Sentences with phrase «year like last year»

«In all the years that I've been involved with books, I've never seen a year like last year.

In so far as we can tell, it COULD be a year like last year, in fact.

I like your optimisim Kos but I am sorry our season is over again at this stage of the year like last year.

«But I would appreciate if people would look at the positives over comparing to maybe, hopefully what would happen a few times in my career, a year like last year.»

Not exact matches

The company has built on the lead with an avalanche of new hardware released in the last year: The tablet - like Echo Show, which has a screen; the Echo Look fashion camera; the Echo Plus home hub; the Echo Spot alarm clock; the redesigned Echo.

Ad costs have gone up like crazy over the last few years, and we expect this trend to continue.

Last year, Alexa was the clear winner of CES, with companies like Ford, Huawei, and LG agreeing to integrate their products with Amazon's virtual assistant.

«I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main characters of our lives,» Dias said at Forbes» Women Summit in New York City last year.

General Mills (gis) said on Thursday it is bringing back the original version of its popular Trix cereal after customers took to social media to criticize its previous decision to start selling all - natural Trix last year with ingredients like radishes and purple carrots.

«However, I would like it on the record — as an expert who has thought about these issues nearly every working hour over the last four years — that I'm convinced that without the SPV and 12g fixes, retail investors will be heavily disadvantaged as compared to accredited investors and equity crowdfunding will ultimately be seen as a failure.

Last week, we opened up the vote via Facebook Likes for this year's Readers» Choice, the coolest young company of 2016.

What we have created here in the last two years is a significant immersive experience that not only takes coffee to a new level, but there's no retail experience like this.

Just like how marketing technologies transformed marketing over the last few years, new technologies are dramatically impacting company communications.

But in doing so, they tried to impose conditions that are designed to help streaming services like SlingTV — which Dish Network launched last year — and Netflix (NFLX).

To the average reader of a business magazine, these may seem like ridiculously simple questions, but Lusardi and Mitchell's research over the last few years shows that, in general, you can not count on even this base level of knowledge about how money works.

Sound like last year?

Last year, I tried several pieces from Olivers and liked it better than clothing from big - name sportswear companies.

Like if you go to a 4th place team and recommend changes and people say, «That ain't the way we do it...» Well, maybe the way you do it is why you've been in 4th place for the last few years.

In a New York Times article last year, Perdue compared Trump to Winston Churchill, the former UK prime minister, saying that like the legendary World War II - era leader, Trump was «nobody's choir boy» and «a historic person of destiny at a time and place in America when we've got to make a right - hand turn here.»

«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»

While the country was once home to the world's most active cryptocurrency exchanges, authorities banned the venues last year and have since moved to block access to platforms that offer exchange - like services.

A fad like the flash - in - the - greasy - pan cronut craze of 2013 might have lasted years in another era.

For the last 10 years, my template has been that in a consumer economy like that of the US, a recession happens when the average consumer runs out of gas.

Last year Kurt Melcher, executive director of e-sports at Robert Morris University, told Fortune that e-sports are just like all other sports in every way but physical exertion.

To learn how Bridgewater seeks out new employees and what it's like to apply there, Business Insider spoke with Brian Kreiter, Bridgewater's head of client service and marketing and cohead of its core management team, as well as several former Bridgewater employees who worked there within the last five years.

This emergent club includes Canadians like Uber chairman Garrett Camp, Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield, Vice Media co-founder Shane Smith, low - key Alibaba executive vice-chairman Joseph Tsai, Shopify's Tobias Lütke and David Baazov, whose Montreal firm, Amaya, executed a brash $ 4.9 - billion takeover of PokerStars last year, transforming him overnight into one of the global kingpins of online gambling.

What we've spent a lot of time focusing on in the last year is making sure that we're able to deliver that technology in a way that is super-customer-friendly and that is supported at a level they feel like they need, and that's from both a sales and account coverage standpoint.

Carretta says learning how to build the infrastructure for operations like the one in Nevada, where recreational weed was legalized last year, and medical dispensaries like one in New York, will help the company take advantage of new markets more quickly moving forward.

UPS took a stake in Optoro last year, as the company, like FedEx, tries to generate revenue from not only returns but from placing unwanted items in channels where they're most likely to sell.

Like other major European airlines, the Franco - Dutch carrier benefited from low oil prices and strong travel demand last year, while the collapse of Monarch and Air Berlin has removed some competition from the market.

After YouTube TV's debut last year, Fortune noted that the service was incomplete compared to most cable offerings because of its lack of cable channels from the likes of Turner and Viacom.

UBC's Sauder School of Business, meanwhile, reorganized its program offerings last year into functional streams like entrepreneurship, and product and service management — specialties that have focus but can be applied across a variety of industries.

I look at it like: What did we do last year?

Mint.com, whose founder Aaron Patzer was featured on last year's 30 Under 30 list, has been growing like crazy thanks to its free, easy - to - use personal personal finance software.

We're getting guys who do this over and over again, so if you look at the number of companies that have been bought in M&A over the last 20 years, it's something like 1,500.

This led to tax refunds underperforming last year's year - to - date value by about $ 25 billion up until the massive windfall, which made it appear like there may be an economic problem.

Given that Mario Kart 8 was one of the best - selling games last year, that's extraordinary for a brand new IP like this.

How many people like to play a game that lasts all year long?

Facebook's banning of Britain First follows in the footsteps of Twitter Inc., which late last year pulled accounts linked to Britain First, alongside U.S. white supremacist organizations like the League of the South and American Renaissance.

Total sales topped $ 50 million last year, thanks in large part to experiences like the one provided to me by Laura.

With employees like Newcomb it's no wonder the company has grown so fast — 30 % last year, to $ 21 million in revenues.

And last year, says Greg Hounslow, the airline's manager of emerging media, «we realized we could create something that felt more like a movement than a moment.»

Banks like Citigroup and Goldman Sachs (GS)(another Dataminr investor) have backed 15 of those companies in 2015, compared with nine last year.

He also suggested last year that he saw no difference between the state - run RT and other news networks like CNN, MSNBC, and Al Jazeera.

It's an 11,000 - word gem that reads like 3,000, a clear, precise, and brutal evisceration of Facebook and the havoc it has wrought on the news industry — and itself — for the last two years.

Ikea's smart charging furniture integration, which launched last year, is an example of what a mass - market IoT design consideration looks like.

With chocolate consumption increasing in countries like India and China, demand for cocoa beans in Asia has risen 29 percent over the last five years.

When he landed in Vancouver, Canada last month he was treated like a rock star by thousands of South Asians clamoring for just a peek at the man leading India's first majority government in 30 years.

While desktop 3 - D printers like the Makerbot Replicator have made plenty of headlines over the last two years, the technology is still evolving and the printers leave something to be desired.

Semiconductor stocks like Nvidia, Applied Materials and Micron were synonymous with stellar gains last year amid strong demand and the cryptocurrency frenzy.