Sentences with phrase «few years i have»

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.

The Federal Reserve's decisions over the past 12 months to continuously raise interest rates from the near zero percent level of the past few years have made it more profitable for big banks to lend money.

A new survey by the Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) reported that the number of fund managers that expect the value of oil firms to drop in the next few years has doubled.

In the last few years I've traveled to lots of countries that understand that the rise of entrepreneurship will be an economic engine for the 21st century.

But the past few years have shown that it will take more than cheap money to coax Canadian executives to leverage their profits to the extent necessary to boost growth.

For me, one of the most important, and surprising, discoveries over the last few years has been that choosing the best approach to balancing business and social concerns starts with a decision to make shareholder interests the higher priority.

The past few years have flown by for me since I left my job as Head of Marketing at Salesforce Pardot and joined my co-founders to launch Terminus.

When great games come out and they're well reviewed... if you look at our Metacritic scores over the past few years have been great and positive.

I find this fascinating, because one of the biggest challenges I've confronted as a founder over the last few years has been changing my mind, when I have a realization and I become inconsistent on a thought I previously had.

Despite a dramatic expansion of reserves via the Fed's operations over the course of the last few years we have seen no pick - up in lending.

The past few years have seen an explosion of programs claiming to help startups grow.

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

In the few years it has lagged, it's almost always done so by a slim margin.

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.

Jomashop, an online watch retailer based in Brooklyn, says its biggest revenue growth in the past few years has come from sales to China.

They also state that, «the price difference between Brent and WTI is normally around $ 5, over the last few years it has widened to around $ 20.»

The past few years have been hard on the company, and shares are worth nearly half what they were in April 2005.

Jurrien Timmer: Yeah, the way that I look at the world, you know, the market cycle has different phases and where we have been for the last few years has really been the Goldilocks, sort of mid-cycle phase.

A common theme over the last few years has been to price at the highest valuation.

But, combined with the economic crisis, the past few years have decimated the industry, says Stephen Atkinson, a BMO Capital Markets analyst, driving 70 % of North American newsprint supply into bankruptcy.

The last few years have seen a number of interesting developments for aircraft carriers.

It seems the micro-floral patterns that have been popular in menswear the last few years have given way almost completely to the larger ones usually seen on your dad's vacation shirt.

I would say these past few years we've seen the rise of social media, and then the mainstream adoption of it and now from that we are left with a huge opportunity to leverage influencer marketing.

These past few years have certainly been kind to the mobile advertising world.

Since 1999 I've been running my digital marketing agency, but over the last few years I've turned most of the daily operations over to a team that can run the agency better than I can.

From the integration of media services like Netflix or «reading apps» from the likes of The Guardian, to the Like button that aggregates all of a user's online activity in one place, everything the social network has done over the past few years has suggested that it wants to be the go - to entry point of the Internet.

«It was absolute torture the first month (and especially the first parade), but after a few months I got used to it, and after a few years I would forget I had the costume on.»

«Over the past few years we've connected both firms to many of the key players in the Canadian capital markets.

Over the past few years we have faced some unprecedented economic challenges and we surmounted.»

«Iran and Saudi Arabia have had serious frictions in the past, but the last few years have seen a real increase in tension,» John Gay, executive director of the John Quincy Adams Society and coauthor of the book «War With Iran,» told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

And a job growth streak these past few years has created plentiful options for better employment.

The stage was set for him to get his wish: reports over the past few years had said that the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews (R&A), golf's governing authority everywhere outside the U.S., was likely to give Trump the 2020 tournament, officially known as the Open Championship (to golf fans, simply The Open).

Money managers that rolled out smart beta ETFs in the last few years have received just 5 percent of cumulative investor inflows since 2012, with the bulk of new money going to the largest companies, the Goldman report said.

Those families who have benefited the least from the big increase in stock prices over the last few years have the most to gain, proportionately, from the drop in oil and gas prices.

The last few years have seen a huge move towards more democracy and free speech, with the theater and arts scene blossoming because of it.

Three of the most successful YouTube marketing campaigns launched in the past few years have been created by BYU alumni.

84 Watching RIM over the past few years has been somewhat like watching a one - time Olympic champion diver turn a perfectly executed reverse inward twist into an ill - timed belly flop.

A 20 or 30 percent correction in stock prices after the run of the last few years would be very healthy.

Only in the past few years have a large percentage of films been shot digitally, and shooting on celluloid is still alive and well.

The last few years have seen steady growth in all housing related sectors, and as a result, the entire industry is in transition.

For example, an early - stage, high - growth company with limited revenues and prospects for negative operating income for the next few years would find this to be a good option.

The last few years have seen renewable energy technologies become price competitive, the CEO of Dong Energy told CNBC on Thursday.

Still, Woodman makes clear, the past few years have left scars.

Only in the past few years has new database technology allowed big companies to cull huge amounts of digital information for real - time decision - making.

«The last few years have been building up to this moment,» an art consultant told the New York Times.

Anyone who has spent a day in Mountain View, Calif., in the past few years has probably spotted a Lexus SUV driving around town that is equipped with Google self - driving tech spinning on its roof.

Of course, as the past few years have shown, having so many eggs in the oil and gas basket can be a liability, but probably nobody in Canada has more experience riding the sector's ups and downs than does Riddell.

AWS, which has been adding more enterprise - y capabilities for the past few years would definitely disagree.

Erik Solheim, the head of UN Environment, said that while the last few years had seen an enormous uptake in renewable energy, a redoubling of efforts was needed «to ensure these new low - carbon technologies are able to thrive.

«We've also got the packaging and advertising localized, and as a result over the last few years we've tripled the Chips Ahoy business.»