In Gorespeak,
a few years means five years.
The dramatic appreciation over the last
few years means that a massive correction would have to take place in order to see some real devaluation in housing prices.
This is for two main reasons; First, what the stock market does over the next
few years means little in terms of your long term performance (as we will see in a later example) and second, because it is impossible to accurately predict short term movements in the markets.
Having your vehicle for just
a few years means avoiding expensive repairs that older vehicles often require.
Improvements in primary schools over the past
few years means that the gap between the proportion of disadvantaged pupils with at least a good pass in English and maths and all other pupils is set to reduce from 24 percentage points (ppts) to 21.5 between 2017 and 2021.
Living in Texas the past
few years means missing out on the cooler temps and watching the leaves change colors.
Nowadays construction is more about careers than jobs and the expected increase in demand for management roles in the next
few years means that we need quality talent entering the industry now to fill these future positions.
The financial backing these two clubs have received over the past
few years means that there are supreme talents lining up on either side which will no doubt provide a spectacle at the Parc de Princes.
The massive boost in unstructured data in the past
few years means that businesses need to rely on the raw data more often to reveal the story, rather than parse data through pre-defined filters.
It doesn't help that Amazon's huge logistics investments over the last
few years mean it can flex its muscles the most during the holiday with its arsenal of express shipping capabilities when customers are often looking for last - minute gifts.
Underinvesting in the product over the past
few years meant that the code has become dated.
Improvements in primary schools over the past
few years mean that the gap between the proportion of disadvantaged pupils with at least a good pass in English and maths and all other pupils is set to reduce from 24 percentage points (ppts) to 21.5 between 2017 and 2021.
Not exact matches
Apple declared a
few years ago that «services,» by which it
means subscriptions and online apps, would become a growth driver.
On the other hand, a
few years ago my trash overflowed with food packaging and I didn't know what composting
meant.
That could
mean the ability to work a
few years longer than you anticipated, or having enough liquid funds to tap for
years before needing to withdraw from your stock portfolio.
Today, I am more than halfway through my child - rearing
years, and pretty soon my two older children will be off to college, which
means with
fewer distractions I can dedicate myself to another endeavor.
However, that doesn't
mean you can't look to others for ideas — a number of business people have inspired me over the past
few years.
Year - round attention to detail
means that Keflezighi can afford to be relaxed and philosophical with one of the biggest races of his life a week away, as he was when I talked to him a
few days ago.
It's an emergency surgical intervention
meant to undo damage caused by human activity both in the oceans and on dry land, and it has been shown to work — bringing dead reef sections back from the edge in just a
few years.
The earliest stages of your company's growth are the most vulnerable to insufficient capital, but that doesn't
mean you're out of the woods once you've been around a
few years.
For large institutional traders, transactions a
few milliseconds faster can
mean millions of extra dollars in profit each
year.
This may
mean you purchase
fewer new supplies in the coming
year or you need to add two new employees.
Until a
few years ago, advertising
meant spending a small fortune on print ads, plastering your message on billboards or pushing your burn rate through the roof with a radio or TV campaign.
The beverage company's new guidelines for a plan already approved by shareholders at the annual meeting earlier this
year mean it will issue
fewer stock awards each
year, addressing concerns that the plan would dilute their investments and was too generous.
The days are long past when retirement
meant a gold watch and a
few years dozing in a rocking chair.
It got there by introducing Panera 2.0 a
few years ago, an initiative that was
meant to improve the experience at Panera's cafes by adding technology and operational improvements to help keep up with high transaction volumes.
I
mean the great recession that we had here a
few years ago was nothing compared to this.
Barbara has been the Chief Marketing Officer of TripAdvisor for the past
few years, and we spoke about redefining and growing her company's brand what innovation
means at TripAdvisor, and how she jumped from a career in law to marketing.
«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.
These guidelines, which we have introduced at almost all our companies over the past
few years, effectively
mean that as long as they do their work, our employees can work whenever they want, from wherever they want.
This would
mean that Uber would lose a fair bit of money a
few nights a
year.
At the point the growth began to slow, the multiple would contract,
meaning that even if its earnings do grow 600 % in the next
few years, if it becomes subject to the law of big numbers - that ever increasing amounts eventually forge their own anchor - the result would be a market capitalization substantially similar to today, leading to no increase in the stock price over a long period of time.
Assuming Intelsat generates positive operating cash flow on par with those
years — $ 464 million generated in 2017, and $ 684 million generated in 2016 — this
means there's a very good chance that Intelsat will generate positive free cash flow over the next
few years as well.
It doesn't
mean that stocks have to fall in the short term, or even over a period of a
few years.
If this is true, by the way, it
means that attempts at implementing liberalizing reforms are successful mainly during periods of great global liquidity, and this might have implications for China, especially if over the next
few years global central banks begin to withdraw the huge liquidity injections that have underpinned asset bubbles around the world.
Variable interest rates can be alluring — a low initial APR can
mean a lot of savings in the first
few years of repayment.
The Aussie will decline to 72 US cents by
year - end as restrained economic growth and inflation
mean the Reserve Bank of Australia will take a «
few years» to catch up with the Federal Reserve in raising borrowing costs, said Philip Moffitt, Asia - Pacific head of fixed income in Sydney at the firm, which oversees more than $ US1 trillion.
Remember that signing up for a repayment plan such as IBR does not
mean you have to stick with it forever; you can always reevaluate in a
few years if your financial situation changes.
Spending a
few more
years getting your student loans or other debts paid down could
mean that you would qualify for a lower interest rate or a higher loan amount.
Hedge fund manager tips $ US300 oil price: Pierre Andurand, one of oil's most prominent hedge fund managers, said the current reluctance of energy companies to invest in new production
meant $ US300 a barrel was «not impossible» within a
few years.
That
means you could end up sending your payments to new places every
few years.
That one - fifth «free and clear» portion is
meant to get me through those first
few years.
That
means fewer working - age Illinoisans are expected to be counted on to support retirees in the coming
years, driving up the amount of unfunded pensions even higher.
Investors, advisors, and regulators have spent
years arguing over who should be classified as a fiduciary, but
few ask what that fiduciary status
means.
This
means that hundreds of billions of dollars will flow into these stocks over the next
few years as passive index funds start directing more capital to this sector.
This
means having a
few years of credit history, a variety of account types (i.e., credit cards, mortgages, installment loans, etc.), liquid savings and assets and a low debt - to - income ratio.
Consumers each pay a
few extra dollars per
year for the sugar they consume, but this
means millions of dollars for a handful of domestic sugar producers.
This is by no
means a recommendation on what you should invest in — just what has worked well for me over the past
few years.
That
means the car company that gets massive taxpayer subsidies is now worth more than the car company taxpayers bailed out a
few years ago.
Some investors argue that massive share - price increases in 2014
mean that even future successes won't produce strong returns for shareholders buying in at today's prices, but the demand among top pharmaceutical companies for promising drug candidates to add to their pipelines shows
few signs of slowing anytime soon, and that could bode well for the sector in the coming
year.