Sentences with phrase «more than a few years on»

Those that don't make it to shelters rarely survive for more than a few years on their own, dying from starvation, disease, climate and accidents.

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While Texas has few jobs directly dependent on exports to Canada, the state sells us more than $ 25 billion worth of goods each year.

Over the course of a year, the company went from roughly 3,000 fans on Facebook to 38,500 and from a few hundred followers on Twitter to more than 12,000.

Pinterest is almost four years old and it's big enough for its britches — big enough to pull the plug on its affiliate links program, a money - making gravy train that more than a few brands, bloggers and Pinfluencers will sorely miss.

Campaigns on platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo are largely more sophisticated than their counterparts from just a few years ago.

A few years ago, HP execs said the company would compete head on with Amazon Web Services in public cloud computing, a model in which businesses rent computing capacity from a provider like Amazon, Microsoft or Google (GOOG) rather than building out more of their own data center capabilities.

The share price of mining junior Batavia Mining Ltd has more than doubled in the first few days of 2006 on a 140 per cent gold resource upgrade that could bring its Gullewa copper gold project in Western Australia back in production within a year.

Things that I was singing a year ago I have to take fewer breaths on because I can ration my singing breath more easily than I was able to do before.

«In just a few years, we've grown from a handful of software developers and scientists to a team of more than 1,200, inventing new capabilities and products on behalf of millions of customers around the world,» said Rohit Prasad, Amazon's Boston area - based vice president and head scientist of Amazon Alexa.

As we reported here on Inc.com a few years back, Kiwi inventor and entrepreneur Glenn Martin has been tinkering with his design for a personal jetpack in his garage for more than 30 years, using his wife as a test pilot.

Although the device went on sale in March, and Nintendo's been talking about it for more than two years, relatively few people are aware of it.

Each listing includes the item (s) to be delivered, the number of miles from point A to point B, and the price to be paid, explains David Hater, a 50 - year - old retired Army officer who's delivered more than 400 gigs for Roadie, earning anywhere from $ 8 for a local delivery to $ 400 for «delivering a few extra boxes and making a stop or two along the way» on interstate trips.

In the past few years, GoPro has emerged as a powerhouse in video cameras and a huge business that is on track for more than a $ 1 billion in revenue for 2014.

Armed with a concrete system, thanks to Tom and Nick, tireless working coaches Mike and Sarah D, and the whole Rock Star team behind me, I've been accomplishing far more, in a few short years, than I could have ever imagined had I been on my own.

«A few years ago, I could probably count on my hand how many people had more than 500 LinkedIn connections,» says Ryan Bethea, who goes by the title of Chief Connecting Officer at Socialnomics.

I plan to hang on longer and one day perhaps a couple to a few years from now, I could potentially profit more than $ 20,000 if ABX and GDX continues its run!

Gwyneth Paltrow said very few people knew about Harvey Weinstein's advances on her more than 20 years ago.

The massive boost in unstructured data in the past few years means that businesses need to rely on the raw data more often to reveal the story, rather than parse data through pre-defined filters.

«In just a few years, we've grown from a handful of software developers and scientists to a team of more than 1,200, inventing new capabilities and products on behalf of millions of customers around the world.

As the Country Head of Singapore for Grab, Lim took Grab from being unheard of a few years ago, to having more drivers on the platform than all of Singapore's taxi companies combined.

These days, earning links through quality content publication — both on your site and off — gets you substantially more value with zero risk, but it also costs a lot more than link building tactics of the past few years.

While both Google and Ford have been working steadily on self - driving cars for a few years now, the former's efforts have been more visible than that of the latter.

It has only been around for a few years — years in which metals were falling more than rising — but over the past three years it nevertheless outperformed precious metals stocks, on average.

Year - ended business credit growth remains more moderate than that for household credit, but in contrast to the slowing in household credit growth, it has continued on the broad upward trend evident over the past few years.

On balance, Stephen Harper has been a successful prime minister, but it is hard not to feel that the last four years contained more than a few missed opportunities.

ECM: In the past few years, a person's credit worthiness has also been investigated via social media sites and other avenues (read more on that here via NPR), rather than just based on a credit score alone from the top three bureaus.

Europe's online beauty sales are projected to grow by more than 8 % on a compound annual basis over the next few years.

What's important in terms of gauging investment confidence is that the maturing Asia - Pacific industry has locked in on the virtuous capital cycle: Limited partners (LPs) have been cash - positive in the region over the past few years, meaning GPs continue to find ways to return more capital to investors than they are drawing down for new investments.

Dell lost billions of dollars over the next few years on the puts — they had to shell out over $ 1.2 billion in one year alone to buy back millions of shares of stock that had lost half their value in the previous year — this was more than they made selling computers that year.

The ICTR and ICTY have produced fewer than five convictions per year and have spent more than $ 20 million on each one.

Also since there are 7,000,000,000 people on earth (and will be 9,000,000,000 by 2050) and VERY FEW of them cam live > 80 THEN more than 8,750,000 will expire every year regardless of cause.

«Indeed, by some conventional measures religiously affiliated Americans are, on average, even more devout than they were a few years ago.»

Sure, let's take away a few more days off, when Americans already have less than half the average time off per year than any other First World country, and on average suffer far more from overwork and stress - related health issues.

One of the few historical observations on which there is a large consensus is that companionate marriage of the last 150 years — in which the marriage relationship is based on intimate love alone — has created more problems than it has solved, carrying within it the seeds of its own destruction.

It has taken some time for seminaries to comprehend Underhill's ideas, and many have not yet done more than present a course on prayer, monasticism or spiritual discipline once every few years.

Each year on Giving Tuesday, Dress for Success holds a #GivingShoesDay campaign, which in the past few years has amassed more than 17,000 pairs of shoes donated through the organization's 145 affiliates around the world.

Indeed, it would probably seem to him that taking a couple of years out of a life that has not yet reached full adulthood, spending them on a few of the nation's lighter household chores, so to speak, and then being rather handsomely compensated for it would more accurately come under the heading of perk than of citizenly offering.

I have learned in the past few years that meaning can function on more than one level.

On Moses» return to Egypt, in 4:24 - 26, a son (the only son, Gershom») is apparently no more than a child; by this reckoning only a few years have elapsed.

(i) Unable to restore the power in a few states for more than 10 + days, since a tornado passed by it (ii) Unable to restore power for 7 + days in a snowy North Eastern state, since a hurricane passed by it (iii) Having no quality in science, math and technology; depending on «imports» to uplift them (or depending on Jesus to save them)(iv) Horrible crime in downtown, ghettos of any major city (v) Unemployment of 23 % (vi) Having a president who believes that the earth is 6000 years old (vii) Having a presidential candidate which believes in subjugating women (viii) Having more than 50 % of its 2012 graduates un / under - employed (ix) No public transport, resulting in hell on earth even for a small rise in crude - oil prices (x) A crappy health care system (xi) A debt of 14Trillion, which corresponds to 50K per US resident.

In the last 40 to 50 years, there have been few academics more intent upon holding this critique of modern science to account than the late Fr Stanley Jaki OSB, who sadly died on Tuesday 7th April last.

I developed this recipe a few years ago for SavvyMom and more than 1, ooo people have liked, shared, pinned and commented on the recipe.

But then, there were more than a few magical moments on each trip where I really saw what my parents had been trying to show us year after year after year — that there are some really awesomely gorgeous places in America, steeped with history and beauty — that outside of the craziness of every day life there is a world where none of the petty stuff matters, and what's really important is being together as a family appreciating some of the more basic pleasures of life.

One comment I've read more than a few times over the years of creating recipes for the blog is while energy bars, balls, and bites are well received as a healthy, easy, go - to snack, they almost always contain nuts leaving those with nut allergies out on the sidelines with tears welled up in their eyes, sad that...

Troels Laursen, Head of Health & Performance Nutrition at Arla Foods Ingredients, said: «Convenience is already an unstoppable mega trend in the food industry, and in the past few years has been communicated on - pack more frequently than any other benefit.

QIC's potential investment also comes as pressure builds on superannuation funds to look at competing with the wave of foreign pension funds that have spent more than $ 1 billion buying farm land in Australia in the past few years.

You might not know what cake salé is, but it was in huge demand a few years ago in Japan and more than 1,200 recipes have been posted on a popular Japanese recipe site.

Although Millennials spend over 44 % of their food dollars on eating out (which is a lot more than just a few years ago), they are not the easiest bunch to turn into regular customers.

1980 (year of his death) is the WORST number, not to be spoken in the house, and she's been known to put on Imagine and cry to it more than a few times.

This research is based on the company's progress over the last few years and the shopping habits of more than 600 individual customers, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.