Sentences with phrase «points over a number of years»

But had you been underperforming by a few percentage points over a number of years, it would be time to start asking some questions.

Not exact matches

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.

This past April, the United States Energy Information Agency released an estimate that fracking has effectively increased the volume of recoverable gas in the world six times over, to the point where it could satisfy current demand for 250 years — and that isn't counting a number of countries including Russia where the necessary geological data were unavailable.

Awareness of these products has grown tremendously over the past year, and there are a diverse number of products on the market offering a variety of features and price points,» said Ben Arnold, Executive Director, Industry Analyst, Consumer Electronics, The NPD Group.

At the point the growth began to slow, the multiple would contract, meaning that even if its earnings do grow 600 % in the next few years, if it becomes subject to the law of big numbers - that ever increasing amounts eventually forge their own anchor - the result would be a market capitalization substantially similar to today, leading to no increase in the stock price over a long period of time.

He has propped up his narrative with some data that estimate the numbers of men in this category and their ages over the last hundred years, but data is not really the point here.

Liberal Boomers, who seldom if ever seriously criticize the legions of conservative - demonizers in your midst, for this post I will mostly join Mr. Druckenmiller in accusing you outright, that is, I will act as if this was your premeditated plan motivated by selfish interest, and not a pattern of political self - delusion that you fell into, given the drip - drip - drip of Democrat talking points over the years, given your gleeful listening to those who dismissed conservatives as hateful dunces, so that you ceased to even consider the NUMBERS conservatives kept pointing to, and just kept on doggedly voting D.

Over the past three decades, the number of homeschooled children has grown by at least 7 percent a year» the number may now exceed the number attending charter schools» and between 6 and 12 percent of all students are educated at home at some point between kindergarten and twelfth grade.

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.

Due to the shear number of planets, of course one has to have the perfect conditions to support life, which (over billions of years of EVOLUTION) has perfected all of those systems to the point where we can debate about where it all came from.

While some megachurches are flourishing in suburban Christian enclaves, the number of self - identifying Christians has fallen 10 points over as many years.

Instead, I point to the huge number of articles in recent years in places like The Atlantic and elsewhere written by women anguishing over the problem of finding men to marry.

Treasury shares finished at $ 10.53, down slightly on Friday, after a big share price surge of 11 per cent on a buoyant set of results announced on August 18 as investors crunched their numbers on the $ 800 million inventory of luxury wines that will be steadily rolled out for sale over the next few years in the $ 20 a bottle and higher price point.

The Welshman has shown on a number of occasions that he has the ability to play at the highest level, but numerous injuries have stunted and slowed his progression over the years, and there are always worries that we could lose him to injury at any point in the season.

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

Last year we saw most of the top season point totals to go Over their numbers, but this year most of the top totals are trending toward the Under:

Curiously they did not express the same view in their press release highlighting my survey of marginal seats in March, which showed a number of potential SNP gains from the Lib Dems, or when they welcomed my «super poll» at the end of last year which gave the SNP a 6 - point lead over Labour.

Commentators have pointed out a number of factors could undermine Mr Osborne's bid to foster a recovery through # 81 billion of spending cuts over the next four years.

«I proposed, just over a year ago, a Women's Equality Act that the Legislature's considering... that points out a number of areas of injustices and inequalities vis - à - vis women and possible solutions for it.

And as her campaign has pointed out, the total number of small donors is more than Cuomo's over the past seven years.

Chiu pointed to a number of serious and unexpected animal - to - human disease transmissions over the last 10 years, including SARS in 2003, the H1N1 influenza in 2009, and the current outbreak of H7N9 avian influenza, which already has resulted in more than 20 deaths in China.

If you think about it, you probably got to that point gradually (perhaps over a number of years) and you won't go the other way in a heartbeat.

Hi Hope, over all I've had very good experiences on eBay over the years (I've been using the site for about 8.5 years now), but have run into a few more issues there than on etsy (though, to be fare, I've had higher number of transactions on eBay, so that could certainly be a factor in that point, too).

Over a number of years, he pottered around on a script with Walter Campbell, a writer he met in the advertising business, and as they worked, scenes and plot points continued to crumble away, until only the molten core of Johansson's character remained.

The new research schools - which will each receive # 200,000 in funding over three years — will become focal points of evidence - based practice in their region and build networks between large numbers of schools.

I just played with some numbers recently, and I think they go something like this: if every teacher in a district got better by two percentile points every year, that over a 10 year period of time, you can expect student achievement to rise, you know, rather dramatically.

«And over the course of those four years, parents have organized and passed this law in California... and passed this law in a number of states across the country to the point where almost 25 percent of American parents live in a state where there is a parent trigger.»

While enrollment numbers for Hispanics are increasing, enrollment numbers for other races and ethnicities has decreased over the last four years, according to data points graphed from USU's Office of Analysis, Assessment and Accreditation.

In the four years PowerMyLearning has worked with her, Ms. Arenas has increased the number of sixth grade students achieving year - end proficiency by more than 25 percentage points (that's moving more than a quarter of the sixth - grade students over the proficiency line).

Dr. Fuller points out the number of black families who choose to send their children to charter schools is growing, with nearly 200,000 additional families enrolling over the past five years.

If you've followed the sales numbers over the last few years, the only segment of the market to consistently grow, usually in triple digit percentage points, has been e-books.

It said «it appears at this point that the plant misreported its financial statements over a number of years dating back to 2005.»

A Handful of Superstars As Burton Malkiel noted, 1 we can count on the fingers of one hand the number of equity mutual funds that have beaten the market by at least 2 percentage points over more than a 40 - year period.

The number of points needed for Southwest flights usually depends on how much the flight costs, though Southwest has become a little bit less transparent about exactly how much points are worth over the past couple of years.

Collecting and studying the «salvageable specimens» of cliff swallows killed along the roads surrounding southwestern Nebraska's Cedar Point Biological Station over the past 30 years, Brown and Brown found the numbers of road - killed birds «declined sharply.»

Starvon In the Limelight — Sent two dogs over to England, Mason and Riley, both earned UK Championships, both dogs, stud dogs of the year, Riley has sired multiple UK champions — Produced 6 ARBA champions, and three AKC champions and shown I to AKC championship — Show in herding, conformation and agility — Penny, SunFire's Heads I Win has earned a leg in AKC started ducks, Ch pointed and, a leg in novice jumpers — Penny has earned her ASCA open Cattle, Sheep and Ducks Titles and HIT awards — Australian Shepherd Club of America (ASCA), Senior Breeder Judge, ASCA Stock Dog Judge — Co-own the # 6 AKC All breed Australian Shepherd and number 10 Australian Shepherd for the year (so far) in AKC Standings, Dee just picked up 3 Group 4's last weekend

Though some Ultimate Rewards cards — such as the Chase Freedom card — may enforce a cap on the number of points you can earn on bonus categories, there are no overall limits to the number of Ultimate Rewards points that you can earn in a year or over the lifetime of your Ultimate Rewards membership.

The number of points needed for Southwest flights usually depends on how much the flight costs, though Southwest has become a little bit less transparent about exactly how much points are worth over the past couple of years.

At Manchester Airport, passenger numbers in January 2016 were up 7.8 per cent up year - on - year, mainly due to a range of new destinations — there are now more destinations (over 210) offered than at any other point in the airport's 78 year history, and more than London Heathrow.

This is all a moot point really; a number of extensive updates have been added to the game over the past year creating a much more feature rich package for fighting fans to get into.

Club Nintendo in Japan, he says: «The genius in Club Nintendo is two fold: not only are all products on the site (including figures, Nintendo Music CDs, and even games) exclusive to Club Nintendo, but members that gain a certain number of points over the course of a year are made Platinum Members.

My main point though is that it isn't gambling in the legal sense (there have been a number of court cases brought against card distributors over the years and they've all been dismissed).

Daedalic Entertainment released a number of point - and - click adventure games over the last couple years.

Though I still loved seeing some of the work, I couldn't help having the feeling that it seemed like something (perhaps an alcohol problem) derailed him a number of times, that some lack of clarity in his decisions over the years led him astray a few times.  Besides that, one point I didn't see brought up was the originality of his color schemes from the semi-figurative portraits of the late 30s to early 40s.

True visitor numbers may have declined, but as many in the press have already pointed out, this is due to the large scale refurbishments that took place over most of last year so until we get a representative year of attendance figures, there's no way to know if people are genuinely shunning it.

And speaking as someone who's gone through a number of different bike lights over the years, one of the biggest pain points for these lights, other than the possibility of theft, is their dependence on batteries, which often go flat at the most inoppportune moments.

Economic impact estimates completed over the past 20 years vary in their coverage of subsets of economic sectors and depend on a large number of assumptions, many of which are disputable, and many estimates do not account for catastrophic changes, tipping points, and many other factors.

Over the past five years or so, as the poaching of elephants has swelled to record numbers, environmentalists and researchers have pointed a finger firmly at China's ravenous appetite for ivory as the main cause for what is now widely described as a crisis.

My point was that I'm guessing a lot more than 440ppm is locked in - I'm not sure how This David Mills character came up with his numbers so I am of course merely guessing / being potentially paranoid... the IPCC reports are known to be conservative by nature for instance and there was an article just recently on Sterling Engines being tested in South Africa over the last 4 years... combining this with the new phenomenons of formula - e racing and possibly Virgin competing with Tesla for the electric car market and Tesla itself saying it may just go into producing batteries the world does seem to be displaying something of a turn!

As, over recent years, a number of ominous indicators pointed toward yet another surge in ocean surface levels.