Sentences with phrase «about a dozen years»

About a dozen years ago, mega-best-selling author Stephen King wrote a book about the craft of writing that became an instant bestseller: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.

(That's one reason we named him one of our 2016 Businesspersons of the Year — and probably about a dozen years too late at that.)

I saw it about a dozen years ago and remembered it as an enjoyable and darkly funny action movie with an exceptional performance by James Caan.

That began about a dozen years ago when some of us Christians used to sit around the edges of the Jewish Textual Reasoning Group, which brought together Jewish scholars and philosophers at the American Academy of Religion.

Our second monk, William of Ockham, was born in England about a dozen years after Aquinas's death, joined the Franciscans, was educated and later taught at Oxford, and died in 1347 in Munich after a life of considerable turbulence, both intellectual and ecclesiastical.

I expect in about a dozen years the senate's first centurion will be saying much the same thing.

Now, about a dozen years later, paleontologists from the University of Bonn, led by Prof. Dr. Martin Sander, have worked with Nils Knötschke and Dr. Oliver Wings from the State Museum of Hanover to reconstruct the tracks in a three - dimensional model, using digital methods.

Before stapling came into common use about a dozen years ago, this part of the procedure had to be done by hand, and it would have taken at least three times as long.

I would stay on that path for about a dozen years.

The first time I noticed something on my right foot was about a dozen years ago.

Her wisdom has informed my writing for about a dozen years, and I asked her how worried she is about the flu.

I was a handbag designer in NYC for about a dozen years, and though the mini's were rarely the rave (from a mass marketplace perspective, which is the market I designed for), the small bag has always been my personal favorite.

As most of you know, the rights to distribute movies can change over time, and we lost ours for Grand Illusion about a dozen years ago.

Yeah, I've been doing theater since I was 15, and I've been pursuing it professionally for about a dozen years now.

The book resonates with me, since I have been studying Italian for about a dozen years now, mostly through classes that have by now evolved into weekly two - hour conversations with a private tutor — a fast talker from Turin who forces me to keep up with her onrushing molto veloce patter.

Ridenbaugh Press publishes books, up to about a dozen a year.

I worked on the book for about a dozen years after I retired.

First - I used to be a collector — having worked in the collection industry for about a dozen years.

About a dozen years ago, the AKC separated herding dogs from the working group.

About a dozen years ago I was slapped in the face with a warm Burrito from Taco Bell.

This latest back - to - the - earth movement started in England about a dozen years ago, then spread to the United States, where four green cemeteries have blossomed, including one in upstate New York.

When I was an in - house lawyer (about a dozen years), I was constantly solicited and hated when «asked for the business.»

He disappeared about a dozen years ago.

A medical doctor must undergo about a dozen years or more of education to begin the profession, which leaves most of them in debt throughout their early career.

The company's involvement in development started about a dozen years ago when Brown and Sharkey took over marketing of a new downtown apartment project on behalf of the bank that owned it after the developer went bankrupt.

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Under the plan, which launched last year, T - Mobile divided its customers into blocks of about 120,000, who are each assigned to a specific group of a few dozen employees at a specific call center.

Budget 2016 announces that the Government will eliminate tariffs on about a dozen manufacturing inputs, providing an estimated $ 9 million in tariff savings over the next five years to Canadian manufacturers in the consumer goods and transportation sectors.

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.

Basically what I, and dozens of other SEO industry experts, have been writing about for years has now come to fruition.

The company sponsors about 40,000 wreaths each year and donates the services of more than a dozen tractor - trailers to deliver the wreaths around the country.

There are fewer than two dozen Athleta stores now, but by the end of the year Gap plans to have about 50 (compared to Lululemon's 185 worldwide).

He founded Total Debt Freedom in 2004 after spending a dozen years managing collections departments, and says he feels far better about what he does today.

Dozens of exploration companies flooded to the area about five or six years ago, staking claims, setting up camps, even building airstrips without informing First Nations who consider the vast land theirs.

The same was said about diamonds and mattresses, but Blue Nile and Casper have proved otherwise, and in recent years, half a dozen upstarts have emerged to do likewise with bras, a $ 13 billion industry long dominated by Victoria's Secret.

Like Sutphen, Charles Phillips, the 56 - year - old CEO of Infor, a $ 2.8 billion enterprise software firm, has an informal network of his own — a supper club of two dozen business leaders and professionals, most of whom prefer to remain anonymous, who have raised millions of dollars for causes they care about.

To build Einstein, Salesforce spent about $ 650 million acquiring dozens of startups in the artificial intelligence and machine - learning space over the past two years.

In the two years I've been writing about open - plan offices, I've read dozens of scientific studies on the subject, all of which point out that they're a productivity disaster.

To remedy that, the bank has assigned about two dozen bankers over the past couple of years to focus on this segment of clients.

In fact, they estimate they meet in person only about a half - dozen times a year, and most of those encounters come on the golf course.

B. Allan Kurtz, managing director at New York events venue Gotham Hall, which hosts about half a dozen Wall Street holiday gatherings each year, said the standard budget is $ 100,000 to $ 200,000.

Denton told POLITICO Media that he is not concerned about giving up some control to an outside investor — which is a reversal of virtually everything he's said for the past dozen years — because having to justify his decisions to someone outside Gawker would lead him to make better decisions.

As Re / code recently reported, competition in the online market for used clothing has intensified in the last two years as investors poured money into about a half - dozen startups in the space.

Involving four national laboratories, seven universities, about a dozen corporations and roughly 350 researchers, the interdisciplinary group gets US$ 25 million a year and «a considerable amount of freedom» to pursue its mandate, King says.

'» Asked to paint a picture of the company in 20 years, the executives mentioned such things as «on the cover of Business Week as a model success story... the Fortune most admired top - ten list... the best science and business graduates want to work here... people on airplanes rave about one of our products to seatmates... 20 consecutive years of profitable growth... an entrepreneurial culture that has spawned half a dozen new divisions from within... management gurus use us as an example of excellent management and progressive thinking,» and so on.

Last year, the event brought together thousands of activists to listen to dozens of Republican leaders speak about everything from economics and foreign policy to social issues.

Its been years since I was familiar with about a dozen texts that clearly show Christians are hypocritical about the Bible.

About 59 years later, Darwin published his theory and other than a bit of a rough start, scientists (other than those half dozen) have not looked back.

We have tried about a dozen times over the last four years, and as you say, it feels like such a charade.

Of the 12,587 Syrian refugees admitted under the ramped - up refugee program during the last fiscal year, a mere 0.5 percent were Christians, equivalent to about a dozen families.

However, if I read my Bible the equivalent of every minute that I devoted to watching football, reading fantasy reports and replaying highlights; I'd get through the Bible about three dozen times a year.