The types of disruptions that used to occur once in an era or generation in the past are now happening in a matter of years or months.
Earnings grew at a rate of 30% or higher in each of the past eight quarters.
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Deckers has shown profit growth of 29% or more in each of the past three quarters, with earnings performance better than 98% of stocks.
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Profits grew at a rate of 45% or more in each of the past five quarters, and sales grew between 20% and 71% in each of the past eight quarters.
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At the time, there was considerable uncertainty among demographers and actuaries about whether or not the substantial increase in life expectancy seen in the past couple of decades would continue or start to tail off.
America's food manufacturers, including such household names as Heinz, Kellogg and Campbell Soup, have suffered, too, underperforming the American stockmarket by 30% or more in each of the past two years.
And if trends hold, three of them will reach the Elite Eight and one or two of them will play in the Final Four (19 of the past 23 years have seen exactly one or two No.1 seeds reach the final weekend).
Mr Oddsson's Independence Party has been in power, alone or in coalition, for most of the past 50 years.
For as the nature of the world's conflicts has changed in the past decade or so, so the demand for a new type of mediator has grown too.
And Shelter said the figures indicated health services had to be involved in 781 cases in the past year due to the behaviour or neglect of private landlords.
It was gray, blue-gray outside the kind of light you get only at the end of November, the beginning of December, at around three or half past in the afternoon, when Berlin might as well be in Finland.
Some will see that slower pace as a hint that members of the MPC think this bout of easing will be less powerful than in the past - or perhaps that they are worried about possible negative effects of continuing the policy for so long.
Utopias (incidentally the coined word Utopia doesn't mean "a good place, " it means merely "a non- existent place") have been common in the literature of the past three or four hundred years, but the "favourable" ones are invariably unappetising, and usually lacking in vitality as well.
The bears too have been surprised by the system's resilience, but they still see a large remaining financial bubble which they fear may burst, possibly plunging America and the world into a depression similar to that of the 1930s, or at least of the past decade in Japan.
You'll remember the question of whether the deficit in the past year was lower - or higher - than in 2011-12 was one of the great statistical excitements of this year's Budget.
The report said strong economic growth in Africa had significantly reduced the extent of poverty in Africa over the past decade or so.
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Because of this, it seems to me that in the past decade or so, the half-life of our memories has become artificially extended.
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He saw a strong future for the company in the premium sector of the coffee market, which had undergone significant changes in the past decade or so.
Nowhere in the peer-reviewed studies or monitoring programs of the past 30 years is there persuasive evidence of health or environmental problems stemming from genetically engineered seeds or crops.
The current wild beaver populations in Scotland either belong to the government-licensed Scottish Beaver Trial in Knapdale in Argyll, or are the descendants of escapees from private collections in Angus and Perthshire over the past decade.
Fourteen percent of Ohioans and 17 percent of Floridians say they used up all or most of their savings in the past year to pay medical bills.
We know that the general theory of relativity is compatible with the existence of space-times in which travel to the past or remote future is possible.
Just as now is the time for the U.S. to come to grips with its looming fiscal wreck, it is also time to consider how a global banking system has grown up in a world of fiat money, with no anchor or backing (as in the past, to gold) but instead just the full faith and credit of nations and their agents, the central banks.
Eyre believes the poem has lost little of its power or relevance in the past 25 years, despite its references to the miners' strike and skinheads.
He told the audience, comprised mainly of young Palantir software engineers, that humans are still using many of the same fundamental technologies invented in the past couple of centuries, like the internal combustion engine or the airplane.
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Kona Haque of Macquarie Bank points out that copper mines have produced 1m tonnes or so less than planned in each of the past three years (over 5% of global output), and are likely to do so again this year.
We've had our fair share of negative surprises in the past few years but by the law of averages, sooner or later something will turn out better than expected.
As with any exercise, if you're out of shape, have had back injuries in the past, or have a history of heart disease, check with your doctor before tackling that snowdrift.
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But the consensual middle has been sucked out of Washington in the past decade or so.
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Before the collapse, Rana was little known outside of the few blocks of his tiny empire, a grid of poorly paved streets in the crowded industrial suburb of Savar, built up over the past decade or so around hundreds of garment factories.
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