Sentences with phrase «doing it for years until»

The worst part about it was they had been doing it for years until someone finally noticed.

Not exact matches

In the beginning, that's a great business model, right, because all you're doing is you create this anonymous shell company, you give it a name, you don't care who actually is behind it and you stick it in a folder and you forget about it until a year passes and it's time to invoice for the renewal.

The failed $ 6 - billion bid by China Minmetals (another state - owned enterprise) for Noranda, a Canadian copper and zinc miner, in 2004 had similar consequences: Canada did not see another major Chinese bid until this year.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

Streaming numbers for «Game of Thrones» don't really begin to appear in the reported Nielsen numbers until the «Game of Thrones» season five premiere in 2015, which was the same year that HBO launched its streaming service, HBO Now.

Netgear's (ntgr) stock has done fine, but trailed the S&P 500 index for most of the past five years until a big rally the past few months, largely over excitement about how well Arlo cameras sold in the holiday shopping period.

Me and my SO eventually broke up but I didn't tell him about the affair until after we got back together and dated for two more years.

Most entrepreneurs don't start really planning for retirement until five to ten years from when they plan to hang it up.

Apple also failed to mention the watch's battery life, a feature CEO Tim Cook bragged about for the iPhone 6 — a worrisome sign, but it also could be because the Apple Watch doesn't hit until next year.

For the first year and a half, Hardwick ran the blog alone, doing all the coding, writing and photoshopping himself, until, awash in TV work, he had to hire writers and an editor to help keep the content fresh.

For March 2014, the national house price index was flat — which doesn't sound particularly alarming, until the authors point out that this is the first time in 15 years that house prices haven't increased in March, typically the kickoff of the important spring buying season.

This classic disturbing thriller, which highlights a group of circus sideshow acts who take vengeance on their leader when a beautiful trapeze artist does him wrong, was banned in the UK for 30 years and wasn't available in the country until a home - video version was approved in the early 1990s.

Hettiarachi entered the Toastmasters contest every year for the past 10 years, reaching the semifinals four times, but didn't make the finals, he explains, until he stopped behaving as if he were an actor on stage.

There is precedent for this: Amazon didn't start breaking out AWS - only numbers until 2015, nine years into its existence.

However, since analysts warn that it may take up to five years to recoup the outlay for VoIP, businesses may want to wait until they're doing major telecom work to switch.

And we did that for a few years, until we moved to Edison, New Jersey.

For starters, Wall Street thinks the owner of Snapchat will ring up about $ 1 billion in sales this year, but it doesn't expect Snap to turn a profit until 2021.

Though the artist didn't originally refer to her work as specifically for adults until the trend gained traction within the past two years, Morrison recognizes how adult versions are different from more elementary editions because of their complex and intricate designs.

Instead of unveiling its latest phone in February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, as it has done for the past few years, Samsung is holding out until March, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

Not until after I took a major risk in my career of quitting my job as a banker and spending two years researching and writing my second book did my mentor take me under his wing and open up for me a valuable stream of knowledge, people and opportunities that have inspired my journey ever since.

«We bootstrapped for the first two and half years, and we didn't actually pay ourselves anything,» says Austin, adding that the company's first employees were two interns who started with three - month gigs but then never left, even though GiveForward couldn't pay them until the year - and - a-half mark.

«It doesn't change their business,» Hoey said of major service providers, noting that the changes for three - year contracts won't take effect until December 2013.

It is now one year until the U.K. leaves the European Union, and there's a lot that still needs to be worked out — so much so that retailers are finding it difficult to plan for the future, because they don't yet know what the future U.K. - EU trading relationship is going to look like.

Reliable data on business creation and destruction, even at the national level, has only been available for the past few years; until relatively recently, economists didn't even know that the startup rate was declining.

For example, Houston home prices didn't really crater until late 1987, even though the job market plummeted a year earlier and oil prices recorded their biggest year - over-year decline in 1986's first half.

Gold surges toward $ 1400 / oz, S&P 500 tumbles to 2000, 10 - year Treasury yield to 1.5 %; if credit spreads don't crack (e.g. IBOXHYSE < 500bps) and Mexico peso finds quick low = entry point for risk - takers (especially if Trump protectionist fears allayed); until then best Trump trades = long gold, short EU banks, long US small - cap, short EM.

I am planning to do that for the next 11 years than move to just 1 full time job until 53.

She did both jobs for three years until the company was profitable.

I didn't even know about Starbucks until two years ago when I walked into a store for the first time.

Some readers will recall that public servants have been told to refer systematically to the «Harper government,» but that didn't begin until he had been the Prime Minister for nearly five years.

Remember: the solo mailing is much more likely to result in paid memberships to the Clean and Green Club, and you earn commissions of $ 497.50 on a years paid membership (14 months for the price of 12 if they take advantage of the free trial), even if they do nt sign up until after the trial period; it will still be credited to you if youve signed up as an affiliate.

Adjusted for inflation, a portfolio of bonds peaked in 1940 and didn't return to those levels until 1989, 49 years later!

«This is why people didn't figure out that it was the Great Depression until two years after the worst point in the crisis in the 1930s; and why it took decades, not months, quarters or even years, for the complete transition to the next sustainable economic expansion and bull market.

Remember, the thesis of «How To Retire Early And Never Have To Work Again» is that all one has to do is save 55 % + of their after tax income for 18 years from ages 22 - 40, and s / he will have 20 years of living expenses covered to not have to work until government assistance kicks in.

pv magazine: So do you think there is a possibility that people will be looking for modules as early as the second half of next year, and will be told that they have to wait until 2020, or that you just can't get them?

The legislation enforces limits on discretionary spending until 2021, establishes a procedure to increase the debt limit, creates a Congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to propose further deficit reduction with a stated goal of achieving at least $ 1.5 trillion in budgetary savings over 10 years, and establishes automatic procedures for reducing spending by as much as $ 1.2 trillion if legislation originating with the new joint select committee does not achieve such savings.

Social Security can also be delayed until age 70, and many retirees who opt to do that will find themselves in one of the bottom tax brackets for a few years.

The main points here are that QE has encouraged the dramatic overvaluation of virtually every class of investments; that these elevated valuations don't represent «wealth» (which is embodied in the future stream of deliverable cash flows, not in the current price); that extreme valuations promise dismal future outcomes for investors over a 10 - 12 year horizon; and that until a clear improvement in market internals conveys a resumption of speculative risk - seeking by investors, the current combination of extreme valuations and increasing risk - aversion, coming off of an extended top formation after persistent «overvalued, overbought, overbullish» extremes, represents the singularly most negative return / risk classification we identify.

In other words, Buffett has been a Bank of America investor for years; he just didn't own the company's common stock until recently.

«Christy Clark has been the premier for five years, but she didn't start telling Ottawa what B.C. needs to protect our coast until the Nathan E. Stewart incident just last month.

While these proposed changes would likely be a «solid positive» for Caterpillar, it does not expect to see a meaningful impact until next year.

Since Tesla didn't start delivering Model 3 until the second half of 2017, Model 3 accounted for all of Tesla's year - over-year growth in vehicle deliveries.

For your workplace retirement accounts, if you are still working and don't own 5 % or more of the business you're employed by, you may be able to delay taking an RMD until April 1 of the year after you retire.

For those that do not wait until Full Retirement Age, you do not have to wait until the year after you retire to collect Social Security.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that White House counsel Don McGahn had known about the allegations against Porter for a year, and that chief of staff John Kelly had known for months, although the Daily Mail reported that Trump did not know about them until this week.

However, with drillers still struggling through more than a year - long rout in commodity prices, Heymann said he does not expect end - market demand for GE products to pick up until perhaps 2017.

«Southwest has done very, very well for our clients for a long period of time, up until this year,» James said.

Now we will of course have to wait another 10 years or so to know for sure that the changes have helped because many victims do nt speak about it until some time later.

For many years I believed, like you, that it was a matter of whether I did more good than evil to be saved... until I discovered otherwise.

Although we've known one anoehtr for many years and have worked together on numerous stories you as writer, I as publicist I didn't realize the scope of your writing career until now!