Amazon is two-and-a-half years down the learning curve. As of tomorrow, Borders will be a few hours down the learning curve. It's another option for book buyers, but we don't view Borders as a big competitive threat to Amazon. We see this as more of a defensive move than an offensive move.
Quotes about two-and-a-half (16 Quotes)
We've been looking at building on to the church and talking about it for the last two or two-and-a-half years, ... We're working to reach out into the community.
If we can get fifth or sixth we'll be doing well. There's no way we'll beat Aspen, Summit or Vail Mountain School, but if we can stay ahead of Battle Mountain, that'll be great. For a bunch of kids who train for two-and-a-half months out of the year, they do great, and I'm real proud of them.
In the course of three days we've gone from a deficit (of rainfall) to over two-and-a-half inches positive.
Iran has stopped all voluntary measures that it undertook in the past two-and-a-half to three years. We have no commitment to the Additional Protocol any more.
After the absence of our setter (freshman Erika Price) and a makeshift lineup, we came out a lot more in tune in what we have been practicing on over the last two-and-a-half weeks, ... Our chemistry and positioning of players was much better tonight.
We've really had a good second half of the season. Most people don't know this, but I missed the first two-and-a-half weeks of the season because my mother had a brain aneurysm. We used Christmas break as my preseason. We worked hard putting things in. That's when they really started to learn my system. Things started clicking. We started competing and then lately we've learned how to win. Hopefully that will continue.
It's chilling to read it, not because of one incident but because of what you see here, the United States was running here, was a two-and-a-half year interrogation camp,
Two-and-a-half billion dollars, one-half of the GDP of Afghanistan is poppy, 70 percent of that sold in Europe as opium, funding through the black market, the terrorists cells not only in this country but all across the world.
Customers who score high propensity are typically approximately two-and-a-half times more likely to buy a product than the average customer.
As of January 1999, companies are spending an equal amount in IT and outside, for things like risk assessment on their business partners and contingency plans. By the end of the year, companies will spend two-and-a-half to three times more outside IT.
All voluntary measures taken over the past two-and-a-half or three years have been halted and we have no further commitment to the additional protocol and other voluntary commitments.
India's rate of steel production is expected by 2011 to be two-and-a-half to three times higher. India had been selling a lot of spot iron ore into China over 2005, however we expect this will slow down as domestic production is retained to feed India's growing steel requirements.
This guy has been undergoing investigation for two-and-a-half years. You can imagine what that does to somebody.
It's just been two-and-a-half years, and in the racing business you have to move on, ... You obviously can't sit back and say you're going to wait for someone for three years. Joe's the driver and I am giving them space because it's his job now. It's not my car because I can't do it. It's not really something that I'm proud of.
We played pretty well for two-and-a-half quarters. We fell apart late in the third, and our attitude changed dramatically. We went from a team with a chance to win to a team that lost.