Sentences with phrase «years it stayed small»

The virus was first detected in Uganda, and for more than 60 years it stayed small and scientists took little notice, believing all it did was cause symptoms on par with a mild flu.

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We see thousands of small businesses settle into their perfect office environment every year and we see more of the office based businesses flourish than those who choose to stay at home.

According to the Small Business Administration, only about half of all businesses last beyond five years, but Minnihan feels confident that Bespoke Post will stay in the «win» column.

Although starting a business is a high - risk endeavor, millions of small companies stay in operation each year.

After their marriage, Sarah Shipp gave up her job as a Pilates instructor, and the pair traveled together for a year, staying in cheap hotels, pulling in late at night to small towns where the only food to be found was at the gas station — bowling alley.

One reason is that businesses founded during recessions tend to stay smaller for at least the first 10 years of their existence.

Second, a rethinking of corporate models since the Great Recession has led to a more agile lean way of doing business that abandons the «corporate monolith» model once again makes small - time entrepreneurship a realistic career alternative to the nearly - obsolete ideal of getting a job at a big company, staying for 30 years to retire with a pension and gold watch.

It is also fair to point out that this move continues a three - or four - year long period in which the biggest public cloud providers got bigger by virtue of massive spending on their own data center infrastructure and smaller players scrambled to stay relevant.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

If a sales load results in someone staying the course by developing a relationship with an adviser, it will be a relatively small annualized percentage of capital after 10, 20, or 30 years.

Many small business owners are revamping their content marketing strategy this year, and while there are lots of different ways to alter your strategy and stay safe being discussed amongst the Webmaster and SEO community, one of my favorites is by creating buyer personas.

As I recall, Plymouth actually stayed rather small and insular for some time while the Boston Bay Company took off with their colonies in what's now called Boston, New Bedford, and I believe the Cape Ann area but I'd have to re-read a book I read while going to school down on Cape Cod a few years back.

Even those of us in the small group of long - term staff who stay for one or three years must eventually say goodbye.

This singer is almost eighty years old, but looks great and has stayed incredibly active, and the book is studded with small, often old - school tips of how she believes she's managed to keep up her health.

It doesn't warrant him staying but it's still quite a feat (yes he had the luxury of forgetting UCL because of that small team mentality) 3) allowing a good recovery year from a disastrous season, by winning the league early which is a huge confidence boost for the players hopefully (especially after Pique's comments about the inferiority).

Excited for Lyndsey to possibly put it all together and stay healthy this year, and I'm still holding a very small candle for Becerra to do the same (the odds are not in his favor though)

If Aston Villa are looking for actual money for the 30 year old then he may end up staying put but in all honesty he can be a potent weapon up front and could be a useful addition to either of the clubs mentioned but they will have to realise that a player who has had such a small amount of time on the pitch may take time to fire on all cylinders.

If he wins the FA Cup, he will still want to sign a new deal to stay because to him, the FA Cup is too small after all these years in the club... Since protest from fans is not producing results, i suggest we should take his name to God to remove him!

Only a handful of teams led by a small concentration of stars are able to truly compete for a championship and they tend to stay constant for several years.

He has brought in potentially great players, brought up wonderful youth players, developed the infrastructure to achieve great things, fought against the dinosaurs entrenched in the 19th century who are ¨ running ¨ the game, displayed dignity and nobility in the face of unremitting criticism from a small band of Arsenal ¨ supporters ¨ and the media, endured xenophobic pundits, questionable officiating, lean years after the stadium build, ever expanding competition for players from richer clubs and yet stayed true to his principles and still managed to bring in trophies and success over his 21 year reign.

The number of quaint hotels and airbnb's are growing every year, but the small town feel is there to stay.

A study from 2010 acknowledged, yes, «in the short - term, kids go through a one - to two - year crisis period when their parents divorce,» but the idea of staying together for the kids is problematic, especially if it's a high - conflict family, and that previous research indicating people should stay together «has been plagued by many data problems — reliance on small samples derived from one therapy clinic, retrospective reports, and cross sectional data.»

Available in two sizes, small for 0 to 6 months and medium for 6 to 12 month year olds, the sleeping bag portion is generously sized, which allows your baby the freedom to start using their little legs while you remain safe in the knowledge that they won't kick their blanket off during nap time, ensuring they stay warm all night.

This is generally what your child will be at around a year old, though some smaller children can stay within these requirements for longer.

I just became a mother on March 1st... and if you would have told me 5 years ago that I was going to be a «stay at home mom» with my own small business, I would have said you were crazy — but I am and I LOVE it!!

We stayed on the huggies for the duration of that year until they became too small.

For example, a smaller child might stay in a rear - facing car seat until he is 3 - years - old, a forward - facing car seat until he is 7 - years - old, and a booster seat until he is 12 - years - old.

Staying out late in adolescence is an accepted sign of growing independence, but this study finds that there is a small minority of 15 year olds — seven per cent of boys and five per cent of girls - who regularly stay out late without their parents knowing where they are.

The county legislature and the local and state government have to plan ahead and look five years or even ten years ahead, see what we want this area to look like and work to get to that point, so the people of that area and Ulster County have a quality of life that families would want to stay in the area, small local businesses will prosper and tourists would want to visit for many years.

The Liberal Democrats might regain Kingston & Surbiton, Sutton & Cheam, Twickenham, and Bath, and hold on to their by - election gain last year in Richmond Park — all but Sutton & Cheam delivered large majorities for Remain at the 2016 referendum, and Lewes also delivered a small majority for staying in the EU.

Men who stayed single showed a small age - related decline of about 12 to 15 percent in the male sex hormone, while the testosterone levels of new fathers — those with a baby between 1 month and 1 year — on average dropped about 30 percent.

EMBL will set up four centers in Australia, eventually supporting 18 group leaders with enough funding to run a small lab for 5 years, with four more years of funding if they stay on track.

With its main engine offline and the planet in sight, Akatsuki relied on small attitude control thrusters to slow it enough during this year's encounter to stay for an extended visit.

We estimated that sediment deposition in a small body of water that stays frozen for most of the year would probably not exceed a few centimeters a year, so such a thick sediment layer might imply that the lake existed before 1908.

In rodents, differences in life expectancy and morbidity during aging are particularly high: Despite close relationships with regard to genetic aspects, small rodents like mice or rats live no longer than two to three years, whereas mole - rats or chinchillas have an average life span of 20 to 30 years while staying comparatively healthy.

Over the next 400 years or so, hundreds of regional cultivars of tomatoes emerged, but they mostly stayed small, sweet, and flavorful.

The crack stayed small for years until, in 2014, it began racing across the Antarctic ice.

- The ash (even that lofted into the stratospherc by a big erruption) settles out pretty quickly (days to weeks)- - What stays around for months (years) is the hase of small H2SO4 / H2O droplets that form as a result of sulfur compounds that volcanos are prone to releasing.

So we wan na make sure you have a sustainable weight that you can be at and it's tough because we have ectomorphs in society that can stay very lean all the time, especially we see it like the runway model - type figure that Hollywood has chosen to be like, you know, what's hot and sexy, but again it's a very small amount of people that are this ectomorph body type that they can be less selective of what they eat, less selective on exercise, and they keep this, you know, very tall, lean frame year - round.

In the past two years, I have made small changes to my self - care routine, nutrition, and yoga practice in order to help me stay well during the season when I am most vulnerable to the effects of the Air element.

The first year we stayed in Shanghai and last year we were in a little bit smaller city called Hangzhou.

The company offers stays just outside of Boston, New York, and Washington D.C. year round on small plots of secluded land.

People make grandiose resolutions instead of setting smaller, manageable goals, and every year when friends invite me out, I always fantasize about staying in and sipping on bubbly.

I am 51 but look younger.I am a corrections officer for the past 19 years, working the night shift 11 - 7 at Bridgewater state hospital.I am in good shape and enjoy staying fit and eating good foods.I also like animals and have a small female pit boxer mix that I rescued.Her name is coco and she is ver...

Ironically, the scenes in «In Darkness» that stay with you aren't moments of high peril but small details of survival - of how a sensory - deprived child might keep his mind active through a year and a half of night, or how a woman might cope with sexual longing in the middle of a crowd.

Reunited, they bicker and spar gently but take care of each other through a series of small episodes, until Eve's «sister» Ava (Mia Wasikowska) comes to stay and, stirs up the same kind of trouble that had caused them not to have seen her for 87 years.

The year is 1879, and the small town of Rose Creek has been invaded by an evil mining baron named Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), who presents the townspeople with an ultimatum: accept his paltry offer to buy their land or stay and suffer the consequences when he returns in three weeks.

Furthermore, this was a one - time effect: even if students stayed in smaller classes for multiple years, their achievement rose only once, by 0.06.

Small gains in the education of teachers relative to other workers may not be evidence of declining quality, however; additional years of schooling may be more valuable for teachers because, as highly skilled workers, they face higher opportunity costs of staying out of the labor force.

Fifty dollars a year is a small price to pay to reallocate this money in a manner that encourages highly qualified teachers to enter the profession and stay there.