Sentences with phrase «year and half»

Revenue for virtual worlds has been doubling year over year and the market could be as big as $ 10 billion by 2015.

But operating margins for the aerospace segment were lower last year and it is expected to experience a second year of falling revenue in 2017.

The API has spent more than $ 7.7 million on lobbying the federal government so far this year and is also spending $ 300,000 buying ads to urge Democratic Senator Mark Udall to approve the Keystone pipeline.

Overall, the use of option grants fell last year to just 25 % from 28 % the previous year and 35 % in 2011.

«It was about a year and a half, two years ago that we announced the KardiaBand for the Apple Watch.

Your team has busted their humps for you all year and now it's time to recognize them with a bottle of wine.

«Our goal is to come back next year and have Spox all over this convention floor.»

Not surprising, the firm has expanded within Canada's borders, adding a five - person Toronto office about a year and a half ago.

Cboe launched the bitcoin futures under the «XBT» ticker symbol on Sunday following a giant leap in the digital currency's price this year and a surge of investor interest.

On Thursday, Argentina sold $ 7 billion in five - year and 10 - year dollar bonds in the international market at interest rates of 5.625 percent and 7 percent.

We've lost 40 % of our business in the last year and a half.»

This practice, known as «showrooming,» is expected to grow by more than 20 percent next year and by nearly two - thirds by 2015, IDC says.

One new offering that could help RIM is BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, announced last year and officially launched this month.The software service allows corporate and government IT departmentsto securely manage multiple smartphones and tablets from a single console.

The plan is to study the results from the first year and share everything they learn.

By her reckoning, it will take six more successful new products this year and a couple thousand more outlets through which to sell them.

I worked at a Kinko's for about a year and a half.

Global growth should hit 3.5 percent of gross domestic product this year and the next, but leaders need to address several financial vulnerabilities, the International Monetary Fund said Wednesday ahead of a G20 meeting.

Reiterating mid-term goals that include a 6 percent margin excluding Opel for 2021 - compared with 7.3 percent last year - Chief Financial Officer Jean - Baptiste de Chatillon said the targets will be reviewed early next year and could be raised.

In the year and a half since it enacted rules to protect net neutrality, the CRTC has investigated more than 30 reported violations but has done very little about them.

We have an actual office, but we were in a basement until we had our first hire, which was a year and a half or two years ago.

«Buyer interest stayed elevated in most areas thanks to mortgage rates under 4 % for most of the year and the creation of 1.7 million new jobs edging the job market closer to full employment,» said Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist.

Commercial developers have engaged in their own orgy of debt - fuelled construction projects, bidding up land values threefold last year and erecting countless office towers, malls and hotels.

The company sponsors about 40,000 wreaths each year and donates the services of more than a dozen tractor - trailers to deliver the wreaths around the country.

Thanks to the government's fiscal stimulus and an improved global outlook, the BoE lifted its gross domestic product (GDP) forecasts for the current calendar year and next.

The idea is that retirees with well - diversified portfolios can start by withdrawing 4 percent (actually, it is closer to 4.5 percent) of their holdings — or $ 4,500 per year for every $ 100,000 of investments — to allow themselves a cost - of - living increase every year and still be reasonably assured of not outliving their money.

Shares are up 21 percent this year and were up slightly Friday morning.

BRUSSELS (AP)-- Economic growth across the European Union will remain robust this year and next, particularly when compared with Britain, which is set to leave the bloc in less than a year, the EU's executive branch said Thursday.

The stock has gained 22 per cent so far this year and hit an all - time high earlier this month.

While the company expects that the deal will close in the fourth quarter of this year and add to earnings in 2018, analysts say the earnings boost may not be as lucrative to shareholders in the short run as share buybacks.

«We often use that service as the thin edge of the wedge,» says Kureluk, pointing out that this software gives Yardstick the opportunity to upsell other products and services to its customers, such as the «e-learning» software tools developed by a firm that Yardstick bought earlier this year and sold online.

It's almost certainly a sophisticated phishing scam that first made its appearance early this year and has since gone out to tens of millions of people.

He will stay with the grocer until the end of the year and be replaced by Mike Motz, Loblaw's executive vice-president and chief merchandising officer.

Schedule the times and dates of your meetings for the year and distribute that information along with your business plan and meeting agenda prior to your first meeting.

A quick «Jim, it's been a pleasure working with your company this year and we look forward to continued success as we enter the New Year!»

On Tuesday, Calgary - based Calfrac Well Services Ltd. reported it more than doubled its first - quarter revenue compared with the same period last year and is reactivating equipment it parked over the past three years.

The Bank of England said to expect very little economic growth this year and next as business investment craters.

«I've used three Dropcams in my businesses for over a year and have been very pleased with them,» another user says.

I used a pair of the brand's headphones as my daily headphones for about a year and found the sound to be exceptional.

A year and a half ago, J.Crew's CEO Millard «Mickey» Drexler was quoted as saying «I don't know what the rush to be big is for, to be outside the United States,» and noted that growth outside the U.S. can distract from initiatives within the American marketplace.

A year and a half in, I realized I was running a business and went to the University of California Berkeley Extension.

Collins said coverage issues must also be dealt with, citing a report from the Congressional Budget Office that said 14 million people would lose health coverage under the House bill over the next year and 24 million over the next decade.

«If I walk in to a payer and say, «Look, I can save you $ 5 million a year and I can even guarantee it,» then you will do business with me,» he says.

«Skylanders: Swap Force was the most successful game sold at Toys R Us last year and biggest action figure line, as well.»

Take this downtime to reflect on your marketing efforts from the past year and plan ahead for the new year.

He returned to Toronto later that year and published a white paper proposing Ethereum.

As Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg said in a statement, the reefs provide at $ 6.4 billion a year and 64,000 jobs to the Australian economy — numbers that may underestimate the reefs» value.

Pollution kills at least 9 million people every year and «threatens the continuing survival of human societies,» according to a new study.

Sixty - seven percent of those over 65 years of age reported using their phone or tablet for new, according to the survey, up from just 43 % last year and only 22 % in 2013.

The company is also getting back into growth mode, opening seven stores this year and planning for 10 more in 2016.

The prize, which has previously been awarded to actor Michael Douglas and violinist Itzhak Perlman, comes with $ 2 million this year and is presented at a flashy Jerusalem ceremony attended by dignitaries and local celebrities.