Sentences with phrase «smaller than in recent years»

Reed Smith will have a summer program next year, he said, but it will be smaller than in recent years.

Certainly the ring of steel surrounding the conference centre here in Manchester seemed smaller than in recent years and the security was noticeably less oppressive.

Not exact matches

Despite progress forged in leaps and bounds in recent years, women - owned businesses are still likely to be smaller than those owned by males, and indeed, they are more likely to fail.

Small business owners are more satisfied with the federal government than they have been in recent years, but a new survey has found there are still a lot of changes the sector would like to see implemented to help run their businesses efficiently.

In recent years they have added international equities and small - cap stocks — asset classes that come with higher volatility than sturdier blue chips, but also offer the promise of higher returns.

In recent months, the company rolled out a new tool for small business owners to retail to followers through a virtual «boutique» (or storefront), where some users are making more than $ 100,000 each year.

A recent survey of small - business owners conducted for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce by Harris Interactive reported an 11 percentage point rise in the last year in the number of owners who are unsure of whether their business will be better off in the future than it has been in the past.

The fact that none of these family offices reported targeting direct or co-investments above $ 5 million is also telling, as these California family offices unanimously prefer to make minority and small - to - middle - market deals, rather than executing some of the large deals that have been done by family offices and co-investment groups in recent years.

That's a smaller surplus than the previous quarter, but still one of the wider gaps in recent years.

The recent widening of this spread is, of course, much smaller than was seen in 1994 in the previous episode of globally rising bond yields, when the yield on 10 - year bonds in Australia moved from 1 percentage point to about 3 percentage points above the comparable US yield.

of small business owners have had their lines of credit reduced in recent years, and about 10 percent had their line of credit pulled in earlier than expected.

All agree that the 2015 crop in California was smaller than it has been in recent years, and while we wait for the official February California Crop Report to give us an actual tonnage number, we know that the market has been very active, as buyers have moved to shore up supply.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

«It all means a lot more to me today than it did 25 years ago,» he says while seated in a small cubicle at station WXYT alter his show one recent morning.

More than 5 million window coverings, including vertical and horizontal blinds, roman shades, and roll - up blinds, have been recalled in recent years because they are dangerous to small children.

And again the most recent fiscal squeeze seems to fit a trend in which increases in tax revenue have played a smaller part in fiscal austerity packages in the UK over the last 30 years than in earlier periods.

Analysis of the most recent British Election Study data demonstrated that while support for UKIP will fall after May's European Parliament elections, this decline will be by a much smaller margin than in previous years.

Enrollment numbers have decreased in both smaller districts in recent years and yet they continue to spend more on administrative costs per student than others.

Indeed, one small study published in 1978 showed that lottery winners were no happier one year after receiving their prizes than were other, similar nonwinners and that recent victims of paralysis conversely seemed less unhappy than expected.

In Spain, there have been several years with less rain than normal, and according to a recent report by Unión de Pequeños Agricultores y Ganaderos (union of small farmers and ranchers, UPA), in 2017, droughts caused losses of more than 3,600 million euros in the agricultural sector in Spain, mostly due a big loss of productivity in cropIn Spain, there have been several years with less rain than normal, and according to a recent report by Unión de Pequeños Agricultores y Ganaderos (union of small farmers and ranchers, UPA), in 2017, droughts caused losses of more than 3,600 million euros in the agricultural sector in Spain, mostly due a big loss of productivity in cropin 2017, droughts caused losses of more than 3,600 million euros in the agricultural sector in Spain, mostly due a big loss of productivity in cropin the agricultural sector in Spain, mostly due a big loss of productivity in cropin Spain, mostly due a big loss of productivity in cropin crops.

Although drawing conclusions about small population subgroups — such as kids at risk of violence — from broad population trends can be dicey, it is still worth noting that as violent video games proliferated in recent years, the number of violent youthful offenders fell — by more than half between 1994 and 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

In fact, I went years without white rice, but in my recent pursuit of healing / managing SIBO (small intestinal bacteria overgrowth) I discovered that white jasmine rice is better tolerated than sweet potato for mIn fact, I went years without white rice, but in my recent pursuit of healing / managing SIBO (small intestinal bacteria overgrowth) I discovered that white jasmine rice is better tolerated than sweet potato for min my recent pursuit of healing / managing SIBO (small intestinal bacteria overgrowth) I discovered that white jasmine rice is better tolerated than sweet potato for me.

Maybe it is because I'm older, maybe it is because of recent events or maybe it's because last year I became a female small business owner, but I feel a fire in my gut now more than ever.

Creatively, as demonstrated lately with so much quality programming offered in recent years on the small screen, television more than challenges even the most discerning «artists».

In recent years, experts have discovered that if a question is posed to a small group of students rather than to just one learner, the answer is worked out and recalled more effectively.

We heard many examples during our enquiry of schools restricting their languages curriculum in recent years, and these decisions were more often than not driven by small or falling pupil numbers.

However, often overlooked is the fact that teacher retirements have always represented a small portion of those leaving teaching — less than one - third in recent years.

He was referring to the potential that owners of more than 300,000 small businesses and farms in Kansas that have enjoyed tax exemptions in recent years could soon see an end to that and tap into the tax credit.

This ignores the fact that students are not randomly assigned to teachers, that some students are much more difficult to teach than others, that small changes in student composition can have a large effect on the average scores a teacher achieves, and that recent analyses of value - added models have shown that as many as 20 % of the teachers in the top group one year are in the bottom group the next year.

New for 2015, the Cadillac ATS coupe aims to attract even more first - time buyers to the brand than other small (er) Cadillacs have given the company in recent years, starting with the debut of the CTS - V exactly a decade ago (yes, it really has been that long).

As demand for diesel engines in standard sedan and station wagon cars in the United States has traditionally been much lower than in saloon and estate cars in Europe, the development of smaller automotive turbodiesels has (in general) been led by European manufacturers in recent years.

In recent years, many luxury automakers have introduced vehicles known as «four - door coupes,» cars with rakish rooflines and smaller rear doors than traditional sedans.

The subsequent (and recent) small - cap rally beginning in 1999 began from a relative valuation level not seen in more than 25 years.

The 20 bp rise in 10 - year Treasury yields during the recent market turmoil resulted in a 1.6 percent decline in the price of the Treasury note — a small fraction of the more than 6 percent decline in the S&P 500 on February 2nd & 5th.

Interested applicants would mostly likely be more recent graduates with less than five years previous working experience, a genuine interest in soft tissue surgery and participation in small animal reproductive medicine through continuing education and a mentoring process.

For many years cats have been second - rate citizens in the pet world — more popular than small animals, but much less so than dogs; in recent years that has begun to change.

Thus, in these recessionary times, the show will be smaller than it has been in recent years, with just 55 artists, down from 81 in 2008 and 100 in 2006.

However, even a smaller figure (I had calculated about 0.17 W / m ^ 2 based on your inflated figure for total planetary albedo, but you can check it out) is still significant when compared with the total flux imbalance, which I think is a more informative comparison than an arbitrarily selected change in cloud cover, because it compares the sea ice reduction with the effects of all climate variations that have been operating in recent years..

The ice mass loss observed in this research was a change from the trend of losing 113 ± 17 gigatons per year during the 1990s, but was smaller than some other recent estimates (Luthcke et al. 2006).

The ozone hole that forms each year in the stratosphere over Antarctica was slightly smaller in 2013 than average in recent decades, according to NASA satellite data.

The difference is smaller than the uncertainty in comparing the temperatures of recent years, putting them into a statistical tie.

One of the nice things about small Japanese cars in the late 1970's / early 80's timeframe, or the «Smart Car» that was put on display at the Detroit auto show in recent years, is they do a better job than domestically - produced small cars in developing a certain, unexplainable cachet with young, hip and environmentally aware consumers.

Ever since it emerged from Chicago's small startup community in 2008, Groupon has had nothing short of a spectacular story in terms of its growth: With estimated annual revenues of more than $ 4 billion after just three years of existence, the poster child for the «group buying» phenomenon is now one of the fastest - growing companies in recent memory.

Gov. Susana Martinez has signed a state budget that includes smaller increases than in recent years for early childhood funding.

The average home built in 2016 was 2,634 square feet, smaller than homes built the year prior, per recent data by the U.S. Census Bureau.

And in Brooklyn (Kings County), which has changed from downscale to upscale and pricy in recent years, the population grew by 16,000 in 2015 — 5,000 less than the year before and the smallest increase of the past decade.

Good point Jim... BUT... if brokerages ideally going forward have to compete with other brokerages for only a small number of recent competent graduates per year (instead of the tumble weed - like overabundance of wide - eyed hoping - for - good - luck babes - in - the - woods minor league» rs) who are highly educated (both academically and industry related), well experienced in some kind of previous real estate related venture (other than simply as a commissioned sales person) who can also prove that they have an ethics - driven background «prior» to being allowed into real estate transaction schooling / training, then that ball falls squarely in Organized Real Estate's bureaucratic court of currently - fuzzy parameters.

In recent years, economists and demographers have argued that members of Generation Y will have a longer love for city living in smaller living quarter than their predecessorIn recent years, economists and demographers have argued that members of Generation Y will have a longer love for city living in smaller living quarter than their predecessorin smaller living quarter than their predecessors.

In recent years, Berwick has become known as The Small Town with a Lot to Offer and according to 2006 Statistics Canada Census data, Berwick is the fastest growing town in Nova Scotia with a population of more than 3,000 year - round residentIn recent years, Berwick has become known as The Small Town with a Lot to Offer and according to 2006 Statistics Canada Census data, Berwick is the fastest growing town in Nova Scotia with a population of more than 3,000 year - round residentin Nova Scotia with a population of more than 3,000 year - round residents.