Sentences with phrase «over a couple of years in»

Many of the pieces I collected over a couple of years in all sorts of places like vintage markets, antique stores and Homesense (of course).

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-- Blodget said on the conference call that the company still has about $ 22 million of the $ 50 million in financing that it has raised over the past couple of years.

As he puts it: «I'd like to CHALLENGE every woman in tech who's a) got a nice care, b) owns a nice house, or c) is making over $ 125K a year to start thinking of themselves as the next Ron Conway or Esther Dyson in the making and commit to investing in startups...» I'll forgive him for the poor grammar, ditto for the wisecrack a couple of paragraphs later about how some of us might have spent $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 on our MBAs... or our wardrobes.

Most of the big law firms in Perth have shrunk in size over the past year, with Ashurst experiencing the biggest drop in staff, while only a couple of smaller firms have achieved significant growth, research by Business News has found.

The two CEOs hope that the changes resulting from the merger will be implemented over the next couple of years, creating a «dramatic change» for consumers in which the store will be «not just about products, but also service offerings that can help people on their path to better health.»

When a manager here comes to me and says certain commodities are going to be put up for bid in the coming months, I go through my files of people I have run across over the course of the past couple of years.

Ad - blocking in general, on both the desktop and mobile web, has been growing rapidly over the past couple of years, according to industry surveys.

Unsurprisingly, the round of was led by Canada's OMERS Ventures, which has been investing heavily in Canada's up - and - coming tech stars over the last couple years.

Ford said that over the next couple of years it will increase its SUV mix 10 percentage points and decrease its car portfolio 10 percentage points in North American.

Over the last two decades of building and running businesses, and the last couple of years working full time with dozens of startup founders and CEOs on their strategies and funding plans in my consultancy business, I have observed that there are a common set of reasons that startups struggle and fail, and a consistent set of factors that make startup companies successful.

Though the rebound in growth over the past couple of years has seen unemployment across the bloc fall, the jobless rate remains elevated at 8.5 percent.

Its investment unit has struggled over the last couple of years against increased market competition, in both trading and deal advising.

Over the last couple of years we've seen an explosion of box subscription services in niches ranging from beauty to food to gaming to novelty gifts.

Over the past couple of years, Gillinder has spent tens of thousands of dollars to upgrade its backup generators so they can deliver enough energy to keep the furnaces running in the event of another blackout.

Some may mock, but over the last couple of years, Google raked in so much so - called earned media that the invoice to cover an equivalent amount of ads would have been staggering in the cost it represented.

«We spent a lot of the time over the last couple of years learning from our retail operations out west,» said Mark Childs, chief marketing officer at Samsung Canada, in an interview with Marketing.

«We've gotten accustomed to cheaper gasoline over the past couple years,» Robert Sinclair, AAA Northeast Manager of Media Relations told CNBC's On The Money in a recent interview.

After years of pitching, Hamilton has gotten some bold - faced names in Silicon Valley to pony up a total of around $ 5 million for her two funds over the past couple of years.

My father, Bernie, passed away a couple of years ago, and yet he lives on in so many practical life lessons that he taught me over the years.

Deutsche Bank's investment unit, in particular, has struggled over the last couple of years against increased market competition, in both trading and deal advising.

During the first part of 2008, this average declined very slowly, but then fell off a cliff in the last couple of months of the year to a low of just over 110,000 vehicles in December.

«I do believe what we've seen — especially over the last couple of years — is we've seen renewable technologies coming down very rapidly in price,» Henrik Poulsen said.

Fresh food is already available in more than half of Walmart's 337 stores, and the company has nearly doubled its grocery market share over the past couple of years.

If they can do this and retailers can offer compelling in - store demonstrations, then we see no reason why HDR can not give a kick - start to the UHD TV market over the next couple of years.»

In a way, all the things that have made Snapchat such a viral hit over the past couple of years are the same things that could make it difficult for it to succeed with a larger mass - media strategy.

«I spent over a decade of my life working at the issue [of prison reform], including half a decade at the NAACP, and yet here you have a former inmate turned entrepreneur who's been able to bring relief to almost a quarter of federal inmates in just a couple of years,» Jealous says.

Canada has posted some of its weakest economic growth outside of a recession over the past couple of years in part because business investment sunk along with the price of oil.

These include spending over half household income on housing, sleeping two or more people per bedroom (excluding couples and same - gender children), being behind on the rent in the past year and / or living in a building that suffers from any two of: frequent elevator breakdowns, pests or broken entrance locks.

Of course, the move would also cost them billions in revenue — the FCC estimates that the average American household pays $ 231 in set - top box rental fees per year, a number that's only gone up over the past couple of decadeOf course, the move would also cost them billions in revenue — the FCC estimates that the average American household pays $ 231 in set - top box rental fees per year, a number that's only gone up over the past couple of decadeof decades.

Over the past couple of years, Emirates» expansion into the US market has been met with pushback from a coalition lead by American, Delta, and United Airlines (the US3) that claim Emirates» growth has been fueled billions of dollars in government subsidies.

I have been with the company for a couple of years and in the semiconductor industry for over 20 years.

Identity theft has taken on a new dimension over the past couple of years as hackers increasingly target big retail in their attempts to steal consumers» financial information.

Over the last couple of years, Google has publicly announced its support for schema markup and the semantic web in general.

It still points towards the positive trend that we've seen in payroll growth over the last several months and the last couple of years actually,» said Tony Bedikian, head of global markets at Citizens Bank.

While sales at full - line stores have been relatively flat in the U.S. over the past couple of years, they've surged at Rack outlets.

The U.S. and China diplomatic teams remain far apart on a host of issues including Chinese hacking that targets U.S. companies, China's buildup of islands in the South China Sea for military purpose, and the pressure American companies say they've faced in China over the past couple years.

My market is one of the few in the country that hasn't seen real estate prices crater over the last couple years, but there are still huge bargains.

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.

«It continues to reflect that equity markets had done so well, and were so calm, heading into 2018 that this is kind of unwinding that complacency that we saw set in over the past couple of years.»

If the headwinds have not dissipated to a meaningful degree in the seven years since the recession ended, then why should one expect them to necessarily diminish quickly over the next couple of years?

This news comes only a couple of weeks following the release of the August global manufacturing PMI, which shows that manufacturing activity around the world accelerated to its highest level in over six years.

We expect the global economy to strengthen over the next couple of years, although on a lower path than predicted in our last MPR in July.

The couple's business, selling baby carriers that Elizabeth designed, generated sales of $ 15,000 in its first year, $ 575,000 in 2008 and over $ 1 million last year when about half its sales were online at SleepyWrap.com and the rest through wholesalers.

Over the past decade there has been little growth in manufacturing output and the level of employment has declined, particularly over the past couple of years (GraphOver the past decade there has been little growth in manufacturing output and the level of employment has declined, particularly over the past couple of years (Graphover the past couple of years (Graph 3).

The speech says that the Bank's central forecast remains for inflation in Australia to pick up over the next couple of years, but for inflation to be nearer to 2 per cent, than 3 per cent at the end of this period.

The food delivery market, a new category that has grown in popularity over the past couple of years, includes HelloFresh in Europe and Chefs Plate in Canada.

The fourth - quarter 2010 earnings season took off to the races on Friday as JPMorgan Chase reported a 47 % boost in earnings over Q4 2009, thus confirming analysts» expectations for a positive shift in the finance sector's fortunes after a rough couple of years.

Morissette said industrial rents in Metro Vancouver have appreciated by between 20 and 30 per cent over the past couple of years.

The Australian dollar has remained in a relatively steady range over the past couple of years, at levels that are a little above average against the US dollar and about 10 per cent above average in trade - weighted terms.

To do so credibly would presumably require confidence that the upward trend in inflation seen over the past couple of years would be likely to turn down.