First, to qualify you typically need 2 years of steady employment with a stable or increasing income, a minimum credit score of 620 with no more than 2 30-day late payments over the last 2 years, no bankruptcies in the last 2 years, no foreclosures in the last 3 years, and a mortgage payment no more than about 30% of your gross pre-tax income.
While hybrid vehicles have been widely available for more than a dozen years, the market for plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) has grown rapidly in the last 2 years, reaching more than 120, 000 unit sales worldwide in 2012.
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According to IBM, 90% of the data in the world today was created in the last 2 years alone.
There were three male CEOs of Yahoo in the past 2 years before Marissa Mayer.
If you think 30% sounds aggressive, remember that Apple has grown its revenue 50% and 33% in the last 2 years.
It may be a long term investment but in the last 2 years do they pay attention with mergers and acquisitions, no.
In the last 2 years, significant servicing capacity has relocated from gassy regions to oily regions because of subdued natural gas prices.
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Overall, we know that employment has grown in the past 2 years by 750, 000, at a time when households and businesses were being squeezed.
The seeming epidemic of rules violations in the last 2 years moved NCAA President Mark Emmert to convene a 2-day summit to address ways to expeditiously instill a heightened degree of vigilance towards compliance.
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This randomized, controlled study showed that Medicaid coverage generated no significant improvements in measured physical health outcomes in the first 2 years, but it did increase use of health care services, raise rates of diabetes detection and management, lower rates of depression, and reduce financial strain.
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The bank will add at least 1, 000 branches in the next 3 years and could add 2, 000 in the next five years.
New export orders in Germany fell for the third month in a row, and at the fastest pace in 2 years.
These shorter studies have been based on methods that are very different from the Harvard-OSU research, but in the 2, 000 years that they overlap, the results have been basically the same.
For the first time in 20 years, the crime index has fallen 2 years in a row.
There is no way anyone can forget the massive up move in gold over the last 2 years.
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And in the 2, 000 years since, in every corner of the world, the tiny candles of Hanukkah have reminded us of the importance of faith and perseverance.
We looked at the last three films each actor starred in over the last three years that opened in more than 2, 000 theaters, calculating the return on investment for the studios who pay his (or her) salary.
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In the next 2-3 years, there will be tremendous opportunities in e-commerce, but it will continue to be a competitive space.
Within the next 2 years the in-game hand held fan technology will likely be threefold what it is today in order to keep attracting fans to facilities.
Temperature reconstructions have already indicated that the recent warming trend is atypical in the context of the past 2, 000 years.
For example, the Conference Board in the November 2012 Global Outlook (see chart below) forecasted an annualized growth rate of 2.3% in its base case for the years 2013-208 and a further reduced annualized growth rate projection of 2.0% in its base case for the years 2019-2025, representing a distribution of roughly 18% of overall World output.
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Moreover, the MPC still has room for manoeuvre to counter the contractionary effects of additional budgetary curbs, because its central forecast shows consumer-price inflation below the 2% target in two years' time, the horizon it focuses on when setting monetary policy.
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Russian scientists believe this was the largest meteorite to fall to Earth in the past 2, 000 years.
But Saturn has never made money, and Saab has been profitable in just 2 of the 14 years it has been with GM.
With a new league starving the owners every stadium will be available for 5-15 cents on the dollar in 2 years.
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This workshop was an opportunity for the Ministry and other education partners to come together and talk about how ESD should move forward in the coming 1-2 years.
If all goes well, the revenues produced from exporting iron ore to China in the next 2-3 years will then pay for a steelworks and, ultimately, cement and even car factories.
When we look at the most advanced AR markets, like Japan, Hong Kong and the Netherlands, we find that AR has achieved over 5% and near 10% adoption levels in the first 2-4 years.
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Her finest hour came in 1953, in Zeeland, when the worst storms in 500 years burst the dykes and claimed more than 2, 000 lives.
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