Sentences with phrase «today than a few years»

Retro - active changes in support mechanisms in many Member States, together with the lack of long term certainty by means of 2030 renewable energy targets, increase the costs of capital and make the involvement of public banks in renewable energy upfront funding even more crucial today than a few years ago».

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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.

«Idol,» which averaged more than 30 million weekly viewers at its 2006 peak and ranked No. 1 for nine consecutive years, averaged about 11 million last season (still enough by today's standards to land it in the top 20, but with fewer advertiser - favored younger viewers).

And an independent study by iStrategy Labs published in January said that 3.3 million fewer teens use Facebook today than did three years ago.

Today, I am more than halfway through my child - rearing years, and pretty soon my two older children will be off to college, which means with fewer distractions I can dedicate myself to another endeavor.

I asked Dunbar what he made of social scientists» claims that people have fewer close friends today than they did years ago.

ARMED with the latest technology, minerals explorers today gather more data in just a few hours than would have been imaginable to field geologists a few years ago.

«Videoconferencing is a whole different experience today than it was a few years ago, and it's more affordable, which is driving it down» to smaller companies, says Brett Shockley, CEO at Spanlink Communications, a Minneapolis communications reseller that markets videoconferencing and other communications networks to small and mid-sized businesses.

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

Zack Hicks, chief information officer of Toyota North America and CEO of Toyota Connected, the automaker's new data services arm, says his relationship with Microsoft today is dramatically different than it was a few years ago.

Printing chromosomes today isn't much harder than 3 - D printing was a few years ago.

Today, Detroit has 700,000 residents, far fewer than the almost 1 million people who called the Motor City home more than 90 years ago in 1920 and half the 1.6 million people who lived there in 1940, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

«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.

Today when I speak with young entrepreneurs, their whole motive and their beacon model is different than it was a few years ago.

But fewer people will be shopping today, Cyber Monday, than last year, the National Retail Federation says.

New types of computer memory pop up every few years as firms such as HP, IBM, Motorola / Freescale and even startups try to create alternatives that are cheaper, faster, more dense or otherwise offer a different series of trade - offs than the dominant forms of memory used today.

Tight oil companies have made the case that through increased efficiency and lower service costs that their economics are better at lower oil prices today than they were at $ 90 per barrel prices a few years ago.

Still, fewer than one - half of employees are confident that in three years their employer will offer benefits similar to today.

In addition, retirees» confidence that Medicare and Social Security will continue to provide benefits equal to what retirees receive today has significantly declined compared to last year, with fewer than half saying they are very or somewhat confident (46 percent very or somewhat confident in Medicare this year vs. 52 percent in 2017; 45 percent very or somewhat confident in Social Security vs. 51 percent in 2017).

As I sat with a few people and «war - gamed» what the next recession will look like, a general agreement emerged that the credit markets will be far more volatile than they were last time, even though banks are better capitalized today than they were 10 years ago.

In other words, today's cheap ARM could end up costing you more than a fixed - rate mortgage in a few years.

Today, fewer than half of high - scoring students from low - income families even enroll at four - year schools.

Reid says such workarounds are far more common today than even just a few years ago, during the Great Recession, because the economic pain is confined to a single region and bank balance sheets are generally in good shape.

The first is that the U.S. is importing less oil today than just a few years ago due to booming domestic production.

Companies today are attempting to make themselves relevant to buyers who are radically evolving their buying behaviors and have more buying choices than they ever dreamed of in just a few short years.

Because of that, our expectation is that seven years from now AIG will have fewer shares outstanding than it has today, and book value per - share will be higher than the numbers in the prior paragraph.

Proportionately far fewer of these families exist today than at the turn of the century or even 30 years ago.

For thirty years the electric oven hood has sold an average of less than a few hundred thousand units a year, while today almost every household in the United States and Canada owns at least one color TV set, and more than 5 million sets are sold annually.

For thirty years the electric oven hood has sold an average of less than a few hundred thousand units a year, while today almost every household in the United States and Canada owns at least one color TV set, and more than 5 million sets are sold annually.1 What made the difference?

I find my students today more interested in honest dialogue and more willing to develop discipline than students were a few years back.

«Consumers are more willing to try a new product today than they were a few years ago,» Rogers says.

To begin with, the only meaningful Jewish statistic: we are a people who are today three million fewer than we were fifty years ago.

Take note of three that are growing in recognition and popularity: Greek tzatziki, Chinese plum sauce and Indian chutney have all moved up for certain entrées, indicating that they are more common today than they were a few years ago.

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«The way people are dining today is different than just a few years ago so my idea with WP Kitchen + Bar was to create a more relaxed environment, expand the number of seasonal and healthy options on the menu, and share a piece of how I like to eat in my own home.

of course no team wants to lose but I can guarantee you that the reaction by the Chelski fans after today's results are nowhere near what would have occurred if we shit the bed on opening day... the difference is they have tasted EPL success on more than one occasion recently, they have won the Champions League and they have done it with 3 different managers in the last 12 years with a similar, if not smaller, wage bill than us... in comparison, we have been experiencing our own personal Groundhog Day with nothing to show for it but a few silvery trinkets that would barely wet the appetite of a world - class club... so it's time for Wenger to stop gloating over our week one escape act and make some substantial moves before this window closes or I fear that things will take a horrible turn when the inevitable happens... living on a knife's edge is no way to go through a full season of football and regardless of what side of the argument you fall on, you could feel high levels of toxicity in the air and that was friggin week one... I would much rather someone tried their best and failed, than took half - measures and hoped for the best

This really is a testament to all the hard work that has gone in to making the polo club what it is today, one which is bigger and better than it ever has been, and we would like to thank you all for the support that has been given to the Club over the past few years, and particularly this year.

While most gamers would have laughed a few years ago if you suggested using a laptop, some of todays models are powerful enough to handle your intense graphic rich games at a price that is often more affordable than a desktop computer.

Every year since 1983 no fewer than one in five American women has given birth via major abdominal surgery.22, 34 Today one in four or 25 % of women have a cesarean for the birth of their baby.22 The rate for first - time mothers may approach one in three.9 Studies show that the cesarean rate could safely be halved.11 The World Health Organization recommends no more than a 15 % cesarean rate.34 With a million women having cesarean sections every year, this means that 400,000 to 500,000 of them were unnecessary.No evidence supports the idea that cesareans are as safe as vaginal birth for mother or baby.

A few years back, the Huffington Post wrote an article on why bulb - style aspirators can do more harm than good, and to be honest, today's newer products simply work better.

Thanks to the vaccine, the incidence has dropped almost 99 percent and today there are fewer than 55 cases of Hib each year.

Schemes like this always have some «deadweight» costs, but today far fewer people down - size their home or take out cash than might be considered economically rational (at the last count only 15,000 equity release products were sold in a year).

There are fewer independent, professional news reporters telling the American population about the world around them today than there were five years ago, fewer journalists trying to hold people in positions of power to account, fewer working to keep people informed about events of public importance.

What would happen today may be different than what would happen in a few years.

Governor Andrew Cuomo said today the terror threat the U.S. now faces, with extremist groups like the Islamic State specifically targeting New York City, is more complex than it was just a few years ago.

«If I were to go to my district tonight at a meeting with the community, or school or a function and ask people if they thought the city was better prepared today for a storm than they were three years ago, very few hands would go up,» Queens Councilman Eric Ulrich said.

Royal Mail wants to cut down the size of its workforce as mail levels fall - the average postbag today contains almost ten million fewer letters than just three years ago, it claims.

Gov. David Paterson said today he's moving ahead with plans to lay off 898 state workers before the end of the year — fewer than the 2,000 he initially said would be necessary to make the $ 250 million worthy of workforce savings in the current budget, but still enough to be «painful.»

Today, she added to that debate, saying the long - term financing depends on quicker - than - normal employee turnover, gives few details about how payments will work in the later years and fails to account for future drastic downturns in the economy.

There are fewer coal jobs today than there were last year, and there will be fewer still next year.