Sentences with phrase «very long years»

After seven very long years, we've finally done it!

Eight very long years ago, a German shepherd named «Bo Bear» disappeared from his family's California home.

It took every ounce of my emotional, spiritual and physical being to continue to address the abuse, the consequences, the ramifications for three very long years.

Our real Christmas tree didn't stay alive very long this year so I was eager to clean up as soon as possible.

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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.

However, they are likely to view it as an unsustainable solution, especially the very long hours worked by people over 55 years old and multiple job holders working more than 50 hours a week.

But as we approach the eighth birthday in March of the second - longest bull market in modern times, recency bias can lull us into a false sense of security, especially given the very good returns of the past three or four years.

«We source long, fine cashmere from inner Mongolia and work with a sweater - only factory that has been in the business for over 16 years and offers very high - quality production.»

McDonald's (MCD) is having a devil of time breaking a three - year funk, but the struggling restaurant chain thinks that tactics like toasting buns longer and changing how it sears its burgers could very well be the moves that put the iconic burger chain back on the path to growth.

It's a broad range that, according to your interpretation of the measure's wording, would include even very early - stage startups so long as they've received more than $ 1 million in funding over the course of a single tax year.

Equity investors are feeling very optimistic right now, even though the problems that plagued their thinking mere weeks ago are still there (last year the TSX fell over 11 % — was that so long ago?).

«This stock is still making lower highs for the past few years, I am very skeptical of this move, and if it's truly marking a change in the long - term trend,» Wald said Tuesday on CNBC's «Trading Nation.»

Mines are built to last about 20 years — a very long - term commitment considering a president's term lasts four years, Daniels said.

LEDs last a very long time, so it's amusing to hear astonished clients say they haven't called an electrician or manager to intervene in three years.

I interviewed 70 people, travelled across the country to find our new COO, and it was a very long process that lasted about a year.

There are some signs that inflation could come out of hiding in the next 18 months, but I would be very surprised if we saw a substantial increase in long rates in the coming couple of years just because there are too many disinflationary macro headwinds.

Both hires go a long way in telegraphing the fact that the four - year - old Jack Welch Management Institute is one of the very few business schools that is run like a business, with a laser - like focus on customer service.

We can be very long - term, developing technology that can take years to come to fruition.

The note says that «the Apple Watch is a very modest threat this year as current interest in the running community appears low, but Apple's product positioning, the likely addition of GPS and likely lower price points in future versions are significant long - term headwinds.»

As a 38 year old who no longer has the same amount of energy dealing with people, and who has discovered creating online products as the best form of passive income, I'm very happy I don't have two sets of people to deal with!

It goes a very long way, I've been using it daily for over a year and by my best guess I'm about half way through it.

Equities really have had the best of all worlds these past few years, with earnings growth in the double digits and financial conditions remaining very accommodative, despite the recent rise in both short - and long - term interest rates.1 The combination of rising earnings growth and benign financial conditions is a powerful set of tailwinds which usually drives stock valuations higher.

It has been suggested taht some of the long - term contracts for aging athletes are intended as a form of deferred compensation scheme on the theory it spreads out their income over more years (instead of earning very high income in their peak years, and lower incomes as they get older).

The longer that the low oil prices last, the longer that very high prices will persist in future years due to the extreme drop in spending on current exploration.

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.»

To be sure, Buffett takes a very long view, and he added to his IBM holdings earlier this year.

Survey measures of business confidence have lifted from the very low levels seen at the beginning of the year to be close to their long - run average.

Given those durations, an investor with 15 - 20 years to invest could literally plow their entire portfolio into stocks and long - term bonds, in expectation of very high long - term returns, with the additional comfort that their financial security did not rely on the direction of the markets, thanks to the ability to reinvest generous coupon payments and dividends.

«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.

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«Last year they were somewhat challenged by the outflow story, so they underperformed peers, but we continue to be very positive on them long - term.»

The dividend income in the first couple of years will be on a very low level but investing in dividend stocks is all about the long term.

It is also worth noting that The Vancouver Board of Trade has a very long, proud history of collaborating with other business and community groups in Greater Vancouver, and in the years ahead, that will not change.

The soap will last a very long time at least 3 months or longer with daily use and this is if it was my only soap which it is not so I expect a good 1 year plus use of this tub so for the price it costs less than a dollar a month for one of the worlds classiest and most respected soaps and brands in the shaving world.

«Markets are volatile, and very rarely will you receive the exact long - term annual return in any specific year,» says Zack Shepard, vice president of Matson Money in Scottsdale, Ariz. «If you look at the distribution of returns for the entire U.S. market since 1926, they have ranged from 60 percent to -40 percent.»

After slowly increasing its secure searches over the past two years, increasing the amount of (not provided) keywords in your analytics, Google has now made all of its searches encrypted using HTTPS, meaning search in the very near future, keyword data will no longer be passed to analytics applications.

However, he does face the very difficult challenge of trying to fit a long list of very expensive election promises and commitments (e.g., eliminate the deficit in four years) into a fiscal framework that he can claim is realistic, prudent, fiscally sustainable, and transparent.

«This year's budget makes remarkable progress on reducing the debt - to - GDP ratio, and announced focused investment in areas that are important to the long - term economic success of the province, while holding steady on already very competitive business and personal tax rates.»

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.

Stocks are not a claim to next year's earnings, but to a very long - term stream of cash flows that will be delivered into the hands of investors over decades and decades.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

When you retire, you need income you can count on, year in and year out for a very long time.

For borrowers contacted by a debt collector about very old debt (generally debt you have not made any payments toward for two years or longer, depending on your state), you may be able to challenge a lawsuit from a debt collector on these grounds.

I have written repeatedly over the past year (and longer than that) that the US banking system is very weak — more specifically, that it is weaker than the Fed, Treasury and financial press would have us know.

It takes a very long period of time, so we could have some luck with money that was raised last year, but I'm reminded of the fact that, as an example, Carlin Trend exploration in Nevada began in earnest with the publication of that famous paper, Alignment of Mineral Deposits in Northeast Nevada, in the early 1970s.

While these are highly worthwhile investment ideas to consider for this year, every stock listed could and probably should be thought of as a very long - term investment.

For an industry suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) almost 2.5 years after the oil price collapse, May 4 was a very long day.

That means if you take a very long term moving average, that that moving average over 10 years, because it's not increasing over time, you take the average of that, the average is gonna be a lot lower than the current earnings on average.