Sentences with phrase «more than a few years past»

These vehicles have very low mileage, are covered by extended factory warranties and are no more than a few years past their original manufacture date.

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Index - tracking products have taken off over the past few years, especially in the United States, where the broad S&P 500 index has risen more than 200 % since the market bottom in 2009, aided by the U.S. Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus.

But the past few years have shown that it will take more than cheap money to coax Canadian executives to leverage their profits to the extent necessary to boost growth.

Polished or not, the VR we are seeing today is better than anything we've seen in the past, and the promise of what VR could become in a few more years is tantalizing.

The more complex debt market has worked wonders in the past few years allowing somewhat riskier companies like Valeant amass more debt, at lower rates, than they would have been able to past.

«I think we will see a lot of issues moving more than we have seen in the past few years.»

The good news is that lenders have opened the spigot in the past few years, and more capital is flowing to companies than it did during the Great Recession.

Though CEO compensation has fallen slightly in the past few years, it has increased by more than 930 % since 1978.

That marks a drastic change from the past few years, during which time the company lost more than half its workforce.

Most people seem to think we're in a full recovery, gas prices are down, and more Americans travelled this Memorial Day weekend than have travelled in the past few years.

Women have largely flocked to medical and law schools in greater numbers over the past few years, but they are now turning to business school as well in part because business schools are mindful of the shortage of women students and are recruiting them more aggressively than they have before.

As a long - time fan, I actually quite enjoyed this year's installment, Call of Duty: Ghosts, more so than the past few releases.

Of course, as the past few years have shown, having so many eggs in the oil and gas basket can be a liability, but probably nobody in Canada has more experience riding the sector's ups and downs than does Riddell.

Personally, I've been impressed with Ubisoft's presentations for the past few years running and the company — which has more than half its employees in Canada — is once again looking strong for 2014 and 2015.

There are a few hundred microlenders throughout the United States and while they often charge slightly higher interest rates for loans than banks, they've helped 250,000 - 300,000 small businesses each year and lent more than $ 2 billion nationwide during the past 10 years, according to the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO), the trade association for microlenders.

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.

Venture capital and private equity investors have pumped billions of dollars into the Indian startup ecosystem over the past few years, producing more than a dozen unicorns in the process.

In particular, the growth of the economy over the past few years has been more than fully accounted for by growth in domestic spending, while Australia's export performance has been disappointing.

If the global economy were to recover much more quickly than most of us expect, and, much more importantly, if Beijing were to initiate a far more aggressive program of privatization and wealth transfer than I think politically possible, perhaps transferring in the first few years the equivalent of as much as 2 - 5 % of GDP, the surge in household income could unleash much stronger consumption growth than we have seen in the past.

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 the recent past, low interest credit cards have become more common than they used to be a few years ago.

Over the past few years, wages have increased by 2.5 percent to 3 percent annually; projections for the year to come are for increases of more than 3 percent.

And it has been reported that Nobuaki Kobayashi, the lawyer and trustee of Mt. Gox, has sold 35,841 Bitcoin and 34,008 Bitcoin cash — worth more than $ 400 million — over the past few months, starting in September of last year.

The city's first condo costing more than $ 100 million, which sold in the last few weeks at the new luxury tower One57, had property taxes this past year of $ 17,268, according to the city's finance office.

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.

I do think my attitude is closer to Buffett's than to the more visible of the cityboys I've seen in London over the past few years, for whom cash is flash.

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.

Over the past few years, green bonds have raised billions of dollars to help fund environmental and other sustainable development projects: rapidly growing from $ 1 billion issued in 2012 to more than $ 30 billion in 2014 globally.1

With operating cash flow down by more than half over the past few years, management has a lot of work to do if its focus is truly generating higher returns.

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.

So an «upside - down out of the gates» January is more than inauspicious — it's an outright «non-starter» for risk managers in light of the performance - challenged era of the past few years.

Things are just more expensive in general than they were years ago, or viewed differently, the dollar in your pocket can purchase fewer goods than you could in the past.

Some central banks manage their gold reserves more actively than others while there have been a few such as the Bundesbank which have repatriated gold held in various foreign locations over the past few years.

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.

I am told that more than a few PC MLAs are not pleased with their new colleagues of convenience, who have spent the past two years attacking and embarrassing them as the opposition.

He can sometimes be brash and over-confiendent, but Nenshi has done a lot over the past seven years to help reshape more than a few preconceived notions about Calgary and Alberta into a more modern, progressive and urban place.

Over the past four years, Icahn's investment funds have outperformed the S&P 500 Index, averaging returns of more than 25 % a year, a feat few hedge fund managers can claim.

A better question would be: why do so few of them know that startups have raised more than $ 220 million in the past three years through a new financial instrument that...

Unlike the usual situation in which consumption of services grows more quickly than goods, the past few years have seen this pattern reverse (Graph 26).

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.

Suzanne Simpson, another pioneer in the resale industry, says she's been able to pay local women more than $ 4.6 million in the past few years with her resale brands like Clothes Mentor in Ocoee, Florida.

Investors are more optimistic than in the past few years, cheered by better global economic growth and the anticipation of lower tax rates.

Over the past few years, manufactured export volumes have performed more strongly than other categories, though growth has been well short of the rapid pace seen in the 1990s.

Physical gold that may be suffering from a falling domestic fiat currency price is still exponentially more valuable than devaluing paper fiat currencies, as anyone living in the Ukraine, Russia, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, and in any number of dozens of other emerging markets have unfortunately rapidly learned in the past few years.

From mainland China, more than $ 1 trillion dollars has left that country in the past 12 months and I am told we have a few more years of this coming (plus their currency has gained a lot against the Canadian dollar).

Zijin has been looking abroad for gold and copper acquisitions for more than a decade, but has been a very active buyer over just the past few years.

If that is why you disagree with me, I muct ask, why do those few pages mean more to you than the millions of pages produced by scientists over the past hundred + years?

I am trying to unify the intellectual and emotional more than they seem to have been these past few years.

I didn't really think too much about the details of the ceremony, because to be honest, I had seen more than a dozen weddings in the past few years and pretty much knew the drill.

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.