Sentences with phrase «than a few years on»

Those that don't make it to shelters rarely survive for more than a few years on their own, dying from starvation, disease, climate and accidents.

Not exact matches

While Texas has few jobs directly dependent on exports to Canada, the state sells us more than $ 25 billion worth of goods each year.

These struggles have left them with 22 % fewer workers than they employed a decade ago (on average), and net capital assets (such as factor floor space and machinery and equipment) that have shrunk 2.2 % per year on average.

Over the course of a year, the company went from roughly 3,000 fans on Facebook to 38,500 and from a few hundred followers on Twitter to more than 12,000.

Pinterest is almost four years old and it's big enough for its britches — big enough to pull the plug on its affiliate links program, a money - making gravy train that more than a few brands, bloggers and Pinfluencers will sorely miss.

He wants all eyes on the American viewpoint, with marketing campaigns over the next few years mostly focused on the U.S. athlete rather than telling the Adidas story from a global soccer perspective.

Incidentally, on this year's list fewer companies rely on «Fortune 1,000» customers as their main source of revenues than on lists from the past three years.

The jobs market, even after the rebound in June, is still creating 28 % fewer jobs this year a month on average than a year ago.

And on Monday, it involves hosting no fewer than 21,000 children and adults for the annual Easter Egg Roll, a 139 - year - old tradition and the Super Bowl of White House social events.

«There were 1.49 million unemployed people (people not in work but seeking and available to work), 64,000 fewer than for December 2016 to February 2017 and 152,000 fewer than for a year earlier,» the ONS added.

Campaigns on platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo are largely more sophisticated than their counterparts from just a few years ago.

Fewer than 10 years ago, communities on the east side of Austin, Texas, were in serious decline.

Before 2008 there were fewer than two earthquakes in Oklahoma each year, on average.

A few years ago, HP execs said the company would compete head on with Amazon Web Services in public cloud computing, a model in which businesses rent computing capacity from a provider like Amazon, Microsoft or Google (GOOG) rather than building out more of their own data center capabilities.

The EPA has historically doled out fewer than ten hardship exemptions per year to U.S. refineries, according to a former U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

«Growing up in a home with 500 books would propel a child 3.2 years further in education, on average, than would growing up in a similar home with few or no books,» the Pacific Standard noted.

On average, 27 percent of small - business owners say they receive fewer checks today than they did three years ago, according to the survey.

The share price of mining junior Batavia Mining Ltd has more than doubled in the first few days of 2006 on a 140 per cent gold resource upgrade that could bring its Gullewa copper gold project in Western Australia back in production within a year.

Because the financial markets have been so volatile these last few years and may continue to give investors a bumpy ride, Kaplan says it pays for investors to stay liquid and to diversify their holdings through vehicles such as mutual funds and ETFs (exchange - traded funds) rather than make big bets on individual securities.

Things that I was singing a year ago I have to take fewer breaths on because I can ration my singing breath more easily than I was able to do before.

«In just a few years, we've grown from a handful of software developers and scientists to a team of more than 1,200, inventing new capabilities and products on behalf of millions of customers around the world,» said Rohit Prasad, Amazon's Boston area - based vice president and head scientist of Amazon Alexa.

As we reported here on Inc.com a few years back, Kiwi inventor and entrepreneur Glenn Martin has been tinkering with his design for a personal jetpack in his garage for more than 30 years, using his wife as a test pilot.

Fewer than a quarter of U.S. consumers polled in the first quarter of this year had heard of the Switch, as this chart from Statista, based on a recent Nielsen study, indicates.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Although the device went on sale in March, and Nintendo's been talking about it for more than two years, relatively few people are aware of it.

Each listing includes the item (s) to be delivered, the number of miles from point A to point B, and the price to be paid, explains David Hater, a 50 - year - old retired Army officer who's delivered more than 400 gigs for Roadie, earning anywhere from $ 8 for a local delivery to $ 400 for «delivering a few extra boxes and making a stop or two along the way» on interstate trips.

Earlier, he told investors on an analyst call that fewer consumers viewed the brand as being discount driven now than a year ago, citing company data.

In the past few years, GoPro has emerged as a powerhouse in video cameras and a huge business that is on track for more than a $ 1 billion in revenue for 2014.

As a result, according to a survey conducted last year by Focus Research Systems Inc. of West Hartford, Conn., less than 7 % of American small businesses (those with fewer than 500 employees or less than $ 25 million in sales) used on - site computers.

When it comes to taking digital pictures, much of the recent focus has been on smartphones — how they now take better pictures than many point - and - shoots did just a few years ago (and why it's now vital to be able to Instagram a shot of your dinner and make a phone call with the same device).

They pointed to President George W. Bush's tariffs on steel imports in 2002, which were rescinded after fewer than two years when the World Trade Organization came out against them.

High - end retailer Nordstrom ended the summer saying it planned 20 percent fewer clearance days this year than a couple of years ago, with another 25 percent reduction next year, as it focused on service and «differentiated» products.

Armed with a concrete system, thanks to Tom and Nick, tireless working coaches Mike and Sarah D, and the whole Rock Star team behind me, I've been accomplishing far more, in a few short years, than I could have ever imagined had I been on my own.

All told, global gross domestic product (GDP) is on track to increase an estimated 3.8 % next year, the strongest showing since 2011, and a few ticks higher than the long - term average of 3.5 %.

«A few years ago, I could probably count on my hand how many people had more than 500 LinkedIn connections,» says Ryan Bethea, who goes by the title of Chief Connecting Officer at Socialnomics.

I plan to hang on longer and one day perhaps a couple to a few years from now, I could potentially profit more than $ 20,000 if ABX and GDX continues its run!

Gwyneth Paltrow said very few people knew about Harvey Weinstein's advances on her more than 20 years ago.

Things look equally bleak based on metrics typically used by investors to evaluate a borrower's ability to make payments: In Asia and Latin America, companies» debt now represents roughly four years of operating profits, up from fewer than two years prior to the financial crisis of 2008.

Second, Maine has better solar irradiation than Germany, which until a few years ago had the most solar deployed of any nation on Earth.

The massive boost in unstructured data in the past few years means that businesses need to rely on the raw data more often to reveal the story, rather than parse data through pre-defined filters.

Though the secondary market has grown significantly in the last five years, very few firms focus on secondary interests that are less than 50 % funded.

Oil - related earnings will likely rebound faster than metals over the next few years as banks focus on building revenues in the oil derivatives market, which is historically a much bigger business than metals derivatives, Shahani said.

«In just a few years, we've grown from a handful of software developers and scientists to a team of more than 1,200, inventing new capabilities and products on behalf of millions of customers around the world.

We upgraded our view on U.S. consumer discretionary stocks last fall and still believe that households are in a better position than they were just a few years ago: Consumer debt is down while household wealth is up, gasoline prices are much lower than a year ago and the U.S. is creating jobs at the fastest pace since the 1990s.

As the Country Head of Singapore for Grab, Lim took Grab from being unheard of a few years ago, to having more drivers on the platform than all of Singapore's taxi companies combined.

There are almost 9 percent fewer homes on the market than a year ago, and the majority of them are ones first - time buyers can't afford

These days, earning links through quality content publication — both on your site and off — gets you substantially more value with zero risk, but it also costs a lot more than link building tactics of the past few years.

While both Google and Ford have been working steadily on self - driving cars for a few years now, the former's efforts have been more visible than that of the latter.

It has only been around for a few years — years in which metals were falling more than rising — but over the past three years it nevertheless outperformed precious metals stocks, on average.

[Update for 2017: Over the last few years, industry surveys have shown that jumbo loans have lower rates, on average, than their conforming counterparts.