Sentences with phrase «years an increasing amount»

Unfortunately, the past few years an increasing amount of oligosaccarides are beginning to be produced synthetically.

Puerto Rico has always been a traditional self catering resort, however in recent years an increasing amount of apartments and hotels have opted for the all - inclusive option.

This year I increased the amount to $ 100, with two more free cards for the secretary, for a total cost of $ 1,000.

Not exact matches

Last year, 6.15 million Chinese travelers took international trips, a 7 percent increase from 2016, with overseas spending estimated to amount to about 100 billion yuan (nearly $ 16 billion).

E-1 wages were not increased between 1952 and 1958, so Korean War and Vietnam War troops made the same amount of money at the lower ranks — except inflation over the years drove the real value of the wages down.

The division's EBITDA amounted to $ 162 million, up 15.7 % year on year, with increases across all businesses, confirming the division's excellent performances.

And the amount of money these mutual funds are pouring in is worth noting: «Last year alone, global mutual fund investors poured $ 23.7 billion into 192 VC transactions — the highest amount of capital invested ever and a 66 % increase from the year prior,» states the release.

Optimism is up to 63 percent from 57 percent at the beginning of the year, and Main Street businesses are reflecting their increased optimism and cash flow with an increased amount of year - end bonuses.

On the other hand, increasing the minimum to that amount two years ago might have cost the economy about 500,000 jobs, or 0.3 percent of the workforce, by 2016, the CBO found.

«The amount of borrowing to invest increases in the fourth, fifth or sixth year of a bull market,» Stevens says.

You get 55 percent of your income, up to a maximum of $ 51,300 (this amount increases slightly each year).

Last year, the company increased the amount to be returned up to $ 130 billion (from its earlier target of $ 100 billion) with a target of the end of this year.

Over the last few years, the amount of people telecommuting has dramatically increased.

Adding 187.5 billion won from the expected additional purchase and retirement for 3 years to this will increase the amount to approximately 600 billion won.

Each time he got a pay raise, he increased his 401 (k) contribution by the same amount to reach the maximum allowed investment of $ 18,000 a year.

This year the Forbes magazine list of the 400 richest people in the U.S. saw an 18 % increase in the amount of wealth needed to make the cut.

But if your income has increased over what you estimated during the year or your expenses are lower than anticipated, you will need to pay the amount owed or be subject to penalties and interest when you finally do pay your taxes.

Entry - level salaries on average increased 3 percent to $ 49,785 a year ago, marking the highest amount of the average base pay for college graduates in a decade.The analysis was conducted by Korn / Ferry International, an executive - search firm in Los Angeles.

But in the last two years, the amount of money U.S. consumers spent at small businesses has dropped, while the number of shoppers has increased.

The Fed's increase is likely to raise the amount the average household pays in credit card interest to $ 1,350 from $ 1,333 a year, NerdWallet said (assuming the average credit card APR jumps to 19.61 percent from 19.36 percent).

The institute also examined the amount of education debt held by those close to retirement, and found a sharp increase over 25 years.

As a result, previously reported aggregate business segment net sales and operating income for total year 2017 increased $ 1.568 billion and $ 402 million, respectively, offset by similar increases in the elimination of dual credit net sales and operating income amounts.

Today, after increasing in tandem over the years, Lantus costs $ 307.20 per vial and Levemir runs $ 322.80 for the same amount, based on average wholesale prices.

(The minimum amount increases each year according to an inflation index.)

The network's spending plans going forward mark an increase from the amount spent in the two years before the 2016 election, which was roughly $ 250 million.

The amount of money being put into early stage companies has greatly increased in the past couple of years.

Atherton also advises couples with pensions to delay taking Social Security until age 70, as most of these couples don't actually need the funds right away and their Social Security amount will increase 8 % each year they wait.

«One of the largest increases in cocaine seizures in the past five years has been observed in Ecuador, where the amount of cocaine seized rose by over 242 per cent, amounting to 50 metric tons in 2014,» the UN's International Narcotics Control Board wrote in its 2015 report.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Delaney says one potential positive can be found in proposals to increase the amount that most families can contribute to tax - advantages HSAs from $ 6,750 a year currently to $ 14,000.

ICBC is facing a financial loss of $ 1.3 billion by the end of the fiscal year, an astronomical increase from an amount that the previous government estimated at $ 11 million.

Vandermillen recommends automatically funding your 401 (k) or your IRA so you don't have to make a decision about it every month, and automatically increasing that amount every year.

At the point the growth began to slow, the multiple would contract, meaning that even if its earnings do grow 600 % in the next few years, if it becomes subject to the law of big numbers - that ever increasing amounts eventually forge their own anchor - the result would be a market capitalization substantially similar to today, leading to no increase in the stock price over a long period of time.

In California, last year's sales from 713,304 retail and food service outlets amounted to $ 107 billion, a 3.4 % increase from 2016, according to the state's Department of Tax and Fee Administration.

If the Chinese economy is going to continue to increase its oil consumption by 10 % a year, another economy will have to cut back its oil consumption by a comparable amount to make room for the increase in Chinese demand.

Extend your repayment period up to 30 years for the potential of a lower monthly payment amount, but understand that this may increase the total amount you will pay over the life of the loan.

Though the German government is notionally committed to the alliance's 2 - percent defense - spending target, it only spent 1.2 percent of its GDP on defense last year — an amount her coalition partners, the Social Democrats, and more than half the German public oppose increasing.

Every tech company has increased political spending over the last few years, and the amount of tech money circulating in D.C. will skyrocket now that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been hauled before Congress to answer questions about the myriad ways in which his company is harming America and the world.

This way the entry level stays but the amount per year increase is reduced to full retirement age, creating a situation where more people will likely take SS earlier and not get their full benefits to begin with.

In 2016, the Far East Federal District's trade with China amounted to $ 6 billion, accounting for 25 percent of its foreign trade volumes.47 In a meeting with the vice premier of China's State Council, Putin stated that Chinese investment in the Russian Far East has exceeded $ 3 billion since 2015.48 According to Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East Alexander Galushka, as of November 2017, the number of projects in the PDAs and the Free Port of Vladivostok involving Chinese capital tripled in the past year to twenty - eight projects worth $ 4 billion that account for 85 percent of foreign investment attracted to the Russian Far East since 2015.49 At the Third Eastern Economic Forum in September 2017 — an annual conference to attract foreign investment to the Russian Far East — Putin even used these investment figures in jest to encourage Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to increase Japanese investments in the Russian Far East.50

While it decided not to, the Fed did say it expected «further gradual» rate increases would be justified — and there's broad consensus that it will raise rates (which can affect the amount banks charge borrowers, as well as interest paid on bonds) at least three times this year.

Last year alone, the total amount of money invested in U.S. - based ETFs increased 34 percent, growing to a record $ 3.4 trillion by the end of December.

After slowly increasing its secure searches over the past two years, increasing the amount of (not provided) keywords in your analytics, Google has now made all of its searches encrypted using HTTPS, meaning search in the very near future, keyword data will no longer be passed to analytics applications.

Last year alone, the total amount of money invested in U.S. - based ETFs increased

The US oil - rig count plateaued near the highest level in three years and showed signs of declining in late March (to 797), though it still stood 50 rigs above the year - end 2017 total.2 This contributed to expectations for a further increase in American crude production, which has topped 10 mb / d each week since early February, when WTI prices began to recede from their intra-quarterly high of US$ 66.14 a barrel.3 The amount of crude in US storage occasionally exceeded weekly estimates given the higher domestic output and fluctuating net import figures, reigniting fears that US production may thwart OPEC's efforts to clear global oversupply.

He will receive a monthly benefit 32 % larger than his Primary Insurance Amount (PIA): 2/3 x 48 = 32 % By deferring his benefits 4 years, James permanently increased his $ 1,600 Full Retirement Amount (FRA) benefit to $ 2,112.

The Mega Millions annuity jackpot is awarded according to an increasing rate schedule, which increases the amount of the annuity payment every year.

«RESOLVED, that the shareholders hereby approve, on an advisory basis, High River's proposal that Apple commit to completing not less than $ 50 billion of share repurchases during Apple's fiscal year ending September 27, 2014 (and increase the amount authorized for share repurchases under its Capital Return Program accordingly).»

The average amount spent per active iPhone increased to an estimated $ 58 last year, up from $ 47 in 2016.

That's because portfolio turnover increases the amount of taxes that must be paid on capital gains and boosts the total amount of commission dollars that must be paid in a given year.