Sentences with phrase «smaller than in years past»

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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.»

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Towns have smaller workforces than in past years, dating to the recession.

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 30 or so bits of bone, none more than 7 centimeters long, have suffered much since they were entombed: Ice sheets have scoured Ellesmere Island several times in the past few million years, and today's freeze - thaw cycles continue to splinter fossils into ever - smaller fragments, Rybczynski says.

In a series of ever - more - sensitive experiments over the past 30 years, researchers have established that if the shape of the electron has any distortion at all, the bulge must be smaller than 1 thousand trillion trillionths of a millimeter (10 - 27 mm).

In the past year, astronomers searching for planets around other stars have found alien worlds that are smaller and younger than any previously known.

Over the past 20 years, surveys of planets around other stars in our galaxy have found the most common types to be «super Earths» and their somewhat larger cousins — bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune.

In years past, plus size never looked great, it looked much «older» than smaller sizes.

She only made a cameo appearance — a small role but a marked improvement to her less than stellar acting career in the past few years.

In the past 150 years, Victor Hugo's 1862 novel has spun into stage adaptations, radio dramas and more than 60 large and small - screen adaptations.

Despite being more aesthetically pleasing than Michael Bay's garishly executed Pearl Harbour, Nolan's big film in service of a small story has more in common with that much - maligned war pic than more serious minded award season contenders of past years like Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, Peter Weir's Gallipoli or Terence Malick's The Thin Red Line.

There has been a small resurgence of westerns over the past few years — Django Unchained, Hateful Eight, Slow West, The Salvation — but it will take a lot more than that to make the genre really viable again in today's market.

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.

In the past 20 years, Amy has sold more than three million books into the bookstore, library, and chain store markets for small and mid-sized publishers.

I'd argue the market for tablets is even smaller today than 2007 because of iPhone and the dramatic increase in number of competing smartphones released in the past two - and - a-half years.

«Fewer than 115 Big Five - published authors and 45 small - or medium - publisher authors who debuted in the past five years are currently earning $ 100,000 per year from Amazon sales.

On the one hand, filing for chapter 13 bankruptcy can help you save a home from foreclosure by forcing your lender to take past due mortgage payments in small increments over a 3 - 5 year period rather than forcing you to pay back what you owe in a lump sum right away.

The company has returned $ 3.60 per share in dividends / return of capital over the past couple of years so my investment «problem» is getting smaller rather than larger.

This means you get more house for a smaller monthly payment now than in the past five years.

Thanks in large part to strong partnerships with you, our referrers, the Veterinary Teaching Hospital has seen more than a 30 percent increase in small animal caseload over the past five years.

During the past four years, Kelley's Kritters, a small trap - neuter - return (TNR) group in Solon, Ohio, has spayed and neutered more than 600 cats through the Cleveland Animal Protective League's (APL) TNR program.

Sure, the exhibits were generally a bit smaller and a little less flashy than in years past, but the event drew a record number of exhibitors and attendees.

The 2009 picnic was a smaller, more intimate soiree than in years past but it was still a pleasant and celebratory affair.

On the other this is a franchise that has memorise character names in blocks no smaller than 150 for the past 20 years.

The Atrium Gallery at Haverford College is a smaller venue than the works of Diane Arbus and Carrie Mae Weems have seen in the past year; their works have appeared in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, respectively.

More than 1,000 rural activists, small farmers, religious workers and others fighting the region's rampant deforestation have been slain in the past 20 years, but only a handful of killers have ever been successfully prosecuted, according to a statement by the Pastoral Land Commission, a Catholic organization that tracks rural violence.

For the period 1987 to date there appears to be a very small decline which suggests to me that any increase early in the period has been slightly more than offset by a small decrease over the past 12 years or so.

If you're referring here to the question of exactly how much PDO+AMO should trend up after 1980, I've recently come to realize that this question has become such a large can of worms in the past two years that it can't be addressed on a scale smaller than a whole post, in fact several posts.

This will likely be a smaller decrease than in past years, as US emissions have declined by around 1.2 % per year over the past decade.

Box 9.2 Climate Models and the Hiatus in Global Mean Surface Warming of the Past 15 Years «The observed global mean surface temperature (GMST) has shown a much smaller increasing linear trend over the past 15 years than over the past 30 to 60 years (Section 2.4.3, Figure 2.20, Table 2.7; Figure 9.8; Box 9.2 Figure 1a,Past 15 Years «The observed global mean surface temperature (GMST) has shown a much smaller increasing linear trend over the past 15 years than over the past 30 to 60 years (Section 2.4.3, Figure 2.20, Table 2.7; Figure 9.8; Box 9.2 Figure 1aYears «The observed global mean surface temperature (GMST) has shown a much smaller increasing linear trend over the past 15 years than over the past 30 to 60 years (Section 2.4.3, Figure 2.20, Table 2.7; Figure 9.8; Box 9.2 Figure 1a,past 15 years than over the past 30 to 60 years (Section 2.4.3, Figure 2.20, Table 2.7; Figure 9.8; Box 9.2 Figure 1ayears than over the past 30 to 60 years (Section 2.4.3, Figure 2.20, Table 2.7; Figure 9.8; Box 9.2 Figure 1a,past 30 to 60 years (Section 2.4.3, Figure 2.20, Table 2.7; Figure 9.8; Box 9.2 Figure 1ayears (Section 2.4.3, Figure 2.20, Table 2.7; Figure 9.8; Box 9.2 Figure 1a, c).

A prominent new example is a paper by [Shaviv and Veizer, 2003], which claims that fluctuations in cosmic ray flux reaching the Earth can explain 66 % of the temperature variance over the past 520 million years (520 m.y.), and that the sensitivity of climate to a doubling of CO2 is smaller than previously estimated.