Sentences with phrase «year as an example»

Osterweis points to the returns in the first part of this year as an example.

Fleischman agreed, citing the poor performance of McDonald's in recent years as an example of this trend.

Yeah, pick Girouds worst performance of the past 3 years as an example.

Speaking at a press conference, the minority spokesperson on agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, made reference to the declining fortunes of the agricultural sector in the last 8 years as an example.

I'm going to keep this short and sweet and only include my best tips, and use my tree from last year as my example.

Contract terms vary by publisher and let's use five to seven years as an example.

The fact is that I have been struggling for success for years as an example of becoming cannon fodder for these retailing giants.

I used the previous year as an example.

Funny you picked 10 and 50 years as your example periods; it seems at least some of your colleagues disagree on the predictability problem over various time - scales (Klimazwiebel survey results).

I just used 7 years as an example, and it may be higher, but the point is that it would drop fairly quickly at first, and the level is all that matters, not where it has been.

Working with bad suppliers can spell disaster for a car company; look at the Takata meltdown last year as an example.

Promoters of the House bill pointed to a «typical family of four» making $ 59,000 a year as an example of middle - class tax relief delivered by the bill.

I'm going to keep this short and sweet and only include my best tips, and use my tree from last year as my example.

Not exact matches

There's even a chance the dreamy Prime Minister will provide some free publicity, as Justin Trudeau did for Microsoft Corp. when it opened an office in Vancouver last year, for example.

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On her site, Fobes uses the example of a person who drives an old clunker or even takes the bus for a few years, so as to be able to afford to pay for a new car in cash.

For example, Dalio hired Silicon Valley veteran Jon Rubinstein as co-CEO earlier this year.

Earlier this year, for example, it launched a program in which more than 420 of its most active and influential community members sell products to their friends and followers; in turn, they receive a cut of the profits, as well as rewards that include sneak previews of products and trips to New York to visit Glossier and have dinner with Weiss.

France, for example, is expected to exit this year the European procedure for «excessive deficit» for the first time in a decade as its public finances come within the rules.

For example, the late Apple founder, Steve Jobs, served as a mentor to Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg during the early years of the company.

My own mom's set lasted 35 years, but when it came to talking about companies using Cutco products as gifts, I had no example to give.

As an example, about a year after VMR was up - and - running, everyone told me to invest in brand awareness but building a brand has little value if your flagship product can't evolve for your customers.

Last year, The Economist said Vancouver's fall from grace was due to increased congestion, a point of contention for many Canadians, due to the the magazine citing closures on the Malahat highway on Vancouver Island as an example.

He added that the media focuses on examples of individual drug price hikes, it has overlooked the fact that expense of drugs as a proportion of healthcare spending has remained «remarkably constant» over the years.

It's great because most my editors, for example, came as interns, and worked their way to apprentice, and then became an assistant, then after 10 or 15 years to a full - fledged editor.

Branson pulled in other examples such as Nelson Mandela's story of forgiving the people who imprisoned him for 27 years.

Rosengren, an historically dovish Fed policymaker who has become more confident about hiking rates this year, cited Britain's vote to leave the European Union as an example of U.S. resistance to shocks from abroad.

At Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting last May, for example, Buffett expressed regret for not investing in Google (now known as Alphabet)(googl) and Amazon (amzn) stock years ago, having failed to appreciate the tech companies» great potential.

For example, writing for a 32 - year - old editor at Vogue shouldn't look the same as writing for a 17 - year - old gamer.

In the past two years, for example, FFD, which ranks No. 87 on the PROFIT 500 and had 2013 revenues of $ 3.5 million, has launched pet - themed baby gear, such as blankets, and a line of consumables, such as an anti-chapping balm that can be applied to a dog's paws.

McCain, who is the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and served in the US Navy for 23 years, said Trump's statement was «unclear» and it served as «yet another example of why major policy announcements should not be made via Twitter.»

Taking the plight of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or «drones» as an example, Bunger sees police forces 15 years behind the military with ground - based military just starting to adopt robots.

«In our experience, markets tend to over-react to political shocks, as was seen in the example of Tiananmen Square — where the Hang Seng fell 22 % in a single day, losing 37 % from its peak over the entirety of the protest period, before steadily recovering back to previous peak over the following year,» the team wrote.

For example, starting in 2008, Congress passed a measure as part of the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 that let businesses deduct the full price of qualifying equipment purchased or financed during that tax year.

Considering that a fax machine is apt to need service as frequently as a laser printer or an electronic typewriter — about one and a half times a year — learning to perform even a minor repair (for example: «Soldering Tips and Techniques») will sooner or later cover the price of the book.

«We look very different today than five years ago — for example, clinical and technology professionals are the first and third largest job categories across UnitedHealth Group — and we will look different again five years from now as we continue to evolve at an accelerated pace,» UnitedHealth CEO David Wichmann said on the company's first - quarter conference call.

The latest example came on Thursday, as Facebook shared how it worked with the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox teams over the last two years to tackle a problem that was slowing down the whole process of loading many common web pages, Facebook included.

Automotive companies, for example, were against using nickel, which is costly, as a component in a new kind of rechargeable battery that ECD aimed to develop years ago.

For example, we saw how well received the Glenmorangie Sonnalta PX (extra matured in Pedro Ximenez casks) was a few years ago and we wanted to introduce some of that element to our permanent range, so we reformulated The Lasanta to contain as much PX extra matured Glenmorangie as was practical.

Here are some examples I've learned from years of experience using freelancers - as - employees to get my business off the ground.

The user cited «Saving Private Ryan,» «Interstellar,» and this year's «The Martian» as examples of films in which Damon's character must be rescued.

Higher volume, greater efficiency, and lower selling costs, for example, have combined to push G&F's profits up even as its prices have stayed the same or dropped a bit over eight years.

As Uber's biggest competitor, Lyft has spent the past two years defining itself — with the most obvious example being the fuzzy pink mustache.

That's an instructive example because publishers and entertainment conglomerates for years have tried to claim what they see as their rightful share of the digital - content - rentals business, but most of their efforts have been failures, while tech «middle men» like Amazon, Netflix, Apple, and Spotify have flourished.

One example of the former might be cluing them into Caitlin Jenner's original rise to fame as an Olympic athlete, which came decades before her association with the Kardashians, or her highly - publicized gender transition this year.

As an example, the U.K. receives 0.2 % of GDP directly invested into startups, which would translate into $ 120 million in direct startup investments in Lebanon in a given year, and we are at $ 40 million this year, despite the well - known [Lebanese] Central Bank initiative.

In a bid to encourage staffers at the streaming giant to take more time off, Hastings, who serves as Netflix's co-founder and CEO, is hoping to lead by example with his own rather ample vacation allotment: six weeks every year.

For example, rather than saying a purchasing manager must have 10 + years in the hardware industry purchasing fasteners, a BS in a technical field and strong ERP background with SAP, say, «Lead the redesign effort of our entire fastener procurement process as we shift to SAP's new materials management module.»

The year was peppered with examples such as Fidelity marking down its holding in Hootsuite, Dropbox and Snapchat.

Germany's media isn't normally as breathless as, for example, the British press, but it's always willing to whip Germans up into a frenzy over the ECB's zero interest - rate policy, especially in an election year.