Sentences with phrase «few years and decades»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In our Special Energy Report: An American Energy Renaissance, we highlight that just a few years ago investors were contemplating the supply constraints facing the petroleum industry, but with the disruptive technology in shale oil and gas in the U.S., we could now be looking at decades of drilling ahead.

Zijin has been looking abroad for gold and copper acquisitions for more than a decade, but has been a very active buyer over just the past few years.

Hardly any of us know what we'll be doing in a few years, let alone in a few decades, so trust that God is using your current situation to give you wisdom and equip you for His purposes.

Through 24 years of living all I can TRULY say for sure now is that I KNOW there is a GOD and I always will, but his role and the role of others keep changing every few decades or so, before you know they are going to be proposed GAY biblical icons and then I'm through with Christianity all together.

We are decimating the natural environment, drawing down the nonrenewable resources of the planet at an astonishing rate, thereby accelerating the erasure of entire ecosystems and the extinction of thousands of million - year - old species — all in a few decades.

«Because globalization as a culturally homogenizing and environment - devouring force is coming on so fast, there is a real danger that in just a few decades it could wipe out the ecological and cultural diversity that took millions of years of human and biological evolution to produce.»

The number of new recruits to the priesthood has fallen sharply in the recent decades - and as Ireland has become engulfed in a series of child sex abuse scandals over the past few years.

Yeah, thats why there are fewer catholics now then there were a decade ago, and so on back 30 years.

I had the privilege a few years ago of meeting Dr. Cornel West, a man who has been engaged in activism and justice work for decades.

You also wrote,» What I don't like is for know - it - all young people who think they can overturn thousands of years of morality within a few decades and call immoral moral.

What I don't like is for know - it - all young people who think they can overturn thousands of years of morality within a few decades and call immoral moral.

It is not difficult to imagine that within the next few years this pattern will become almost universal in Reformed churches, together with an even wider observance of the Christian Year than is now the case (and the present practice is far more extensive than it was a decade ago).

Banana workers have been exploited since the banana trade began well over a hundred years ago, though in the last few decades we have been making progress with fair trade and organic certifications that seek to change this.

«Jameson has experienced phenomenal success over the last decade and has nearly doubled in size in the past few years alone,» Hartunian added.

If you were to tell me back then, that I would later relocate half - way across the globe, and settle for a few years in the South American continent, and more specifically in Buenos Aires, which was known for many decades as the «Paris of South America», I would have really scoffed in your face.

The controversy over carrageenan has existed between food industry representatives and public health researchers for decades, but it has flared up again over the past few years with its use in organic food.

This site is dedicated to the few Chefs who have, over the past years and decades, dared to push themselves both mentally and physically to their cooking limits by stepping into the gauntlet known as the American Certified Master Chef's Exam as constituted by the American Culinary Federation Educational Institute.

Mr Smith said only a few years ago many producers were in survival mode and suffering through the lowest cattle prices in decades.

She appeared in films like Wild and Obvious Child and did a multi-season arc on Girls, but the most prominent role she took in the past few decades has been on Transparent for the past three years.

So how and why is the gap not bridged????? The other important thing to remember is that in the last ten years Wenger has won NOTHING of note so his repuatation amongst the world elite players is less than it was a decade ago and there are few of them that actually WANT to play for the club now our reputation for having no ambition is paramount now rather than our repuatation for winning competitions.