Sentences with phrase «made over a number»

(«Peter Rabbit» and «Fifty Shades Freed» will make it over that number, the latter just barely).

After concerns were raised about his behaviour by a group of pastors, including author John Ortberg, the Chicago Tribune put together an investigation which looked at various allegations made over a number of years including suggestive comments, extended hugs, an unwanted kiss, and invitations to hotel rooms.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats also reiterated calls they have made over a number of years that they would focus funding away from short term work experience placements, via Jobs Growth Wales, to longer term apprenticeships.

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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.

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.

Ottawa could find savings of $ 730 million today if it made the above changes and that number would grow over time as more Canadians become eligible for retirement programs, the report said.

Shortly after it closed, BMO Capital Markets mining analyst Edward Sterck told the Northern Miner that choosing mining over retail made sense for the company, given the number and size of diamond mines expected to come on stream over the next few years.

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.

Though his 2012 purchase of the Hawaiian island of Lanai has been his largest overall investment by far, he's made a number of blockbuster purchases over the last two decades.

White says, «When you consider that women make up over 50 % of the population, this number still has lots of room to improve if we want to consider all things equal».

One major point of contention is the fact that SoundCloud hired a number of people into roles over the last few months knowing full well that they were going to have to make large redundancies, according to TechCrunch.

In addition to focusing on growing sales over boosting profits, they often make a number of other mistakes.

As I recently wrote in «The IRS Wants to Know If Your Freelancer Should Be Getting a W2,» before working with a freelancer you want to make sure to look at a number of factors including: one) whether the person you hire is truly a freelancer, two) whether you have financial control over the person doing work, three) the extent of control you have over the freelancer's day and four) how the person's work gets performed.

With a seemingly infinite number of events all over the country (and even the world), it can be overwhelming to determine which conferences will actually provide opportunities to make valuable connections and gain useful insights for my business.

Though Lanai has been his largest overall investment by far, he's made a number of blockbuster purchases over the last two decades.

You can put rules into your online forms, so if someone puts a dash in their phone number, or writes «coming soon» as their URL, it tells them they're wrong and makes them do it over again...

Branson, in spite of the rest of his astoundingly varied schedule (it would exhaust me to even list a few of the pies he has his fidgety fingers in) showed up early for rehearsal, where he spent over making sure he was appropriately synced up with the ladies in lederhosen for their musical number.

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.

There are always tons of petitions looking to make weed legal, and they get over the threshold number of signatures required for a response (currently 100,000) from time to time.

It also allows the 31 - year - old budding philanthropist to change his mind about what he wants to fund and how much he wants to give over his lifetime, making the $ 45 billion number more like a pledge than a gift.

They were doing what made sense to them, and that is, they'd buy up these debts, they had a phone number attached to it, at least the one for Gus, and they'd just work»em over, and keep working»em over and working»em over.

Most reps come to work, open their CRM, look at their lead list, prioritize who they're going to call first, dial the number, make the call, manage messaging, go back to their lead list, and do it all over again.

The franchise has made over $ 13.5 billion worldwide to date, and that number will rise drastically this weekend when «Black Panther» opens, as is projected to break some box office records.

Economic conditions have made it more difficult to close deals; however, business brokers are reporting a record number of buyer inquiries as a result of the huge number of corporate layoffs over the last six to nine months.

If an IPO really is the goal, Kik's reluctance to disclose its internal valuation makes sense — without a huge number hanging over its head, Kik stands a better chance of a successful share offering.

The social media site has been transparent with their numbers and made «modest progress» over the past year, increasing the share of female employees to 40 % from 42 %.

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.

Grant Williams: Founder of Real Vision TV and author of investment newsletter Things That Make You Go Hmmm..., Grant has three decades of experience in the financial industry and has held senior positions at a number of investment banks all over the world.

It has historically made sense to hedge against market fluctuations based on much less restrictive definitions of market conditions, but at present, the market is in a set of conditions that has almost invariably been followed by deep and abrupt losses, though often only after a further marginal advance over a small number of trading sessions.

C.D. Howe Institute «s `'» Canada «s 2012 Fiscal Accountability Rankings `'» looks at the financial information provided by senior levels of government (federal government, provincial governments and the territories) according to «Fiscal Accountability «and `'» Scoring Governments «Over - and Undershoots `'» and makes a number of policy recommendations.

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.

The Bloc Quebecois has made a number of demands costing over $ 5 billion.

This shared public ledger enables people to make transactions with each other over the network, opening up new global marketplaces for small businesses as well as a number of transactions all together.

We crunched numbers, pored over price plans and their fine print, quizzed experts, and wrestled with complex pricing schemes to make the process as painless as possible.

Interest rates may increase but probably not enough to make an impact to a CD that is up for renewal, Real estate income should increase over time but mostly a few percentage points here and there, I suppose you could manufacture more income by paying off one of the rentals assuming your income numbers are after expenses and not gross income.

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 split, they say, made the accounting switch - over problematic, with a number of procedures getting tangled up.

Seeking a modification has been an infuriating, stressful nightmare: a black hole of time lost repeatedly calling an 800 number, faxing and mailing the same documents over and over, and coping with the ramifications of errors made by poorly trained bank employees.

For a «tech» startup — at least among those that make any money at all — $ 43 million in cumulative revenue over four years is a vanishingly small number.

The Equihash algorithm makes a variable number of iterations over a large list.

At the conclusion of my conference yesterday, I did a number of interviews and then made my way a few miles home, collapsed into my favorite chair, and thought back over the myriad of ideas, the whirlwind of friends, and the just general all - around fabulous time I had experienced over the past four days.

Amazon has rolled out a number of initiatives over the past year to make Prime more affordable.

All it takes is a cataclysmic event to literally implode the numbers and make them useless — until new numbers are collected over a new period.

• Excellent on certain dividend categories, including 43 straight years of increases, low payout ratio, and highest yield ever available • Declining number of shares over the past 10 years makes each remaining share worth a higher percentage of the company.

And although generally speaking they make up a smaller number of workers, BLS also expects rates of labor growth for workers over 65 to outpace other segments.

In return, the insurance company takes the risk of market downturns to protect your annuity value and also promises to make payments from the annuity to you in a single payment or series of payments, over a fixed number of years.

In the latest round of negotiations over the free trade pact between the US, Canada, and Mexico, which concluded on Tuesday, US negotiators made a number of protectionist demands that Mexico and Canada consider nonstarters.

It has beaten the S&P 500 by three full percentage points a year, on an annualized basis since inception, making it the number one fund in its Large Blend category which includes over a thousand other funds.

These numbers will likely be different for each franchisee, as you may decide to make more of a down payment (which would lower your payments), you may decide to finance your equipment over a longer period of time (which will also lower your payments), and you may have to pay a higher interest rate (which would increase your payments).

To date FICAP has raised over $ 850,000 for a number of worthwhile charities and have made a commitment to reach one million dollars for the kids of NSW.