Sentences with phrase «'s a fair amount»

It's advice that has a fair amount of research to back it up.

Most of us hate other people's bull, but actually participate in a fair amount ourselves, either to avoid confrontation or smooth our way through life.

The company will find you a mechanic also to accompany you to a used - car dealer; again, it seems like the mechanic would have a fair amount of discretion in offering his or her services.

Pourbaix said that railway operators have hired and are training crew to handle crude shipments and have «indicated that they're reactivating a fair amount of locomotives.»

It mostly contradicts the way they covered the election while it was underway [and] it puts a fair amount of emphasis on news events such as the Comey letter, which leads to questions about how those stories were covered.

But the bill does a fair amount of line - crossing, and seems even to make a point of it.

When helping companies shift their sales culture, I spend a fair amount of time listening in on sales meetings.

There's a fair amount of evidence backing up these worries.

Lately, the Toronto - based author has turned his attention to how we achieve happiness, and his upcoming book, The Happiness Equation, dedicates a fair amount of ink to career satisfaction.

However, you have to have a fair amount of technical and artistic skill to pull this type of business off successfully.

Consider that even if you get just a tiny percentage of Facebook users to look at your page, you have a good chance in driving a fair amount of traffic.

He said its co-founders had a fair amount of luck in getting the company off the ground, stumbling unexpectedly into filling a common need.

To combat this, many banks and credit unions offer «switch kits» to help speed the process along, but you'll still have a fair amount of legwork to do before you can say goodbye to your old bank.

The export strategy, he concedes, involves a fair amount of serendipity: «We spend a lot of time and effort to execute communications and web marketing.

What's more, the bank sent a fair amount of its employees packing last year, cutting 6,671 positions in 2015.

It's no secret that «millennial» is a somewhat loaded term that comes with a fair amount of contradictory baggage.

Brunner, who left Lunar in 1989 to become Apple's chief designer, recalls having conversations with Smith about how they spent a fair amount of their time giving counsel and strategic advice to start - up clients, almost as if they were venture capitalists.

To Friedman, the existing standards already give «industry a fair amount of opportunity to run forward.»

While a fair amount of Irish Luck may be involved, it's increasingly clear that Dublin startups are well - earning their international chops.

«The agency has a fair amount of latitude to turn the screws up,» said David Vladeck, the former head of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection who signed the consent order which binds Facebook for 20 years.

The NFL's regular season TV ratings were down 9 % last year, and a fair amount of blame for the decline went to the fact that younger viewers have become increasingly distracted by the plethora of streaming entertainment options online and social media.

I put a fair amount of effort into landing opportunities to talk to incredibly successful people.

Scotty Allen is a geek, and one who spends a fair amount of time in China.

I still do primarily claims relating to motor vehicle accidents and I do a fair amount of statutory accident benefits, defending those on behalf of the insurance companies.

Like most people who spend too little time asleep and too much time trying to stay focused on work, I tend to drink a fair amount of coffee.

Rich Greenfield, a BTIG analyst and noted ESPN skeptic, told Business Insider he also thinks that Turner, which owns CNN, TBS, and TNT, would be «very interested» — even though Turner owns a fair amount of sports.

I hear a lot of cheap conversation and a fair amount of wishful thinking about this year's expected abundant crop of initial public offerings, but — at least to date — there's not much to show for all the talk.

«I make a fair amount of money from my podcast,» says Greg Fitzsimmons, the host of Fitzdog Radio.

You'll want to invest a fair amount of time — in as far in advance as possible — researching and reaching out to relevant bloggers and other media professionals.

There will be a fair amount of trickle down as a result of Twitter's public offering.

Expect to spend a fair amount of time on research, checking with suppliers, and talking with industry experts and specialists.

Finding ways to sweeten the pot for the employee can give you a fair amount of wiggle room in the salary you pay.

There is also a fair amount of red and white to go with Twitter's signature blue.

I did a fair amount of modeling at the time as well.

And the Kraft Heinz company is betting that means there were a fair amount of people who would have been fine not going into the office the next day.

As if that weren't enough, he goes on to say that the win - win approach is «partially responsible» for the «fair amount of mediocrity in American business» today (see «Can a Negotiating Coach Help Me?»

I've read a fair amount of criticism directed at LinkedIn over the past year — and toward Microsoft for much longer.

Schilowitz does a fair amount of public evangelizing, but otherwise, Red's marketing has largely consisted of Jannard's online rants on public forums.

The logic: Again, I want to establish that I'm an Eagles fan by trade and there is a fair amount of homerism in this pick.

«I've been spending a fair amount of time in the last few weeks just looking at this and saying, as a small company, how can we hedge more effectively?

The region does get a fair amount of snow, though, which means that Midwesterners have to work with what they have when it comes to winter activities like sledding.

There was a fair amount of eye rolling in the audience.

«My CTO just did an article for the BBC that got a fair amount of coverage,» Gowell says.

There was a fair amount of litigation against vertical mergers in the 1960s and 1970s, by the government and by private parties, but litigation declined sharply in 1980s.

Angela grew fascinated by this «extra something» in her students and, since she had a fair amount of it herself, she quit her teaching job so that she could study the concept while obtaining a graduate degree in psychology at UPenn.

«There was a fair amount of hedge fund ownership that was expecting accelerated buybacks,» said Smith, addressing Comcast's share drop on Tuesday.

«We've had a fair amount of luck in the events around us,» admits Deputy Prime Minister Goh Keng Swee.

«Life insurance in retirement might make sense if you have a fair amount of debt that you don't want to burden your family with,» Simmonds said.

That was made harder by the climate for funding: there might have been a fair amount of funding over our past decade, especially in Silicon Valley, but that wasn't the landscape in 1987.

Business involves a fair amount of greed, rivalry, workaholism, pettiness and failure.»