Sentences with phrase «few years things»

But over the past few years things have actually moved in a much more positive direction, with Land Registry making great strides in commercialising its data, and in grasping the potential of «Big Data».

Not exact matches

It has been on an upward price track for years, in part because the Chinese — compelled by the lack of a social safety net to save rigorously for things like higher education and in case of illness — have few other investing vehicles with which to protect their savings from the ravages of inflation.

For one thing, Ukip is a right - wing protest group that has gained a surprisingly large amount of support in the past few years on an anti-EU and anti-immigration platform.

«A lot of things have come together in the past few years to put us on a growth trajectory.»

The last thing he wants is to have to spend the next few years publicly defending legislation that takes away health insurance from tens of millions of Americans and raises the premiums for tens of millions more (whether he believes in the merits of that legislation or not).

Unless there's a giant Dick Tracey revival some time in the next few years, I'm betting that any smart watch will result in one thing: iFailure.

«For the U.S. to be so much off market, it's going to lead to corporations doing things you would not normally do in terms of shifting revenues offshore, the kinds of inversions we saw a few years ago, etc..»

Facebook is about to go public, and clearly, the 27 - year - old has done a few things right.

You'd think that, after a few years, it's a time that even a first timer starter - upper would get used to suffering through, but that's not how things work in the business of building new businesses.

But, over the next few years, I had several insights that helped turn things around from my earlier mistakes.

Popova began her blog by pulling together all the interesting things she stumbled upon while working at an ad agency a few years ago.

Sure, things might change in the next few years (in fact, they will), but these are five of the best neighborhood in Los Angeles right now, according to someone who lived there for 12 years:

BM: There is more clarity of focus, and there are a lot of people around who have a very deep domain of knowledge, and that gives us the ability to skip over things we might have tried a few years ago.

Two and a half years after launching Iodine.com, we're finally getting around to fixing a few things that have bothered us since day one.

A few years ago he went beyond critique and created the Thiel Fellowship, which gives a US$ 100,000 grant to entrepreneurial young people who «want to build new things instead of sitting in a classroom.»

After a few years of sporadic blog posts, tiny photos, and a headshot of the woman who handles Mirren's fan mail, maybe that's not such a bad thing.

By the looks of things, many of you have been so busy building wealth through your businesses in the past few years, you've forgotten something pretty important — namely, a succession plan.

The things you learn over the next few years will shape your professional future.

As bad as things get, there's one place in Moscow that reminds Russians that things could be a whole lot worse: the city's Cold War Museum, which opened a few years ago in a converted bunker.

But being consistent (or lazy) requires you to be just as ignorant today as you were a year ago and I'd like to think that — even at my advanced age — I've learned, re-learned and unlearned a few new and important things.

The good news is that by doing a few simple things, such as planning to withdraw no more than 4 % of your portfolio each year, you can lower your risk significantly.

A lot of things you can get away with in your 20s (like subsisting on lots of beer, little sleep, and no exercise), will quickly make you fat, miserable, and sick just a few years later.

It's still a new industry and while the general awareness has increased dramatically over the last few years, it's not quite a household thing yet.

You may not land a sale for a single cornflake in the shape of Illinois (that already sold for $ 1,350 a few years back), but chances are good that you'll be able to generate quick cash just from things you have around your house.

If there are two things marketers and advertising people have heard and talked about ad nauseam over the last few years, it's the importance of social media engagement and the increasing value of live sports on TV.

Here are a few things I've learned over the years:

«We've been doing these kinds of jokes for a few years now, and I think the key thing that we're learning is to trust our gut a little more than we usually do.

Even my own post running up to the IPO focused on all the bad things that have dogged the site during its crazy climb over the past few years, from users» privacy concerns to advertisers» doubts about the site's usefulness.

Over the past few years, several individuals have told me effectively the same thing: «Books are business cards on steroids.»

While emerging market indexes have been on a wild ride over the past few years, she thinks a number of developing nations are on the cusp of great things.

After 10 years of modeling, I told my husband, «You know, I have this idea: Here are a few things I've made, and here's a business plan for us.»

The concept of mobile payments has been around for several years, but a few things had to come together to make Apple Pay a reality.

Follow nutrition guidelines for a few years and you'll learn only one thing is really certain — recommendations will change.

Here are a few simple things managers can do so their employees feel love and appreciation year - round:

But Walgreens has been busy with other things in the last few years, leaving marketing somewhat on the back - burner.

College is becoming less and less a place to kick back and spend a few years «figuring things out.»

After a heady few years in which important new gizmos appeared just about every week, 2013 was more of an iterative time bereft of that One Big Thing.

When Steve Perlman first began developing the pWave in 2002, YouTube didn't exist, the iPhone was still a few years away, and there was no such thing as Netflix streaming.

However, if you're 30 years old, you still have a few decades to ride things out.

At the time, all the networks were making 20 - plus movies a year and a couple of miniseries and maybe a few limited series, and so you were making things all the time.

When you get to the point where you're only spending a few hours a year managing your investments you can move on to the next thing.

It's actually hard to overstate how much things will change over the next few years as these printers become commonplace.

As 2015 begins, there are a few things professionals should consider including in this year's marketing budget.

How she's sticking to this goal: «Like many startup founders, I've spent the first few years at WayUp working on things like user support (aka responding to every user's email), sales strategy, product road mapping and more.

It took me years to figure out that a system is a good thing, and a few more years to develop one, but it was worth it.

Things that I was singing a year ago I have to take fewer breaths on because I can ration my singing breath more easily than I was able to do before.

For the past few years I've hosted or have been a guest on several hundred webinars, teaching people a variety of things from LinkedIn marketing to how to start a business from scratch.

Nowadays, it seems, a new business is apt to be a Compaq or MIPS kind of thing, hitting the ground fully capitalized, fully researched and developed, fully located, fully staffed, and fully positioned to rake in a few hundred million dollars within the first three years.

Thankfully, I can make a lot more than that with the things I'm doing (still teaching a few classes per year, leading masterminds, and writing and speaking).

To me, it's an outgrowth of things that have been around for a few years.