Sentences with phrase «lot longer this year»

The decorating is taking me a lot longer this year.

Is it just taking a lot longer this year?

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But for all the big talk, Ivey has a lot of walk.MBA graduates, according to the school's owndata, can expect an average starting salaryof over $ 98,000 a year upon graduation.Every class evolves from students tacklingreal - world problems on their own, to doing so in groups, then as an entire class.Outside the classroom, the school offersscores of special projects, internationalinternships and one - of - a-kind programs, like the Ivey Consulting Project, the largestand longest - running Canadian programpairing MBA students with real - world businessesin need of help.

After two years and after a lot of trial and error, Long says he made all that money back.

That $ 75 is not a lot to an American family — a survey from the American Research Group found shoppers planning to spend $ 929 this year on gifts — but in Syria it goes a long way.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 - year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 % rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

What's more, as Buffett points out, he's a long - term investor, so looking at the year - to - year investment and return on a given business doesn't make a lot of sense.

«They're buying this because they think it has a lot of long - term value and feel it can be a lot bigger in five years,» says Kopelman.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 per cent rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

«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.

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.

Ten years is a long time and a lot of things can change.

«If you add all the people who are no longer counted — a lot of 50 - year - old people who remained unemployed longer than a year — we're probably at an unemployment rate of around 20 or 22 %.»

As best I can see, long - term TIPS (say 10 - year) don't make a lot of sense.

That always takes a lot longer than hoped — usually years.

Our approach was and continues to be to take a long - term approach, modeled after the way we experimented and invested in a lot of things during the early years at Zappos (and made a lot of mistakes along the way), and then eventually scaled from almost no sales in 1999 to over $ 1 billion in gross merchandise sales in 2008 (9 years)-- and continuing to grow and scale afterwards.

For much of the past two years, the discounts offered by automakers have remained at levels that industry analysts say are unsustainable and unhealthy in the long term... Sales are expected to drop further in 2018 as interest rates rise and more late - model used cars return to dealer lots to compete with new ones.

We could take the $ 16 billion we have in cash earning 1.5 % and invest it in 20 - year bonds earning 5 % and increase our current earnings a lot, but we're betting that we can find a good place to invest this cash and don't want to take the risk of principal loss of long - term bonds [if interest rates rise, the value of 20 - year bonds will decline].»

Their managers sell losing securities, match up losses and gains, hold stocks at least a year so that their gains count as long - term, choose stocks that don't produce a lot of taxable dividends, and try to keep taxable transactions low.

A higher federal funds rate often leads to higher long - term interest rates like the 10 - year Treasury and mortgage yields, which matter a lot to the real estate industry.

That means if you take a very long term moving average, that that moving average over 10 years, because it's not increasing over time, you take the average of that, the average is gonna be a lot lower than the current earnings on average.

The question is really have we got our head around what the duration of a 50 - year bond is, because it is a lot longer.

So there are lots of those long - term factors, demographics, aging population, global competition that mean that long - term interest rates may not rise at the same level, but one can't help but feel that we have seen six, seven years and in some cases, 10 years now post global financial crisis of near - zero interest rates and it's just, I suspect, there are a lot of market practitioners have gotten used to that idea and haven't really gotten their heads around the fact that we are still seeing Fed governors suggesting we have got one more rate increase this year and potentially two or three coming out next year.

Given that US interest rates have been rising for more than 6 years at the short end and more than 18 months at the long end, why has the trend suddenly begun to draw a lot of attention in the mainstream press?

Running an event company as well as a freelance writing business means I juggle a lot of responsibilities, and my first year was a 12 month long learning experience.

A lot of the year - long market rally has been driven by liquidity as money seeks out a home.

A 40 - year fixed - rate mortgage is generally a less popular option both because it takes so long to pay off the loan and because you end up paying a lot in interest.

Like a lot of firms, the 41 - year - old venture firm Menlo Ventures has decided to jump into healthcare investing after a long hiatus, hiring new partner Greg Yap to lead the charge.

If comparing the longer - term weekly charts of SLV and GLD, it quickly becomes apparent that SLV has a lot more technical price resistance and overhead supply to work through before recovering back to its year 2011 highs.

Women who shun fruit or eat lots of fast food take longer to get pregnant and are less likely to conceive within a year, according to a study released Thursday.

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

Christmas dinner is a special time when the whole family gets together — for a lot of people it's the only time they get with their extended family all year long.

Record number people no longer believe, 8 years ago the young adults who could vote now couldn't then, and there are a lot more of them then those who believe.

Christianity, like a lot of other religions that have been co-opted by governments as a means of manipulating the people, has a very long and very bloody history spanning about 1700 years.

I finally understood this after reading Keith Green's biography where he tried a lot of different belief systems looking for the deepest satisfaction and finally settled into Christ in the hippie years because it held for him the depth and strength to satisfy his spiritual longings.

I think a lot of people just say, «Well, that's weird because it was 12 years ago, that's pretty long ago, it was a hot mic, it wasn't something he said in a speech.»

Why didn't he stay on earth longer... like maybe a couple of hundred years... to prove that he was really special and teach lots more stuff?

For more complex organisms it takes a lot longer... we won't see it in primates over the 150 years or so we have been observing evolution.

He's not saying you need to NOT believe in God, merely stating that there is proof that humans and the Earth have been around a lot longer then the last 6000 years.

I chose to stop being a «christian» and start being a follower a few years back, long road lots of bumps and scrapes and a lot of study and prayer.

And I realise, yes, yes, I am.I've been happy for months and months now, even years now, so it's not just a fluke.It's no longer me fighting for a few days of happy in the midst of a lot of exhaustionand acedia and work and tiredness and overwhelmed - ness.

Is it possible and after reading about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know and can easily think think about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life and i am feeling put on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day and moon was not visible on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross and also not for eternal life and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit and no more but recive their reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before and i think it was also Adam and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't and today we are seeing the result

Hindus in India adorn their homes with lots of these lamps during the holiday Diwali to commemorate the Hindu legend of the return of Lord Rama from his 14 year - long exile after murdering the ten - headed demon Ravana.

Hindus in India adorn their homes with lots of these lamps during Diwali to commemorate the Hindu legend of the return of Lord Rama from his 14 year - long exile after murdering the ten - headed demon Ravana.

Eighty - four years is a lot longer than I thought I was going to live when I first apprehended my own death as an actuality.

It's gonna take a LOT longer than 15 years.

I have been reading your blog for a lot longer than even I realised, have recommended it to a load of people and have used many recipes and tips and tricks over the years, just ordered the book on Amazon and can not wait for it to make it's way over to me in Dublin, Ireland, THANK YOU — for putting the metric weights on!

Yeah, if you don't need to be gluten - free, I don't blame people for not wanting to hassle with the special flours and xanthan gum - specially when most gluten - free baked goods leave a lot to be desired:) Thankfully gluten - free baking has come a long way in the past couple years...

Like you I have lots of hand written recipe books compiled over twenty seven years of marriage... (I can't believe it's that long!)

It's going to take a whole lot longer than a year to finish all the projects, but we've got to start somewhere.