Sentences with phrase «made in a number of years»

The product line is really outdated and no new designs have been made in a number of years.

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The number of data professionals in Canada — people employed as statisticians, mathematicians and actuaries — has increased by 48 % over the past five years, making it the fastest - growing job category in the country.

Any chilling effect on diplomatic relations could also affect the Chinese market's strict and complicated regulatory system, which limits the number of foreign - made movies that are released in the country each year.

The fact that the number of women entrepreneurs has increased over the years has been made possible, in part, by their passion, talent and dedication and their ability to obtain essential business support including access to capital.

While it remains far behind Verizon (vz) and AT&T (t) in number of subscribers, T - Mobile, which makes its debut on the Fortune Best Companies list this year, has undeniable momentum.

The 35 - year - old online marketing expert is one of a growing number of entrepreneurs in the pressure - cooker tech world to admit that, no, they're not killing it and, no, they can't fake it until they make it.

Buffett typically makes his donations in July, reducing the number of shares by 5 percent from the prior year.

This spring, he spent two weeks running the numbers and battling insomnia before making a dramatic announcement to his 120 - member staff on April 13, inviting NBC News and The New York Times to cover it: Over the next three years, he will phase in a minimum wage of $ 70,000 at Gravity and immediately cut his own salary from $ 1.1 million to $ 70,000 to help fund it.

Offering lacrosse training, clubs, and events, 3d Lacrosse was founded in 2009, and today boasts a three year growth rate of 493 percent — that makes it number 909 on the Inc. 5000.

Perth - based Swick Mining Services says it made a number of redundancies to minimise costs during the March quarter and plans to make an impairment adjustment at year's end, despite an increase in demand for underground drilling from its existing clients.

Every year since, Jose Cuervo Reserva de la Familia has been made available in a limited run of hand - sealed, numbered bottles.

Little do these skeptics, who rain on the home business owner's parade, know is that the number of people working from home, and making very good annual incomes, has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years.

The star broke his own record last month for the number of three - pointers made in one season; he's already netted 339 balls so far this season, well exceeding the 286 he made in the previous year.

If resorts no longer have the money to upgrade their lift capacity every year the way some people buy cars, they may have to improve the customer experience in other ways — for example, by limiting the number of tickets sold on any one day and steering more skiers to make mid-week reservations when the slopes are wide open.

Iger spent 17 years and $ 5.5 billion to make the Chinese theme park a reality, which ranks in the middle of Disney's parks for the number of annual visitors.

The number of genuine companies joining the TSX (you know, businesses that actually make things or sell their services — not the sprawling detritus of exchange - traded funds and other investment vehicles that regularly flood the exchange) is, so far this year, down from what it was in previous years.

Amazon has significantly increased the number of U.S. states where it charges sales tax in recent years, though primarily because the expansion of its network of warehouses and fulfillment centers has made it mandatory.

Buffett typically makes his donations in July, reducing the number of shares by 5 % from the prior year.

According to global consulting firm Mercer's 2015 cost of living ranking, Shanghai has the sixth - highest cost of living in the world this year, up four places from last year; Beijing has the seventh - highest, also up four places, and Shenzhen and Guangzhou are at 14th and 15th most expensive, both up a number of places from 2014 — making all those cities more expensive than New York City.

The initiative takes ongoing tests Macy's has been conducting at its «petri dish» of a store in Woodbridge, N.J. — such as mobile checkout in store and new lighting to make shopping more inviting to 50 stores this year — as a launching pad for a series of initiatives it can roll out to a much greater number of stores in 2019.

Five years ago, she was poached from Goldman Sachs — where she made her name convincing a number of large pension funds to hedge in the run up to the financial crisis — by Bank of America to run a first of its kind on Wall Street cross-asset, cross-industry structured - strategies group («It's about solutions, not products,» she says).

Though critics over the years have labeled him any number of things — anarchist, socialist, even Marxist — make no mistake, Mackey is a true believer in (mostly unfettered) free enterprise, and his love for it is like that of a convert who finds salvation later in life.

«For the last several years, Walmart, Best Buy, Staples and a handful of major Big Box retailers have made extremely limited numbers of doorbusters — traditionally the hallmark of Black Friday — available both in - store and online on both Black Friday and Cyber Monday,» says de Grandpre of DealNews.

The launch, at an arts venue in North London, takes a cue from Apple and Samsung, both of which have made new product announcements at high profile events for a number of years.

If you're promising a 50 percent return in two years, assuming revenues of $ 10 million, they'll dig into your revenue and expense numbers to make sure your projections are plausible.

Since then, the 18 - year - old business has grown apace (it recently made it onto the Inc. 500 list of the nation's fastest - growing private companies), thanks in part to Buschman's painfully learned lesson on the importance of comprehensive number crunching.

British Airways and Air France flew the Concorde for more than 30 years and never made money shuttling a limited number of passengers across the Atlantic in roughly 3 1/2 hours.

The number of people who make a mobile payment at least once a year will grow from nearly 8 % of the US consumer population in 2014 to 65 % by 2019.

So the discount chain, hoping to avoid the 1.3 % decline in comparable sales of the 2016 holiday season quarter during the most important time of year, is streamlining the number of promotions and making them simpler and easier to understand, Target executives told reporters at a briefing last week in New York.

A number of oil and gas discoveries have been made in recent years in the waters off the coast of that country, especially in a large basin called the Nam Con Son.

Since you already used a restaurant example, let me continue with the analogy: we're serving tasty food to an ever increasing number of satisfied, loyal customers and making enough money on every meal served to pay back original investment in fixed overhead by next year (those faux - egyptian obelisks didn't come cheap).

Europe's technology sector has made «a lot of progress» in the last five years, says Clif Marriott of the Technology, Media and Telecom group in Goldman Sachs» Investment Banking Division, evidenced by the increasing number of unicorns — private companies valued at over one billion dollars — in the European tech scene, the homecoming of the continent's top talent and the high number of successful IPOs of European companies.

Unfortunately, there have been a number of situations in the last few years that have made this concern all the more real.

The «term» in «term loan» refers to the period of time in which you make payments — typically expressed in either a number of months or a number of years.

And I've been teaching at Columbia for a number of years, I have been doing that 22 years now, but you know that time in the early 2000s, I've been doing it for a bunch years in and we had been making money using the same principles that Buffett uses, you know buying cheap good businesses.

The lackluster performance has revealed a hard truth about the quality of investments made during the peak years: A large number of inexperienced funds bought at inflated prices and settled for taking minority stakes, which left them little room to maneuver when growth slowed in markets like China and India.

Also adding to the awkward questions for Facebook: Board member, Thiel, who supported Trump's presidential bid, made a $ 1M financial donation to a Trump - supporting Super PAC, called Make America Number 1, in 2016 — which Mashable reports subsequently paid Cambridge Analytica $ 231,352 toward the end of the same year, per an FEC filing.

In other words, over the next five years, this government is planning to spend more money on income splitting for a small number of well off families, a promise made during the 2011 election, than on supporting economic growth and job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.

Almost a year later, Industry Ventures made an offer to purchase a number of shares in the company, and with board consent, executed an investment in the company.

Within a short number of years, the prior excess returns are generally wiped out, and the shortfalls in returns are generally made whole.

The Fed has made good on two interest rate hikes so far in 2017, but based on weaker - than - forecast inflation and growth numbers, it will likely fall short of the four rate hikes it planned late last year.

Though the number of Chinese AI startups on the list pales in comparison to that of the US ones — which take up 76 % of the slots — CB Insights makes note of China's «buzzing» AI startup scene: Five of the seven startups from China have achieved unicorn status, with four of them surpassing $ 1 billion in valuation just this year.

No matter how I work the numbers it just seems to me very obvious that unless it sharply speeds up the process of transferring wealth to the household sector so that consumption can grow much more quickly, China simply does not have ten years in which to manage a non-disruptive adjustment unless we are willing to make assumptions so heroic that even El Cid would blanche.

«A growing underclass scrambling to make ends meet at the whim of increasingly picky and erratic employers, that number could balloon to 65 million within 10 years, or about half of the domestic workforce, warns Steven Hill in his troubling new book, Raw Deal.

Over the last year and a half a number of prominent voices in the Bitcoin community have been warning that the system needed to make fundamental changes to its core software code to avoid being overwhelmed by the continued growth of Bitcoin transactions.

The order weighs how to make the country's immigration program «more merit based,» calls for site visits at companies that employ foreign workers, and tasks the Department of Homeland Security with producing a report twice a year on the total number of foreign - born people — not just nonimmigrant visa holders — who are authorized to work in the United States.

The pair went on to make a number of investments that first year before deciding to raise funds more formally from outsiders, like a conventional venture firm, and early in 2015 announced a $ 150 million fund.

To make an initial lending decision, determine your credit limit and set your fees, Kabbage primarily considers data from the accounts you link, your average monthly revenue and the number of years you've been in business.

«Gig workers» make up almost 34 percent of the workforce, and Recode expects this number to double in four years.

The so - called made - in - Canada approach to intellectual property protection put us outside the mainstream for a number of years, with weak Canadian laws making Canada a favourite location for websites promoting internet piracy.