Sentences with phrase «few decades years»

Jerusalem was destroyed a few decades years later.

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While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

These struggles have left them with 22 % fewer workers than they employed a decade ago (on average), and net capital assets (such as factor floor space and machinery and equipment) that have shrunk 2.2 % per year on average.

Few technology trends last more than a few years, let alone several decades, so it is important to take a look at why big data continues to be a force in the technology sectFew technology trends last more than a few years, let alone several decades, so it is important to take a look at why big data continues to be a force in the technology sectfew years, let alone several decades, so it is important to take a look at why big data continues to be a force in the technology sector.

In fact, as we approach a decade since the launch of Apple's App Store — followed a few years later by the Android / Google equivalent — it's fair to say that there's an app for everything.

Somalia has been at war for decades and until the last few years it has struggled to attract foreign investment.

Kevin Eichelberger, chief executive officer and founder of Blue Acorn, an ecommerce agency in Charleston, SC., reminds us that we've had thousands of years to perfect brick and mortar sales and only a few decades for ecommerce.

Here's the likelihood that a person has been married at least once at some point in his or her life for every year of age over the past few decades:

The problem, he warned, is that Canada's workforce is rapidly aging, while its companies are stuck in a low productivity gear, putting the country on track to generate only half of the annual growth in the next few decades that Canadians have come to expect over the past 50 years.

Tyler Tysdal, TitleCard's managing partner, was drawn to Leesa for a few reasons: He was inspired by Diamonstein's 20 years designing mattresses and Wolfe's three decades of entrepreneurship.

An individual's full genome can be sequenced today in a few hours, for $ 1,000 — the first genome sequencing took 13 years and cost $ 3 billion, and that was merely a decade ago.

Over the last few years, China's debt - to - GDP has ballooned to more than 300 percent from 160 percent a decade ago, causing many people, including Chinese officials, to warn of a financial - sector debt bubble that's waiting to burst.

In Canada, forensic accountant Al Rosen warns that in a few years Canadians could witness many frauds they've seen in decades passed.

However, if you're 30 years old, you still have a few decades to ride things out.

While at the beginning of 2011 trading in euro - dollar futures was still foreseeing a return to typical interest rates over the next few years, that view has given way to expectations that rates will remain low for a decade to come.

But sometime in the next few years, someone will succeed in doing just that, tapping into a global market that's already worth trillions of dollars and expected to double in size in the next three decades.

Companies have been using the strategy for decades, but recapitalizations have become increasingly popular the past few years, thanks in large part to the fast - growing private equity market.

«This is key, because if you're young it means you have 30 - 35 years left of working life, so you are going to be working for a few decades, and that means paying taxes for a few decades,» Vargas - Silva said.

With total manufacturing output flat over the decade, this adds up to far fewer manufacturing jobs in North America than 10 years ago.

Although from 1972 to 1976 Americans produced nearly one million fewer babies per year than they had a decade earlier, maternity - ward traffic later rebounded to pre-Vietnam, pre-Watergate, pre-disco levels, peaking in 1990.

Outside of a few brief years a decade earlier, the band had never been anywhere near the cultural mainstream.

I've had my eye on Israel for several years now, since working on my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, and learning that much of the country's economic success over the past few decades has been the result of a meshing between technology and the military.

Instead of getting a better, updated therapy for a disease every decade or so, we might begin to see second - generation cell therapies in a few years.

In previous decades, the magazine could easily weather a few years of turmoil.

Although financial services companies including PIMCO and Pacific Life have dominated the local economy over the past few decades, Newport Beach has built a technology cluster in recent years: Investment app Acorns and CudaSign, an e-signature company, were both started in Newport Beach.

Funding would remain over the next few years, albeit slightly lower, but the plan would also set an expectation for alternative energy industries to wean themselves from government aid in the next decade.

This is because international trade has increased rapidly over the past few decades as the world economy has become more developed and globalized — notwithstanding the flattening of the global trade - to - GDP ratio over the past few years.

These things don't change a ton from year to year — there's a shortfall out there in a few decades and the fixes for it are known — which is not to say they're easy.

Similarly for stocks because they fare poorly as well in inflationary periods... Unfair though it may be, an investor should continue to expect an attempted inflationary solution in almost all developed economies over the next few years and even decades.»

Regardless of whether they were founded decades before the digital age or have only been in operation for a few years, any branding agency worth its salt will have a deep understanding of, and respect for, digital marketing.

A decade ago, author Scott Shane estimated that only 30 % of startups live longer than 10 years, fewer than 10 % ever grow, and just 3 % grow substantially.

David served on Peter Drucker's Foundation Board in the United States for over a decade, the last few years as Vice Chairman and was Chair of Upper Canada College from 1992 - 97.

For turnover in FX derivatives, several things stand out (Graph 4): (i) activity has generally risen over the past decade even when scaled by a measure of cross-border transactions; (ii) developed Asian markets stand out as having a high degree of turnover; (iii) there was a particularly strong increase in turnover in these markets between 2013 and 2016; and (iv) FX derivatives turnover in emerging Asian economies has also increased significantly in the past few years, but remains a small part of the global market.

Once the company stopped hiding its eco-story and started marketing its six - decade leadership in green materials sourcing, it became Number One in its category (a dramatic turnaround from its bankruptcy a few years earlier).

Global tech leadership for the next decade is at stake and ONLY the New T - Mobile will have the network and spectrum capacity to quickly create a broad and deep 5G network in the first few years of the 5G innovation cycle.

Earnings results for any one quarter or even the next few years are fundamentally the result of decisions that were made years and even decades earlier.»

In the past few decades, this has happened only thrice — January 1999, October 1987, and April 1986 — and every time, the energy stocks have outperformed the market substantially in the following six months to two - year period.

But since the last Bitcoin block is projected to be mined around the year 2140, adopting Bitcoin as a major (or world) currency anytime in the next few decades would just exacerbate anthropogenic climate change by needlessly increasing electricity consumption until it's too late.

With a just four years of the total market presence company is making few smartphone giants run for their money and has beaten many of smartphone vendors who are in the market for almost a decade or more now.

Steve Jobs celebrated the beginning of this decade with a few thousand of his fans: «We want to kick off the year and introduce a truly magical and revolutionary product.»

With growth expected at 20 % for the next half - decade and likely beyond, given the potential for Teavana in the $ 90B global tea market and other initiatives to increase the size of each patron's check, a price of 30x earnings today will look like a bargain in a few years.

It's likely that this deficit will widen over the next few years and, unless many billions of dollars are spent soon, the world is facing the prospect of a significant shortage of oil in the early years of the next decade.

Many savvy investment advisors believe the next few years will be a decade of higher risk and lower market returns.

Twenty - five years ago it was generally believed that within a few decades the printed word would be dispatched electronically to individual subscribers» computer screens.

Over time the Chinese consumer will play a larger role in the economy, but it's going to take a decade, not months — not even a few years.

Inflation - rate trends can last a few years or they can extend for decades.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that it could leave as many as 13 million fewer insured over the next 10 years, and increase premiums by an average 10 percent over the next decade.

Given any positive inflation at all during the next few years, the real return on the S&P 500 in this decade through 2010 will probably be worse than the post-depression period, and about as bad as the 1970's.

Territories that includes creating new social interaction models, new roles as members of a social ecosystem, and advancing social business models that may very well alter the structure and business operations they have been wedded to for decades — in ways they could not have dreamed of just a few short years ago.

By carrying a few big brands in his portfolio, having more than 2 decades of tech industry experience and nurturing startups for more than two years in current capacity, Mukund Mohan needs no introduction and for the startups industry, he is a priced asset.