Sentences with phrase «than in past years on»

And this year, consumers are set to spend more than in past years on their loved ones.

Not exact matches

Newton Minow, the former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair who is a board member of the Commission on Presidential Debates, recently said that presidential debate moderators today have been facing more criticism than they did in years past.

One, Preston Breedon - Glen, a 20 - year - old student, said that he'd spent more than $ 1,300 on champions and skins in the past couple of years.

Time Warner has been slimming down, shedding both AOL and Time Warner Cable in the past year to focus on creative content rather than the businesses that deliver it to customers.

The company's dramatic growth — sales spiked more than 1,100 % in the past three years alone — would have been all but impossible were consultants relying on Rolodexes and landlines, Avon lady style, to find clients.

In the past two years, Yardstick has branched into another vertical: selling software that allows clients to administer certification tests online rather than on paper.

It isn't within everyone's means to obtain aircraft for a prison escape, but it's easier to get out of prison by air than underground: Over the past 40 years in particular, there has been trend of convicts and their partners on the outside busting out from high security facilities in hijacked helicopters.

Battered by nearly a year of off - and - on declines from record highs because of fears of a slowdown in iPhone sales, Apple «s stock now is valued closer to IBM, which has disappointed Wall Street for the past four years with declining revenue, than to Silicon Valley technology pioneers Alphabet and Tesla Motors.

South Korea's new management - minded approach is a dramatic turnaround from its energetic regulatory crackdown on cryptocurrency exchanges this past year, alarmed at a heated market that saw local prices of Bitcoin and other virtual currencies in South Korea trade for higher than international levels.

Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank, said this meeting is more serious than in past years largely because of the fallout from Brexit, which is raising concerns about Ireland's economic prospects and the future for Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom.

Over the past two years, Groupon's stock price has gone from $ 26 a share on its first day of trading in November 2011 to less than $ 3 a share a year later.

«While revenue for Q4 and FY18 was below expectations due to lower than anticipated smartphone unit volumes, Cirrus Logic made meaningful progress this past year on numerous strategic initiatives that we expect to position the company for a return to year - over-year growth in FY20,» said Jason Rhode, president and chief executive officer.

The number of daily video views on Twitter has almost doubled in the past year, and the format has contributed more than half of ad revenue for two quarters running.

After living in New York City for the past three years, I've figured out how to navigate the city on the cheap, but I've also shelled out more than I'm proud of on omelettes and mimosas.

In June, the US Federal Reserve released information on more than 50 data breaches from the past four years.

Pierlot wrote a paper for the CD Howe Institute in 2011 showing that a person with a salary of $ 75,000 at the end of a 35 - year career would accumulate more than $ 1.4 million in savings through a defined - benefit plan (wherein the pensioner is paid a set income based on past earnings and years of service, mostly confined to the public sector these days) compared to $ 674,711 for someone with no pension but a maxed - out Registered Retirement Savings Plan.

The appeal follows ramped - up efforts by U.S. authorities to crack down on insider trading, with the SEC announcing charges against more than 550 people in the past six years.

Yet, a recent report from the Financial Times shows that over the past two years MBA graduates have cooled on entrepreneurship, with less than one in five choosing the less stable startup experience.

Other than making vague promises to place more police officers on the streets, encouraging DNA testing for death - row inmates and calling for the need to reduce recidivism by investing in «proven community - based law - enforcement programs,» the Democrats» policy solutions over the past eight years have done little to dismantle the carceral state that they helped create.

The group has invested more than 3 billion euros in African ports over the past 10 years, it says on its website.

In court documents filed with the Northern California District Court on Thursday, Uber argued that the class - action part of the suit should be dropped because the 160,000 drivers, «have little or nothing in common, other than their use of the Uber App in California at some point over the past six years.&raquIn court documents filed with the Northern California District Court on Thursday, Uber argued that the class - action part of the suit should be dropped because the 160,000 drivers, «have little or nothing in common, other than their use of the Uber App in California at some point over the past six years.&raquin common, other than their use of the Uber App in California at some point over the past six years.&raquin California at some point over the past six years.»

Thanks to establishing their market niche and building on it, the firm's export business has boomed in the past five years, jumping from $ 261,000 in 2007 to more than $ 4 million in 2012.

The isolated nation conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sept. 3, and launched more than a dozen missiles in the past year.

For the past seven years, growth has serially disappointed - sometimes spectacularly, as in the depths of the global financial and euro crises; more often than not grindingly as past debts weigh on activity

On Friday, Tesla shares climbed above $ 160 for the first time ever — meaning the stock is up more than 400 percent in the past year.

«While women still make up less than 20 percent of U.S. boards on average, movement toward greater gender parity is evident with the proportion of new nominees that are women nearly doubling over the past seven years at larger firms,» Kamonjoh said in a statement.

In the past nine months, LeCaptain's health - care - related company more than doubled in size and is closing in on $ 1 million in revenue this yeaIn the past nine months, LeCaptain's health - care - related company more than doubled in size and is closing in on $ 1 million in revenue this yeain size and is closing in on $ 1 million in revenue this yeain on $ 1 million in revenue this yeain revenue this year.

The company's share price — which has already risen by more than 80 % in the past year — climbed another 10 % or so on the news AMZN.

Earlier this month, Hearst Magazines, which publishes Cosmopolitan and Elle, said it has more powerful advertising data than Facebook in some cases as it has amassed unique profiles on 120 million digital consumers over the past year via various things like online quizzes and Snapchat polls.

According to The Wall Street Journal, desktop Internet use had its highest active month over the past three years back in March of 2015 with 567 billion total minutes of measured Web activity in the U.S. Not only have we not seen that figure go up over the past year or so, but the amount of time people are spending browsing the Web on their mobile devices is trouncing desktops: more than one trillion minutes in March of this year.

The Perth Convention Bureau has secured confirmed business worth more than $ 72 million for the State in the past twelve months — a 21 per cent increase on the previous year.

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 201In 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 201in video cameras and a huge business that is on track for more than a $ 1 billion in revenue for 201in revenue for 2014.

Morgan Stanley shares jumped more than 23 percent in each of the past three years as investors rewarded Gorman's plan to rely more on wealth management for stable earnings.

The company debuted publicly on the New York Stock Exchange in 2015 and has more than doubled in value over the past 2 years.

Through keynote talks, workshops, and webinars, I've had the opportunity to present on the topic of content marketing more than 200 times in the past four years.

The company continues to produce new income streams for both Master and Unit Franchisees, positioning itself on the fast track record for growth, opening more than 400 locations in the past two years.

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.

The smartphone sector saw shipments fall 2 per cent in the past year, according to Strategy Analytics, so the company must evolve beyond its reliance on a device that still accounts for more than 60 per cent of revenue.

Among the largest U.S. defense contractors, Northrop Grumman Corp has spent more than $ 12 billion on share repurchases since 2010, even as revenue has declined in each of the past five years.

Over the past 25 years, there has been lower crude price volatility in the mid-continent regions than on the coasts (WTI vs. Brent), so there may be some improvement here, at the margin.

In the past three years, the US steel industry has brought more than a dozen such cases to the Commerce Department and the US Trade Commission — some leading to tariffs of more than 500 percent on certain Chinese steel products used to make cars and appliances.

The company's share price — which has already risen by more than 80 % in the past year — climbed another 10 % or so on the news (AMZN).

Yet on the whole, given their positive experience both with receiving more income than they could get from the fixed - income sector in recent years and the potential for capital appreciation over the long haul, dividend stocks and the ETFs that own them have demonstrated their long - term value to the investors who've gravitated toward them during the low - rate environment of the past decade.

Step 4: On February 11, 2010, with Treasury backing in place, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (whose delinquency rates have more than doubled over the past year) announce the purchase of $ 200 billion in delinquent mortgages that they had previously guaranteed.

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.

Soyabean prices have risen more than 10 per cent in the past month to hit a peak of $ 15.09 a bushel on Friday, the highest in four years.

When investors begin to focus on the potential for Fed rate hikes, short - term bonds will almost certainly begin to experience lower returns and — depending on the type of fund — greater volatility than they have in years past.

The payment of GST on insurance premiums has boosted those components of CPI inflation over the past year; the method of measurement based on premiums net of claims means that the recorded price of insurance in the CPI has increased by more than the GST rate.

A surge in Australia's terms of trade has mitigated the effect of these developments on the trade deficit, which is estimated to have been around 3 1/4 per cent of GDP in the December quarter 2004, wider than at mid year but broadly similar to the outturns of the past year and a half (Graph 32).

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.