded the number of people in the world, at over 7.7 billion devices.

Colonial Charleston numbers just over 650,000 people, but there's plenty to do in this small town and its tax rates are competitive.

As the number of posts to Facebook has increased substantially over the past few months, there has been a corresponding increase in the amount of potential posts to show any one person, which impacts reach.

Over the past year, the number of people with jobs has increased by more than 2 1/2 per cent, a positive outcome given that the working - age population is increasing at around 1 1/2 per cent a year.

«A number of agents I spoke to said last year that they weren't selling as hard, they weren't working as hard, and they weren't meeting with people as much as they used to because of their confusion and uncertainty over what might happen with the DOL,» he explained.