Sentences with phrase «good solid year»

I spent a good solid year laughing about it in my head.

Big questions, indeed, and with a good solid year and a half of muffin - making behind me, I decided it was time to be bold and venture where no muffin in my kitchen had gone before: an original recipe from scratch.

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The Apple Watch is alive and well thanks to a price reduction and solid craftsmanship, and rumors are swirling that an Apple Watch 2 with GPS and improved processing power would hit the market by the end of this year.

In an ideal world, we'd all have our to - do lists checked well before the beginning of the year to guarantee a solid start to the new year.

Three years is plenty of time to start, grow and even exit a business, but having a personal as well as a business plan will help give you something positive to look back on and provide a solid foundation for any future entrepreneurial endeavors.

«This enables us to transform Alcoa faster and to better control our destiny in a world of continuing economic uncertainty... 2014 was another solid year of Alcoa business performance and transformation progress that delivered significant returns to our shareholders.»

If it took Oprah a few years to get her business on solid footing with all of the resources at her disposal, prepare for it to take you at least that long as well.

Bates says there's a solid incentive for addressing work - life issues, and it's directly related to the reason she and two partners started their firm 15 years ago: «It's a highly competitive market and we want to attract the best people in the business.

That's not normally an outlandish amount in a solid recovery, but the previous two years are estimated at 3.1 and 3.3 per cent rates respectively, so 2014 had better be a good year for the economy.

Meanwhile, on the television side, Netflix stands a solid chance of repeating last year's win the Best Drama category, with returning winner The Crown and popular sci - fi series Stranger Things both nominated again.

«The international markets may remain a little challenging for the balance of this calendar year, and perhaps into 2016, but our foundations are solid and I feel very very good about our positioning today.»

She's been on a very solid track for a number of years, even running good increases over the past year and a half when the women's business as a whole has been really struggling.

The balance of opinion reached its highest level in five years and indicates that, by a solid margin, businesses across the country saw better indicators of future sales than 12 months ago.

The predict a good year ahead with a solid 5 % growth in price.

Domestic demand has likewise held up pretty well, with retail sales posting a solid increase in the first half of the year.

At this point, the Wii U's best hope for a solid 2015 are its older games: people are still playing Super Smash Bros. and Mario Kart 8, and these games are still helping Nintendo move consoles over a year after their respective releases.

The pitch was that if you just keep your money in the market when the going gets rough, such as in bear markets, the substantial upside in the good years will more than compensate for the down years, thereby leaving you with a solid annualized gain over long - term.

-[March / 2017]- Subscribe to RSS feed My goal is to achieve Financial Independence in just ten years by investing in solid dividend companies that have a history of paying out dividends as well as increasing annual dividend payouts.

The Pound got some relief from UK construction data, with a solid rebound from March's 47 reading to a 52.5 print last month, well ahead of expectations and the highest reading since November last year.

There are objective reasons to be optimistic, including ongoing labor market improvements — underscored by falling unemployment and underemployment rates, as well as solid job growth — combined with the Federal Reserve's expectations that conditions will permit further interest rate hikes this year as it continues to move toward policy «normalization.»

During the five and a half years we have grown into one of the most significant operators in the Nordics and we believe that our solid experience in the sector as well as our well developed brand is one of our key competitive factors during the internationalization process.

Results reflect strong earnings growth in Wealth Management, Insurance excluding the prior year gain on sale (1), and Investor & Treasury Services, as well as solid earnings in Personal & Commercial Banking.

In general, perpetual dividend raisers are a very solid and safe investment and they have proven over several years that they are managed well.

With the company expecting a solid year ahead, 2017 could bring better times for shareholders.

I think we're due for a correction and I'm sure we'll have one in a year or two but as long as you have a solid asset allocation set up and can weather the drops, an investor will come out better off once things clear up and the stock market starts rising again especially if you keep buying on the way down.

While shares of Hi - Crush have performed much better than peers U.S. Silica and Fairmount Santrol in the year - to - date period — losing only 1 % compared to losses of 24 % and 14 %, respectively — merely breaking even after solid operations in 2017 is hardly fair.

After being one of last year's best - performing sectors, the industrial sector is again proving solid.

But Italy's fiscal arithmetic rests strongly on the idea of a good and solid economic recovery lasting for a few years.

Combined with modest growth from its Fios segment — where increases in Fios Internet customers have more than offset losses in Fios Video connections — as well as sales from its Oath subsidiary, which encompasses more than 50 media and tech brands including Yahoo!, tumblr, TechCrunch, HuffPost, and AOL, management says investors can safely expect Verizon to deliver solid low - single - digit percent growth in both revenue and adjusted earnings this year.

However, the January - March increase came in better than expected, supporting hopes for a solid rebound for the rest of the year where analysts are looking for growth to surpass 3 % once again.

And with corporate profits still well below their previous peaks and valuations as of November 2017 looking fair given the more promising economic environment, European equities look to us to be potentially poised for another solid year in 2018.

The best part is that by the time they would have graduated college, they'll have 4 or 5 years of solid work experience and a professional portfolio that makes their degree status irrelevant.

As well, its five - year average growth rates for real GDP per capita and after - tax income are fairly solid by North American standards.

Businesses spent more on structures, up by an annualized 12.3 percent and the best reading in one year, with relatively solid growth for both equipment (up 4.7 percent) and intellectual property products (up 3.6 percent).

Most of the North American Indian tribes and their spirituality / religions are well over 5000 years old, with understanding of God just as solid as that of the Roman Catholic Church.

«The good news is that when couples do finally get round to making a solid commitment it is far more likely to last than twenty years ago.»

Generally I try to do my part about once a week as well as I generally donate a solid amount a year (have since I was a kid).

Without a solid 200 - 400 years of observation, there would be NO WAY to use records to compare now to then, and that would be with GOOD record keeping standards, and even then it wouldn't be entirely conclusive.

Even the most well - intentioned New Year's Resolutions can quickly become nothing more than a fond memory without a solid plan in place to keep you motivated and on track.

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In 2009, Snyder's of Hanover set a goal to reduce its energy and natural gas usage and greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent each in the next five years, as well as reduce its solid waste by 30 percent in the same period.

«In some years there will be challenges we need to deal with, and in Australia the implementation of the container deposit scheme poses some uncertainty, but overall these are really good strong business with solid competitive advantages.»

Group turnover increased by 25 per cent to $ 3.8 billion and total sales grew by 25 per cent last year to $ 3.8 billion, reflecting a solid performance in the Americas as well as Ireland.

With over 10 years of business ownership and management experience, as well as a solid understanding of the need for excellent customer service and a desire to bring quality hamburgers to Clark County, Boehrer signed a franchise agreement with Wayback Burgers to become a multi-unit operator.

Through educational newsletters / meetings as well as facility container improvements, reductions allowed for a decrease to one trash pickup per week and solid waste to landfill was reduced by 42 percent compared to the previous year.

With over 50 years of Application Engineering experience, Metallized Carbon offers the field expertise and data necessary to provide The Solid Choice for Lubrication ® in a wide variety of industries, supplying completely machined components as well as materials for customer machining.

But after an MVP - caliber year in 2014, he was merely okay in 2015, and even with his bargain contract, teams aren't giving up their best prospects for a solid 30 - year - old catcher coming off an injury - marred campaign.

Glennon isn't perfect — anyone that watched him play last year can admit that, but he was a solid backup and widely recognized as the best FA option at QB two years ago, something that didn't happen by accident.

Generally agree — Ox good, but still no end product, Welbeck — good effort, sorry but not enough if we want to win things, Xhaka needs protection of a good CDM, Özil a luxury we can't currently afford, Ramsey good if we again had someone filling the midfield behind him — We just need a great CDM (as per the previous 7 + years) to give us a solid platform we desperately need.

Wilcox and a rookie is solid depth regardless, leaps better than last year.