Sentences with phrase «couple months of my time»

This was a last minute opportunity that I jumped on and dedicated a couple months of my time to.

Not exact matches

Employee of the month might be great for the first couple of times, but eventually the manager either feels obligated to recognize everyone or uncelebrated team members will feel slighted.

A couple of months ago, Farhad Manjoo published a scathing piece in The New York Times that claimed the hottest tech startups these days aim to «help people on the lowest rungs of the 1 percent live like their betters in the 0.1 percent.»

My father died within a couple months of that and my daughter, Cameron Russell, went on to become a very famous supermodel at a young age, so I really needed some time.

Instead of delivering 50 Hz - which is what mains - powered European clocks expect to get if they're to keep accurate time - the European grid has averaged 49.996 Hz, which is enough of a disruption, over a couple of months, to make all these clocks lose almost 6 minutes.

«When I was 22 years old, a guy who owned a little bodega in my neighborhood told me, «If you really want to start a company, you better dig under your couch for a couple of extra dollars, stop going out to dinner four times a month, trade in your car for a cheaper one, and raise that $ 40,000 or $ 30,000, if you can, by yourself.»»

According to research by Jeffrey Dew, a faculty fellow with the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project, couples who fight about finances once a week are 30 % more likely to divorce than those who disagree on the topic a few times per month.

The time to advertise to clients and prospective customers that you'll be at a trade show is a couple of weeks - to - a month in advance of the event.

But when Campbell toured a couple of the adventure - travel sites in this month's best - of - the - Web survey, he was wowed by packages that promise a wilder time than your typical day on the links.

His most successful sites are worth millions of dollars, they only require $ 5k (and a couple months of William's time) to launch, and are built using the same exact formula.

But if you run a pizza parlor and get only a couple of customers a day during the winter months, you might be better off staying open just a few hours a day at that time of year, or closing the shop altogether.

Amazon launched the monthly option a couple of years ago to attract customers who could not afford a one - time payment of $ 99, or those who knew that they would not be able to take advantage of an Amazon Prime membership for all the months of the year.

The owner and a couple of the other teachers had asked me a few times if I'd consider teaching, but I kept hemming and hawing because I do have a primary career, which is writing a novel every nine months.

It continued to fade movements in the US Dollar, which spiked a couple of times north of 91 to reach 91.08 — a fresh 3 - month high.

However, the accessibility issue mainly concerns workers in part - time and nonstandard jobs who take much more than a «couple of months» to accumulate 360 paid hours.

New York Times — It's Small Business Week The news of Facebook going public has been on the lips of most marketers for the past couple months.

Capalad recommends that her clients choose one category at a time and spend a couple of months paring down their spending in that area.

We are now at the seasonally strong time of year... I expect that the next couple months will continue to have strong performance.

The termination time can vary from a couple of hours to several days and even months.

As I said last month at this time — along with a couple of Wall Street investment houses, these are «da boyz» — the sellers of last resort — and you can call them what you like.

Global bond yields remain relatively low, reflecting expectations that global interest rates are still likely to remain low for some time, notwithstanding upward revisions to those expectations in the past couple of months.

The first warning shot occurred a couple of weeks ago after some governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board indicated that the time has come to consider scaling back the quantitative easing (QE) program that is pumping $ 85 billion a month in new money into the economy.

Funny enough that you just bought D. I have been looking at them the past couple of months and have been researching if this is a good time to buy.

With only a couple of months left in the year, many first - time home buyers in California are looking ahead to 2018.

Now that we're a couple of months into 2018, it may be a good time to learn how you can earn cash back on your purchases.

It sounds pefect except for the praying part, and it would be nice if they shipped women in a couple of times a month for recreation (and the b!tches were forbidden to talk while they were there).

An experienced pastoral counselor of alcoholics states: «Ordinarily one must see an alcoholic three or four times a week for the first few weeks, and then a couple of times a week for a month or two more, and then once a week for a considerable length of time.»

Brian and I talked a bit about our days in divinity school with Kevin and the wonderful time the three of us had in St. Louis just a couple of months earlier.

Throughout the early months and years of marriage, it is important for couples to exercise the virtue of patience with each other, recognizing that growth takes time and struggle and living together.

After completing his master's degree at Erfurt, the most famous German university at that time, he began to study law, but after only a couple of months, while out walking on a thundery summer's day, be was felled by lightning.

Communication happens only a couple of times a year with a six - month lag, lots of reminiscing, frequent stops to sigh or shed a tear as she gazes on their wedding photo prominently displayed, talking about him until her friends can almost bear no more...

I wrote in this magazine just a couple of months ago about these «RSVP» moments, which proves that I either think that they are important, or I spend too much time in church gatherings (and need to get out more), or both.

Several of my writing buddies have talked me into doing a bit more vlogging — maybe not as often as once a week, but at least a couple times a month.

He has spend the past couple of months at Jalame's checkpoint — a particularly fiery time to be assigned there.

From the time she denounced Britain's participation in World War II as a girl (because it was plain to her, just months out of her teens, that Britain would be carrying out deliberate attacks on civilians), through her widely publicized opposition as a young don to Oxford's awarding an honorary degree to Harry Truman (on the ground that «having a couple of massacres to his credit» disqualifies a man for public honors), to her recent arrests in her seventies for participation in pro-life actions parallel to those carried out by «Operation Rescue» in the United States (because she found the life of a conceived child as worthy of protection and respect as any other), her life recalls John Paul II's injunction: «Always seek the truth; venerate the truth discovered; obey the truth.

And having spent considerable time on David's blog over the past couple of months, I believe it is the latter that David is doing and he has been a great source of encouragement to me, as an individual.

William Demuth, One time a couple of months ago someone stole my handle and posted a bunch of junk.

It's become one of my go - to meals and I make it at least a couple times a month.

Seriously, I use it a couple times of month for so many things.

We have probably had this ice cream ten times in the past couple of months, and we all love it as much as we did on the first day.

It has bee a couple months since launching the Organ Meat Makeover, so I figured it was time to share one of the recipe included in the e-book.

Unfortunately, I haven't had a lot of time to cook in the last month, so I have just a couple of preview pics for your enjoyment.

It's like having the best of both worlds: working most of the time, but being an at - home mom for a couple of months.

Jalil and Oz have also partnered with fine dining chef Gal Ben Moshe to create a pop up restaurant that makes appearances a couple of times a month at some of Berlin's major food and culture events, like Conductor Daniel Barenboim's season opening gala.

It has been a CRAZY couple of months for Team Fit Foodie and this is one of the first days in a long time that Lee and I have been able to sit down, get caught up on writing and emails, and actually brainstorm fresh and new ideas for the year.

I think it was for a couple of reasons — partly when my dad was super sick and in the hospital for months, and at the same time we were having this years - long drought... and I just kept thinking «I just want a rainy day to sit inside and rest and recharge.»

I've been prepping my meals for a couple months now and it has saved me a lot of money and time on food.

I'm quite new to tofu scramble, only tried it for the first time a couple of months ago and now I can't get enough of it!

I just went to the Writers Digest weekend event a couple of months ago and there was a publisher that would publish your book every time someone purchases it on Amazon and you can order a bunch so that if someone orders from your site you can send them as well.

I love this recipe and seem to make it at least a couple of times a month.