Sentences with phrase «use over a number»

The police operation, which involved help from Microsoft and ESET, a Slovakian cyber security firm, was significant both for the number of computers infected worldwidew and because Andromeda had been used over a number of years to distribute scores of new viruses.

The resource, therefore, could be used over a number of lessons and is suitable for use with a range of age groups.

This powerpoint can be used over a number of lessons studying the set work for Neoclassicism - Poulenc: Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano.

Not exact matches

If you have been following along, you will know that Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz and a number of Bay Street economists have been at odds this year over what shade to use when colouring the spaces around the outlook for the Canadian economy.

So merchants can count on the number of chip cards being used at their business to increase sharply over the next couple of years.

That number is set to explode over the next decade which means use of digital products, and consumer ecommerce is going to soar.

In sheer number terms, over 100 million ads were served using Flash in the 12 months through June 2015.

(Not all aircraft active over Iraq and Syria are under US control, so the total number of weapons used is likely higher.)

The theft of nude photographs from celebrities» online accounts has thrown a spotlight on the security of cloud computing, a system used by a growing number of Americans to store personal information over the Internet.

We referenced their numbers when we looked at the changing anatomy of U.S. oil imports, or when showing the decline in coal use over recent years.

The authors claimed that an «Increasing numbers of academic studies are finding that mental health problems have been soaring among girls over the past 10 - and in particular five - years, coinciding with the period in which young people's use of social media has exploded.»

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.

That number would almost certainly get a boost in the coming years, as legal markets grow in California and other states, such as Nevada (where legal recreational marijuana sales kicked off over the summer) and Massachusetts (where the adult - use market is expected to open in July 2018).

Especially if you have a day job, it's probably unrealistic to find the time to pour over financial statements and speculate on earnings reports in hopes of competing with Wall Street analysts who use satellite images to count the number of cars in the parking lots of major retailers.

To illustrate this trend over the last 10 years, we took 2001 and 2011 education expenses for Nova Scotia, Ontario and B.C.. Each province's population of persons aged five to 24 in 2001 and 2011 was used to arrive at a per capita number.

This selling point appears to be backed up by the numbers: Concur is currently in use in over 90 countries by thousands of companies, and, according to Newell, the company is currently pushing strongly in Canada (which is why they polled Canadians).

Princeton researchers, for example, assumed that using Twitter alone meant looking at consumer sentiment and not the amount of buzz, measured by the number of tweets over time.

The example I used in the above stat — the tweet with a high number of retweets - the total potential audience was over 100,000 users.

Get a Better Deal on Phone Services Increasing numbers of people are saving money by using voice over internet protocol (VoIP), such as Skype.

The study authors noted, however, that these numbers don't reflect the effectiveness of one method over another, but rather how widespread their use was.

While getting exact numbers on the size of these marketplaces is difficult and requires a bit of speculation, it's safe to assume that over 1,000,000 people use Ebay as their primary or secondary source of income, there are about the same number of shops on Etsy, and Amazon has over 2,000,000 marketplace sellers.

SWIFT, the global financial network that banks use to transfer billions of dollars every day, has warned its customers it has seen «a number of recent cyber incidents» where attackers had sent fraudulent messages over its system.

Top CMOs pore over these numbers, using the data to bolster ROI.

Ma's company has a number of successful and widely used platforms in its portfolio, including QQ, its instant - messaging service, which is one of the world's 10 largest websites; a mobile - texting service (WeChat) with over 800 million users; a mobile - commerce product (WeChat Wallet); and an online - gaming community (Tencent Games), the largest in China.

Though these numbers are simply used to demonstrate the loophole, this helps explain why, in the debate over this year's Congressional Budget, both Republicans and Democrats agreed that the loophole needed to be closed.

Jetliners can already take off, cruise and land using their onboard flight computers and the number of pilots on a standard passenger plane has dropped to two from three over the years.

Price received plenty of scrutiny over his views on what to do about Obamacare (including the extent to which he will use his administrative role to dismantle the law) and his investments in a number of biopharma companies that would have benefited from legislation that he championed.

Using economic data about the host and competitor countries from seven tournaments over four decades, Goldman analysts found a number of trends that adventurous investors should heed.

Boston Dynamics has produced a number of robots that mimic human and animal movement, including Atlas, a humanoid model that co-ordinates motion and balance using its arms and legs and can pick itself up off the ground when knocked over.

Ackman convinced the fast food chain to refranchise a number of stores, sell off Tim Hortons — its most profitable business — and use the proceeds to buy back over $ 1 billion in stock.

Over the years, a number of anonymous websites have sprung up to allow users to use bitcoins to purchase drugs and other illicit products.

The authorities in a number of countries say the company is unfairly using its leverage over consumers to extract personal information from them.

The number of enterprise customers using Exabeam's technology to power their security programs also increased to over 200.

«A number of agents I spoke to said last year that they weren't selling as hard, they weren't working as hard, and they weren't meeting with people as much as they used to because of their confusion and uncertainty over what might happen with the DOL,» he explained.

Average Daily Trading Volume («ADTV») is a measure of the number of shares traded per day, averaged over a specific period of time (we use 50 days).

For over a year, Mintz has been manufacturing big job numbers for use as political propaganda in selling business tax cuts.

The differences between these two numbers were used to calculate the over / undershoots for revenues and spending.

Over the past year, a number of reports have suggested that teen vape use, especially with the Juul, is steeply on the rise.

If they really have grown NOPAT by 12 % over the last 20 yrs, why not use that number?

But these metrics rely on historical comparisons using GAAP accounting numbers that simply are not remotely comparable over time.

Living Goods began, in 2008, as a partnership with BRAC to operate a network of CHPs in Uganda, and in 2009 launched a directly - managed network of CHPs using the same model.42 Living Goods has provided both technical and financial support, totaling over $ 2 million, to BRAC for the CHP program.43 BRAC has 128 branches with active CHPs in Uganda, but only 24 of these branches currently receive significant funding from Living Goods and have additional features, such as incentive payments for CHPs and a higher number of CHPs per branch.44

My partners and I have noticed an interesting trend over the past few years: an increase in the number of entrepreneurs who prefer to pitch us without the use of a presentation deck.

Despite a growing number of initiatives such as Bitcoin Women's Day, women using bitcoin are still a minority, with over 90 % of bitcoin users in our survey identifying as male.

Used by companies such as UniCredit, UBS and Santander, Ripple has been increasingly adopted by banks and payment networks as settlement infrastructure technology, with American Banker explaining that «from banks» perspective, distributed ledgers like the Ripple system have a number of advantages over cryptocurrencies like bitcoin,» including price and security.

The vehicle will only accept, over its lifetime, a fixed number of tokens, after which its use will be restricted.

Facebook has battled European regulators over a plan to use WhatsApp user data, including phone numbers, to develop products and target ads.

 Mr. Poloz himself bent over backwards in his last Monetary Policy Report to not use that term — even though the Bank's own numbers (projecting negative GDP growth for both the first and second quarters of 2015) suggested a recession was indeed already underway. Instead, public officials are normally sanguine and rose - coloured in their public pronouncements, hoping to incrementally shift consumer confidence with their cheeriness, and thus spark more spending. [A ridiculous extreme of this approach was provided when George Bush blithely encouraged Americans to go shopping in the days after the 9 - 11 terrorist attacks.]

Yet still so many people despair over using PPC advertising, primarily, we think, due to the sheer number of platforms available.

The concept known as Proof of Work (PoW) serves as a consensus building mechanism to reward legitimate participants and prevent malicious hackers from taking over the network.18 However, most of the calculations involve trying out nonce (random numbers that can only be used once) to satisfy a desired output format.

Shopify wouldn't provide fresh numbers on how many merchants they have in total, but the company has previously said they have «over 600,000 businesses in approximately 175 countries» using the platform.