Sentences with phrase «than in the year previous»

They've also been taking in fewer unwanted animals — more than eight percent fewer than in the year previous.

Interestingly, the chart for Aug 1922 shows a summer ice edge that is slightly farther north than in years previous, but again, nothing like what we are seeing today.

Not exact matches

April 27 - General Motors Cos top executive, Mary Barra, was paid just under $ 22 million in 2017, slightly less than she received the previous year, according to the automakers proxy statement released on Friday.

While the high level of existing debt means rate hikes will have a stronger impact in cooling demand than they did in previous years, it is still too soon to know just how much of an effect the bank's three rate hikes have had, Poloz said.

In 2000, Quebec produced 41 million kilograms of maple syrup, more than a 30 % increase over the previous year.

Now its average speed is 24.5 miles an hour; that's about 1 mph better than its velocity through most of 2014, but well below the average of 26 mph the previous year — a number it plans to exceed in the next 12 months.

DETROIT, April 27 - General Motors Cos top executive, Mary Barra, was paid just under $ 22 million in 2017, slightly less than the previous year, according to the automakers proxy statement released on Friday.

Advertising and cold calling have entirely different results than they did in previous years.

The company saw 2014 revenue of more than $ 100 million — 10 times its figure for the previous year — and Mullen says the service is profitable in some markets, though he declined to elaborate.

Female founders received more venture capital funding in 2017 compared to previous years, but it was still far less than their male counterparts.

While the difference in funding is massive, it's slightly smaller than in previous years.

Last year, investors purchased $ 124 billion, nearly a third more than the previous peak in 2006.

It was a 275 % increase over the previous year's holiday quarter, and more than the company had posted in most full years.

More than one third of business owners said they expect to decrease capital spending in the year ahead, an increase of about 10 percentage points from the previous quarter.

While the researchers didn't dig to find out why some states have wider pay gaps than others, they noted that in recent years, California and New York have banned employers from asking job applicants about their previous salaries.

A recent BMO study found that in 2013, Canadian moms and dads were willing to fork out more than $ 425 to get their kid ready for the classroom, up 18 % over the previous year's figure.

Over the previous five years, they had never accounted for more than eight of the biggest moves in the S&P 500.

Creating an AI - powered chatbot is more straightforward than in previous years.

Last year for Small Business Saturday 2014, more than 126,000 tweets were sent in support of the initiative, a 10 - percent increase from the previous year.

Consider a 2015 Forrester report, in which 50 top brands saw followers more than double on Facebook, Twitter and Google +, and quintuple on Instagram, in the previous year.

Separate data showed retail sales fell 0.1 % in October from a year ago, less than the median estimate for a 1.2 % annual decline and less than a 1.7 % annual decline in the previous month.

The maker of the Maserati, Jeep and Alfa Romeo nameplates will instead feature men as well as women in less flesh - exposing garb than in previous years, two people with knowledge of the plans said.

The discount retailer, locked in a fierce battle with Amazon.com (amzn) to shorten the time it takes to get customers» packages to their homes, last week acquired Parcel for an undisclosed amount «smaller than previous acquisitions» Walmart has made this year (which include Bonobos, Moosejaw, and Modcloth), the company said in a blog.

Harvard's famed Women in Business (HUWIB) organization named Cool president in 2006, a title earned after she developed HUWIB's 2005 fundraising campaign and raised more than double the funds compared to the previous year.

The latest danger coincides with a recent report on iOS malware attacks by the security firm Bit9 + Carbon Black that found that more malware affected iOS devices in 2015 than the previous five years combined.

Add another one to the list: for one year, it smashed all records for the highest executive compensation in Canada, awarding its former CEO Michael Pearson $ 179 million in company stock, for a total take - home of $ 182 million, more than double paid to the previous year's highest paid CEO, BlackBerry's John Chen.

«The compliance bar for companies to go public is much higher than in previous years, so things like pending litigation and accounting irregularities need to be clean,» says David Zilberman, partner at venture capital firm Comcast Ventures.

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However, the most recent labour force survey from Statistics Canada showed signs of hope: youth unemployment was 13.9 % in March, a 0.8 % decrease from the previous month and 0.5 % lower than the same period last year.

Aged in Heaven Hill bourbon barrels, this year's version is noticeably sweeter than previous years, with a much stronger chocolate note.

This CEO knows all about hiring the right staff: His previous venture grew to 100 employees in less than a year and a half.

«I've probably made more investments in the last month than in the previous year,» PayPal and Slide founder Max Levchin tells the blog.

Goodwin and Verzello smelled opportunity here, but with more specialty beers appearing in 1994 than in the previous 12 years combined, they weren't the only would - be brewers to catch its scent.

Thus, borrowers are more willing to go to them for funding than in previous years.

Of that $ 3.3 billion, more than $ 800 million came from venture capital and angel investments in space startups — that's more VC funding than in the previous 10 years combined.

In my CBC wrap - up, I wrote about how I enjoyed this year's show more than previous years.

«We had sold more in 40 days than we did in the previous three years and I was like, «I'm not ready for this,»» she says.

Bonuses, in fact, were up at Goldman in 2010, with all executive officers receiving higher paychecks than they had during the previous two years.

Last year, China's total new loans hit a record 13.53 trillion yuan, 7 percent more than the previous record in 2016.

In the end, Imperial expects Kearl to start churning out bitumen during the first three months of this year, a bit later than its previous late 2012 target.

In 2016, more than 15 million Americans were victims of identity theft, up 16 percent from the previous year, according to Experian, a global information services group.

A recent study showed that a full two - thirds of buyers relied more on content to make buying decisions in 2015 than they did the previous year.

Where previous versions of Windows had sold less than two million copies combined, Windows 3.0 sold four million units in its first year.

Apple «s launch of the iPhone 8 kicked off with less fanfare on Friday than new models in previous years in the United States, Asia, Australia and Britain, as fans held out for the premium iPhone X, due out in early November.

Finally, as in most recessions, entrepreneurs have less leverage because there are more early stage startups than in previous years.

«We have seen more innovation in mortgage insurance in Canada in the last six months than in the previous five years,» notes Charles, wryly.

Tesla also reported first quarter revenue of $ 3.41 billion, up more than 6 % from $ 3.2 billion in the previous quarter and 19 % higher than the same quarter last year.

«To some extent, the development areas are going to be in the west more so than in the east — the coast is quiet heavily populated with pigs already because of previous years» trade.

The city still needs to work on hiring of new employees, however, as respondents rated this factor lower in 2015 than in the previous two years.

Last year, Iger pulled in $ 46.5 million as Disney's chief executive, which actually represented a bump of more than 35 % from his compensation the previous year.