Sentences with phrase «of my second year with»

I learned the hard way, as a desperate Ph.D. student nearing the end of my second year with no tangible results.

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According to Nielsen's latest Global Trust in Advertising report, online consumer reviews are already the second most trusted source of brand information and messaging, with 70 percent of global consumers indicating they trust online reviews, an increase of 15 percent in four years.

President Vladimir V. Putin met briefly last year with Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, the second most widely used blockchain - based virtual currency platform after Bitcoin.

Despite Hefner winning a nearly two - year battle with the U.S. Post Office to secure second - class mailing privileges for Playboy magazine, the publication was still reviled in many quarters of pre-sexual-revolution America, and cautious investors wanted nothing to do with the project.

I sat standing 1 foot away from somebody who's been in prison for 15 years of his life and I had 60 seconds to open up to him about something that causes me pain in my life while he stares into my eyes I found myself going deeper than I would with even friends or family.

Woods Bagot has been ranked seventh in a list of the world's top 100 architecture firms for the second consecutive year, with the company's Perth studio emerging as one of its most strategically important.

Aramco is now expected to list public shares on the Saudi domestic stock market, perhaps as soon as the second half of this year, according to sources familiar with the situation.

In theory, the U.S. Commerce Department's move earlier this week to slap a seven - year ban on the sale of American products to ZTE Corp., China's second - largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, was all about national security and had nothing to do with trade.

Fidelity Investments - backed Innovent Biologics and Ascentage Pharma both plan to float in the second half of this year and are working with several advisers, they added.

But this year, engineering hires came in second in the «difficult - to - hire» rankings, with 24 percent of entrepreneurs citing them.

The second - hand car business was revolutionised 20 years ago with the arrival of the internet, but there is a second revolution under way that promises to be even more disruptive and could have a significant effect on some of Western Australia's best - known car yards.

-- Scott and Missy Tannen, founders of Boll & Branch, a New York - based company with a line of accessibly priced luxury bed linens that launched in January 2014 with first - year revenue topping $ 2 million and more than a $ 10 million run rate in its second year in business.

MONTREAL — Valeant Pharmaceuticals faces years of legal challenges despite cutting ties with a U.S. mail - order pharmacy at the centre of a controversy about how Canada's largest publicly traded drug firm conducts its business, say industry observers and the company's second - largest shareholder.

Netflix stock is up around 790 % in the past two years, with profits jumping to $ 71 million in the second quarter of 2014 compared to $ 30 million the year before.

Just think about this for a second: 69 percent of employees are more likely to stay with a company for three years if they experienced great on - boarding.

OPEC was meeting with rival U.S. shale producers on the sidelines of the annual CERAWeek energy conference for a second year in a row, in an effort to learn what the industry can do to avoid the type of painful downturn faced in 2015.

But no matter the year, the goal of your first meeting with an investor is to get a second meeting.

After consulting with a handful of Fortune 500 companies, at 25 he founded a content marketing agency and generated more than a quarter million its second year.

Among Alberta's richest neighbourhoods, Roxboro is in fifth place in terms of net worth; but residents here are in second place in terms of average annual household salary, bringing home $ 845,038 a year, and own the second - most - expensive homes, with home prices just shy of $ 1.4 million.

So I believe that this year most retailers will create some form of a shared data economy, i.e. custom second - party marketplace, with their suppliers.

The cost of the state government's Aubin Grove train station project has increased for the second time in the past year, with the cost now revised to $ 120 million.

Wellard shares were hammered for a second time in less than a week, with the company warning of yet another potential profit hit before the end of the financial year.

Last year Vanguard managed 23 % of ETF assets, second behind BlackRock, with about 39 %.

The United States dropped from second place in 2015 to fourth place this year, tied with Belgium, Denmark, and the Netherlands, all of which offer access to 174 countries.

Indeed, as labour economist Jim Stanford recently pointed out, our GDP growth fell behind six of the G7 in the second and third quarters of last year, beating only Italy with an average advance of 1.7 % during the six - month period.

North Carolina — second only to California in installed capacity — powered 371,000 homes with solar energy this past year, and it is expecting a drop in solar output from 2.5 GW to 0.2 GW for 1.5 hours around the time of the eclipse.

For me, as a race car driver used to things happening in fractions of a second, two more years was almost more than I could deal with.

In the exclusive interview, Goldner said that while Hasbro doesn't «have perfect clarity» on what will happen with Toys R Us» non-U.S. business, the pain from its bankruptcy would not extend past the second quarter of the 2018 fiscal year.

Regardless, his 50 % ownership of «The Apprentice» would have brought him in a sizable pile of cash over the years, and some of that would be reflected in the tax return, since the show debuted in 2004 to a hit - making average viewership of 21 million people and its second season aired in late 2005 with an average of 16 million viewers.

The two companies expect to finalize the agreement during the second half of the year, but a source familiar with the matter told CNBC the deal could happen sooner rather than later.

Seven of the top 10 highest salaries go to pitchers this year, with hurlers Zack Greinke of the Arizona Diamondbacks and David Price of the Boston Red Sox coming in second and third place at $ 31.9 million and $ 30 million, respectively.

Earlier this year, Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich announced his commitment to space exploration with a rather unexpected proclamation: «By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American,» he promised.

HP, Inc. (hpq) is a close second, however, with shipments of 54.2 million PCs in 2016, up 1.3 % year over year.

«This year, however, (OPEC's) production curbs will increasingly have to make do with playing second fiddle to a Texas - sized wave of U.S. shale growth,» Stephen Brennock, oil analyst at PVM Oil Associates, said in a research note Wednesday.

All four of Blackmon's touchdowns have come in the second half of the year and he has five games with more than 57 yards in the last six weeks.

Also in the second year, and also similar to programs in top U.S. schools, CEIBS offers for the fall term an international exchange program with about 30 partner schools, including Wharton, the U.C. Berkeley Haas School, UCLA's Anderson School, Duke's Fuqua, Michigan's Ross, the University of North Carolina's Kenan - Flagler, Indiana's Kelley, and Dartmouth's Tuck, along with European institutions such as London Business School, Spain's ESADE and IESE, France's HEC and INSEAD, plus other schools including the Indian School of Business, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Canada's Queen's, Rotman, Sauder, and Schulich schools.

Salesforce's experiences with Year Up encouraged the company to partner with Deloitte on a pilot program called Pathfinder, in Indiana, home of Salesforce's second - biggest hub.

Two Chinese officials with direct knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Press that police are requesting a second Interpol arrest notice for Guo, 50, for the alleged sexual assault of a 28 - year - old former personal assistant.

Amazon is expected to announce its second North American headquarters, dubbed HQ2, sometime this year, with Toronto as the only Canadian city on the list of 20 finalists.

The bank also has a tiered system with Gradifi: $ 100 / month ($ 1,200 per year) in the first year of employment; up to $ 150 / month ($ 1,800 per year) in the second year; up to $ 200 / month ($ 2,400 per year) in the third year up until the loans are paid off.

The food, beverage and tobacco industry came in a distant second on the list, with women comprising 21.2 % of sitting board members on average during that roughly six - year period.

The vitamin and supplement retailer will make its first Super Bowl appearance ever this year, with a 30 - second ad in the first quarter of the game.

Amazon's Jeff Bezos came in a distant second, with 10 % of respondents giving him the top spot, followed by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg with 6 %, and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs (who passed away more than five years ago) at 5 %.

Operated by a team of fewer than 30 employees, the Kapolei, Hawaii - based company has fueled growth through major deals inked within the last year alone: the building of a $ 260 million plant in Idaho, a $ 370 million contract with Sanyo Electric Co. and a $ 678 million contract with Suntech Power to deliver polysilicon, as well as an agreement to provide the second - largest photovoltaic power system in Hawaii.

To put that last number into perspective, Crash the Super Bowl, a 2008 Doritos contest in the U.S. that awarded the creator of the best 30 - second chip ad US$ 1 million and showed the commercial during the big game this year, generated fewer submissions with a population 10 times the size.

Sotheby's said sales of high - end homes worth at least $ 1 million were up in major Canadian urban markets in the first half of the year compared with the second half of 2012.

Converting a typical U.S. monthly rate to a lump - sum premium using the rate schedule of PMI Group, the second - largest mortgage insurance firm in the U.S., an American customer with a fixed - rate 25 - year mortgage can expect to pay 1.15 % of the loan value to insure a mortgage with 10 % down.

It's a big drop on the first quarter's $ 82 million (# 52.2 million) but compares pretty well with last year's second quarter figure of $ 45.5 million (# 28.9 million).

This year, the difference between quarters has also been dramatic with the bank's provision estimate for second quarter dropping sharply to less than one - fourth of last year's quarterly low.

It added 337,000 new customers in the second quarter, with strong growth in both TV and broadband and its highest numbers of new customers in its biggest UK and Ireland market for 10 years.