Sentences with phrase «very big year»

Whatever else you can say about 2015, it was without a doubt a very big year for the U.S. commercial real estate industry.

2017 was a very big year for Amazon filled with major acquisitions, international expansions and technological innovations.

Both the Google Assistant and Google Home had a very big year in 2017, with new devices, new languages and new features.

It's been a very big year for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds as evidenced by the battle royale shooter's accolades at this year's Golden Joystick Awards.

This could be a very big year.

It was a very big year for VR, and we saw a lot of quality games released across all three major headsets.

It was a very big year...

Clearly, 2017 is a very big year for Sonic.

The book is set to debut a month before Chadwick Boseman debuts as the live - action Black Panther in «Captain America: Civil War,» so it looks like a very big year all around for the first Black superhero.

The year «2017 will be a very big year when it comes to nuclear waste policy,» predicted Samuel Brinton, a senior policy analyst at the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank in Washington, D.C.

It would be helpful to Schumer, politically speaking, if he wins very big this year — although I'm not sure how he will be able to break his historic 2004 re-election record of 70 percent of the vote (against then - GOP Assemblyman Howard Mills).

He could have a very big year, but that's only if they can score some runs, which they haven't all spring....

«2016 was a very big year at Mabel's Labels.

Not exact matches

«I've made some big bets this year on gold, and I'm obviously not winning and I'm getting very annoyed.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

And yet, just eight years later, it seems Facebook may be turning into the very thing its founder once rejected: a still important technology company that's growing a bit long in the tooth and fighting to stay relevant by throwing stacks of money at whatever just might be the next big thing.

«We'll hopefully see some very big rewards here over the next six months to a year.»

Several years ago, Big Data was the new thing turning every venture capitalist on his (or, only very occasionally, her) ear.

Over-valuation doesn't look so severe by this measure because a big component of mortgage payments — interest rates — is very low and incomes have continued to rise over the years.

The new Player Impact Engine is a very big feature but it wasn't created in a year.

When I look at what's happened to Canadian manufacturing over the past five, 10 years, I would say a big concern is the fact that the average manufacturer has one big customer — the United States — and it hasn't been doing very well.

The very wealthiest Americans earned more than 19 percent of the country's household income last year — their biggest share since 1928, the year before the stock market crash.

«Last year we had some very big vulnerabilities that everybody hears about.

For all the reasons mentioned above, font sizes have increased over the last few years to the point that many view 14 px as the very minimum font size, and many sites go even bigger with 18 px as a minimum, especially when a lot of reading is involved.

But the big change from last year is that 81 % cited «artificial intelligence and machine learning» as either «very important» or «extremely important» to their company's future, up from just 54 % in 2016.

What's more, those three big streaming services are also facing a growing list of competitors, including some with very deep pockets, as Apple and Facebook have reportedly committed to spending $ 1 billion apiece on original series in the next year to build up their own streaming video businesses.

The Santa Clara, California, company landed a very big funding round earlier this year, raising a total of $ 130 million.

But Ioannidis is concerned that «stealth research» — like Theranos» 12 years worth of development that has yet to produce a single journal article — is enabling new firms to «make big claims with very limited data.»

Shoplifting is a very big deal in China, as it should be (5 - 10 years in jail), but not to father LaVar.

Trump promised big tax cuts during his campaign, and as his platform evolved it came to look very similar to the sort of reform that House Speaker Paul Ryan has been pushing for for years now.

The lessons this year are both big and small, but no matter the size, I'm very grateful for all that I've learned and continue to learn as an entrepreneur.

For example, one of the biggest markets in the world, where he lived for several years, is very affordable.

Who cares, especially when very conservatively, the ultimate passive income includes a six digit or more base lease, plus an estimated additional six digits or more for rate increases and another six digits for more for various smaller and one bigger technology increase at 25 years.

But now, Kolko expects home prices in oil - rich communities to begin falling in the next year or two unless energy markets recover, although he added that it's «very hard to say how big or long the effect might be.»

It's not really a very big tax cut (~ $ 1.5 trillion in debt over 10 years implies a deficit of ~ $ 120 billion / yr, or ~.6 % of GDP).

«We are not building this for 100 days but for 100 years, so this is only the very beginning... Next year we will be doing bigger things than this year.»

«Being in this business for a long time, I am very big on leveraging the collaborative network in place,» said Debi Bush, who's co-owned CMIT Solutions of Denver with her husband, Phil, for nearly 10 years.

At the very least, you should check your asset allocation once a year or any time your financial circumstances change significantly — for instance, if you lose your job or get a big bonus.

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Blockbuster had a very good year, and management was due big bonuses.

That's a big deal for Baytex Energy because it had to shut in 9 % of its production earlier this year due to very low, and in some cases negative, margins.

This big pop leads to a few years of undistinguished performance and investor impatience — where the manager may very well be doing exactly what their fund is supposed to and what their process requires — but to the casual buyer, none of that matters.

This is a big moment for Uber, in what has been a very difficult year.

As an aside, it seems generally to be the case that the longer an adjustment is constrained, the more likely that the adjustment takes place in the form of what traders call «gapping» — which is a big, discontinuous change instead of a smooth adjustment — so when the change finally took place, the fall in demand (and iron ore prices) would almost certainly occur very quickly, in a matter of two or three years, perhaps.

Compare this to five years ago when economic uncertainty was their biggest concern or even just last year when only 39 % were very confident about growth.

A similar share (66 %) of Americans said the gap between rich and poor had increased in the past five years; nearly three - quarters of respondents said the rich - poor gap was either a «very big» (47 %) or «moderately big» (27 %) problem.

As readers of this site know, I'm not a big fan of gold as a core exposure in portfolios (although I've been very, very wrong about this for a number of years).

A more pessimistic take, from someone who would like the deal to go through: A threat of a lawsuit is a very big deal, because if the DOJ carries through, it can tie up the deal for years.

While that's a pretty big number, it's actually very achievable for many people who have at least 30 years until retirement.

Last year 2014, I crossed a very important and big milestone for me, i.e, crossing half - mark across a 6 - figures portfolio size.