Sentences with phrase «period than past years»

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On Tuesday, Calgary - based Calfrac Well Services Ltd. reported it more than doubled its first - quarter revenue compared with the same period last year and is reactivating equipment it parked over the past three years.

The country has seen a steady rise in killing since around 2015, and last month and the first six months of the year both had more homicides than any of the same periods over the past two decades.

Some of the best - performing stocks in the sector over the past year include Nvidia and Micron, both of which are up more than 100 percent in that period.

This rushed response resulted in an extremely short solicitation period, with an annual meeting date only 28 days after the filing of the Company's proxy statement — a significantly shorter period of time than in past years (42 days in 2017 and 41 days in each of 2016 and 2015).

The ice bucket challenge has raised more than $ 22 million over the past three weeks, compared to $ 1.9 million during the same period last year.

Oil volumes of 65,800 bbl / d were 2 percent higher than the most recent quarter and 69 percent higher vs. the same period a year ago, led by a 149 percent increase in the Delaware Basin over the past 12 months.

«The December jobs report caps off a strong year, with our economy adding more jobs over the past two years than in any two - year period since the 1990s.»

(A recent study by three Boston University researchers found that patent trolls have cost publicly traded companies an average of $ 83 - billion annually over the past four years, more than a quarter of all U.S. industrial research and development spending during that period.)

In any event, even if one explains the fact that the US dollar has crashed in purchasing power in recent times, over a very condensed period of time, by more than 75 %, because it has been one of the strongest currencies in a pool of rapidly devaluing currencies for the past two years, I've discovered that quite often, even presentation of indisputable facts can not sway people to believe something that they simply do not want to believe.

In fact, less than 10 % of professional fund managers beat the S&P 500 over the past 3 year period.

US - based companies bought 44 % of that equity, valued at $ 131.2 billion — more than they have acquired in Europe in any nine - month period over the past five years.

There has probably been more capital looking to invest in private technology companies in the past five years than any five - year period before.

We are seeing more laws proposed based on politicians religious beliefs in the past ten years than any other time period since our founding in 1776.

Indeed, in historical perspective the figures for membership and attendance could easily be used to argue that the so - called conservative churches have been growing less spectacularly over the past 20 years than in the period from 1920 to 1965.

If soils remain wet through cluster elongation periods we could see generally large, tight clusters and the possibility of higher summer rot incidence than the past several years of drought have presented.

Typically these periods in past few seasons has seen us chasing the top table team with average of 10 points, then comes our end of season charge which has seen us having more points than any other epl team in the final two months of the season over the past few years as well.This is mostly due to injuries plaguing key members our team around this period every year, apparently we've gone through our rough mid season patch again or might still be going through seeing as we have list some key players like carzola, bellerin to injuries again.

Typically these periods in past few seasons has seen us chasing the top table team with average of 10 points, then comes our end of season charge which has seen us gaining more points than any other EPL team in the final two months of the season, over the past few years at least.

It marks the seventh straight year that no more than two English teams advanced past the Round of the 16 — a period of waning influence that was preceded by seven glorious years that produced six quarterfinalists, six semifinalists, five finalists, and two European champions.

And they are for many, many, many years past Hollywood but the fact that I have read that as well that many children who do breastfeed for an extended period of time, longer than the six months, longer than a year and sometimes longer than two, they are the ones that are more outgoing and more self - confident which is again kind of breaks that myth of that not being the case.

Their vote share, and popular vote size, was less impressive than in past elections, but the Tories best effort in this 20 year period was 36 %.

The Saratoga Republican has raised nearly $ 450,000 in the past six months, 27 times more than he raised during the same period in 2009, the last electoral off - year.

Police activity in New York City remained at a lower level last week than during the same period in past years, but continued its rise since enforcement came to a near standstill, the result of a citywide slowdown tied to the killings of two officers in December.

«Currently for assessing tax due from periods more than four years in the past, HMRC must demonstrate that the taxpayer failed to take reasonable care or acted deliberately non-compliantly.

Connecticut's health exchange is entering its fourth open enrollment period with two less carriers than in years past.

Growth rates for concentrations of carbon dioxide have been faster in the past 10 years than over any 10 - year period since continuous atmospheric monitoring began in the 1950s, with concentrations now roughly 35 percent above preindustrial levels (which can be determined from air bubbles trapped in ice cores).

Over the past year, more than 140 governments from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean recognized the special vulnerability of children during critical periods of development and declared the need for more awareness, information and monitoring of EDCs including in children's products, pesticides, electronics, building materials and textiles.

In the past half million years, this homeodomain has experienced more amino acid substitutions than it did in the preceding 700 million years; during this period, it has also evolved faster than other parts of the protein or even the introns.

«The climate changed quite often from warmer to colder, and vice versa, but at all times it was much colder than the interglacial period that we have lived in for the past 10,000 years.»

The NRC noted that «presently available proxy evidence indicates that temperatures at many, but not all, individual locations were higher during the past 25 years than during any period of comparable length since A.D. 900.»

Peter Stott, the head of climate monitoring at the U.K. Met Office, agreed, noting in an email that, «The slowdown hasn't gone away, however, the results of this study still show the warming trend over the past 15 years has been slower than previous 15 year periods.

According to the AAAS What We Know report, «The projected rate of temperature change for this century is greater than that of any extended global warming period over the past 65 million years.»

This period was apparently associated with increased meteoric impacts (around 100 times more frequent than today) associated with the break - up in the Main Asteroid Belt of the L - chondrite parent body — the largest documented asteroid breakup event over the past few billion years.

But, given that the world has changed so much in the past 30 years, is it any more than a period piece?

ASG COO Bruce Hawkins said the cost of education has risen at more than double the rate of inflation over the past 10 years and outstripped the growth in wages over the same period.

◦ Trend: The public grades their local schools more favorably now than at any point in the past ten years, despite mediocre performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress during the same period.

Based on analyses produced by the Benchmark Educational Resource Group, annual public education operating expenses in Texas approximate $ 7,000 per student, and total spending increased by over 40 % over the past five years, more than twice the sum of enrollment growth and inflation during that period.

Consider this: according to Education Resource Group and data from the Texas Education Agency, aggregate public education funding from all sources over the past 14 years has increased by $ 70 billion more than the increase necessary to fully fund the growth in enrollment and inflation combined over this period, even when adding a factor for the increase in special needs students.

Storytel has had the dominant position in in Sweden for very long periods and, according to Tellander, has helped to grow market consumption from 200 or 300 titles per year to more than 1,000 titles per year in the past three to four years in Sweden.

The company's shares are down more than 54 % for the past year while the S&P 500 index is up 13.3 % for the period.

«-- There are twice as many indie authors who debuted in the past 5 years now earning a six figure run rate than Big Five authors who were first published in the same time period and are able to do the same.

Over the past 10 - and 20 - year periods, real assets have produced larger, steadier returns than either stocks or bonds.

The index, which is designed to measure securities with an option - adjusted spread greater than or equal to 1,000 bps, is down 35 % over the past one - year period as of March 1, 2016.

Almost every segment of the yield curve is flatter now than at any time over the past 10 - year period (see Exhibit 2).

On the one hand, filing for chapter 13 bankruptcy can help you save a home from foreclosure by forcing your lender to take past due mortgage payments in small increments over a 3 - 5 year period rather than forcing you to pay back what you owe in a lump sum right away.

Joyce said that the key takeaway for investors is that it's not too late to take steps to shape your portfolio in preparation for a period where the markets will be more challenging than they have been over the past few years.

The limited time period means that debt collectors can not sue individuals in an attempt to collect debts that are more than four years past due.

In more than one instance, customers reported that they were required to pay a hefty cancellation fee for terminating their contract early (past the 30 - day trial period, but before the 3 years is up).

According to Alpholio ™ calculations, over the past 14 years the fund returned more than the ETF in about 73 % of rolling 12 - month periods.

Evidently, the vast majority of A-REIT funds tended to be more defensive than their benchmark over the past five years, as most of them recorded less volatile returns over the one -, three -, and five - year periods.

To wit, VIG has paid out roughly $ 1.95 in dividends over the past four quarters — 31 % more than it paid out during the comparable period of time four years ago.