Sentences with phrase «nearly first out»

Though Rdio was nearly first out of the gate, its cautious approach to generating revenue let it slip behind Spotify, which moved faster.

Not exact matches

and his nearly 16,000 followers poured out excellent suggestions for those just finding their feet as first - time leaders.

While Kohl's is the first to roll out a marathon holiday schedule across its nearly 1,700 stores, it certainly won't be the last, as companies prepare for this year's so - called «Super Saturday.»

By first outsourcing technology, and then building its own systems, Gravity offered lower prices and better service, and grew rapidly for four years — until the Great Recession nearly wiped it out.

The model is apparently so enticing that Goldman won hundreds of clients and, the company says, nearly eight figures» worth of business in 2013, which was RelSci's first year since coming out of stealth mode.

It was only the second such permit DOE has given out so far and the first in nearly two years, but it does pose a serious challenge to B.C., especially if more approvals will follow.

Look at the history of flight: the workings of intercontinental air travel were being hashed out by textile engineers John Stringfellow and William Henson nearly 60 years before the first airplane flight.

With the harvest season nearly upon us, I visited Sonoma and Napa to figure out which offers the best experience for first - timers in wine country.

Apparently, it's possible to analogize a business startup to nearly every stage in the human life cycle: There's an article «Starting A Business Is Like Asking Out A Girl For The First Time» and a line in another post declares, «Starting a business is like falling in love.»

The U.K. had been expected to follow close behind the Federal Reserve in raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, but with lower commodity prices and weak wage growth still keeping a lid on inflation, economists now think that the U.K. may not raise rates till 2017 — even though new data out Wednesday showed the employment rate hit a 45 - year high of 74 % in the three months to November.

Investors, it turns out, move in herds; attracting the first one is nearly impossible, but getting five makes the process smoother.

«It's now been nearly 17 years since it was first implemented and it is time to do a cost - benefit analysis, and to find out if the act is as effective as anecdotes might suggest it is,» he said.

Sitting in his office on the shore of Seattle's Lake Washington, the man who dropped out of Harvard University nearly four decades ago and went on to build the world's first software fortune is more relaxed than he was.

Ford Motor Co. reported a $ 1.7 billion profit for the first quarter, but it's planning big changes — such as phasing out nearly all of its cars in favor of trucks and SUVs.

BEIJING (Reuters)- China's trade surplus with the United States surged nearly 20 percent in the first quarter, with some analysts speculating exporters were rushing out shipments to get ahead of threatened tariffs that are spurring fears of a full - blown trade war.

Over the past six years, that fund has paid out more — nearly a billon dollars more, in fact — than it did over its first 39 years of operation.

At the first complaint, Tyee swiftly publishes a correction and apology, but Canwest pursues suit for nearly a year before settling out of court for legal costs.

When I got my first real job out of college, I continued to invest nearly all my money into taxable stocks and index funds.

She pointed out that nearly half of all mortgages in the first quarter of 2011 went to borrowers with credit scores above 750.

Baltimore money manager T. Rowe Price said Thursday that net income rose nearly 26 percent in the first three months of the year, compared with a year earlier, and customers added money to portfolios rather than taking cash out — reversing an unusual trend in 2013.

Baltimore money manager T. Rowe Price said Thursday that net income rose nearly 26 percent in the first three months of the year, compared with a year earlier, and customers added money to portfolios rather than taking cash out — reversing an unusual...

BEIJING China's trade surplus with the United States surged nearly 20 percent in the first quarter, with some analysts speculating exporters were rushing out shipments to get ahead of threatened tariffs that are spurring fears of a full - blown trade war.

The Intelligent Investor was first published in 1949, and in the nearly 60 years since it first came out, Graham's theories have proven true time and again.

After nearly seven years in my first job out of college, I reached an initial nest egg about 3.5 times my annual salary at the age of 29.

Canopy's bought deal with BMO is the second time that the cannabis company has managed to blaze a new trail in the industry: U.S. alcoholic beverage giant Constellation Brands Inc. purchased a nearly 10 per cent stake in Canopy last fall, the first time a major out - of - market player bought into the pot business.

I am that rare soul who can remember his First Confession, at age eight, very nearly word - for - word — I think because I was terrified, and hyper - alert, and intent on remembering everything that Father Newman said, mostly because it was my First Confession and I was afraid I would be sent to prison or farmed out to the Lutherans for the many times I had committed fisticuffs with my brothers and failed to honor my mother and father — but also because Father Newman was wry and funny and fond of reminding everyone that he was, as far as he knew, the only Jewish Catholic priest in the diocese.

When they first shared their vision for Dangerous Women with me, I nearly leaped out of my skin.

First, out of any 1,000 people, 998 will be able to find positions more extreme than their own on both sides of any issue: it's a game nearly anyone can play.

Nearly 52 percent of first - year students feel isolated on their campus, and Horner points out that many students only form relationships with other students, separating themselves from the people living outside their school.

Her father Jeremiah is a fire - and - brimstone preacher who, in a vengeful prayer meeting the first night of the trial, nearly scares the wits out of his daughter until the more benign Brady intervenes.

Constitutional historians Alfred H. Kelly and Winifred A. Harbison (writing nearly twenty years before Roe v. Wade) pointed out that the first Republican national convention in 1856 had appealed to the Fifth Amendment's due process clause, and so did Southern spokesmen:

Can you believe it's been nearly 4 years since I first started writing a monthly recipe page for them... I know that pride is a sin but when I look at my work in print I do get a little puffed up with pride and if you ever see me in a paper shop or local supermarket I will always keep an eye out for this months edition and make sure it's clearly visible and looking tidy.

It's been nearly nine years now since I lived in Ireland, a place that some deep ancestral vein in me recognized as home from the first moment I stepped out for an exceptionally early morning run there, in the late summer of 2008.

When I attempted to spoon my stuff out, which was quite spillerific, I couldn't help but get too much fluid in the first jar, about 3/4 liquid, nearly all the chia seeds, and 1/4 oats, and the inverse for the second.

Indeed, even major products hailed as «pacesetters» by IRI because they do well in their first year on the shelf often fail to live up to their early promise, with sales fizzling out after two or three years, while the real success stories tend to tap into new consumer trends early and nearly always start small, building momentum gradually.

I only remember this because when I took my first sip, I nearly spit it out.

Guys, maybe it's because this was my first time, but it took me nearly 15 minutes to cut out the backbone.

Craig Anderson was left out to dry in stretches of the third period, while Tuukka Rask blanked the Senators for nearly 70 minutes after giving up the first two goals of the game.

Remember Abdullah's first run from scrimmage... big hole, then juked an opponent nearly out of his shoes, for a TD.

PVT would like to give a shout - out to Menlo College for their first - place finish in the college division, Northview High School for their blowout victory, coming in nearly 100 points ahead of any other high school, and also to Alex Liles from Allen, Texas, who was named the most outstanding high school wrestler.

I haven't fallen over, just a hop and skip as I got out and nearly lost balance the first time!»

From the tone of their voices, it's pretty easy to figure out the swings in emotion they felt as Takuma Sato barely slid into second place, then nearly took the lead of the first turn of the final lap before crashing.

I hate watching Arsenal get bitch slapped by a mid table team and all the hyperbolic doom and gloom rhetoric from the plastic Gunner fans out there but sadly losses like these will not be the exception to the Wenger rule this year and if monunental changes to the team set up as well as heavy investment arent made in the next few weeks IMHO Arsenal will be out of Europe for the first time in nearly 20 years.

Arsenal always have nearly a whole team out on loan every season, and Arsene Wenger normally picks their destinations carefully to try and match the level of their ability in the hope that first team experience will help them improve their game.

I'm so sick of people telling those of us who are disgruntled fans to relax and give this club time to correct itself... for anyone who believes that taking a wait - and - see approach is appropriate at this juncture they should take a good long look at themselves in the mirror because they are a big part of the problem... no other «big» club's fans would stand for this shit for nearly as long as we have... think about it, we've witnessed a changing of the guard at every major club in England, Spain, France and Germany in the last several years because those «big» clubs failed to live up to expectations (Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern, PSG, Chelsea, ManU, ManCity etc...)... for some reason, many fans have become as fragile as our current manager, believing that there couldn't possibly be a suitable replacement, even though everyone of these clubs have found multiple replacements and still achieved far more than our club... this mindset has been created by an organization that has been milking it's fans, telling countless lies (no world class players available) and lowering expectations every since they rolled out the biggest lie of all: that we couldn't spend because of the new stadium but once it was paid off we could compete with any team in the world... this organization is rotting from the inside out and if we don't demand that those in charge put soccer first this despicable behaviour won't end with Wenger's ridiculous 2 year contract... I think the real fear isn't that a suitable replacement doesn't exist, but that this organization is so money hungry and poorly mismanaged that we will sink even lower by choosing our next coach the same way they choose our players, on the cheap... even so, we need to see what mustache will do if left to his own devices so he will have to show his true colours... only then can we purge this club and start anew

O'Korn's first two passes of the fourth quarter are both knocked out of receivers» hands by Badger defenders, and on a third - and - 10 from the UW 49, he nearly gets sacked and throws incomplete.

Taylor's explosiveness out of his stance with his first step (look at where the ball is and nearly every other lineman is) shows he's in the gap before the left guard can take a step down to fill the hole:

England then very nearly put the game out of sight in the 68th minute, as West Ham's Cresswell met a cross from Jordan Henderson, however Setkus produced a world class save to deny the left back his first ever England goal.

El Mouaziz was nearly out of sight by the time his pursuers reached the long straightaway of Manhattan's First Avenue, which begins at 16 miles.

Not whilst we are 12 points out of first, nearly leaking one point per game and with 25 games remaining.