Sentences with phrase «few preceding years»

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Generally, SIMPLE IRA plans can be established by any business with 100 or fewer employees who earned $ 5,000 or more in the preceding year, and which does not currently maintain any other retirement plan.

As I have written recently, I think the period going forward will be more challenging for central banks than the preceding few years.

To qualify for a SIMPLE IRA, employers must have 100 or fewer employees who earned at least $ 5,000 in the preceding year.

Strong growth in productivity may continue to restrain growth in unit labour costs to a greater extent than expected, though productivity growth in the past year has been below that in the preceding few years.

Intending no disrespect to the great Jesuit theologian himself, the way Trinitarian theology has been taught, with admittedly a few honourable exceptions, has left many of us unaware of the preceding 2,000 years of reflection on the matter.

The name had been used by Edmund McIlhenny and his successors, since 1868, and the five or six other manufacturers who had used it during the preceding few years had been notified of the McIlhenny claim to its exclusive use as a trade - mark.

In other studies, obesity has been associated with a decreased risk of early death; however, follow - up studies suggest that this «obesity paradox» may be explained by unintentional weight loss in the few years preceding death, rather than a truly protective effect of obesity.

The fossil record documents no such thing; we have modern humans appearing about 100,000 years ago, preceded by a number of more primitive fossils spread over the previous few hundred thousand years.

In most cases, the psoriasis will almost always precede the arthritis anything from a few months to several years.

Those final few minutes have probably denied the film its share of admirers over the years, but they can't undo the fun character - driven storytelling that precedes them.

Both Eastwood and Costner had won directing Oscars in the few years preceding and it would have been a treat to eavesdrop on two acclaimed filmmakers while they worked together.

The problems Toyota experienced just a few years ago with unintended acceleration and other mechanical and safety issues over a preceding period were grossly overplayed by government and the media.

(B) The term «employer» means a person engaged in an industry affecting commerce who has twenty - five or more employees for each working day in each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year: Provided, That prior to June 30, 1968, employers having fewer than fifty employees shall not be considered employers.

In a 2016 study, fewer than 18 % of large - cap stock funds kept pace with the S&P 500 index over the preceding 10 - year period.

In addition to the preceding program, a few years ago I began using an intranasal (ocular - nasal) vaccine designed to be dropped in the eyes and nose.

Alone in the dark preceded it by a few years.

Titled Ityala aliboli / Debt don't rot, the show is a conceptual confrontation of the economic crisis in South Africa, which the artists assert — while exploring the legacies of colonialism and apartheid as well as the disappointment of democracy — exponentially precedes the global recession of the past few years.

Held's Alphabet paintings from the early 1960s — large, flatly painted hard - edge abstractions based on letter forms — preceded Schapiro's Ox series by a few years, and his black - and - white series are from 1967 — 69.

They did state with a «high level of confidence that global mean surface temperature was higher during the last few decades of the 20th century than during any comparable period during the preceding four centuries «-- this is equivalent to the strengthening of the statements made in AR4 concerning the last 500 years.

Significantly, however, the interval of peak magnitude for carbon isotopes precedes that of sulfur isotopes with an estimated offset of a few hundred thousand years.

[12] But cooling in the tropical North Atlantic may have preceded this by a few hundred years; South America shows a less well defined initiation but a sharp termination.

It's worth noting that just about every Apple device launch in the past few years has been preceded by rumors of delays that never seem to pan out.

From my experience, the people caring about divorced dads (beside divorcees» lawyers) are the few guys they still hang with, groups they're a part of, and lonely women who still want a man in their life (I've had more intimacy, fun and travel in the last couple years than the preceding twenty).

Even if the borrower can't pay off completely within the initial rate period, paying a higher rate for a few years on a much reduced balance will not come close to wiping out the interest savings during the preceding years.