Sentences with phrase «lasts up to decades»

Not only are their prices getting more affordable every day, they also lasts up to decades longer than the competition.

Most artificial Christmas trees are built to last up to a decade with proper care and storage between uses.

It has a Split - Spectrum Sensor, tests itself automatically and lasts up to a decade.

Not exact matches

During the go - go days of the last decade, business travel hotels spiffed up their rooms with amenities like in - room entertainment systems to persuade guests to make a long weekend of a short trip.

Safety experts point to the numbers: U.S. pedestrian deaths have been on the rise, with 5,376 in 2015 and nearly 6,000 last year, the most in two decades and up 22 percent from 2014, according to data compiled by the Governors Highway Safety Association for a recent report.

But the Target strategy is also likely to ease pressure on its margins by cutting down on overtime and general pay at a time when shoppers are scarce, the results of the «Black Friday» creep that has led many retailers to open their doors on Turkey Day and progressively bring up store opening times in the last decade.

According to Statistics Canada, last year nearly 30 % of fathers took at least some leave to be with their new baby — up from 3 % a decade earlier.

More than 40 programs have popped up in the last half decade offering services such as mentorship, networks of partners, access to investors and business skills development, according to a recent report by the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs and Village Capital, which surveyed 52 programs.

China announced last week that it would open up the market to foreign automakers, which have been encumbered by ownership limitations in the country for more than two decades.

In the last decade, disruptive chains like Zara and H&M have trained consumers to expect up - to - the - minute trends in stores faster, cheaper, and with greater selection.

The company that's been asleep for the last decade telling Apple users to wake up.»

In the decade leading up to the last lockout, the average NHL salary increased by more than three times, totalling $ 1.83 million for the 2003 - 04 season, according to a 2005 article in the journal Monthly Labor Review.

The Nikkei business daily reported in February that the rate of working women aged 30 to 34 rose to 75.2 percent last year, up from about 50 percent three decades ago.

In the past year, a lot of ink has been devoted to China's slowdown after its phenomenal spending boom over the last decade, but there are signs that spending is perking up — a tailwind for resources.

But in the last decade, we've seen a shift to a bottom - up model that puts employees first and empowers them to encourage company - wide adoption of a tool.

Fund - raising by Greater China — focused funds rose to record levels over the past decade but dropped 64 % last year, as LPs became concerned that capital was piling up, leaving them overallocated in the market.

Although subsequent administrations have continued reviewing vertical mergers, the Chicago School's view that these deals generally do not pose threats to competition has remained dominant.139 Rejection of vertical tie - ups — standard through the 1960s and 1970s — is extremely rare today; 140 in instances where agencies spot potential harm, they tend to impose conduct remedies or require divestitures rather than block the deal outright.141 The Obama Administration took this approach with two of the largest vertical deals of the last decade: Comcast / NBC and Ticketmaster / LiveNation.

I am not sure that what happened last week is proof of anything I've been saying, but I do think that the framework I have used over the past decade has been useful, at least to me, in understanding both the rebalancing process in China and the events that led up to the global crisis of 2007 - 08.

At the event in San Francisco last week, Hosain Rahman, chief executive of Jawbone, the maker of the Up, a wrist device that tracks people's energy and sleep, said that «a decade from now we won't be able to imagine life without the wearables that we use to access information, unlock our doors, pay for goods and most importantly track our health.»

But what's strangely forgotten is that last decade's housing bubble was just an attempt to make up for the gains that had been lost in the decade before that.

BHP Billiton VP Huw McKay explains that, despite recent weakness, owing to slowing demand, and against most predictions, to date, the price of the steelmaking raw material is still up 31 %, having retreated from a surge of 52 %, after near - decade lows, in December last year.

In other words, Quebec and federal taxpayers are being asked to pony up to protect the financial well - being of the family, which, incidentally, received approximately $ 150 million in dividend payments from Bombardier over the last decade, even as the company has yet to repay all the money its borrowed from the federal government in the past.

Given what we've all had to put up with from the Harper Conservatives over the last near - decade — cutbacks, anti-union legislation, contempt for the valuable work our members do — my own views about the current government are well - known.

The central bought all those bad loans and government debt with made up money over the last decade, but now, they want to market it to the private sector.

For then the world might understand why even at its recent price above $ 1,300 per ounce gold has not come close to keeping up with the inflation, the currency debasement, of the last few decades, why gold has not fulfilled its function of hedging against inflation.

The report focuses on the reality of online and connective technologies catching up to the hype that has surrounded this sector for the last decade.

The tempo is in marked contrast to the pace of start - up fund - raising last decade, when many companies would typically leave a year or two between financing rounds.

For the last decade, the renminbi was largely moving in a single direction — up — because China was tired of being dubbed a currency manipulator and it would like to foster consumerism.

«Even if mortgage rates moved back up to their 20 - year average rate of 6.5 percent (what many thought were simply unbelievable rates when they first dropped that low last decade), that same $ 1,100 mortgage payment would finance a home purchase of just $ 193,000, not the current $ 279,000.

Outlined very simply, however, there were a few key moments over the last decade or so that have led up to today's depressed savings rates:

According to the Centers for Disease Control, cases of children with autism are up by 78 percent in the United States over the last decade.

The last decade of showing up and being awkward and feeling left out and regretting what I said and wishing I could start over has taught me that my early - college ideals were not going to cut it in the difficult day to day of ordinary relationships.

What they did not know is that this was not the story they were made to believe... but was rather a broke hulk was all rapped up in protocols and agreements that froze their move and had to plan and allow the happening of some thing big that would allow it break the chains wrapped up with to do what it had done for the last decade...!?

And this idea has been reaffirmed through the decades, up to and including this talk from one of the LDS Church apostles last fall:

And in the case of this story, if the RCC hadn't spent the last several decades inst.itutionalizing se.xual abuse and conspiring to cover it up and protect the offenders, or alienating folks with their stance on reproductive rights and birth control which is decidedly misogynistic and has contributed to the spread of HIV and other STDs, or if agents of the Church hadn't kidnapped and effectively sold thousands of Spanish, Irish, Australian and American children from the 1940s to as recently as 1987 — then folks wouldn't be leaving the Church in droves and you wouldn't be seeing stories like this one either.

Certainly, it is true, looking back over the battle of the last decade, that those who took up positions for and against Fr Maciel tended to be those who also took up positions for and against Pope John Paul II, and it was Fr Maciel's attackers who led the way in this.

Once in a blue moon, a Chinese movie will find an audience in the United States, but it's been nearly two decades since Americans lined up to see Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the last bonafide hit to make it across the Pacific.

In order to pay off a billion dollar fine, Samsung would have to come up with every single nickel put out by the U.S. Mint in the last several decades.

Blomberg surveys the gnostic gospels, that have gotten so much press over the last decade, and shows how they fail to live up to the criteria of «apostolicity, catholicity, and orthodoxy» (58) that were laid down by the early Church.

Even if some establishments cut staff in response to the ACA, restaurants are projected to employ 13.1 million people this year, up 2.4 percent from last year, and might add more than 1 million new positions in the next decade.

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I used to hate seafood growing up, but in the last decade or so, I've come to love just about any type of seafood (except oysters — it's not a taste thing, it's a texture thing.

In the last few decades, «Anything-gate» has been used to suggest a cover - up, lie, or some other bad deal that has gone down....

The trend is up now, and even if there are apps that want to make me get in an accident, we can be sure that this is the last contract extension that Bryce Harper will sign for a decade, unless it's the last one he ever signs.

The auto industry has taken a beating and, for the better part of the last two decades, so too has Detroit's baseball team, but Jim Leyland's Tigers have lit up the Motor City with their overpowering run to the World Series

We are on the cusp of greatness again and if this opportunity is ignored due to the Board and AW's financial reluctance and timidity, then we may just have to spend another ten years as the runners up or the «nearly but not quite» team we have been over the last decade.

After getting spanked 5 - 1 here last year you'd think they would be rearing to go with a point to prove but instead this group of cowards turn up and put in the worse arsenal performance in a decade, if we were playing the liverpool of last year it would have been 7 - 1 this time.

I would like to see Wenger step up onto the board tho, I would like Arsenal to bring in a younger manager who can last a good decade with us and for Wenger and the new manager to work closely to keep the attractive style of football that Wenger desires to play and bringing youths through etc but a manager who can focus on nothing but the team and team performance.

And when you look back at the last decade, none of those youngsters have progressed in the way that they were hyped up to and yes I'm talking about the likes of Ramsey, Walcott, Jack Wheelchair and the Ox who all had a one season wonder of some sort, during one point in their Arsenal careers, thus far and We can't keep using this excuse for not buying ready made quality, which would instantly improve our chances of winning a major trophy or two, but No, Wenger wants to stick with a theory which clearly isn't working for us on the pitch, but he doesn't really care, as long as it works out well for saving the penny's and the pounds, in the place where it matters most for Arsenal fc, in the bank.

Everyone goes on about not playing players out of position then indulges the whippet in his belief about striker potential... he ain't and never will b... the difference with the ox when he came on was obvious last night... We have been lumbered with this overrated guy forb a decade now... Why we upped his wages is a mystery to me but torpedoes any talk of wenger's managerial prowess that is for sure