Sentences with phrase «few years the cost»

Over the past few years the cost of photovoltaic solar panels has dropped some 70 %.

It can be helpful to think about how long you think you'll own the home — if you're planning on selling in a few years the no cost refi can be a good call since you'll only end up paying a portion of the additional interest and you'll be able to take advantage of the reduced payment for each month you own the home.

The problem is that after a few years the costs can be prohibitive for most people.

Not exact matches

Trying to compete at the same cost from such a weak position hints at the same sort of hubris that has laid BlackBerry low over the past few years.

Ad costs have gone up like crazy over the last few years, and we expect this trend to continue.

Over the last few years, business owners have been tightening their belts and getting creative over cost - cutting.

A few years ago, the company learned it was incurring high costs from employees having to rebuild faulty assemblies.

These two headaches have cost Barrick about $ 15.9 billion over the past few years, according to an analyst at Macquarie Group.

A few years later, all six of the country's big banks, along with Desjardins, the Canada Pension Plan and Canaccord, joined together to launch Alpha, in hopes of lowering trading costs and bringing more competition to the market.

The average dating site customer spends just $ 239 a year for online memberships, which more than pays for itself to the tune of $ 12,803 in cost savings from fewer dates,» the report said.

«During the past few years, we have reignited our innovation engine, rebuilt relationships with customers and partners, and gotten our cost structure in line with our revenue,» wrote Whitman.

Jack Raudenbush, vice president of the $ 4.6 million company, which is based in Middletown, Pennsylvania, estimates that the change costs a few thousand dollars per year but calls it money well spent: «This was the type of plan our competitors had, and we needed to offer competitive benefits.»

He says in the past few years, payroll costs have become the biggest expense for his business, surpassing the costs of food.

The rising cost of homeownership is pushing more people to rent, and the vacancy rate in Toronto has tightened over the past few years to 1.3 per cent, according to CMHC.

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.

«To me, for a few nights, and to save close to $ 500 in costs and get more, it's a no - brainer,» says Abramson, who travels some 200 days per year.

Within the last few years, «idea guys and gals» who wish to turn their concepts into cash have a new low cost option — crowdsourced innovation companies.

A bad sales deal will cost your company money and produce headaches for a few months or maybe years.

Some of the above software solutions, such as Google Experiments, are free, while others can cost a few thousand dollars a year.

I am acutely aware of the ones related to the cost of college, having just sat through a recruiting event with my 17 - year - old daughter a few weeks ago.

Richard Swart, who directs research into innovative entrepreneurial finance at the University of California, Berkeley, does not forecast sharp growth for crowdfunding, at least for the first few years, partly due to regulatory costs.

With economies of scale the cost of solar power has plunged much faster than many people expected — and some are actually arguing that solar will become cheaper than fossil fuels within the next few years.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

Co-working spaces — which cost anywhere from $ 25 a day for occasional drop - ins to $ 500 or more a month — only began popping up a few years ago in places like New York and San Francisco.

It's an updated twist on a low - cost, mail - order film - processing service popularized a few years ago by Seattle Film Works, recently renamed PhotoWorks Inc., in its own bid to straddle the digital divide.

Also, the total cost of a wireless local area network (LAN) is relatively inexpensive — it's become very affordable in the past few years, and prices continue to drop.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Adding thousands of new greeter positions could cost Wal - Mart a few hundred million dollars each year, but even a 10 % drop in theft would probably offset those additional costs.

Tuck money away for the kids» college (and graduate school) costs coming down the highway in a few years?

The few old workstations she still uses will be replaced next year at a cost of $ 5,000 to $ 7,000.

In the past few years new robotics, computational biology, and gene - editing and gene - synthesis technologies have emerged to make synthetic biology efficient and cost - effective.

It costs about $ 20,000 for a small business to take part in a trade show for a few days, Egan says, and about $ 1,000 to set up a virtual booth at one of his trade shows for a full year.

Businesses starting their first plan with fewer than 100 employees might qualify for tax credits as high as $ 500 to offset setup and administrative costs for three years, and employer contributions are tax deductible for the firm.

Twenty years ago, it cost several million dollars to launch an e-commerce startup, which can be done today for a few thousand dollars.

Guest blogging services are cropping up everywhere (including here, at AudienceBloom) as the industry begins to realize that guest blogging, as a link building tactic, is one of the few safe havens left after Penguin demolished many of the lower - cost, higher quantity tactics that SEOs came to rely upon over the course of the past several years.

This company reduced the out - of - pocket costs of EpiPen for some patients last week amid a wave of criticism from lawmakers and the public over the rapid escalation in the product's price in the past few years.

I would disagree with the sentiment that «Few people would not run a cost / benefit analysis of college or graduate school before spending years of their lives and tens of thousands of dollars.»

Tight oil companies have made the case that through increased efficiency and lower service costs that their economics are better at lower oil prices today than they were at $ 90 per barrel prices a few years ago.

Take into consideration that during your first few years of business, you'll be dealing with start - up costs as well as loan payments.

Its costs have risen significantly as it warned investors, but its investments in Oculus and artificial intelligence could pay off big time in a few years.

After almost 30 years of losing money, it was the cost of publishing a newspaper for so few daily readers — just 40,718 once free or discounted copies are stripped out — that had simply become unsustainable in an age where so much information is free online.

Since few other countries produce these products, it will be nearly impossible for consumers to avoid a tariff that is increasing to 8 per cent from 5 per cent, costing consumers more than $ 1 - million a year.

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The analysis does not include an additional cost of the legislation: its repeal of the individual mandate, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates could cause as many as 13 million fewer people to have health insurance, reducing federal spending for poor and middle - class Americans» health insurance by $ 338 billion over 10 years.

Plan costs have been falling for the last few years, according to a December report from BrightScope.

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.

A few years ago when Home Depot wished to get rid of their CEO it cost them 200 Million Dollars.

Such a wholesale change would have been unheard - of a few years ago, when Ford and other carmakers were under intense pressure to cut costs and save money.

The first policy would likely have significant costs as a result of fewer firms paying the mandate penalty, and the second policy was estimated in 2015 to cost $ 53 billion over ten years.

Blockchain solutions, which a few years ago, cost half a million to implement, are coming down in price to a level that is affordable for commercial applications.