Sentences with phrase «say increasing the number»

Deutsche Bank analyst Ross Curran said the increased number of claims was driven by more claims from its marine and fire risk division in Asia as well as higher - than - budgeted crop losses in Ecuador and ongoing «issues» in its Colombian third party motor insurance book.

McTaggart says an increasing number of public schools are looking for healthier, freshly prepared options, and that's exactly what Quest provides.

Roughly two - thirds of adults (67 %) say the increasing number of women working for pay outside the home has made it easier for families to earn enough to live comfortably.

The Independent National Electoral commission (INEC) says the increasing number of registered political parties is not a challenge to it or the electoral process of the country.

MSN NEWS - Feb 14 - Therapists say increasing numbers of Britons are becoming obsessed with searching for relationships online.

Seventeen percent of all respondents said increasing the number of women in management positions has been an issue in their district; 86 percent said that qualified females were considered for the vacancy they filled last year.

Enquiries from schools are increasing — over a third (34.2 per cent) say increasing numbers of schools are getting in touch for advice on how to make more of their outside space.

Still, David Osher, the vice president of the American Institutes for Research, says an increasing number of studies have shown that social and emotional learning can improve the factors known to help students through college.

But David Osher, vice president of the American Institutes for Research, says an increasing number of studies have shown that social and emotional learning can improve the factors known to help students through college.

Snow said an increasing number of Utah students enter kindergarten without basic preparation skills.

While a squirrel may be an atypical companion, industry experts say an increasing number of consumers are becoming pet parents to an eclectic assortment of small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish and birds.

Meanwhile, Crowns and defence lawyers say an increasing number of motions claiming delay under the new rules are being filed and have yet to be heard.

With both home prices and rental rates rising in many areas, Godi says an increasing number of homebuyers - including numerous singles - are eager to leave their rental units and buy a first home as soon as possible.

Indeed, during the rebuilding process, Summers says he increased the number of associates at his office by 15 percent.

Not exact matches

In addition to the removal of Fielding as CEO, the startup is «taking a number of steps to improve Ripcord's culture, including but not limited to increased training, reporting mechanisms and Board oversight,» the representative said.

Canada - wide, 67 % said property sales to foreign buyers increased in the last year (a number that's largely diminished because of a decrease in foreign buying in Calgary).

By 2014, that number increased fivefold to 585, while in 2015 the number of earthquakes further increased, the OGS said.

Cruz says he favors building a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, and would triple the number of agents on the border, as well as increase aerial surveillance.

«Our results were negatively impacted by a number of industry - wide challenges, including a significant U.S. toy category slowdown in the holiday period, and increased foreign exchange headwinds,» said outgoing Chairman and CEO Christopher Sinclair.

Two years later, a panel on competitiveness led by Red Wilson, a former BCE president, said the same thing and added a lengthy list of additional benefits, such as increasing the number of sources for financing existing telecoms.

One degree may not sound like much, but Stefan Rahmstorf, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute in Germany, says, «Every tenth of a degree increases the number of unprecedented extreme weather events considerably.»

The island city - state of Singapore said it will not allow any further increase in the number of cars on its streets from February.

More than half of health - care organizations surveyed by the company say the number of mobile device data breaches had increased over the past 12 months.

Says Brannon, «The total number of subscribers leaving pay TV is going to be so low that increases in ARPU are going to make the transition of these folks away from pay TV virtually a small blip on the radar.»

«We can reliably say that including certain characteristics and messages will increase the number of people who share [content] and the likelihood it will be shared.»

That's not great, but the company says there'll be a paid add - on that will increase that number to an unspecified amount.

Peter Warman, CEO of research firm Newzoo, says the number of hours gamers spent watching EA's FIFA 16 on Twitch in January increased by more than 80 % since last November, while the number of hours gamers watched NBA 2K16 videos on Twitch more than doubled in the same period.

While Franco - Nevada is making less per ounce than it once was, the company has increased both the number and size of its revenue - generating interests, says Shane Nagle, an analyst with National Bank Financial.

Barclays said, given the growth in Netflix's programming over the past year, the number of hours viewed per subscriber should arguably have increased, not held steady.

The founder also said Toutiao will create a «blacklist system» and increase the number of censors it hires from 6,000 to 10,000 — staff who are likely to be members of the ruling Communist Party.

In the weeks leading up to an event, it says, the number of attacks increases, peaking during the first week of the tournament or games.

«I bet the numbers show a 20 percent increase over last year's Prime Day, which I expect to cause a boatload of retail analysts to come out of the woodwork and downgrade any retailer that is still standing that they haven't downgraded yet,» Cramer said, adding that only then might the market find a bottom for some of the hardest hit brick - and - mortar names.

A majority of Americans said that inequality is «an acceptable part of our economic system,» a number that has also increased since the late 1990s.

«Over time they've been allowed to increase the number of slot machines and other games,» he says.

The number of marketers who said social video was «most important» increased by 10 percent in the past year.

«Small business owners are seeing the number of alternative sources for financing their companies grow at an unprecedented rate, and while this is a good thing in terms of increasing access to capital, borrower protections have not caught up,» Mills said last month while introducing the borrowers rights bill in Washington.

Perth - based Swick Mining Services says it made a number of redundancies to minimise costs during the March quarter and plans to make an impairment adjustment at year's end, despite an increase in demand for underground drilling from its existing clients.

Netflix chief financial officer David Wells said during an earnings call the robust numbers were due to the pricing plan increases, the upcoming slate and the fact Q4 was strong for the company in 2016.

Its number of impressions increased 150 % in the 13 months from August 2013 to September 2014, and revenues have been tracking «in the same ratio,» Ball says.

«The increased scrutiny about your strategy really forces you to get your numbers together,» he says.

At Wharton, Ulrich says, he has seen increasing numbers of students spend their summers in San Francisco developing their startups and then participating in Wharton's Semester in San Francisco during the fall — a program he pioneered a couple years ago to continue the foundation built during the summer.

Delta Air Lines said it had upsized aircraft and added flights to increase the number of available outgoing seats by 2,000.

And as regulations threaten to slow its growth, Jackson says it will help increase the number of hosts across the platform at large.

Phin Barnes, a partner at First Round Capital and an investor in startup Modern Fertility, says the number of pitches he sees from companies addressing women's health care has increased about 10 times in the past five years.

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.

«We expect that number to increase to over 100,000 a year when these regimens become available,» Nadeau said.

«I would expect our NFL numbers to increase significantly year over year because of positive word of mouth,» Marver says.

But Andrew Crocker, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said that the number of government requests to technology companies has been increasing since 2014, when data first started to become available as part of a settlement between technology firms and the government.

«I'm dedicated to increasing the number of black women at the firm because I believe in equity,» she says.

«The job market for them is very good and they are getting great opportunities, including an increase in the number of job interviews and offers,» he said.