Sentences with phrase «in about a year and»

Heck, Ford designed, engineered, and went racing in about a year and half with the new $ 400,000 Ford GT supercar — and won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June.

Japanese manufacturers exported a total 512,432 automobiles in November, up 9.4 % from a year earlier, the fastest rise in about a year and a half.

I haven't had a doughnut in about a year and a half.

Meyer retired twice in about a year and barely took a full season off.

In about a year and half, in November of 2017, a vote will be held on whether New York should hold what could be the first constitutional convention in over half a century.

Vaporsens plans to introduce the device on the market in about a year and a half, says Zang, who is the company's chief science officer.

She lost 100 pounds in about a year and healed herself of her panic attacks and other health problems.

So I lost quite a bit in about a year and change (over 50 lbs).

I hadn't seen my friend in about a year and he was wearing baggy clothes whilst training.

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«I'm a real believer in being clear on who your monster is, who the enemy is, really helps with briefs and communication,» said Nowlan, who joined Tim Hortons about a year ago after six years at Molson Coors Canada and before that Kraft Foods Group.

My friend took my hands in hers, looked me in the eye and said, «Ric, you've been talking about that dream for twenty years.

These decisions — about how to reorganize supply chains, logistics and technology — need to be made quickly, unless they want to join the spate of retailers that have shuttered their operations in Canada this year.

About 69 million employees in the U.S. say they miss work because of health problems every year, which reduces economic output by $ 260 billion per year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Scott and Aly opened their first store in November 2008 — about a year into the recession.

According to internal documents released last year, BuzzFeed was already generating revenue of about $ 100 million in 2014 and was profitable.

-- Although neither side of the deal provided any revenue figures, Axel Springer said the site's revenue is growing at about 50 % per year, and if it hadn't invested in its new vertical Tech Insider it would have already broke even.

More importantly for consumers, DBS revealed that the average amount sent in digital red packets in Singapore last year was S$ 26 (about $ 19.60)-- several times higher than the going rates of physical red packets, which is between S$ 6 ($ 4.50) and S$ 10 ($ 7.60).

I was working on creating an indoor, year - round space for a farmer's market, and through that I heard about the challenges wholesale buyers face in sourcing local food.

Read about the business leaders who dominated headlines in 2014 and set the stage for the year ahead — for better or for worse.

Budget 2016 announces that the Government will eliminate tariffs on about a dozen manufacturing inputs, providing an estimated $ 9 million in tariff savings over the next five years to Canadian manufacturers in the consumer goods and transportation sectors.

While I was cleared of all charges four years later, I wound up filing for bankruptcy protection and lost a personal fortune in business equity to the tune of about $ 3 billion.

While employees from enterprise companies (defined as companies with 500 or more employees) like Salesforce and Dell have held memberships at the co-working spaces in the past, WeWork started making a concerted effort to tailor its spaces to these types of workers about a year ago.

«I believe — and I think the president believes — that we must be proactive, the years of talking about these problems has not worked, and that we must use all instruments we have to make it expensive to engage in non-economic behaviour, and to convince our trading partners to treat our workers, farmers, and ranchers fairly.

I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

«Start - ups are going to talk to a reporter about their fundraise, it will hit the media — they won't have filed their form in advance — and then, apparently, they will be ineligible for 506 for one year,» Joe Wallin, a start - up lawyer in Seattle, pointed out this morning as he live - blogged the hearings.

Harley, which commands about half of the U.S. big - bike market, has seen its U.S. market share erode in recent years as it grapples with an ageing customer base, weak demand from younger buyers and discounts offered by rivals.

Earlier this year, in an interview with CNBC, House Financial Services Chairman Jeb Hensarling, R - Texas, called the CFPB a «rogue agency» and complained about the power Cordray has as one person overseeing an entire bureau.

According to an FAQ page on the CAQ website, Quebec spends about $ 4 billion on business tax credits every year, «and the results are not forthcoming: private investment in Quebec is significantly lower than the Canadian average.»

Nintendo (ntdoy) on Friday priced its first console in about four years above market expectations, disappointing investors and clouding its prospects of winning back gamers who have shifted from consoles to smartphones.

Club president Josep Sunyol, a militant pro-independence Catalan, was assassinated during the Spanish Civil War, and is now memorialized in the club's museum, which draws about 2 million tourists a year.

When legendary film director Martin Scorsese expressed interest in executive producing Verdi and Kraft's biopic about world champion boxer Vinny Pazienza, called Bleed for This, Verdi was out of town, but sent the then 22 - year - old Kraft to Scorsese's house to take the meeting.

Last year she spoke at the Women's March in Washington, D.C., and she called on the crowd to work together to bring about change.

At the University of Southern California this year, Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments and chairwoman on several boards, not only spurred students to find someone to be passionate about — but also to expand their bandwidth of diversity by getting to know people with whom they have seemingly nothing in common.

Coleman instead said that she and Boyle had been in Pakistan for about a year before they were rescued, but said they were held in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.

On Thursday, it announced it would reduce its production guidance for the year by about 10,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day to an average of about 315,000 boe / d, with exit production of about 335,000 boe / d, to account for lower heavy oil production, an advanced schedule for maintenance at its Tucker oilsands project and a slower ramp up in liquids - rich natural gas output from its BD Project in Indonesia.

That figure drops by about 50 % in a non-movie year, Hasbro said, underscoring just how important film and television content can be to drive sales for toys.

He added that, in Singapore, some indicators of Chinese New Year spending that give him signals for the health of the economy are the demand for gift baskets and hampers and the queues for bakkwa — a sweet barbecued pork jerky in Singapore which sells for about $ 38 (S$ 50) per kilogram, and gets more expensive the closer it gets to the actual holiday.

Having observed and written about many of these problems for years, I knew I had to get in on the action.

The decline is attributable, in large part, to slow growth in pension values — tweaks to assumptions about interest rate and life spans had inflated them the prior year — and underwhelming corporate performance.

«There's lots of language in the shareholder letter about things taking time, and that's been something of a theme since Dorsey took over a year ago,» said Jan Dawson, chief analyst at Jackdaw Research.

This year, Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, due out in March, is that book, but it's also stirring up controversy about privilegIn: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, due out in March, is that book, but it's also stirring up controversy about privilegin March, is that book, but it's also stirring up controversy about privilege.

«In my paper, I read about a mattress company that floated on AIM yesterday and raised # 35 million, is now valued at # 140 million, but last year made an EBITDA loss of # 11 million,» Walsh said at Tuesday's conference.

In the beginning, that's a great business model, right, because all you're doing is you create this anonymous shell company, you give it a name, you don't care who actually is behind it and you stick it in a folder and you forget about it until a year passes and it's time to invoice for the renewaIn the beginning, that's a great business model, right, because all you're doing is you create this anonymous shell company, you give it a name, you don't care who actually is behind it and you stick it in a folder and you forget about it until a year passes and it's time to invoice for the renewain a folder and you forget about it until a year passes and it's time to invoice for the renewal.

About a year ago in iOS 10.2.1, we delivered a software update that improves power management during peak workloads to avoid unexpected shutdowns on iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, and iPhone SE.

«Last year we did a Twitter campaign last year in the US to raise awareness, and people started doing crazy fun videos about the brand, and made it a lot of fun.

The number of actual tickets sold in 2015 was essentially flat compared to the previous five years and the number was down by about 2.5 % from a decade earlier.

I sat standing 1 foot away from somebody who's been in prison for 15 years of his life and I had 60 seconds to open up to him about something that causes me pain in my life while he stares into my eyes I found myself going deeper than I would with even friends or family.

As he puts it: «I'd like to CHALLENGE every woman in tech who's a) got a nice care, b) owns a nice house, or c) is making over $ 125K a year to start thinking of themselves as the next Ron Conway or Esther Dyson in the making and commit to investing in startups...» I'll forgive him for the poor grammar, ditto for the wisecrack a couple of paragraphs later about how some of us might have spent $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 on our MBAs... or our wardrobes.

We have a trading mentality that should not affect long - term investors, but ETF investors have earned a 5 percent return in the last 12 years and investing in traditional index funds has returned about 8 percent.

To the average reader of a business magazine, these may seem like ridiculously simple questions, but Lusardi and Mitchell's research over the last few years shows that, in general, you can not count on even this base level of knowledge about how money works.