Sentences with phrase «half past two»

Sure, dozens of Chinese state - owned behemoths have joined the global corporate aristocracy in the past two decades.

A lawyer, Pai has shuttled between government and private - sector jobs for the past two decades.

Or, at least, they're using a lot less water to make it: MillerCoors announced this week that they've reduced their water consumption by 9.2 % over the past two years, saving roughly one billion barrels of water.

While many cryptocurrencies have been in bear market territory since a correction that began in late December, this week has been especially bloody for investors, with the Bitcoin and Ethereum prices down nearly 40 % in the past two days, and Ripple shedding nearly half its value over the same period.

That's better than the past two years, though.

Combine that with a sparkling balance sheet and its history of never cutting its dividend — the yield is now 2.5 % — and its beaten - down share price (down by a third over the past two years) looks like an opportunity to pick up a high - quality bargain.

Based on a recent filing by Disney, the sports network has lost about 7 million subscribers in the past two years alone.

«Price gains over the past two years could trigger substantially more inventory in the months ahead, and that could support higher sales and tame home price appreciation.»

The past two years have been troubling ones for the global apparel trade.

From my experience over the past two years building my startup Dizzle, a mobile app for real - estate agents, I have developed several variations of my product in hopes of mastering the product - market fit.

Pelosi expressed confidence that Democrats are in for a monumental wave election after solid Republican control of government for the past two years.

Daniel Gruss didn't sleep much the night he hacked his own computer and exposed a flaw in most of the chips made in the past two decades by hardware giant Intel Corp.

The huge volumes make the DCE a magnet for speculative retail investors, who have triggered wild price swings and prompted regulators to impose trading curbs over the past two years.

The virtual currency has risen more than 1,500 % this year, and about 85 % just in the past two weeks, driven largely by demand from individual investors.

«In the past two years things have improved,» Garadian said, noting that before Arab Spring the Egyptian economy was growing around 6 percent annually.

Over the past two years, chatbots — or technology - fueled virtual assistants — have taken the world by storm.

And that, in a nutshell, is the problem that has plagued Canada over the past two years.

In the past two decades, Lubetzky has learned a lot about what it means to run a business that is both profitable and gives back to the community.

In the past two years, aided by a grant from the Small Business Administration, the network has helped a niche - group of energy entrepreneurs secure some $ 32 million in federal contracts and create an estimated 400 jobs.

It's worth noting that private equity funds are also becoming more available through registered investments advisors to accredited investors: those with $ 200,000 in income for the past two years or $ 1 million in net worth.

And, over the past two years, the company has laid off about 12 % of its workforce, or 12,500 employees, many of whom joined Shell figuring they'd have a job for life.

For the past two months, Alenius's staff has functioned on just three hours of hyperfocused business in the morning, followed by a break for lunch and three more hours in the afternoon.

By recognizing that the marketplace is changing, Volk - Weiss, in response to that change, has built a 120 - person company that he says grew its revenue (from licensing, streaming, and production fees, product sales, and ad - revenue sharing) more than 100 percent annually over the past three years — and more than 200 percent over the past two.

One of the best - performing tech companies on a U.S. stock exchange over the past two years actually makes its home in Ottawa.

Coworking has exploded globally over the past two years.

TMI developed the Johannesburg model in conjunction with the South African police department over the past two years.

Amazon was ranked number one, as it was the past two years, and Tesla rose to third from ninth.

Woodies is a startup, bootstrapped by the owner, which has been doing business for the past two years.

Bruell said he has expanded his staff from 250 to 470 in just the past two years.

The past two years alone have seen devastating setbacks for experimental Alzheimer's drugs from a compendium of major pharmaceutical companies.

For the past two years, the company has announced an extra $ 50 billion for buybacks and dividends in conjunction with fiscal second - quarter earnings.

Bots have quickly taken over multiple spaces in the past two years, and companies choosing to climb on the chatbot train have continued to grow.

«The swing that Miller Lite has enjoyed the past two quarters is almost astounding,» says Harry Schuhmacher, editor of Beer Business Daily.

Over the past two years No Labels has developed an agenda that represents both good politics and good policy.

SoGal has gone on to make 52 investments in the past two and a half years, but the executive said she did not always expect to head down that path.

The 250 - employee company made the Inc. 500 list of the fastest - growing private companies in the U.S. the past two years.

In fact, over the past two years, while the S&P 500 has jumped nearly 30 percent, the utilities sector has gained only 6.5 percent — besting only the consumer staples and real estate sectors during that time.

Over the past two years, the world's top 10 happiest countries have remained the same, but have slightly shuffled positions.

The story draws on the reporting of many journalists and stories published by other news organizations over the past two weeks.

Thanks to sports» increasing value over the past two decades, Teachers» was able to parlay a $ 50 - million investment in 1994 for a 49 % stake in the Maple Leafs and Maple Leaf Gardens, one of the biggest, most profitable sports companies in the world, selling its stake for $ 1.32 billion.

Schroeter responded that IBM was «reasonably close» to stopping the bleeding during the past two quarters, but he did not predict whether the company would start growing again in 2017.

The shares have fallen by more than 50 % in the past two years, and assets like Nickelodeon and MTV are widely seen as being long in the tooth and not forward - thinking enough.

For the past two years, millions of people have turned to Moriarty's listening service and more continue to come every day seeking to be heard.

In the past two years, Yardstick has branched into another vertical: selling software that allows clients to administer certification tests online rather than on paper.

Target has grown its digital sales almost 30 % annually over the past two years, a rate it claims surpasses the rest of the retail industry.

She said that there had been a shortage of white grapes in the past two years, but a large number of white grapes were now being planted.

He points out so far there hasn't been «an avalanche of cases,» and that only about 12 were launched in the past two years.

In interviews over the past two weeks, many activists cited two key events over the past year that paved the way for the deal.

Unfortunately, Temple is 0 - 2 the past two years in their bowl games, meaning there are seniors on this team who were snubbed from a bowl game their freshman year, and then lost twice in the final game of the season.

Simmering in the background for the past two years, however, has been a plan to build a super-fast broadband network that would really put Google's money where its mouth is.