Sentences with phrase «raised in a number of years»

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The number of ad - tech companies raising money dropped 17 % last year compared with the year earlier, data from CBInsights shows, and the total volume of funding fell 33 % to $ 2.2 billion from $ 3.2 billion, putting it back where it was in 2013.

The number of Perth - based technology companies pursuing a listing on the ASX this year has hit 10, with Dreamscape Networks due to list in coming days after raising $ 25 million and Secure2Go kicking off its capital raising this week.

Kinder Morgan also announced it would expand its Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby, B.C., which would raise the number of oil tankers visiting Vancouver harbour from 80 per year to one a day.

As the number of years westerners spend in retirement increases, raising the retirement age is becoming such an obvious solution that most of Canada's G7 peers have already done it.

U.S. employers added the largest number of workers in nearly three years in November and wage gains picked up, a sign of economic strength that could draw the Federal Reserve closer to raising interest rates.

But because this year's election breaks the mold in a number of important ways, it raises the question of how closely it will hew to past elections, at least where market reaction is concerned.

The pair went on to make a number of investments that first year before deciding to raise funds more formally from outsiders, like a conventional venture firm, and early in 2015 announced a $ 150 million fund.

Hong Kong has hosted a number of successful ICOs in the past years, including Gatcoin, which raised US$ 14.5 million in January 2018, AirSwap which raised US$ 36 million in October 2017, and the OAX Foundation which raised US$ 18 million in July 2017.

Playing as confidently as ever to the strength of its balance sheet, Deutsche Bank retained its number - one position in Western Europe's bond market, where it raised $ 126.3 billion in 534 bond deals for a 7.2 % market share last year.

Beginning in 2008, the FHA raised mortgage insurance premiums (MIP) six times in 5 years, while also tightening its mortgage guidelines to reduce the number of «bad loans» it made.

Seeking to further explain the weakness, a number of economists emphasized the recurring pattern evident in quarterly GDP numbers since 2010 — whereby first - quarter growth has averaged less than half the rate for the rest of the year — raising suspicions that seasonal effects may be skewing the data.

The number of people filing for bankruptcy in the U.S. and U.K. has been falling steadily for the past few years, but charities and analysts are concerned that homeowners could get in trouble if the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of England raise interest rates.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- U.S. employers added the largest number of workers in nearly three years in November and wage gains picked up, a sign of economic strength that could draw the Federal Reserve closer to raising interest rates.

From a high base, created by rapid growth in 2014, rewards Crowdfunding grew over the last year in excess of 25 % — 27 % as measured by amount raised — with participation (the numbers of pledges) increasing significantly (12 %) while the success rate fell by 2 % as publicity attracted those less prepared for the process.

China led in the number of capital raisings using depositary receipts last year, with 14 of the 51 transactions worldwide, according to BNY Mellon.

China led in the number of capital raisings using depositary receipts last year, with 14 of the 51 transactions...

This year has seen an explosion in the success of ICOs with a number of projects breaking records for total amounts raised.

The broadening in the DR capital market last year, with a surge in the number of capital raisings to 51 from 31 transactions in 2012, was more significant than the decline in the total capital raised, which fell to $ 10.4 billion from $ 12.7 billion in 2012, they say.

This represents a 26 % year - over-year decrease in the number of female - led companies that raised an A in the Bay Area compared with 2014.

Having taught a number of years at an undergraduate institution within the evangelical world, I observed on more than one occasion students who wrestled with the particular brand of Christianity in which they had been raised.

The New Testament scholar explained how, in his evangelical youth, he spent a number of years trying to prove to people that Jesus had been raised from the dead.

Didn't read the article, so I have no idea how President Obama's faith has been labeled, but as a person who began attending a Christina Church during adolescence, I know that it is very hard to accept a number of tenets of the faith, so I find myself doubting that a person who was raised for a number of years in a Muslim household and whose mother does not appear to have been of a Christian denomination, is likely to have adopted the tenets of the Christian faith.

She had two sons that she was raising, and The Hubby and his brother are about the same number of years apart as my boys, so I know that in and of itself is enough to keep you busy pretty much all the time.

In its 49 - year history, the series has raised millions of dollars to support a number of Napa Valley - based charitable music organizations.

The Brazilian has had a woeful season thus far but the international full - back, who cost Arsenal # 5.8 m in August 2011, could raise a reasonable fee as a number of sides in Europe have expressed interest in the 29 year old wide - man.

The German international has been a key player for our side since joining from Real Madrid in 2013, but over the past year, a number of questions have been raised against him.

Marie Stopes International is aiming to raise awareness of long - acting reversible methods of contraception (LARC) during the Christmas / New Year festive season in order to reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies.

In an election year, a number of state legislators already are not happy with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to raise taxes on New Yorkers by at least $ 1 billion.

[33] Field was the instigator of the idea of a global Commonwealth network of protected forests, though he failed to raise political interest for a number of years; when HM The Queen came to hear of the idea she supported it enthusiastically, and the initiative was launched as the Queen's Commonwealth Canopy in 2015.

Considering how much money the presidential candidates have raised in the first quarter of this year alone, numbers this large shouldn't be surprising — though I can't help but be a little shocked (that's a lot of money).

The 1894 constitutional convention seemed ready to recommend an increase, to $ 3,000, but backed down when delegates realized a raise, coupled with a planned increase in the number of legislators, would have put the state on the hook for a then - whopping $ 600,000 per year.

ALBANY — In an election year, a number of state legislators already are not happy with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's plan to raise taxes on New Yorkers by at least $ 1 billion.

Nick Clegg and the other Lib Dem negotiators called for a «a commitment not to raise the cap on tuition fees» (a watered - down version of their manifesto pledge to phase out tuition fees over six years), a cut in the number of government ministers, a four year fixed - term parliament and «a commitment to no public subsidy for nuclear power stations».

Thursday's City Council schedule will include a meeting of the Committee on Governmental Operations for its preliminary budget oversight hearing; a meeting of the Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high - stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget for New York City.»

Last year, the country ran controlled experiments in 435 different places, putting a number of candidates up against one another and tracking how much each raised and spent.

A female announcer then talks about the number of people New York has lost in recent years and says there's «hope» in the form of Cuomo's budget — «a plan to move New York forward» without raising taxes.

There is an expectation that the scheme will help reduce the number of single use bags by 90 % and raise # 3 million a year for charities when it launches in September.

A number of new, highly effective therapies to treat both Hepatitis C and HIV / AIDS have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration in recent years, but their extraordinary costs have raised questions about states» ability to pay the sticker price.

3 The Lib Dems called for «a commitment not to raise the cap on tuition fees», a cut in the number of government ministers, a four - year, fixed - term parliament and «a commitment to no public subsidy for nuclear power stations».

I hope they will aim to raise the initial tax threshold to the current subsistence level (even if over a few years), simplify the benefit system so that benefit claimants receive in effect a weekly wage or monthly salary instead of a number of dribs and drabs (all of which require horrendous forms), amalgamate NI with IT and then look at introducing a flat tax to cover the lot.

Rochdale's Liberal Democrat candidate Paul Rowen, MP for the last five years, said: «To label Mrs Duffy a bigot for raising concerns over the numbers of migrants entering Britain from Eastern Europe because this Government failed to put the correct controls in place is ridiculous.»

For Perez - Melgosa, who spent more than 15 years at UW, during which she co-authored a number of peer - reviewed publications, «the mere fact that this allegation has been raised against me carries with it the most serious effects upon my professional career,» she stated in her testimony for the lawsuit, which alleged discrimination based on national origin.

All of which means that story number 2 about Henry Kissinger in a music video for arthritis research is of course TOTALL... Y BOGUS; however, this years Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, the creator of the Grameen bank that gives out micro-loans really has launched a music video aimed at raising money to build eye hospitals in Bangladesh.

Complementary analyses of the surface mass balance of Greenland (Tedesco et al, 2011) also show that 2010 was a record year for melt area extent... Extrapolating these melt rates forward to 2050, «the cumulative loss could raise sea level by 15 cm by 2050 ″ for a total of 32 cm (adding in 8 cm from glacial ice caps and 9 cm from thermal expansion)- a number very close to the best estimate of Vermeer & Rahmstorf (2009), derived by linking the observed rate of sea level rise to the observed warming.

Salk Institute (California): not raising salaries — note that Salk is affiliated with University of California San Diego, where the postdoc union has negotiated a raise in the contract for postdocs to the new NIH NRSA levels at +2 years beyond the number of years experience the postdoc actually has.

As per - seat fuel efficiency of jet airliners improved, a combination of cheaper fares, increasing incomes, and a growing population raised the number of airborne humans from millions in the 1960s to the current four billion a year.

With a lot of work we have raised that number to 67 percent in six years.

Last fall, the conflict between charter and district schools intensified after someone leaked a plan from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation to raise up to $ 490 million from foundations and wealthy individuals to double the number of charter schools in the city, with the goal of enrolling about half the students in the district within eight years.

New York State Commissioner of Education Thomas Sobol has proposed doubling the number of students who master three years of high - school mathematics as one of 12 strategic objectives for the year 2000 designed to raise academic expectations in the Empire State.

And the Urban Institute's calculations show that states that made changes to their pension plans in response to the recent recession raised the number of years it takes for an employee to break even from 20 to 24 years.