Sentences with phrase «like couple years»

It seems like a couple years ago, everybody was coming up with electric concept cars but almost nobody was actually taking actions to commercialize them.

I feel like a couple years from now, I wont even need my DSLR camera.

«Bullshit, but in this league, just like a couple years ago, me coming here nobody would have thought that.

Like the couple years before it, 2017 was a particularly challenging year.

Someone like Does made a claim like this a couple years back.

Not exact matches

The first couple years outside the office make some retirees feel like the proverbial kid in the candy store.

And, that could be anything from, are there other people from the university that I attend who work here, could I talk to them, to what does it look like to change jobs in a couple years after I've been successful on my first project, to how long do people stay in this office?

They were a couple years older than me when I was reading them, so I also kind of read them as a fantasy ideal of what high school would look like.

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.

«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.»

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.

When the IPO market takes a hit like it has, it takes a substantial length of time to recover, usually a couple of years.

Again like Keller, Bannon has been at Tesla for a couple years.

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.

«We did it for a couple of years and we were kind of like: How can we get better at this?

In the last couple years interesting things have happened, so I feel like in 2016 people will figure out answers to big questions and will implement tactical changes.

For the first couple years, Sam felt like he was learning a lot, but just couldn't grow his consulting business in terms of revenue and client acquisition.

In - vehicle video ads: Companies like Go Vugo have been around for a couple years but haven't quite gained a foothold with the driver community.

Canadian travelers may feel like they can afford to go abroad for the first time in a couple of years.

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.

TyLynn and Bee liked each other at first sight, but took a few years to become a couple.

A couple of cheap gadgets like a child - safe knife helped her to do just that, and she even set her 9 - year - old the task of grilling his own hamburger (with supervision, of course).

And we did okay in the ratings so we... And we hung in there and then after a couple years somebody said would you like to go to Italy and make a Western and I said no, I don't want to go anywhere.

If you're 60 years old and getting ready to retire in the next couple of years, then yes, volatility is scary, and you need to think about moving your nest egg into more stable investments (like bonds or real estate).

The Backbeat Fit have been around for a couple years now, and in that time more than a few recommendations like this have rolled in.

«A couple would say, «I have owned this store for 20 years and I have never had a product fly off the shelves like that,»» says Clary.

I tried to describe to my brother, who was also a test pilot — we had the same astronaut training, I just happened to fly in space about two years before he did — and I tried to explain to him for a couple year, «Hey, this is what this is like.

Over the past couple of years, insurance companies like Progressive and State Farm have created tracking devices that can lead to lower insurance rates for safe driving.

Like I mentioned earlier, it's not perfect by any means — the controllers lack headphone jacks, and I've avoided using the Switch in tabletop mode because of its flimsy kickstand and bottom - facing USB port — but I'm guessing Nintendo will release new - and - improved hardware in a couple of years, as the company has done in the past (think: Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS).

But a couple of years into the venture, Markham decided he didn't like the direction the company was taking.

I feel like if I picked up my Android today, there hasn't been a qauntam leap of change in the last couple of years — a little bigger screen, a little more memory.

If you don't have the fiduciary standard, it's a little bit like walking down to the Ford lot and saying, «Do you think I need a new car yet or do you think I should keep driving the old one for another couple of years?»

And then the second question for Sabrina, on the line of credit, and your appetite for buying the stock back here, is there a minimum cash balance or just kind of viewpoint as we look into next year, what your appetite could look like to be buying back stock at the pace you have the last couple of years?

Generally I agree (9 times out of 10) with your startup thoughts, especially given you and members of your super team (like ex-vancouverite Catrina) have done it before (and I've just been building for past 8 years) but I have a couple of quibbles on this post (but not necessarily «disagreement»).

I like GIS's dividend yield now, but they appear to have frozen it for the next couple years to help fund the pet food acquisition and deleverage.

Up until a couple of years ago, the grocery price war had largely been fought over mainstream products like soda, soup and cereal, leaving higher - end organics to compete on quality.

But more setbacks could make this season's problems look, a couple of years from now, less like faltering than foreshadowing.

We are currently maxing out our 401k's through our employers and would like to open up a couple Roth IRA's this year as well, however, we don't have much extra cash to invest (will be lucky to find an extra $ 5 - 6k per year).

Over the last couple of years I saw first hand how visual methods like the Business Model Canvas can end blah blah blah and enable clear and tangible strategic conversations.

These last couple years it seems like my summers are more about getting projects and work done rather than enjoying the beautiful weather and summer vacations.

In 2015, news reports revealed that Uber had an operating loss of $ 470 million on $ 415 million in revenue, confirming suspicions that the company has been bleeding money for the sake of achieving steep growth and acquiring market share.391 In China, the company has lost more than $ 1 billion a year.392 The strategy of aggressive price competition and brazen leadership coupled with soaring growth prompted immediate comparisons to Amazon.393 Like Amazon, Uber has drawn immense interest from investors.

The Ruble declined in value, and it looked like a couple of rough years ahead for Russia.

Banks like to minimize their risk when it comes to business loans, so they may require you to have a couple years in business under your belt.

ST. PETERSBURG — While protesting is an intrinsic part of American culture, protests have had a huge resurgence in the past couple of years, with events like last year's Women's March and this weekend's March for Our Lives.

It's had this sort of terrible trajectory straight into the ground and it's basically halved over two years and now it's one of those stocks that everybody hates because it's one of those stocks that everybody held a couple of years ago and I remember how badly they've all been burnt on the reason for buying two years ago was that it had this kind of stellar earnings growth that fat toad and the earnings have basically been falling since then that looks like they got to continue to fall for another 12 months two years.

Small deals that Wall Street would have scoffed at just a couple of years ago have become prime targets for the likes of Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan.

The number of new currencies is growing, driving the mass popularity not only of the most famous currencies like Bitcoin, but also of those you haven't heard about just a couple of years ago.

The thing I took issue with is when you said «What's crazy is that our Govt actually forced these lenders to give more loans to minorities a couple of years ago» like this is all the fault of minorities.

«I feel like this is gonna be in the history books in the next couple years,» he said.

However, I think it's fairly probable that JD delivers at least 20 % top - line growth for the next couple of years, and that the P / S normalizes to something like 1.2 - 1.3, yielding an upside around 100 % for the next two years.