Sentences with phrase «year holiday period»

I \'m flying to Hawaii from Hong Kong for the Chinese New Year holiday period and I \'m hiking this trail this time next week.

Even across the busy Chinese New Year holiday period we had no problems whatsoever getting a reservation at any of the places we wanted to try.

There is always the temptation over the Christmas and New Year holiday period to relax with some wonderful trashy novel or a book on anything other than politics.

Not exact matches

«And since more and more Chinese are taking their long holiday breaks outside of China, I'll be watching out for how busy our Merlion will be over this Chinese New Year period,» he said.

In recent years, holiday traffic has consolidated to two periods of time: the Thanksgiving weekend and the week heading into Christmas.

After pulling back on its holiday season hiring in anticipation of weaker sales this year, Macy's (m) said on Friday it will hire another 7,000 temporary workers, citing a strong number of shopper visits so far this Christmas period.

Netgear's (ntgr) stock has done fine, but trailed the S&P 500 index for most of the past five years until a big rally the past few months, largely over excitement about how well Arlo cameras sold in the holiday shopping period.

The world's biggest smartphone maker kept its full - year investment plan conservative and warned it would be difficult to increase earnings in the first quarter as demand pulls back from the year - end holiday period.

That's a significant slowdown from the 122 % year - over-year growth the service posted in the fourth quarter (although the Q4 holiday period is seasonally strong).

Eighty - five percent of small - business owners say that the holiday shopping period is just as — or more important than — last year, according to a survey by Manta, an online small - business community.

But during the call with shareholders and analysts, Amazon chief financial officer Brian Olsavksy reiterated a claim from the earnings release that unit sales grew nine times during the holiday period compared to the year prior's numbers.

GameStop lowered its fourth - quarter and full - year earnings guidance after suffering declines in video - game sales during the holiday period.

Lacking attractive new devices and hampered by manufacturing problems, Fitbit sold only 6.5 million trackers in the key fourth quarter holiday season last year, a 21 % drop from the same period a year earlier, according to International Data Corp..

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Faced with wary shoppers and a shorter holiday season, retailers are piling on deals as they jockey for market share during the most important sales period of the year.

Two and a half years in the making — we look forward to busy reading over the holiday period.

We also pause signals during public holidays and low - volume trading periods (e.g. Christmas holidays and New Year).

In the four days of trading in the final week of the year 40.94 tonnes were withdrawn — suggesting around 50 tonnes for a full 5 - day week including Jan 1st — which is pretty much on par with other recent weekly withdrawal figures despite any minor disruption from the big Christian Christmas holiday period which has little, but possibly some very minor, impact on Chinese domestic trade.

Sales went up 120 % in the third quarter vs. that period last year, and Ellison said he expects sales to continue being strong in the holiday season «primarily because we have a great credit offering.»

While J.C. Penney's net income was $ 254 million during the holiday period, or 81 cents per share, up from $ 192 million or 61 cents in 2016, it reported a loss for the full year.

Earlier this week, the chain reported a 1.3 % drop in same - store sales during the crucial November and December holiday period and lowered its earnings forecast for the year.

Likewise, during Lunar New Year and the National Day golden week periods, mainland China will usually arrange for seven - day consecutive holidays by reshuffling workdays and weekends.

Happy New Year to you all, we hope you all had a fabulous Christmas and holiday period whatever you were doing?

After the heavy fixture congestion of the holiday period, the new year brings a break in the Premier League schedule.

With holidays like Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year's all crammed into a short time period... more

They cite the difficulties of a September referendum — as seen in Scotland last year — with voters away on holiday in the campaign period.

«The Thanksgiving holiday is one of the busiest travel periods of the year, so starting Wednesday, the state will temporarily suspend major construction projects to reduce traffic congestion and delays,» Cuomo said.

The AP reports an increase on the sales tax on clothing might be in the offing, coupled with three or four tax - free clothes shopping periods each year — including before school begins in the fall and at the December holidays.

County Sees Spike In New Flu Cases While the number of confirmed cases of influenza in Oneida County is small compared to last year's, there has been a spike locally during the holiday period and flu remains widespread throughout the State, health department officials said today.

A new CPSC study shows that 65 percent of injuries last year happened within the 30 - day period leading up to the July 4th holiday.

Every year I want to slow down this time period because it FLIES by before I feel like I can soak up every ounce of the holiday.

Today I start the most beautiful period of the year with holiday makeup looks!

I hope everyone had a wonderful relaxing summer, and that you are ready to get rolling, as Fall crafting and Jewish holiday crafts are just the beginming... hold on tight my friends and lets make great use of our time, during this busy crafty period of the year, shall we?

The period between the December holidays and Valentine's Day when people are more than twice as likely to think about breaking up than at any other time of the year.»

Apparently over the holidays thousands of women gained weight, a common problem both men and women suffer from during the period from Thanksgiving through New Year's.

It has been selling pretty well, especially during the holiday period last year, after the Splatoon Premium Pack sold out.

First, Tatsumi Kimishima started by explaining that this Fiscal Year, the company's major product launches are concentrated in the second half.This is often the case (since the holiday period is by far the most important for Nintendo), but it's even more the case this yYear, the company's major product launches are concentrated in the second half.This is often the case (since the holiday period is by far the most important for Nintendo), but it's even more the case this yearyear.

With the upcoming holiday period, it should easily be able to sell at least 100 000 units before the end of the year, though it will still be the lowest - selling game in the series (it's unlikely to catch up with Style Savvy 2: Fashion Forward, that ended up selling over 225 000 units LTD according to Famitsu).

As you can see, that's a rather impressive turnaround for Nintendo this Fiscal Year, and that's without the holiday period, which is its strongest one.

It'll be quite interesting to see how the game manages to hold up once children are back in school, and until the start of the holiday period at the end of the year!

those are quite obviously double - packs for the holiday season, and while New Year is indeed a good period for video game, it's nothing compared to Christmas.

B - Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black Available on DVD Comedian Lewis Black, along with The History Channel, takes a look at the period of time from Thanksgiving to New Years and with the help of comedian friends, experts and a shrink, and attempts to explain the history of all events you may come across with tons of funny commentary thrown in.

What's more, the line - up for the holiday period does seem quite weaker this year, compared 2016 (no Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS, for example).

NB: The feast day is usually celebrated during the school summer holidays on July 31st, however, the resource has been designed to fit to be taught towards the end of the school year, in the period after exams (June - July).

As the academic year has come to an end, schools have the opportunity to take advantage of the quiet summer holiday period to ensure their facilities are ready in time for September.

However, right after I posted this, B&N announced: «Based on preliminary sales results to date in the holiday period and sales trends, the Company expects its holiday sales results will be below expectations and that the NOOK business will not meet the Company's prior projection for fiscal year 2013.»

The NOOK segment, which makes up the company's digital business — including readers, digital content and accessories — had revenues of $ 311 million for the holiday period, decreasing 12.6 % as compared to a year ago.

CIRP said about half of the new Prime members in 2015 signed up during the last three months of the year, which includes the holiday shopping period.

All of it stems from recent reports in Chinese media claiming workers engaged in component supply or its assemblage at Foxconn will have lesser day offs during the Chinese Lunar New Year Holiday period, a time when the workers are given days» holiday to be with their family and celebrate the new yYear Holiday period, a time when the workers are given days» holiday to be with their family and celebrate the new yearyear.

That was just 3.9 percent higher than the same period a year earlier, and down 35.7 percent from the busy holiday season that included the fourth quarter of 2013.