Sentences with phrase «almost did it this year»

New England almost did it this year with Cooks, Gilmore, Burkhead.

Not exact matches

Digital books made up about 20 % of the market last year, roughly the same as they did a few years ago, a fact that has traditional publishers almost gloating.

The Small Business Administration asked for almost $ 1.1 billion for fiscal year 2013, but don't get too excited.

I do my morning jog for almost one year too so I'm not that unhealthy.

Now two years out, we continue to do that, almost daily, where we have phone calls with users.

Look back over time, though, and you'll see many instances where the best choice was almost binary — the worst - performing asset class or sector in one year does the best (or close to it) the next.

Now it's been almost a year and the new stores continue to do incredibly well, so we'll change over about 20 % of the chain this year.

To pull it off, Catullo's team had to get over 180 permits to do the shoot, create a perimeter around the Acropolis that included over 400 security people, bring in their own TV truck and all key gear from the U.K., and become the first production granted permission to film at the Parthenon in almost 60 years.

This alone, however, does not explain why almost half of the 30 positions that existed in Richmond five years ago have disappeared, or why, according to various surveys, SBA employees have just about the lowest morale in the federal bureaucracy.

I traveled for almost a year before I pretty much ran out of money, but I didn't want to return to the States.

In the few years it has lagged, it's almost always done so by a slim margin.

The war secretary kept one print to himself, however — «He did not have the heart to destroy it,» Life magazine reported — and buried it so deep in his files that it was lost to history for almost 90 years.

Other experiments that have improved my life beyond my expectations include doing burpees daily (I haven't missed a day in almost five years and am in the best shape of my life) and to go one week only eating food with no packaging (which increased my fresh fruit and vegetable intake ever since, and did I mention the best shape of my life?).

A new report from American Express on small - business owners doing business with the U.S. government shows that active contractors spent almost $ 129,000 in the past year seeking out those opportunities...

«I say it to people, and they almost look at me sideways,» he says, «but I would think 10 years from now I'll be walking down Bay Street or Fifth Avenue in New York and in a three block period there'll be two people stopped in the middle of the sidewalk, and they'll be doing one - minute meditation.»

The latest sanctions included blacklisting three Chinese companies, Dandong Kehua Economy & Trade Co., Dandong Xianghe Trading Co., and Dandong Hongda Trade Co., which the Treasury Department said had done more than $ 750 million in combined trade with North Korea over almost five years until Aug. 31.

I know it sounds totally cliché but after building franchisors for the last almost 20 years, «as the franchisees go, so does the franchisor.»»

«Virginia has always been an early - warning system for midterm elections — almost always showing us what will happen in the next year if the course of the storm doesn't shift.

What comes through most strongly, as it does almost every year, is a powerfully upbeat attitude.

I remember many year ago, when I was starting out as an entrepreneur, reading about many successful entrepreneurs who had ADD, or at least thought they did, and feeling left out, almost jealous.

I have done this consistently for almost nine years now, and it's the foundation for everything I do.

In 32 - year - olds the mammogram does almost nothing.»

Davis» career has spanned almost 50 years and he has discovered some of the biggest names in music, but he doesn't attribute it to talent and has never taken it for granted.

«They've had one of those years where they could almost do no wrong,» agrees Degarabedian.

It's the time each year when we think about our finances and what we can do to get smarter with our money but now it's almost Memorial Day and, you know what they say about good intentions.

And the fact that the house looks almost nothing like it does in the show (the new show uses the same 30 year old footage) hasn't deterred them.

But however it evolved, the Centenaris today do have that dream, and they do have a nickel - and - dime manufacturing business that has grown almost 25 % a year for 10 years, is now up to nearly $ 70 million, and shows few signs of slowing despite a dismal economic environment.

«It's almost impossible to do anything dramatically different after a year.»

In an eight - year trial involving almost 50,000 women, roughly half the participants went on a low - fat diet, while the others did not.

Beginning almost a year ago, when the news of Enron's accounting irregularities first broke, Morrison spoke to her Houston contacts almost weekly — even though the contract didn't expire until February 2002.

While it doesn't tell us anything about the aftermath of «Infinity War,» there are some clues hinting at a new hero and more about the Quantum Realm which will almost definitely come into play in next year's superhero sequel.

Almost every market and industry has been cleared of the inefficient or overleveraged businesses, opening up new opportunities that didn't exist just a few years ago.

These guidelines, which we have introduced at almost all our companies over the past few years, effectively mean that as long as they do their work, our employees can work whenever they want, from wherever they want.

But he added, «It is strange that it's been almost a year and we don't have any concrete details.»

Whilst externally the aircraft is almost identical, the avionics of the current A-10C has virtually nothing to do with the old «Hawg» that became particularly famous as the «Tank - buster» during the first Gulf War 25 years.

I have always taken great pride (as I think all our staff has) in making that list, and we have done so for nine consecutive years, which is almost a record.

Here's hoping it does better than his mining interests, some of which fell almost 50 % over the past year.

But remember, the company did announce changes were coming — almost a year ago.

But she and Beck knew there had to be a market, particularly after calling high - powered businesswomen (Sapone, who grew up in Copenhagen and Paris, had previously done a two - year stint at consulting firm McKinsey) and discovering almost all had live - in nannies or housekeepers.

Bohlig declined to be more specific about her income level but did say the couple has been able to save almost all of Craig's corporate salary over the past several years, which they plan to use to purchase a new home.

But the grim reality, is that almost 50 percent of new businesses, independent of the industry, don't make it to four years.

We will be better positioned to shape the forces of cloud, big data, mobile and security that are changing the way people live, businesses operate and the world works, just as we did when we helped revolutionize the power of the PC almost 30 years ago.

thinking about that as a niche, or at least the jewelry... not sure - I am too overwhelmed right now and just hoping it gets a little easier or slightly less terrifying... been looking for online work that did not seem like a total scam for almost a year now, and so far has not felt easier or less exhausting and have had no results yet....

Almost sixty - five percent of the approximately 8 million small businesses that seek capital every year do not qualify for traditional bank loans.

We take some satisfaction in having done that, with the first tightening almost a year before the first clear evidence of a pick - up in underlying inflation came through (in the June 1995 CPI).

I began doing Pure Barre almost exactly two years ago.

«For almost a year people didn't pay attention,» said Lai, Daiwa's Hong Kong - based chief economist for Asia, excluding Japan.

I have been doing Pure Barre for almost a year and there are days I just can not stay in the pose and I learn new things all the time.

Almost five years after its initial public offering raised $ 226 million, Tesla still emphasizes non-GAAP financial results and does not report detailed vehicle sales by market.

I been active in real estate investing for almost 15 years, but this business has done wonders for me in a lot shorter time frame.