Sentences with phrase «fewer years of service»

Even better is the fact that it takes a mere four hours top up the Nissan Leaf's battery, which is an improvement over the vehicle's first few years of service.

Not only are payouts lush for only a few years of service, but unlike private pension plans, the payments are backed by the full power of the federal government, so they are completely safe.

Similarly, energy - efficient water heaters and furnaces pay back the extra cost after a few years of service and will continue to save you money for years to come.

Not exact matches

And if U.S. giant Verizon provides coast - to - coast service north of the border, it could snatch up as much as 10 or 15 per cent of the market after a few years, he said.

Hulu — which is owned jointly by CBS rivals Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox, Comcast, and Time Warner — made a similar move less than a year ago, when the service offered subscribers the option of paying a few dollars more per month for an ad - free experience.

These founders eagerly plot out five - year financial projections before they've even developed a product or service; a few theories about the fates of those impacted by a company's success are not any less likely to hold water.

In the last few years, we have seen a lot of start - ups emerging in the area of on - demand services.

«A few years ago,» wrote Cook at the time, «users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you're not the customer.

TORONTO — HBO's plans to launch a stand - alone streaming service in the United States that will let viewers sidestep their cable company to watch popular shows like «Game of Thrones» and «True Detective» could be just a few years away from posing a similar threat to Canadian telecoms.

To help these small businesses boost their brands and recruit highly - skilled applicants, LinkedIn has introduced a suite of paid services designed to help companies with fewer than 500 employees showcase their talent brand and conduct passive recruitment year - round.

The service, which had a few thousand users at the beginning of last year, had close to 800,000 at the beginning of this one.

With over 10 years of experience and roots in Silicon Valley, Swenson and Larson offer many of the same services that traditional startup coaches do, but with a few unique exceptions.

Tesla's business plan calls for developing a less expensive sedan, code - named White Star, over the next few years, as well as opening a network of dealerships and service centers.

Similarly, the average citizen does not see that a large proportion of the benefits they receive is via the $ 60 billion or so the sector pays each year to governments nationwide, without which that citizen would receive fewer services or pay higher taxes.

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.

A few years ago, HP execs said the company would compete head on with Amazon Web Services in public cloud computing, a model in which businesses rent computing capacity from a provider like Amazon, Microsoft or Google (GOOG) rather than building out more of their own data center capabilities.

While the country's economy has shifted inward over the last few years, relying on its own citizens to fuel growth, it still exports billions of dollars in goods and services every year.

There is a shred of hope for pay services to cling to in the MoffettNathanson results, however: Namely, the fact that the third - quarter figure was substantially better than the 605,000 fewer subscribers the firm reported in the second quarter of this year, news that helped to trigger a sell - off in television - related stocks.

The success of streaming services thus comes down to a few basic factors that were simply missing from the business in years past: convenience and value for money, which is evidently succeeding.

Few of the people who apply to flying schools actually get in — Quebec schools, for instance, only train around 150 to 200 pilots a year, according to Service Canada.

Joseph MacManus, a 30 - year veteran of the foreign service, is a top candidate to become ambassador to Colombia and was considered the frontrunner before conservatives began voicing opposition to his nomination a few weeks ago, according to several GOP sources.

Zack Hicks, chief information officer of Toyota North America and CEO of Toyota Connected, the automaker's new data services arm, says his relationship with Microsoft today is dramatically different than it was a few years ago.

A service that allows advertisers to target users who tweet about specific television shows, which was available only to a few brands when it launched in May of this year, is now available to any marketer running a U.S. - wide campaign.

A few years ago, customers might spend an hour of trial and error on a self - service site, Haas says.

That user joined the service in January of this year and has tweeted fewer than 2,000 times, exclusively about Herbalife.

Both hires go a long way in telegraphing the fact that the four - year - old Jack Welch Management Institute is one of the very few business schools that is run like a business, with a laser - like focus on customer service.

While Microsoft has made many of its best Office apps and services available on Google's Android and Apple iOS over the past few years, Myerson says, Windows 10 S represents a renewed focus on what makes Windows itself great.

In fact, over the past few years, we have seen wave after wave of new product and service announcements, not just from Facebook, but from all of the digital giants.

For years, Crystal Cruises was one of the few lines that didn't compete on that level, relying instead on two ultra-luxury mid-sized ships to deliver high levels of service with butlers and all - inclusive amenities like free caviar.

Many of those who have been using the Web for a few years will have ditched their desktop - based POP3 account in favor of a free Webmail service, such as Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo.

Over the past few years, this tech stalwart has positioned itself as a leader in one of its sector's up - and - coming areas: information technology services.

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.

High - end retailer Nordstrom ended the summer saying it planned 20 percent fewer clearance days this year than a couple of years ago, with another 25 percent reduction next year, as it focused on service and «differentiated» products.

Online investment services that provide automated, algorithm - based portfolio management advice have attracted millions of investors over the past few years with their low fees and minimum requirements.

Austin - based CMIT Solutions is targeting the Sacramento area for five franchises of its outsourced information technology services business in the next few years.

El Camino has spent the last few years focusing on wellness initiatives for employees to eat more healthily, exercise and manage stress throughout the work day, according to Alyse Manglik, interim manager of employee wellness and health services at the hospital.

While SEO has changed considerably over the last few years with Google algorithm updates and consequent tactical shifts from SEOs, you still find a variety of prices and services out there.

Facebook, the largest social media player and the leading news source for many Americans, has struggled to curb the spread of fake news on its service despite repeated pledges to do so over the last few years and most recently at US congress hearings with Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg.

After a few years of divergent outcomes, robust growth was recorded in both the goods and services sectors of the economy in the second half of 2003 (Graph 36).

Healthcare could end up being a major part of the services business for Apple in a few years.

One is that if all the major suppliers of hydraulic fracturing services are ramping up their fleets, we could actually run into a glut of supply in the next few years.

«Now, the question, after over a full year of progress and tremendous strides in accountability, opening access to care, improving access to benefits, tackling mental health, and strengthening relations with stakeholders, is whether the President is ready to turn the keys to the VA over to ideologues who have designs on having VA go the way of railroads, airports, energy companies, postal services, and other businesses that have been privatized — and have also proven profitable for a few,» he said in the statement.

Association and HOA fees can range from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars each year, depending on the scope of services provided to residents.If your condo has plans for big projects — such as a new roof job or repaving a parking lot — you could be asked to contribute to its expense.

From our early roots of being the first company in the world to build a fully - integrated Bitcoin pilot system for a major bank, over the subsequent few years launching consumer wallets, exchanges, and merchant services to become the market leader in Southeast Asia and Africa, starting to build our UK presence in 2016 and now finally launching across the wider Europe: we are now one giant leap closer to our goal of bringing digital currency to everyone, everywhere.

The REALTORS ® Association of Hamilton - Burlington (RAHB) reported 1,099 sales were processed through the RAHB Multiple Listing Service ® (MLS ®) System in March, 38.6 per cent fewer than the same month last year and 18 per cent fewer than the 10 - year average for the month.

The REALTORS ® Association of Hamilton - Burlington (RAHB) reported 779 sales were processed through the RAHB Multiple Listing Service ® (MLS ®) System in February, 40.3 per cent fewer than the same month last year and 25.7 per cent lower than the 10 - year average for the month.

The REALTORS ® Association of Hamilton - Burlington (RAHB) reported 1,185 sales were processed through the RAHB Multiple Listing Service ® (MLS ®) System in April, 32.4 per cent fewer than the same month last year and 21.7 per cent fewer than the 10 - year average for the...

I sell a few e-books every month, despite not having done any promotion for any of them in more than a year, and my training and nutrition clients still use my services page to sign up for coaching.

The decline in world interest rates over the past few years has seen the servicing burden of foreign debt fall to around the levels of the early 1980s.

Unlike the usual situation in which consumption of services grows more quickly than goods, the past few years have seen this pattern reverse (Graph 26).