Sentences with phrase «significantly from year to year»

Hydropower production depends on water availability and can vary significantly from year to year.

According to the press release: «The graph -LSB-...] illustrates how the length of the melt season varies significantly from year to year, but the long - term trend is clear.»

Actual returns will vary significantly from year to year and could be negative in some years, particularly for investment mixes where more is invested in shares and property.

Because of fluctuation in the timing of facilities construction and the purchase of major assets, capital outlay expenditures vary significantly from year to year.

Capital spending typically supports school construction and other physical infrastructure investments that can fluctuate significantly from year to year in individual states, throwing off the underlying trend line.

Schools are divided into six categories: (i) «gaining ground schools» which have met standards but have only minimal gain scores; (ii) volatile schools, whose performance varies significantly from year to year and criteria to criteria; (iii) «national challenge schools», who meet neither the norm standards nor the gain score standards; (iv) «good to great schools» which do not meet norm criteria but have high gain scores and (v) great schools which have high norm results and high gain scores.

This adjustment various significantly from year to year.

Not exact matches

The investment indicator in the Business Outlook Survey weakened significantly from the summer report, as the balance of opinion between firms planning more spending on machinery and equipment versus those predicting less dropped to 17 per cent from 29 per cent in the summer and 35 per cent at the start of the year.

But a 2015 report from the Kauffman Foundation says startup activity is actually significantly lower among people aged 20 to 34 than it was 18 years ago.

Dube began to see that cutting just $ 1 or $ 2 from the price of each item could increase the company's overall margins significantly, because it purchases thousands of items from vendors every year.

The consumer price index (CPI), released on Friday, showed the cost of living in America rising only 1.6 percent compared to the same month last year, significantly down from the most recent high of 2.8 percent in February and below the Fed's target of 2 percent.

Speaking at the American Institute of CPAs last week, IRS Small Business / Self - Employed division head Faris Fink said the agency will be shifting its auditing focus from corporations to small - business partnerships, which have grown significantly in number over the last six years.

Eat24 will start contributing to GrubHub's revenue from the current quarter and will start adding significantly to earnings from the third quarter of next year, CFO Adam DeWitt told Reuters.

A study by the Pew Research Center has found that in the last 20 years migration flow from Mexico to the U.S. has been cut down significantly, and in the past decade more Mexican immigrants have been leaving the country than coming in.

The federal - prison population has decreased significantly over the last three years from 220,000 in 2013 to 197,000 in December 2015.

Increasingly sophisticated voice assistants and the growing potential use cases they can assist in are driving consumers to adopt them in greater droves — 65 % of US smartphone owners were employing voice assistants in 2015, up significantly from 30 % just two years prior.

This amount can vary significantly across employees and, depending on state turnover, can show dramatic changes in actual salaries from year to year.

The deficit for the current fiscal year that ends in two weeks is projected to be $ 25.9 billion — exactly as forecast in the fall fiscal update but up significantly from the $ 21.1 billion posited by Flaherty in last March's budget.

«In Britain, for example, where the financial transaction tax has fluctuated from half a percent to 2 percent, the tax has raised significantly less revenue than one might expect, about # 3 billion a year.

Growth in other revenue sources, such as Corporations Tax and Mining Tax, can differ significantly from growth in nominal GDP in any given year, due to the inherent volatility of business profits as well as the use of tax provisions, such as loss carrying.

Growth expectations have been cut significantly since the start of the year: the Atlanta Federal Reserve cut its forecast to 2.0 percent from 4.2 percent in January.

The business has grown significantly over the years, from 30 employees and global sales of CDN$ 150,000, to now employing more than 20,000 people with global sales in excess of CDN$ 9 billion.

In the event you are taking withdrawals from your four year cash reserve due to being in a severe, long - term falling market, when the market turns up again, continue taking your withdrawals from the cash reserve for an additional 18 months to two years to allow the market to rise significantly (the market almost always rises fast during the first two years of an up market period) before switching back to taking withdrawals from your stock mutual funds.

The federal government recorded a budget deficit of $ 215.2 billion in February, up significantly from a year ago as the impact of the GOP tax cuts passed in December begin to surface.

It found 89 per cent of managers agreed energy transition risks - such as increasing emissions regulations or growing competition from clean tech alternatives - will significantly impact the valuations of the oil companies in the next five years, compared to 46 per cent when the survey was conducted in 2017.

Interest rates are also projected to rise, with the rate on 10 - year Treasury notes increasing from today's 2.9 percent to stabilize around 3.7 percent over the medium - term, significantly below the historical average.

These are the debates that are likely to matter, that are likely to be settled (or significantly advanced) in the coming year and take a view that differs meaningfully from the current market consensus.

Lionsgate and Starz have much to gain from a get - together — both stocks are off significantly year - to - date and are trading near their respective 52 - week lows.

Actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied by forward - looking statements based on a number of factors, including, without limitation: (1) risks related to the consummation of the Merger, including the risks that (a) the Merger may not be consummated within the anticipated time period, or at all, (b) the parties may fail to obtain shareholder approval of the Merger Agreement, (c) the parties may fail to secure the termination or expiration of any waiting period applicable under the HSR Act, (d) other conditions to the consummation of the Merger under the Merger Agreement may not be satisfied, (e) all or part of Arby's financing may not become available, and (f) the significant limitations on remedies contained in the Merger Agreement may limit or entirely prevent BWW from specifically enforcing Arby's obligations under the Merger Agreement or recovering damages for any breach by Arby's; (2) the effects that any termination of the Merger Agreement may have on BWW or its business, including the risks that (a) BWW's stock price may decline significantly if the Merger is not completed, (b) the Merger Agreement may be terminated in circumstances requiring BWW to pay Arby's a termination fee of $ 74 million, or (c) the circumstances of the termination, including the possible imposition of a 12 - month tail period during which the termination fee could be payable upon certain subsequent transactions, may have a chilling effect on alternatives to the Merger; (3) the effects that the announcement or pendency of the Merger may have on BWW and its business, including the risks that as a result (a) BWW's business, operating results or stock price may suffer, (b) BWW's current plans and operations may be disrupted, (c) BWW's ability to retain or recruit key employees may be adversely affected, (d) BWW's business relationships (including, customers, franchisees and suppliers) may be adversely affected, or (e) BWW's management's or employees» attention may be diverted from other important matters; (4) the effect of limitations that the Merger Agreement places on BWW's ability to operate its business, return capital to shareholders or engage in alternative transactions; (5) the nature, cost and outcome of pending and future litigation and other legal proceedings, including any such proceedings related to the Merger and instituted against BWW and others; (6) the risk that the Merger and related transactions may involve unexpected costs, liabilities or delays; (7) other economic, business, competitive, legal, regulatory, and / or tax factors; and (8) other factors described under the heading «Risk Factors» in Part I, Item 1A of BWW's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended December 25, 2016, as updated or supplemented by subsequent reports that BWW has filed or files with the SEC.

I mean we missed our initial targets for the year fairly significantly and that's reflected in incentives from the top all the way down through the restaurants as we reset to normalized levels with an expectation that we will hit our plan and pay out at normalized levels as you said — as Brad said, that's worth about $ 0.15 a share.

If home prices within a particular county rise significantly from one year to the next, the loan limits will likely rise with them.

At 2.3 % a year, growth in 2015 would be significantly below the 2.8 % growth turned in by the economy in 2006 or the annual average of 3.1 % from 2004 to 2006.

Over the past year, Twitter added just 14 million new monthly active users, and just two million in Q4, despite a chaotic election cycle that played out significantly on its service and an ad campaign from Twitter to remind us it was happening.

India decreased significantly this year to 55 companies from 90 in 2014.

If you haven't filed a federal income tax return in the past two years, or if your current income is significantly different from the income reported on your most recent federal income tax return (for example, if you lost your job or have experienced a drop in income), alternative documentation of your income will be used to determine your eligibility and calculate your monthly payment amount.

The study, based on Trade in Value Added data recently released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, shows that between 1995, the year after NAFTA went into effect, and 2011, U.S. content of manufactured goods imported from Canada dropped significantly — from 21 percent to 15 percent.

For Australia, the drop - off in inbound travellers from Japan contributed significantly to the decline of around 20 per cent in international arrivals between January and May this year.

The government cut its budget significantly and at the same time the Federal Reserve was hiking rates to stave off inflation, because they were trying to contain the price inflation from the war years.

«I've had clients for 20 years thank me for advising them to convert from term life to permanent life insurance when they did... The value of the policy can grow significantly,» he said «It's a very useful planning tool.»

Over the year to September last year (the most recent data available) gross profits grew by 25 per cent — a significantly stronger rise than seen in the recovery from the early - 1990s recession.

However, our experience shows that donations drop significantly within a few days after a disaster, even though most of the efforts to recover from serious flooding and rebuild homes, lives and a community can stretch out for months or even years.

So when home prices rise significantly from one year to the next, federal housing officials may increase loan limits to keep pace.

According to the Pew survey released last month, most of those who think Obama is Muslim are Republicans, but the number of independents who believe he is Muslim has expanded significantly, from 10 percent last year to 18 percent this summer.

I engaged in intense prayer and meditation for quite a few years from adolescence on into adulthood and it seems to me that I succeeded in altering my brain's neurophysiology / chemistry significantly to the point where I could make a living from being a psychic or a spirit medium.

So while countries such as Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) fell significantly in rank on this year's watch list (Sri Lanka dropped 15 spots to No. 44, and the UAE dropped 14 spots to No. 49), their level of persecution dropped only slightly from last year's list (by four points and two points, respectively, on a 100 - point scale).

As Business Insider notes, «Based on seven major illegal drug data surveillance systems, the researchers found that heroin, cocaine and marijuana became significantly cheaper and more potent from 1990 to 2007 (the last year for which data is publicly available).»

His statement to the NCC committee differed significantly from his statement four years previously and quoted by CBS.

In one study that followed people from the Netherlands for 10 years, orange and yellow hued veggies, carrots in particular, were shown to significantly reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease when eaten on a regular basis.

Under ideal conditions, the same amount of land used for growing corn could produce up to 25 times more protein from microalgae in part due to continuous harvest year - round and significantly higher protein content found in microalgae

«Lion has invested significantly in a range of initiatives and expects to realise the benefits of past site rationalisation during Financial Year 2013, however we are still a considerable distance from making an acceptable return, and this can not be delivered by a focus on costs alone,» he added.