Sentences with phrase «smaller than in the past»

While home prices are expected to continue rising into 2018, the year - over-year gains will likely be smaller than in the past.

The portion sizes are much smaller than in the past.

School officials said they expected enrollment to grow with students who move into the city, but the number will still likely be far smaller than in past years.

«The world is even smaller than in past generations.

School officials said they expected enrollment to grow with students who move into the city, but the number will still likely be far smaller than in past years.

Yet, the show will be smaller than in the past, in part because of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

The event will be smaller than in the past, in part because of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

For example, some firms now make all lawyer offices the same size, and smaller than in the past.

You note that runs may be smaller than in the past, may use recycled paper, and that a reduction in paper use might deprive paper workers of jobs.

While home prices are expected to continue rising into 2018, the year - over-year gains will likely be smaller than in the past.

Not exact matches

Rent increases in neighborhoods that experienced the biggest influx of those workers have risen 65 percent faster over the past five years than areas with the smallest influx, according to Zillow.

The slowing economy has hit smaller accounting firms harder than the big players, judging by revenue data released over the past month, with practices in Western Australia affected more than those in other states.

To take advantage, you must have an export credit sales volume of less than $ 5 million in the past three years before application, your company must qualify as a small business under the Small Business Administration's definition of the term and you must have been in business at least one year with a positive net wsmall business under the Small Business Administration's definition of the term and you must have been in business at least one year with a positive net wSmall Business Administration's definition of the term and you must have been in business at least one year with a positive net worth.

In 2016, women got just 2.19 % of venture capital funding — a smaller piece of the pie than in every year this past decade, with the exception of 2008 and 201In 2016, women got just 2.19 % of venture capital funding — a smaller piece of the pie than in every year this past decade, with the exception of 2008 and 201in every year this past decade, with the exception of 2008 and 2012.

The Small Business American Dream Gap Report examined today's economic landscape compared to a year ago and found that despite the positive outlook for small businesses, nearly three out of 10 small businesses reported finding it harder than in the past to reduce operating cSmall Business American Dream Gap Report examined today's economic landscape compared to a year ago and found that despite the positive outlook for small businesses, nearly three out of 10 small businesses reported finding it harder than in the past to reduce operating csmall businesses, nearly three out of 10 small businesses reported finding it harder than in the past to reduce operating csmall businesses reported finding it harder than in the past to reduce operating costs.

Those kinds of struggles had led 53 percent of those small businesses to apply for funding or credit lines over the past five years — and more than one in four said they had sought loans multiple times.

Though many community banks in this program have, controversially, used this money to pay off TARP rather than lend to small business, Hall says the money will help Team Capital make $ 200 million in loans to local small businesses, and it has enabled it to loan out $ 40 million in the past year.

«In the last two years, we've seen one by one, several strategic moves by the large global brewers to do mergers and acquisitions of smaller craft breweries in a more fast - paced manner than in the past,» says Julia Herz, craft beer program director for The Brewers AssociatioIn the last two years, we've seen one by one, several strategic moves by the large global brewers to do mergers and acquisitions of smaller craft breweries in a more fast - paced manner than in the past,» says Julia Herz, craft beer program director for The Brewers Associatioin a more fast - paced manner than in the past,» says Julia Herz, craft beer program director for The Brewers Associatioin the past,» says Julia Herz, craft beer program director for The Brewers Association.

It's true that modern - day headsets are smaller and generally sleeker than they have been in the past, but it doesn't change the fact that people still have to wear them on their face.

In the past five years, Columbia managed to increase its average scholarships by 38.5 %, a much smaller jump than its competitors.

«The number of established small businesses that are not micro-enterprises used to increase about the same rate or more than micro-enterprises in the past decades,» Morelix says.

While 2015 has seen a surprisingly small number of tech IPOs, the number of private companies valued by investors at more than $ 1 billion has more than doubled in the past 18 months.

The chief of the oil giant BP said Wednesday that remaining reserves are «smaller and more challenging to develop than in the past.»

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.

But if you want to take a small step toward the digital future, what could be a simpler way of building your grocery store list (or reordering commodity goods on the spot) than swiping that empty can, package or container past a simple bar code reader that lived in your kitchen.

Both are fairly small, intimate experiences with the school entering less than 100 students in each of the past two years — and both are filled with a good bit of experiential learning opportunities to offset the younger age of the students here who tend to have a bit less work experience.

There were more than 350,000 small businesses created in Canada in 2016 and 42 % of job creation in the country in the past decade stemmed from firms with fewer than 100 employees (CIBC Capital Markets).

In the past, marketers have struggled to deliver the higher response rates they need from existing customers — a smaller group than potential new customers.

In short, investors should expect smaller excess returns for the risk of owning equities in the future than they enjoyed in the pasIn short, investors should expect smaller excess returns for the risk of owning equities in the future than they enjoyed in the pasin the future than they enjoyed in the pasin the past.

As Berkshire has gotten bigger and diversified its businesses, its insurance operations have become a smaller contributor to earnings than in the past, currently making up 26 % of total company earnings.

That said, B.C.'s strong economic growth over the past three years, combined with a) the announced small business tax relief, b) the new training and youth employment programs (also announced today), and c) a lower - than - average percentage of our working population who actually make minimum wage (about 5 %, compared to 7.1 % nationally), leaves us in a position to cautiously view the announced increases as «reasonable.»

Economic data in the United States have been a little more positive, showing, among other things, stronger - than - expected GDP growth in the second quarter, improvements in business sentiment, a rise in capital goods orders and a small pick - up in industrial production in the past couple of months, though the performance of the labour market has so far remained disappointing.

In line with this moderation in expectations, the NAB survey reports that firms expect near - term price rises for both retail and all final products to be smaller than the rises they expected over the past few yearIn line with this moderation in expectations, the NAB survey reports that firms expect near - term price rises for both retail and all final products to be smaller than the rises they expected over the past few yearin expectations, the NAB survey reports that firms expect near - term price rises for both retail and all final products to be smaller than the rises they expected over the past few years.

In the September quarter, this deficit stood at around 3 per cent of GDP, somewhat smaller than in the previous quarter, but still around 2 percentage points larger than the average over the past decadIn the September quarter, this deficit stood at around 3 per cent of GDP, somewhat smaller than in the previous quarter, but still around 2 percentage points larger than the average over the past decadin the previous quarter, but still around 2 percentage points larger than the average over the past decade.

Correspondingly, the current account deficit has also widened over the past couple of years, although the deficit for the September quarter, at around 6 per cent of GDP (assuming that the net income deficit remains constant as a share of GDP), is likely to have been smaller than in the previous quarter.

«With a smaller product line than brands like Audi, BMW and Mercedes - Benz, including having fewer CUVs, Cadillac has not taken part in the sales growth of the premium segment over the past seven years,» said IHS Markit senior analyst Stephanie Brinley.

The general conclusion is, however, that a small number of specially trained ministers will be needed much more in the near future than in the past, and that the chaplaincy model helps with most of these up to a point but must be supplemented and altered if some of the most genuine needs are to be met.

Just in our small local community there have been more than 7 converts in the past year who converted from christianity to Islam.

Warm sea surface temperature anomalies persist off to W and SW of San Diego, but are smaller than in previous weeks over the past month.

I tend to make my rings and wreaths a bit smaller and tighter than I did in the past.

The Top 500 chains, accounting for over half of total industry sales, brought in a cumulative $ 298 billion in sales, which is a 3.6 % increase from 2015, but a smaller growth percentage than in years past.

While you can't blame Jones for his overall strength of schedule in fighting past prime opponents or being the bigger guy, it's GSP who comes out way in front overall for fighting younger opponents overall who were still prime, fighting in a deeper, more talented weight class overall, and also being much smaller than Jones in his respective weight class,

Don't kid yourself there.Giroud is not the one benching Lacazette in France National team.It's Griezmann.Giroud is also an average player.It's just good service which is making him look good.If he was in any of the smaller clubs it's not like we'd be wishing to sign him.Lacazette is exponentially a better player than Giroud.He just needs time and I hope he doesn't share it with Giroud just like the way Giroud had his time.He's been average over the past seasons yet fans would bring up stats defending him while calling Walcott who has the same impressive stats as average.Isn't it a disgrace for Walcott to start over you in CF?If Arsenal were serious we wpuld've sold Giroud and Welbeck then used the money to get reliable back ups who are not inconsistent.

«A lot of our corporate accounts — IBM, the USGA, Bethlehem Steel, Wake Forest — had smaller orders than in the past.

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...

The gap between first and second may have been smaller last year than in seasons past, but that has more to do with the fact that Juve's lead as they reached the Champions League semifinal was so great that they could afford to ease off the gas and rest key players for midweek games.

Eight molars in total will start to grow, and they're far more painful than the small teeth that have already started to grow in the past.

Although Mr. Cuomo was criticized for the small tweaks to rent regulation, he defended that the changes were stronger than those in years past, as the Observer reported in June.

«Some of them have been small, others large, but together they have turned the party inwards rather than outwards, looking to the past rather than to new ideas, resting on easy rhetoric rather than taking hard decisions — and above all seeking to distance ourselves from our time in government, rather than building on it, in terms of both policy content and political culture and dynamic.»

And, by extension, online donations give small donors a much larger voice than they've had in the past, since a distributed army of excited activists can yield as much money as quite a few $ 1000 - per - plate dinner donors.