Sentences with phrase «last couple years of»

Meredith was our caseworker throughout the last couple years of our adoption and the other day she and Steevenson were talking on the phone.

They hustle these electric racers around in a way that produces more overtakes in one race than the last couple years of Monaco F1.

So I created a new plot that covers that last couple years of monthly data to be able to look at this.

Whatever they may have coming 2 - 4 years from now does not excuse the last couple years of virtually no 1st party support beyond their staple franchises.

The last couple years of high school have not been fun for Wyatt Baldwin.

The last couple years of award winners have made it easier for me to give my patrons a wider window.

«I learned more from Julie in three hours than in at least the last couple years of professional development.»

Through the last couple years of innovation and research, screening for chromosomal abnormalities has greatly improved.

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«Over the last couple of years [3D printing has] gone through this massive hype cycle where it's going to print you a cup and fill it with coffee,» observes Ben Wynne, chief Technology Officer at Vancouver - based Wiivv Wearables.

«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»

Corporate profits may be booming, but real wages actually declined in the last couple of years.

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 University.

The Dell role lasted a couple of years before Legere joined telecoms company Global Crossing in 2001 as CEO, taking it through a «really tough» restructuring and eventually selling it to CenturyLink (then Level 3) in 2011.

«And secondly, the euro area economy proved resilient to political (and other) shocks in the last couple of years and should remain so,» the bank added.

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.

Unsurprisingly, the round of was led by Canada's OMERS Ventures, which has been investing heavily in Canada's up - and - coming tech stars over the last couple years.

At a dinner table over the holidays, I sat next to a New York - based investment manager who told me that the CEOs who have come to visit him over the last couple of years told him that their recent layoffs were just «cutting out the dead wood» that they'd been reluctant to cut earlier.

Over the last two decades of building and running businesses, and the last couple of years working full time with dozens of startup founders and CEOs on their strategies and funding plans in my consultancy business, I have observed that there are a common set of reasons that startups struggle and fail, and a consistent set of factors that make startup companies successful.

So there are a lot of impressive people on this list but McDonald's has just been too good the last couple of years.

While the U.S. is easing rules on banks, Europe has for the last couple of years toughened them.

Its investment unit has struggled over the last couple of years against increased market competition, in both trading and deal advising.

«The last couple of years I've been trying to learn percussion a bit, which has been challenging,» he said.

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.

It wasn't as if I'd been practising over the last couple of years, so I had to figure everything out on the fly.

Over the last couple of years we've seen an explosion of box subscription services in niches ranging from beauty to food to gaming to novelty gifts.

For the last couple of years, about one in every five deals is in the «first capital» category.

3) Denver Beer Co.'s Graham Cracker Porter - While I haven't had the original, I did taste a couple of the offshoots (such as Coconut Graham Cracker Porter) at last year's GABF and enjoyed them thoroughly.

I truly appreciate all the amazing support you have provided me over the last couple of years.

If you've owned an internet - connected device over the last couple of years then you've likely seen or at least heard about singer Rebecca Black's viral music video, «Friday.»

«Over the last couple of years, the number of new brewery openings has been at near unprecedented levels,» said Bart Watson, Ph.D., staff economist at Brewers Association, a craft beer industry group.

Canadian Business: Last year, the International Energy Agency issued a report suggesting the United States will become energy self - sufficient within a couple of decades.

Those last couple of years of high school, I kind of felt like I had to really overachieve, and I worked really hard and am still working really hard 25 years later.

Some may mock, but over the last couple of years, Google raked in so much so - called earned media that the invoice to cover an equivalent amount of ads would have been staggering in the cost it represented.

The executives just don't expect these conditions to last much longer than a couple of years.

In Colorado Springs, Trump got sidetracked by a couple of disputes from last year as he tried to rebut a Clinton campaign ad.

«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.

The last couple of years have been an understandably busy time; SOLS is Schouwenburg's first company, and she's pouring everything she has into making it a success.

In the last couple years, the global sales for snack products has reached $ 374 billion, dethroning the time - old tradition of three square meals a day from its long - held spot.

I thought it would be another 10 year cycle (like waves 1 & 2), but a couple of things accelerated it, like the union of CMOs and CIOs together to power next - generation business and customer analytics to drive targeted, personalized 1:1 experiences to build trusted, long - lasting brand relationships.

Dark Matter comes just a couple of weeks after the anti-secrecy organization released a trove of documents describing how the CIA over the last several years has targeted electronics made by a slew of prominent tech companies to further its espionage efforts.

Deutsche Bank's investment unit, in particular, has struggled over the last couple of years against increased market competition, in both trading and deal advising.

By 2013, they had fallen to $ 1.46 billion, despite the company's efforts to steady the business in the last couple of years through steps such as improving reps» cut of the action, and streamlining its product assortment to focus on lower - priced products.

During the first part of 2008, this average declined very slowly, but then fell off a cliff in the last couple of months of the year to a low of just over 110,000 vehicles in December.

«That's paid off over the last couple of years.»

«I do believe what we've seen — especially over the last couple of years — is we've seen renewable technologies coming down very rapidly in price,» Henrik Poulsen said.

Executive compensation has been in the spotlight almost continually for the last couple of years, and has even been the focal point of shareholder revolts.

Stripe has fascinated users for the last couple of years with its powerful and flexible API.

First, hire an outside accounting firm and prepare financial statements for the last couple of years of operations.

The dollar has eased off in the last couple of days since Trump complained about it being too strong, but, after rising half a cent on the back of Draghi's press conference, it's still close to a 14 - year high against the euro.