Sentences with phrase «time than this season»

Not exact matches

Troops bringing the American flag back to Iraq in 2003 or deploying to Afghanistan in the same time period received just a little more than their Persian Gulf War predecessors, with $ 1,064.70 for soldiers with less than four months of service and $ 1,150.80 for the seasoned veterans with four months or more under their belts.

Cornell's decisiveness, along with a better - than - expected holiday - season increase in sales at the website and stores open for at least a year, has revived Target's stock: The shares have jumped 30 % under the new CEO, to all - time highs.

NOTHING says festive season more aptly than the pop of a cork from a bottle of fizz, but in these times of tight belts and Scroogish sentiment, shall we shave the Christmas spend a tad by going for the cheaper option this Noel?

BT streamed both finals last season on YouTube for the first time, increasing the number of people who watched its live coverage to more than 12 million.

Attaining that capital means impressing seasoned investors and convincing them that your business, more than any other, is worthy of their time and money.

You see, being more seasoned than I was at the time he recognized that I was soliciting advice as to how to be his competitor.

According to TiqIQ, the average ticket price for Jeter's last regular - season home game has already reached more than 2 1/2 times the peak average price for the final home game of all - star pitcher Mariano Rivera, who debuted with the Yankees in 1995, the same year as Jeter, and retired last year after 19 seasons with the team.

The amount of ads, offers and promotions that people experience throughout the holiday season is reminiscent of what a person would experience standing in the middle of Times Square for more than 10 weeks.

His résumé is enough to justify it: two - time MVP, first unanimous MVP, scoring champion, NBA champion, best player on a team that won more regular season games than any team in NBA history.

«So far this year, we have converted more than 7,000 temporary employees in the U.S. into full - time, regular roles and we're looking forward to converting thousands more after this holiday season,» said Dave Clark, Amazon's vice president of worldwide operations and customer service, in a statement.

It's the holiday season, which means a lot of people are spending more time than usual in toy stories.

The Gap's travails have persisted in 2015, with Peck suggesting on a conference call last month that efforts to renew the brand won't pay off until the spring, months later than his original prediction that a turnaround could take hold in time for the holiday season.

By the end of the day Johnson and Bergh had agreed to open 700 similar Levi's boutiques inside Penneys in time for the back - to - school season in 2012 — less than a year later.

They're more often than not seasoned drivers who have been around for a long time and they have control decisions over that car.

The show's popularity grew this season as the number of designers showing their Spring 2013 collections there hit an all - time high with more than 30 present.

But the seventh season was also pirated more than 1 billion times, making it the most pirated show worldwide.

After hearing that Kohl's delivered same - store sales of over 5 percent for the first time since 2001 and that Children's Place logged an 8.5 percent gain in holiday - season same - store sales, Cramer sensed that these were more than just positive blips on the retail radar screen.

Kohl's (kss) on Thursday reported better - than - expected financial results as shoppers who had stayed away in droves earlier in the year starting showing up again just in time for back - to - school shopping season.

Seasoned travelers just get that some places are better to visit at certain times than others.

In the decade leading up to the last lockout, the average NHL salary increased by more than three times, totalling $ 1.83 million for the 2003 - 04 season, according to a 2005 article in the journal Monthly Labor Review.

That's an all - time high, and 6 % higher than last year's fall season, but it's less of an uptick than the pumpkin products saw the year before (10 % growth).

Clubs should cost far less than they do in the summer, and you'll have plenty of time to practice your swing before next year's season begins.

Anticipating these cycles, in addition to avoiding the temptation to spend more capital when it's more abundant, can be particularly difficult for very new businesses that haven't experienced more than a season or two (one healthy season does not a cycle — or a trend — make), but investing time to research trends in your particular industry will help you evaluate how your business is performing compared to similar businesses within your industry.

Together, these requirements create a triple whammy for some first - time homebuyers who often have smaller down payments, higher debt obligations — such as student loans — and traditionally lower credit scores than more seasoned buyers.

HR industry experts have devoted a lot of time and research into demystifying millennial employees, only to discover that this younger generation has more in common with mature, seasoned employees than once thought.

At that time of the season, demand is lower than in the summer, and ending the cuts in March — ahead of peak demand — could exacerbate the glut that OPEC and friends have been fighting this year.

Just in time for the hectic holiday season, Curbside makes finding, buying and getting the things shoppers need from their favorite local stores faster and easier than ever before — it's a new way to shop, built for the era of «Get It Now» commerce.

The holiday season trade can at times be very tricky and downright deceiving to traders who are enjoying the holidays and tilted more bullish than normal.

With less than three weeks to Black Friday and the «official» start of the holiday shopping season, both major retailers and smaller eCommerce businesses are faced with the ever - shortening lead times on holiday shopping.

If you are a seasoned forex trader than you will be able to adapt to binary trading in no time.

Of the many shortcomings of the pre-Fed currency and banking system, none struck sincere reform proponents of all kinds as being in more dire need of correction than the tendency of the nation's bank reserves to flow into the coffers of a handful of New York banks during seasons apart from the harvest, combined with the annual (and occasionally mad) harvest - time scramble for those same reserves.

Historically, when a higher - than - average percentage of companies beat their estimates in the preseason, more companies than average beat their estimates throughout the full earnings season 70 % of the time, and vice versa.

Named top crypto strategist in the UK, seasoned board advisor, he pioneered decentralized systems and deep learning at MIT, and now spends most time as a lecturer, impact investor and advisor in the crypto space, having facilitated investments of more than $ 680M.

«Serial» — the hit NPR podcast which re-examined the murder of Baltimore high school student Hae Min Lee in its first season and was downloaded more than 80 million times — has spawned a slew of copycats eager to get in on the action.

Customers asked Alexa for cooking related advice more than nine times as much this year compared to last holiday season.

Yet often it seems that in those times, in those seasons of doubt and pain, we can find God and respond to Him in a more powerful way than ever before.

My college years were a lot different than yours; my first full - time job as a graduate is unusual; my season of singleness isn't going to be like everyone else's.

It wasn't just about the subject matter — although it's tricky to write about such a tender and intimate time in a person's life, to tell your own story while still holding space for stories that are so different than your own, to attempt to shepherd people well in the liminal spaces of their faith journeys — but it was also just the season of life with being pregnant with our fourth and then giving birth and suddenly having four tinies between the ages of 9 and newborn meant I had a lot less time with a lot less energy (and even less sleep!)

We're in the midst of Pentecost right now, and I can't think of a better time to discuss the equality of women in God's new Kingdom than the season in which we celebrate the boundary - breaking work of the Holy Spirit.

He is odd in all the nicest ways» whimsical, more than a little out of step with the times, and marvelously content to say what he has to say, in season and out.

It turns out that when we let ourselves surrender to the «Time of the Season,» we are less like the animals and flowers of the field than a) like actors playing parts in some two - bit melodrama about low - class Others, or, b) like the starry - eyed Icaruses of the first verse seeking to take one another «to the sun» and «to promised lands.»

I actually do celebrate it for the pagan meaning because it makes more sense than the christian meaning... it is at least based on reality - the changing of the season is undeniable and makes a tremendous amount more sense that celebrating it for the birth of someone who wasn't even born at this time of year (if he was born at all).

Maybe the whole point of seasons, in life and in weather, is that sometimes they march on without our consent, without our permission, and that other times, they linger longer than we would like.

Binge watching television shows is likely the closest we'll ever get to time travel, because there's no better way to make an whole day go by in a blur than queing up an entire season of a good series.

Made the bread tonight as per the recipe book «ml» and «g» measurements, and subbed in walnuts for almonds because that's what I had — Just testing a slice covered in my home made walnut and kidney bean spread... Yummy Think I need a touch more salt but I'm always a bit worried about over seasoning... I used mixed herbs but think I would love to add some garlic (powder maybe) next time, and use selected herbs rather than the commercial mix.

Combine all the seasonings in a shallow bowl or platter and marinate the steak in them for at least 30 minutes (if the marinating time is longer than an hour, refrigerate).

I dare say we've never needed comfort food more than we have in the past four weeks, and at a time that's filled with plenty of challenging days, the silver lining is that this is the right season for such meals.

After all, they would have been picked and preserved at the height of Greek tomato season so they are bound to taste better than greenhouse tomatoes available at this time of the year, right?

The older I get, the more I come to appreciate the simple things, and at no time of the year do I feel this more intensely than during the holiday season.

Now that summer is here and grill season is in full swing, the next time you fire up the grill and need a side dish, look no further than these potatoes!