Sentences with phrase «in a couple of years at»

If it manages to continue its excellent history and growth rate, you'll be looking back in a couple of years at a great purchase today.

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After a couple of years of cleaning during the day, painting apartments at night and stuffing his earnings in a shoe box for safe keeping, Conlon had saved enough money to buy his first apartment.
In the last couple years, his foundation offered up $ 2 million to establish a chair at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, $ 2 million for a chief curator at the Audain Art Museum in Whistler, and yet another $ 2 million to help endow a chair in central banking at Western UniversitIn the last couple years, his foundation offered up $ 2 million to establish a chair at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, $ 2 million for a chief curator at the Audain Art Museum in Whistler, and yet another $ 2 million to help endow a chair in central banking at Western Universitin Whistler, and yet another $ 2 million to help endow a chair in central banking at Western Universitin central banking at Western University.
Until the last two or three years, Under Armour was a $ 1 billion - $ 1.5 billion in the U.S., and now they are at $ 2.5 billion, so it is really in the last couple of years that they've taken market share from us.
A couple of years ago, the practice of showrooming — where shoppings would look at an item in a store then purchase it online — was on an alarming rise, with 50 percent of online purchases in 2012 occurring as a result of this behavior.
Though the rebound in growth over the past couple of years has seen unemployment across the bloc fall, the jobless rate remains elevated at 8.5 percent.
One thing I did initially was that I came in with lower prices and accepted jobs at a loss, so for a couple of years I had some pretty significant losses.
Like Twitter and dozens of other companies that have gone public in the last couple of years, GrubHub took advantage of a provision in the JOBS Act of 2012, which lets small companies valued at $ 1 billion or less to file for an initial public offering in private, and just a few weeks before it intends to debut.
A cheap date — defined as cab rides, dinner or lunch for two at a pub or diner, soft drinks, two movie tickets and a couple of beers — runs about $ 195.90 in Zurich, down around 7 percent from last year, the survey found.
At Wharton, Ulrich says, he has seen increasing numbers of students spend their summers in San Francisco developing their startups and then participating in Wharton's Semester in San Francisco during the fall — a program he pioneered a couple years ago to continue the foundation built during the summer.
«We spent a lot of the time over the last couple of years learning from our retail operations out west,» said Mark Childs, chief marketing officer at Samsung Canada, in an interview with Marketing.
«In the short term, for the next couple of years, [an IPO] is not something we are looking at very seriously,» said the managing director and group CEO of Petronas Lubricants International said.
In a five - year study of nearly 5,000 married couples ranging in age from 19 to 89, where approximately 75 % of couples composed of spouses who both worked, researchers assessed participants» personalities by looking at the Big Five personality traits — openness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism and conscientiousnesIn a five - year study of nearly 5,000 married couples ranging in age from 19 to 89, where approximately 75 % of couples composed of spouses who both worked, researchers assessed participants» personalities by looking at the Big Five personality traits — openness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism and conscientiousnesin age from 19 to 89, where approximately 75 % of couples composed of spouses who both worked, researchers assessed participants» personalities by looking at the Big Five personality traits — openness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism and conscientiousness.
Kepler Cheuvreux analyst Jon Cox said he estimated the size of the second - hand market at around $ 5 billion a year in revenue, including watches sold at auction, and that it had outperformed the market for new pieces in the last couple of years.
«I spent over a decade of my life working at the issue [of prison reform], including half a decade at the NAACP, and yet here you have a former inmate turned entrepreneur who's been able to bring relief to almost a quarter of federal inmates in just a couple of years,» Jealous says.
At about 50 cents a pop, the aforementioned VIX call options expiring in 13 days have only been this cheap on a couple of occasions since the start of 2011, and not in three years, according to data compiled by Macro Risk Advisors.
«If you are a 60 - year - old couple today, there is at least a 33 % chance that one of you will be around in 29 years
Jade and I worked at Warner Bros. for three years prior to starting our company, and we took on several smaller projects in the first couple of years of our business before we went after bigger projects.
«We have seen security go from, again what was a couple years ago 20 %, 25 % to consistently 40 % of the business,» Conte said at the time, as recorded in a transcript of the call on the finance site Seeking Alpha.
«A couple of years ago, I was going at least once a week, but as time went on I stopped going as much,» says Michelle Langston, concierge wrangler and team lead, who is currently based in the Bay Area.
For a couple of years after university, I hustled chinos and polo shirts at an Eddie Bauer in downtown Toronto.
A couple of non-glasses 3 - D screens were put on display at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, but as some critics pointed out, you may have to spend several minutes moving around the room to find an ideal spot to sit for the image to appear in 3 - D.
It still points towards the positive trend that we've seen in payroll growth over the last several months and the last couple of years actually,» said Tony Bedikian, head of global markets at Citizens Bank.
While sales at full - line stores have been relatively flat in the U.S. over the past couple of years, they've surged at Rack outlets.
Funny story: I was at a shareholder meeting for a company I'm heavily invested in a couple of years ago.
The couple's business, selling baby carriers that Elizabeth designed, generated sales of $ 15,000 in its first year, $ 575,000 in 2008 and over $ 1 million last year when about half its sales were online at SleepyWrap.com and the rest through wholesalers.
The speech says that the Bank's central forecast remains for inflation in Australia to pick up over the next couple of years, but for inflation to be nearer to 2 per cent, than 3 per cent at the end of this period.
Apple's effort is aimed at winning back the hearts of stakeholders in the educational sector — a place it has lost to Google and Microsoft in the last couple of years.
The simple reality is that Twitter has contained the majority of brand mentions in most categories for at least a couple of years, because, in most categories, mentions on Twitter usually involve brief link shares, that are easy for people to amplify — not in - depth conversations.
The Australian dollar has remained in a relatively steady range over the past couple of years, at levels that are a little above average against the US dollar and about 10 per cent above average in trade - weighted terms.
«The rate at which California has been losing people to other states has accelerated in the past couple of years, in part because of rising housing costs,» said Jed Kolko, chief economist with employment website Indeed.com.
In the next 7 years I've grown a bunch of blogs in different niches, worked at a few companies and launched a couple profitable online businesseIn the next 7 years I've grown a bunch of blogs in different niches, worked at a few companies and launched a couple profitable online businessein different niches, worked at a few companies and launched a couple profitable online businesses.
In cases where the resource will probably last for a couple of hundred years, on the other hand (as in Australian coal, for example, at current extraction rates), this logic may be less compellinIn cases where the resource will probably last for a couple of hundred years, on the other hand (as in Australian coal, for example, at current extraction rates), this logic may be less compellinin Australian coal, for example, at current extraction rates), this logic may be less compelling.
I'm okay with having money that we'll definitely use in a couple of years sitting in a bank account, but if we want to not worry about having to buy in a rush for fear of inflation, then we need to have that money at least keeping up with it.
Home prices in California rose steadily over the last couple of years, though the trend varied quite a bit at the city level.
Last month, Alibaba showcased some of those capabilities when it disclosed that its use of algorithms, artificial intelligence and machine learning, coupled with data, helped to shutter 417 production rackets, arrested 332 suspects and seized fake goods valued at RMB 1.43 billion ($ 207.2 million) in a joint operation with Chinese law enforcement between April and July last year.
«The pretty solid growth we're showing over the next couple of years is in part the result of the boost from the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, but that's only a temporary boost in growth,» said Ben Herzon, senior economist at Macroeconomic Advisers.
He enjoys a couple of years of wine, women and song — often all at once — before meeting his end sky - diving in the Andes.
Over the past couple of years, speculators have also used short sales of gold to obtain low cost funds to invest in other assets — for example, by shorting gold (borrowing it and selling it in the spot market), market participants have been able to obtain US dollars at between 1 and 2 per cent, well below the rate of return available on US assets.
Bonds that will mature in a couple of years will give investors the opportunity to reinvest their money in new bonds at higher rates so prices do not react quiet so negatively to higher rates.
Home prices are still rising in most parts of the state, but at a slower pace than the last couple of years.
They're not going to do it» — and I wonder whether there's any upside at all to being the prime minister of Canada in the next couple of years.
-LRB-...) Labour - intensive industries across Dongguan, a city of 8m that from a distance resembles a forest of factories, are grappling with a drop in orders from the west at a time when double - digit Chinese wage inflation over the past couple of years has prompted western retailers to move orders to south - east Asia and Bangladesh.
It is apparent that the stance of monetary policy in place through the past couple of years has assisted the economy through the period when the contractionary forces have been at their most intense.
Make a $ 450,000 home loan with 3 % down to a couple making $ 35,000 a year working at Starbucks; already burdened with $ 90,000 in student loans, $ 20,000 in credit card debt and FICO scores of 610, after they tell the loan officer they make $ 120,000 as senior managers of a large multi national corporation When they default on the home loan, file bankruptcy to discharge student and credit card debt and start living in section 8 housing, you now have a new brother and sister.
He worked in a machine shop for a couple of years after school, and has also held jobs at a battery factory, a sandpaper manufacturer, and a restaurant, where he was a cook.
Currently, homeowners are exempt from paying capital gains taxes on the first $ 250,000 ($ 500,000 for married couples) if they've lived in a home for at least two of the last five years.
Sylvia Flores, chief creative officer for Bad Agency, has used coworking spaces for the last couple of years and considers them to be «the hotbed for the latest and greatest ideas and technology — it wouldn't be surprising at all if the space I'm in adopted biometrics as a payment option.»
If much of the investment into bond mutual funds that has occurred the last couple of years is for purposes of dampening the volatility of a portfolio — and with the 10 - Year Treasury yield at 1.8 percent it's difficult to argue for a different motivation - then it's important to think through the thesis that bonds will defend a balanced portfolio in an equity bear market in the same way they have, especially to the extent they have in the last two bear markets.
In summary, our central scenario is for GDP to grow at an average of around 3 per cent over the next couple of years.
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