Sentences with word «almost»

It's now not only Allen's top holding, but the biggest position of T. Rowe Price as a whole, a company with almost $ 950 billion under management.

Indeed, companies pop up almost daily, providing drone services to various industries, says Paul Bennett, co-founder of Aerobotika, a B.C. drone consulting and training firm.

Companies that sustain success over the long term are almost always purpose - driven, and the people who work in those organizations believe deeply in what they do.

The upscale market's stock lost almost half its value since peaking in 2013 and same - store sales have fallen over the last 18 months, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Everything was carefully curated, making the unboxing experience almost as fun as receiving the product.

And yes, the shimmery, glimmery cranberry sauce I crave each November for precisely two meals a year — Thanksgiving dinner and the ritual post-Thanksgiving 10 p.m. white bread - turkey - cranberry sandwich — is composed of things that are almost surely antithetical to human health: Two of the four ingredients on most of the cans I've seen are high - fructose corn syrup and (plain old standard) corn syrup.

Alphabet's stock price, which had closed at $ 1,073.81 on Monday, jumped almost 5 % in an instant to $ 1,123.99.

The near - term growth potential of a brand's business is almost entirely circumscribed by the number of people out there in the world who are already somewhat familiar with it and at least a little intrigued.

Ask a person to picture a leader and almost always they will imagine someone in front of a crowd talking.

Microcap fund manager Acorn Capital has increased its stake in listed Perth - based financial planning firm Plan B Group Holdings to control almost 10 per cent of the voting power.

I use it almost like a check list and if some things are more important than other, they are placed earlier in the day so I know I'll get them done.»

And sharing activity also declined sharply: Shares fell by 57 % and comments by almost 64 %.

Keeping the average workingwoman top of mind through every stage of the design process is probably why almost half of Of Mercer's customers are repeat purchasers — the styles really suit her needs.

The viewership will almost certainly be gargantuan again for this summer's monthlong World Cup in Russia, which opens in Moscow on June 14 and includes 32 national teams from around the globe.

In today's social media age, almost everyone has a digital profile.

However, it never got to a point where it became unusable, mostly because its low weight and contained dimensions made it easy to use in almost any position.

As Quebec has risen to become by far the world's leading producer of maple syrup, the federation has evolved into a powerful marketing board with almost absolute control over the provincial industry.

These aren't necessarily new, but they offer such a high - quality picture, you almost feel like you want to (or can) step right into the screen and into a scene.

The highlights of 2011 are almost too painful to mention: the PlayBook, RIM's first tablet, was a flop; its latest line of BlackBerry smartphones was delayed; weak sales forced the company to issue a profit warning in the spring; its network was hit by a massive service outage in the fall; and it suffered the largest wave of layoffs in its history.

If the results from ESPN (which is traditionally seen as almost immune to market forces, because of its hold on sports programming) got the market nervous about cord - cutting and the loss of traditional TV subscribers, Thursday's comments from Sanford Bernstein analyst Todd Juenger poured gasoline on those fears.

Orchids with healthy root systems almost can be guaranteed to produce healthy, vibrant blooms.

Trust me, I know that feeling all too well and still battle with it almost every day.

So I think that really showed we could bring an orbit - class booster back from a very high velocity, all the way to the launch site, and land it safely, and with almost no refurbishment required for re-flight.

Pictures and simple animations almost make you feel as if you're using the product, increasing your desire to try it.

The upshot for news companies is the same as it has been almost every other time there has been an algorithm tweak.

Their advice almost always sounds the same: «do something now»; «go big or go home»; «if you snooze, you lose»; «be the first mover», etc..

Teenagers we spoke to almost universally named Spotify as their preferred music - streaming service — and some teenagers said it was the best app on their phone overall:

THE federal government's reform of the living - away - from - home allowance will come into effect next week after almost a year of consultation.

We didn't know what happened for almost two weeks, as the helicopters hauling car - sized bags filled with (as we found out later) lead and sand were flying over our house every 20 - 30 minutes.

In one case, an Air Canada flight almost landed on a taxiway jammed with four planes awaiting departure.

Russia sovereign dollar bonds fell across the curve with the 2043 eurobond issue tumbling almost 4 cents in the dollar according...

What's remarkable is that management added almost all these touches in response to employee feedback — a dynamic that would have been unthinkable not long ago.

«In this day and age when everyone has a megaphone and people are watching, you almost have to answer publicly,» said Bob Geller, president of Fusion Public Relations, a New York - based marketing and communications firm.

I personally still love reading YA from time to time as an adult... I think I've read almost everything by John Green.

So the extra costs to the company (if you assume a Toyota partnership) are almost nothing.

Even though many people feel that success is all about whom you know, success is almost always based on what you know.

The scores of comments following Romero's post were almost universally supportive.

Almost every major attempt has been criticized, from asking voters to «emoji» their views on student debt to paying tribute to Rosa Parks with a logo that social media users deemed backward.

It's worth noting that Lacavera does have an almost preternatural ability to raise money.

Last year, the U.S. Commerce Department recommended tariffs of almost 300 percent on the jets, which would make them unaffordable.

The decision by SXSW earned it a lot of bad PR and almost lost the show some of its high - profile media partners like Buzzfeed and Vox Media in the process, which said the decision bordered on censorship.

Counterintuitive almost.

But at Burton, that business was almost non-existent.

In effect, it's an almost scientific approach of checking to see whether the thing being measured is actually the thing that is most important.

Having phenomenal skills in a particular area such as these masters is an amazing gift, but it will make your enterprise almost impossible to scale.

The company also made waves as part of the insurer exodus from the individual insurance sector (including Obamacare marketplaces), which led to almost $ 700 million in losses between 2014 and 2016, according to Aetna.

When Lyft first launched, recalls the company's director of marketing strategy & operations Gina Ma, «it felt like really asking people to participate in this really big sort of social experiment almost — the idea of doing these things that your mom always told you not to do.»

The 0.4 per cent growth rate for the gross domestic product, the economy's total output of goods and services, was the weakest quarterly performance in almost two years and followed a much faster 3.1 per cent increase in the third quarter.

Unfortunately, however, government resources are actually flowing the other way: according to a report from the U.S. - based National Resources Defense Council, since 2009, global subsidies for fossil fuels have almost tripled to an estimated US$ 775 billion this year.

In fact, it's almost expected.