Sentences with phrase «about the length for»

Let's talk about the length for a moment.

A lot of new advice I've been reading lately, when newer writers ask about lengths for manuscripts, has been «write to the story's natural length.»

Besides, readers don't care too much about length for the most part if the story is great and ends well.

I often get questions about length for novels, novellas and short stories, so it's worth looking at this.

Not exact matches

At SXSW, YouTube's footprint was devoted to educating marketers about the importance of making more engaging ads (of varying lengths) for an online audience.

Chris Anderson, the founder of the conference, has explained that 18 minutes is about the right length for the talks, and I tend to agree.

The duration of the firing you see right now is about 40 seconds, which is the length of the firing for landing on Mars.

Wheeler holds forth at length about his change in direction in an op - ed piece for Wired on Wednesday, describing his experience as the head of a tech startup called NABU in the 1980s as one reason for his change of heart.

Butterfield is among the few elite CEOs who has spoken about the topic at length, and he has given the limelight to his underrepresented employees during key moments, like the night Slack won the Crunchies award for Fastest Rising Startup.

Pinto has spoken at length in the past about JPMorgan's efforts to prepare itself for changes to how the market operates.

The plan would be publicly administered at arm's length from the government and be responsible for managing investments associated with annual contributions of about $ 3.5 billion.

What to include: Business plans vary in length — anywhere from 20 to 50 pages — but typically cover the same topics, such as: Cover Page (essential contact information); Executive Summary (what your business does and what market need it solves); Company Overview (profile of company and successes); Industry Analysis (details about the market); Customer Analysis (who are the customers); Competitive Analysis (identify key competitors); Marketing Plan (your brand and how do you plan on getting it in front of customers); Operations Plan (daily and yearly operational processes for success); Management Team (identify key company personnel); and Financial Plans (revenue projections for three to five years).

I've already talked at length about why I like Everlane so much, and the company's continued commitment to transparency and serving its customers first only furthers my affinity for the brand.

According to a recent report from Reuters, the tech giant is signing deals with companies like BuzzFeed, Vox, and Group Nine (the publisher behind brands like NowThis and The Dodo) for more TV - style video, both short clips of about 10 minutes in length and longer shows of 20 minutes or more.

For the first time in history you, too, can now forgo plopping down upwards of $ 100,000 to buy an Airstream and instead spend about $ 4,000 to $ 10,000 — length of trip and trailer depending — to rent one and temporarily live this dream.

While Ctrip originally thought the money it would save in space and furniture — about $ 1,900 per employee for the length of the study — would offset a drop in productivity, at - home worker output wasn't hampered a bit, Bloom reported in a story for Harvard Business Review.

Breitschwerdt likes to boast about the small car's sophisticated design, noting, for example, the car's inside space occupies 70 % of its total length.

«Industry protagonists are much more cautious about the slope and length of runway for the industry recovery going forward, so you've seen a series of combinations which have sought scale,» said William Herbert, head of global energy research at Simmons & Co International, a unit of Piper Jaffray.

For example, if you want to connect with Darren Rowse for the first time, knowing that direct contact may not be useful at this level, you may instead leave a significant comment on one of his blog posts, about 200 — 300 words in length, that offers something helpful to his readeFor example, if you want to connect with Darren Rowse for the first time, knowing that direct contact may not be useful at this level, you may instead leave a significant comment on one of his blog posts, about 200 — 300 words in length, that offers something helpful to his readefor the first time, knowing that direct contact may not be useful at this level, you may instead leave a significant comment on one of his blog posts, about 200 — 300 words in length, that offers something helpful to his readers.

Potter worked for Morgan Stanley in New York in the 1990s but lost his job after bragging at length in The New York Times about his $ 3,500 Rolex, his opulent lifestyle and his aggressive tactics for making money.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the average length of unemployment for those who were out of work as of March 2017 was about six months.

Most closed accounts are reported for about ten years after they are closed, and they still contribute to the length of your credit history.

Though he refrained from speaking at length about the lawsuit and subsequent end of Gawker, Denton spoke out in support of First Amendment rights for journalists.

Those are big things to balance, but the fact that the government has indicated [it's] interested in the question is a good sign and if [it's] going to talk about more than just length of leave, it could be a significant opportunity to make life better for families.»

Also, you will find that short term binary options — particularly those that are for less than 12 hours in length — are not nearly as accurate as those that are about 24 hours or longer before expiry.

It is disturbing not because of Bitcoin Core's lack of enthusiasm for standing against Segwit2x, which is the way it appeared, but rather it was the fact that the people who support Segwit2x went to great lengths to confuse the general public about Segwit2x, what it meant, what it would do and even spent a good deal of time convincing people it was not an option, but a requirement; a simple software upgrade.

We and others have commented at length about the contradictions between the markets for paper (synthetic) and physical gold.

As with the stock market outlook, a big part of this will come down to the macro / earnings pulse remaining on the positive side - and indeed this is a key focus for us at this point, and something we've been talking at length to clients about.

For example, you can split test your Facebook content (something I've written about previously) to get a clearer idea of how factors like content length, image, time of posting, call - to - action message, and targeting criteria might impact a post's success.

Before even seeking financing for a full - length feature, Peirone went about scraping together enough cash to make a short preview reel.

Much like the Length of history component, the types of credit component is likely used as a measure for how representative your existing credit history sample size will be about your future behavior.

He preached at length about feeding the hungry, visiting the imprisoned, caring for the sick, and clothing the naked.

I used to love to go to regional pastor's meetings and hear the wild and wacky stories about the lengths congregations would go to to jockey for position, etc..

These are quite unequal in length, the longest having two hundred and eighty - six verses, accounting for about a twelfth part of the entire book, the shortest having but three verses.

For reasons Maritain articulates at some length, a certain kind of democracy, guarded against the diseases to which «pure» democracies are prey, best represents the full flowering of human practical wisdom about the sorts of institutions worthy of Jewish and Christian thought.

Being a Reformed (Calvinist) theologian of considerable earnestness, McGrath's essay understandably dwells at length on the formula «justification by faith alone,» and related questions about, for instance, the connection between justification and sanctification.

We've spoken at length about Selma star David Oyelowo's Oscar snub (we even talked to Oyelowo), but now, for the first time, he's speaking up about experience in Hollywood, saying...

Nothing has been taken for granted: every conceivable doubt about the authenticity of any aspect of the story has been raised and debated at length.

(That's about the average length of time of training for a Jesuit priest.

This is evident in Adventures of Ideas, such as in the passage on «Creativity» quoted at length above, or in its reference to the dart of Lucretius.14 It is also evident in Modes of Thought, for example, its statement about «the whole antecedent world conspiring to produce a new occasion» (164).

Anybody who has been a Christian for any length of time can think back to a day when they believed something wrong about Jesus.

This is new territory for me, doing a book - length study of Jesus and the origins of Christianity, but I have read everything I could get my hands on, weighed all the scholarly debates, and hope my book will be useful to the book - reading public in explaining what we can really know, historically, about Jesus.

Sure, we've had some hearts stop for some amazing lengths of time and been able to revive people before they go completely brain dead and there are many claim from people about their NDE's but I do not believe they are seeing anything more than a few screens of our brains operating system reboot sequence since we are but electrochemical biomechanical machines.

Despite what the prince in Dostoevsky's Idiot says about the crucified Christ constituting a sight that could cause one to lose faith, it is precisely upon the Pierced One that the believer must gaze — for in contemplating the length and breadth and depth of a God whose love recoils not from his enemies (nor even from death), even the least faithful believer is offered the greatest proof of the reliability of the Word into which they entrusted their destiny.

It is very much worthwhile to quote Koestler at length: «We, the screamers, have been at it now for about ten years.

In 1541, the Hessian Superintendents sent the following petition to the Landgrave Philip: «In view of the fact that there are current many complaints about parsons who scandalize people by their excessive drinking and other disgraceful vices and yet remain unpunished as well as unreformed, we suggest that the jail at the cloister of Spisskoppel be restored and that the parsons who persist in their vices be given the choice either to leave their parishes or to be confined in this jail for a period of time the length of which shall depend on the nature of their offense, in order that on water and bread they may undergo corrective punishment.

The Aji palpa is of a dark red, almost black when dried, and is used for coloring dishes, etc., since its piquant taste is barely perceptible; it grows to the length of about 4 inches.

Homemade ice cream will become quite hard after being frozen for any length of time so transfer it to the refrigerator to soften for about 30 minutes before serving.

Yes, I have already talked at length about my pancake feelings (cos hint: I have a lot of them) so I'll stop now for your benefit.

I didn't want large pieces of coconut in the batter so I pulsed the flaked coconut in a food processor until it was ground fine (about.5 centimeters in length for lack of a better example).