Sentences with phrase «months this year before»

In all, auto sales rose 27 percent from the same month a year before, with General Motors posting particularly strong gains due to sales incentives.

The result: Connecticut income tax revenue plunged by nearly $ 281 million, more than 14 percent, compared with the same month a year before.

The hope is that these sea gliders, which can dive hundreds of meters and stay in the water for months at a time, will help to unlock the secrets of phytoplankton blooms that nourish the organisms in Antarctica's Ross Sea for a few months each year before mysteriously disappearing.

Home sales on Maui skyrocketed last month, with more 50 percent more sold than the same month the year before.

He drew attention to the fact that there was a decrease in the number of people who visited the realtor.ca website between the first four months of 2015 versus the same months the year before.

I will probably continue to occupy the two - unit for another six months this year before finding a new house and moving out.

Seasonally adjusted numbers of new listings were virtually the same as the same month the year before.

Not exact matches

Before you break into a sweat over the small business requirements in the health - care legislation signed into law last month, take a deep breath: Many of its provisions will take months if not years to go into effect.

«We were very quietly dating for about six months before it became news, and I was working during that whole time, and the only thing that changed was people's perception,» the 36 - year - old «Suits» actress also said.

«During the Trump Administration, we will shift from playing defense at the FCC to going on offense,» Ajit Pai said in December last year, a month before president - elect Donald Trump appointed him as the new chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Being young and fresh out of school, it was definitely a challenge, but after six months, a year, 18 months went by, I started to realize that this felt more like home to me than anything I'd done before.

He failed his university entrance exams twice before gaining admission to Hangzhou Teachers University in 1984; after graduation he spent five years teaching English for 120 yuan (about $ 15) per month.

Core consumer prices in Tokyo, available a month before the nationwide data, declined 0.6 percent in the year to January, compared with a 0.5 percent annual fall projected.

What's likely to be a bigger concern for rate - setters is that the core rate, which strips out potentially volatile items like energy and food, fell to just 0.7 percent in the year to April from 1 percent the month before.

While it will take months, possibly even years, of tweaking and testing before you have a fully optimized campaign, you'll find the effort worth it.

Zuckerberg says all Facebook ad changes should be complete months before the 2018 elections, as well as for upcoming elections over the next year in India, Pakistan, Mexico and Brazil.

Rosengren did not mention whether he expects a rate hike before year end, yet the message appeared to fall in line with that of Fed Chair Janet Yellen who said last month that the case was «strengthening» to raise rates.

While just months ago Tesla endured plenty of criticism for being a money loser, its share price has almost tripled since the start of the year, reaching $ 89 before noon on Thursday and increasing the company's market capitalization to $ 10 billion.

It took six months of R&D before the first product, Flow, was introduced last year.

A lifelong Republican, Whitman switched her support to Hillary Clinton three months before last year's election — she was the only Fortune Most Powerful Woman to publicly campaign for a nominee — stoking speculation that the former gubernatorial candidate would reenter the political arena.

Other analysts, like economist Nouriel Roubini, argued that cheap oil would last just a year or 18 months before producers like Saudi Arabia had successfully flushed out higher - cost competitors like shale producers here in the U.S.

In a conversation last month, before the sales numbers were reported, he downplayed concern over preorder numbers, saying «We see purchase intent well above last year and we see engagement with the brand in social media channels all being markedly up, so I'm still optimistic.»

Maybe his shares or options were worth that much when Facebook went public, but he was only there for eight months and was fired in 2006 — a full six years before the company's IPO.

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.

They either create the product first and then find a market for it later, or they spend months, even years, perfecting the product before selling it.

According to Passport - collector, many of those who can afford one still save for at least 40 years before they apply, and it can take more than six months for the passport to arrive.

A pilot at Lufthansa earns on average 180,000 euros ($ 190,000) a year before tax, though a captain on the highest pay level can earn as much as 22,000 euros a month before tax.

Ten - million - dollar palaces sat for months and sometimes years on the market before finally selling for barely half their list price.

The Pet Rock (whose inventor I consider the greatest entrepreneur of all time) made its debut in October 1975 - in other words, 19 years and nine months before the launch of Amazon, which is now 20 years old.

While D.C. was also near the top of the list for coke use (3.78 % having used it in the last year), Alaska residents were found to be the nation's top pot users — 11.5 % smoked marijuana in the last month before the survey.

When the headhunter contacted him months before, he wouldn't tell Eckert much except that the company had been founded by famed scientist Rodney Brooks, who, until a few years earlier, had led MIT's computer - science and artificial - intelligence lab.

Two stocks he scored big on were Philippines - based Alaskan Milk Corp., which saw an 80 % return in the three months before it was bought out in March, and Singapore beverage and food company Super Group Ltd., which is up 126 % year - to - date.

Before people had access to years of history online, fact checking generally came in the weeks or even months after a speech.

«In the past we'd march on for months or years before we'd admit defeat,» says Chik, an 18 - year veteran who now runs the engineering team that builds Microsoft's mobile device management technologies.

But they may have to wait months or years before being granted asylum.

YouTube had launched only three months before his graduation and Twitter wouldn't arrive until nearly a year later.

Current retirees can collect as early as age 62, but their benefit will be permanently reduced by a percentage based on the number of months before they reach full retirement age, which ranges from age 65 to 67, depending upon birth year.

Amgen has argued that Sandoz (the generic medicines unit of pharma giant Novartis) and other biosimilar makers must wait an additional six months (on top of the 12 years» exclusivity already granted to biologics) before selling copycats.

The Bolt EV will be launched in a few months, nearly a year before the Tesla Model 3, with a starting price for U.S. consumers of $ 37,500.

A legion of Canadian corporations recently acquired new CEOs: Guy Laurence joined Rogers (which owns this magazine) last December, one month after BlackBerry brought in turnaround artist John Chen to fix its ailing smartphone business; at TD Bank, Bharat Masrani spent a year (some might say his entire career) preparing to take over for Ed Clark, while across the street at CIBC, internal candidate Victor Dodig was given just six weeks before he replaced Gerald McCaughey.

«It was really only in the last year to 18 months that it was clear that all the pieces came together and we could actually finish what we couldn't before,» says Walker, who will lead Upside along with several other Priceline (pcln) alumni, including former CTO Scott Case and Tim Brier, the former president of Priceline Europe.

Home sales fell 5.8 % in August from the month before, and were down 8.9 % year - over-year.

After Bushnell moved to Los Angeles with his family 13 years ago, he didn't talk to Jobs as frequently, though he made a final visit about six months before he died.

The second maximum - strength storm to hit the Caribbean this month, Maria battered the U.S. Virgin Island of St. Croix on Wednesday before heading toward Puerto Rico, where it was set to be the strongest storm to hit the island in about 90 years.

Even though we had the software live and running within eBay for three years before we spun it out, it still took us months to get customers on board, build a team, raise money and scale revenue.

McMenamin says it can take months or years to develop the delicate organisms before they are suitable for sale.

Motor vehicle output fell 12.9 % from the previous month, and was down 8 % from the year before.

So before I started putting my business plan into action, I made sure to stash nine months of living expenses — accrued during my few years of working on Wall Street — in a savings account.

I'm proud of my staff and the way they put it out,» Sherry says, adding that his team spent a couple months putting the experience together last year before seven customers bought in.

Reserves tumbled from $ 36 billion before the uprising to around $ 17.5 billion in May this year, and foreign currency reserves have been further drained this month as Egypt returned a $ 1 billion deposit to Qatar and paid $ 720 million in fees to the Paris Club.