Sentences with phrase «people over a number of years»

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.

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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.
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.»
Over the last 30 years or so, the number of people starting new businesses has been in serious decline.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
I know people buying over 100 homes a year — and they work the same number of hours as I do, if not fewer.
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.
We do not have the number of births in the RCT area, so we multiply 5q0 by the under - 5 population (as a proxy for births over a 5 year period) and then divide by 5 to get the deaths per person per year.
I've been friends with the people at the Foundation for Economic Education since I first discovered them in college and over the past few years have spoken at a number of their summer seminars, helped them improve some of their marketing, and did some photography for them one summer.
«It's owners have been great supporters of the Cathedral over many years but also lots of people who stay at the Royal Clarence come to visit the Cathedral as tourists, many many come to worship with us, and a number of people who worship with us are on the staff there.
@flash Millions of people over thousands of years give witness to the Truth!I'll go with the numbers, thank you, sufficient evidence or proof for all but you, and a few additional self deluded.You have no position and no authority, in short the facts remain you have lied to yourself and are trying to drag civilization down with you.You are exposed as a fraud and a liar and will stand before God as such unless you change.God bless
More people die from Alcohol related deaths each year then gun deaths over a number of years.
Meanwhile the number of people to declare no religion, including atheists / agnostics, increased by more than 70 % over the same five year period.
Findings on questions such as the number of people who go to church regularly vary over the years, but the remarkable thing is that the variation is very slight, usually within a matter of a few percentage points.
But, over the years, the congregation did, in fact, become more diverse, and by the time I had been there for 12 years, there were maybe 50 gay and lesbian persons, there were about 30 Hispanic individuals, there were a number of African Americans and African natives, and there was other diversity as well; and we talked a lot about how pleased we were that this was all happening.
For just one example, the number of persons in mental hospitals — over a quarter - million, seven years ago — has been cut in half over the past six years.
The Bible is a «symposium» of works by a number of persons, composed of many writings, written over a period of hundreds of years, some only preserved in fragments, by unknown authors, written on animal skins (for they had no paper as we know it), with no printing presses to preserve the writing... It's a marvel we have the Bible at all.
To take a single example, last year I had the privilege of participating in one of these schools in a small university town, where in a parish of about one thousand members over two hundred persons (including a goodly number of interested «enquirers» who had heard of the program through a carefully planned advertising campaign) attended eight night sessions, held from eight until ten o'clock, with a choice among eight different courses, dealing with theological, ethical, historical, devotional, and scriptural subjects.
To quote from the Pew research,» The many people who have left the Catholic Church over the years have been replaced, to a great extent, by the large number of Catholic immigrants coming to the U.S.» This should be no surprise given the large number of Hispanic immigrants pouring into the US.
The amount of subsequent research conducted on religious television in America has been relatively small in comparison to the large number of people and agencies which have been producing religious programs over the past 35 years.
He added: «There was a system of administration in that school over a long number of years which allowed a paedophile to flourish, gave him authority, not only over all of the pupils, but gave him authority over the staff as well and put him in a position where he could abuse people and that needs to be explored, it needs to be investigated, it needs to be enquired into.
Over the past few years, Columbus has made a number of changes to its personnel and the result is «a really nice blend of people who have been with the company for a very long time and people who have come to the organization in the recent past,» Todd says.
«We have hired several people over the last couple of years, a number of which are based in Memphis, or what we call the Monogram Foods Support Center,» Modica says.
Fun Fact The number of single person households in the U.S. is over 35 million and is growing every year (U.S. Census Bureau, 2016).
With the number of people aged 65 or over projected to rise by nearly 50 % over 20 years, the Nourishing an Ageing Population session at Food Matters Live will address the challenges, opportunities and priorities to improve nutrition for elderly people.
Over the last 3 years the number of people employed has doubled and a new management structure is fast emerging to reflect our global business status.
Although rare, a small number of people have been prosecuted over the years for violating the confidentially of sealed adoption records.
The ONS data show 134,200 people have come off unemployment benefits over the course of the year with a record number now in work.
HMRC data reveals that in the first year of the 50pc tax rate, tax revenues from the rich fell by # 7bn and the number of people declaring incomes over one million pounds fell by a half.
NOTES TO EDITORS: For further comment / interview, please contact Simon Marsh 07951 389 197 or [email protected] The chemical industry in the UK: • Contributes # 75 million every day to the UK economy • spends over # 5 billion each year on research and development • invests almost # 2 billion a year in capital expenditure • generates a trade surplus of # 5 billion every year • Provides employment for over half a million people in well - paid jobs And is the nation's number one manufacturing exporter
Tolbert says over the last year a number of people have approached him, expressing their desire to support him should he decide to run.
The number of children with food allergies has increased nearly 50 percent over the past 20 years, and the number of people with peanut and tree nut allergies has more than tripled in that time, the agency said.
Labour's economic recordThe actions taken by the Labour government has ensured that during the biggest economic crisis in over 60 years, the number of York people claiming unemployment benefi t in December 2009 was still 45 per cent less than under the last Conservative recession.
Over recent years the number of homeless people has soared, camps of rough - sleepers have sprung up around the UK and, according to the charity Shelter, more than 100,000 children will spend this Christmas in temporary accommodation.
There has been a 20 per cent rise in the number of young people prosecuted for firearms offences over the past five years, with reports that children as young as eight are now using guns to solve disputes.
«The number of people in employment aged 16 and over fell by 178,000 on the quarter and by 47,000 on the year to reach 29.10 million.
The program has already diverted 3,700 people from jail, 92 % of whom showed up to court; the expansion could reduce the number of inmate beds necessary by 500 over five years, according to the plan.
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman asserted the number of people without health insurance fell by half over the past four years.
«I have had a number of young people come to see me over the years with housing problems.
The BMG Research polling also found that over double the number of 55 - 64 year olds feel well informed about the referendum compared to 18 - 24 year olds, suggesting that young people will be less likely to vote on polling day.
MOD figures show that the number of young people signing up to the army continues to decline with just 880 16 - year - olds enlisting last year, down from over 3000 a decade ago.
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