Sentences with phrase «be in a few years as»

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While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

As you pointed out, my life in business started with Student magazine when I was a few years older than you are now.

Especially after losing legends such as David Bowie and Tom Petty over the last few years, I'm treasuring the chance to catch my favorite acts in concert while I can.

Within a few years, the company said, the suburbs will be just as connected as cities, with riders able to pay one monthly price, hop in and hop out as needed, and easily get to metro areas without ever needing to drive.

On her site, Fobes uses the example of a person who drives an old clunker or even takes the bus for a few years, so as to be able to afford to pay for a new car in cash.

It could be that because we've brought more cases in the last few years against some well - known names that that's interpreted as a crackdown, but that's simply more a reflection of the fact that time has gone by since we've updated the guides in 2009 to make it clear it applies to social media marketing.

Just a few months ago, this column's critique of one company's marketing professionalism was met with a vigorous defence on Twitter, even as the company was posting a recruitment ad for a marketing manager requiring just two to five years» experience (which didn't even have to be in marketing).

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.

Earlier this year, Nike (nke) CEO Mark Parker said the retail landscape is «not in a steady state» as consumers spend more online and make fewer visits to brick - and - mortar stores.

After a company has been in business for a few months or years, company leaders may realize their original, brilliant idea wasn't as great as they initially believed.

«With Pokémon Go, you are seeing it as bypassing a lot of digital (marketing) channels that the brick and mortar shops have been relying on for the past few years,» said Christophe Jammet, director of social media and mobile at consultancy DDG in New York.

Apple needed market penetration, which is why in the store's first few years it grew slowly as Apple was building its audience of device owners.

In a few short years, it has already eclipsed the U.S. as the world's leading wind generator, and it also happens to be the world's largest wind - equipment supplier.

A few years later, with the U.S. market in a nose - dive, Flying Colours decided to find new customers in the Asia - Pacific region, which wasn't experiencing the same kind of economic implosion as North America and Europe.

Research published in February shows that 2016 was the first year in which the iPhone dropped in the rankings of smartphone sales in China, falling from 15 percent of market share to 11 and selling fewer units even as demand for smartphones grew.

In fact, as we approach a decade since the launch of Apple's App Store — followed a few years later by the Android / Google equivalent — it's fair to say that there's an app for everything.

The upheaval we've been through in the past few years as the private debt bubble burst is only a preview of what's to come, concludes Mauldin, the president of Millennium Wave Advisors (writing here with an editor for an economic analysis firm).

As bad as things get, there's one place in Moscow that reminds Russians that things could be a whole lot worse: the city's Cold War Museum, which opened a few years ago in a converted bunkeAs bad as things get, there's one place in Moscow that reminds Russians that things could be a whole lot worse: the city's Cold War Museum, which opened a few years ago in a converted bunkeas things get, there's one place in Moscow that reminds Russians that things could be a whole lot worse: the city's Cold War Museum, which opened a few years ago in a converted bunker.

Not only has the use of mobile devices to access the internet risen sharply in the last few years, but so have mobile sales, as customers are more and more comfortable shopping from their cell phone.

Few Silicon Valley outfits have taken as keen an interest in Canada as Salesforce, which is this year celebrating its 10th anniversary in the country.

Looking at past predictions is a good reminder that something that seems crazy now may well be all the rage in as few as five or 10 years.

Because of my own work these past few years with organizations and individuals who are in some form or fashion working to address inequality, I have come to understand that many of the initiatives that are often described as entitlements or preferential treatment are usually neither.

Vigorate — which has revenues in the $ 4 to 8 million range and ranked 255th on the 2013 PROFIT 500 — opened a Chicago sales office a few years ago to make further inroads with professional sports teams in the U.S. And in 2012, it set up a similar sales hub in Barcelona, reckoning, as Grieve explains, that the sprawling European soccer industry would also be receptive to the sort of digital marketing the company provides to North American leagues.

Though much of the success of craft breweries (which are technically defined as those that make less than 6 million barrels per year) and microbreweries (which make less than 15,000 barrels) can be credited to shifts in public taste, those in the industry say they've learned a few truths along the way that have aided in their success.

«We're not seeing a summer swoon as we have in the past few years.»

Even as millions of Chinese citizens leave the farm and flock to cities looking for work, there are fewer manufacturing jobs in China than there were 20 years ago.

«When I became a mom a few years ago, it was just my husband and I who lived in Oklahoma, as we are from the South.

While the Dish Network's reach and power have weakened over the past few years just as Viacom's have, the satellite company is still in a somewhat stronger position than it used to be relative to the entertainment giant, because it knows that Viacom is already suffering from low viewership numbers, and that impacts its ad revenues.

As well, points out Jurock, the recreational and retirement property boom of a few years ago was «driven by Dad,» whose investing prowess during the stock market run - up put him in a position not only to buy that retirement dream home but to front the kids a down payment for their own place.

Just as I suspected, most of the decision makers and entrepreneurs were socially lubricating with a few Moscow Mules, engaging in genuine conversations and swapping stories of legendary shenanigans from the past years.

Analysts are probably correct in saying that the past few years of somewhat lower bills were just a hiccup — Canadian wireless companies are on the verge of resuming business as usual.

It's a lesson my business coach taught me a few years ago, and it's made an immense difference in my ability to close deals as a result.

Crowdfunding has made a big splash in the last few years as sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have helped entrepreneurs launch donut shops, produce albums and create smart watches; theoretically, it's a perfect vehicle for franchising.

Allison spent a few years in the early 2000s homeless, but now rents in San Francisco's rapidly changing SoMa district, which is known as the home of dozens of tech companies including Yelp, Zynga and Airbnb.

She drew on that experience a few years later when, as a junior at Harvard in 2011, she was taking an engineering class for non-engineers and was tasked with inventing a product that served a social good.

The iPhone is likely to rebound this year, provided Apple can come up with a few new features and sell them as necessary, but it could experience even bigger doldrums in 2017 than it did this year if the «off year» pattern continues.

Several media reports quoted a statement from Puzder late on Monday as saying he took action as soon as he learned that his housekeeper, whom he and his wife had employed for a few years, was not legally permitted to work in the US.

With the S&P / TSX Composite Index down 12.6 % so far this year and only a scant few more trading days left in 2011, it would be easy to label this as a bad year for Canadian investors.

And while on - the - job napping is still considered a faux pas in many companies, Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post cofounder and author of «The Sleep Revolution,» predicts that in the next few years nap rooms will be as universal as conference rooms.

«After a few years, employees came to us saying there weren't any opportunities for growth,» recalls Melissa Sonberg, who was part of those discussions and now serves as executive - in - residence at Desautels faculty of management.

Thiel persuaded Reid Hoffman to become a board member and also brought in David Sacks, who had been an editor - in - chief of the Stanford Review a few years after Thiel, as chief operating officer.

Women have largely flocked to medical and law schools in greater numbers over the past few years, but they are now turning to business school as well in part because business schools are mindful of the shortage of women students and are recruiting them more aggressively than they have before.

As a new tenant, you probably can't eliminate a personal guarantee, but you might be able to limit it to your first few years in business.

Few companies get as far as filing the S - 1, never mind rubbing shoulders with Lehman Brothers — particularly five - year - old companies with less than $ 3 million in sales.

Now that the barrier of editing genes in the hospital setting has been broken, these companies and more have pipelines of gene - editing innovation coming to a hospital near you in the next few years, as clinical trials are approved and new ways to cure formerly incurable diseases go mainstream in our lifetimes.

Neanderthal bones found in a Spanish cave have been dated to 430,000 years ago, suggesting their ancestors left Africa nearly half a million years ago and ventured across Europe as far as southern Siberia before dying out only a few tens of thousands of years ago.

For example, we saw how well received the Glenmorangie Sonnalta PX (extra matured in Pedro Ximenez casks) was a few years ago and we wanted to introduce some of that element to our permanent range, so we reformulated The Lasanta to contain as much PX extra matured Glenmorangie as was practical.

And so as buybacks have increased in the last few years, the question is whether this is a good investment for companies.

The last few years have seen steady growth in all housing related sectors, and as a result, the entire industry is in transition.

Craft brewers jumped on the canned - beer bandwagon a few years back, and now their counterparts in the wine industry are fully on board as well.