Sentences with phrase «about the fifth year»

I discovered in about my fifth year of selling real estate that multi-transactional business was the best path for me.

I think it's about the fifth year in a row we've gathered at the restaurant to sing happy birthday to my nephew.

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Women filed about a third of all trademarks in recent years but fewer than a fifth of patents.

And rather than granting requests by seniority, he has a lottery to let about a fifth of his staff leave at noon on either Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve.

Harvey has affected nearly a fifth of U.S. refining capacity, triggering worries about lack of gasoline and sending gasoline futures to a two - year high this week.

About half of new businesses survive to celebrate their fifth year.

Eight years ago, when the company was making a fifth of that, Vogt and the owners predicted, correctly, that the housing market was about to surge.

The cash - rich cartels, believed by the Mexican government to generate well over $ 21 billion each year, are an increasing threat to Pemex, which in 2016 reported revenue of about $ 52 billion and generates about a fifth of government income.

Here's what it has to show for its efforts: In the past five years, its total share count is down by about one - fifth, and earnings per share are up 15 %.

About 30 % of London's construction workforce was also EEA - born — but a fifth of UK - born construction workers in the capital due to retire in the next five years, and there are currently 60,000 vacancies in the industry in London.

The Small Business Administration reports that only about half of all new businesses typically make it to the fifth year.

The earliest programs in central Canada air at 6 a.m. and Atlantic Canada at 7 a.m. Numbers from the Television Bureau of Canada show that consistently for the past six years, the 4 a.m. to 5 a.m. slot has had the fewest viewers, with an audience size about one - fifth of the peak time between 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. Still, Canadian broadcasters aren't overlooking the value of starting early.

Novartis (NVS) shares have lost more than a fifth of their value this year, in part due to concerns about its lagging eyecare business Alcon as well as Entresto's prospects for meeting ambitious expectations.

Projections from Scotiabank and the Bank of Canada estimate that if ambiguity lingers over NAFTA into next year, the ensuing investment concerns would reduce Canada's GDP by about one - fifth of one per cent through 2019.

These moves have paid off; China now accounts for about a fifth of Apple's revenue, up from about 15 percent two years ago, and sales there are growing fast.»

Match fell 22 percent its largest one - day drop ever and IAC, which owns more than a fifth of Match, fell nearly 18 percent in its biggest daily loss in about 13 years.

Spot gold prices rose for a fifth successive day on Thursday, with bullion up about 4 percent since the start of the year.

Now in its fifth year in the United States, 1 second year in the United Kingdom2 and third year in Canada, 3 Franklin Templeton's Retirement Income Strategies and Expectations (RISE) survey uncovers some surprising insights about retirement planning and perceptions.

The first of the following two charts shows that the ratio of the SPDR S&P Homebuilder ETF (XHB, $ 35.60) to the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY, $ 217.09) remains about one - fifth below its early 2013 highs, despite the fact that the average 30 - year fixed mortgage rate has fallen back to the 3.4 % area — about where it was in early 2013 (as shown by the blue line in the second chart that follows).

Now in its fifth year, We for She annually attracts close to 1,000 young women from throughout B.C. to learn about career opportunities, gender equality and mentorship.

My ultimate team celebrated its fifth year with a late summer potluck picnic about a month ago.

They should have pounced on the rare, remarkable opportunities that came with winning a championship in the fifth year they existed, and they should be talked about in the same breath as the Yankees right now.

Michigan FB Khalid Hill, who was on the fence earlier in the week about returning for his fifth year, tweeted...

But if this were a normal year, Fryar would probably go about fifth, after Walker, Rozier, Young and White.

The 29 - year old is about to complete his fifth season with the Gunners and so is one of the old heads in the squad.

Maybe Perez, who made his fifth consecutive All - Star team this year, is just selective about when he chooses to unleash his speed.

Since Dallas's 22 - year - old point guard Devin Harris wrote about his All - Star weekend in Denver, he has averaged 6.0 points for the Mavs, who last Friday clinched their fifth straight playoff berth.

Now in the fifth year of a nine - year, $ 23 million contract with Napoli, Maradona has enough off - field endorsements and business income to earn about $ 8 million a year, which makes him the highest - paid soccer player in the world.

The Jaguars picked up the fifth - year option for Bortles, which will pay the quarterback about $ 19 million in 2018.

In 2012, the year ended with 67 candles — a rate of about 87 murders per 100,000 residents, which ranked Camden fifth nationwide.

Colic, crying, round - the - clock wakings — is it any wonder that parents experience high rates of depression in the first year after the birth of a child?A study of British parents in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine has found that more than one - third of mothers and about one - fifth of fathers seem to have weathered depression sometime between becoming parents and their children's 12th birthday, with the most episodes occurring in the first year after birth.

My 10 - year - old daughter, who is in fifth grade, is already curious about puberty, body image, self - esteem, and sex.

But six years after their high - school graduation, only about a fifth of KIPP's first class had completed a four - year college degree.

I am on my fifth month nursing my third child and I anticipate he will nurse for about a year as his older brothers did.

Holden has only represented about a fifth of the redrawn 17th district during the past 10 years.

It led to a boycott movement for the third - through eighth - grade standardized tests that resulted in about one - fifth of students opting out last year.

Three fifth - year students from the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture talk about their experiences studying at The Cooper Union as they prepare to graduate next week

In terms of when we knew about the shredding, it was on February 4 this year when officers who were providing information to Mr Ellison became aware by talking to a witness that there had been some shredding and immediately - or by the fifth - we shared that information with Mr Ellison.

If you are talking about very hot summers, do they happen every tenth year or every fifth year?

For example, current silicon - based solar cells convert realistically only about 25 percent of sunlight into electricity, so efficiency is an issue, says Calley Eads, a fifth - year doctoral student in the UA's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry who studies some of the properties of these new materials.

But even up to 1950 we consumed very few calories from beverages and in the last 60 years, we've gone from consuming almost no calories from beverages to a fifth of our caloric intake in the U.S., and about the same in Mexico and about the same in a dozen other countries — in some less and some more — but the point is, all of those calories we consume, but it doesn't affect the food that we take in.

Well, it's been quite a trip so far, and I am about to start my * fifth * year of this stuff, and I've had enough.

Ispa's study, which included more than 2,000 mothers and their children, measured maternal directiveness — or the extent to which mothers controlled activities — in play when children were 2 years old and then during a discussion about areas of disagreement when the children were in the fifth grade.

In the year 2100, 2 billion people — about one - fifth of the world's population — could become climate change refugees due to rising ocean levels.

About 561 light - years away, the fifth planet discovered in this dwarf - star system circles its star's habitable zone.

«FANTOM has existed for about fourteen years and the published paper is the result of the fifth phase of the project,» explains Stefano Gustincich.

When the universe was one - fifth of its current age — about 3 billion years old — galaxies were pumping out stars like mad, the equivalent of 100 suns per year — 100 times the rate in our Milky Way today.

Last year the government brought in a law that means only about one - fifth of research positions that become vacant can be filled.

From this year, recycling is required for anyone producing 40 tons of waste per year and from 2016 this will go down to 10 tons (some 33 kilos a day), which will cover restaurants with some 150 servings a day - about a fifth all eateries.

In a normal year, China accounts for about a fifth of global wheat production and consumption.