Sentences with phrase «big advance»

She's making big advances in both gross motor skills (use of the limbs and body) and fine motor skills (use of the hands).

It's no longer the world of big advances and national book tours.

A new technique using liquid metals to create integrated circuits that are just atoms thick could lead to the next big advance for electronics.

But such initiatives mainly pull existing technologies into the market, experts say, and do little to propel private research toward the next big advances.

In the old days, traditional publishers used to give authors big advances.

I think a publisher would have to offer me a very big advance to make me want to publish traditionally.

Any other big advances you see on the horizon that are going to impact our profession?

Other disappointed forecasts include rapid understanding of the immune system and big advances in computerized teaching.

But MakerBot is making big advances on user design.

In it they cited numerous problems for the decline of the publishing industry, but cited the root cause as big advances by authors as a drain on resources and a cause of most of the recent huge losses.

They have numerous literary, genre, OOP classics and translation imprints, and they've already begun competing with traditional publishers by beating out Random House and others with big advances previously established best - selling authors.

In traditional publishing you are going to have to sell more books for far bigger advances to make $ 20,000.00 after five years.

They buy stocks after big advances and buy mutual funds after they have outperformed, then they sell after declines or underperformance.

Mr Harysuyker highlighted some of the impressive numbers underscoring the farm sector's current impact on the national economy including big advances in trade of beef and other commodities to markets like China.

The first big advance occurred in the early 1990s, when epidemiological studies revealed that 90 to 95 percent of individuals with the disorder carry a genetic marker associated with autoimmune disease — self - inflicted damage that occurs when the body mistakes its own tissues for a foreign invader and attacks them.

Then Shiller initiated a new and even bigger advance with his 1981 research showing that valuations affect long - term returns.

Citroen's third - generation Berlingo has broken cover at this week's Geneva motor show, bringing big advances in design, technology and size.

the bloggers I know are talking about bigger advances, best sellers and respect from media and publishers.

It's called How Big an Advance Is Valuation - Informed Indexing?

Buckman also sees big advances already being implemented in load balancing, using new mathematical algorithms to figure out optimal distributions of passenger and cargo weight within the plane for a better flight trim and therefore a more efficient flight.

For her part, Stark prominently posts daily and monthly sales reports, highlighting the figures to show big advances or troublesome declines.

Even an item as small as a penny was impossible to cloak — until two big advances last year.

«Microscopic monitoring may yield big advances in production of consumer products, pharmaceuticals.»

Big advances now will come from different battery chemistry and drive train and plug - in recharging.

If it reprints a few times and sells 15,000 copies they'll love you and offer a much bigger advance for your second book.

It would have to be either (a) a pretty big advance, or (b) a contract that specified some hefty marketing budget to make signing up worthwhile.

This may well mark a turning point though for the fanfic writing community, with the younger demographic of writers on Tumblr and Wattpad perhaps embracing such a venture, seeing it as both a form of revenue, and as a self - marketing vehicle used perhaps to attract big advances from «real» publishers.

The researchers say the idea has merit because jets will continue to fly by burning liquid fuel for many years to come, and automobiles — barring big advances in batteries — will also need a liquid fill - up well past the point where the world has a billion cars.

Chu focused on the two main initiatives related to propelling big advances in technology — the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (known as Arpa - E) and «innovation hubs.»

I'm afraid the days of big advances for first - time authors are behind us and you're right, even authors who publish the traditional way are expected to do much of the marketing themselves, too.

Even if you get a traditional publishing deal, the days of big advances for first time writers are largely gone (unless you are extremely lucky), and you will still be expected to do a significant amount of marketing work on your own.

Some media reports say this is the breakthrough that will usher in the next big advance in IVF, but experts New Scientist spoke to were sceptical.

He is concerned that too many people say to themselves, ««Let me do this safe side project, and I'll save my most interesting project for later on,» and then that side project becomes a big project and takes up a lot of your energy, but it doesn't make as big an advance, and it's not what you were most interested in.»

On the tech side, Delphi Automotive (NYSE: DLPH), Autoliv (NYSE: ALV), and American Tower (NYSE: AMT) as companies that are making big advances in cameras, sensors, and other parts necessary to implement the technology.

That would be a very big advance.

Like Europe's next cee'd, both Cerato models will borrow heavily from Hyundai's slick new i30 and Elantra, bringing big advances in performance, dynamics, refinement and technology.

But on a more practical matter, if your income is advance - heavy — that is, you expect that it'll take you years to earn out your advances, if you ever do — it is probable that you will make less money in the first year, or perhaps few years, of self - publishing, depending on how fast you write, how big your advances are, and how well you do.

She said vloggers — video bloggers — «will thrive and peak», while literary agent Caroline Sheldon said «a number of books by celebrity bloggers with big advances will fail».

The traditional publishing industry moans that cuts in ebook prices will wipe out what little margin the publishers have left, thus preventing publishers from paying authors big advances and, thus (be afraid!

Bill Gates has recruited a batch of billionaires to invest for the long haul in search of big advances in nonpolluting energy.

Willemse was a pioneer in what's now known as precision agriculture, and which may be the biggest advance in farming since tractors replaced horses.

Progress has been slow, but recently some big advances have brought us a lot closer.

One of the biggest advances in the science of clothes - making in recent years has been tech that generates warmth beyond what the fabric alone provides.