Sentences with phrase «closer to a year of»

I know that once we got closer to a year of nursing (when she started eating some solid foods) that's when I started losing weight.

As she grew closer to the years of playdates and preschool, I found myself wondering how our attachment parenting with her would play out?

It was the color I wanted and close to the year of car I wanted.

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.

At the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa, the male - female ratio has ping - ponged from nearly an even split some years to closer to 70 - 30 in others.

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.

Levanway lost most of his hearing when was 4 years old because of an illness, but cochlear implants let him hear close to normally in face - to - face conversations.

As earnings season comes to a close — and as the S&P 500 looks to rebound from its worst month in two years — investors are hungry for the types of large single - stock moves that create money - making opportunities.

He added that, in Singapore, some indicators of Chinese New Year spending that give him signals for the health of the economy are the demand for gift baskets and hampers and the queues for bakkwa — a sweet barbecued pork jerky in Singapore which sells for about $ 38 (S$ 50) per kilogram, and gets more expensive the closer it gets to the actual holiday.

The new media darling launched to the top of this year's readers» choice poll with a total of nearly 750 votes, far outpacing Etsy, its closest rival, with more than 330 votes.

Google closed down the service in Spain last year after a new law forced it to pay for publishing even small amounts of copyrighted information.

Despite Edwards's claim that his move to London will allow him to step back from day - to - day management of his empire, there are few signs the 56 - year - old is courting anything close to retirement.

(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.

AT&T (t) has said it expects the Time Warner acquisition to close by the end of the year.

2016 was an especially monster year for Disney at the box office distinguishing it from much of Hollywood as the movie studio continues to close ranks around its core franchises, such as Pixar and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

«As the hottest year in history comes to a close, the success of the global fossil fuel divestment movement is undeniable,» said May Boeve, executive director of 350.org, the grassroots climate organisation that has played a leading role in the campaign.

Coal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellets.

Without a sustained level of immigration, Canada's population growth could be close to zero within 20 years.

With news of both Jessops and HMV closing down just days after the start of the New Year, for people wishing to start up their own business especially, the outlook isn't good.

The committee's increased scrutiny of foreign acquisitions led to delays in closing HNA's deal to purchase Scaramucci's ownership in SkyBridge last year.

Riedl, of the Manhattan Institute, reckons that doubling the top two personal rates to 70 % and 74 % respectively (politically a near - impossibility) would close just one - fifth of the projected shortfall from Medicare and Social Security over 30 years.

After a nine - year bull run in stock markets, many analysts consider British and European companies to be close to peak values, ramping up the risk of over-priced purchases.

Harley - Davidson, another company with a great stock symbol (NYSE: HOG), had revenues of $ 6 billion last year, mostly from selling close to 270,000 cruisers.

Then again, the financial situation of their business is such that they could benefit from more regular financial review and planning and up - to - date accounting — instead of leaving every invoice, receipt, and ledger to hand off to the tax preparer at the close of the fiscal year.

Dubbed the best business book of the year last year by The Financial Times and McKinsey, this one by a Pulitzer - Prize winning journalist looks at what happened to Janesville, Wisconsin when a General Motors factory that had been operating in the town for 85 years closed.

The savings rate is close to the 25 - year average of five per cent, which doesn't point to a consumer debt apocalypse.

This financial picture, combined with the labour strife, has forced its share price below 90 cents, down from $ 1.10 in January and a tiny fraction of its value five years ago, when it traded at close to $ 20.

«They have amicably ended their relationship of three years,» a source close to the situation told People magazine.

Close to nine years of concessions and frustration seemingly exploded into a series of very public tantrums by union members this March.

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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.

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 traditional model of clients only needing tax work at the end of the year is coming to a close.

Only Southwest had a year - to - date gain as of Tuesday's close.

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.

A large 2011 study of close to 39,000 older women over 25 years found that women who took them in the long term actually had a higher overall risk of death than those who did not.

We started seeing ransomware popping up about four years ago in the corporate world, and if you look at the percentages of people who have paid, close to 50 % of them have been attacked again.

In September of that year, People reported that Tatum had proposed to Dewan in front of «close friends» in Maui, using a Neil Lane diamond ring for the proposal.

Eighty percent of shopping takes place in a span of just two weeks and among three retailers, Google said, typically closer to the start of the school year.

The extra hiring is a nice contrast for Macy's which this year has closed some 68 stores and laid off hundreds of workers as it looks to cull weak stores.

An estimated 90 percent of US businesses are family owned and, although data is hard to come by, that means that many of the 4.3 million small businesses that closed last year were family businesses, reports the Wall Street Journal.

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.

While the company expects that the deal will close in the fourth quarter of this year and add to earnings in 2018, analysts say the earnings boost may not be as lucrative to shareholders in the short run as share buybacks.

«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.»

The idea is that retirees with well - diversified portfolios can start by withdrawing 4 percent (actually, it is closer to 4.5 percent) of their holdings — or $ 4,500 per year for every $ 100,000 of investments — to allow themselves a cost - of - living increase every year and still be reasonably assured of not outliving their money.

The central bank kept its inflation forecast for this year at 2.7 percent but said that some of its monetary policy committee members «moved a little closer» to their limits for tolerating an overshoot in the bank's inflation target.

«Buyer interest stayed elevated in most areas thanks to mortgage rates under 4 % for most of the year and the creation of 1.7 million new jobs edging the job market closer to full employment,» said Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist.