Sentences with phrase «more years of spending»

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The investment indicator in the Business Outlook Survey weakened significantly from the summer report, as the balance of opinion between firms planning more spending on machinery and equipment versus those predicting less dropped to 17 per cent from 29 per cent in the summer and 35 per cent at the start of the year.

Driving more than half the growth in drug spending in 2015 were sales of new branded medications that have been available for less than two years.

Half of small business social media users complain that the platforms take more time than they'd thought, but almost the same number believe it's time well - spent — that their social media initiatives will pay off financially in a year or less.

This involves taking the estimates that clients have come up with for what they expect to spend in retirement — and then running a simulation of what would happen to their portfolio if they spent 25 % more than that over each of their first 15 years.

He added that, in Singapore, some indicators of Chinese New Year spending that give him signals for the health of the economy are the demand for gift baskets and hampers and the queues for bakkwa — a sweet barbecued pork jerky in Singapore which sells for about $ 38 (S$ 50) per kilogram, and gets more expensive the closer it gets to the actual holiday.

Earlier this year, a survey suggested almost one in four Canadians were spending more time watching online video over the course of a day than time on the couch in front of their TV.

The former secretary of state wrote that in Pennsylvania, her team had 120 more staffers on the ground than President Barack Obama did four years earlier and spent 211 % more on TV ads.

Several years ago, tickets were snapped up at more than $ 1,500 apiece to spend a weekend with him (in the company of 125 other attendees).

Dr, Klaus claimed that if you constantly applied this idea - of only doing your most valuable work and then spending time creating more of your most valuable work - you could double your income in a few years.

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

Before I became a franchise owner, I spent more than 15 years in a wide variety of technological positions, which definitely helped in running iDropped.

This year, only a third of American consumers plan to spend $ 501 or more buying gifts, according to personal finance site WalletHub's latest survey.

She admits to naively thinking she'd be able to turn a profit right away, but for each of the company's first four years she spent about $ 30,000 more than she brought in.

Interest on the debt, at 9 % of annual budget spending, is now nearly half of what the province spends on each year on education and more than one - fifth of what's spent on healthcare.

One, Preston Breedon - Glen, a 20 - year - old student, said that he'd spent more than $ 1,300 on champions and skins in the past couple of years.

Robust consumer spending will be necessary just to tread water, and the Bank of Canada hopes consumers will spend slightly more this year.

You can't justify spending the hundreds of hours over a year or more, away from your business to do it right.

The last thing he wants is to have to spend the next few years publicly defending legislation that takes away health insurance from tens of millions of Americans and raises the premiums for tens of millions more (whether he believes in the merits of that legislation or not).

Confidants report that Bezos spends more time in Washington than in any other city outside of Seattle — ten trips a year, give or take — and for good reason.

«My best piece of advice for the quickest way to get rich is to not spend any of your money, and then you'll have more than you need,» billionaire venture capitalist Chris Sacca told Entrepreneur earlier this year.

Due to the economic downturn of the last few years, many businesses still need to think twice about spending more money than they have to.

One of my constant points on this blog for the last several years has been that households» refinancing of their mortgage debt at lower and lower rates has put more money in their pockets for spending and for paying down debt.

Damn the American consumer who dares to pay for such frivolities, never mind the fact that we spend more than $ 10 billion a year on bottles of stuff that otherwise flows freely from our taps — and one of the most popular brands ships its product in from a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean.

Speaking of which, hiring for the year is slightly down — at 1.7 percent — and the average paycheck is flat, meaning small businesses have been able to grow revenue without spending more on either new or existing employees.

I sometimes say «why do you want to spend several years, and hopefully many more, of your life working on this problem.»

An employee who spends 250 days a year with his employer, who spends more time at the office than with his or her own children on any week day, is investing most of their human experience with that employer.

The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is at its lowest level in four years, giving U.S. consumers billions more to spend this holiday season, but that extra money is being offset by higher food costs, which account for a bigger chunk of most consumers» budgets.

He earlier spent more than six years in jail over the 1991 massacre of some 260 people in the Croatian town of Vukovar.

Other political money flows through trade associations in the U.S. such as the American Chamber of Commerce, which has already spent more than $ 21 million in campaign advertising this year, including $ 1.5 million on ads accusing Democratic Senator Mark Udall of driving up energy costs, largely in response to his refusal to support Republican demands for immediate approval of the Keystone pipeline.

More than one third of business owners said they expect to decrease capital spending in the year ahead, an increase of about 10 percentage points from the previous quarter.

Having spent years in the corporate world, Whites and Rincon recognized a need for an updated, more advanced and attractive version of the 1990s» messy, inefficient whiteboards.

The average dating site customer spends just $ 239 a year for online memberships, which more than pays for itself to the tune of $ 12,803 in cost savings from fewer dates,» the report said.

IDrive, which produces an online - backup service, has spent more than $ 2 million on legal and settlement fees, as well as a year's worth of employee time defending itself, all for charges it says are entirely without merit.

People playing games on their mobile phones will spend more than the hardcore audience of PC gamers for the first time this year.

Spending on premium and artisanal pet foods is skyrocketing, and Pet Wants pet food franchise is uniquely positioned to take advantage of this trend, which last year accounted for more than $ 8 billion in pet food sales.

That also means that nearly half of all households are either just breaking even, or spending more money than they make in a year.

Millions of Americans spend billions of dollars each year to participate in, and feel a part of, something more.

I've spent several years listening to entrepreneurs pitch their deals and I've read more than my share of business plans.

Three quarters of millionaires plan to spend the same as last year, with about 15 percent spending more.

Internet spending during the November - December holiday season in the U.S. is projected to reach about $ 107 billion this year, more than 11 percent of total holiday retail sales — the largest portion ever, according to EMarketer Inc..

Investors get a pledge of double - digit returns within a few years, while producers can raise productivity without spending more of their own money.

According to Accenture, 40 percent of Americans plan to spend more on holiday shopping this year compared to last year, both in stores and online via computers and mobile devices, so it's your job to earn their attention and dollar.

He would spend the next year out of action and then two more years trying to overcome his injuries and strengthen a significantly weaker left leg.

I ended up opening eight locations over the next five years, and then sold some of them to spend more time with my growing family.

He has an extensive background in enterprise technology having spent more than 15 years at Mercury Interactive (which was acquired by HP) where he served as SVP products and GM of applications delivery.

Analysts say some of the rebound is a result of what happened last year, when large numbers of advertisers put less into the upfront market and kept more of their spending for what is called the short - term «scatter» market, where ads are bought on an as - needed basis.

As of October 2015, more than 22.4 million people spent $ 57.6 billion per year with on - demand companies.

On the other hand, more spending cuts could certainly stifle the economic rebound everyone expects to see in the second half of the year after the flimsy performance of this just - ended second quarter.

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

The same year, it spent more than $ 8 billion for Commerce Bankcorp of New Jersey.