Sentences with phrase «long years before»

For eight long years before he died, Jahan could only gaze from a distance at the monument he'd built to his beloved wife Mumtaz.

BSE /» Mad cow disease» and scrapie happened in the UK long years before it was an issue in the USA.

Consider Charles Murray's definitive work on social policy, Losing Ground, published 12 long years before Congress enacted welfare reform.

I do know it was long years before they became adult men living over 1000 miles away from me.

Our last piece of silverware had come 17 long years before when we pipped Preston to the title on goal average in 1953.

It took my youngest EIGHT long years before he liked broccoli, and now he loves it.

He waited four long years before being welcomed back.

«Witness the fidelity of his wife through the long years before at last his black - prowed galleys clove the wine - dark seas for home.»

Factoring in the corresponding «longevity risk», pension premiums could be raised significantly while disposable incomes stagnate and employees work longer years before retiring.

Not exact matches

While the term has become popular in recent years, it's built around the idea of subscription - models, which has been around since long before the digital age.

My dad worked for 35 years at Stelco in Hamilton, before watching a once great company dragged into bankruptcy, in large part because of a pension plan it could no longer fund.

In fact corporate profits are a recognized long leading indicator, which means they usually peak at least a year before the economy as a whole.

It'll take long years of expensive schooling before you can have your days in court.

It would be over two and a half years before Bitcoin would regain its previous high — long enough that many Mt. Gox victims didn't even bother filing a claim for what they considered an insignificant sum.

We did, after all, spend tens of thousands of years enjoying the vast and beautiful open expanses of new breathtaking landscapes long before we used letters and numbers to communicate.

What really stands out in terms of value, though, is that the Winix has a longer - lasting, washable HEPA filter, which can be cleaned up to six times before having to replace it in about three years.

Boosting the score may take years for companies with a derogatory or nonexistent credit history, so the process of strengthening creditworthiness needs to begin long before a credit application is submitted.

That could mean the ability to work a few years longer than you anticipated, or having enough liquid funds to tap for years before needing to withdraw from your stock portfolio.

My husband and I scheduled this trip to Hawaii about a year ago — long before the caucus dates were decided.

Nearly 40 years ago, before he became a popular action movie star and long before he began his political career, Schwarzenegger built his own bricklaying business alongside a friend and fellow bodybuilder.

Because of the long production cycles of the industry, it'll be about three years before the ads will show up in new models.

A spokesman for the prosecutors in the city of Brunswick (Braunschweig) told Fortune that recent disclosures suggesting that chief executive Martin Winterkorn was aware of the long - running deception of U.S. regulators already in May 2014 — over a year before the company finally admitted it to the world — weren't enough by themselves to justify opening an investigation into the former boss.

He was no longer at the firm to accept the award with the rest of the team, however; he quit the year before to join a competitor, and moved back to Toronto.

A number of funds bet heavily on an oil rally early in the year, boosting long futures positions to a record in late February, before oil went into a prolonged slump as global supply remained elevated despite cuts from OPEC.

Cook has a 30 - year mortgage with the option to pay it off early with no penalty, so she says she plans to live in the house and pay it off in four to five years before renting it out and moving into «more of a permanent long - term place with ideally a husband, or a boyfriend or whatever happens.»

That means you pay the long - term capital rate (typically 20 %) if you sold it after a year, or the ordinary income rate if you sold it before then.

In addition, everyone is now fretting about an «inverted yield curve,» which is the phenomenon when long - term yields, such as the 10 - year yield, fall below short - term yields, such as the three - month yield or the two - year yield.The last time this happened was before the Financial Crisis.

Fisher was in a long - term relationship with musician Paul Simon and married to him for a year before they divorced in 1984.

Either way, we're still a long way off the $ 15,000 range (with a freak peak above $ 19,000) that Bitcoin enjoyed late last year before everything went south.

Play it safe for retirement The years immediately before and after retirement are when losses can hurt an investor's long - term plans the most.

It's been a rocky year for Uber, although the ride - hailing app's troubles started long before 2017.

Long before today's perceived energy crisis, PowerLight was perfecting its patented system — an array of panels that sit on top of a roof, thereby protecting and insulating it — to the point where the company now offers a 20 - year warranty.

Despite a long sales cycle and little volume driven by repeat purchases, this legendary piano saleswoman sold more than $ 40 million in Steinways before retiring a few years ago.

Still, Graham ended racially segregated seating at his Southern crusades in 1953, a year before the Supreme Court's school integration ruling, and long refused to visit South Africa while its white regime insisted on racially segregated meetings.

He worked for 25 years at Rothschild as an adviser before founding his own investment firm in 2000, and he's long been a supporter of deregulation.

Long before she was a star investor on ABC's «Shark Tank,» Barbara Corcoran borrowed $ 1,000, quit her job as a waitress, and started what would over 25 years become a huge real estate business.

Seven years later, he upset a long - standing Massachusetts incumbent after trailing by 32 points the summer before the election.

This means that the gigafactory's products could already be outclassed before its target 2016 opening — and long before the estimated 7 - 10 years of full production it could take to recoup the factory's costs.

Set your fourth - quarter goals early in the year and be sure team members are aware of them long before the festivities begin.

The state government has given Chinese group Kimberley Agricultural Investment four years to develop active irrigated agriculture in the Ord River region, before it will agree to signing long - term leases.

Long before he was featured on Fortune's Business Person of the Year list, Roberts pledged Zeta Psi when he was an undergraduate at Penn..

The partners at his 25 - employee law firm had picked their plan 15 years ago, long before technology - driven retirement platforms started to drive down costs.

Gorman's compensation jumped to $ 16 million last year, according to the bank's annual proxy statement - up from $ 12 million the year before - plus an additional $ 6.5 million in long - term incentive awards based on performance targets.

It was going to be a long two years before I finally became debt free at the end of 2016.

If you look at the years in which these countries built the wealth their citizens now enjoy, it was long before leftist ideas took hold.

Auto loans stretching six or seven years are often criticized as a poor choice because they leave borrowers underwater for years before they finally get to a point where the vehicle is no longer in negative equity.

«Make no mistake, the company is a lot better than it was the last year or before, but we've got a long way to go to get to where we're going to be satisfied,» he added.

Yet volatility is still below its long - term average, and the low - volatility climate of the past few years is incompatible with a world marked by slow growth, unstable inflation expectations and a likely Federal Reserve rate hike before year's end.

While it's hard to measure with data because we typically have a long sales cycle (several months to years before closing a client), we know from a lot of anecdotal evidence that our videos have played a significant role in keeping Stone Temple top - of - mind along the customer journey.

But the legislation, which would generally be effective for tax years beginning after 2017, still has a long way to go around the track before it hits the finish line.