Sentences with phrase «by up to an hour»

The change could increase learning time by up to an hour and forty - five minutes for every grade three through eight student.

That line already carries more than 260,000 passengers each day and has shortened commute times by up to an hour, as well as reduced air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, according to WRI.

The MSI also manages to power through just over three hours of the Peacekeeper browser benchmark before collapsing from exhaustion, a score that either ties its competitors, or beats them by up to an hour.

Not exact matches

On Tuesday night, hours after Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 bound for Dallas from New York City managed to land, Southwest announced its intention to speed up an already in place engine inspection program for machinery produced by CFM International.

Rather than trying to make up for a day of eating in excess by doing two hours of cardio, or not eating until dinner because you missed a workout the day before, focus on what you can do the next day to stay on track.

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.

Some experts suggest organizations record all the hours that each employee spends in meetings, and multiply it by how much the employee earns per hour to paint an accurate picture of the cost of so many daily meet - ups.

On a warm spring afternoon, Phil Knight found the time to meet up with me at the Le Germain Hotel in downtown Toronto while in Canada for just a few hours promoting his book Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike.

Even though these «up to 12 - hour transaction lead times» (when moving bitcoin to and from exchanges) could be adressed, Oldenburg sees no signs of change, because the currency is purportedly being run by the «old» bitcoin network, the members of which he calls «fanatical bitcoin talibans».

For instance, Garbugli includes a little graphic in his presentation illustrating just how hard it is to concentrate before an impending meeting — the hours leading up to it are often dead time — and also quotes Y Combinator's Paul Graham: «A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon by breaking it into two pieces each to small to do anything hard in.»

Growing up, Spiegel and his two younger sisters attended a private prep school in Santa Monica, Calif., where they were «assisted by tutors, some of whom charged up to $ 250 an hour.»

By going to sleep at 9 p.m. and waking up at 6 a.m., he gets nine hours of «uninterrupted therapy and regeneration.»

HyperJuice Micro can extend iPad 3rd / 4th generation by 3 extra hours, the iPad 1st / 2nd generation by 5 extra hours or fully recharge the iPhone 3 times, extending your talk time by up to 36 hours, standby time by up to 900 hours, Internet use by up to 26hours, video playback by up to 30 hours and audio playback by up to 80 hours.

And while theirs is easily eaten up by phone calls, meetings, and sudden crises once they've gotten to the office, the morning hours are under their control.

Your infomercial will seldom be watched by anyone from beginning to end, so you must break up the half - hour show into separate, interesting segments with a «closer» or «call to action» at the end of each segment.

Ahead of the 48 - hour strike, opposition leaders have encouraged Venezuelans to stock up on food and other goods — a call echoed by the US embassy in Venezuela.

The company also abides by FAA guidelines recommending that licensed pilots operate the drones, which means paying a pro up to $ 40 an hour to be on site during promotions, he explained, adding that the company, which is turning a profit, is planning a campaign on crowdfunding site Kickstarter at the end of April.

The average time spent on private activities, such as online shopping, checking social media and emails, personal phone calls, and chatting with colleagues sucks up an estimated 1.5 to 3 hours per day, according to studies cited by The Atlantic.

Give yourself the gift of time by signing up for whatever service that will make it easier for you to find a few hours to invest in yourself.

By persuading Dayton's to let her sell her new album while she played its selections and by collecting $ 20 per hour for doing so, she dodged the industry's high start - up costs, effectively providing her own advertising and promotioBy persuading Dayton's to let her sell her new album while she played its selections and by collecting $ 20 per hour for doing so, she dodged the industry's high start - up costs, effectively providing her own advertising and promotioby collecting $ 20 per hour for doing so, she dodged the industry's high start - up costs, effectively providing her own advertising and promotion.

Last week, 25 entrepreneurs boarded the Start - up Bus in San Francisco and spent the next 48 hours developing business ideas, which they then pitched to a panel of judges at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin.

By posing as another caller («I said I was Rudy»), Allen arranged to pick it up in two hour - long trips back and forth from Whistler.

During the meeting on employee activism, she brings up an issue that recently arose at some stores in Japan, Patagonia's second - largest market after the U.S.. All employees at Patagonia are encouraged to engage with their communities, either through volunteer work or by marching for a cause or hosting a meeting at a store (after hours).

They all follow the same general protocol: After sleeping for several hours, you wake up — either naturally or by setting an alarm — and then remain alert as your body drifts back to sleep.

We figured that by the time everyone got in and to their seats, and by the time the director and / or stars wrapped up their inevitable introductory speeches, the film would likely start an hour and a half after it was supposed to.

The deal, which is still making its way through Congress after an eleventh hour push from party bigs, has three main components: It immediately raises the debt ceiling, includes around $ 2.1 trillion in spending cuts over the next 10 years, and creates a special Congressional committee to come up with long term deficit - reduction suggestions by this Thanksgiving.

Industry experts say airlines informally have what's known as a «flat - tire rule,» allowing passengers who miss their flights by up to two hours the leeway to fly standby without a penalty.

«We had to take two connecting flights to Yuma, Arizona, and then drive for an hour to the border to literally walk through the turnstiles and be picked up by someone from the factory, which was a 10 - minute drive from there,» Zak recalls.

The pair came up with an elegant solution to the long hours demanded by starting their company: They cohabitated and then had early employees move in too.

That same day, senators derailed a proposal by Sen. John Cornyn, R - Texas, that would have let the government delay firearms sales to suspected terrorists for up to 72 hours.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg remained calm under pressure during five hours of questioning by U.S. senators about a series of recent crises culminating with the latest involving Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm that gained access to data about up to 87 million Facebook users.

You can sign up for short - or long - term projects, and elect to work by the hour or be paid per - project.

The country's largest workforce by demographics, millennials are willing to give up a percentage of their salary for long - term job security, flexible office hours and a management structure that emphasizes mentorship and a better career trajectory, according to new research from survey software firm Qualtrics and venture capital firm Accel Partners (a Qualtrics investor).

What if I told you that you needed to increase the traffic to your website by 500 percent over the next 12 months, and that if you didn't, I would chain you up in a basement for the next 30 years, forcing you to watch 18 hours a day of Mork and Mindy?

Some researchers argue that it is impossible to determine when a contractor is truly working for a company during the times when the worker is waiting to pick up a ride, because the driver could be using two applications at once or attending to personal business.100 However, as noted in a 2016 report by the Economic Policy Institute, both Uber and Lyft already have guaranteed pay plans that they use in some markets during certain hours that pay workers guaranteed minimum earnings per hour based on their entire time logged into the system, including waiting times.101

Tesla Motors saw its shares shoot up by 5 percent to $ 212.05 each in after - hours trading upon the release of its third quarter results.

On 14th June 2017, the fed raised its rate up to 1.25 % and just a few hours later the prime rate was raised to 4.25 % by the U.S. Bancorp..

Hyperloop transportation systems can reach speeds of up to 750 mph, cutting six - hour travel time by car down to 30 minutes.

«Delivering up to 2.5 X more content per click has not only helped us increase conversion rates by 3X and accelerate the path to purchase by making buyer education frictionless, it has also cut the time it takes to create a new nurture from 7 days to 3 - 4 hours.

Other cryptocurrencies, including Ripple, the third - largest by market value, and Bitcoin Cash, have also racked up double - digit declines in the last 24 hours, according to Coinmarketcap.com, which tracks the industry.

Product Pick No matter how you wear your hair to Pure Barre, chances are it's going to end up downright drenched by the end of the hour.

«In just the last 48 hours, I've spoken to a female tech executive who was grabbed by a male C.E.O. at a large event and another female executive who was asked to interview at a venture fund because they «feel like they need to hire a woman,»» said Dick Costolo, the former chief of Twitter, who now runs the fitness start - up Chorus.

Of course, these jobs would be replaced by laundry jobs at private facilities, albeit probably fewer and they may not pay up to $ 20 an hour, and more for supervisors.

In 1996, the US General Accounting Office estimated that a tax agency reconciliation system could reduce the time spent preparing tax returns by as much as 155 million hours a year for 51 million taxpayers and reduce the IRS's costs by up to $ 37 million annually.

Fueled by web - based tools that speed up the application process, a new paradigm for evaluating credit worthiness, and the ability to leverage technology to help them determine eligibility (often in under an hour), these lenders may approve business loans that might be overlooked by traditional banks, and can typically do it in much less time than their traditional counterparts.

Reimburses you for essential purchases like toiletries and clothing for baggage delays over six hours by passenger carrier up to $ 100 a day for five days.

By the end of the evening one thing was clear — Giuliani had concocted such a shifting, nebulous alibi for Trump that it didn't even hold up to a few hours of media scrutiny let alone a future interview with a Federal prosecutor.

For example, during this year's 24 - hour 11.11 sales bonanza, the company set up more than 1,000 smart pop - up stores nationwide, featuring interactive experiences powered by artificial intelligence, to show the company's vision for the «retail stores of the future.»

By: Esmarie Swanepoel Updated 2 hours 56 minutes ago ASX - listed Pacific Bauxite will raise up to A$ 3.5 - million to fund the acceleration of bauxite exploration at its Nendo and South West New Georgia projects, in the Solomon Islands.

I'm pretty sure that if you get up by 5:30 am every day to write for a couple hours before work (if you work), publish three posts a week in your specific niche, and spend another couple hours after work writing, commenting, and sharing for three years, you will no doubt make at least $ 1,000 / month from your site if not much, much more.