Sentences with phrase «of a few years of»

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But in the span of just a few years, physical papers have become borderline obsolete, replaced by tablets and computer screens.

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.

Oklahoma has seen a massive spike in earthquakes in the past few years, registering 2-1/2 earthquakes daily of magnitude 3 or greater - a seismicity rate 600 times greater than before 2008, according to the Oklahoma Geological Survey.

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.

Peloton has become a bit of a cult favorite among fitness enthusiasts and techies over the past few years.

Despite the best efforts of politicians, experts, and journalists to predict how the political landscape will change over the next few years, nobody really knows what it will happen.

Last year, the founders of Boulder, Colo. - based Ubooly learned a few real - world lessons when they traveled to CES in hopes of gaining big - time exposure.

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.

Fast - growth companies like Airbnb and Uber have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding in the past few years, which has pushed their valuations into never - before seen territory for startups.

And if U.S. giant Verizon provides coast - to - coast service north of the border, it could snatch up as much as 10 or 15 per cent of the market after a few years, he said.

The biggest change to the Mac's operating system in the last few years was the integration of the Siri virtual assistant — which is still less helpful than Microsoft's own Cortana.

For the EU, the next few years represent one of the most crucial chapters in its history.

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

The smart speaker market will evolve rapidly in the next few years, with more devices featuring screens, a variety of more focused products emerging, and eventually, the voice assistant moving beyond the smart speaker.

LONDON — Pierre Andurand, a leading oil fund manager, said that lack of investment in new production could lead to a situation where $ 300 per barrel oil is «not impossible» within the next few years, Bloomberg reported.

It has been on an upward price track for years, in part because the Chinese — compelled by the lack of a social safety net to save rigorously for things like higher education and in case of illness — have few other investing vehicles with which to protect their savings from the ravages of inflation.

Local sourcing has been a trend for the last few years, but using foods grown in walking distance of the dinner table is an increasingly popular goal, according to the BBC.

A few years ago during an important meeting, one of our investors was trying to explain our two roles.

Ultimately, Belt and Road should create a total of $ 10 billion to $ 20 billion in additional annual sales for the companies over the next few years, PwC estimates.

Digital books made up about 20 % of the market last year, roughly the same as they did a few years ago, a fact that has traditional publishers almost gloating.

«It was a few years of stress.

A lot has changed in crude oil markets in North America in the last few years, and these changes have had significant impacts on the value of Western Canadian crude production.

Google has dramatically increased its lobbying activities in Washington in the past few years: it spent US$ 8.95 million on lobbying just in the first half of 2012 (compare that to the US$ 9.7 million it spent in all of 2011).

For one thing, Ukip is a right - wing protest group that has gained a surprisingly large amount of support in the past few years on an anti-EU and anti-immigration platform.

Hulu — which is owned jointly by CBS rivals Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox, Comcast, and Time Warner — made a similar move less than a year ago, when the service offered subscribers the option of paying a few dollars more per month for an ad - free experience.

For the past few years, Edwards must have felt like the frustrated father to a bunch of disappointing teenagers.

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.

A Gallup poll last year found that 73 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 checked their devices a few times an hour — including 22 percent every few minutes.

Since the EPAct wasn't renewed in 2014, designers of public buildings will only be able to claim the 179D for the next few years.

Local Motion has spent the last few years (initially out of Lemnos Labs, the hardware incubator) developing a small module — a box — that essentially eliminates the need for keys in fleets of cars.

Over the past few months, Paulson has bought 3.7 million nonvoting shares of Viacom, which he said on Tuesday has begun to show positive results under a plan overseen by Chief Executive Bob Bakish after years of declining advertising and viewership.

While even a few years ago it would have been deemed unethical to «buy» media coverage (unless of course it was clearly labeled «advertorial»), today, there are entire companies dedicated to enabling brand leaders to buy coverage from so - called social influencers.

The Federal Reserve's decisions over the past 12 months to continuously raise interest rates from the near zero percent level of the past few years have made it more profitable for big banks to lend money.

Within a few years, Torreón, the city of 1 million where AI is based, was producing 5 million pairs of pants per week.

«We've really had a great last four to five years in terms of a few trends that have worked really well for us,» Moddelmog said.

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

The 22 - year - old former child prodigy had a few big - ish wins, and a lot more tough losses, before she entered the Rio Olympics an unseeded representative of Puerto Rico this past August.

To the average reader of a business magazine, these may seem like ridiculously simple questions, but Lusardi and Mitchell's research over the last few years shows that, in general, you can not count on even this base level of knowledge about how money works.

Despite Edwards's claim that his move to London will allow him to step back from day - to - day management of his empire, there are few signs the 56 - year - old is courting anything close to retirement.

Consider also the case of the prosecution of GlaxoSmithKline, a few years ago, for selling adulterated drugs.

Having done more deals in more businesses than I can count, I've got a few simple rules that have saved me tons of money, helped me dodge more than a few bullets, and added a few years to my life.

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

For example, over the next few years, we can expect to see the anonymity of reviews fade away and instead become linked to shoppers» real identities on Facebook, Twitter or other social integration.

Over the last few years, we've seen a number of smart SMBs embrace technology, automate their operations and expand their reach.

«A lot of things have come together in the past few years to put us on a growth trajectory.»

It also helps explain another phenomenon: Why the two most famous whistleblowers of the last few years happen to be a product of Generation Y.

Neither existed in Germany or the Netherlands just a few years ago, but they now account for 17 per cent and 32 per cent of their respective markets, the analysis firm says.

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.

Jill Barad ran the toy company for a few years in the late 1990s until she was ousted following a widely panned $ 3.5 billion acquisition of software company Learning Co..

Over the last few years, youth marketing has become an integral part of every top company's strategy.