Sentences with phrase «than in the past few»

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

Investors are more optimistic than in the past few years, cheered by better global economic growth and the anticipation of lower tax rates.

«At the coal face we are still seeing increased confidence from bidders and greater receptiveness from targets than in the past few years.»

Never before in the history of the NFL have pass - rushing defensive tackles been of greater value than in the past few years with the distinct shift away from base defense towards more sub-package defense.

Highlighting City's spending under boss Pep Guardiola and the club's Abu Dhabi - based owners, Mourinho told CNN: «Looking to us in the Premier League we have one team, one club clearly better prepared than us in the past few years to be first and we have 18 clubs behind us.

And they're doing it the old - fashioned way, with cars that are roomier, plusher and more powerful than those in the past few years.

The monitor also shows that the share of people who stopped playing WoW is significantly lower than in the past few months.

India's emissions increased a bit more slowly in 2017 than in the past few years, while the EU's emissions have remained relatively flat since 2014 and did not noticeably change in 2017.

Although prices will decline in a few overheated markets, in most areas home prices will continue to rise, albeit at a modest, more sustainable pace than in the past few years.

But organizations that include both charities and trade associations reported that they are more likely today to spend dollars on advocacy, marketing budgets and member programs than in the past few years.

Not exact matches

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.

I want to get past the usual surface level answers and dig in a few layers deeper than anybody has ever gotten with them in a job interview.

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.

Emmanuel Macron, the investment banker turned politician, has been the surprise in French politics over the past few months, gathering more popular support than his center - left rivals.

In the past few weeks, it's been caught up in the valuation write - downs by mutual fund company Fidelity that have involved more than one multibillion - dollar unicorn, including SnapchaIn the past few weeks, it's been caught up in the valuation write - downs by mutual fund company Fidelity that have involved more than one multibillion - dollar unicorn, including Snapchain the valuation write - downs by mutual fund company Fidelity that have involved more than one multibillion - dollar unicorn, including Snapchat.

Since he's had such a big presence in the past few movies, we're expecting a deeper character than Ultron, who was a massive disappointment.

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

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.

Some customers of Carl Mazzanti's computer networking and security company want to upgrade their systems, but it's been taking longer than expected the past few months to get banks to agree to finance the deals, says Mazzanti, owner of eMazzanti in Hoboken, New Jersey.

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.

In the past, fewer than 5 percent of the women - owned firms in the United States were certified to do business with their state government and only 1.5 percent of the billions of dollars in federal contracts went to women - owned firmIn the past, fewer than 5 percent of the women - owned firms in the United States were certified to do business with their state government and only 1.5 percent of the billions of dollars in federal contracts went to women - owned firmin the United States were certified to do business with their state government and only 1.5 percent of the billions of dollars in federal contracts went to women - owned firmin federal contracts went to women - owned firms.

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.

A deal is by no means assured in light of the company's uncertain financial prospects and steep price tag — its market value is more than $ 16 billion after talk of a sale drove the stock up over the past few days.

In fact, few things can be more damaging to growth than the kind of financial crisis that Mulvaney conveniently looks past — the one that started precisely in 2007, sent unemployment to 10 % nationally and much higher in many places, and resulted in bailouts for banks but foreclosures for working AmericanIn fact, few things can be more damaging to growth than the kind of financial crisis that Mulvaney conveniently looks past — the one that started precisely in 2007, sent unemployment to 10 % nationally and much higher in many places, and resulted in bailouts for banks but foreclosures for working Americanin 2007, sent unemployment to 10 % nationally and much higher in many places, and resulted in bailouts for banks but foreclosures for working Americanin many places, and resulted in bailouts for banks but foreclosures for working Americanin bailouts for banks but foreclosures for working Americans.

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

While those big boxes suit some enterprise situations, it's clear that more companies are offloading at least part of their work to cloud providers, which means they buy fewer servers less often than they had in the past.

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.

The proposal has generated a great deal of often vitriolic debate over the future of the wheat board, and the C.D. Howe Institute recently weighed in with a report arguing that global grain markets have changed significantly over the past few decades, to the point that the CWB is more often than not a price taker.

In the past few days an ad run by the reelection campaign of Lyndon Johnson in 1964 has been popular online — and it's just one shot of one guy, talking for more than four minuteIn the past few days an ad run by the reelection campaign of Lyndon Johnson in 1964 has been popular online — and it's just one shot of one guy, talking for more than four minutein 1964 has been popular online — and it's just one shot of one guy, talking for more than four minutes.

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.

Netflix has been offering ultra high - definition 4K — so - called for the screens» horizontal resolution of 4,000 pixels, about four times greater than full HD — for the past few months, but the company only recently sneaked in a quiet price increase.

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.

Not only are women having fewer children today, but they are having them under different circumstances than in the past.

Of the business programs that accept the GRE, 69 % report that fewer than one in 10 applicants actually submitted a GRE score instead of a GMAT score this past admissions cycle.

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).

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.

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 disappointinIn 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 disappointinin 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.

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.