Sentences with phrase «period last year due»

Beverage can volumes have risen by 4 % but underlying profit was slightly down from the same period last year due to foreign exchange translation and metal premium costs.

The Nordic bank, which will move its headquarters to Finland later this year, said revenues were down 6 percent to 2.3 billion euros compared to the same period last year due to lower mortgage margins, higher resolution fund fees and lower activity in capital markets.

Not exact matches

Mr Grantley said new figures from Urbis showing a rapid contraction in new Brisbane apartment market sales to just 302 sales in the March quarter, down 37 per cent on the previous quarter and well down from the 1032 sales in the previous corresponding period last year, was also due to tightening in available new apartment stock for sale.

Non-interest income was up 47 %, primarily due to the influence of net losses on securities last year and gains on the sale of residential mortgages in the current period.

A year on from his last major injury diagnosis and we find ourselves in almost the same situation again, this time with the Spaniard being ruled out for an unknown period of time, due to a inflammation at the back of his Achilles.

Last year, when load - shedding reached its peak over a three - year period, the economy recorded its lowest growth in 15 years: expanding by 3.9 percent mainly, on due to a slump in commodities prices and energy supply deficit, which affected the manufacturing, industries and services sectors... the biggest contributors to the country's GDP.

Accountancy firm Deloitte said on Friday there were nearly 200,000 insurance claims in Britain in the last three months of 2013 due to storms and floods - the highest number of such claims over a fourth - quarter financial period for 10 years.

In the last 25 years, there have been two elevated periods of gun violence at U.S. schools, the researchers found; 2007 - 2013 was largely due to events at postsecondary schools while 1992 - 1994 more often involved events at K - 12 schools.

Over the last few years physical and retail sales in the gaming market have slowly fallen, mainly due to the rise in digital sales over the same period.

When launched last year, the Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza had a six month waiting period but now due to the increase in production and the product becoming somewhat old, the waiting period has come down to a month.

I've read a lot more this year than last year — partly intentionally, as every writer needs to be reading, but partly due to a period of illness where I was sitting around trying not to be bored.

The global audiobook industry is currently worth 2.6 billion dollars and part of the reason why we have seen a dramatic increase in profitability is due to digital In the first eight months of 2014, sales were up 28 % over the same period last year, far outstripping the growth of e-books, which rose 6 %.

Believing that the bull run of the last five years was due for a correction, Jin bought put options — contracts that allow the holder to sell a specified amount of stock at a set price within a specified period.

Therefore, experts state that for periods of time over one year and up to 4 years, it is advisable to apply for a 1 to 3 year adjustable rate mortgage loan while for periods of time over 4 years and up to 7 years, it is advisable to select a mortgage loan with a variable rate lasting the length of the loan or a balloon loan with the balloon payment due date at least a year after the month you are planning to sell the property (to cover yourself from unexpected circumstances).

Though, the dividend is unlikely to grow much faster than EPS moving forward due to the payout ratio not being as low as it was at the start of the last 10 - year period.

If you are healthy, the last thing you should do is take a guaranteed issue burial policy due to the three - year waiting period.

Written contract: 6 years from when it becomes due and payable and the six (6) year period runs from the date of last payment.

On a good note, the revenue that Microsoft earned from Xbox Live for the recently concluded quarter increased by 4 percent compared with the same period last year, due to the higher number of transactions on the network and more money being spent by gamers on each transaction.

You might be aware of the myriad weather records that were smashed in queensland last year, again due to blocking highs causing record long periods of extreme temps to hover over us for weeks.

If there was more natural variation in the past millenia, specifically due to solar changes, then that goes at the cost of the GHG / aerosol combination, as both are near impossible to distinguish from each other in the warming of the last halve century... Solar activity has never been as high, and for an as long period, as current in the past millenium (and even the past 8,000 years).

Global average sea level was likely between 4 and 6 m higher during the last interglacial period, about 125,000 years ago, than during the 20th century, mainly due to the retreat of polar ice -LRB-

Global average sea level was likely between 4 and 6 m higher during the last interglacial period, about 125,000 years ago, than during the 20th century, mainly due to the retreat of polar ice (Figure TS.21).

We eventually learned that the warm periods in the ice ages last only about 10,000 years and that it's a long time until our next one is «due» — about 100,000 years.

That flatness gave us a cold period that global warming Hoaxters use to validate their claims of global warming due to man over the last 40 years.

Notes: The period of 1919 - 1943 was chosen for analysis and comparison due to its visual pattern similarities to the last 25 years ending December 2015.

Indeed, a portion of that small linear trend difference might be due to human CO2 emissions; or, then again, it might be due to the vast urbanization effect over the last 60 + years; or due to the large deforestation that's taken place; or, maybe it's entirely due to the serial fabrication of global warming by the world's climate agencies; or it's even possible that the post-1950 warming was entirely a natural phenomenon - the same as the prior 64 - year period experience.

Once a temperature threshold is breached, abrupt events follow due to amplifying feedbacks, even within a few years, examples being (1) freeze events which followed temperature peaks during past interglacial peaks due to influx of cold ice - melt water into the north Atlantic Ocean; (2) the Dansgaard — Oeschger warming events during the last glacial period; (3) the Younger dryas stadial freeze and the Laurentian stadial freeze.

All the intense epidemics experienced during the last 37 years in Central America and Colombia were concurrent with low coffee profitability periods due to coffee price declines, as was the case in the 2012 — 13 Central American epidemic, or due to increases in input costs, as in the 2008 — 11 Colombian epidemics.

As we now that there has been a period of 18 years with no surface warming when atmospheric CO2 was increasing for each and every year we know that the majority of the warming in the last 50 years was not due to the increase in atmospheric CO2 and the IPCC general circulation model calculated warming due to CO2 is orders of magnitude too high.

In the absence of some large change in the short period of the last two or six or eight or eighteen - hundred years in Earth's -LCB- orbit, core, magnetic field, insolation, axial tilt, etc -RCB-, there's a simple explanation for any part of the behavior that is actually due to anything other than noise et al..

While, deGrasse Tyson notes that this interglacial period is supposed to last another 50,000 years, current global warming — due to burning fossil fuels — is causing the climate to shift again.

Due to the way in which these various cycles have been relative constant over the last 35 million years, the earth has settled into a relatively recent cycle of approximately 100,000 year long declining climates and ice ages, and brief 12,000 - 18,000 year long warm spells we call inter-glacial periods like our current Holocene.

Scientists from the Center for Arctic Gas Hydrate (CAGE), Environment and Climate at the Arctic University of Norway, published a study in June 2017, describing over a hundred ocean sediment craters, some 3,000 meters wide and up to 300 meters deep, formed due to explosive eruptions, attributed to destabilizing methane hydrates, following ice - sheet retreat during the last glacial period, around 12,000 years ago, a few centuries after the Bølling - Allerød warming.

IPCC: Global average sea level in the last interglacial (Eemian) period (130,000 - 111,000 years ago) was likely 13 to 20 feet (4 to 6 meters) higher than during the 20th century, mainly due to the retreat of polar ice.

Due to the latency period being so long, the diagnosis is likely to come many years after you were last exposed to asbestos.

The last thing to be aware of is these policies have either a 2 or 3 year exclusion period in which they do not pay the full benefit amount if death occurs within this exclusion period due to health conditions (accidents are covered).

General Growth's same store NOI for the first quarter of 2007 was only 0.5 percent compared to 8.5 percent in the first quarter of 2006, due to lease termination fees carried over from last year, but its occupancy rate, at 92.9 percent, was 1.8 percent higher during the same period last year and its sales per square foot increased more than 3 percent since the first quarter of 2006 to $ 458.