Sentences with phrase «years in the past few»

«Every year in the past few years the borrowing of ebooks has more than doubled,» said Christina de Castell, director, resources and technology for the library.

Every year in the past few years, I waited until the last day to mail out our tax forms.

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Oklahoma has seen a massive spike in earthquakes in the past few years, registering 2-1/2 earthquakes daily of magnitude 3 or greater - a seismicity rate 600 times greater than before 2008, according to the Oklahoma Geological Survey.

Fast - growth companies like Airbnb and Uber have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding in the past few years, which has pushed their valuations into never - before seen territory for startups.

Despite the exodus, sales have ticked up during the past few years; Target is on track for $ 73 billion in 2014.

In the past few years companies like Braeburn Pharmaceuticals, Intarcia Therapeutics, and Proteus Digital Health have set out to create better medical mousetraps through devices that make existing drugs more effective.

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

Index - tracking products have taken off over the past few years, especially in the United States, where the broad S&P 500 index has risen more than 200 % since the market bottom in 2009, aided by the U.S. Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus.

Google has dramatically increased its lobbying activities in Washington in the past few years: it spent US$ 8.95 million on lobbying just in the first half of 2012 (compare that to the US$ 9.7 million it spent in all of 2011).

For one thing, Ukip is a right - wing protest group that has gained a surprisingly large amount of support in the past few years on an anti-EU and anti-immigration platform.

WORLDWIDE Online Printing has had a turbulent past few years, with changes in ownership, a dip into administration, and consequent company restructure.

«A lot of things have come together in the past few years to put us on a growth trajectory.»

Private firms like Amur have proliferated in the past few years, which is hardly a surprise, given that Canada's stubbornly low interest rates have pushed investors into alternative asset classes, and residential real estate has generated stunning returns for investors and homeowners alike.

Over the past few years, CGI has come in for some unflattering headlines — it built the Obamacare health - care registration website that had an infamously rocky start — but that doesn't seem to have harmed its growth.

And lastly, if rates start hiking significantly, they will be breaking away from the trend registered in the past few years — the 10 - year paper hasn't hit 3 percent since 2014.

Outsourcing has become one of the hottest topics in the business world over the past few years, with so many tasks in the workplace now capable of being carried out by outside parties.

In the past few years, we've witnessed other handovers: Paul Desmarais's sons took over his $ 6.1 billion estate, which includes Power Corp., following his death in 2013 at age 8In the past few years, we've witnessed other handovers: Paul Desmarais's sons took over his $ 6.1 billion estate, which includes Power Corp., following his death in 2013 at age 8in 2013 at age 86.

In the past few years, Facebook has become one of Canadian Tire's top two advertising channels, along with Google.

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.

The health law's open enrollment season launched in November and has already been curtailed by the White House relative to the past few years.

«Exploration expenditures in the N.W.T. have languished over the past few years and could therefore limit the territory's options for growing its mining industry in the long term,» noted a recent report by the Conference Board of Canada.

In the past few years, it's become clear that old technologies like vinyl records, analog cameras, and print books are managing to hang on in the world of streaming music, smartphones, and ebookIn the past few years, it's become clear that old technologies like vinyl records, analog cameras, and print books are managing to hang on in the world of streaming music, smartphones, and ebookin the world of streaming music, smartphones, and ebooks.

Now, he says, the experiences of the past few years suggest that central banks will need more room to maneuver in future crises.

Since taking Coach's reins in 2014, the 50 - year - old executive has done what few retail CEOs have been able to do: tapped into his company's successful past to help it compete in a difficult present.

There are exceptions, of course, especially among biotech companies, but then again, it's only in the past few years that we've seen any significant funding in Silicon Valley addressing issues of say, fertility.

The money paid back to Americans in tax refunds so far this year is now roughly equal to cumulative outlays at this time in the past few years, and just slightly below last year's year - to - date total, alleviating any worrying economic signals coming from the data.

The more complex debt market has worked wonders in the past few years allowing somewhat riskier companies like Valeant amass more debt, at lower rates, than they would have been able to past.

If your private company has grown in the past few years, take advantage of this opportunity to receive global and national recognition for your achievements.

That last line is key: «Increased bank reserves held at the Fed don't necessarily translate into more money or cash in circulation, and, indeed, broad measures of the supply of money have not grown especially quickly, on balance, over the past few years.»

«I think we will see a lot of issues moving more than we have seen in the past few years.»

Over the past few years a growing number of entrepreneurs have forged a quiet revolution in compensation plans, jettisoning traditional salary structures and carving out bold new incentive programs for their entire organizations.

Because for the past few years, many gold companies have nearly run their businesses — and their investors» equity — into the ground, despite an incredible rise in gold prices.

The good news is that lenders have opened the spigot in the past few years, and more capital is flowing to companies than it did during the Great Recession.

Increased bank reserves held at the Fed don't necessarily translate into more money or cash in circulation, and, indeed, broad measures of the supply of money have not grown especially quickly, on balance, over the past few years.

Netgear's (ntgr) stock has done fine, but trailed the S&P 500 index for most of the past five years until a big rally the past few months, largely over excitement about how well Arlo cameras sold in the holiday shopping period.

«This is a brand new way for people to contribute and give back in a way that's actually needed the most,» says Joe Gebbia, Airbnb's cofounder and chief product officer who has spent much of his time in the past few years leading the initiative.

But in the past few years, observe several academics, there has been a markedly increased interest in personality surveys.

«Given the steady growth of the Mexican import segment in the US over the past few years, the addition of Sol represents a key addition to our portfolio,» Molson Coors CEO and President Mark Hunter said in a statement.

However, customs officers have seized fewer than 50 shipments in the past two years, while American customs officers seized 36,500 in 2016 alone.

Resume trends have changed dramatically in the past few years.

«With Pokémon Go, you are seeing it as bypassing a lot of digital (marketing) channels that the brick and mortar shops have been relying on for the past few years,» said Christophe Jammet, director of social media and mobile at consultancy DDG in New York.

But BMO Capital Markets» equity research analyst Dan Salmon says MDC has made leaps and bounds in the past few years.

• There have been fewer mega-deals: 2017 has certainly not been spectacular when it comes to mega-deals we've seen in years past, like Dell's acquisition of EMC for $ 67 billion or Heinz's acquisition of Kraft Foods for $ 55 billion.

The Dragons» Den argument speaks to something of a mission Kopke has embarked on in the past few years to affect change in Canada's business culture.

Though Hirshberg is very active, he admits that the social - venture movement's «noise level» has dropped significantly in the past few years.

But does anyone think that a party still reeling from its inability to re-capture the White House that has seen a dramatic shift to the right in its core leadership in the past few years (Hint, maybe they can't see the forest for the extremely right - leaning trees) will be the party that wants credit, or the blame, for legalizing pot?

Cloud pioneer Rackspace (RAX) has pivoted many times in the past few years.

This update provides new ways for brands to boost engagement and could counter the decline in organic reach Facebook Page owners have been experiencing for the past few years.

«During the past few years, we have reignited our innovation engine, rebuilt relationships with customers and partners, and gotten our cost structure in line with our revenue,» wrote Whitman.

In the past few years, however, the concept has become mainstream, as companies like Starbucks and Timberland seek out socially responsible vendors not only to provide quality goods but also to help create a positive image.