" By the mid 2000s, bikinis had become a $ 811 million business annually, according to the NPD Group, a consumer and retail information company.

By the early 2000s, these competitions were named Comic Idol ( in reference to Pop Idol.

By the early 2000s ( decade ), however, the university quietly reexamined its position on accreditation as degree mills proliferated and various government bureaucracies, such as law enforcement agencies, began excluding BJU graduates on the grounds that the university did not appear on appropriate federal lists.

By the early 2000s, CPU designers were thwarted from achieving higher performance from ILP techniques due to the growing disparity between CPU operating frequencies and main memory operating frequencies as well as escalating CPU power dissipation owing to more esoteric ILP techniques.

By the early 2000s, the CD largely replaced the audio cassette player as standard equipment in new automobiles, with 2010 being the final model year for any car in the US to have a factory-equipped cassette player.

By the mid to late 2000s, many disco-influenced songs were hits.

By late 2000s, some deathcore bands described themselves as grindcore.

By the late 2000s, ill-health was preventing him from driving in competition.

By 2000s ( decade ), the VAZ designation was dropped from market names in favour of Lada and simplified export naming conventions were adopted, so VAZ-2104 effectively became Lada 2104, VAZ-2110 became Lada 110, VAZ-2114 became Lada Samara hatchback or Lada 114 and so on, though model indices continue to be used in both technical and marketing materials.

By the early 2000s, community development issues and resettlements became mainstreamed in Bank mining projects.

By contrast, the Indianapolis Colts — among the most successful franchises in any sport during the 2000s with quarterback Peyton Manning — had a 2-14 record in 2011 because of injuries that prevented Manning from playing.

By the mid 2000s, the Mp3 player would overtake the CD player in popularity.

By the 2000s, Rap and Hip Hop had reached their commercial peaks, and the genre continued to dominate the music scene of the decade The best-selling artist of the decade was the American rapper Eminem, who sold 32 million albums, followed by The Beatles ( who split in 1970 but have stayed extremely popular since ).

By the 2000s, the majority of sales were in the United States, where the beer has proven extremely popular, although it still sells 100 million bottles annually in the UK.

By 2000s, the annual millets production had increased in India, yet per capita consumption of millets had dropped by between 50 % to 75 % in different regions of the country.

By the early 2000s, there was little price difference between a hub and a low-end switch.

By the late 2000s, TM had been taught to millions of people, and the worldwide TM organization had grown to include educational programs, health products, and related services.

By the late 2000s, TM had been taught to millions of individuals and the Maharishi was overseeing a large multinational movement.

By the 2000s, subwoofers became almost universal in sound reinforcement systems in nightclubs and concert venues.

By the 2000s, some jobs which had previously only demanded bachelor's degrees, such as policy analysis posts, were requiring master's degrees.

By the 2000s, anarcho-punk had become more musically diverse than in the 1970s.

By the early 2000s, the park had become the residence of a number of homeless people, who received attention after five abducted, raped and threatened to kill a woman who had been sitting with her partner at a nearby subway station.

By the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the success of Christian-inspired acts like Skillet, Thousand Foot Krutch, Decyfer Down, Underoath, Kutless, Disciple and Relient K saw a shift toward mainstream exposure in the Christian rock scene.

As Time Goes By has been aired in the United States on BBC America, and is still currently being run weekly on PBS ( on which it has aired almost continuously since the early 2000s ), with various cast members appearing live on air during yearly pledge drives.

By the use of various weights, data for a force-rate of shear graph can be obtained.

By knowing the coordinates of an object ( usually given in equatorial coordinates ), the telescope user can use the setting circle to align the telescope in the appropriate direction before looking through its eyepiece.

By this time, the use of the glyph had already reached Persia, and was mentioned in Al-Khwarizmi's descriptions of Indian numerals.

By the mid-16th century, they were in common use in most of Europe.

By 1980, the way the game was played had changed dramatically due to innovative coaching tactics, with the phasing out of many of the game's kicking styles and the increasing use of handball ; whilst presentation was influenced by television.

By 1971, 12 percent of the total area of South Vietnam had been sprayed with defoliating chemicals, at an average concentration of 13 times the recommended USDA application rate for domestic use.

By 1971, 12 percent of the total area of South Vietnam had been sprayed with defoliating chemicals, at an average concentration of 13 times the recommended USDA application rate for domestic use.

By the first century BC brass was available in sufficient supply to use as coinage in Phrygia and Bithynia, and after the Augustan currency reform of 23 BC it was also used to make Roman dupondii and sestertii.

By the 15th century there is evidence for the renewed use of lidded cementation crucibles at Zwickau in Germany.

By World War II, the use of the smaller divisions, platoons and companies, became much more important as precise operations became vital.

By the time World War I began, attempts to use anthrax were directed at animal populations.

By the summer of 1944 the reversal of fortune was complete and Operation Bagration saw Soviet forces inflict crushing defeats on Germany through the aggressive use of armour, infantry and air power in combined strategic assault, known as deep operations.

By the late 1920s, New York writers other than Fitz Gerald were starting to use " Big Apple " and were using it outside of a horse-racing context.

By that time, the majority of black people were U. S .- born, so use of the term " African " became problematic.

By contrast, several countries can also use the same currency ( for example, the euro ), or one country can declare the currency of another country to be legal tender.

By the end of 2005, the number of telephone main lines in use totaled 7, 851, 649.

By 1910, the profession, " chemical engineer ", was already in common use in Britain and the United States.

By helping to ensure benefit-sharing, the Nagoya Protocol creates incentives to conserve and sustainably use genetic resources, and therefore enhances the contribution of biodiversity to development and human well-being.

By then the memory may have been re-assigned to another use, with unpredictable results.

By 1996, other engineers had joined in, because it was clear that Cygwin would be a useful way to provide Cygnus ' embedded tools hosted on Windows systems ( the previous strategy had been to use DJGPP ).

By turning these space to public use, the building got 20 % plot ratio more as bonus.

By contrast, the Europeans never infused it into their general diet, but have compartmentalized its use to sweets and desserts.

By the fifth classification all the letters of the alphabet are in use for top level classes.

By the time Bramah's beer pumps became popular, the use of the word draught to mean the act of serving beer was well established and transferred easily to beer served via the hand pumps.

By 1910, regular radio broadcasting had started to use " live " as well as prerecorded sound.