Sentences with phrase «gradually over a few years»

Increasing our savings rate from 50 % to 60 % happened gradually over a few years.

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The responses suggest that the Fed has been successful at convincing markets it will hike only gradually over the next few years.

Iowa senator Chuck Grassley has also spoken out against the bill's changes to the wind credit, as a 2015 compromise will already see the credit gradually phased out over the next few years.

Over the first two years, McGee gradually replaced virtually the entire top management with outside hires, as well as a few high - potential managers from the ranks.

Each dollar in additional savings is invested to generate passive income which helps to gradually increase the savings rate as well (over the last few years, our active income has been more or less stable).

First, economists at TD Bank made the case Toronto's market isn't significantly overvalued, and that price growth will cool gradually over the next few years.

The neutral level of the federal funds rate is expected to rise gradually, making it likely for gradual rate hikes over the next few years, Yellen said.

From Indian University Web site: «When exceptionally complete fossil sites are studied, usually a mix of patterns are seen: some species still seem to appear suddenly (within a few hundred thousand years), while others clearly appear gradually (over many millions of years).

Bullying tends to peak in 6th and 7th grade, and then gradually decline over the next few years.

Until then, enjoy your passionate three - year - old and rest assured that understanding logical connections and family rules is a skill that gradually unfolds over the next few years.

Over the next few years the number gradually increased to 8,701 million pieces, 9,591 million pieces, 10,720 million pieces, 12,026 million pieces and 14,768 million pieces.

Under the plan, the state would gradually increase the city's minimum wage to $ 15 per hour over the next few years — requiring businesses with at last 11 employees to comply by 2018, and requiring smaller businesses to comply by the end of 2019, Cuomo said.

«A complicating factor here, as has been observed many times over the past few years, is urban sprawl gradually engulfing chemical plants.

Over the past few years I have gradually started doing more exersize which I do most days, I eat healthy have the occasional drink but just seem to be piling on the pounds, I gym swim cycle and Run... help please

Over the last few years, the trends for online adult dating have become gradually more popular.

The Gregorian calendar has gradually replaced the Julian calendar over a period of a few hundred years from October 1582 to re-align dates with the Calendar Yyears from October 1582 to re-align dates with the Calendar YearsYears.

As we learn more in the next few months about the review and approval of these ESSA state accountability plans, it's important to understand that districts and schools will see the impact of ESSA gradually over the next few years, as states begin to track the accountability data and report on school success.

In the 35 OC schools implementing in 2014 — 15, we've already seen that 45 % more make high growth and 46 % fewer make low growth than other schools in the same states, even though most OC schools are implementing their new models gradually over two or three years.

Sales stayed strong after the first free promotion for almost a year but had gradually started to decrease over the last few months.

And even if you decide to go ahead, you may want to «annuitize» gradually, spreading your money among annuities from a few different highly rated insurers over a period of several years, to avoid the risk of investing all your dough when interest rates and annuity payments are at or near a low.

Hard inquiries can lower your score by a few points, but your score will recover gradually over time (the inquiry affects your score for one year and remains in your file for two years).

Better to build it up gradually over the 5 years prior to retirement than to be faced with having to sell during a bear market in your first few years after work (this phenomenon, called «sequence risk», is one of the highest risks you'll need to manage in retirement).

The effects of rising import prices on inflation diminish over the next few years, and domestic inflationary pressures gradually pick up as spare capacity is absorbed and wage growth recovers.

If instead the shares start at $ 20 each, then gradually dip down to a low of $ 12.67 each after a few months, then work its way back up to $ 44.43 by year's end, then your $ 1000 quarterly investments over a 12 year period will look like this:

If you find it psychologically or emotionally difficult to do that, then make the move gradually but over a short period, say, a few months instead of a year.

As the Fed has been gradually normalizing monetary policy over the last few years, the correlation across asset classes has been in decline.

In fact, you're probably better off investing smaller amounts gradually over the space of a few years.

As a result of the Fed's direction, along with general improvements in the economy, our 2013 30 - year mortgage rate forecast calls for gradually rising interest rates over the next few months.

And even if you eventually decide an annuity is the way to you, you may want to commit your money gradually, say, buying three smaller annuities over a period of a few years rather than investing a single chunk all once, as such a strategy reduces the odds you'll commit all your annuity money when interest rates are at or near a low point.

Things could gradually decline over the next few years (most likely), but even take a sharp turn for the worse... a lot depends on the political scene next year.

Plagued by a series of physical and mental ailments over the last few years, the sweet Schnauzer's vibrant personality faded gradually and culminated in his dementia diagnosis early this year.

Farming Simulator is a bizarrely popular series, launching initially on PC in 2012 before making its way gradually to consoles over the last few years.

The Pew Research reports that game console ownership overall in the US remains where it was back in 2010, but this is expected to change over the course of the next few years as the videogaming industry gradually prioritizes consoles over PC gaming.

Both the Xbox One and PS4 consoles were initially released with a paltry 500 GB of storage capacity and while that amount has gradually crept up over the past few years with consoles coming in 1 TB and 2 TB forms, if you didn't happen to get one of those versions, you may find yourself constantly having to delete things from your console's memory in order to install fun new things.

Though the art world may not yet have a satisfactory way of referring to artists like Mullen, who are variously described by such leaky terms as self - taught, outsider, and vernacular, it has, over the past few years, shown more interest in them and is gradually growing the existing market for their work.

Over the past few years, as her work has gradually transitioned more and more into the three - dimensional, real space of the white cube with group and solo exhibitions of her video along with other works like a series of flags and «paintings» on aluminum, Cortright has also continued to become more and more infamous within Internet communities of artists and other visually - minded, new media thinkers who are utilizing the unique terrain of the Internet to modify how art can be made, disseminated and even bought and sold.

Following the PETM, global temperatures declined to pre-PETM levels, but they gradually increased to near - PETM levels over the next few million years during a period known as the Eocene Optimum.

Contract platforms initially provided interim and temporary contract cover for the in - house market, but over the past few years have gradually expanded to provide cover for private practice, initially on the interim side of the business but increasingly for contract placements as well.

Having found that the husband's reduced income was permanent and that it was a material change, the court granted his motion to vary; his support obligations were gradually reduced from about $ 800 per month down to about $ 500 per month over the next few years.

Meanwhile, over the past few years Facebook has been gradually improving its own avatar system for Facebook Spaces, its VR hangout spot where you can chat with friends, visit 360 photo locations, and play basic games.

As a result, the tech company will focus on improving Chrome and gradually phase out the apps on every other system over the next few years, before killing it off entirely.

Our business has gradually morphed over the last few years from a cabinet painting business into a full kitchen re-design business.