Sentences with phrase «years in a generation»

Welcoming the promise to make it easier for councils to build council homes, Mr. Dromey added, «Council house building has collapsed from three hundred thousand to three hundred a year in a generation.

PES has refined year on year in this generation, continuing to improve, but PES 2017 is the crowning moment.

Last year saw the reverse: when interest rates spiked and Canadian bonds had their first negative year since 1999, stocks enjoyed one of their best years in a generation.

You'd think after 4 - 5 years in this generation devs / publishers / Sony would know what's up by now but apparently now.

No one buys new consoles 2 years in a generation of any significant numbers.

But now after two years in this generation, we have yet to see so much as a launch title on the program.

Not exact matches

On reputation «At 27 years old, my biggest fear was bein» judged / How they look at me reflect on myself, my family, my city / What they say «bout me reveal / If my reputation would miss me / What they see from me / Would trickle down generations in time / What they hear from me / Would make «em highlight my simplest lines.»

Fifth - generation president and CEO Hartley Richardson bulked up its Tundra Oil & Gas subsidiary last year, buying 550 wells in Manitoba from a retreating American operator, EOG Resources.

Overall gaming hardware sales dropped 6 % to $ 168 million from the same month a year ago, NPD estimates, owing to flagging sales in previous - generation devices including Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3.

Andrew Yang is the founder and CEO of Venture for America, a New York City - based nonprofit organization focused on placing top - college graduates in startups for two years in emerging U.S. cities to generate job growth and train the next generation of entrepreneurs.

Coal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellets.

In an announcement on Monday, Ameren Missouri said the scheme would be backed by an investment of around $ 1 billion and that it would also look to add 100 megawatts of solar generation over the next 10 years.

In the case of video games, rumours have been circulating for a while now about both Sony and Microsoft implementing technology into their next - generation consoles — expected this year — that would make it impossible to play used products.

Statistically, millennials are on track to be the least entrepreneurial generation in the past 100 years.

While wind and solar power have grown in recent years, renewable sources accounted for just 10 % of total U.S. energy consumption and about 13 % of electricity generation in 2015.

In a statement, Ford said it won't invest in new generations of sedans for the North American market, eventually reducing its car lineup to the Mustang and the all - new Focus Active crossover coming out next yeaIn a statement, Ford said it won't invest in new generations of sedans for the North American market, eventually reducing its car lineup to the Mustang and the all - new Focus Active crossover coming out next yeain new generations of sedans for the North American market, eventually reducing its car lineup to the Mustang and the all - new Focus Active crossover coming out next year.

Four generations of Sobeys have run Empire Co. Ltd., parent of the Sobeys grocery chain, since its founding in 1907 — most recently Paul, for the 15 years leading up to 2013.

But in the past generation, average pay for CEOs at American's largest companies has leaped nearly sixfold, from $ 2.8 million a year in 1989 to $ 16.3 million today, according the Economic Policy Institute.

In part due to renewable generation coming online, Ontario now predicts rates will increase 7.9 % a year over the next five years, and continue rising at a reduced pace thereafter for at least another 15 years.

In the next year, companies will focus their attention on recruiting the next generation.

Millennials — Americans born in the 1980s and 1990s, also referred to as Generation Y — will spend $ 69 billion on discretionary items this year alone, according to data from a recent Harris Interactive study.

Earlier this year, millennials surpassed baby boomers as the largest generation in America, and brands increasingly need to reflect their personalities as millennial households grow.

Along Colorado's Front Range, fourth - generation farmer Kent Peppler said he is fallowing some of his corn fields this year because he can't afford to irrigate the land for the full growing season, in part because deep - pocketed energy companies have driven up the price of water.

Other contenders also have their limits: Germany, the world's largest market for photovoltaic generation, lowered solar feed - in tariff rates last year, and Spain retroactively altered existing solar contracts in December.

Last year, Ontario slashed the purchase price for ground - mounted solar generation under the feed - in tariff and summarily tossed out more than 10,000 applications.

Perhaps if Mao hadn't struck down an entire generation in the Cultural Revolution and China had started integrating its economy and ambitions 20 years earlier, that hard and soft power might have been assembled.

The report indicated that while more than 78 percent of organizations have engaged in lead generation programs throughout last year, only about 17 percent of these companies are actually meeting their lead generation goals.

Two years ago, the house, constructed from untreated woods and equipped with water - saving laundry equipment and compact lighting, was the subject of a story in the Burlington Free Press under the headline «Greenhouse» — which raised the hackles of many hard - core Vermonters, including more than a few former Seventh Generation employees.

«The first generation went through their formative years in the»60s and didn't found their businesses with the idea that they were going to change the world, by and large,» says Grossman.

Power generation company Pacific Energy has won an eight - year contract extension to continue providing services at St Barbara's Gwalia gold mine in Leonora.

But the next minute you look at reinvesting in that infrastructure it's going to be intimidating compared to the cost of the cloud, because the cost of the cloud is plummeting so fast that if you're going to go replace your server farm with a new server farm, you're looking at money that might buy you 10 years worth of cloud service, which would get you through yet another generation of on - premise replacement.»

«Our energy generation and storage business is positioned for accelerating growth later this year,» Tesla wrote in its letter.

The first - generation Moto G, released in several countries last year, sold well for Motorola thanks to its sub - $ 200 price tag (that's $ 200 without a contract).

According to the survey, 56 percent of millennials believe CEOs have a greater responsibility today than in years past to speak up about social issues, compared to just 28 percent of generation X and baby boomers.

Power generation company Pacific Energy has posted solid results for the 2016 financial year, with further growth expected in the year to come.

«We're on our second or third generation of entrepreneurial executives now,» says Charley Polachi, managing partner of the recruitment firm Heidrick & Struggles / Fenwick Partners in Lexington, Mass. «They've been moving around for a few years.

He says: «There is a new generation of real estate investors that have emerged in the last five years making a killing in real estate.

TOKYO — Sony's next - generation video game machine PlayStation 4 won't go on sale in Japan until next year, meaning that it won't be on time for the key year - end holiday or New Year's shopping seayear, meaning that it won't be on time for the key year - end holiday or New Year's shopping seayear - end holiday or New Year's shopping seaYear's shopping season.

He continued: «And then we'll have a next - generation rocket and spacecraft beyond the Falcon - Dragon series, and I'm hoping to describe that architecture later this year at the International Astronautical Congress [in Guadalajara, Mexico, September 26 to 30] which is the big international space event of the year.»

Rossello highlighted how the island's electrical grid, which was severely dilapidated even prior to the storms, was obsolete and working off of a generation system that was 28 years older than the average electric power utility in the United States.

During the Super Bowl earlier this year, the American Petroleum Institute (API) launched an ad geared toward Millennials, who now make up the largest generation in the U.S. labor force.

Within days, a team of designers was in the XJ offices, mapping out the next generation in customer - relationship management software with a clear mandate: «Take the best of what we've done in this space over the past 20 years,» says Tatham, «and starting from scratch, build better than ever before.»

Dominion plans to increase solar generation by nearly 50 percent over last year's forecast, a change made possible in part because of the technology's increasing affordability, company executives said in an Associated Press interview.

In recent years, many startups have sprung up to provide marketing and lead - generation tools to small businesses, previously available only to large corporations that could afford it.

He shows that even «the much - lamented 2 %» annual growth of America's economy in recent years «delivers astounding gains» in just one generation.

But Microsoft Xbox marketing honcho Aaron Greenberg added this to the conversation with unalloyed candor: «We think the future is without console generations,» he told Engadget in August last year.

Thirty - six percent of Millennials — otherwise known as Generation Y, which includes those born in the early 1980s to the early 2000s — were living with mom and dad last year, according to a report by Pew Research Center.

Last year, for example, renewables were responsible for 29 percent of gross electricity generation in Germany.

Along with 16 - year - old Ragan Smith, one of the alternates on the Rio team, she will be primed to lead the next generation of gymnasts should Biles choose to retire, a decision that is up in the air.

«With the myriad of sophisticated attacks and the ad infinitum game of «cat and mouse» between hackers and security software vendors, we believe a big ramp in cybersecurity spending will continue in the coming years as «cyber warfare» heats up, adding to growth prospects at next - generation security software companies,» said Daniel Ives, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets, in a recent note.