Sentences with phrase «years of this broken record»

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After graduating with a degree in Architecture from Cambridge, she spent a year as Operations Manager aboard the record - breaking biofueled powerboat Earthrace, where she traveled 25,000 miles, visited 120 cities, and ran a campaign to promote the use of alternative fuels.

21 years of record - breaking, system growth can only be accomplished by continuous pursuit of innovation.

(DHX now produces 22 Minutes, which is in its 21st season; Donovan has previously said he'd like 22 Minutes to break Front Page Challenge's on - air record of 37 years.)

Queen's was one of the last schools in Canada without a major donor's name on its business department, but that changed last year with a record - breaking $ 50 - million gift from Stephen J.R. Smith, founder of First National Financial Corp. and a Queen's alumnus.

For fiscal 2014, Hitachi delivered an operating profit of 600.4 billion yen ($ 4.89 billion), its second year of record - breaking profit, on the back of cost - cutting, alongside strong demand for its lifts in China, as well as robust sales of auto parts and electronics products.

The series has broken a number of network records and its season - four premiere became the most watched nonfiction episode on cable ever with 11.8 million people turning in (half of those viewers came from the advertiser - loving 25 - to 54 - year - old demographic).

All this sets up The Force Awakens — the seventh chapter in the Star Wars franchise that takes place 30 years after The Return of the Jedi — to break the record for the highest grossing opening weekend at the box office.

The star broke his own record last month for the number of three - pointers made in one season; he's already netted 339 balls so far this season, well exceeding the 286 he made in the previous year.

[The game] sold 6.5 million units, which breaks last year's record of 5.6 million units, or $ 360 million in sales.

The East coast chain broke records to become the first convenience store to be voted the best sandwich shop in the US in Market Force Information's annual survey of nearly 11,500 consumers - beating major players such as Jersey Mike's and Firehouse Subs, last year's winner.

Over the last few years, GoPro's users have captured, uploaded, and viewed a vast library of previously impossible footage containing everything from record - breaking BMX jumps to back - breaking encounters with Mother Nature to the flight of a seagull.

Gun sales have surged by about 40 % in three out of six months in 2016, and we're on track for another record - breaking year.

The GAAP consolidated pretax income for 1Q18 of $ 707 million unfavorably compared to GAAP consolidated pretax income of $ 1.69 billion in 1Q17 by $ 982 million primarily due to the net gain associated with the terminated merger agreement, mainly the break - up fee, recorded in 1Q17 and lower pretax earnings year over year in the Retail and Healthcare Services segments, partially offset by higher Group and Specialty segment pretax earnings.

Though RE / MAX says the luxury market's record - breaking pace from last year has slowed, it is still expecting plenty of activity this year.

Even as Airbnb surged in 2015 — the company estimates that its network housed 40 million guests, double the number from 2014, in 34,000 cities — hotels scored a record - breaking year of their own.

The 19 - year - old U.S. swimmer, who earned five gold medals and broke world records, won't be partaking in any sponsorship deals since she's opted to enroll at Stanford University instead of going pro.

That puts the Sony Pictures film on pace to swing to a $ 120 million opening, short of the record - breaking $ 151 million debut of 2007's Spider - Man 3 but according to Variety topping even the sunniest expectations for the film, which stars 21 - year - old actor Tom Holland in the title role.

Why fans believe it is true: In 1997, two years after breaking Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played, a game between the Orioles and Mariners was postponed because of a electrical failure that affected the lights at Camden Yards.

About a year after I started doing this stuff, I broke some big record, a 72 - ounce steak in seven minutes, and after I posted that video I got asked by an eating organization to come down to San Diego in 2008 for something called the Collegiate Nationals, a contest between all the college eaters and university eaters of North America.

This year was a record - breaking year on all fronts for the ETF business: inflows of $ 476 billion, and assets under management swelling to $ 3.4 trillion.

(Kohl's is likely to break its own record on Monday, the biggest online shopping day of the year.)

Kentucky's iconic Bourbon distilleries filled a whopping 1,886,821 barrels of amber nectar last year, breaking production records all the way back to 1967.

A wave of health - care and tech deals has helped propel total corporate takeovers past $ 3.1 trillion so far this year, threatening to break 2007's record.

Ms. Preston, director of supplier diversity development for the automaker, was recognized — in part — for achieving a record - breaking spend of $ 6.5 billion with certified minority business enterprises (MBEs) in 2013 — a 13.8 % year - over-year improvement.

And even before the disclosure of the record - breaking purchase in a New York art auction by one of his associates, Prince Mohammed's extravagance had already raised eyebrows, most notably with the impulse purchase two years ago in the south of France of a Russian vodka titan's 440 - foot yacht, for half a billion dollars.

The strength on big - caps also helped the Shanghai Composite to almost break a 25 - year record in the number of consecutive days of gains.

On Friday, April 20, Marriott Vacations Worldwide (NYSE: VAC) hosted its 15th Annual Caring Classic corporate charity golf tournament, raising a net donation of nearly $ 180,000 for Greater Orlando Children's Miracle Network Hospitals — exceeding last year's record breaking donation.

Mobile Captures More Than Half Of All U.S. Internet Advertising Revenue For The First Time Ever, Total Digital Ad Spend Hits a Landmark $ 72.5 Billion in 2016 IAB reports: «Mobile advertising accounted for more than half (51 %) of the record - breaking $ 72.5 billion spent by advertisers last year -LSB-...] The total represents a 22 percent increase, up from $ 59.6 billion in 201Of All U.S. Internet Advertising Revenue For The First Time Ever, Total Digital Ad Spend Hits a Landmark $ 72.5 Billion in 2016 IAB reports: «Mobile advertising accounted for more than half (51 %) of the record - breaking $ 72.5 billion spent by advertisers last year -LSB-...] The total represents a 22 percent increase, up from $ 59.6 billion in 201of the record - breaking $ 72.5 billion spent by advertisers last year -LSB-...] The total represents a 22 percent increase, up from $ 59.6 billion in 2015.

«This year once again breaks the previous record for the number of resolutions filed, and companies are having less success than ever in knocking out proposals under SEC rules,» says Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, in the preface to the report.

It's a natural consequence of a market that has settled into a lull after two years of record - breaking deals, a period of exuberance that developers and brokers had hoped would become the new normal.

In a recent analysis of climate events from last year, 2016, scientists determined three events — record - breaking global heat, a heat wave over Asia, and a «blob» of unusually warm water in the Northern Pacific — could not have occurred without human - induced climate change.

It's funny how stocks can go up for years and break all sorts of records, and then we all flip out when the pullback we've been begging for finally arrives.

A record 13 Canadian ventures are featured on this year's list, breaking last year's record of 11.

On the heels of a record - breaking year for investment in Canadian life science companies, over 200 international investors will descend on Toronto to scout startup innovation at RESI on MaRS, Canada's largest health investor conference.

The company is well on its way to breaking its own record of producing the most firearms (1,114,700) in a year.

In 2014, Disney extended its streak of record - breaking annual revenue to four straight years.

His plea comes as U.S. output has staged a remarkable comeback this year and is on pace to break the 1970 record of 9.6 million barrels per day by next year.

The EU competition regulator revived a long - dormant antitrust probe of the search giant once she took office, and earlier this year, she slapped Google with a record - breaking $ 2.7 billion fine for prioritizing its shopping search service over rivals» offerings.

On this site, we talked about the lunacy of the IPO market in China and about all the superlatives and record - breaking which I felt were eerily reminiscent of our own dot com boom and bust 9 years ago.

In March the Nasdaq broke through the 5,000 mark for the first time in 15 years, reviving memories of the dotcom crash in 2000 that followed hot on the heels of those record valuations.

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt The falling yen is raining on Japan's parade of overseas acquisitions, which had a record - breaking year in 2012, when the yen was rising.

Following a record - breaking year for worldwide mergers and acquisitions, dealmaking declined to a two - year low in the first quarter of 2016.

As we enter the seventh year of a record - breaking US bull market, some investors may be worried that stock valuations are a bit inflated.

This year has seen an explosion in the success of ICOs with a number of projects breaking records for total amounts raised.

Crowdcube is reporting a record breaking quarter for the first three months of the year · According to the crowdfunding platform, 49 businesses successfully funded with # 22.8 million during Q1 — more than any other previous quarter.

About twenty years after the Franciscan friar set his posthumous record, a Dominican friar, Peter of Verona, came this close to breaking it: 354 days.

Tell us all the objective Reality of what good has been provided by religion for thousands of years that make people hold on to it in spite of already knowing these wonderous truths you keep reminding us about over and over about like a broken record.

And World Relief had a record number of churches volunteer to help refugees resettle in America last year, while a solidarity pledge by We Welcome Refugees surpassed its original goal of 10,000 signatures, and was poised to break 20,000 on Friday.

Last year saw 27 named storms, breaking the old record of 21.

Compound annual growth rate remains steady at 5.4 % over a 10 - year period SEATTLE (March 1, 2018)-- Washington State's wine grape harvest totaled 227,000 tons in 2017, which equated to a 16 - percent decrease compared to the record - breaking 2016 harvest of 270,000 tons.