Sentences with phrase «less than back»

Not only that, but whether it be clothes or medicines, it's going to cost a lot less than back home.

You will still need to eat way less than back in the day when your weight has been constantly going up.

Not exact matches

By 2009, the NEB pegged the break - even price for new oilsands projects at a U.S. $ 55 - 70 / bbl WTI price, and the expected quantity had been scaled back largely due to the financial crisis, to less than 3 million barrels per day by 2015.

Financial data is always at the back of the business plan, but that doesn't mean it's any less important than up - front material such as the business concept and the management team.

Troops bringing the American flag back to Iraq in 2003 or deploying to Afghanistan in the same time period received just a little more than their Persian Gulf War predecessors, with $ 1,064.70 for soldiers with less than four months of service and $ 1,150.80 for the seasoned veterans with four months or more under their belts.

Anything less than that and the cost of updating your building and hiring an auditing agency usually outweighs what you get back in taxes.

If you want to reach local customers and keep them coming back to your business, text - message marketing is one of the most effective strategies for doing so: While email marketing messages are opened by less than 20 percent of recipients, text message ads are typically viewed by at least 95 percent of recipients, according to Mashable.

Meanwhile, the turmoil at Politico may be giving some media watchers déjà vu, or at least flashbacks to another Allbritton - backed venture that went through substantial upheaval: In 2010, a number of senior journalists including former Washington Post digital chief Jim Brady started an ambitious hyperlocal effort called TBD, only to have the entire effort implode in less than two years after what appeared to be a power struggle with Allbritton over the future direction of the site.

Others have little choice but to go back, but they do so with far less enthusiasm than before.

This was back during a time when he had far less clout than he does today.

So if you're benching, use less weight than you normally do, lower the weight very slowly (taking at least five seconds), stop just above your chest, hold for a few seconds, squeezing your chest muscles the entire time, then slowly push it back up.

Parents, for their part, would readily comply with kids» expectations: Less than 5 percent of those surveyed said that they wouldn't let their child move back in after graduating from college, although nearly 25 percent said that they would charge them rent.

The ETF's fees make redeeming less than 40 ounces impractical, and Bogart said that the decade - old SPDR Gold Trust and BlackRock's iShares Gold Trust offer superior liquidity while still investing in physically - backed gold.

A doctor's visit at an international hospital costs less than $ 30 and medications cost a small fraction of what they do back home.

one colleague asked with a meaningful look that suggested high - fiving, back - slapping workplaces are great fodder for literary satire but less - than - ideal environments to actually work in.

In business less than a year, Kit and Ace managers can't go back and compare same - store sales or track repeat business.

According to a co-author of the study, this shows that the poorly dressed participants would often defer to the suited ones, and these suited participants could sense this heightened respect, backing down less than they might have otherwise.

A minor celebrity in both Davos and Big Data circles, Goldman sold his first company for $ 225 million, back when less than a billion dollars was actually worth something.

The net effect is that those students who exhibit greater academic potential and those who need financial assistance are paying the same as, or in some cases less than students back in the 1990s.

Even though the Massachusetts filers owed substantially more in unsecured debt (that is, debt not backed by a home, a car, or another asset) than their counterparts in other states, they reported less than half as much medical debt, which is also unsecured.

Riding on existing track and / or piggy - backing on someone else's pipeline is a lot less costly and quicker than trying to build your own.

The day after this story posted, an Amazon spokesman got back with a link to this post by evangelist Jeff Barr which claimed that Amazon cloud customers use 77 % fewer servers and 84 % less power than busineses that run their own data centers.

In 2007, FCi Federal, a company that provides back - office support for federal agencies, had less than $ 2 million in revenue and only 35 employees.

If I could go back to the beginning (and was interested solely in maximizing my investments, which I'm not), I would invest only during recessions, when almost everything costs 50 % to 90 % less than it does during boom times.

LONDON, April 24 - Less than two weeks after the latest round of U.S. sanctions plunged Russia's rouble to 16 - month lows, some global funds have already stepped back in to buy rouble - denominated sovereign bonds and take advantage of the weaker currency.

The carrier is putting up future installment payments worth over $ 1.5 billion to back the less than $ 1.2 billion of bonds.

Less than 15 minutes later, at 2:25 p.m., Manning wrote back to Zucker, saying: «Should be able to get them for tomorrow.»

The venture - backed startup has raised a bit less than $ 3 million in two funding rounds.

Perth - based oil and gas company Antares Energy has received a fresh $ US300 million offer from an undisclosed party for its Permian Basin oil and gas assets in Texas, less than six months after it backed out of a previous sale agreement.

Struggling iron ore miner Pluton Resources has fallen back into the hands of receivers and managers, less than six months after the board regained control of the company, as part of a new structuring proposal.

Chances are, the more melanin you have, the less likely you would show up as anything more attractive than a smudge, a muddy smirk — or worse, a lurking presence — as you hovered in the back row of the chess club photo.

«The growth rate (of non-energy exports) persistently was less than what we thought should happen and it's gradually building up to something that we have to acknowledge, and we have to say, «Either it comes back someday after firm creation kicks in more strongly» or something,» Poloz said.

Retail sales rose less than expected in June, the latest sign of a slowdown in economic growth that offers a cautionary note to the Federal Reserve as it mulls scaling back its monetary stimulus.

Even as shameless and short - sighted as most brokers and underwriters are, they're finding that the numbers just won't stand up and they're having to go back to their investors and talk about «public» valuations that may be less than the last couple of rounds of capital injections.

They usually pay good dividends, usually trade for less than their cash or assets in the bank, and are fairly stable (it's very hard for a municipality to not pay back its debts for various reasons, some of them constitutional).

The employee should be offered the opportunity to come back later to collect personal effects and ask questions, but the meeting ends in less than 15 minutes.

Across the six major contracts, portfolio managers hold almost 14 long positions for every short one, compared with a ratio of less than 12:1 back on Jan. 23.

Cut back by 600 per day and it will take you less than a week to lose a pound.

Less - than - clear indications from the U.S. Federal Reserve on whether it might scale back its aggressive bond - buying program, dubbed quantitative easing or QE, also caused investors to curb their enthusiasm.

It's a user - friendly approach that is less likely to keep visitor on your site, rather than scrambling for the «back» button while their business meeting comes to an abrupt halt.

The fundraising round comes less than two months after Reuters reported Sun Basket hired bankers for an initial public offering in the back half of this year.

More sensible than fun, buying this Bluetooth keyboard and mouse set will set you back less than $ 50.

It was a nail - biting two - hour ride to the stratosphere; the Austrian made it back home in less than 10 minutes.

That being said, even if you have a startup short sale (i.e. selling for less than the valuation you did in your last round), you basically pay back the last round of funding first and start splitting the money on a percentage basis after that.

Back in the day, companies would justify paying women less than men because, among other reasons, men were seen as breadwinner providers responsible for an entire household.

In fact, the drug — now manufactured generically by Perrigo — may cost even less today than it did back in 1980.

By the end of the day Johnson and Bergh had agreed to open 700 similar Levi's boutiques inside Penneys in time for the back - to - school season in 2012 — less than a year later.

Those proposals speak less to debt settlement companies themselves, in most cases, than they do to so - called «lead generators» — companies that advertise debt settlement, sign - up potential clients and then sell their information to back - end service providers.

Back in 2011, the Montreal - based product developer co-founded a platform that allowed companies with little technical know - how to create their own apps in less than a minute.

The company said it would sell back the leases to stores at Vancouver's Pacific Centre, Calgary's Chinook Centre and Ottawa's Rideau Centre to landlord Cadillac Fairview for $ 170 million and vacate the premises in less than seven months.