Sentences with phrase «watched year of»

She serves as the treasurer for the UGA chapter, and she can't wait to watch another year of magic unfold this summer.

«I can't sit back and watch years of building authors sold off at bargain - basement prices.

After watching years of television ads telling me that I can be free at fifty five, I'm thinking that's a load of hooey!

Watching Years of Living Dangerously reminded me why I got involved in environmental causes to begin with.

Watch Years of Living Dangerously episode «Safe Passage,» where Ty Burrell covers the future of electric vehicles.

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Meanwhile, it was a stomach - churning roller coaster ride for stock holders who watched their investment cut in half from the start of the year to the summer, before rebounding in the fall.

That likely reassured investors who watched Walmart sacrifice profits for a couple of years as it gave workers raises and invested heavily in e-commerce to better compete online and in stores.

My dad worked for 35 years at Stelco in Hamilton, before watching a once great company dragged into bankruptcy, in large part because of a pension plan it could no longer fund.

I've watched the behavior of 14 - year - old girls spending 10 minutes to take the best selfie, post it on Instagram, and then take it down when it doesn't get enough likes.

«Watch out for Remain - voting areas swinging towards Labour and Leave - voting areas swinging towards the Tories, much as happened last year,» said Curtice, professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde.

When you fly 300,000 miles per year, you do one of three things on a plane: work, sleep or watch movies.

«And since more and more Chinese are taking their long holiday breaks outside of China, I'll be watching out for how busy our Merlion will be over this Chinese New Year period,» he said.

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.

For years, if you wanted to guess the path of interest rates, you watched hiring indicators.

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.

The drop isn't devastating, but it is significant: while fitness tracker sales slumped 7 % in the first quarter of 2017 compared to the same timeframe one year ago, smartwatches boomed by 25 %, the vast majority of which were Apple Watches.

At the beginning of last year, for example, Facebook officials revealed a useful fact: Users spend, on average, seven seconds watching the videos on their Facebook feeds, and two - thirds don't bother turning on the sound.

Sort by median salary to find the jobs with the fattest pay cheques; sort by five - year wage growth to see which fields have the fastest - growing salaries — that can indicate a shortage of qualified candidates (and opportunity for you); or sort by five - year growth in the number of people in the field — those are the places that have been on hiring sprees (but watch out; that doesn't mean they'll continue the streak).

Bakish is focused on turning around the business after years of falling domestic ad revenues and poor ratings as younger viewers increasingly watch content online, while Paramount has suffered from a lack of box - office hits.

The Swiss created, then shunned, digital watches and let the Japanese flood the market and put 50,000 Swiss watchmakers out of work in two years (1979 - 1981).

Garmin reported a higher - than - expected profit for the eighth straight quarter, selling more of its GPS - based outdoor activity gadgets such as underwater watches, leading it to raise its full - year revenue forecast.

While waiting for hours in Times Square requires plenty of endurance, watching the ball drop is a signature New Year's Eve experience.

Campbell added that «South Park» was the service's most - watched show of 2017, as subscribers watched 135 million hours of the animated comedy last year.

I won't talk this morning about the 13 lives that were lost, or the more than 100 who were injured, when a 22 - year - old terrorist rammed his van into a crowd of pedestrians strolling along Las Ramblas in Barcelona this summer — nor will I mention the 86 people who were killed in Nice on the evening of Bastille Day in 2016, when a mindless thug drove his cargo truck into a mass of celebrants who had gathered to watch fireworks on the Promenade des Anglais.

In fact, it's resonated for me for at least 28 years, going back to a bit of hubris I demonstrated as a medical student watching a distinguished Harvard surgeon perform surgery to remove a patient's gall bladder (back before laparoscopic surgery and keyhole incisions became the norm).

Chad Morganlander of Washington Crossing Advisors is watching the dollar this week and expects it'll begin to strengthen heading into the second half of the year.

The Apple Watch is alive and well thanks to a price reduction and solid craftsmanship, and rumors are swirling that an Apple Watch 2 with GPS and improved processing power would hit the market by the end of this year.

Brimmer: I think the future of agencies is in serious crisis right now, and I think just kind of seeing a little bit of what's happening with WPP and Martin Sorrell recently and the way that that model has changed — is really going to be interesting to watch how things unfold over the coming years.

Apple was in third place with 2.7 million of its smart watches shipped, a 52 % increase from last year, and Huawei was fourth with 1.6 million devices shipped representing a near tripling of its shipments, IDC said.

In the intervening years, I watched in disbelief as the Timberwolves struggled to win more than half of their regular season games.

The watch must be used with one of the iPhone models released in the past two years — the 5, 5S, 5C or the latest versions scheduled to go on sale Sept. 19 in the U.S. and nine other countries.

It expects total monthly active users in March to number 168 - 171 million, including those who use the service for free in return for watching advertisements, up from 157 million at the end of last year.

More from the South China Morning Post: How ethical fashion is growing in Asia - Pacific and five sustainable clothing brands to watch Five years since the nightmare of Rana Plaza, what changed for Bangladesh garment workers?

In the first quarter of last year, the average Netflix subscriber watched 161 hours of programming, Barclays says.

In fact, the comments section of the above mentioned article has many stories of people who did sell in past years because they thought house prices were too high, only to subsequently watch from the sidelines as prices continued to march upward.

The Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry, which accounts for nearly the entire luxury timekeeping market, reported that exports plummeted 26.4 % during the first six months of the year, contributing to a loss of more than US$ 2 billion.

Plunging sales two years ago sent Fitbit's shares into a tailspin — they're down more than 70 % from their 2015 initial public offering price — although it has unveiled a well - reviewed watch of its own called Versa.

And then when I watch the trials and tribulations of a business like L.L. Bean, whose good - faith commitment and lifetime guarantees to customers have been shamelessly abused for years by flea market phonies, eBay a-holes and other crafty resale store shoppers, I remember that things become clichés, not because they're pithy phrases, but because they're sadly too true.

Recently while watching some of my all - time favorite movies, I picked up on some great quotes that extend beyond the plot of the movie to my real life and my personal journey while working at a startup over the past two years.

First rumors of what would be the Apple Watch came out three years before the product.

A police report itemizes more than $ 600,000 in items stolen in a burglary at their home a few years ago, including two Swiss watches, HK$ 200,000 ($ 25,600) in cash, and a kilo of gold.

Time for winning Prestigious watchmaker and the official timekeeper of the Games, Omega embossed the case back of each Seamaster Diver 300M watch with a limited edition number and this year's Olympic logo.

I watch a lot of videos of years past.

TORONTO — HBO's plans to launch a stand - alone streaming service in the United States that will let viewers sidestep their cable company to watch popular shows like «Game of Thrones» and «True Detective» could be just a few years away from posing a similar threat to Canadian telecoms.

Having been at Augusta last year for the Masters, I have a much better sense of what it's like, and that will make watching it on TV a lot more fun.

In that show, a fellow in need of cash walks in with a gold watch he says has been in his family a hundred years.

The series has broken a number of network records and its season - four premiere became the most watched nonfiction episode on cable ever with 11.8 million people turning in (half of those viewers came from the advertiser - loving 25 - to 54 - year - old demographic).

Not surprisingly, binge - watching is also less frowned upon, with only 30 % of respondents reporting a negative view of binge - viewership (there would appear to be some self - loathers in that bunch) compared to two years ago, when more than half of respondents felt the term «binging» had negative connotations.

This could mean that fuboTV anticipates every last one of its customers will be watching the tournament or that the company has experienced some significant growth in the last year.

A few years ago, I watched as my boss at one such title — an offshoot of a brand famous for ranking the nation's 500 largest corporations — proposed to his boss the heretical idea that we cover more startups.