Sentences with phrase «more than a few years in»

No friend, I think that athiesm is a symptom of the degradation of our culture, a child's innocence doesn't stand a chance of lasting more than a few years in this current culture.

We should provide greater incentives for fully certified, and experienced, teachers to work for more than a few years in schools attended primarily by students living in poverty.

For most who are looking to start setting money aside to pay for college expenses more than a few years in the future, a 529 plan is the best option.

More than a few years in, once again, I filed for bankruptcy after four loans from the bank.

Not exact matches

And bucking the trend in a retail industry where many rivals are paring their store fleets, Walmart said it plans to open a few more stores: it expect to open fewer than 15 SuperCenters in the U.S. next year, a small uptick to be sure, but additional physical facilities to support its roughly $ 15 billion a year e-commerce business.

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.

Having done more deals in more businesses than I can count, I've got a few simple rules that have saved me tons of money, helped me dodge more than a few bullets, and added a few years to my life.

Within a few years, Artika was selling more than one million products per year to buyers in 13 countries.

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 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.

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

«Idol,» which averaged more than 30 million weekly viewers at its 2006 peak and ranked No. 1 for nine consecutive years, averaged about 11 million last season (still enough by today's standards to land it in the top 20, but with fewer advertiser - favored younger viewers).

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.

For starters, it's taken more than three years for the index to double this time around versus a few months in the dot - com days.

When pocket squares burst back onto the menswear scene in recent years, more than a few people thought they were just another short - lived style fad, but now that the dust has settled, it's obvious that

The average dating site customer spends just $ 239 a year for online memberships, which more than pays for itself to the tune of $ 12,803 in cost savings from fewer dates,» the report said.

Few technology trends last more than a few years, let alone several decades, so it is important to take a look at why big data continues to be a force in the technology sectFew technology trends last more than a few years, let alone several decades, so it is important to take a look at why big data continues to be a force in the technology sectfew years, let alone several decades, so it is important to take a look at why big data continues to be a force in the technology sector.

Two years ago, the house, constructed from untreated woods and equipped with water - saving laundry equipment and compact lighting, was the subject of a story in the Burlington Free Press under the headline «Greenhouse» — which raised the hackles of many hard - core Vermonters, including more than a few former Seventh Generation employees.

A police report itemizes more than $ 600,000 in items stolen in a burglary at their home a few years ago, including two Swiss watches, HK$ 200,000 ($ 25,600) in cash, and a kilo of gold.

But in medicine, impressive technology is little more than a parlor trick if it doesn't benefit patients — like James (who asked to keep his last name private), a 42 - year - old colon cancer patient who had part of his large intestine removed by Sullivan a few months ago.

Motorola says the device, which sold particularly well in India and Brazil and re-established the company in the United Kingdom, is its most successful smartphone yet — even more so than its Droid a few years ago.

The first half of 2005 - 06 has been one of the most active sales periods in the Perth CBD for many years according to Knight Frank, which has sold more than $ 50 million worth of buildings in the last few months.

Though CEO compensation has fallen slightly in the past few years, it has increased by more than 930 % since 1978.

The renovation will be conducted in phases over the next few years for more than US$ 50 million.

Most people seem to think we're in a full recovery, gas prices are down, and more Americans travelled this Memorial Day weekend than have travelled in the past few years.

Though NexJ fell short of that goal in its first few years, it has more than made up for it since.

Take just a few minutes out of your day to watch this short trailer announcing Firsts, a multi-media project from TIME featuring candid interviews with 45 extraordinary women, more than a year in the making.

«We, at GM, have had the view for a little while that the world of mobility is going change in the next few years more than it has changed in the last 50 years,» GM president Dan Ammann told Fortune.

A newly launched engineering design, manufacturing and distribution company had fewer than 30 employees and had never done more than $ 825,000 in sales in any of its first three years.

A few years ago, HP execs said the company would compete head on with Amazon Web Services in public cloud computing, a model in which businesses rent computing capacity from a provider like Amazon, Microsoft or Google (GOOG) rather than building out more of their own data center capabilities.

After years of working in corporate entertainment and production, David Spark has seen more than a few trade shows, and thousands upon thousands of trade show booths.

That's according to David Noto, owner of Altaneve, a premium Italian sparkling wine that launched in the U.S. a year and a half ago and to date has sold 2,400 cases in more than 100 northeastern U.S. locations, with plans to expand into Las Vegas and California within the next few months.

One popular example is the story of DropBox, which through the use of a reward referral program acquired more than 200 million users in only a few short years.

In fact, if your startup transforms into a successful business and lasts for more than a few years, it's almost a given that it'll change.

Women have largely flocked to medical and law schools in greater numbers over the past few years, but they are now turning to business school as well in part because business schools are mindful of the shortage of women students and are recruiting them more aggressively than they have before.

ARMED with the latest technology, minerals explorers today gather more data in just a few hours than would have been imaginable to field geologists a few years ago.

A few years later, Trump took advantage of this when he reported more than $ 900 million in losses from his failing casinos, even though investors put up the bulk of that money.

Despite a long sales cycle and little volume driven by repeat purchases, this legendary piano saleswoman sold more than $ 40 million in Steinways before retiring a few years ago.

The share price of mining junior Batavia Mining Ltd has more than doubled in the first few days of 2006 on a 140 per cent gold resource upgrade that could bring its Gullewa copper gold project in Western Australia back in production within a year.

Today, Detroit has 700,000 residents, far fewer than the almost 1 million people who called the Motor City home more than 90 years ago in 1920 and half the 1.6 million people who lived there in 1940, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

«Last month alone we had more than one million students, and throughout 2014 we expect more than five million kids to use Descomplica... this market is going to grow a lot in the next few years, for sure.»

Of course, as the past few years have shown, having so many eggs in the oil and gas basket can be a liability, but probably nobody in Canada has more experience riding the sector's ups and downs than does Riddell.

At first, Winkelman was incredulous that J. Aron could earn even $ 10 million per year, but that modest target was quickly surpassed; in a few years, the business was producing more than $ 1 billion in profit per year, a meaningful chunk of Goldman's overall bottom line.

Personally, I've been impressed with Ubisoft's presentations for the past few years running and the company — which has more than half its employees in Canada — is once again looking strong for 2014 and 2015.

«In just a few years, we've grown from a handful of software developers and scientists to a team of more than 1,200, inventing new capabilities and products on behalf of millions of customers around the world,» said Rohit Prasad, Amazon's Boston area - based vice president and head scientist of Amazon Alexa.

As we reported here on Inc.com a few years back, Kiwi inventor and entrepreneur Glenn Martin has been tinkering with his design for a personal jetpack in his garage for more than 30 years, using his wife as a test pilot.

At Intel Andy Grove would grow the company from a few thousand dollars in his first year to more than $ 20 billion in revenue during his last year as CEO.

The Backbeat Fit have been around for a couple years now, and in that time more than a few recommendations like this have rolled in.

Although the device went on sale in March, and Nintendo's been talking about it for more than two years, relatively few people are aware of it.

There have been comparatively few leaks compared to last year's awards season (so far), when a single group called Hive - CM8 leaked more than a dozen of 2016's top movies, including James Bond movie «Spectre,» «Legend,» «Steve Jobs,» «Creed,» and Quentin Tarantino's «The Hateful Eight» — before it even came out in the cinemas.