Sentences with phrase «over the homes of»

Not soon after, he befriends the barefoot environmental idealist tagged with the nickname of Mullet Fingers (Linley, My Dog Skip), from whom he learns that a chain of pancake houses is about to set up shop in town, on the verge of bulldozing over the homes of some cutesy owls that live in little holes in the ground beneath where the company has devised building plans.

Is the helicopter of happiness going to fly over the homes of average people anytime soon?

With a focus on sustainable design, Copenhagen Design Week takes over the home of Danish Modern, August 27 - September 6.

No one wants to enter a bidding war over the home of their dreams.

Not exact matches

Given their home - market bias, many Canadians have likely been surprised by just how little their portfolios have moved over the past couple of years.

Over the past three years, HomeStars — a Toronto - based company that publishes online reviews of home improvement professionals — has grown from 22 to 53 employees.

The first six months of 2017 saw turbines send more than 6.6 million megawatt hours of electricity to the National Grid, enough to supply a little over 3 million Scottish homes.

Sells over 450 brands online, in a wide variety of categories, from clothing and home to groceries, pet supplies, and sports equipment.

He's visited countless thousands of homes over the years, which has allowed him to build up what he describes as an intuition that's «born over time and that you may not see in the moment.»

Home Depot's storm plan shows how preparing for natural disasters has become over the years an inherent part of the retailers» business.

If, say, you have children and you want regulation to protect them from the rising sea levels predicted to submerge billions of homes, wars over resources, and so on, you have to realize that however much we call politicians leaders, in democracies they follow the people.

Over the holiday shopping season, Google lowered the price of the Home Mini speaker to $ 29.

Over the summer, my «home from work» routine consisted of me immediately throwing on a pair of gym shorts and replacing my collar with an oversized tee.

On Thursday, Nintendo announced that the Switch had become the fastest selling home video game system of all time in the U.S., selling over 4.8 million units in 10 months.

Napster co-founder Sean Parker's proposal to sell first - run movies to home viewers at $ 50 a pop has stirred up various corners of Hollywood, with big movie studios and theater chains up in arms over the Screening Room idea while multiple major filmmakers have landed on opposing sides of the argument.

The couple have struggled over the years from almost getting shut down by the police, to losing their home and dealing with the wrath of angry customers, but stuck with it and became multi-millionaires!

Maybe she'd prefer to work from home for part of that time or after her leave is over.

Boathouse Row runs parallel to the pedestrian hotspot and is a home to the clubhouses of rowers from high schools and universities all over town.

One of the best - performing tech companies on a U.S. stock exchange over the past two years actually makes its home in Ottawa.

Chesky said the company had 77,000 homes across Africa — out of its 3 million globally — but that it could easily have «hundreds of thousands» in a continent that's home to over a billion people.

Consider our A / C example again: «The energy savings you get by cooling your home with a CryoQuad Quiet - Cool can pay back the cost of the unit by the end of the summer if you get it now... and save you hundreds of dollars more in energy costs over the lifetime of the unit.»

Diply — which creates and aggregates highly sharable clickbait - y content geared towards millennials — attracts over 41 million unique visitors each month, about 60 % of whom are located in the United States and 15 % in the U.K. Just 7 % of visitors to the site are from Canada, but that hasn't deterred the company from keeping London as its home - base.

However, there is one couple who may be more devoted to the royals than everyone else: Australians Jan and David Hugo have amassed more than 10,000 pieces of royal memorabilia over the past 37 years, effectively turning their New South Wales home into a museum.

-- James Roche, CEO of Houseplans.com, a San Francisco - based stock home design site that has grown 25 percent year over year.

Flanagan bought his first Home Hardware operation in 1991 in nearby Oakville, taking over an existing hardware store and signing up as one of Home Hardware's dealer - owners.

IN 10 years, CJ King and Co Pty Ltd has grown from a small annex behind a North Beach home to what it claims is the biggest full colour printer in the Southern Hemisphere — a $ 1,500 investment that is now turning over $ 10 million a year.With the assistance of Austrade and the WA Department of Industry and Resources (DoIR), the company is taking on the UK market, already with some success.One of the remarkable things about this success story is that it has been achieved through a consummate belief in a philosophy to use standardised, leading - edge technology and to supply just the print trade and other on - sellers.

Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face - to - face — just by putting on goggles in your home.

Founded only in 2008 but measured earlier this year as the third-most valuable venture capital - backed group in the world at over $ 25 billion, Airbnb also said it would help prevent its service from causing housing shortages by «ensuring hosts agree to a policy of listing only permanent homes on a short - term basis».

For example, health problems and disability contributed to half of all home foreclosure filings and over 60 percent of all personal bankruptcy filings.

The low cost of capital, over the same period, did not help business investments either; they increased at an average annual rate of 0.8 percent because the poor sales outlook at home did not require large expansions of production capacities, and exports were increasingly sourced from overseas factory outlets.

Over its lifetime, the NES sold nearly 62 million units and was able to break out from the stable of other companies that were willing to take a risk on the home console market.

The holiday season's over and your significant other has accumulated an abundance of connected devices that are now scattered across his or her (or your) home.

«Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face - to - face — just by putting on goggles in your home,» Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post announcing his company's purchase of Oculus.

Reddick robbed Jason Kipnis of a home run, preserving the Houston Astros» 3 - 1 lead over the Cleveland Indians.

For all of these reasons, Madani at Capital Economic projects that home prices in Canada will fall 25 % over the next few years.

just over here wishing i was in pj's watching home alone and drinking hot cocoa, but prepping for tonight's workshop with the jr. league of austin isn't a bad alternative.

Cloud gaming: Services such as Onlive, which stream video games over an Internet connection in much the same way that Netflix does with movies, are already here, but they probably won't be fully viable until the majority of homes have ultra-fast connections.

Ryu took home the first place prize of $ 405,000, and Thompson settled for second place and just over $ 250,000.

For well over a century, a range of men's footwear brands — Grenson, Church's, John Lobb, Tricker's and Crockett & Jones, among others — have called the East Midlands region home, producing more or less the same shoes, more or less the same way.

Peruse some of the message boards where frequent fliers hang out, and debate rages over whose status luggage tags look best and whether it's cooler to attach all your status tags to one bag, or keep them at home and fly «under the radar.»

The difference can be traced to real estate market trajectories: Over the past decade, while housing bubbles percolated through much of Europe and in North America, home values rose less than 3 % in Germany.

For example, what if instead of going to Starbucks, you prefer to make your own coffee at home, and purchase a $ 500 titanium luxury coffee maker to prepare hundreds of perfect cups over the long haul.

Because the average salary for a woman still lags behind men's (the American Association of University Women says women earn 82 cents for every dollar a man makes one year after graduation) and lenders favor two - income households over single earners, Lautz says women are «making the most sacrifices to get into a home, but they're still placing a high value on owning a home of their own.»

Over the past decade, as the value of the average Canadian home doubled, and tripled in some areas, rents remained stable or even declined.

The idea bounces around in the head of just about every homeowner, or at least every homeowner over 50: If I fall short on my retirement savings, maybe my home equity can help pay my bills.

In a little over a decade, it had expanded from a scrappy upstart into a thriving outfit with dozens of employees, a database of 1,500 contractors and such industry giants as Lowe's, Home Depot and Canadian Tire as clients.

They could depreciate the value of the home and everything in it over time.

In a world of online markets, instant videos and Zillow pricing, why should anyone turn 5 % to 6 % of the take on a home sale over to a real estate agent?

What has been determined — initially over tea and biscuits in Malala's family's home — is that the Fund will have three prongs: advocacy, storytelling, and funding of local entrepreneurs in areas where girls don't have access to education.

He has loads of real estate — he bought the most expensive home in Washington, D.C., and owns homes in Beverly Hills, California, and New York along with his spread in Medina, Washington — and is one of the nation's largest landowners, with over 300,000 acres.