Sentences with phrase «year in a long time»

It is likely to enjoy its best year in a long time in 2018.

This was the first year in a long time my fridge was ACTUALLY free of cards!

(By permanent deficit, I exclude the flows for the entitlement funds — we haven't a surplus year in a long time.)

Transitioning from the Tiger Woods name that has been present since 1998, 2014 was the first year in a long time to not have a game.

One of the interesting things looking at sea ice from cryosphere today, is how rare it is now for ice to form in much of the Baltic (last year was the first year in a long time that it got very far south) and other peripheral areas.

Not exact matches

A year ago, the London - based multinational undertook a study entitled «The World in 2050,» which projected Canada would be the only major developed economy to hold its position in the world — at the No. 10 spot — at mid-century, largely because of the demand for its resources and its ties through immigration to emerging markets (which by that time will no longer be labelled as such).

I offered on the spot to buy the next year of his time for $ 5,000 an hour, as long as I got his profits in return.

Once years ago while attending a conference in Las Vegas put on by a startup I was working with at the time, I ran into one of the speakers for the day, long - time Vegas resident and Zappos founder Tony Hsieh.

«For years, I've been saying Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature was the best book I'd read in a decade,» writes Gates, who is clearly a long - time Pinker fan, but he continues, «his new book, Enlightenment Now, is even better.»

«Today, we're investing in things that will benefit the business years from now,» says Hollands, noting that the urban concept took two years from first idea to first restaurant, and the returns on the investment could take three or four times that long to be realized.

In my young adult years, I had long hair, wore too much flannel, and my discourse revolved around and was greatly influenced by subjects such as Pearl Jam, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Breakfast Club and Beavis and Butthead.

Since the start of this year, the company has sold 50 million pints, making it the best - selling pint of ice cream in the U.S., surpassing long - time industry leaders like Häagen - Dazs and Ben & Jerry's.

You can find the same types of long - running disagreements across the therapeutic board in clinical trials, as I wrote about years ago in an essay for the New York Times, entitled «Do Clinical Trials Work?»

The 1,900 - kilometre proposed pipeline has been in limbo for more than seven years, awaiting a series of U.S. reviews that have dragged on more than five times longer than average, according to a recent Associated Press analysis.

What really stands out in terms of value, though, is that the Winix has a longer - lasting, washable HEPA filter, which can be cleaned up to six times before having to replace it in about three years.

This is the third and most extreme mass bleaching event in 18 years to strike the Great Barrier Reef, and in each case, the areas that suffered the worst bleaching were the areas where the water was hottest for the longest period of time, Hughes said.

When Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan's (TSX: POT) board learned in 2011 that William Doyle, its long - time CEO and president, wanted to step down when he turned 65, it began a rigorous three - year search for a successor.

Technology has come a long way in the last five years and it's time for classrooms to catch up.

The main event of every year's meeting is an all - day session in which Buffett and his long - time partner Charlie Munger answer questions in front of a packed arena.

Keep in mind companies often communicate with the same investors many times across months and years until they invest, so the first pitch is only the beginning of a long relationship.

Due to longer manufacturer lead times, most of the additional fleet growth above our original forecast is expected to occur later in the year, positioning us well for revenue and earnings growth in 2019.

«Manafort, like dozens of other influence peddlers, has been operating in plain sight for years,» wrote Silverstein, the long - time foreign - lobbying reporter.

But it doesn't take a new homeowner long to discover just how large that premium can be in money and time: the constant outlays on maintenance and repairs (at least 1 % of the purchase price per year, experts estimate, and as much as 4 %), the chores and DIY projects that eat up weekends, the pressure to keep up with the ever - gentrifying Joneses.

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.

Twenty - one years is a long time in information technology, so it's fair to say that mobile computing specialist Portacom is a veteran of the sector.

In addition, everyone is now fretting about an «inverted yield curve,» which is the phenomenon when long - term yields, such as the 10 - year yield, fall below short - term yields, such as the three - month yield or the two - year yield.The last time this happened was before the Financial Crisis.

«When you make it so the whole team does it, it really does give the entire team a long weekend — a built - in, enjoy - yourself time each month of the year,» Douglas said.

Given dwindling CEO tenures — averaging as little as three years in some industries — chief executives can be understandably reluctant to make long - term investments, knowing the benefits won't materialize until their successor's successor's time.

The numbers, which put the department store chain on track to post its first quarter of comparable sales growth in three years, are the start of an awaited payoff to years of investment in Macy's e-commerce firepower, says Macy's departing executive chairman and former long - time CEO Terry Lundgren.

But it's easy to see why investors in Lowe's (low) sent shares up 7 % on Monday when the home improvement chain announced that long time CEO Robert Niblock was stepping down after 13 years at the helm.

You may have heard about the recent decision by the Minnesota Twins to let Ron Gardenhire, their long - time manager go — most likely due to the fact that the Twins have had lackluster performance in recent years.

Fast forward and we were two years into analysis, more years into preparing the soil and putting plants in and cultivating them... it's a long runway, and you're spending money all the time.

Employees, long - time customers and other stakeholders might question a shift in focus after so many successful years of business.

«We've been worried about this for a long time,» says Dorothy Borchardt, a former Alderwoman in Madison's 12th district, whose husband Dick put in 36 years at Oscar Mayer.

In the last couple years, the global sales for snack products has reached $ 374 billion, dethroning the time - old tradition of three square meals a day from its long - held spot.

With family members involved, Eggen expects to exit in five years, by which time he will have passed on most of what he has learned over his decades - long career in the industry.

But as research by author Noam Wasserman (author of The Founder's Dilemma) has shown, by the time a venture is three years old 50 percent of founders are no longer in charge, a cliff - like decline that continues to plummet by upwards of 10 percent every year thereafter.

In a brand like Hot Wheels you were careful and took a long time to shape your product and package, and it could take well over a year to bring your product to market.

«They are curious, energetic, and aren't afraid to ask tough and sometimes unusual questions... We both get interviewed dozens of times every year, but this was the most memorable one we've done in a long time.»

Look ahead toward whether you can add full - time employees to your team in the next year, and scout for interns looking for long - term growth.

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.

A 79 - time winner on the PGA Tour who was world number one for a record 683 weeks, Woods lost form in recent years due to injuries and the mastering of a new swing while his ranking has plummeted to 876 after his long spell on the sidelines.

«When you have loyal employees who have been with the company for a long time, you have the original spirit that was there when the company started,» explains Lin, who has seen only six employees on his 100 - person staff leave in the last seven years.

«The game has been played — legally — in New York for years and years, but after the Attorney General realized he could now get himself some press coverage, he decided a game that has been around for a long, long time is suddenly now not legal... The only thing that changed today is the Attorney General's mind.»

The fish he butchers are the opposite of cheap, and a restaurant is a business — even one with three Michelin stars and that has held four stars from the New York Times for approximately twenty years, longer than any other restaurant in NYC.

Countless times in the last five years, Cook has been unwilling to remember Jobs as someone he could call a colleague, an equal in an industry where unfairly judging another chief executive's accomplishments has long been fair game.

Even if you don't develop an app, even if you just spend time in a beautiful place, the benefit of that year will continue long after it's over.»

If you're one of the many small business owners who hasn't done his or her bookkeeping all year long, this tax season will unfortunately be a stressful time as you frantically scramble to pull together all your receipts and business expenses, trying to account for every single thing you did in 2014.

Oil prices continued their months - long decline Monday, with the price of crude briefly falling below $ 50 per barrel for the first time in more than five years earlier in the session on account of global oversupply.

Justice Steven Barrett in Bronx Supreme Court handed the longest sentence of 6-1/2 years to Eliseo Perez, 49, who was an assistant chief for security at the time of the attack.