Sentences with phrase «of the last few years of»

With only brief flashes of the last few years of her life, her world has narrowed to a few close friendships on the island where she lives with her devoted husband, Jacob.

Benefits at retirement are usually determined by a formula that takes into account years of service and the final average salary (FAS), which is an average of the last few years of salary (typically three).

Let us begin with a quick synopsis of the last few years of events so our memory is refreshed.

Particularly, in a situation such as that which exists today, where the shadow banking system responsible for much of the last few years of credit expansion is now dramatically contracting outside any possible control of the central banking authorities, there is no alternative but deflationary collapse with a concomitant moon shot in the value of the world's reserve currency v. all other asset classes.

They did a review of the last few years of their buy lists.

Finally, note that the effect of the last few years of data is smaller on the transient climate response than on climate sensitivity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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?

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.

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

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.

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

In the last few years I've traveled to lots of countries that understand that the rise of entrepreneurship will be an economic engine for the 21st century.

The last thing he wants is to have to spend the next few years publicly defending legislation that takes away health insurance from tens of millions of Americans and raises the premiums for tens of millions more (whether he believes in the merits of that legislation or not).

A lot of credit card debt, of course, has in the last few years been shifted over to lower - interest lines of credit, usually unsecured.

Over the last few thousand years, these religious groups have shaped the course of history and had a profound influence on the trajectory of the human race.

Stephanie Oh fought for a few years in her early 20s to break into the music industry in New York City, but last year grew disenchanted with her stagnant career in administration of music - talent management firm.

And mortgage refinancing has been one of the most important reasons why the economy has continued to move forward in the last few years, despite the stagnation in real wages, which is what is show in this next graph of average hourly wages divided by consumer prices to give us «real hourly wages»:

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.

For me, one of the most important, and surprising, discoveries over the last few years has been that choosing the best approach to balancing business and social concerns starts with a decision to make shareholder interests the higher priority.

In the last few years, we have seen a lot of start - ups emerging in the area of on - demand services.

Due to the economic downturn of the last few years, many businesses still need to think twice about spending more money than they have to.

It could be that because we've brought more cases in the last few years against some well - known names that that's interpreted as a crackdown, but that's simply more a reflection of the fact that time has gone by since we've updated the guides in 2009 to make it clear it applies to social media marketing.

As Canadian Business columnist and Ivey School of Business economist Mike Moffatt noted last month, a few widely read economists this year have used their associations with various publications to stridently assert that fiscal stimulus won't work.

That sort of instant effect is a potential threat for Groupon (grpn), LivingSocial, Foursquare, and other relatively new companies that have revolutionized online marketing for small businesses in the last few years.

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.»

«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).»

Since they get a lot of use, and are necessary for carrying around our most valuable items, it's worth getting one that'll last a few years.

Yet fewer than half of employers (47 %) plan to pay holiday bonuses this season, according to the same poll, a slight increase over last year's 45 %.

Over the last few years, Trump has cultivated an image as something of a connoisseur, giving interviews to international media about her favorite artists and sharing advice for beginner art collectors on her blog.

Over the last few years, she's built a multiple six - figure business while living out of a suitcase and visiting 69 countries.

A survey of 34 executives from leading US fashion companies last year found that, for the first time, fewer US brands were looking to China for products, even though the country remains the top sourcing destination for the industry worldwide.

Her firm signed on, joining Guggenheim Partners, Jones Lang LaSalle, Perella Weinberg Partners, Nasdaq, Yale, and Duke as just a few of RelSci's first 300 customers last year.

I find this fascinating, because one of the biggest challenges I've confronted as a founder over the last few years has been changing my mind, when I have a realization and I become inconsistent on a thought I previously had.

A 12 - year - old Chinese boy named Que Jianyu is one of an elite few individuals who occupy the center of that Venn diagram, after he successfully performed the stunt on a reality show called Dream of China late last year.

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.

As of last June, less than 2 percent of active participating security SBICs had losses high enough to be considered «impaired,» compared with 20 percent a few years ago.

Of course, this isn't the first time in the last few years that Dr. Greenspan has expressed his fears over the bond vigilantes.

Despite a dramatic expansion of reserves via the Fed's operations over the course of the last few years we have seen no pick - up in lending.

«As more people move out of their parents» basement — and there's still quite a few living there — we expect to see continued healthy demand for homes,» said Svenja Gudell, chief economist for Zillow, which found millennials made up 42 percent of homebuyers last year.

A few cities on the lower - half of the list shuffled spots from last year, but not Canada's, which retained not only the same rankings from last year but the same scores as well.

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.