Sentences with phrase «as if the years»

And it is not as if this year it is the first year, we concede too many goals.

It's as if a year of impressive scary movies is somehow a rarity, when in fact the genre has consistently delivered strong movies in recent -LSB-...]

Sometimes it feels to parents and children as if years of schooling «evaporated» quite unexpectedly and sometimes unintentionally.

It seems as if the year 2011 is going to be a very good year for the Gadgets.

As a longtime donor to our no - kill mission, John watched in amazement as if years of contributions culminated right in front of his eyes as Bambi was sent off by countless volunteers and shelter associates.

As if years from now the same girl might look back and remember the kindness of a stranger or the warning implicit in the offer of a photo.

As if your year - end celebrations weren't heavily enough lawyered already, take heed of this reminder for employers in Ohio, and other states depending on local law.

Not exact matches

If you count early cave paintings as infographics, then humans have been making and consuming this type of content for the past 32,000 years.

If end - of - the - year bonuses are given every year regardless of performance, they no longer serve as a motivating factor; they are expected payments.

And if U.S. giant Verizon provides coast - to - coast service north of the border, it could snatch up as much as 10 or 15 per cent of the market after a few years, he said.

If you wait past full retirement age, your benefit will grow by as much as 8 percent per year up to age 70.

«People talked about the demise of physical books as if it was only a matter of time, but even 50 to 100 years from now, print will be a big chunk of our business,» Penguin Random House chief executive Markus Dohle told the Times.

A year ago, the term «unicorn» seemed to get bandied about as if $ 1 billion was the starting point for valuations and not a benchmark of achievement.

As to the question of when he and his party will develop a broad and substantive legislative platform to tackle the critical challenges America faces, McConnell has a ready answer as well: «If we're in the majority,» he says, «we'll be sitting down, intensely, a year from now on the very issue you've raised.&raquAs to the question of when he and his party will develop a broad and substantive legislative platform to tackle the critical challenges America faces, McConnell has a ready answer as well: «If we're in the majority,» he says, «we'll be sitting down, intensely, a year from now on the very issue you've raised.&raquas well: «If we're in the majority,» he says, «we'll be sitting down, intensely, a year from now on the very issue you've raised.»

Few, if any, companies think as big as Tesla: To say the 15 - year - old company is merely reinventing the automobile industry would be selling it short.

Even if Tesla doesn't become a mass - market brand, sales in China alone could soon climb to 100,000 a year, impacting Tesla as intensely as a new, 1.4 - billion - person market would Coca - Cola.

Using this as a normal business practice will give you the vendor's mailing information, Tax ID number, and also require the vendor indicate if it is a corporation or not (saving you the headache of sending them a 1099 next year).

Walmart, coming off a year of acquisitions like those of Bonobos, Modcloth and Moosejaw, will likely continue to buy hip digital - first brands as it looks to counter Amazon's moves in the fashion world and attract more well - heller shoppers to Jet.com if not its own site.

Now it is up to company shareholders to determine if Dell, who was reinstated as the company's CEO in 2007 after a three - year hiatus, can make good on this plan.

Sonos says it will add support for Google Assistant sometime this year, giving you the option to use Google's smart assistant if you prefer it to Amazon's Alexa, as well as Google's music - streaming service.

'» It became known as the «Frisbee speech,» and for years it gave foreign acquirers confidence the government wouldn't throw the book at them if they failed to live up to their promises.

Gachot adds, «For many years, we have tried to deal with language as if it was a barrier for communication - while with neural machine translation, language difference is what makes the richness of communication between different cultures.»

This time, it's the regimen of Robert Patrick, star of the CBS series Scorpion, the new film, The Last Rampage, and a guy (if you're my age) you probably first saw twenty - five years ago as the shape - shifting T - 1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

If the markets make just 6 % per year, instead of 8 %, he'll need to invest nearly twice as much: $ 920 per month.

The issue that critics like to trot out is «merit,» and I think merit is a very convenient safety blanket to defend the status quo — especially if your board looks the same as it did 30 years ago.

When you have years of experience running a business, as I do, you recognize patterns and can give good advice, even if you haven't been close to a specific company.

«As I've said before, if we don't do anything about climate change now, in 50 years» time we will be toasted, roasted and grilled,» Christine Lagarde said during a panel discussion Tuesday at the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

But as 20 - year blogging veteran Jason Kottke notes, if you jump (back on) the blogging bandwagon, you might not be alone for long.

Don't forget, a credit card balance of as «little» as $ 6,000 can take more than 40 years to pay off if only the minimum payments are made.)

«Following today's announcement up to 100 million cups will be recycled this year alone and if the nation's other coffee chains sign up, there is no reason why all takeaway cups could not be recycled by as early as 2020,» Costa Managing Director Dominic Paul said in a statement.

If you were in the market to buy, he'd tell you that this machine has the highest suction rating J. D. Power gives, with «level suction,» which means the vacuum's suction will be as good in the tenth year as it does in the first.

If you just followed Moore's Law... after 40 years you would have a million times as many things on a chip that's the same size.

«If you line up the previous El Niño outlier of 1998 with this March 2016 El Niño (as we might do in lining up bull market highs) it gives an idea of when 2 degrees Celsius might first be broached in a future El Niño effect: just 17 years!»

Jeff Weissman, who has run his Great Harvest location in Washington's Lake Forest Park neighborhood for over 20 years, doesn't feel as if he's part of a corporate operation.

If you don't tell your IRA custodian what year the contribution is for, it will be accepted as an IRA contribution for the current year per IRS guidelines.

Last year, analysts speculated that the company's patents could be worth as much as $ 4 billion if a bidding war were to erupt.

The long term, 25 - year view of the technology persuasively explains how its core features show the promise to serve, if implemented effectively, as cornerstone solutions to mankind's most foundational problems.

If you told her she had to drape her body in a billowing black sack every time she went outside, or that her right to vote was only a right as of a few years ago, she'd tell you you'd lost your mind.

If the deduction for medical expenses disappears as proposed in the House Republicans tax bill, the ability to write off long - term care premiums would end after this year.

While Flaugh said that «it's hard to totally discredit them as a supplier after all these years,» if it turns out that the video actually is representative of the farm workers» conduct, «they would be discontinued as a supplier.

Dunderdale called the $ 400 - million fund a historic injection that would be spread over three years starting in 2015 if CETA is finalized and signed as expected.

However, Diego May, the Argentine co-founder of Junar, an open data platform for businesses, says if you promote yourself well and land funding, you will get attention from good engineers — so long as you can provide a job for at least a year.

Trade - ins at T - Mobile (tmus) bring up to $ 360, but are portioned out as monthly bill credits over two years and are forfeited if the customer switches carriers before the money is fully paid out.

If these concerns diminish this year, as I expect, there is room for higher multiples, especially for the S&P 500 (selling at 13.1 times forward earnings on Friday) as well as the S&P 400 (15.3) and the S&P 600 (15.9).»

As an example, about a year after VMR was up - and - running, everyone told me to invest in brand awareness but building a brand has little value if your flagship product can't evolve for your customers.

Since Google created Area 120 roughly two years ago, it has launched a handful of apps, but Enthoven knew she wouldn't learn as much about recruiting or scaling if she stayed within the tech giant.

As Bloomberg notes, rival apparel companies like Under Armour (UA) and Adidas (ADS) are likely to enter the bidding for the lucrative Texas contract — which could be worth more than $ 15 million per year — once it comes up for grabs, which means Nike will face some fierce competition if it wants to keep doing business with the school.

In 2016 - 17 and 2017 - 18, when the salary cap will explode because of the league's new TV deal, Cousins will only be making around $ 16 million per year — well below what he'd make if he got a max contract on the open market as a free agent.

That price, as much as three times what some analysts expected, testifies to ING Direct's gradual if unspectacular success over 15 years, which saw it grow to 1.8 million customers and 1,100 employees.

If you spend any amount of time there, in addition to other landmarks such as the famous ball that descends on New Year's Eve and, of course, the Naked Cowboy, you will also notice aggressive salesmen roaming the streets selling their goods and services.