Sentences with phrase «year flood of»

Every year a flood of tablets hits market.

The hundred - year flood of housing bubbles is barely a few years old, and yet, here we go again.

But over the past 20 years a flood of discoveries has shown that mammals thrived and diversified in the heyday of the dinosaurs, and a new study suggests that our ancestors and relatives had a big evolutionary burst millions of years before dinosaurs flew the coop.

Not exact matches

The Swiss created, then shunned, digital watches and let the Japanese flood the market and put 50,000 Swiss watchmakers out of work in two years (1979 - 1981).

The industry received backlash in 2013, when many Albertans were only partially covered for the damages of the year's disastrous flooding.

In his six years as Mayor of Calgary, Naheed Nenshi has dealt with his fair share of damage control, from catastrophic flooding in 2013, wildfires this spring in the neighbouring communities, and the ongoing fallout from the province's recession.

After being astonished by the stunning images of flooding in Texas, Kenan Pala — the 13 - year - old founder of Kids4Community, a San Diego - based non-profit — decided to take action.

Over the past several year years, private tech company valuations have ballooned amid a flood of easy money.

Other matching fund offers flooded in from techies, including Patrick Collison, chief executive of online payment company Stripe, and Nat Friedman, co-founder and chief executive of Xamarin, the software development company acquired last year by Microsoft (msft).

Throw into the mix the proximity of so many major cities to the coast and it's no surprise that climate change - related flooding is estimated to cost the world's 136 largest coastal cities US$ 52billion per year by 2050.

In 2016, for the first time since the Great Recession, restaurant chains once again began emphasizing value after years of doubling down on quality with a flood of bundled bargain deals.

Sandy, whose ferocity is described by weather experts as a once every 700 years event, left in its wake a path of destruction that wiped out entire towns, squashed power grids, flooded regional transportation, and hobbled tens of thousands of small businesses, the economic lifeblood of New Jersey and New York.

Eclipsed in the popular imagination by Apple and battered by the earthquake in Japan and floods in Thailand, Sony looks as defeated as ever, predicting another loss for this fiscal year, this time to the tune of US$ 1.2 billion.

The average North American office worker uses 10,000 sheets of paper a year, and the amount actually rose significantly with the advent of computers and e-mail as we printed the floods of new communication.

The number of genuine companies joining the TSX (you know, businesses that actually make things or sell their services — not the sprawling detritus of exchange - traded funds and other investment vehicles that regularly flood the exchange) is, so far this year, down from what it was in previous years.

With the bulk of quotas ending this year, industry watchers expected western countries to be flooded with foreign imports in 2005.

Your first stop should be The National Climate Assessment, an interagency effort by the U.S. federal government, puts out a report every few years, assessing the likelihood of floods, fires, heat waves, hurricanes, and other climate - based events.

Indeed, though an 2014 academic study of bridge failures found roughly 120 bridges collapse or partially collapse every year, most do so because of floods, fires and collisions rather than structural decline.

After a headline of «School Boy Has 60,000 A Year Business,» Ben had a flood of phone calls and soon a 25,000,000 investment offer.

«We're hopeful this extension moves us toward the most productive path for our domestic steel industry — the tariffs President Trump announced earlier this year and a quota system to limit the amount of imports flooding our country,» Lebow said in a statement.

Or will this be more like 1986 — an eerily familiar scenario in which an OPEC decision to keep pumping oil after a flood of new supply ended up tanking prices for years?

But existing models of water flows don't provide the full range of possible outcomes: «A 50 - year rain can produce a 100 - year flood if it falls on a watershed that's already soaked or on snowpack or if it coincides with a storm surge.»

A 100 - year flood has a 1 in 4 chance of occurring in the 30 - year span of a typical home mortgage, he said, adding that's the kind of time scale that gets people's attention.

«We can longer commit to evaluating the impacts and risks of a single project in isolation against a retrospective, stationary understanding of risk (e.g., the 100 - year flood we've been hearing so much about.)»

The digital currency exchange Coinbase has been on a rocket ship ride for the last year, signing up a flood of new retail and institutional clients eager to be part of the ongoing crypto craze.

A flood of higher - tech ones are expected in three to seven years.

Dozens of exploration companies flooded to the area about five or six years ago, staking claims, setting up camps, even building airstrips without informing First Nations who consider the vast land theirs.

Last year, a string of strong hurricanes that hit airlines» hubs cost airlines hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue, but clearing runways from a snowstorm is a much faster process than recovering from the floods, power outages, structural damage to airports and other infrastructure damage that 2017's storms caused.

But it is just the highest - profile case in a growing flood of data breaches that have risen in sophistication over the past five years.

Water is also a symbol in company folklore; for many years Optiva's manufacturing plant was separated from the rest of the company's operations by a creek that periodically flooded over, making employees» treks back and forth, well, an adventure.

And since March, when it became obvious Andy Charles would be setting up shop here later this year, a flood of new products and price cuts has appeared.

While CMHC's dominant role selling mortgage insurance may have been a necessity 60 years ago, the expected flood of new private - sector competitors suggests that time has passed.

The central bank has cut interest rates for more than a year and flooded the state - owned sector with almost $ 1 trillion of credit in the first quarter.

«We're hopeful this extension moves us toward the most productive path for our domestic steel industry - the tariffs President Trump announced earlier this year and a quota system to limit the amount of imports flooding our country,» Leebow said in a statement.

In its first two years, as demand soared, the company hired dozens of hourly workers to handle the flood of incoming complaints and problems.

Likewise, flooding in Annapolis, Maryland, home to the U.S. Naval Academy, is not expected to reach the 10 percent threshold, although key parts of the city, including the academy campus and downtown, now flood 40 times a year.

DEAR BENNY: I am the owner of a house that has flooded repeatedly over the past eight years.

It said that the flood of cheap euro loans offered by the European Central Bank — the long - term refinancing operations — had eased the crisis this year.

In recent years, money has flooded into low - cost index funds and out of more expensive actively managed funds, thanks in part to a greater focus on the large bite fees take out of already lackluster retirement balances over the long term.

Last year's explosive rise in the value of digital coins and the flood of new retail investors drawn to the market have rattled global regulators nervous about a sector used largely for speculation.

Health officials in Texas have already announced the death of a 77 - year - old Harris county resident from Vibrio: She came into contact with flood waters when they ripped into her home, and later died as a result of flesh - eating disease.

Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

Yet the toll of storms, fires, floods, and heat on human health can also be more insidious and can linger for years.

The most powerful Hurricane to hit Texas in more than 50 years has devastated much of the coast, and the historic flooding is now causing havoc in the energy markets.

All these factors have caused investors to flood into US Treasuries, with the 10 year note making records lows of under 1.5 %.

The year - over-year increase in the deficit was more than attributable to the booking of a $ 2.8 billion liability for disaster assistance for the 2013 flood in Alberta.

Hurricane Harvey became the nation's first Category 4 landfall in almost 12 years, hammering the Texas Gulf Coast with an extremely dangerous combination of torrential rainfall, storm - surge flooding and destructive winds.

2014 will be the year flooded with the tears of speculators.

Over the next couple of years, we need to be careful of cars with flood damage following two years of hurricanes.

«The more investors invest by asset class rather than by picking individual companies, the more the market will tend to move as one, intensifying herd behaviour and the likelihood of panics, making hundred year floods even more likely.»