Sentences with phrase «spent around a year»

Retail sales rose by 2.7 per cent in January and, although this may have partly reflected a change in the timing of consumer spending around year end, the stronger January level was broadly maintained in February and March.

Wenger has been very careful with the England international after he spent around a year on the sidelines but Theo has now played a few times and should be fully fit and fired up to take the place of Alexis on the wing.

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The five biggest insurance companies in the U.S. spent around $ 3 billion on advertising last year, which of course got passed on to customers.

Before Yang designed the collection, she spent two years traveling around the country meeting with employees, observing them at work, getting feedback from union groups and reading through responses to more than 5,000 employee surveys.

Corporate America has led the way in passing on the problem of its surplus capital to investors via share repurchases, with around $ 530 billion spent on U.S. buybacks last year and $ 800 billion expected in 2018, according to JPMorgan.

One board member, who had run a large marketing agency, took things into her own hands and spent a year going around campus in stealth mode, talking to deans and other board members to see what they thought about the institution's brand.

But he points to a report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer released earlier this year showing that, since 2009, the debt service ratio — a measure of income spent to pay debt — has remained steady at around 14 per cent, not much higher than the long - term average.

SoundHound has been around for 13 years, and has spent that time trying to build the most powerful voice assistant ever.

Over the past 30 years, policymakers from around the United States have spent countless hours and numerous dollars on programs, policies, and incentives to create venture - capital clusters and to stimulate investments in their cities and regions.

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Fu Wenyue, a 23 - year - old dresser in Shanghai, said she had already spent around 4,000 yuan ($ 600) on clothes, cosmetics and kitchen utensils in pre-event sales, transactions ahead of the day which officially only go through once midnight strikes.

A petroleum - consulting and advisory firm, Sproule has spent 60 years assisting organizations around the world with the evaluation of oil and gas reserves along with merger - and - acquisition - related due diligence and reservoir studies.

They are able to spend year after year, sitting around the house, talking about the same boring stuff, watching TV, watching movies, cooking dinner, and it went fine.

Every year around this time, I like to spend a few weeks reflecting on the year and planning the next one.

Dog owners spend an average of around $ 1,641 and cat owners approximately $ 1,125 per year.

Mark Bello (above) opened Pizza a Casa on New York City's Lower East Side, he says, after spending nearly five years as a «nomadic pizza - teacher - for - hire,» sharing his pizza skills at various locations around the Big Apple.

Retail analysts at Mintel predict that Brits will spend around # 310 million on costumes and accessories this year, up 5 % from # 295 million in 2015.

I'd spent four years scrounging parts and figuring ways around red tape, all for the good of the country.

Summers, who spent 25 years as an automotive engineer, lives in an apartment around the corner from Pashak.

With cheap robo - taxis available to chauffeur people around cities, households that spend an average of $ 9,000 a year on transportation could lower that outlay to just $ 2,000.

Qantas is planning a significant patch - up job on its over-crowded Perth domestic terminal, spending around $ 50 million in what is considered an interim step which could put off a major redevelopment decision for as much as seven years.

The biggest one to date for a biosimilar product in the U.S. — the treatments have only been around for a handful of years in America despite widespread and long - standing availability in Europe and other regions — Renflexis may ultimately not do much to curb health care and patient spending, as the Wall Street Journal «s Charley Grant points out in an astute note.

Novo said obesity drugs will account for more than one third of its overall research and development spend this year, up from around 10 percent five years ago.

Towards that end, those three cloud superpowers alone spent roughly $ 31 billion last year to extend their data center capacity around the world, according to the Wall Street Journal, which tabulated that total from corporate filings.

Anyone who has spent a day in Mountain View, Calif., in the past few years has probably spotted a Lexus SUV driving around town that is equipped with Google self - driving tech spinning on its roof.

Skyhook spent two years sending more than 100 people out to drive in and around major U.S. cities, with equipment that mapped all the wireless networks they encountered.

The deal, which is still making its way through Congress after an eleventh hour push from party bigs, has three main components: It immediately raises the debt ceiling, includes around $ 2.1 trillion in spending cuts over the next 10 years, and creates a special Congressional committee to come up with long term deficit - reduction suggestions by this Thanksgiving.

Cameron said he planned to more than double government spending on aviation security, currently around 9 million pounds ($ 13.70 million) a year, over the next 5 years.

Khosrowshahi is an Iranian - born US citizen who spent the last 12 years running Expedia, the online travel agency used by millions of people around the world.

I've spent years around technology, helping run Wired and a couple of tech news websites over the years.

Around 5,000 years ago, humans made the transition «from the anarchy of the hunting, gathering, and horticultural societies in which our species spent most of its evolutionary history to the first agricultural civilizations with cities and governments,» Pinker wrote.

As social media and ecommerce become increasingly enmeshed in our lives, the opportunities for them to interact with and bolster each other are innumerable, considering that the average person spends around an hour and 40 minutes browsing social media every day, and the number of internet shoppers in the US will reach 217 million this year.

«You can really enjoy mousing around at Target,» says Tanya Burnett, a Canadian who spent 11 years in the U.S. before moving back to Victoria last year.

Instead of working in a corporate office and spending nights and weekends ghostwriting novels — four in one year — as I had back in my six - figure days, I had spent the past seven months backpacking around the world.

«Why spend money on wellness or disease management programs, programs which yield a return on investment only after several years, for a policyholder who probably isn't going to stick around long?»

A couple of non-glasses 3 - D screens were put on display at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, but as some critics pointed out, you may have to spend several minutes moving around the room to find an ideal spot to sit for the image to appear in 3 - D.

Without a mortgage payment, our annual spending will become more reasonable (around $ 60k per year).

For Rachel Huse, whose days were typically spent homeschooling her kids, sewing children's clothing for her Etsy shop and co-leading a volunteer organization that took nearly 30 hours a week of her time, the foray three years ago into direct selling centered around one goal: «I definitely saw it as an opportunity to get a house cleaner,» she said.

By the time Bair got to Washington, the O.C.C. had spent a year devising «voluntary subprime guidance» for the banks it regulated, but it had not yet gotten around to issuing that guidance.

We did see some real strong numbers towards the end of last year, consumer spending was growing at around a half a percent each month, which was very strong.

At PIE, we've spent years mentoring, nurturing, and accelerating startups from around the world in Portland, Oregon.

«What I am struck by is that Uber is not significantly worse than companies that have been around twice as many years and have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity in the last three years and have diversity departments of a dozen people,» Klein said, speaking of Uber's much larger tech brethren such as Facebook, Apple and Google.

Together with this goal, another part of the funds will be spent to «promote bitcoins as a reliable currency and investment option, enlist more e-vouchers on our mobile platform with a target to expand our user base from 25,000 to around one lakh (100,000) within the next one year and ultimately become a bitcoin payment gateway,» according to Zebpay cofounder, Saurabh Aggarwal.

Your average fundamental sell - side analyst has spent the year kneeling in the grass, gazing at ants through a magnifying glass while hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanic explosions raged all around him.

R&D spending, it said, would stay at around $ 4 billion a year.

Instead, let's look at whether the fundamental underlying assumption of the 4 percent rule — level spending every year — is actually realistic and safe to plan around.

Around the world, smartphone - carrying consumers downloaded more than 175 billion apps last year, on which they spent over $ 86 billion according to the latest annual report from App Annie.

We get to plug revised expenses into Max's income statement and help him turn his spending around to get him out debt in less than ten years.

From the macro side of the story, my script includes around 3 % GDP growth for this year, despite some indicators like retail sales and personal spending showing some weakness.