Sentences with phrase «lasts more than a few years»

Few technology trends last more than a few years, let alone several decades, so it is important to take a look at why big data continues to be a force in the technology sector.

No friend, I think that athiesm is a symptom of the degradation of our culture, a child's innocence doesn't stand a chance of lasting more than a few years in this current culture.

The only really negative thing about my Toyota Corolla is that the paint job didn't last more than a few years.

Back then people with AIDS usually didn't last more than a few years and the dirtball, I mean new owner, of the policy could often double their money in very short order.

It's a machine that should last you more than a few years of useful productivity performance.

Oh, yes, the Star Wars phase — I don't think it lasted more than a few years with my boys.

Not exact matches

Due to the economic downturn of the last few years, many businesses still need to think twice about spending more money than they have to.

«Idol,» which averaged more than 30 million weekly viewers at its 2006 peak and ranked No. 1 for nine consecutive years, averaged about 11 million last season (still enough by today's standards to land it in the top 20, but with fewer advertiser - favored younger viewers).

But in medicine, impressive technology is little more than a parlor trick if it doesn't benefit patients — like James (who asked to keep his last name private), a 42 - year - old colon cancer patient who had part of his large intestine removed by Sullivan a few months ago.

The first half of 2005 - 06 has been one of the most active sales periods in the Perth CBD for many years according to Knight Frank, which has sold more than $ 50 million worth of buildings in the last few months.

The reviews go back a few years, but there were more than from the last week at the time of writing, which indicates the product is rather popular.

«We, at GM, have had the view for a little while that the world of mobility is going change in the next few years more than it has changed in the last 50 years,» GM president Dan Ammann told Fortune.

Over the last few years, there has been an increasingly competitive battle for people's attention, and there is more noise than ever as brands clamor for the all - important commodity of attention.

Over the last few years, China's debt - to - GDP has ballooned to more than 300 percent from 160 percent a decade ago, causing many people, including Chinese officials, to warn of a financial - sector debt bubble that's waiting to burst.

In fact, if your startup transforms into a successful business and lasts for more than a few years, it's almost a given that it'll change.

Airline frequent flier programs have become less rewarding over the last few years by offering fewer upgrades to elite fliers and requiring more miles than ever for award tickets.

«Last month alone we had more than one million students, and throughout 2014 we expect more than five million kids to use Descomplica... this market is going to grow a lot in the next few years, for sure.»

At Intel Andy Grove would grow the company from a few thousand dollars in his first year to more than $ 20 billion in revenue during his last year as CEO.

There have been comparatively few leaks compared to last year's awards season (so far), when a single group called Hive - CM8 leaked more than a dozen of 2016's top movies, including James Bond movie «Spectre,» «Legend,» «Steve Jobs,» «Creed,» and Quentin Tarantino's «The Hateful Eight» — before it even came out in the cinemas.

More than 25 CEOs have stepped into the top spot at a Fortune 500 company so far this year, plenty of them within the last few months.

Bubble gum sales are off more than 40 % over the last few years.

It is likely that there will continue to be more volatility in the stock market than in the last few years.

Over the last few years, the organization has produced more than 1.1 million pounds of healthy, organic food for thousands of people in five states.

FOMC members now seem more eager than ever to «normalize» policy, that is raise short term rates into line with historic norms and, to the extent possible, unburden their balance sheet of the huge bond holding they had acquired over the last few years.

So we are dealing with the irreconcilable fact that the Obama position threatens to lower living standards from 10 % to 20 % over the coming few years — making the United States look more like Greece, Ireland and Latvia than what was promised in the last presidential election.

And it has been reported that Nobuaki Kobayashi, the lawyer and trustee of Mt. Gox, has sold 35,841 Bitcoin and 34,008 Bitcoin cash — worth more than $ 400 million — over the past few months, starting in September of last year.

The city's first condo costing more than $ 100 million, which sold in the last few weeks at the new luxury tower One57, had property taxes this past year of $ 17,268, according to the city's finance office.

Has any financial story been more relentlessly covered in the last few years than the market's worries about bond market liquidity drying up?

At its peak, the company had nearly 80 franchises across Australia as well as more than a dozen company - owned stores, but over the last few years, a number have closed and a disgruntled Brisbane franchisee launched an $ 800,000 legal action against Pie Face claiming they were misled over profit projections, which Homschek denied.

Harry's last few years were spent fighting the UK government over an injustice that hits more than half a million British pensioners.

As I sat with a few people and «war - gamed» what the next recession will look like, a general agreement emerged that the credit markets will be far more volatile than they were last time, even though banks are better capitalized today than they were 10 years ago.

On balance, Stephen Harper has been a successful prime minister, but it is hard not to feel that the last four years contained more than a few missed opportunities.

That's 2x # 20k, assuming you have a partner, and # 4ok into a pension (or more, if your partner has income from employment too, or if your pension contributions were less than # 40k pa in the last few years).

If CDS readings remain muted then we are dealing with country - specific flare ups, but if they spike to levels higher than what has occurred over the last few years and gold surges we need to become more defensive.

Of our 53 companies, 22 ended last year with fewer dollars of net debt than they started the year with, and more importantly, slightly more than half reduced their net debt relative to their annual cash flow.

Interest in automated testing has increased substantially in the last few years, says Evans, because developers are under more pressure than ever to roll out new applications and associated updates faster.

By reducing the total number of refugees resettled to the US by more than half — from 110,000 to 50,000 — it will necessarily mean that fewer persecuted Christians will be admitted to the US this year than last year.

One of the few historical observations on which there is a large consensus is that companionate marriage of the last 150 years — in which the marriage relationship is based on intimate love alone — has created more problems than it has solved, carrying within it the seeds of its own destruction.

Liberalism in the Church can not be reduced to Hans Küng, but the liberal springtime of the last few years has revealed that there are far more Küngs than I once realized or believed.

Live - action Disney movies have been hugely successful at the box office in the last few years: The Jungle Book, Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland have taken in more than two and a half billion dollars at the global box office.

«Over the past decade, more of those admitted to the US have been Christians than those of any other faith background, so the dramatic reduction in refugee arrivals this year means far fewer persecuted Christians will have the opportunity to rebuild their lives in safety in the US,» World Relief president Scott Arbeiter said last summer.

Paul thought that the last days had come, that before his death the Messiah would appear, and that in the few remaining years there were more important tasks afoot than founding families.

In the last 40 to 50 years, there have been few academics more intent upon holding this critique of modern science to account than the late Fr Stanley Jaki OSB, who sadly died on Tuesday 7th April last.

More than 200 Balti restaurants exist in Birmingham alone, and the Balti Page commented: «Balti in Europe started attracting notice over the last few years in Birmingham in England — particularly in the city's Sparkhill and Sparkbrook areas, home of some of the oldest and best Balti houses, and now increasingly known as «the Balti Belt.

Global launch numbers recorded by Innova Market Insights have more than doubled in the last few years and rose a further 25 % in 2012.

This orange spice granola is flavored with orange zest, cinnamon and spices, and loaded with sweet cranberries and crunchy almonds.Over the last few years I've probably given out more granola holiday gifts than cookies.

This research is based on the company's progress over the last few years and the shopping habits of more than 600 individual customers, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.

The 18 - year - old is one of the most exciting young players in Europe at the moment and more than a few eyebrows were raised when Mourinho engaged in a long and enthusiastic conversation after last season's Europa League final.

Eytan Azaria: I've played on more than a dozen intramural teams over the last few years but this team that Cap’n Lalez put together has the the most balanced offense I've played with.

George Graham (who won more trophies per year in charge than Wenger) lost the plot and Bertie Mee lost impact and respect with the players in his last few years.