Sentences with phrase «other couple of years»

I looked at his profile and saw that he lost his significant other a couple of years back and that he is bashful and independent however wants to give love another chance.

Not exact matches

«And secondly, the euro area economy proved resilient to political (and other) shocks in the last couple of years and should remain so,» the bank added.

«I explained how for the past couple of years I've kept Wednesdays clear on my calendar, usually worked from home, and used it as design / writing / solo - thinking time because the other four days get consumed with collaboration,» Schweikardt explained to the board, but lately «the collaboration days had gotten so busy, that Wednesdays had turned to email and administrivia catch - up days.»

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.

You can have a patent for something and then a couple of other companies violate that patent and then you get relief six years later, but by then it's too late.

Over the next couple of years, Willms introduced other products — a teeth whitener called DazzleWhite, an acai weight - loss supplement called AcaiBurn, and colon cleanse marketed as PureCleanse, all of which were made by private - label manufacturers.

And the other main source of economic growth over the next couple of years will come from government spending, led by the federal government's infrastructure program.

Two other companies — Detroit Bicycle Co. and Shinola, which produces bikes in addition to leather goods and luxury watches — have also set up shop in the past couple of years.

In other words, don't expect a play - in tournament within the next couple of years.

«The best profile is someone who has a really deep discipline — they're excellent at sales or engineering — but they're OK doing a tour of duty for a couple of years where they do all this other crazy stuff and they don't get insulted by it,» Vernon concludes.

A couple of years ago, the FBI caught flak when one agent acknowledged the dilemma and said the agency often simply advised companies to pay up when they had no other recourse.

With any other start - up, going from zero to a couple hundred million in sales in your first two years would be nothing short of a miracle — but here it's about getting to a billion, very fast.

Even a couple of years ago, the FTC says, it had already «received hundreds of complaints involving bitcoins and other virtual currencies.»

As a relatively new technology, HFT isn't yet regulated to the same extent as other forms of trading, and in the past couple of years, both the head of the SEC in the US, and the FCA here in Britain, have expressed concerns about the industry.

Said Poloz: «That comparative advantage has been strengthened by the decline in the Canadian dollar in the past couple of years — a symptom of falling resource prices, and a facilitator of the rotation of growth from resource production to other sectors.»

In an interview with the Tribune, Liautaud said that he and Aronson got to know each other over a couple of years and came to an agreement.

Dismal prices over the last couple of years compelled explorers and producers to cut activity and other capital expenditures, while demand continues to rise.

These, and other recent data, are consistent with the Reserve Bank's central scenario for GDP growth averaging around the 3 per cent mark over the next couple of years.

«The rate at which California has been losing people to other states has accelerated in the past couple of years, in part because of rising housing costs,» said Jed Kolko, chief economist with employment website Indeed.com.

But if you're managing to make the payments and have only a couple of years left until your payoff date, you might want to consider other options instead.

It's important to note that even if a campaign runs over the course of a couple of years, it doesn't make it a strategy — it's still a tactic that sits alongside other campaigns to form your strategy.

In cases where the resource will probably last for a couple of hundred years, on the other hand (as in Australian coal, for example, at current extraction rates), this logic may be less compelling.

For many organizations, it has tended to be a function into which people rotate from other parts of the business for a couple of years, as opposed to being somewhere an individual builds a career.

In other words, what the November Update, and for that matter the March budget, said is that deficit is small and inconsequential and could easily disappear in a couple of years.

They have had the courage that almost no other public company has had the courage to, basically, resist the drumbeat of short - term, quarterly earnings that have had us trapped here for a couple of years, as our same - store sales — came down.

But even if you exclude the impact of the accounting changes, the acquisitions, and a couple of other items that affect year - over-year growth comparisons, all of which Martina will explain to you in some more detail later, our underlying net revenue was up 20 %, and operating income was up 27 %.

Over the past couple of years, speculators have also used short sales of gold to obtain low cost funds to invest in other assets — for example, by shorting gold (borrowing it and selling it in the spot market), market participants have been able to obtain US dollars at between 1 and 2 per cent, well below the rate of return available on US assets.

Even with the solid performance for the year to date, we think there are a couple of other important fundamental reasons that adding gold exposure to a portfolio makes sense now.

As someone who has been engrossed in the real estate investment world with other investors for the past couple of years, I have learned a lot.

The boom in housing construction over the last couple of years has also had flow - on effects to other parts of the economy, including construction - related manufacturing businesses.

Accordingly, a year - over-year increase in new claims of about 20 % (which would currently equate to a level of about 340,000 weekly new claims) would create a significant concern of a new recession in progress, particularly if coupled with other evidence such as equity market weakness and slowing growth in real personal income.

One factor supporting the Australian dollar over the past couple of years has been that interest rates right across the yield curve in Australia, and perceived returns on other assets, have been higher than those in a number of other countries, particularly those which experienced a recession and a collapse of share prices in the early part of this decade.

Investment flows out of Japan have been an important factor shaping world financial markets over the past couple of years, not only because of overseas investment by Japanese residents, but also because non-residents have taken advantage of cheap Japanese money to fund positions in other markets.

It breaks down to living expenses on 1 check and debt on other with a little bit left over for my 401k, which has about 15k or so in it after the hit i took from being laid off and losing the unvested employer match in the middle of our economic implosion a couple years ago.

Specifically, individuals can make a lump - sum gift to a 529 plan of up to $ 65,000 ($ 130,000 for married couples) and avoid gift tax, provided the gift is treated as having been made in equal installments over a five - year period and no other gifts are made to that beneficiary during the five years.

In most years, the return gap between the best - and worst - performing sectors of the typical US core option — US Treasuries, agencies, mortgages, corporates and other sectors in the US Aggregate, for example — would be just a couple of percentage points.

After more than 20 years of counseling other couples, my husband and I firmly believe that we should not keep any secrets from each other.

Years ago, as I spoke farewells to those who had attended the last session of a particular inquirers class — the very meeting in which I sought to «close the deal» of bringing new members on board — I noticed that two young couples stayed behind, talking intently with each other.

A couple years ago, however, I began to find other Christians (throughout church history) who have not held to the substitutionary atonement view of Christ's death.

Churches which have tried a variety of marriage enrichment retreats report that participation by couples in the first ten years is generally more enthusiastic than that of couples in any other marriage stage.

You and Dale, along with a few other couples, have been a great source of encouragement over the years.

So in other words, though it seems like God took thousands of years to send Jesus, from His perspective, it only seemed like a couple days.

You would think after a couple million years of idiots killing each other that we would eventually run out of them?

This article by Richard John Neuhaus, who passed away January 8, 2009, was published in the February 1999 issue of First Things, and is reprinted below in honor of the feast day of Mother Teresa.A couple of years ago physicist Alan Sokal published an article in Social Text arguing in the most abstruse postmodernistic jargon that gravity, among other things, is a social construct.

For many couples who have achieved a degree of contentment and intimacy, and for others who are still willing to cultivate intimacy, these years can be the most fulfilling of the entire marriage.

A couple in their late sixties likened their current stage to their courtship days, but with the added joys of having learned to know each other fully through forty years of shared experiences.

Throughout the early months and years of marriage, it is important for couples to exercise the virtue of patience with each other, recognizing that growth takes time and struggle and living together.

It's sad when contemporary arguments are made over interpretations of what some guy said 150 years ago vs. what some other guys may have said a couple thousand years ago.

On the other hand, I have read the bible, a couple of times, being both a believer (when I read it the first time) and an atheist (when I read it about a year ago.

If couples have been deeply alienated or strangling each other's creativity for years, their latent marriage can probably be developed — if at all — only by a process of marriage therapy or long - term marriage counseling.