Sentences with phrase «figure eights for»

Charlotte eventually locked in the Figure Eight for the tapout victory.

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At 27 years old I had sold a company for eight figures.

While some of these operations appear expensive, trading around 20 times cash flow (compared with eight times for miners), Nagle figures it's a fair price considering that all these companies do, basically, is collect cash.

The two - storey Landscape House — a flat, looping figure - eight form — will be constructed by an industrial - scaled printer using sand and a binding agent to create marble - like six - by - nine - foot slabs for floor and ceiling.

David Allen, shipping $ 47 million worth of product in 10 months, may worry about an eight - figure cash flow, while Jim Cox strips cars for $ 20 bills.

It was at work on a handful of projects, and had contracts worth eight figures lined up for later in 2010.

He has started and sold several companies for eight - figure exits.

As you see in the next figure, excepting a few months in early 2012, it's undershot the Fed's 2 percent target for eight years!

Thankfully, economist Josh Bivens, who wrote about all of the above for CBPPs full employment project, figured out that if x were, say 1 percent — i.e., if average compensation grew 1 percent faster than productivity growth — it would take over eight years for the gap to get back to its pre-recession level.

In 2016, the Far East Federal District's trade with China amounted to $ 6 billion, accounting for 25 percent of its foreign trade volumes.47 In a meeting with the vice premier of China's State Council, Putin stated that Chinese investment in the Russian Far East has exceeded $ 3 billion since 2015.48 According to Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East Alexander Galushka, as of November 2017, the number of projects in the PDAs and the Free Port of Vladivostok involving Chinese capital tripled in the past year to twenty - eight projects worth $ 4 billion that account for 85 percent of foreign investment attracted to the Russian Far East since 2015.49 At the Third Eastern Economic Forum in September 2017 — an annual conference to attract foreign investment to the Russian Far East — Putin even used these investment figures in jest to encourage Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to increase Japanese investments in the Russian Far East.50

And this works because you are not just hawking a product or service but you are getting your customers on board to make a real difference for something that matters, just like these college dropouts, who turned their idea into an eight - figure Evolved Enterprise, will attest.

Here's Nick Laird of Sharelynx's chart setting out the SGE withdrawal figures for the past eight years, which demonstrates nicely the huge (and very consistent apart from a blip in 2014) upwards trend in withdrawals as China's economy has continued to grow and individual purchasing power has grown with it.

Compare this to the United States» 30,136 gun - related deaths in 2003 — nearly eight times higher per capita than New Zealand's figures — and our reason for being satisfied becomes more clear.»

I pinky - swear that I am longing to order your bread book... I love baking and cooking but I just recently had to do the gluten - free switch while baking and cooking from scratch for my family of eight and it has been almost completely overwhelming to figure out what to make that I can eat too.

In addition to more food and beverage options, RaceTrac is adding expanded seating to every location, refreshing the overall ambiance with music and LED lighting and breaking the stores into a figure - eight pattern for a more easily navigated retail experience.

Carbonated soft drinks have been losing «share of throat» to bottled water for the past eight years, according to Retail World figures.

With 620,000 millionaires in the UK (a figure forecast to rise 30 % in the next eight years), the high - end on and off - trade channels are becoming increasingly important for premium spirits

The fondue can be refrigerated, covered, for up to 2 days and then rewarmed over medium - low heat, stirring in a figure - eight pattern, until the cheese is melted and hot.

and then I spent most of the eight hour plane ride rearranging the playlist because, for some crazy reason, that was more important than finishing the seating arrangements or trying to figure out who was going to make the overpriced bunch of flowers I was going to carry down the aisle.

With a core of Butler, Karl - Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins coached by Tom Thibodeau, Minnesota figures to jump into the West's top eight and contend for a playoff appearance.

Is Z - Bo fluttering toward massive decline, and if so, doesn't it make sense for Memphis to flip him while his eight - figure salary still holds some value?

The 26 - year - old has been in decent form so far this season, scoring eight goals and providing six assists in 22 appearances for Atleti, albeit it's still a drop off from recent campaigns in which he's been more of an influential figure for Diego Simeone's side.

Only eight players have averaged those figures for an entire season, with Steve Nash doing it four times.

Remy is still under contract at parent club Queens Park Rangers until June 2017, but Arsenal should be able to secure his services for a modest eight - figure sum.

His form has dipped badly this season compared to last year when he was a talismanic figure up top for the north London giants, as he's managed just eight goals and four assists in 22 appearances.

Despite these fitness worries, however, Pochettino seems determined to bring Rodriguez to White Hart Lane — and has offered Southampton winger Andros Townsend as a carrot, with the Saints reportedly having made an eight figure bid for the England winger themselves last week.

Murphy, the club's first seven - figure signing for eight years, made a dream start to his career with a stoppage - time winner in the opening day win over Brighton in front of a sold out Elland Road crowd.

Leeds had not paid seven figures for any one player in some eight years.

Ironically, if it was you, you would have figured it out and not wasted your time for eight years.

By six months, 56 per cent of the babies were reaching out for food and 40 per cent were eating it — these figures had risen to 94 per cent and 90 per cent at eight months.

If your baby now sleeps for eight or more hours at night, it means he's figured out how to settle back to sleep — a sign that you're raising a good sleeper.

To figure this out, I invented an eight - year old boy, Jimmy, with the average height of 50 inches and average weight of 55 pounds (I got these figures from weight charts issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; given that 40 % of Texas children are obese, Jimmy is lucky I allowed him to weigh in as an «average» child.)

but I was hearing swallows so I figured we were doing ok... I ended up doing half - and - half for him to eight months, which is pretty good when you don't have an adequate supply.

The figures are more promising for Theresa May, with 53 per cent of adults satisfied with her as prime minister, up eight points from January.

It is important to see the change in the Conservative vote share in the context of the longer term trend: though the Tory figures have moved around more than those of other parties in the ANP, they have been around 30 %, within the margin of error, for eight weeks, while Labour remain firmly in the mid-30s.

Gov. Paterson and the Legislature appear ready to slice the deduction from 50 to 25 percent for those in the eight - figure league.

The sheriff has declined to specify the reason for the charges, but Newsday has reported that Walsh, a powerful figure in Suffolk politics for the past eight years, had been under investigation since February, accused of charging the county for hours that he didn't work.

New figures released today show the government has met its target on removing failed asylum seekers for the past two months, with almost three - quarters of cases now decided in eight weeks, compared to 22 weeks in 1997.

Fayose said, «The reality is that the All Progressives Congress (APC) Federal Government has destroyed the economy within eight months in power and rather than look for solutions to the problems facing Nigeria, Lai Mohammed and his cohorts are branding bogus figures about stolen money just to cover up their lack of solution to the country's economic problems.»

Think you'll find that the figure for candidates with Welsh constituencies was not five but * eight *.

Tonight's daily YouGov poll for the Sun has topline figures of CON 36 %, LAB 42 %, LDEM 11 % — a six point Labour lead, but still very much within the normal margin of error of the Labour lead of eight points or so YouGov have been showing lately.

Drive figure eight shapes with your car at 1/4 throttle for a while, then turn off the car and let it fully cool down.

He figures he's got eight more years, after which he hopes the field will be big enough for him to exit and do something else, leaving others to carry on the research.

Figure 2 shows «average» proposed year - over-year changes to the federal R&D budget by major spending category in the eight Obama - submitted budgets (FY 2010 through FY 2017), based mostly on historical estimates compiled by AAAS, alongside the same data for President Bush (FY 2001 through FY 2009) for comparison.

For seven, eight years we were finding bodies, and they were skeletons, scavenged, so it became a real challenge to figure out what was really going on and to identify the bodies.

According to one study that looked at eight fuel aridity metrics in the Western U.S. and modeled climate change's effects on them, human - caused climate change accounted for about 55 percent of the observed increases in fuel aridity between 1979 and 2015 (Figure 6), and added an estimated 4.2 million hectares of forest fire area between 1984 and 2015.7 Based on all eight metrics, the Western U.S. experienced an average of 9 additional days per year of high fire potential due to climate change between 2000 and 2015, a 50 percent increase from the baseline of 17 days per year when looking back to 1979.

To best represent the influence of climate variations on water resources, this chapter focuses on eight rivers and their watersheds (Figure 3 - 5; note that some watersheds — for example, Poplar River and others — extend beyond the state boundaries).

Following [20], two main regions were defined for each perspective, by dividing the control volume into: i) the region of fish - robot interaction (referred to as the «focal region»), which extended eight fish body lengths and was centered on the robotic fish center of mass, and ii) the non-interaction zone, which consisted of the remaining portion and was delimited by the two plastic honeycombs, that is, the front-most and back-most regions, respectively, shown in Figure 4.

These researchers delivered rTMS to the left pre-frontal cortex at 120 % motor threshold (10 Hz, 4 - second train duration, and 26 - second intertrain interval) for 37.5 mins (3,000 pulses per session) using a figure - eight solid - core coil.

For example, a group of eight lipocalins (six of which are significantly dimorphic) all showed at least a 130 fold increase in abundance in one male VNO sample over the two other replicates (Figure 3A, S2A).