Sentences with phrase «close to a year on»

«It's disappointing that the Comptroller's Office, which spent close to a year on this audit, has chosen to ignore every metric put into place to measure the effectiveness and impact of the multiple advertising campaigns run by ESD,» Conwall said.

«It's disappointing that the comptroller's office, which spent close to a year on this audit, has chosen to ignore every metric put into place to measure the effectiveness and impact of the multiple advertising campaigns run by ESD,» said Jason Conwall, a spokesman for the agency.

We have been blogging for close to a year on our site where we focus on providing tips to others who want to fulfill their dreams of travel, no matter what situation they are in.

Destiny has been out for close to a year on both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

How does the Nexus 6 hold up after close to a year on the market?

Not exact matches

About 100 years after Dickinson's death, scientists began to formally study the power that a smile confers on the closing of a deal.

But there are reports that Senate leaders are close to a deal on a two - year budget that would boost defense spending and spending on domestic programs the Democrats want.

As the year comes to a close, the domestic box office is on pace to set another new industry record just one year after topping $ 11 billion in domestic movie ticket sales for the first time ever.

Tough questions — like whether to leave you comfortable job or start your own business, move across the country in pursuit of opportunity or stick close to home, study economics or art, get down on one knee and propose or give it another year — cause many of us to break out in a cold sweat.

(He's on track to close the fund by the end of the year.)

Singling out these products would put pressure on U.S. technology companies and could particularly hurt agricultural areas across the U.S. China is a key trade partner for U.S. agriculture — it purchased close to one - third of American soybeans last year.

Datto generated close to $ 100 million in revenue in 2014 and is on pace to do «way over $ 100 million this year,» McChord says.

«To be honest, it's kind of snuck up on me, it's only just recently I've looked up and gone, «Oh wait, look how close we are to that [$ 1 million benchmark] in just five years.»&raquTo be honest, it's kind of snuck up on me, it's only just recently I've looked up and gone, «Oh wait, look how close we are to that [$ 1 million benchmark] in just five years.»&raquto that [$ 1 million benchmark] in just five years.»»

Users uploaded close to three years» worth of footage in 2013 alone, and the viral hits keep coming — a mid-2014 clip shot by an expectant father rushing his pregnant wife to the delivery room yielded more than 1.8 million views in its first week on YouTube.

The TSA found close to 4,000 firearms tucked away in carry - on bags last year, the highest number since it began keeping track in 2005.

Shortly after it closed, BMO Capital Markets mining analyst Edward Sterck told the Northern Miner that choosing mining over retail made sense for the company, given the number and size of diamond mines expected to come on stream over the next few years.

The casual dining chain's parent company Dine Brands Global (din) said on Tuesday it would close as many as 80 Applebee's restaurants this year on top of the nearly 100 it shuttered last year, while opening between 10 and 15 as it looks to improve the restaurant's fortunes.

«With this process taking close to two years to come to a conclusion, we think the final outcome and the structure of the transaction were well anticipated,» said Jain, who has a hold rating on Walgreens.

In the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index last year, for example, Canada placed a close second to Australia, based on the quality of our pension system among a select group of 11 countries.

«But there was a record $ 40 billion payout of refunds on February 10, and since then, the refunds to date this year have been tracking much closer to those from last year.»

After pledging not to provide any forward guidance Benioff added, «I can do the math and so can you, we're very close to talking about our $ 10 billion year but I'm not going to do that on this call.»

Store owners in some cases report up to doubling traffic levels across the weekend with peaks in traffic hitting on the Saturday before the weekend winds down, last year alone the NFIB reported independent merchants saw record Saturday sales with consumer spending close to $ 5.7 billion.

The Alpina was built by Marcel Bach, a former farmer who capitalized on his land and now seems to own much of the village, and Jean - Claude Mimran, an agriculture billionaire who moved to Gstaad to be closer to his three sons who were attending Le Rosey, the until - recently Canadian - owned $ 100,000 - per - year private school that specializes in teaching kids how to be properly rich.

Battered by nearly a year of off - and - on declines from record highs because of fears of a slowdown in iPhone sales, Apple «s stock now is valued closer to IBM, which has disappointed Wall Street for the past four years with declining revenue, than to Silicon Valley technology pioneers Alphabet and Tesla Motors.

I'd complain bitterly to my dad about the soaring cost of tuition, which was closing in on $ 2,000 a year.

«Two years after commodity prices started returning to life in the spring of 2016, many long - standing themes for the North America metals and mining industry look familiar on the surface but are in fact richly different on a closer view,» explained Goldman analyst Matthew Korn.

AT&T's proposed seven - year ban on programming blackouts to distributors of some Time Warner content shows that the company is willing to offer concessions to close its $ 85.4 billion bid for the programmer, AT&T's chief executive officer said on Wednesday.

This paper, however, proposes a different approach: Before pressing the overdrive button on money printing presses, Tokyo might wish to take a careful look at why the last 15 years of ultra-loose credit policies failed to move the economy closer to its estimated potential growth rate of 1.5 percent.

AT&T and Time Warner said in a filing on Tuesday that Time Warner's Turner unit had offered its distributors licensing terms that forbid Turner from «going dark» on any distributor for seven years after the deal closes if they were to reach an impasse in negotiations.

The other essential program, one Accurate Drafting has depended on for close to five years now, is Minute7, a cloud - based timesheet application that integrates with QuickBooks.

On the other hand, Lucas and Lee Brown, 22 - year - old twin brothers and students at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, made the decision to close down a fashion business they'd been running from February to October 2005 when it became clear that their inventory wasn't selling.

On the first workday of the year, months away from the close of the quarter, you have a chance to think about and discuss how your company's efforts transcend money or shareholder value.

This year, we are on track to receive close to $ 15,000 in dividend income for doing absolutely nothing while our money works hard for us.

In one year, representing the «tick,» it would improve its microprocessors by printing the transistors on the chips closer together, reducing the scale of the process, say, from 32 nanometers to 22 nanometers.

«With core earnings outperforming despite transitory flu impact and Fidelis on track to close and contribute 13 % incremental (year over year) growth to 2019 as a starting point before core growth, we view this as an overall positive print,» wrote Evercore ISI analyst Michael Newshel in a research note.

The breach wasn't disclosed to the investing public until more than two years later, when Yahoo was working on closing Verizon's acquisition of its operating business in 2016, the SEC said.

But in a new move, one similar to the practice last year at fellow Minneapolis retailer Best Buy, the discount chain will close its stores at midnight and re-open them at 6 a.m. on Black Friday.

Thus far, the industry has announced plans to close 6,700 stores this year, more than any other year on record, and there's still two months left in 2017.

A Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has ruled that a challenge to the state's 145 - year - old ban on prostitution may proceed, saying a 2003 Supreme Court ruling opened the door for closer scrutiny of the law.

With a year as impactful and chaotic as 2017 finally coming to a close, it's time to look back on all of the people whose work and art have made a mark on us over the past months.

The previous month, the media giant had announced, with great fanfare, that an upstart Internet service provider based in Northern Virginia would be appending its initials to the front of the Time Warner name in a monumental (and immediately controversial) corporate marriage — a deal that would close a year later, on January 11, 2001.

The Wall Street Journal dropped a bombshell story on Monday, reporting that U.S. counterintelligence officials warned Jared Kushner last year that Wendi Deng Murdoch could be using her close friendship with Kushner and wife Ivanka Trump to advance interests of the Chinese government.

SpaceX was cash - flow - positive in the fourth quarter of last year and is on track to reach profitability when the books close on 2007.

She's even closing in on her former employer of 12 years, The Daily Show, according to Nielsen.

The breach wasn't disclosed to the investing public until more than two years later, when Yahoo was working on closing Verizon's...

However, in a speech to the CBI on Monday night, Hammond said that «after seven long and tough years, the high - wage, high - growth economy for which we strive is tantalisingly close to being within our grasp.

While Bush's business - themed policy proposals will likely offer a mixture of traditionally Republican tax cuts and so - called trickle down economics, he's likely to define his views on how to support the middle class, lift up the lowest wage workers, and close the income gap, which would continue on the themes he started talking about earlier this year.

Last year, it joined the ballooning number of consumer packaged giants to launch a venture unit in hopes of keeping closer tabs on innovation.

Scientists say 2016 will top last year as the hottest year on record and, during some months, temperature rise already seemed to veer close to the 2 °C benchmark.

The hearing wrapped up about a half hour ago (you can watch it on C - SPAN), but Senators skeptical of his nomination questioned Gottlieb's close financial ties to the health care and biopharma industries, which have paid him millions in speaking and consulting fees over the years.