Sentences with phrase «years in this country with»

Even though I spent most of the year in countries with a fairly high cost of living, my average daily expenses were as low as $ 9 / day, and never (truly) higher than $ 70 / day (including long - haul business class flights).

Currently, an average vehicle lasts for 11.5 years in this country with the poorest drivers being the most likely to own the oldest vehicles.

Not exact matches

KSA is ninth in flows among all foreign country ETFs this year, according to XTF.com, with stock ETFs covering stock markets in Japan, China, Brazil and Malaysia all receiving larger bets.

The 30 - year - old is seen as key to making the summit with South Korea happen: She was the first member of the North's ruling family to visit the South since 1953 when she asked for a detente at the winter Olympics and is believed to have been in charge of the country while her brother was ill in late 2014.

Gun deaths in Switzerland have plummeted in recent years, as the country has written stricter rules to align itself with the European Union.

Afghanistan was already considered one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, with at least 20 killed last year.

Shell — a cash machine that racked up $ 9 billion in profit in the first nine months of 2017; a colossus that employs 90,000 people in more than 70 countries; a corporation that, were it a nation, would have the world's seventh - largest carbon footprint, behind Germany; and the No. 7 company on Fortune's Global 500 list last year, with $ 240 billion in sales — is in an existential squeeze.

South Korean women are held to notoriously high standards for beauty — the country has the most cosmetic surgeries per capita in the world, with almost one million procedures every year.

Express Scripts, the nation's largest pharmacy benefits manager, fell about 0.5 %; McKesson, the largest wholesale drug distributor in the country (and No. 5 on this year's Fortune 500 list with $ 192 billion in revenue) saw its stock drop nearly 2.5 %.

A few years later, all six of the country's big banks, along with Desjardins, the Canada Pension Plan and Canaccord, joined together to launch Alpha, in hopes of lowering trading costs and bringing more competition to the market.

The 33 - year - old founder started with no restaurant experience but has grown the chain to 100 - plus locations in 12 countries

They have also demanded a new vote on the budget for next year after the government approved the spending plan by not putting it though parliament, but holding the vote in an nearby chamber, with a high number of government supporters — something that the country's opposition deemed as «illegal.»

«This is a year of really being an influence and a change maker in an amazing city that's really at the forefront of the revitalization efforts in our entire country,» says Greene Groves concluding her pitch for the program, ending with a paraphrase of the Michigan governor's pitch for Motor City: «Yeah, you can go to another city, but if you want to make a difference, come to Detroit.»

The watch must be used with one of the iPhone models released in the past two years — the 5, 5S, 5C or the latest versions scheduled to go on sale Sept. 19 in the U.S. and nine other countries.

We went the next year to Brazil — one of the top five fastest growing countries in the world, with lots of women - led start - ups — and then to India.

The following year, Papa Johns started to franchise and has since gone worldwide with more than 4,700 locations in 37 countries.

The U.K.'s fastest growing markets are, in descending order, Switzerland, China, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong and South Korea, with U.K. exports to these five countries worth $ 71 billion last year, a study by Wyelands Bank and Global Trade Review, published Monday, stated.

Maybe the country was particularly fond of a bit in season two with a KGB spy who wakes up from a 30 - year coma and resumes his mission to take down America.

Southern European countries have surprised in recent years with growth rates above the euro area average, but the sun might stop shining in these economies soon, UBS analysts warned in a note Monday.

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.

«As has been clear for several years now, the cities that do best in this ranking are mid-sized conurbations in countries with low population densities.

Three years ago, Cole, now 35, accepted the role as president of Cinnabon, the sweet - indulgence franchise with 1,100 stores in 56 countries and which is approaching $ 1 billion in annual sales.

If successful, could Zimbabwe's EcoCash overtake Kenya's M - Pesa — which, with a four - year head start has signed up two - thirds of the adult population in that country — as the world's gold standard for wireless financial services?

Based on the GBTA study of 75 countries, here's a look at the top 15 by total business - travel spending in 2012, with percentage growth from the previous year:

You've landed 23 years after communism's collapse — in a country that is once again engaged in a game of chicken with the West.

For instance, retail sales rose 6.9 % last year in Alberta, compared with 2.5 % for the rest of the country.

A former chief executive of Exxon Mobil, the 64 - year - old has no previous experience as a diplomat but nonetheless has had deep exposure to dealing with foreign leaders in countries with interests opposed to or in competition with those of the United States.

I was 25 years old in a new country, at a new university, with my close friends back home.

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

-- Fred Stevens - Smith, co-founder and CEO of QA testing company Rainforest QA, a Y Combinator company that raised $ 25 million in funding earlier this year with a team spread across 16 countries on five continents

Data from the Japanese government showed last month that the country's trade surplus with the United States narrowed in January, dropped 12.3 percent from a year ago to 349.57 billion Japanese yen ($ 3.32 billion).

With 5,000 independent repair technicians, known as iTechs, in over 500 cities in the U.S. — and expecting to more than double that number by the end of the year — Forsythe says his company is the largest company of its kind in the country.

Howard Schultz, the leader of Starbucks, said on Thursday he would step down as chief executive next year, handing over to his personally selected successor the management of the company he built into the world's largest coffee business, with over 25,000 stores in 75 countries.

Western Australia has recorded its highest number of insolvencies for a month in nearly two years, with 841 companies entering external administration across the country in July.

The United States dropped from second place in 2015 to fourth place this year, tied with Belgium, Denmark, and the Netherlands, all of which offer access to 174 countries.

In some parts of the country there are well - preserved, 30 - year - old Volvo 240s happily humming along with over 1 million miles on the odometer.

Not only has the billionaire businessman turned president - elect called for doing away with trade deals favored by President Barack Obama, he expressed interest in renegotiating the North America Free Trade Agreement, a 22 year - old trade pact between the U.S., Canada and Mexico that eliminated most tariffs on products traded between the countries and strengthened intellectual property enforcement.

Since then, Smyrna has grown into the country's largest single vehicle manufacturing complex, with production of 650,000 vehicles in the past year.

They've been to more than 30 countries in the past two years and it all started with a massive sale to Snapchat.

Today, Brazil sits at No. 5 in a 2010 UN ranking of countries receiving FDI, and early numbers from the Central Bank of Brazil put the economy on pace to eclipse the previous year with US$ 43 billion in FDI for the first six months of 2011.

China, a country that some critics say should be in a category of its own, is the best - performing in the group, with gross - domestic product growth of over 7 percent a year but still faces a sharp slump in its property market.

With the bulk of quotas ending this year, industry watchers expected western countries to be flooded with foreign imports in 2With the bulk of quotas ending this year, industry watchers expected western countries to be flooded with foreign imports in 2with foreign imports in 2005.

«We were getting some headway over there» with arrests last year of suspects accused of using sophisticated software programs to steal from bank accounts in multiple countries, the official said.

Schultz then went a bit contemplative on the raptly - attentive crowd, sharing with the audience his belief that individual citizens, not just politicians and political parties, need to increase civility and improve the discourse level in the country, not only every four years but ever day, in the face of what Schultz sees as increased partisanship, polarization and cynicism.

The year - long series, «A Nation Under Our Feet,» will be inspired by Steven Hahn's 2003 book of the same name and «will find the hero dealing with a violent uprising in his country set off by a superhuman terrorist group called the People.»

Every year when this game comes up, one Group of 5 school is charged with proving to the world that they can play with the marquee teams in the country, and I want to see the Golden Knights pull off something special here.

In that country, KFC's sales at established restaurants rose 21 per cent, while Pizza Hut's results were even with a year ago.

TORONTO — Home sales in two of the country's largest real estate markets were down sharply in March compared with a year ago, according to the real estate boards in Vancouver and Toronto.

Padgett has been in business for over 45 years and has over 300 offices across the country supporting thousands of small businesses with Accounting, Tax and Payroll services.

Scandinavian countries have imposed similar taxes, with varying degrees of success, for many years, and in 2012, France and Hungary joined that list, followed by Mexico in 2014.