Sentences with phrase «handful of years by»

All in all, the entire experience of buying a rental insurance policy has been greatly modified and streamlined over the past handful of years by the evolution of the online market.

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The restaurant chain joined a handful of other small - cap stocks that have pushed up their stock price by announcing a link with Bitcoin or blockchain in the past year.

And that billion was bolstered by a handful of major deals in the final months of the year.

Legislators in a handful of oil - rich states are struggling to do the seemingly impossible as the 2016 fiscal year draws to a close this week: balancing their budgets, as required by law, despite massive declines in revenues due to falling oil prices.

Meg Whitman led eBay for 10 years, building what was essentially a startup with a handful of employees into a multibillion - dollar corporation by the time she left in 2008.

Self - driving cars will largely be used by researchers and tech developers for the next handful of years, but by 2021, consumers will begin to adopt autonomous car technology, according to the market - research firm's findings.

They came back with a handful of suggestions, and John Bankemper, a 30 - year veteran of the company and president of the skylight division, was particularly impressed by two: a large text box touting the company's lifetime warranty and a circular cutout that let shoppers look at the skylight without opening the box.

A handful of self - driving Volvo XC90 SUVs will be deployed as part of the pilot program later this month, with 100 expected by the end of the year.

Last year, a handful of former Trump aides and Republican consultants dismissed the potency of Cambridge Analytica's so - called secret sauce as «exaggerated» in a profile by the New York Times.

Although we are still years away from the next round of municipal, provincial and federal elections in Alberta, a handful of provincial and municipal by - elections will be held in the first half of 2016.

By the City's own estimates, this policy will take years to become revenue neutral and will only open up a handful of rental options, mostly for luxury properties.

Before late January injected a surge of volatility into equities, driven by investor fears over a handful of factors including rising rates, tightening monetary policy, more regulation on big tech and rising global trade tensions, investors were smooth sailing on the nine - year bull market.

If a stock goes from $ 100 to $ 20 and then stays at $ 20 for a few years and then you offer to take it over at $ 30 - in a big, liquid stock you'll have a very real chance of getting overwhelming shareholder approval from an offer that wouldn't be entertained by a handful of owners of a privately held business.

Year - to - date, the S&P 500 has returned 9.0 % (to 2438), the Dow is up by 8.6 % (to 21,485) and the Nasdaq has returned 15.8 % (to 6302), reflecting continued strength in a handful of large tech stocks.

Add it all up and economists predict prices will rise by a handful of percentage points this year, although probably not as much as 2014's approximately 5 % gain.

CHATSWORTH, Calif. — Each year before the AVN Awards Show, taking place this year on January 18, AVN Media Network elects a handful of memorable individuals to be honored by induction into the AVN Hall of Fame.

God created Adam from a handful of dirt and his spouse from a rib; Talking snakes; trees that bear fruit, that imparts knowledge and eternal life; a global flood, that required a pair of each organism on earth, be stuffed onto a boat; people who lived hundreds of years; a man who was swallowed by a fish, only to be spit up 3 days later, unhurt; a tower god was afraid might reach heaven; a woman who is turned into a pillar of salt; talking donkeys; unicorns; satyrs; a leviathan god creates and then does battle with; a zombie messiah, who was actually god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves and wandered about the town; belief in a circular, flat earth.

The Right Attitude to Rain by Alexander McCall Smith Pantheon, 288 pages, $ 21.95 Hard to believe that, only a handful of years ago, the name Alexander McCall Smith would have drawn a blank among American readers.

Since a high - profile visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories nearly a year - and - a-half ago, he's gone only to a handful of small countries not far from Rome - racking up nothing like the number of air miles logged by his predecessor, Pope John Paul II.

This time of year I'm eating pumpkin everything — pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, pumpkin chili, and roasted pumpkin seeds by the handful.

By Chris Petersen or years, a handful of fruits have ruled the juice coolers of our local supermarkets, orange being the most prominent.

Last year Team Maione only lost a handful of Games and most of those by a bucket or two..

Next season will be tough as hell This season was our best chance to win the PL in 12 years Wenger not signing a single outfielder to strengthen the squad was ridiculously bad decision We only needed a top CF and another DM He needs to make up for it by getting a handful of WC players: CF, winger, CB and DM

The 2106 win was nestled between a series of perceived underachievements — evidenced by «not getting out of the first weekend results for more than a handful of years.»

Only a handful of teams led by a small concentration of stars are able to truly compete for a championship and they tend to stay constant for several years.

By the time his deception was discovered a year later, he had become a part of the Hamilton scene and was given one of the handful of permits allotted to students from out of the district.

There were a handful of players who were both loaned out and in by Milan this past year, some more significant than others.

Yes, he'll turn 33 this year, but he's still playing at a level unmatched by all but a handful of Serie A midfielders, and there's no reason to think that he's slipping.

The Commission for Accreditation of Park and Recreation Agencies accredits a handful of park agencies each year that have completed a multi-step process involving a self - review by the agency, a site visit, and an evaluation and formal report by the Commission.

By unanimous vote the district board earlier this month approved plans to go ahead with the park, joining a handful of other south suburbs that have opened dog parks in recent years.

Busy in my own 10 year career in international private practice as a Transformational Master Coach specializing in Love and Relationships, I was thrilled when I was personally invited by Katherine to train as one of a handful of top coaches worldwide in Conscious Uncoupling and be part of pioneering the beginning of this powerful program.

Because of the popularity and gaining market share of small baby carrier companies, a few years ago the Juvenile Products Manufactures Association (JPMA) was approached by a handful of these companies asking for a standard to be created.

(I was only ever bitten a handful of times in more than 3 collective years of nursing two children, and usually those bites happened by accident.)

Likewise with «binders full of women,» a phrase that 20 years ago, when the same handful of white men analyzed presidential debates on TV news, may have passed by essentially unnoticed actually had a lasting impact.

Democrats believe Larkin's district will be a battleground race next year as fight for control of the chamber — narrowly led by Republicans — will be centered around a handful of closely watched Senate districts.

Though most of the exemptions in the budget sweep were required by law, one of only a handful of discretionary exemptions was the payroll mobility tax, which raises over $ 1 billion a year for the MTA.

Attendance by both elected officials and spectators was light this year, with a handful of Queens elected officials appearing.

The company has hired a handful of employees and expects to have 200 on hand by the end of the year.

Not of primary concern, she said, is the value of city - issued cab medallions — held by a handful of taxi kingpins — which are now valued at $ 750,000 off of a high of $ 1.3 million a year ago.

The first mentions of AIDS came in a May 1981 story by Lawrence Mass in the New York Native, an LGBT publication, followed quickly by a report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and then, on July 3 of that year, a story in the New York Times that concerned what was then a handful of cases.

Grisanti, a Buffalo Republican who lost his seat to Democratic Sen. Marc Panepinto last fall, is one of a handful of politically connected individuals tapped by Cuomo to sit on this bench — a post that pays $ 174,000 a year (considerably more than the $ 79,500 starting salary for a state lawmaker).

Plus, two Democrats were one of a handful to win upstate this year, but only by a slim margin.

A handful of prominent Democrats are raising millions of dollars for the office, but with November of next year looking closer and closer by the day, a Republican contender has yet to formally throw his or her hat into the ring, let alone begin fundraising, creating an environment where the GOP establishment is willing to meet with literally anybody.

Passage of a similar package seems certain today in the House, where a handful of dissidents conceded they expected to be steamrolled by a GOP frantic to claim its first major legislative victory of the year.

It was the only such order in the past 50 years, though there have been a handful of other probes sought by previous governors into possible criminality on the part of different DAs, Schneideman's office said.

Members of No IDC NY, including Kang, told TRD that a handful of candidates, including some who currently work for city and state elected officials, will officially announce their campaigns by early next year.

The rezoning — which would roughly cover the area from north of Dyckman Street, to east of Broadway and up to the tip of Manhattan — was first proposed by Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez earlier this year and has been discussed at a handful of public meetings and workshops with the community.

In recent years, clock researchers have uncovered some of the gears and springs that keep this circadian timepiece running, largely by identifying a handful of key genes in organisms from bread mold to mice.

Drake multiplied the number of sunlike stars in our galaxy that form each year by a handful of variables: the fraction of those stars that have planets; the number of planets per planetary system where life could exist; the fraction of habitable planets where life actually arises; the fraction of those where intelligence emerges; the fraction of intelligent species that develop interstellar communication; and finally, the average length of time that those communicating civilizations survive.

Malaria is caused by a handful of species of parasites in the genus Plasmodium through the bite of mosquitos and remains a widespread vector - borne infectious disease, sickening almost half a billion people every year around the planet.