Sentences with phrase «millions in a few short years»

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The name Kit and Ace is a reference to the brand's «aspirational muses»: the young woman, Kit — short for Shannon and Chip's beloved Kitsilano neighbourhood in Vancouver where, a few years ago, they built a waterfront home now assessed at $ 57 million — and her hunky beau, Ace.

In 1993, Conlon joined one of Chicago's top real estate firms at the time, and within only a few short years, he had made a name for himself as one of the most prolific sellers of residential real estate throughout not only Chicago and and the Midwest, but also the entire U.S. with sales approaching $ 200 million annually.

One popular example is the story of DropBox, which through the use of a reward referral program acquired more than 200 million users in only a few short years.

Last year, «PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds» became a surprise phenomenon, selling $ 400 million worth of copies in a few short months.

Anyhoo, speaking of BLUE BUFFALO, in a few short years, the goons at the helm over there have managed to effectivley double the top - line from $ 523 million to $ 1,027 million.

@flash Millions of people over thousands of years give witness to the Truth!I'll go with the numbers, thank you, sufficient evidence or proof for all but you, and a few additional self deluded.You have no position and no authority, in short the facts remain you have lied to yourself and are trying to drag civilization down with you.You are exposed as a fraud and a liar and will stand before God as such unless you change.God bless

A few years ago, when the seventh largest corporation in America, Penn Central, was on the verge of forfeiting on hundreds of millions of dollars in short - term loans, the Federal Reserve saved hundreds of banks from bankruptcy — and the economy from catastrophe — by offering to cover all the loans required at that point to maintain stability.

Under Labour, government jobs are projected to be slashed more quickly in the short - term - from 5.53 million this year to 5.4 million next year, 70,000 fewer than under the coalition's plans.

Enter one of these tunnels through space - time, and a few short steps later you may emerge near Pluto or even in the Andromeda galaxy millions of light years away.

In a few short years, Instagram has grown from a small trendy app to a full - fledged social media network with over 800 million monthly users.

00, was product - testing the earliest version of what is now known as Twitter, he perfectly summed up — in the site's 38th tweet ever — what in a few short years would be the feeling of millions of web users: «Oh this is going to be addictive.»

With a colleague I carried out a review a few years ago for UNESCO of all major donors» activities related to teachers in multi-year projects with over $ 1 million funding and the biggest takeaway was that most funding that one can identify as earmarked for teachers goes to short - term in - service courses and that there is very little evidence about impact.

Within one year they had 1,100,000 + third - party apps officially available and in a few short years 200 million iOS users had downloaded over 15 billion apps.

The increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — now higher than at any time in at least the past few million years — can be found as fossil bubbles in the geologically short - lived «rock» that is polar ice.

I hope this made my viewpoint clear, why your formula may be right for a short time span of a few decades, but doesn't hold for longer time spans in the past, while our formula holds for any time span, from a few years to one million years...

Millions are handed out each year, used for a few short minutes, then tossed in the trash.

In 2008, when the site was very new, it was hard to imagine that in only a few short years more than 2 million people per month would come to us for legal helIn 2008, when the site was very new, it was hard to imagine that in only a few short years more than 2 million people per month would come to us for legal helin only a few short years more than 2 million people per month would come to us for legal help.

On the other hand, what if we told you that you could build a million - dollar law firm in just a few short years (about 48 months from a stand - still)... and that you could have a whole lot of fun in the process?

Just a few short years later in 2005, our online course swept across the State of Texas and has helped millions of drivers since.

It's important to remember that the ridesharing industry is very, very young: in just a few short years, it's grown from nothing to a multi-hundred billion dollar industry with millions of riders and hundreds of thousands of drivers; the auto insurance industry is very much still catching up.

Yes, it is 2011, soon to be 2012, and the Dinosaurs, the most successful species to ever populate the earth (for approximately five hundred million years) were not extinguished due to their inability to evolve and grow with natural changing conditions, but were simply eliminated by a one - in - a-million extra-terrestrial event over a short period of time (one to three years), as were all forms of sun reliant life with the exception of a few ocean dwelling species, subsurface ground dwelling worms, plant life like lichens and other mindless species able to lie dormant for extended periods of time, as well as nocturnal, ground dwelling little rodents that ate roots, dead or alive, (from which we so - called superior life forms evolved).