Sentences with phrase «few boom years»

«However, after a few boom years, which saw a clutch of award winning, cost effective state school buildings, it's disappointing that there are none on this year's list.

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With such huge profits to be made, I expect the boom in apartment and condo building to continue, perhaps approaching its 1972 peak within the next few years.
No matter how persuasive I was, savers face a few rough years, and even the boomers still some years from retiring may see mediocre returns until they do.
That's quite a few: As CEO of Acker Merrall & Condit, his family's nearly 200 - year - old Manhattan wine shop, the 41 - year - old spends about 120 days a year on the road, mostly courting the still - booming Asian wine market.
At the height of China «s real estate boom in Yulin a few years ago, they made 10,000 yuan a month, running a canteen for construction workers.
After the demise of the Concorde supersonic jet in 2003, flight times have stayed relatively constant — but Blake Scholl, founder and CEO of Boom Technology, says air travel could get a speed boost in just a few years.
Boom Supersonic is working to bring supersonic travel to transoceanic travelers in just a few years.
As well, points out Jurock, the recreational and retirement property boom of a few years ago was «driven by Dad,» whose investing prowess during the stock market run - up put him in a position not only to buy that retirement dream home but to front the kids a down payment for their own place.
The increase in domestic production barely moved the supply needle during the first few years of the shale boom because it was merely offsetting the production shut - ins from war - ravaged Libya and Iraq.
A few years ago, northwest British Columbia seemed headed for boom times, with billions of dollars in projects planned by the liquid natural gas (LNG), mining and other resource sectors.
Baby Boomers — those 77 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964 — will begin reaching retirement age in the next few years; demographic experts say the generations coming up behind them simply don't have the numbers to fill all those vacancies.
The coal miner has been hurt as the world has turned to more environmentally - friendly energy sources such as natural gas — a trend that has accelerated in the last few years as gas prices have come down substantially due to surging supply from the U.S. fracking boom.
The IPO market has swung back and forth since the dot - com boom in the late 1990s through the bust a few years later and on up to the most recent economic downturn, during which there were six venture capital - backed IPOs in 2008 and 12 in 2009 — compared with 86 in 2007, according to the Exit Poll report by Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association.
Cosmetics companies are benefiting from strong appetite for skincare products like anti-aging treatments, after riding a make - up boom in the past few years, spurred by young consumers seeking to look good on social media.
«I'm a Boomer, and Millennials have shown me over the past few years how important it is to have great social media skills.
But a few years later the New York World's exposure of the racket behind the Klan had had its effect, the Coolidge boom had given the paraders something else to think about, Henry Ford had apologized and retracted, and the Protocols were on their way to the judicial examination which eventually stripped them to the fraudulent skin.
Go back a few years, to the last tantalum boom of 1999 and you will find that it was demand across the electronics industry, especially for phones that drove tantalum demand and lifted SOG's share as high as $ 10.
It was a trend that even caught the attention of Fortune a few years ago, resulting in a cover story that focused on the booming business for bourbon.
After the boom and bust of cleantech in Silicon Valley over the past few years, energy entrepreneurs have struggled to find customers for energy efficiency and clean energy products.
Upstate New York added relatively few jobs in housing - related sectors (e.g. construction and sales of consumer durable goods) during the boom years;
Proving that it's never too late to pursue your passions, data from the 2016 Kauffman Startup Index indicates that while baby boomers currently account for 25 percent of new business owners, the last few years show the number of boomer entrepreneurs are on the rise at a rate that outpaces other age groups.
With billions of dollars of construction spend spread across a few years, along with the promise of strong jobs creation in the tune of thousands of jobs being created, the state hosting a Gigafactory - scale facility is primed for an economic boom.
Asked about their investment approach in the past three years, fewer Millennials and Boomers — 11 % and 9 %, respectively — admit to fear - based investing than Gen - Xers with 13 %.
As we all know by now the S&P 500 had a brutal three - year bear market from the technology boom and bust and then the financial crisis a few years later which cut the market in half yet again.
Get a free San Diego mortgage rate quote Over the last few years, San Diego home prices rose steadily and approached the peak levels seen during the last housing boom.
Over the last few years, San Diego home prices rose steadily and approached the peak levels seen during the last housing boom.
His hunch about shipping a few years later stemmed from the oil and gas boom in the U.S..
Although not young at about 68 years of age and rich she probably has a few booms and busts in front of her and may well live another 20 + years.
We spent the last few years answering client questions about why we had no direct exposure to a booming Brazil.
The housing market has changed dramatically over the last few years, swinging from boom to bust and now entering a full recovery.
If they do, that's great news for those boomers looking for someone to buy their really - too - big suburban shacks in a few years.
Well, I'd say demographics are part of it: those big city condos suit retiring boomers, and also suit the twentysomethings (the latter of which have been growing in numbers over the past few years) so there is some natural growth that comes from that.
The first is that the U.S. is importing less oil today than just a few years ago due to booming domestic production.
ESports, also known as competitive gaming, is a booming industry already, but in the next few years, it's set to explode.
Among the issues raised were the $ 2 trillion valuation Saudi Arabia wants for the world's largest oil producer, the scale of dividends Aramco's prepared to pay and the impact of the shale boom on oil prices over the next few years.
Meal kits, however, are booming, having gone from a virtually unheard - of product to a multi-billion dollar industry in just a few short years.
The survival of the marriage probably owed a lot to the fact that a few years later my mother was able to dust off her own teaching certificate and get back to the classroom to help teach hordes of post — World War II baby - boom children.
These clubs are not new, of course, but they have grown in popularity over the last few years, and for some post-baby boomers, they might be acting as substitutes for the Bible studies and Sunday Schools they grew up with.
There was a huge pimento cheese boom a few years back, and you could barely set food in a restaurant — at least here in the South — without seeing a pimento cheese sandwich and perhaps a pimento cheese burger on the menu.
Organic milk sales have boomed in Britain over the last few years and were 50 per cent higher this July than in the same month last year, according to new figures from the Milk Development Council.
This year, Butler Field on the north end was also used, and neighbors living just a few blocks away said they heard and felt the booming bass.
The number of schools with extended lunch times increased a few years ago, he said, especially on the Northwest and Southwest Sides, where student population is booming.
I feel like moms are so lucky nowadays because the whole «hiding veggies» thing has absolutely boomed in the past few year!
Labour did indeed create 2.5 m jobs, but it took 13 years, not 5, and were brought about at the price of a credit bubble, a housing boom, and a rise of 0.8 m jobs in the public sector — none of which will exist in the next few years.
By taking up the slack in the economy — millions of people are underemployed, working fewer hours than they wish — Britain could enjoy fast catch - up growth of the kind it experienced as it recovered from the Great Depression: between 1933 and 1936 UK growth exceeded 4 % per year, fuelled by a house building boom.
A few years ago James K Glassman and Kevin A Hassett wrote a book predicting that the DOW would soon hit 36,000, while David Lereah authored a guide to «Why the Real Estate Boom will not Bus» t (it came out in 2006 which in retrospect possibly makes it the worst timed book ever).
British banks increased their exposure to foreign individuals and companies during the booming financial markets of the last few years, a practice which raised few eyebrows at the time.
Moreover, the academic job situation for astronomers in Canada has improved in the last few years, owing to the retirements of the large cohort of astronomers hired in the late 1960s and the fact that university enrolments have swelled as a result of population growth, the baby boom echo, and increased participation rate.
In 2011, U.S. authorities shut down a number of major poker websites, bringing an end to the «poker boom» that had gripped the country for the previous few years.
Booming industries go bust in just a few years.
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