Chinese consumer demand for gold has more than doubled in the past 5 years.
For example, in the past 5 years alone, patent filings from the PRC have increased five-fold compared with the previous 5 year period.
Anyone who just kept their cash in the bank rather than in stocks over the past 5 to 10 years could be buying the home of their dreams for half price in most of the country.
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" "In no generation in the past 5, 000 years have we had more than a few people like Steven Smith.
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As almost one in five of those surveyed said that they had not gone to the opera in the past two years, and around 5% said they had never been to the opera at all, the Met can justifiably claim that simulcasts are rejuvenating and expanding the audience for opera.
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The maximum annual benefit jumped 200% during the 1970s and has risen 38.5% in the past four years.
Though Ben Howland reached 3 consecutive Final Fours (2006-2008) and amassed a 230-105 record in Westwood, they only reached the tournament in 3 of the last 5 years and never advanced past the second round.
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But, my junk bond portfolio dwelled in double digit returns the past 5 years and still gets my new money.
Ozanian points out that O'Reilly's gross margin has more than doubled in the past two years from 5.7% of sales to 13.6% last quarter.
Fighting childhood obesity is topical today, especially considering the number of overweight adolescents between the ages 12-19 has tripled in the past 30 years from 5.0% to 18.1% (Center For Disease Control).
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So strong is this indirect effect, on his calculations, that the gradual fall in the relative value of America's minimum wage over the past 20 years is capable of explaining 1.5 percentage points of the fall in the country's equilibrium rate of unemployment over the same period.
Worse, the incentives created by the employer mandate will accelerate the disturbing trend of the past 5 years that has moved us in the direction of a part-time, low-wage workforce.
Kim reports that in the past few years, over 5.6 million users have created over 10 million stories, the company has a viable subscription model and is at break even, but believes the real growth opportunity now is in mobile.
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After losing 9 million jobs in the Great Recession, our businesses have added more than 5 million new jobs in the past two and a half years.
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Rents in the logistics space have grown at about a nationwide average of 5% to 10% a year in the past few years, as increasing demand outpaces supply, said Colliers International Research.
The industrial enzymes market has grown at between 3% and 5% in each of the past several years, according to spokeswoman Angela Blackwell.
Visits to his Web site, fiery-foods.com, have doubled in the past five years to 2.5 million annually, he says.
The real annual increase in pump prices has averaged only 1.5% over the past three years .
However, in spite of its tremendous revenue growth, its after-tax net income margins have eased from 4.2% to 3.5% in the past last five years.
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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.
But more importantly, of those 30 best and 30 worst days, 42 of them, or 70% occurred in 2008 and early 2009. 18 of the 30 worst days and 13 of the best days over the past 15 years occurred in 2008, while 6 of the worst days and 5 of the best days occurred in 2009.
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In Cameroon fertility has fallen only one point (from 5.7 to 4.7) in the past 20 years.
The current rate of 8.5% represents its lowest point at any time in the past three years.
The Southern Poverty Law Centre in Montgomery, Alabama, which tracks the Klan, estimates that it has about 5, 000 members, down by about half in the past 15 years.
Global investors are piling into Japan at the fastest rate in several years, sending the stock market up 5.8% this past week to a post-financial-crisis high as the yen extended its slide.
In a recent blog post, Paul Krugman noted that the sub 2.5% increases in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) over the past few years are all that is needed to prove me wrong.
Deadlines are tighter, and sportswear retail prices have slid by 5-10% in the past five years.
Its data traffic has grown by 5, 000% in the past three years.
In the past 10 years its stock swelled 87.5%.
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The number of new infections in adults has stayed broadly stable for the past four years - at about 2.5 million new cases a year.
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