Sentences with phrase «few tough years»

After a few tough years, 2004 has been a comeback year for commercial real estate, with absorption and occupancy rising in the retail, apartment, office, and industrial sectors.

And while things are looking up after a few tough years, one issue that has surfaced is that of inventory — specifically shadow inventory.

Living with debt is not easy and they have a few tough years ahead of them as they'll have to borrow a little more to get by.

«Serie A has been a challenging league, and after a few tough years the league is coming back to the top.

Not exact matches

The 22 - year - old former child prodigy had a few big - ish wins, and a lot more tough losses, before she entered the Rio Olympics an unseeded representative of Puerto Rico this past August.

But the past few years have been tough on casual restaurants — a vast category that occupies everything between fast food and fine dining — as chains have surrendered market share to a growing wave of upscale fast - food brands like Five Guys and Freshii.

Additionally, the first quarter of 2016 was a tough for Goldman, with volatile markets, regulatory burdens and fewer deals in the first half of the year pressing on its compensation pool.

After a few really tough years, it's not surprising that small business owners and consumers are responding to signs of recovery with prudence.

Fast - forward a few years: When Blank faced tough days in the first companies he started, he said he would think back to that moment.

The sector has been in recovery mode after a tough few years marked by a corruption crackdown in China which suppressed demand for expensive watches and Chinese consumers» shunning many...

Overall, it's been a tough year for tech startups, with investors slashing valuations, VCs yelling «bubble,» and quite a few complete shut - downs.

Let me ask you a few very straightforward, tough questions about what you are looking for in a supplier, what challenges you've had over the years, and then we can figure out together whether I truly add value.

Over the last few years, we have observed that when participants in The Regis Company simulations become aware of some the contributing factors to breaker moments, they do better at filtering incoming data, helping them when they need to make tough calls.

That act of maternal tough love led Ringelmann a few years later to launch, with two male partners, the crowdfunding pioneer Indiegogo.

Just a few years ago, public condemnations from him of police brutality and overall systemic racism in the country were few and far between, with Jay's frustrations and reflections over his tough childhood limited mostly to his music, including «Politics as Usual» from his debut studio album Reasonable Doubt.

When negotiations were getting tough with PayPal a few years ago, Sandberg would call up John Donahoe, the CEO of eBay, PayPal's parent company.

His first few years in business were really tough.

In some strict sense there is not much that the investors could have done: He has the votes, and they don't, and he could have just toughed it out and sat through some awkward board meetings for the next few years.

Setting his sights on hacking the toughest challenge of all — cancer — the co-founder of Napster, founding president of Facebook, and president of the Parker Foundation has already accomplished something miraculous in a few years» time: getting the nation's top cancer immunology experts to work together toward a common goal.

He'd spent the past few years on the «tough experiences» team that handles fake accounts, violent content, sexual exploitation, self - harm and counter-terrorism.

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Conditions should get tougher still over the next few years, junk watchers say.

That's a far cry from the triple - digit figures that prevailed only a few short years ago, but Chevron has worked hard to make it through the tough period for the energy sector.

One of the toughest challenges in the past few years has been to figure out how to respond to these changes.

That is a tough balancing act for a country that relies on foreign capital to finance its current account deficit - which has doubled to $ 55 billion over the last few years, according to Citigroup - but where the government says three in five children are stunted from malnutrition.

We are in tough times right now ourselves, partly due to the economy, but largely as a result of us selling our house a few years ago to do what we felt God wanted us to do.

«We're heavily a retail business, and it's been tough the last few years,» he adds.

I only see mine a few times per year, and it's really tough.

As the president of the Michigan Milk Producers Association, he's riding out a tough global dairy market that's been struggling the last few years.

Sunday is another rep, and while Torrey Pines is tough and promotes boring golf, the boring stuff is still better than anything we've watched the last few years.

The last few years to some might not be regarded as successful but probably have been some of the toughest and I think we've come through them reasonably well I think we could have seriously dropped off the map in recent years and now we're much stronger.

Second, all I hope is that we come out with a really solid roster of young, hungry, tough prospects that will take a few years to gel and get molded into a great team that's built to last season after season with a great core (like Pitt, ugh, Nash, TB, etc).

i think we all backed him and sported him through the tough years when we were cash struck but last few years he is to blame, at least for not wining the EPL once because lack of decent signings of players desperately needed

We've played them a few times over the last few years and always won — we always got through to the next round — but maybe this one will be the toughest one so far,» Robben said.

A few years later when the New Browns were returning to the league, they changed the rules to make it tougher... and the Browns franchise has never gotten truly established.

Wenger has done well to get us through the tough years of stadium debt but the last few years has shown that he can not take us forward.

We are in for a tough few years while Wenger and Kroenke are still involved.

I have a feeling DC will coach HS for 4 - 5 years, build a dominant program, then throw his hat in the ring for a D1 head coaching job which are super tough to land with so few schools left.

I remember a few years ago we play City tough away and Diaby and Cazorla just simply ran the show.

The 0 - 3 Chargers will be going for their first win and cover of the season, as they've been the victims of a few tough beats this year and are now at 0 -2-1 against the spread.

We have a game in hand this season was tough because we failed in games we should have won from winning positions which is a fact and decline we are at the bottom of our fall we have already taken steps for next year and with the players who just arrived laca Used to england and cazorla coming back hopefully jack resigns and a few new summer signings shows me were turning on the power to arise from where were at now this is the low next year we will be back to our right fulk place where wenger kept us for 20 straight years were in the dark now but headed towards the light now for next year

The Seahawks have a few tough calls to make with their aging defense in the next couple years, and Avril is up first.

We typically play well in Athens (the Dawgs, even when struggling last few years, have always played us tougher in Clemson / SC for some reason).

«It is always a hard place to come and in the last few years we have always had tough games [here].

Not only did Arsenal get the toughest draw on paper, with Manchester United being the top ranked team still in the cup competition, but the tie is to be played at Old Trafford and you don't need me to tell you that Arsenal have had a few issues with big away games in recent years.

«It was a tough game and Tottenham are a very good team who have been fighting for the title in the last few years,» Guardiola explained.

Being a Gooner is becoming tougher than it was a few years ago.

It have been tough times over the past few years, but now the Gunners are really having a stab at adding some long - awaited silverware to the cabinet.

Palace can be a tough side, ask Liverpool, their bogey team of the last few years.

«For a few years Southampton have been a tough nut to crack,» he added.