Sentences with phrase «than a few years past»

These vehicles have very low mileage, are covered by extended factory warranties and are no more than a few years past their original manufacture date.

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Oklahoma has seen a massive spike in earthquakes in the past few years, registering 2-1/2 earthquakes daily of magnitude 3 or greater - a seismicity rate 600 times greater than before 2008, according to the Oklahoma Geological Survey.

Index - tracking products have taken off over the past few years, especially in the United States, where the broad S&P 500 index has risen more than 200 % since the market bottom in 2009, aided by the U.S. Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus.

But the past few years have shown that it will take more than cheap money to coax Canadian executives to leverage their profits to the extent necessary to boost growth.

Polished or not, the VR we are seeing today is better than anything we've seen in the past, and the promise of what VR could become in a few more years is tantalizing.

The more complex debt market has worked wonders in the past few years allowing somewhat riskier companies like Valeant amass more debt, at lower rates, than they would have been able to past.

«I think we will see a lot of issues moving more than we have seen in the past few years.»

The good news is that lenders have opened the spigot in the past few years, and more capital is flowing to companies than it did during the Great Recession.

However, customs officers have seized fewer than 50 shipments in the past two years, while American customs officers seized 36,500 in 2016 alone.

Defense projects make up less than a third of Boeing's total revenue and have been flat for the past few years.

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.

Though CEO compensation has fallen slightly in the past few years, it has increased by more than 930 % since 1978.

That marks a drastic change from the past few years, during which time the company lost more than half its workforce.

Most people seem to think we're in a full recovery, gas prices are down, and more Americans travelled this Memorial Day weekend than have travelled in the past few years.

While the Dish Network's reach and power have weakened over the past few years just as Viacom's have, the satellite company is still in a somewhat stronger position than it used to be relative to the entertainment giant, because it knows that Viacom is already suffering from low viewership numbers, and that impacts its ad revenues.

Maybe that's why socially responsible investments in the United States actually grew 4 percent faster than any other sector of U.S. stocks in the past few years.

Women have largely flocked to medical and law schools in greater numbers over the past few years, but they are now turning to business school as well in part because business schools are mindful of the shortage of women students and are recruiting them more aggressively than they have before.

That's grown rapidly in the past few years, faster than mortgages or other lending categories.

The U.S. economy has been stronger over the past few years than that of most other nations.

As a long - time fan, I actually quite enjoyed this year's installment, Call of Duty: Ghosts, more so than the past few releases.

«Time Warner is a weaker company today than it was three years ago because Jeff Bewkes has run it to maximize its sale price for the past few years.

Of course, as the past few years have shown, having so many eggs in the oil and gas basket can be a liability, but probably nobody in Canada has more experience riding the sector's ups and downs than does Riddell.

While the likes of Beate Uhse and Playboy were each raking in at least $ 300 million each a few years ago while I was researching my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, the three biggest public companies pulled in less than that combined over the past year.

For instance, agriculture has produced record levels for the past few years and yet inventories are the lowest in 40 years because consumption keeps going higher and higher, faster than production does.

Personally, I've been impressed with Ubisoft's presentations for the past few years running and the company — which has more than half its employees in Canada — is once again looking strong for 2014 and 2015.

At the same time, companies, particularly large ones, are facing stronger economic headwinds than in the past few years.

There are a few hundred microlenders throughout the United States and while they often charge slightly higher interest rates for loans than banks, they've helped 250,000 - 300,000 small businesses each year and lent more than $ 2 billion nationwide during the past 10 years, according to the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO), the trade association for microlenders.

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.

But despite being older than the newest crop of luxury towers coming online in the past few years, Trump's units are still among the most prized for their price, says Lenz.

Venture capital and private equity investors have pumped billions of dollars into the Indian startup ecosystem over the past few years, producing more than a dozen unicorns in the process.

Asset values and levels of borrowing can not indefinitely grow faster than gross domestic product, even though their ability to do so for a time has contributed to economic success over the past few years.

In particular, the growth of the economy over the past few years has been more than fully accounted for by growth in domestic spending, while Australia's export performance has been disappointing.

If the global economy were to recover much more quickly than most of us expect, and, much more importantly, if Beijing were to initiate a far more aggressive program of privatization and wealth transfer than I think politically possible, perhaps transferring in the first few years the equivalent of as much as 2 - 5 % of GDP, the surge in household income could unleash much stronger consumption growth than we have seen in the past.

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.

In the recent past, low interest credit cards have become more common than they used to be a few years ago.

Over the past few years, wages have increased by 2.5 percent to 3 percent annually; projections for the year to come are for increases of more than 3 percent.

And it has been reported that Nobuaki Kobayashi, the lawyer and trustee of Mt. Gox, has sold 35,841 Bitcoin and 34,008 Bitcoin cash — worth more than $ 400 million — over the past few months, starting in September of last year.

Asked about their investment approach in the past three years, fewer Millennials and Boomers — 11 % and 9 %, respectively — admit to fear - based investing than Gen - Xers with 13 %.

The city's first condo costing more than $ 100 million, which sold in the last few weeks at the new luxury tower One57, had property taxes this past year of $ 17,268, according to the city's finance office.

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.

I do think my attitude is closer to Buffett's than to the more visible of the cityboys I've seen in London over the past few years, for whom cash is flash.

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.

Over the past few years, green bonds have raised billions of dollars to help fund environmental and other sustainable development projects: rapidly growing from $ 1 billion issued in 2012 to more than $ 30 billion in 2014 globally.1

With operating cash flow down by more than half over the past few years, management has a lot of work to do if its focus is truly generating higher returns.

Investors over the past few years who had the foresight to lock in yields that are far better than they are now currently have been rewarded.

Year - ended business credit growth remains more moderate than that for household credit, but in contrast to the slowing in household credit growth, it has continued on the broad upward trend evident over the past few years.

So an «upside - down out of the gates» January is more than inauspicious — it's an outright «non-starter» for risk managers in light of the performance - challenged era of the past few years.

Strong growth in productivity may continue to restrain growth in unit labour costs to a greater extent than expected, though productivity growth in the past year has been below that in the preceding few years.

Just to follow up my comments on bonds above, Rick Ferri has posted a useful piece showing how the «obvious» move to stay away from anything other than short - term bonds has hit a US investor's returns in the past few years:

Specifically, management's business transformation is «deeper» than what it committed to over the past few years, including the merchant organization now focusing on differentiated products and digital merchandising, opening a sourcing office in Shanghai, and an evaluation of the supply chain that could result in greater investments in fulfillment.