Sentences with phrase «year gained little»

A bill introduced last year gained little traction in the Legislature's higher education committees, Ferrara said.

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Microsoft's Bing search engine has gained little traction in China since launching last year.

It's a little bit like when you started college — you probably imagined things a certain way, and it completely changed over the years as you gained experience.

While there's little indication of the market souring, it's clear that investor interest is driving up initial valuations — 30 percent of offerings have exceeded price expectations this year, according to Renaissance Capital — and that some companies» stocks quickly deflate from their first - day gains.

Unlike last year's attempt to rally, the technicals suggest gains over the past month are a little different, said Maley.

As a result we've gained over 30,000 Twitter followers and over 120,000 Facebook likes — and we've accomplished that in a little over two years.

The analysis shows little or no gains for the majority of Americans over the last 25 years, even in the years since the end of the recession.

The stock is little changed this year, compared with a 23 % gain in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

It's really helpful to track every penny like this, especially in relationship to your goals, and you can easily see how every little incremental gain will continue towards pushing your overall total higher every year.

The good news is that each bear has typically lasted a little over a year and stocks have always recovered, historically, and gone on to make significant gains.

The yellow metal ended the year up a little more than 13 percent — its best year since 2010 — while gold stocks, as measured by the NYSE Arca Gold Miners Index, gained more than 11 percent.

The S&P 500 Health Care Index is down a little more than 2 % this year and the S&P Biotechnology Select Industry Index has plummeted over 15 %, while the S&P 500 has notched a decent 6 % gain, according to Bloomberg data.

When we run Monte Carlo simulations over 30 years it is common to see a 500 % increase, or even a little more, but a 4,620 % average gain?

Street Freak readers made an extraordinary 57.7 % gain in a little under a year on this large - cap bank stock.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

Perhaps a little context might help: U.S. equities have enjoyed positive total returns for the past nine consecutive years — and during seven of those years, they saw double - digit gains.

Median family income has risen only about 0.5 percent per year - and as far as we can tell from somewhat unreliable data, just about all of that increase was due to wives working longer hours, with little or no gain in real wages.

After that came ten years labouring as a parish priest of Prouille, a period of little success in gaining converts from Catharism, although he founded a small community of nuns who wanted to remain Catholic while living a life of comparable simplicity as they would have had as Cathars.

What I can offer is what little bit of knowledge I have gained from a few years of seeking to act justly.

Enforcement is often lax; 13 - and 14 - year - olds generally have little difficulty gaining entry to theaters that display signs saying that patrons must be 17 years old or older.

Green Party councillor Isabelle Mayor said the idea of a city - wide day without meat had gained little traction at the time, but that things had changed in recent years.

At 20 years old and with little experience on the top level, it was anticipated that Holding would probably go out on loan this season to gain more competitive experience.

Whilst the 24 year old has been a flop since moving to Merseyside over the summer but there seems little to be gained by offering the # 16m signing to another club on a temporary deal, not when Rodgers has precious few effective attacking options of note.

With a play that springs a little man for big gains, the Beavers aim for their first Rose Bowl in 44 years

With rule changes going into effect for the first time this offseason — like the amount of time a player has to make his decision or the ways picks are lost and gained, things will be a little different than previous years.

Your little one is gaining a new sense of independence and mobility with these 1 - year - old milestones.

For most 14 - year - old teens gaining more privileges and freedom from parents and «little kid rules» become front and center in their social and emotional development.

Indeed, Labour gained some seats without even canvassing last year, such was the level of enthusiasm among voters based on little more than viral Facebook videos and a pledge to build a fairer Britain.

Had to come up, Iran - Pakistan - India oil deals have repeatedly fell through and have only gained a little momentum in the past 10 years.

A couple Central Europe countries gained a democratic elected government after World War I, but shifted undemocratic again with little violence after half a dozen of years: Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Yougoslavia.

Not surprisingly, these measures have gained little traction over the years with the large Democratic conference in that chamber.

And while his bill has gained little support since the Bronx Democrat first introduced it four years ago, with some legislative colleagues bashing it as government overreach, experts say the times may be changing.

To take the case of the Wichí, they've been struggling for years to gain legal recognition for the little land they have left.

She has been very involved in the music program at HFCS and starred as Ariel in this year's spring production of The Little Mermaid, gaining many Elementary School fans in the process.

LITTLE ITALY — Supporters of the annual San Gennaro festival who have been fighting a recent recommendation to cut short the 85 - year - old event may have just gained a political ally.

Jackie Doyle - Price has been PPC for Thurrock for over two years and her attempt to gain the seat from Labour at the next election (a task for which she requires a swing of 6.5 %) looks like it will be a little easier this evening.

A little more than a year ago, Milgrom, a professor of physics at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel, gained new support for his ideas when his longtime collaborator, Jacob Bekenstein, published a new, more powerful version of the theory, one fully consistent with Einstein's general theory of relativity.

One year after the end of the intervention, 36 months after the productive asset transfer, 8 out of 10 indices still showed statistically significant gains, and there was very little or no decline in the impact of the program on the key variables (consumption, household assets, and food security).

Yet despite killing 40,000 women and men every year — a number that has not budged in decades despite gains in detection and treatment of early breast cancers — MBC shares something in common with the much rarer angiosarcoma: Medical researchers know surprisingly little about it.

One theory, which has gained little support, claims that a natural uranium reactor, 5 miles in diameter, has been operating at the center of the earth for 4.5 billion years.

After a while she was a little bit scared that she would gain back the pounds she lost, but after four pregnancies within a period of seven years, her body proved to her that a permanent transformation had been done.

But after years of dieting I would loose a little then gain a lot, i've done various diet plans and never really felt like i've learned anything at all.

In my 50's I still hate zits, and have to watch what I eat to keep insulin in check and have struggled with these issues for many years before any one believed me, but new guidelines for thyroid make diagnostics a little easier and having documentable proof of weight gain and change of life style due to lack of energy or depressed attitude will help.

When I started eating nuts on a regular basis I saw a slow but steady increase of uncontrollable weigh gain, before I realized what was causing it - 10 lbs in just a little over a year.

It's little over 2 years later and the past 6 weeks I've been doing about half an hour of cardo (running) each week and focused the rest of my time (about 5 - 6 hours / week) on mixing cardio and strengh for an all - over body training (again, I was pretty much completely out of shape before these 6 weeks) and fair enough, I've watch my food intake (it's been VERY clean, lots of whole food) but I've gained so much muscle mass, lost 5,5 kg in weight and even more importantly — nearly 7 % body fat!

I think it's important to let yourself gain a little weight throughout the year.

I eat maintenance calories year - round; I don't mind if my gains are a little slower, because I'm mostly doing this for overall fitness.

I guess I can take comfort that I've haven't gained weight in 5 years, but I would really like to lose a little more.

If you are average like many of us, we are talking about little or no gains each week and many years of going to the gym.

It's remarkable, then, that this year the Journal of Applied Physiology published a study showing that subjects made gains using as little as 30 % of their projected maxes.