Sentences with phrase «few rocky years»

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Over the past few years, CGI has come in for some unflattering headlines — it built the Obamacare health - care registration website that had an infamously rocky start — but that doesn't seem to have harmed its growth.

Pincus cites Zynga's steadiness as the reason for his new role: After a rocky few years, cash flow from operations are now in positive territory, and mobile bookings have increased.

The next few years may be a rocky road for many in the trucking industry, but there's opportunities along the way.

I shall never forget the impact on my ministry when I sat down a few years ago and jotted on paper «the great rocky facts of being» (Augustus Hopkins Strong): some elementary but elemental truths I felt certain of, with certainty defined as «no doubt about it» but as «convictions by and for which one lives and dies.»

Fall's been a little rocky for a few years in a row (Hurricane Sandy, freak snowstorms), so I figured if I kept baking with maple syrup, bananas, and zucchini I could stall things a... [Continue reading]

«Lots of hard work over the past few years suggests the cutoff — the transition between rocky and gaseous planets — occurs at about 1.5 times the size of Earth,» Kipping says.

As the years rolled by the planet was losing the fire of its youth, but it was also slimming down, shedding a few pesky kilometres from its round, rocky body.

All families have their rocky patches, but a new family found in our solar system is as rocky as they come: a few dozen asteroids, all born from a parent blasted by an impact less than 6 million years ago.

A few million years later, some of them had grown big enough to form rocky planets.

The planetesimals, which eventually merged to form the rocky planets, were more planetlike than previously thought, with cores that must have formed and melted within just a few million years of the formation of the solar system, Weiss says.

The subtle signals from stretched rocky planets could be found by some current telescopes, and certainly by much more powerful observatories like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) that are due to enter service in the next few years.

However, in a few billion years our sun will become a red giant, engulfing Mercury and Venus, turning Earth and Mars into sizzling rocky planets, and warming distant worlds like Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune — and their moons — in a newly established red giant habitable zone.

While Michael Fassbender «s plan to make a western earlier this year with Lynne Ramsay was kiboshed when that project hit a few rocky patches, leading to the exit of both the director and actor, it looks like the thesp has gotten back on the horse.

Three brothers, each just a few years apart, cling to each other to survive a tumultuous moment in their parents» rocky marriage.

The game had a rocky start but updates over the past few years have improved the experience.

It's been a rocky few years for Mr. Gyllenhaal, who seems to consistently just miss awards consideration.

Dussault references the rocky path Massachusetts encountered 10 years ago when it established a graduation test and its «mass failure rates in the first few years.»

BlackBerry has trodden a rocky path these last few years that has lead us to a point that some felt was inevitable.

There's been plenty of talk about eBooks over the past few months (years), but between klunky readers and the half dozen eBook formats, they've gotten off to a rocky start.

The rocky state of the economy in the past few years has certainly pushed many household into some level of financial distress, and that's not entirely within our control.

He had a rocky start, getting an auto - immune disease when he was about a year old and went on / off prednisone a handful of times over the next few years, seeming to need smaller doses for less time during each flair - up.

He has had a rocky 1st few years and it would be so nice to get him some stability, because there is a good dog in there for someone who has the ability and desire to work with him.

With the NX on the horizon, and a rocky few years, the Quit or Continue gang ask «Is it time we broke up with Nintendo?».

SNK has been having a very rocky performance on the last few years.

Early in 1940 we managed to find a small house and for the next three years... I was not able to carve at all... the only sculptures I carried out were some small plaster maquettes for the second «sculpture with colour», and it was not until 1943, when we moved to another house, that I was able to carve this idea... In St Ives I was fortunate enough to have constant contact with artists and writers and craftsmen who lived there, Ben Nicholson my husband, Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach, Adrian Stokes, and there was a steady stream of visitors from London who came for a few days rest, and who contributed in a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this time.

Google itself has had a history of rocky hardware launches, though it's been slowly steadying the ship with a few successes, most notably last year's Nexus devices.

Even if the prices only rise or drop by a few points every year, it's a much safer investment than something like the Chinese Stock Market which has seen a very rocky past few years.