Sentences with phrase «in a dozen years of»

In a dozen years of parish ministry this was the first time I had taught a class on theology.

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I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

The Canadian - born Stanford computer science prof has quietly invested in nearly two dozen tech startups over the years — including Google, which is the origin of his fortune — but he appears to be taking a more active role in one of his portfolio's firms.

Popular Science is out with its 30th annual list of «The 100 Greatest Innovations» of the year — and the top dozen are in the category of health.

In the three years since the project got its start, the squad — a rotating group of a dozen veteran hackers — «has gained a reputation for being among the most effective computer bug exterminators on the planet,» Hackett writes.

The announcement came on the same day that Israel celebrated its 70th year of statehood, and amid continued protests at the Israel - Gaza border, in which Israeli soldiers have used live ammunition against Palestinian protesters, killing dozens and wounding hundreds more.

Today she is an officer of the Sacramento Spyder Ryders, one of dozens of such clubs that have sprung up across North America in recent years.

While dozens of hedge funds have sprung up this year to invest in the white - hot digital currency market, this one, known as Arrington XRP Capital, is the first to be denominated in a crypto - currency rather than dollars or euros.

Anderson expects them to account for 95 % within three to four years, but retailers won't stock a dozen different kinds of step - ins, and that many choices would just confuse consumers anyway.

Because disruptions are nothing new: We've seen dozens of them in recent years: A young entrepreneur has a big idea, shakes things up and emerges with a multi-billion dollar business that leaves people gaping, imitating, disbelieving and envying, all amid a dizzying swirl of emotions.

Buffett's investments in newspaper companies including Graham Holdings (ghc)(former owner of the Washington Post) and Lee Enterprises (lee)(which publishes dozens of regional papers), are among his worst performers, with Graham's shares down 24 % and Lee's down 30 % over the past year.

Over the last two decades of building and running businesses, and the last couple of years working full time with dozens of startup founders and CEOs on their strategies and funding plans in my consultancy business, I have observed that there are a common set of reasons that startups struggle and fail, and a consistent set of factors that make startup companies successful.

Working out of a dozen corrugated - metal buildings in a dismal windblown patch of desert in Mojave, 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, it has rolled out 26 new types of manned aircraft in 30 years, many of them rule - breaking and innovative; most big aerospace contractors, by contrast, struggle to get a single new aircraft out in an entire decade.

«Manafort, like dozens of other influence peddlers, has been operating in plain sight for years,» wrote Silverstein, the long - time foreign - lobbying reporter.

Like Twitter and dozens of other companies that have gone public in the last couple of years, GrubHub took advantage of a provision in the JOBS Act of 2012, which lets small companies valued at $ 1 billion or less to file for an initial public offering in private, and just a few weeks before it intends to debut.

After observing dozens of board meetings over the last fifteen years and interviewing hundreds of directors, the dialogue and behavior changes with women in boardrooms.

Dara Khosrowshahi DAH - ra Cause - row - shaw - hee Khosrowshahi took over as CEO of car - sharing service Uber in 2017 after a dozen years at Expedia.

So last year he formed a task force of several dozen employees, and developed a white paper that McKesson is now circulating in Washington.

Now what I love is that in less than five years the company has expanded from a single product to a line of more than a dozen.

Approximately 93 percent of small business owners in one small survey overpaid their taxes over the past dozen years.

Next year, after all, Target will begin opening stores in dozens of suburban malls across Canada, and more major American brands, such as J. Crew and Kohl's, are considering adding Canadian locations.

Some companies even host their own exchanges — Procter & Gamble pioneered the in - house model more than 10 years ago, and credits it for dozens of its «global game - changer» products, including the Swiffer Duster and Tide Pods.

Each child may have more than a dozen doctor appointments in a typical year, Gerardo said, plus hours of therapy, including occupational and speech therapy, and more.

Perhaps the most politically volatile coming Supreme Court case is Whole Woman's Health v. Lakey, which will decide whether dozens of abortion clinics throughout Texas can remain open — a decision that probably will affect other conservative states that have in recent years imposed harsh restrictions on abortion clinics.

This year, dozens of companies have stepped in to aid you in making for a much smoother travel experience.

Yet during its first several years of operation, Englewood suffered through as many as a half - dozen instances annually in which subcontractors failed to perform.

Allison spent a few years in the early 2000s homeless, but now rents in San Francisco's rapidly changing SoMa district, which is known as the home of dozens of tech companies including Yelp, Zynga and Airbnb.

«They are curious, energetic, and aren't afraid to ask tough and sometimes unusual questions... We both get interviewed dozens of times every year, but this was the most memorable one we've done in a long time.»

The most famous example of this is in farming, where one man with a big tractor now often does the work that a dozen men might have done in years gone by.

She's launched a half - dozen ventures of her own in the past eight years, and almost all of them — including Sprouter, BetaKit and BrandProject LP — helped those building their own businesses connect with people who can help them.

In fact, an estimated 840 million (or 70 million dozen, in industry parlance) balls are produced each year, according to Nike — enough to wrap around the circumference of the EartIn fact, an estimated 840 million (or 70 million dozen, in industry parlance) balls are produced each year, according to Nike — enough to wrap around the circumference of the Eartin industry parlance) balls are produced each year, according to Nike — enough to wrap around the circumference of the Earth.

The company, which was co-founded by entrepreneur Wade Eyerly two years ago, launched its first flight in June with a fleet of half a dozen six - passenger crafts.

There's no single reason for Home Hardware's climb; it's a combination of consistency — the company has had just three CEOs since its founding in 1964 — and its slow - and - steady approach to modernizing its retail experience (the company is four years into a five year plan in which it told dozens of locations to shape up or leave the chain).

Which is why Maclean's once again asked dozens of economists, analysts, investors and financial writers to each share their pick for the most important chart for Canada in the year ahead.

«DOI's investigations exposing and preventing the types of corruption that fuel violence have resulted in more than 30 arrests of Correction Department officers and staff over the last two years and led to dozens of reforms,» he said.

«In 12 years Alpenglow Expeditions has grown from just me guiding a few clients to dozens of trips every year around the world.

The «decade» of Steve actually began in 1997, when he returned to Apple after having been ousted a dozen years earlier.

Only a surprisingly successful month of August (when the usual stream of summer blockbusters often turns into a trickle) has helped the industry recover from a month of July that did not reach $ 1 billion in total gross for the first time in a dozen years.

Among nearly two dozen major airlines contacted by Reuters, only Japan Airlines gave actual figures on incidents of sexual harassment on its flights: around 10 to 20 a year, with police called in on some cases.

Dozens of malls have closed in the last 10 years, and many more are at risk of shutting down as retailers like Macy's, JCPenney, and Sears — also known as anchor stores — shutter hundreds of stores to staunch the bleeding from falling sales.

The key driver of these income trends, besides lower employment and hours in the aftermath of the financial crisis, has been wage stagnation over the last dozen years.

My wife and I lived in a pile of junk on a beautiful property for a dozen years before we were debt free and had the cash to tear it down and build our dream home.

Harmless fun tipped over into something darker in 2013 when Armstrong fired an employee on a live conference call in front of dozens of his colleagues, and again this year when he blamed a reduction in employee benefits to «distressed babies» recently born to two new mothers.

Two years ago Will Raap, CEO of Gardener's Supply Inc., a $ 26 - million mail - order business based in Burlington, Vt., granted a half - dozen employees their dream assignment.

For example, his $ 17,000 in profit his senior year came on $ 50,000 in revenues, which came from sales of 1,186 dozen roses, some of which he upsold by saying to customers: «For just $ 10 more we could put that in a vase.»

On the downside, the previous account holder had already posted dozens of questionable tweets, some comical («Best years of my life my ass»), some typed in Russian characters, and some that equated to panhandling («Follow me, please!»).

While the major stock exchanges, securities regulators and police have made significant progress in the past dozen years purging the old - style boiler rooms and pump - and - dump schemes from the public markets, the marketing of suspect securities continues to thrive in the private domain.

ESPN has broadcasting rights for dozens of different sports locked up for the next several years at least — that's what the fortress walls are constructed from — but those deals will eventually expire, and there are a number of ways to get around them in the meantime if you think creatively.

The Canadian - born Stanford computer science prof has quietly invested in nearly two dozen tech startups over the years, but he appears to be taking a more active role in one of his portfolio's firms.

CalPERS already has moved to lower its risk of big investment downturns last year by pulling out its entire $ 4 billion investment in 24 hedge funds and a half - dozen hedge funds of funds.