Sentences with phrase «eight years»

Eight years ago, energy scion Bill Koch bought some reputedly rare plonk at auction from Eric Greenberg, a technology tycoon.

Plot: Set eight years after «The Dark Knight,» a new villain, Bane, has come to terrorize Gotham.

In addition, she was a portfolio manager and strategist for eight years at American Century Investment Management in Mountain View, Calif..

Donna Brazelton, in her early 60s and also with the Osborne Group, retired as vice-president of human resources from a major transportation company eight years ago.

We have by the end of this year, which is the second full year of it being in existence, we will achieve about roughly 500,000, and in the next eight years another 4-1/2 million.

The large number of immigrants among Fortune 500 founders was first documented eight years ago by an organization called New American Economy.

A Hong Kong court ruled to disqualify Li from being a director or being involved with the management of any Hong Kong listed or unlisted company for eight years.

In the last eight years, more than 7.1 billion identities have been exposed due to data breaches.

Nicknamed «the planet hunter,» the $ 337 million TESS is a follow - up to NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which spent the last eight years searching the skies for as many planets outside our solar system as possible.

Something that does not get enough emphasis is that this activity has gone on for eight years and everyone has always believed it was legal.

But with the help of Missy's son Bart Fox, who manages the shop, revenue has increased 66 percent in the past eight years.

He's still alive today, more than eight years later, with no sign of recurrence.

Now, a fundraising method that you likely had never heard of until a few months ago is on track this year to exceed all prior VC investment in blockchain, which has totaled a cumulative $ 1.7 billion over the past eight years, PitchBook says.

It recently took its biggest single - day tumble in nearly eight years after Plank warned that the company's margins wouldn't be as high as they have been in recent years.

We get excited about hardware, but we spend seven or eight years playing games — and he's one of the best game makers out there.»

So nearly eight years ago, the company decided to change its strategy.

The 88 - member Assembly, which serves for eight years, has the authority to appoint and dismiss the country's top authority supreme leader.

Moffatt / Rosenthal had topped the odds by keeping some workers as long as eight years.

We've seen a lot of models popping up over the last seven or eight years with a lot of bells and whistles, but at the end of day you're judged by results.

Gigaom, which closed in March, was in business for eight years and built up a sizeable audience for its technology and business news, along with an events business and a subscription - based research product.

For eight years I have been haunted by a character with a jack - o» - lantern grin and pipe - cleaner physique.

But their financial motive for signing overseas is weaker than it was eight years ago, while two of Europe's best leagues aren't offering the same opportunities.

Novophage has a long road to bring its therapy to market, which will take at least eight years, according to Koeris.

In eight years, co-founder and CEO Kevin Chou has taken the company from a tiny startup to $ 360 million in revenue and a $ 1 billion valuation.

Croatian police said that a 19 - year - old Croat, whom they described as the owner of webstresser.org, was detained on charges of «serious criminal acts against computer systems, programs and data» that carry a possible sentence of one to eight years in prison.

«If you look back at the last eight years of what Republican senators did, there is plenty of bad behavior which is much worse than what Franken did the other day,» Tobias said hours before the Oregon senators announced their intention to block Trump's nominee to the 9th Circuit.

My friend Jeff Saut at Raymond James noted that there are people who have been in this business over eight years and have never experienced a Fed rate hiking cycle.

When Dorsey launched Square eight years ago with co-founder Jim McKelvey, the San Francisco company focused on selling credit card payment systems to small businesses.

Nortel Networks scooped up 20 operations in eight years.

Home prices climbed steadily last year, hitting their highest levels in eight years.

Hayden, who calls himself «a great salesman,» was working at Kellogg's until he was laid off eight years ago.

Eight years later and their relationship is still going strong.

He then ruthlessly ruled for eight years, during which an estimated 300,000 civilians were massacred.

Still, their options are narrower than eight years ago.

When Brandi Temple began cutting and sewing clothes for her young daughters in 2008, she soon realized she had made more outfits than her two girls, then three and eight years old, needed.

«We're at the very beginning and in the next eight years we're going to see substantial acceleration of this trend.

Georgiadis is a Google (googl) veteran, having spent eight years as a top sales exec for the freewheeling search giant, and she's here to rearrange far more than the furniture.

Eight years after the housing bust drove an estimated 30 % of construction workers into new fields, homebuilders across the country are struggling to find workers at all levels of experience, according to the National Association of Homebuilders.

He's perhaps most well known for co-founding Business.com in 1999 — and selling it eight years later for $ 345 million.

I could've never imagined doing more than cupcakes eight years ago.

The elder Mendiburu's caution was born of experience: eight years spent toiling for two networking - equipment companies had seriously soured his outlook.

They also have surrender charges if you withdraw your money from the account in the first six to eight years.

«This was the first time we'd done planning in eight years, and enough people hated it to think about leaving.»

They found that elderly women who sit for more than 10 hours a day with low physical activity have cells that are biologically older by eight years compared to women who are less sedentary.

I've known the founders for eight years, and I know John [Zimmer] and Logan [Green] believe in the importance of the drivers, and it's shown up in the product.

I loved my eight years at the company and felt fairly treated throughout that time.

Still, he has done little to stop that practice in the last eight years.

The QE Class aircraft carrier took eight years to construct (six years behind schedule) and cost the Royal Navy # 3.5 billion.

Phyllis was also vice chairman of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's advisory board on information security and privacy, and she served for eight years as national chairman of the board of directors of the FBI's public - private InfraGard program.

(Most are set up to mature in five to eight years and as yet are well short of their maturity date.)