Sentences with phrase «time over almost»

How does she note the passage of time over almost two years?

We restarted this activity 4 times over almost 30 minutes!

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While wage pressures remain modest, core inflation is below target and inflation expectations are contained almost everywhere, the implication is that they should all rise over time.

Earlier this year, a survey suggested almost one in four Canadians were spending more time watching online video over the course of a day than time on the couch in front of their TV.

«Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time.

As the tweet suggests, the mistake is a common one and pops up almost every time news outlets report on a celebrity owning such and such a word or phrase (the Queen Anne in the tweet, by the way, refers to the British monarch who presided over the UK's first copyright law).

Through mid-March, MetaStable's flagship fund had returned 539 % over its short lifetime, including 86 % in the first two - and - a-half months of 2017 (a time period in which the Bitcoin price was up almost 28 %).

Look back over time, though, and you'll see many instances where the best choice was almost binary — the worst - performing asset class or sector in one year does the best (or close to it) the next.

You can connect to almost every major social media platform, schedule posts, monitor progress in terms of likes, engagements, and user activity, and easily see how your content performs over time.

Over at AllThingsD, in outlining her three big takeaways from Nintendo's announcement, Tricia Duryee makes a great point that the new portable screen will almost certainly compete with Apple's iPad for face time, given its forward - facing camera, ability to browse the Internet, draw on the screen with a stylus, play standalone games like Othello, view photos and video chat.

Summer is almost over, and it's already time to start thinking about the holidays — otherwise known as the biggest spending season of the year.

Almost 100 million U.S. - operated airline flights, carrying several billion people, had taken off and landed safely in this country over a nine - year span since the last time a passenger died in an accident.

Instead of delivering 50 Hz - which is what mains - powered European clocks expect to get if they're to keep accurate time - the European grid has averaged 49.996 Hz, which is enough of a disruption, over a couple of months, to make all these clocks lose almost 6 minutes.

«Pulitzer Prize - winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of the eighties» biggest names on Wall Street — Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine — created the greatest insider - trading ring in financial history and almost walked away with billions, until a team of downtrodden detectives triumphed over some of America's most expensive lawyers to bring this powerful quartet to justice.»

If those options were exercised and the stock was then sold at, say, $ 40, it would amount to a bonus of almost $ 330 million — the market price less the strike price, times the number of options granted — paid out to Siebel employees over the next nine years.

If you've been privy to trends in marketing over the past few years, you've almost certainly heard the term being thrown around at least a few times.

About 44 % of that went to Quebec and almost 15 % or $ 16.8 billion went to the three territories which combined have a population of about 111,000, about 23 % less than the number of people in Prince Edward Island, which received $ 2.2 billion over the same time period.

During that time, call - centre revenues went from just over $ 424 million to almost $ 2.8 billion.

And I also appreciate that the conventional wisdom suggests, in almost every tech - based or tech - enabled business, that markets over time will tend to become «winner take all» or «winner take most» in which a single player dominates.

In an adaptation from his upcoming shareholder letter, the Oracle of Omaha explains why equities almost always beat the alternatives over time.

And Wells Fargo (wfc), still dealing with the fallout of its fake accounts scandal, is up just 10 %, but Buffett's position has gained almost $ 2.5 billion in value over that time.

Virgin America has just turned six years old, and over that time we've put a lot of thought and effort into making flights enjoyable, while almost all of our competitors have focused solely on their bottom line.

Small almost unnoticeable advances over time move mountains, carve canyons, and change hearts and minds.

By putting a huge emphasis on customer service, Amazon made sure consumers trusted the site in its infancy, and over time, it has become a one - stop shop for (almost) every ecommerce shopper's needs.

But once I got over that, I was able to go from a kid at 18 years old that was always like a very average, underperforming student and then fast forward almost to the day 18 years later, I flew in space for the first time.

Time management programs focus almost entirely on how to plan and exercise control over the minutes, hours, and days you spend on specific tasks or activities.

Over the last four years, despite a challenging global economy, we added almost 3,000 full - time jobs in Canada.

A daily Opinionway poll showed Macron, whose score has almost always been 60 % or higher over the past few months, dipped to 59 percent for the first time since mid-March, Reuters reports.

I remember the first time a colleague put a flak jacket on me, I almost fell over.

The SkyDome was originally intended to cost $ 225 million but by the time the first baseball was hit, the cost had ballooned to over $ 650 million (almost $ 1 billion in today's money).

Cordray had been under fire from congressional Republicans almost from the time he took over the bureau, which emanated from the Dodd - Frank reforms following the financial crisis.

«I signed on with the company almost four years ago and it has truly been the experience of a lifetime helping Uber become the fastest growing company of all - time — spanning 75 countries with over 14,000 employees,» Michael wrote in his goodbye letter, first posted on The New York Times.

Dollar General is now worth over $ 22 billion, and while, as previously mentioned, it had no dividend in 2010, it has recently started paying a dividend with an introductory yield of 1.2 % that is almost certain to grow in time — and it is a winner from a strong dollar.

That definition could be a problem for many coins because the excitement around initial coin offerings has been driven almost entirely by investors who have bought coins in the hope that they will become more valuable over time as the underlying software is improved.

Lower - than - expected revenues have dug a $ 4 - billion hole in Alberta's finances and inflated Newfoundland's deficit to over $ 700 million (almost triple what was initially projected), adding resource - rich provinces, along with long - time offenders such as Ontario and Quebec, to the list of fiscally challenged jurisdictions.

Interestingly enough, it's actually so simple, and so straightforward, that it would have helped almost any investor make quite a bit of money over the past couple of centuries regardless of market conditions provided he or she had a long enough time horizon.

Yesterday, Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg bought their five - year - old company in the largest Internet deal since Time Warner's $ 124 billion merger with AOL in 2001, a deal that will almost certainly make Koum and Acton billionaires several times over.

If value resulted merely from scarcity, then postage stamps, coins and master paintings all would seem to increase almost automatically over time, just like most land does.

Instead of running ads, they would define Scheer more slowly, over time, with a series of forced choices in Parliament, through government motions, much as opposition parties usually seek to define governments (you'll note that «define» in Ottawa politics is almost always pejorative by implication) through clever use of their occasional opportunity to define a day's parliamentary debate through so - called «supply motions.»

It is almost like placing a bet, in that you are wagering that an asset will increase or decrease in value over a set period of time.

The direction is almost always up and to the right over a long enough time period.

Apple Inc. shares on Monday broke the $ 500 mark for the first time, the latest milestone in an almost unbroken rise over the last decade, solidifying its place as the world's most valuable company by market value at close to $ 466 billion.

The total payments over 30 years almost add up to paying for the house one and a half times.

James B. Stewart, Why a Media Merger that Should Go Through Might Not, N.Y. Times (Oct. 25, 2016), http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/business/economy/why-a-media - merger-that-should-go-through-might-not.html [http://perma.cc/NTN7-LB9N](««Over the last 40 to 50 years, antitrust law has evolved to be almost completely indifferent to vertical mergers,» said Tim Wu, an antitrust and internet expert at Columbia Law School...»).

In a speech laying out the potential changes wrought by financial innovations, Lagarde also said that over the next generation, «machines will almost certainly play a larger role» in helping policymakers, offering real - time forecasts, spotting bubbles, and uncovering complex financial linkages.

It is almost always the case you will be surprised by how much you end up accumulating or how much debt you end up paying down over time.

The favorable market performance associated with many historical economic expansions is fully accounted for by 1) favorable post-recession valuations, with the S&P 500 averaging less than 9 times prior peak earnings at the recession low, expanding to just over 11 times peak earnings in the first year of the bull market, and 2) favorable trend uniformity, which typically emerges almost immediately in the form of a powerful breadth thrust off of a bear market low, and is confirmed within a few weeks by much broader trend uniformity.

The EIA has increased their projection of 2035 imports from Canada by over 1 million barrels per day while they expect total imports to decrease over the same time period by almost 30 %.

«Over time, the growth rate of almost all technologies, products, and services slow because of saturation, obsolescence, or competition.

Mid-teens P / Es are now becoming commonplace and in some cases, they are even approaching 10 times earnings which is something I've never seen in over 30 years of owning MLPs (perhaps save for a very brief period in early 2009, when almost everything was totally crushed, and the 2015 energy collapse).