Sentences with phrase «of a few years at»

They are all mixes and were all adopted from a local animal shelter over the course of a few years at different stages in each of their lives.

The weakness of the paper is in the fact that statistical properties of variability can be studied for the higher frequency effects corresponding periods of a few years at most, but beyond that there isn't appropriate data.

Not exact matches

Under the plan, which launched last year, T - Mobile divided its customers into blocks of about 120,000, who are each assigned to a specific group of a few dozen employees at a specific call center.

Trying to compete at the same cost from such a weak position hints at the same sort of hubris that has laid BlackBerry low over the past few years.

Buoyed by uncommonly low interest rates, the industry has boasted of double - digit returns; the past few years, at least anecdotally, have been especially rich.

George Reilly, an advisor and owner at Safe Harbor Financial Advisors based outside of Washington, D.C., developed a series of tests that he runs for his clients a few years prior to their retirement.

Or is there something we all can do to wring at least some accomplishment out of these last few weeks of the year?

A few years ago, we marveled at how the Inc. 500 — our annual ranking of America's fastest - growing private companies — sustained momentum during economic adversity.

In the last few years, ironically, credit bureaus that handle reports on people refinancing mortgages have become big customers of factors because the banks to which they sell the reports are experts at cash management.

Since this is a role that involves handling sensitive materials, employers should look for candidates with at least a few years of related experience and no fewer than two references.

Unfortunately, that day came much sooner than he expected when his dad passed away only a few years later, at the age of 59.

«We should place these feelings at the center of our lives and let them be the catalysts for a sustained exploration that continues throughout the week, over months and probably years, and that generates conversations with ourselves, with friends, mentors and with professionals,» he writes, warning us that «something very serious is going on when sadness and anxiety descend for a few hours on Sunday evenings.»

On the other hand, self - driving cars from the likes of Google — while still at least a few years away from consumer use — also loom large.

The past few years have flown by for me since I left my job as Head of Marketing at Salesforce Pardot and joined my co-founders to launch Terminus.

Your company's travel policy and the proximity of each team member may dictate the amount of face - to - face opportunities, but go to all reasonable lengths to be in front of each team member on at least a few occasions throughout the year.

With the cap for 60 - year - olds at $ 4,090 per person, a few months of 2018 premiums would give them a bigger tax break — again, assuming they are using the medical expense deduction.

That last line is key: «Increased bank reserves held at the Fed don't necessarily translate into more money or cash in circulation, and, indeed, broad measures of the supply of money have not grown especially quickly, on balance, over the past few years.»

In 1993, Conlon joined one of Chicago's top real estate firms at the time, and within only a few short years, he had made a name for himself as one of the most prolific sellers of residential real estate throughout not only Chicago and and the Midwest, but also the entire U.S. with sales approaching $ 200 million annually.

«This is only a few billion below the figure at a comparable time last year, and above the figures reported for some earlier years (almost 60 % of the full year's refunds are typically received by this point in the year).»

Millstein acknowledges that being his kind of activist director is hard work, much harder than just spending a few hours at eight board meetings each year.

Buckle up: for the next few years at least, we're in for one hell of a vertically integrated ride — and it's one that spells nothing but more trouble for Asian technology companies.

And when, at an industry trade show a few years ago, the creator and executive producer of a TV show under development appealed to Connolly for 25 sets of complimentary wheels, the CEO opted to take the gamble.

A few years ago, LinkedIn followed Facebook and Twitter in adding space for a cover photo at the top of its profiles.

Increased bank reserves held at the Fed don't necessarily translate into more money or cash in circulation, and, indeed, broad measures of the supply of money have not grown especially quickly, on balance, over the past few years.

Muzak amassed a collection of roughly 5,000 songs within a few years, more than any record label at the time.

There have been signs of traction already: General Electric, an AWS customer, has been a presence at this conference for a few years now, and companies don't get much bigger than that.

At the height of China «s real estate boom in Yulin a few years ago, they made 10,000 yuan a month, running a canteen for construction workers.

Malcolm Gladwell set off a mania for practice a few years ago with his book Outliers, in which he argued that to become truly excellent at any skill, you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice — that's six hours a day, six days a week, over six years of simply sticking with it.

Both have been drivers of major change and will likely be vital to the continued evolution of the internet and technology in general, at least for the next few years.

«Sarah's taking advantage of a unique confluence of events, building the relationships that start - ups today need to grow as fast as they can,» says Kevin Armitage, senior vice-president at FAC / Equities, the investment - banking division of First Albany Corp., which has worked with Gerdes during the past few years.

A few years ago, Penny Chapman noticed she was receiving letters from parents saying their children couldn't eat ice cream at birthday parties because of a severe nut allergy.

«With Pokémon Go, you are seeing it as bypassing a lot of digital (marketing) channels that the brick and mortar shops have been relying on for the past few years,» said Christophe Jammet, director of social media and mobile at consultancy DDG in New York.

An institution of Desjardins» size would not function without codified processes, and while the co-operative has plenty — 143 distinct ones when it counted a few years ago — it is now looking to give employees more leeway to act on the front lines by, say, allowing a caisse teller to offer an additional incentive at the counter.

For all of these reasons, Madani at Capital Economic projects that home prices in Canada will fall 25 % over the next few years.

Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and economic migrants have reached Italy in the last few years, after rescue at sea when smugglers» boats founder in the Mediterranean.

In a sport rooted in the hard - partying fringe of Southern California, Hawk was something different: While he was still in high school, he used his winnings to buy a house in Carlsbad, and a few years later, he started his first company — Birdhouse — even though the skateboard industry was tanking at the time.

«Yet if you look at foreign ownership of domestic bonds, it's next to nothing and the market is just starting to open up,» she said, noting GIC had the «fortunate position» to be able to invest there a few years ago.

If both these deals come to fruition in the next few years, Canada will sit at a hub, with freer access to many of the largest or fast - growing global markets.

Average five - year growth rate among the 2001 Inc 500 that had Venture - capital funding at start - up: 4,619 % CEO with an M.B.A.: 2,542 % CEO who took 5 days or fewer of vacation yearly: 2,385 % Open - book management: 2,283 % CEO who took more than 10 days of vacation yearly: 1,983 %

«A few years ago,» wrote Cook at the time, «users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you're not the customer.

At the end of fiscal year 2016 in September that year, the Air Force had 1,555 fewer pilots than it needed, including 1,211 missing fighter pilots.

From Vox, citing a study at the University of Texas: «If 10 percent of the vehicles... were self - driving cars, the country could save more than $ 37 billion a year due to fewer deaths, less fuel, more free time, etc..

The time to think about tax season isn't at the first of the year — it's all year long, and these five strategies can help any small business plan for a simpler tax season with fewer headaches.

Like Twitter and dozens of other companies that have gone public in the last couple of years, GrubHub took advantage of a provision in the JOBS Act of 2012, which lets small companies valued at $ 1 billion or less to file for an initial public offering in private, and just a few weeks before it intends to debut.

A change at the center of a team's offense will always come with a few hiccups, and pulling it off mid-season is no easy task, especially with a quarterback who has played a regular - season game in nearly two years.

A police report itemizes more than $ 600,000 in items stolen in a burglary at their home a few years ago, including two Swiss watches, HK$ 200,000 ($ 25,600) in cash, and a kilo of gold.

When tech entrepreneur Kieran Snyder analyzed performance reviews done by a diverse group of managers at a variety of companies a few years ago, she found that constructive feedback given to women included strong elements of «negative personality criticism» that were all but absent from the suggestions for men.

Here's the likelihood that a person has been married at least once at some point in his or her life for every year of age over the past few decades:

The service, which had a few thousand users at the beginning of last year, had close to 800,000 at the beginning of this one.

Wearables have become an increasingly larger category at CES over the past few years, and this year's show will bring even more of them to the show floor.