Sentences with phrase «about the hours and hours»

The racing games we grew up with hold a special place in our hearts and even just watching back the intro clips can get us reminiscing about the hours and hours we spent playing them.

If you think standards don't matter or that it's irrelevant that old mobi is garbage, read this about Amanda Hocking, which was part of the reason she left self - publishing: «And what about the hours and hours that she's spent since April 2010 dealing with technical glitches on Kindle» (From The Guardian today: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/12/amanda-hocking-self-publishing)

But then I think about the hours and hours of hard work these artists put into each piece and I have to admit it's probably a bargain.

Not exact matches

Baehr's mentor, Walter Hailey, whose insurance company Lone Star Life Insurance went on to become a Kmart insurance company, used to take an hour - long walk at 5 a.m. every morning with a group of close friends to talk about ideas, successes and failures.

Musk reportedly sleeps about six hours per night, wakes up around 7 a.m. and usually skips breakfast.

In a sport that requires athleticism, skill, preternatural spatial awareness... and the ability to look past the inherent risk of driving a race car at 200 miles per hour and still perform at the highest level, he talked about his injury.

Spend less time worried about getting one more hour in the office and focus on your fitness and your health.

With a sturdy, adjustable - height tabletop and a range of 0.6 to 6.5 kilometres per hour, I would soon be typing and talking without worrying about the «sitting disease» epidemic that's killing North Americans.

«It's about the ease of doing business — I put my inventory on Apex's system, and half an hour later I have sales coming in,» says Snyder, who works for Soma Colorado.

«However, I would like it on the record — as an expert who has thought about these issues nearly every working hour over the last four years — that I'm convinced that without the SPV and 12g fixes, retail investors will be heavily disadvantaged as compared to accredited investors and equity crowdfunding will ultimately be seen as a failure.

«I remember, like, you don't often get so obsessed about something where you drop everything and drive to Boston and meet with people for 14 hours, taking notes, losing your voice, with no idea just to learn,» he said.

When you're at the tail - end of a long - haul business flight, you probably start dreaming about taking a hot shower and washing off the grime that has accumulated after hours on a plane.

Asheville, N.C., and the Blue Ridge mountains are an hour north, while South Carolina's beaches are about four hours away.

Negotiators for owners and players will meet Thursday, about 12 hours before the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement and seemingly nowhere close to a deal.

TORONTO, May 1 - For about an hour and 11 minutes last Friday afternoon, traders in Canada's biggest stock exchanges were left in the dark, as the stock market operator battled with a hardware failure.

A one - way ticket in May from Milwaukee to Pittsburgh on OneJet costs about $ 200 on the company's website, which says it takes about an hour and 10 minutes.

Manoj Bhargava, creator of the 5 - Hour Energy drink, talks about dealing with controversy and the humanitarian model he has adopted.

It would be electrically powered, and travel at about 30 miles per hour.

But focus, by definition, narrows the scope of our thinking, and given how complex and fast moving most business problems are, we should relearn the skill of simply opening our mind and giving ourselves half an hour to think, in an unstructured, creative way, about whatever pops up.

In addition to interviewing leading legal scholars and activists, like Angela Davis, DuVernay said she reviewed about 1,000 hours of archival footage, including of images of lynchings, cellphone videos of police abuse, and The Birth of a Nation, the 1915 D.W. Griffith film that glorified the Ku Klux Klan (and was screened at the White House for President Woodrow Wilson).

During an investigation into allegations the supervisor made that employees were biased against her, she called an employee after hours and chatted for 90 minutes — in part, to talk about work.

An hour later, we knew all about them — where they lived, what they did for a living, what their kids were into, and even where they last went on vacation.

As I draw up spreadsheets of likely investors and put meetings on the calendar, I'm reminded of the many things I dread about fundraising, beginning with spending hours on traffic - choked 101 from San Francisco to Silicon Valley.

It has a high - resolution screen, operates the latest version of iOS, has access to millions of apps, and runs for about 10 hours between charges.

A group of web companies including Google, Facebook and Twitter signed an EU hate speech accord earlier this year that requires them to respond within 24 hours to notifications about hate speech on their services.

«After that I actually went to San Francisco and met him at a hotel, and we talked for about three hours.

Yet regardless of how disciplined he was about shutting down his computer and heading home, he continued to spend two hours a day commuting - essentially 10 hours a week which added up to two full months a year.

Their employees volunteered about 188,000 hours in communities in 47 countries, with more than 40 % of their time spent devoted to providing their unique talents and abilities (skills - based volunteering).

The program is a series of four courses, each of which takes about five to seven hours per week and four weeks to complete.

With a rapidly expanding farming operation in Campbellford, Ont., about a two - hour drive northeast of Toronto, Goldin and his brothers, Darren and Ryan, are part of the fast - growing entomophagy movement: bug - eating advocates who aim to move creepers, crawlers and flitters into the mainstream food supply.

At Princeton, Al - Naji's interest in bitcoin led him to take courses in monetary history, where he spent office hours arguing with his professor about monetary policy, and the potential for decentralized currencies.

For the $ 119 annual fee, Prime members gets a slew of benefits (which definitely range in usefulness): free two - day shipping, free same - day shipping, and free two - hour delivery on eligible items (of which there are many), exclusive rewards and discounts, Prime Video, Prime Music, online photo storage, music and books, and about 20 other perks.

Unless your employment agreement requires you to come clean about your after - hours venture, Slim recommends staying mum with managers and colleagues.

It's also a good choice for people who care about the company they support, as Tom's of Maine funnels much of its profits to charities and encourages employees to spend a percentage of their working hours doing volunteer activities.

A 10 foot by 20 foot (3 by 6 meter) outdoor enclosure slightly extends their world, but just for about an hour and a half each day, according to testimony by Mark Bezy, a former federal prison warden.

Immigration desk computers at various airports went down for about two hours on Monday, according to Customs and Border Protection.

Segura spends about 20 hours a month working with Dolton — helping book fights, manage a social media presence, and choose appropriate endorsements, among them clothier Detroit Vs Everybody.

But if the nice, thick - walled building would take about 15 minutes travel time, it's better to hole up in the flimsy shelter for awhile — but you should probably leave for a better shelter after roughly an hour (and maybe pick up some beers and sodas on the way: A study in the»50s found they taste fine after a blast).

Forget taking your dog into the office, it's all about kicking back with pigs, goats and cows on your lunch hour.

Folks, if you've ever flown in or out of San Francisco, you know what I'm talking about — the bitter resentment growing in your belly as the fog settles in once more and delays your flight for two hours.

Several hours later, West tweeted about his desire to meet with Alphabet CEO Larry Page and Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Prince George's school is co-ed and a bit further from the palace — about half an hour drive.

Starting your own business has a thrill to it in that you get to be your boss determining your working hours and working on what you are passionate about.

He tells me he drove in with his family from Brampton, about an hour's drive, and it's been a long day.

I hadn't had anyone come in in a couple hours and was brushing up on my class notes for the week feeling pretty good about being paid to study.

As the night wore on, Luke's mother said, Luke and Beth did not revisit the conversation and had sex about an hour later without protection.

Nick and Jill moved into a cottage in the redwood forest near Pescadero, where Nick set about working 16 - hour days at the computer and the sewing machine, testing new fabrics for the next - generation product, designing marketing materials, writing patent applications, and starting to build up a network of retailers.

Oil and gas traders, Bailey says, received alerts about the death of the King of Saudi Arabia more than four hours before crude prices spiked on the news.

Select e-mail delivery for the deed and the gift will be processed and ready in about 12 hours.

The research team is worried about what these results might mean for the decision - making of soldiers and police who work odd hours and whose jobs require them to make subtle distinctions between friend and foe, threatening and nonthreatening.