Sentences with phrase «of mere months»

Recently through the past few weeks, we have seen that the Nintendo Switch has been a rapid success for Nintendo already blowing away past the original Wii U's sales within the matter of mere months.

Imagine how ridicule the entire Android tablet segment would look if analysts counted the Kindle Fire's share separately and compared it to Android and iOS... Comscore says that the price is the one that draws people to the Kindle Fire, that actually doubled its market share in a matter of mere months.

Were it not for the fact that most audiences are savvy enough to know that films aren't produced in the space of mere months, they may have been forgiven for assuming 27 Dresses was the product of the current Writers Guild of America strike.

Today, without a doubt, it is Mr. Bharara, who did something neither Mr. Cuomo — nor any governor — could ever do: removed the leaders of both houses of the State Legislature in the span of mere months.

To my surprise, the Crispy Honey Chicken was not on the list, despite my eating of it a mere month or two before.

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Just the mere threat of tariffs has shaken solar developers in recent months, with some hoarding panels and others stalling projects in anticipation of higher costs.

The retailer's shares tanked 19 % to $ 28.37 — their lowest level since 2010 — after it reported that same - store sales, or revenue of stores open at least 14 months, rose a mere 0.1 % in the second quarter, well below its own forecasts for a rise of 2 % to 3 %, and short of Wall Street projections for a 1.4 % gain.

Today, mere months after the moms in the Dallas store told him they wanted more organic foods for their babies, Cornell has a goal: He wants organic items to account for 60 % of the company's baby food sales within two years, up from 40 % now.

After a chat with government regulators, Apple shuttered two of its services, iTunes Movies and iBooks, a mere six months after their launch.

Finally, SolarCity, a mere 12 months after its founding, is one of the country's largest installers of home solar panels, making the often - cumbersome process of switching to renewable energy as easy as buying a Dell.

Known as debt settlement, it's a process by which consumers stop paying unsecured creditors, wait months or even years until creditors have given up hope of collecting, then offer to settle outstanding balances for mere fractions of the amounts owing.

This time, after another five months of back - and - forth, Tillerson's State Department was finally given $ 40 million to counter Russian efforts, a mere third of a potential total of $ 120 million the department could have used to match the threat.

OTTAWA — About two months ago, when the ink had dried on the 1,600 pages of the Canada - EU free trade deal, two politicians decided another document — a mere five pages — would be necessary to tie up any loose ends.

But now, mere months after the agreement was signed, a chorus of critics is already raising a host of concerns over privacy, transparency, public control, and the financial soundness of the deal struck by Toronto.

Seven months later, following CREA's Oct. 24 ratification of a consent agreement with the Competition Bureau that will permanently open «mere posting» access to the Multiple Listing Service (MLS), its proprietary database representing about 90 % of the homes for sale in Canada, he has 125 listings — most of them no - frills listings for $ 649 a pop.

She was a bright - eyed 18 - year - old who left her home in India to study chemistry in St. Petersburg mere months after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

It took a mere six months at a (then) Big Eight firm for Gregory Muzzillo, just out of college at age 23 and trained as an accountant, to decide he «was not keen on a career path that demanded such a drawn - out process to make partner.»

The 2,700 - word story, reported over the course of five months, alleged that Theranos has struggled with and neglected to use its proprietary blood test technology, which purports to perform a wide range of tests with the mere prick of a fingertip.

Revenue, which had been coming in at a rate of $ 1.2 million to $ 1.8 million a month, was a mere $ 400,000 that July.

As I noted earlier in the month, it's been one of the best - performing commodities of the year so far, a mere nugget's throw behind nickel and palladium.

Worldwide interest in the crypto space has surged and boosted the collective market cap from a mere USD93.3 billion in August year 2017 to a whopping USD600 billion in a matter of just three and a half months — that is a growth of 543 %!

It was a mere 1.2 % when last measured a couple of months ago.

In fact, the payoff for one of the alleged affairs was offered a mere 14 months ago; meanwhile, Trump has never apologized for his affairs, only for his lewd remarks in one video.

The dish takes mere minutes to prepare, and works especially well during tomato season, which will start soon in the warmer months of the year.

After decades of gardening it still amazes me when I take my collection of seed packets in February and spread them out on the living room floor, realizing that in mere months, an entire summer's and fall's worth of food will spring from these seeds.

I don't eat a lot of sugar to begin with (a little stevia in my coffee & some dark chocolate, usually after dinner) but I am 13 pounds away from my goal weight (pre Zoey) and I have not lost but a mere few pounds in the past month.

I was drooling at the mere sight of these when I pinned this recipe a few months ago.

By the time 12 months pass, they are mere shadows of their former selves.

A shine it took months to give to a title can be dissipated by mere weeks of shitty booking.

As a result you have a team that was facing relegation a few months ago at the top of the league in February with Spurs a mere 2 points behind us.

i'm back, been a mere observer for the past few months bcoz of all the keyboard battles raging here, nice to see some sanity back.

In his first eight games in the month of October, Harden averaged a mere 26 points and the Rockets went 5 - 3.

With mere months of a season to worry about, managers can finally cleave to one of the great, cliched principles of the sport: they can truly take each game as it comes.

Mere months ago, Lowry faced a number of question marks.

After tax, Arsene earns # 16,959.87 a day, # 84,799.37 a week, or to make it more relatable to those of us with salaried jobs, a mere # 367,463.93 a month.

By way of contrast, the summer break is a mere two months.

19 - year old McCrorie recently penned a new four - and - a-half-year long deal with the Ibrox side along with his brother, Robby, within mere months of his senior squad breakthrough.

Having fallen from champions to mere Europa League hopefuls in the space of 12 months, the players just haven't offered enough over the course of the last 32 games.

The genial Italian was fired mere months after delivering an expected domestic title and going out in the quarterfinals of the Champions League in an unfortunate and controversial defeat to Real Madrid.

An infant was going to make its way through my vagina in a mere matter of months.

Hence the birth of my second son, a mere 17 months after the first.

When Arlo was born a mere twenty months later, I continued my cycle of buying and selling.

Yet a mere 17 % of mothers are still breastfeeding when their babies are three months old.

And according to the CDC's 2016 Breastfeeding Report Card, a mere 22.3 percent of women are able to exclusively breastfeed for the recommended minimum of six months.

The infant car seat (or bucket seat) just becomes trash after its mere 12 months of use.

It would be nice to be able pay an entire month's salary for a top - of - the - line jogging stroller, but for us mere mortals, it doesn't get much better than this Graco system.

Her story, like the stories of many others detailed by our editor Ian Dunt in recent months have put a human face to people who the British government have too often reduced to mere statistics.

According to an NBC News / Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday, the former secretary of state has almost doubled her lead over Trump since last month, a mere 5 points before both party conventions to a more substantial 9 this week

Trump accepted the deal that gave him a mere 3 months of runway, thus leaving the door open for a government shutdown before a critical election period.

Cox, who won a battle for the state chairmanship against then - Niagara County GOP Chairman Henry Wojtaszek in large part due to his claim of fundraising prowess, has only managed to bring in a combined total of about $ 1.5 million to the party's three committees over the last six months and has a mere $ 657,814 on hand.