Sentences with phrase «over the couple of months of»

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Now, «that's condensed over a period of a couple of weeks or a month.»

As I noted earlier this week, little had changed in the Bank of Canada's world over the past couple of months.

When a manager here comes to me and says certain commodities are going to be put up for bid in the coming months, I go through my files of people I have run across over the course of the past couple of years.

Facebook quietly began the pilot program with a few dozen gamers over the past couple of months.

We talked with 50 or 60 game - playing companies over the past couple of months.

Foxconn's daily production rate has more than tripled over the past couple of months, from a previous rate of 50,000 - 150,000 units per day to 450,000 - 550,000 units per day.

Satok recommends expressing concern («Hey, David, you missed a couple days of work over the last couple of months.

Instead of delivering 50 Hz - which is what mains - powered European clocks expect to get if they're to keep accurate time - the European grid has averaged 49.996 Hz, which is enough of a disruption, over a couple of months, to make all these clocks lose almost 6 minutes.

The defeat was the most serious setback for Prodi's nine - month - old coalition government, also deeply divided over a host of domestic issues ranging from the budget, pension reform and a bill giving legal recognition to gay and unwed couples.

If you want me to speculate on specific detail, I'm not in a position to do that, only to say that ministers have met and listened to a large number of businesses over the last couple of months and we're quite clear on access being top of the list [of businesses» priorities].»

«What has been clear to a lot of people over the past couple of months is that that deal is not going to happen.

A typical retired couple today receives around 220,000 yen a month, and over 80 % of the population thinks state retirement benefits already are not enough to live on, according to a survey by Japan Institute of Life Insurances.

Although the stock market had a bit of a run over the last couple of months, most investors are still flocking to stable stocks.

During the first part of 2008, this average declined very slowly, but then fell off a cliff in the last couple of months of the year to a low of just over 110,000 vehicles in December.

Performing well over the course of a couple months, or in a particular market environment, is one thing.

A couple of months ago when you were coping with the looming fiscal cliff, you probably at least thought you would have some clarity when it was over.

Energy East will serve as a link between Eastern Canadian refineries and the western crude oil market, where crude oil had been discounted significantly since mid-2010 until these price differentials converged rapidly over the last couple of months.

But that started to change late in the summer and over the last couple of months business has turned down pretty sharply.

-- to drive traffic, but over the next couple of months it could be that running 10 percent down will be a success.

It still points towards the positive trend that we've seen in payroll growth over the last several months and the last couple of years actually,» said Tony Bedikian, head of global markets at Citizens Bank.

For example, customers can use consumer credit to pay off large ticket items or a holiday shopping spree over the course of a couple months rather than in one lump sum.

Our clients receive a couple of thousand units per month to well over 10,000 units per month for resale — all with modest marketing.

Over the course of the past couple of months, I've had the opportunity to watch a community come together around a wonderful project.

The buy - in from the endowment, foundation, pension, family office space hasn't quite happened just yet but bitcoin and the alt cryptos did see a huge ramp over the next couple of months.

-- In one of the indicators I'm watching most closely, the labor force participation rate has ticked up slightly over the past couple of months.

«GFL has been running a process over the last couple of months to appoint banks for an IPO,» said an investment banker.

Betty decided that the message would be best delivered not in one conversation, but in a series of multiple discussions over a couple of months.

In fact, long bonds are in the midst of a correction as we speak because interest rates have finally risen over the past couple of months.

In January, it announced plans to close about 180 stores over the next couple of months, leaving it with a little more than 700 stores.

In light of the devastating hurricanes that happened in the Caribbean over the last couple of months, we've become increasingly focused on the impacts of major natural disasters.

Existing subscribers» prices won't change until then, yet they are already seeing new features we've been adding over the past couple of months.

We'll have a better idea if this theory is valid over the next couple of months if the market continues to trend sideways to lower.

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Work on the development, next to Tesco Extra, in Southampton Road, is being carried out by property solutions firm Simons Group, which is on target to meet its original completion deadline and hope to be moving tenants in over the next couple of months.

You make a couple of hundred dollars a month, well above the standard of living for the genuinely poor, illiterate people from a despised ethnicity who live on dirt floors and cook over indoor fires.

The fracklog, coupled with a step up in drilling, could lead to production growth of about 400,000 bpd over the next four months, Alexandre Andlauer, an analyst at AlphaValue SAS, told Bloomberg in an interview.

We started a new morning routine and will have a few posts coming up over the next couple of months, but, first, let's see how the Freedom Fund did in December.

«While we are seeing a substantial dip in sales over the last couple of months, it doesn't look as if foreign buying activity or a pullback in foreign buying activity was at the root of this,» said Jason Mercer, the director of market analysis for the Toronto Real Estate Board.

However, payrolls data for March showed an increase of 308,000 jobs, with upward revisions to earlier months resulting in an average increase over the previous couple of months of around 100,000 jobs (Graph 3).

The continuing low level of government bond yields has supported the search for yield that has been evident over the past couple of years, with the spread between yields on US government debt and yields on both corporate and emerging market debt remaining around historical lows over the past three months (Box B).

It's had this sort of terrible trajectory straight into the ground and it's basically halved over two years and now it's one of those stocks that everybody hates because it's one of those stocks that everybody held a couple of years ago and I remember how badly they've all been burnt on the reason for buying two years ago was that it had this kind of stellar earnings growth that fat toad and the earnings have basically been falling since then that looks like they got to continue to fall for another 12 months two years.

These indexes will be important to watch over the next couple of months.

Inflation's been low for the past couple years — as of November, the consumer price index had risen 1.7 percent over the previous 12 months.

The second data issue has emerged over the past couple of months and has worked in the other direction, with lenders reporting that some loans that were previously recorded as investor loans were really loans to owner - occupiers.

The number of building approvals for detached houses has increased strongly over the past couple of months, to be around the peak reached in the second half of 2002 (Graph 23).

Not only did Facebook implement a new News Feed algorithm that favors content from users» friends and family, but just over a month ago they rolled out a new desktop business page layout — something they had been testing for a couple of months.

Separatists groups in the Niger Delta have been wreaking havoc on Nigeria's oil infrastructure and output over the past couple of months.

The 10 - year note in the June contract was basically unchanged for the trading week at 121/02 and has been going sideways over the last couple of months as traders are looking for some fresh fundamental news.

The Commerce Department monitors hard goods orders month by month and often, increasing orders of durables over a span of a couple of months...

While it's impossible to predict exactly what the stock market will do, investing pros over the past several months have been reducing their expectations for what they think the stock market will return, not only in the next year, but potentially over the next couple of decades.