Sentences with phrase «years by a few years»

The idea is that the investments held in a passive portfolio will be profitable over time, and won't be injured too much over a period of 20 or 30 years by a few years of difficulty.

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But in the span of just a few years, physical papers have become borderline obsolete, replaced by tablets and computer screens.

He said later that Belt and Road should boost GE's sales by $ 5 billion annually once the contracts start ramping up in a few years.

Buoyed by uncommonly low interest rates, the industry has boasted of double - digit returns; the past few years, at least anecdotally, have been especially rich.

It has been on an upward price track for years, in part because the Chinese — compelled by the lack of a social safety net to save rigorously for things like higher education and in case of illness — have few other investing vehicles with which to protect their savings from the ravages of inflation.

Index - tracking products have taken off over the past few years, especially in the United States, where the broad S&P 500 index has risen more than 200 % since the market bottom in 2009, aided by the U.S. Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus.

Hulu — which is owned jointly by CBS rivals Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox, Comcast, and Time Warner — made a similar move less than a year ago, when the service offered subscribers the option of paying a few dollars more per month for an ad - free experience.

Over the past few months, Paulson has bought 3.7 million nonvoting shares of Viacom, which he said on Tuesday has begun to show positive results under a plan overseen by Chief Executive Bob Bakish after years of declining advertising and viewership.

Apple declared a few years ago that «services,» by which it means subscriptions and online apps, would become a growth driver.

For the last few years, the financial technology sector has been dominated by consumer - facing solutions.

Perhaps few entrepreneurs in the world today revel in the impossible as much as Walter De Brouwer, the 55 - year - old Belgian self - described anarchist with a Ph.D. in semiotics who believes he can disrupt the entire health care industry with a tiny device inspired by Star Trek.

«When we discover that our experiments have stopped being productive, let us pivot to a new, fundamental strategy that can allow us to do better experiments,» Ries told a rapt audience at South by Southwest a few years back.

While they acknowledged that methane emissions by the energy industry have decreased over the last few years, they still expressed a belief that it needed to be regulated, so they put together new rules that would force energy companies to decrease their methane emissions by 40 % to 55 % over the next 10 years.

In the above table, I have selected a few prior years with interim high and low readings, as well as the last 4 years, and further broken out 2015 by quarter.

A new survey by the Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) reported that the number of fund managers that expect the value of oil firms to drop in the next few years has doubled.

This year, the startup measured a few star - studded standouts: an Amazon ad in which Alexa loses her voice and gets replaced by Anthony Hopkins and Cardi B; a joint Mountain Dew - Doritos campaign highlighting a rap battle between Morgan Freeman and Peter Dinklage; and a Tourism Australia spot starring Danny McBride, Hugh Jackman, Margot Robbie, and Russell Crowe.

Outsourcing has become one of the hottest topics in the business world over the past few years, with so many tasks in the workplace now capable of being carried out by outside parties.

If cutting rates by 500 bps over the last few years didn't spark a recovery then why would cutting from 25 bps?

A City of Vancouver survey of 2,500 residents this year indicated that, for the first time, fewer than 50 % of trips within the city were made by car.

By 2026, 22 million fewer Americans would have health coverage and enrollment in the Medicaid safety net program for the poor «would fall by about 16 percent and an estimated 49 million people would be uninsured, compared with 28 million who would lack insurance that year under current law.&raquBy 2026, 22 million fewer Americans would have health coverage and enrollment in the Medicaid safety net program for the poor «would fall by about 16 percent and an estimated 49 million people would be uninsured, compared with 28 million who would lack insurance that year under current law.&raquby about 16 percent and an estimated 49 million people would be uninsured, compared with 28 million who would lack insurance that year under current law.»

These founders eagerly plot out five - year financial projections before they've even developed a product or service; a few theories about the fates of those impacted by a company's success are not any less likely to hold water.

The health law's open enrollment season launched in November and has already been curtailed by the White House relative to the past few years.

Every few years, it seems like a brand new marketing fad takes the web by storm.

Over the past few years, the Obama administration has made an effort to address the issue by proposing to raise the federal minimum to $ 10.10 an hour.

«Exploration expenditures in the N.W.T. have languished over the past few years and could therefore limit the territory's options for growing its mining industry in the long term,» noted a recent report by the Conference Board of Canada.

And mortgage refinancing has been one of the most important reasons why the economy has continued to move forward in the last few years, despite the stagnation in real wages, which is what is show in this next graph of average hourly wages divided by consumer prices to give us «real hourly wages»:

It could be that because we've brought more cases in the last few years against some well - known names that that's interpreted as a crackdown, but that's simply more a reflection of the fact that time has gone by since we've updated the guides in 2009 to make it clear it applies to social media marketing.

The past few years have flown by for me since I left my job as Head of Marketing at Salesforce Pardot and joined my co-founders to launch Terminus.

It's not like the show was created in a secret Netflix laboratory — it was actually developed over a few years by Bob - Waksberg and animator Lisa Hanawalt — but Reed Hasting's company knew what it was doing when it bought the show in 2013.

The potential investment comes after a difficult few years for Yum in China, its biggest market by sales, where a series of food - safety scandals and management mis - steps has dented its reputation with diners.

About 30 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs spent the first few years of their careers developing a strong foundation in finance, according to a study by consulting firm Heidrick & Struggles.

«This is only a few billion below the figure at a comparable time last year, and above the figures reported for some earlier years (almost 60 % of the full year's refunds are typically received by this point in the year).»

Speaking with friends in the industry, it feels like a few years ago there was such a move by indie developers to build apps and put them up in the smart device stores.

«Idol,» which averaged more than 30 million weekly viewers at its 2006 peak and ranked No. 1 for nine consecutive years, averaged about 11 million last season (still enough by today's standards to land it in the top 20, but with fewer advertiser - favored younger viewers).

And an independent study by iStrategy Labs published in January said that 3.3 million fewer teens use Facebook today than did three years ago.

Popova began her blog by pulling together all the interesting things she stumbled upon while working at an ad agency a few years ago.

A recent forecast by the Conference Board of Canada suggests that indebted households will restrain spending over the next few years, contributing to slow economic growth.

If a new technology is developed in the next few years that radically extends the life expectancy of human beings, odds are good that it will come out of a company backed by Peter Thiel.

An institution of Desjardins» size would not function without codified processes, and while the co-operative has plenty — 143 distinct ones when it counted a few years ago — it is now looking to give employees more leeway to act on the front lines by, say, allowing a caisse teller to offer an additional incentive at the counter.

In September, the department store, which has been beset by 11 straight quarters of comparable sales declines, said it would hire 80,000 temporary workers for the holiday season, the second year in a row it was taking on fewer seasonal associates.

Mak saw his first success a few years ago with Everyday Shooter, which was picked up and offered by Sony as a downloadable game over the PlayStation Network.

Forty - five percent of those surveyed by NFIB said they found few or no qualified workers to fill open positions, which is 3 percentage points higher than September a year earlier, and 4 percentage points higher than the same time period in both 2013 and 2012.

Penned by journalist Michael Wolff, also famous for writing a scathing biography about media baron Rupert Murdoch several years ago, Fire and Fury took off like, well, wildfire as soon as word of its imminent publishing broke just a few weeks ago.

A few too many parties, a culinary over-indulgence or two, and a little over-excitement when gift shopping can leave us feeling exhausted, unhealthy, financially overstretched, and surrounded by giant piles of stuff, so that just when you should be starting the new year with energy, you're instead feeling frazzled and exhausted.

I juxtaposed the two views a few years ago in my TEDx talk by comparing a pair of cartoons: The Jetsons, which in the 1960s proposed a Utopian future of flying cars and robot maids, to WALL - E, the 2008 Oscar - nominated film that had humans reduced by technology to useless blobs unable to walk.

For the Helsinki 1952 Summer Olympics, by comparison, there were a few dozen torches in the relay, according to O'Neil, who says one sold for approximately $ 742,000 two years ago.

In fact, as we approach a decade since the launch of Apple's App Store — followed a few years later by the Android / Google equivalent — it's fair to say that there's an app for everything.

The researcher has been rocked by accounting mishaps over the past few years that created a «two year fog.»

By the looks of things, many of you have been so busy building wealth through your businesses in the past few years, you've forgotten something pretty important — namely, a succession plan.

In the few years it has lagged, it's almost always done so by a slim margin.