Sentences with phrase «do at least a year»

Glen Hodgson, senior vice-president and chief economist, Conference Board of Canada It's good that the government is still shooting to balance the budget by 2015 and gives itself room to do it at least a year earlier.

We do this at least every year — the kids love it!

In addition to contact hours, students must do at least a year of mentorship and instruction by a teacher trainer before receiving a yoga teacher Level 1 qualification.

«They'd have to do at least a year's worth of study, maybe two.»

Not exact matches

Even if Canada doesn't start dropping payloads of cash itself — something Cooper says he does not foresee in the next three years, at least — the ripple effect of a central bank explicitly targeting higher inflation and adopting formerly verboten measures to get it would be felt on these shores in the form of increased global volatility.

Gross domestic product probably will expand by at least three percent this year, something that some economists thought our aging and relatively unproductive economy might never do again.

Or is there something we all can do to wring at least some accomplishment out of these last few weeks of the year?

That means rebalancing your portfolio at least once a year, by selling some of the assets that have done best — and exceeded their model allocation — and buying more of your laggards.

Do a security assessment at least once a year to find out you if you have any vulnerabilities in your system.»

The CEOs of the largest companies in the U.S. earn three times more than they did 20 years ago and at least 10 times more than 30 years ago, according to a new report.

But there have been doubts about whether that goal is realistic, and even B.C. Finance Minister Mike de Jong said this week that he doesn't expect LNG revenues for at least three to five years.

«Surely, he must have felt tired during at least one or two of his 9,382 performances, but he didn't show it considering his contract was renewed 45 times over 23 years.»

With the exception of the first two, his words do not appear to cut cruel; indeed, one has a sense these are well - used lines he might employ in his other career: as a successful, in - demand motivational speaker, giving at least 30 speeches every year, here in Canada and around the world.

Some quick math tells us that means at least three years of solid education into how to do a job, but more likely, that figure is closer to five years.

That didn't include at least 13 deaths last year in seven crashes involving commercial charter flights in the U.S., and ignored the fact that the FAA was being run by an Obama - era holdover.

But it doesn't take a new homeowner long to discover just how large that premium can be in money and time: the constant outlays on maintenance and repairs (at least 1 % of the purchase price per year, experts estimate, and as much as 4 %), the chores and DIY projects that eat up weekends, the pressure to keep up with the ever - gentrifying Joneses.

In August, it raised $ 120 million from investors including Bill Gates to fund research like the kind being done with LCA, which Bosley told Forbes would be enough to keep the company running for at least three years.

Cramer is confident that even if an investor doesn't have a high - paying job, as long as they save a decent chunk of their paycheck and invest it wisely each year, they can grow their wealth and become at least financially independent.

But at least Bush didn't do as badly as he had earlier in the year on the show when he elicited boos.

So you're not profitable in the model for at least three to five years, and then what you would hope is that you can start doing licenses for shoes, bags, things like that and make your money.

They also don't review their expenses at least once a year to see if they can reduce those expenses for the following year.

Quebec has drawn at least $ 1.9 billion (# 1.5 billion) from Chinese investment, though it only accepts about 1,500 people a year — a small amount compared to what it was in the past when it didn't have a yearly quota, Katz added.

Aptly named XJ Partners, the company focused on tech firms in the health sector, where the software «lagged what we were doing on Wall Street by at least 10 years,» he says.

Namely, they don't meet SSDI requirements that their condition be «expected to last at least one year or result in death,» preventing them from working.

In fact, roughly 77 percent of entrepreneurs with at least one million in assets own real estate, according to a study Morgan Stanley did last year.

Either way, somehow eight years after the financial crisis, with the economy on the best footing it has been in years, the uncertainty that is out there over a Trump Presidency just doesn't seem so bad, at least for one day.

This likely has at least a little to do with the below - average cost of living and the year - round warm temperatures.

Not all of them let ACP in (and those who don't get samples in the mail), but those who do tend to stick around — most for at least five years.

But after at least eight years of it, perhaps the market has had its full of the do - nothing Washington.

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.

While Pew reports that one - third of 25 - to 29 - year - olds in the U.S. had completed at least a bachelor's degree in 2012 (a record number), a survey by Braun Research for staffing firm Adecco found that 66 percent of hiring managers do not believe college grads are ready for the work force.

FireEye chief executive Dave DeWall explained that sales of cyber security products jumped last year in light of major hacks on corporations but he doesn't see that trend continuing (at least for FireEye).

The report points out that, although 68 % of billionaires hold at least a four - year degree, a sheepskin «is not a prerequisite to then go on and amass a billion - dollar fortune,» since one in three billionaires either never went to college at all or didn't stick around to finish.

Icahn does not have this privilege, however, because a condition of this proxy access is that shareholders must have held at least 3 % of the company's stock for at least three years.

That's the kind of energy we need to keep us moving all year long, so don't save your celebrations for the beginning of 2016, find a reason to pop a cork (real or virtual) at least once a month.

But the first thing I recommend you do when you receive a windfall is to take a «money break» and not increase your standard of living for at least a year.

At the very least, our editors said, the Fed should do more to reduce the appearance of being political, especially during an election year.

«Don't be surprised that it will take you at least five years, eight to 10 years on the average, to get to the end game.

«For Apple to hurt them, it would have to sell at least 20 million units in a year, which it won't do.

He expects to be doing so for at least another year.

Richard Swart, who directs research into innovative entrepreneurial finance at the University of California, Berkeley, does not forecast sharp growth for crowdfunding, at least for the first few years, partly due to regulatory costs.

«This is something my wife and I do at least once a month, not just once a year — and we do it with the whole family no matter their age!

Disney CEO Bob Iger spent much of his time on the earnings call talking about ESPN, and about how he doesn't see much impact from cord cutting for at least the next five years or so — an estimate that at least some analysts think is absurdly optimistic.

«I'm doing business in South America and wanted to explore seed production in Mexico but didn't think I'd have time to do the research for at least a year,» says Hemminger.

Just because a company succeeded in making the Fortune 500 does not mean it rewarded its shareholders — in fact, every year, at least a handful of corporations fail miserably in the stock returns department.

«Truthfully, I've been doing that for at least the last 30 years as a private citizen because I believe joining the conversation is part of being a good citizen.

This card, which carries an $ 95 annual fee after the first year, also doesn't assess foreign transaction fees and offers 25,000 points if you spend at least $ 3,000 within three months of opening the account.

«A good financial strategist will cost at least $ 90,000 a year, so do the math,» says Steve Enright, president of SJE Partners, a Richmond, Virginia, HR consulting firm.

If you do choose to sell any investment held outside of a tax - deferred account, such as an IRA, make sure, if at all possible, you hold it for at least one year and one day in order to qualify for the long - term capital gains rate.

Another study reported by The New York Times in 2008 found that men who did not take a vacation at least once a year had a «21 percent higher risk of death from all causes and were 32 percent more likely to die of a heart attack».