Sentences with phrase «small number of deals»

For trust - based industries such as real estate and mortgage, in which professionals do a small number of deals each year, it's crucial to protect your core customer base of family, friends and friends - of - friends.

Not exact matches

Tal says his unscientific research into the subject — consisting mainly of a recent dinner with over 20 real estate brokers and agents who deal exclusively with foreign buyers — led him to believe the number of «pure» foreign purchasers in the Canadian real - estate market is «probably much smaller than perceived by many.»

But these deals, called tax - equity deals, are relatively expensive to structure and only a small number of companies appear interested.

The company says it already has 56,000 reservations, so the deal will only be available to a relatively small number of customers.

If GEICO's numbers were there — and if the size of the positions was relatively small in comparison to the billions that Buffett deals in — you were into Simpson territory.

«As recently as three years ago, Black Friday — dominated by Big Store brands — was clearly better than smaller brand - focused and clothing - focused Cyber Monday, in terms of the number and quality of deals, as well as the number of participating retailers,» says de Grandpre of DealNews.

«Putting progressive elements into trade deals — labour protections, environmental protections — actually helps us make the case for trade and reassure people that the benefits of trade will be distributed more fairly and not just to the small number of people who've always benefited from it in the past.»

Federal agencies can also skip open bidding on larger contracts — those above $ 750,000 in disaster zones — if they can show that there's only a small number of vendors who can provide the service or product they need, or to extend a current contract, known as a «follow - on deal.»

The number of investments any firm makes is really small compared to the number of deals it looks at, Smerklo said.

Tal says his unscientific research into the subject — consisting mainly of a recent dinner with over 20 real estate brokers and agents who deal exclusively with foreign buyers — led him to believe the number of «pure» foreign purchasers in the Canadian real estate market is «probably much smaller than perceived by many.»

Consider the massive number of rules, regulations and agencies a small business has to deal with.

In fact, across the stock market as a whole, if you had the bad misfortune to not be invested on a small number of days, you would have lost out on a great deal of the market's advances.

This $ 3.1 billion deal gives Sysco a foothold in the U.K., France, and a number of smaller European countries.

This trend was driven by inadequate access to startups across verticals, limited exposure to high - quality deal flow, and the need for startups to achieve their fundraising goals from the small number of active angels in their community.

Thus in dealing with the real human problems, such as the relief of suffering, the adjustment of personality, the release from fear and ignorance, the care of the physically or mentally defective or of the aged and infirm, there is nearly always a desperate shortage of living agents, and among their small number the cozily non-committed agnostic is very rarely to be found.

Those who don't, well, we deal with those small number of people when we come to them.

To take a single example, last year I had the privilege of participating in one of these schools in a small university town, where in a parish of about one thousand members over two hundred persons (including a goodly number of interested «enquirers» who had heard of the program through a carefully planned advertising campaign) attended eight night sessions, held from eight until ten o'clock, with a choice among eight different courses, dealing with theological, ethical, historical, devotional, and scriptural subjects.

The majority of exhibitors will be importers (either dealing purely in fine wine or with a fine wine portfolio) with a smaller number of individual producers too; all wines will have an RRP of # 30 and over.

I've already saved some recipes and I'm going to try them, but unfortunately, I've got one problem — I don't know exactly how to understand «cup»: (I'm from Poland, we don't use this term in our kitchens often and I want to keep appropriate proportions, so I hope that there is a chance to give me a small tip how I can deal with it — maybe in relation to number of tbsp?

The best way to deal with a defiant toddler is to take swift, immediate action that involves the smallest number of words possible.

A small number of secondary prevention programs for fathers of young children have been conducted and evaluated.18 For example, Parent — Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), a short - term, evidence - based, training intervention for parents dealing with preschool children who display behavioural problems was evaluated in the Netherlands using a quasi-experimental design.19 The results showed a large effect on fathers» reports of child behaviour problems at the completion of the intervention.

I also know that these one or two or three years dealing with his sleeplessness as a baby is small in scale when compared to the number of years that we won't have to.

Loads of women make lower wages than I did, but to those women, the cost of 5 lost hours of work time is a * bigger * deal, even with smaller absolute numbers attached.

A growing number of Conservative MPs, though still a relatively small proportion of this troubled parliamentary party, enthuse about a no deal.

«A relatively small number of organisations wield a great deal of online power - and I believe that with that power comes a great responsibility,» media secretary Maria Miller wrote to internet service providers.

In terms of Commons arithmetic, this relies on the gap in seats between the two major parties being a good deal smaller than the LibDem number of seats, as well as the two party total being over half of all seats.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

The master plan is about to go to the Town Board for action, as Grand Island deals with the rapid increase in small farms and increasing number of small commercial neighborhoods.

We're developing a new Corruption Prevention Strategy to deal with the small number of corrupt staff who allow contraband in our prisons.

... It's not a small deal because the overall number of votes cast is not going to be that big.»

The best scenario is when you have majority of the people in the country being law - abiding, that way there'll be a small number who aren't law - abiding so the law enforcement agencies can deal with them,» he said on Eyewitness News.

«Most of what we are all doing with liquid biopsies is dealing with very small numbers [of molecules], so using a poor sample extraction or nonoptimized kit can really get rid of a lot of the signal,» she says.

The drawn - out primary cycle, scheduled to begin in February 2016 and lasting until June, affords a great deal of influence to a small number of voters in early primary states, such as Iowa and New Hampshire.

Creating even small numbers of fusing atoms would be a big deal.

They find that wind delays smaller ants more than larger ones and that in windy conditions, colonies increase the number of larger ants, which are better able to deal with wind.

Harrelson is the small - town police chief Mildred name - checks on billboard number three, who's dealing not only with this unsolved case and the publicity around the billboards, but a terminal diagnosis of pancreatic cancer; Cornish is his understanding wife; and Rockwell is a hot - headed deputy with a reputation for brutalizing black suspects («There was no... real evidence to support that,» the chief shrugs).

Furthermore, this proposal would force the DfE to go ahead with plans to fix a number of awkward funding problems - for example, at what level it ought to fund small schools or schools with expensive private finance deals, for example.

Even upstairs, the number of books available seemed to be a great deal smaller than they should have been.

There is small number of authors who have struck publishing deals by dominating Wattpad.

Bear in mind it's entirely possible that Amazon sells 1.74 times as many books at $ 9.99 than at $ 14.99, but then Amazon deals with gross numbers of product, while publishers deal with somewhat smaller numbers, and the author, of course, deals with only her own list of books.

As with individuals, small businesses must deal with taxes in a number of forms.

Due to the sheer number of lenders they have on call, this company is likely to find a deal to suit you at a better interest rate than other companies in a smaller pool.

«The investor should avoid spreading the small investment sum over a large number of stocks as dealing costs would be too high.»

Most of the history here comes from the Great Depression, and we are dealing with the «Law of Small Numbers» here, so I am not inclined to offer definitive analysis here.

There are a number of ways to deal with the inconsistent revenue and costs associated with running your small business, and one of the best options is a business line of credit.

Dog Walker: A paired or small group dog walker can also be a great option for dog selective dogs, as they get to engage in a parallel activity (walking together), but aren't being asked to deal with rambunctious wrestling or interacting with a large number of strange dogs.

While the rescue community continues to make steady, incremental progress in dealing with homeless dog issues, we have not seen the same kind of progress for cats despite the dedicated work of a small number of cat - focused groups and the introduction of the concept of Trap — Neuter - Return (TNR) to the U.S. in 1980.

There are only a small number of eye emergencies which need immediate care, but many situations which should be dealt with within a day or two of onset.

Let us think about taking steps to deal with the small number of owners and their dogs who are in fact dangerous, and spare from heartbreak the grand majority of people who own, or know, or love, good dogs, all good dogs.

Even when you're using the most spectacular looking combos, there is a surprisingly small amount of damage that is dealt compared to the number of hits and the power which they seem to possess.