Sentences with phrase «couple of years of»

It can take a couple of years of credit card activity to build up your credit score, so there is no time like the present to get one.

According to Joel Becker, CEO of the Australian Booksellers Association, «we've seen an increase over the past couple of years of about 5 %.»

I've taken my pick of entries from the first couple of years of my blog.

Over the past couple of years of attending NYCC I've come to realize that for...

I started writing for my children, because they were now old enough to read, and over the course of a couple of years of false starts, created Vulcan's Kittens, a YA novel (and a bunch of short stories, but more about those later).

I felt that the book was too detailed (I don't think that including all of Dr. Baird's descriptions of his hospitalizations added much, especially since they were not particularly realistic) and not detailed enough (the book covered only a couple of years of Dr. Baird's life and skimmed over that of the author).

January 2010 I started blogging and by the end of 2012, so we are talking a good couple of years of blogging here, I built a speaking platform for myself, I had started podcasting, I was blogging a couple times a week, good community of people and then boom, the book offer comes in from a publisher in the U.S. and I didn't go with that initial offer but it made me think very seriously about going back to that goal of someday writing a book and so I was introduced to a literary agent and I obviously went the traditional publishing route with Virtual Freedom but there's nothing wrong with the self publishing route at all.

It's the culmination of a couple of years of work.

«It's been a big struggle the last couple of years of my career since the economy tightened up and a number of drivers were left in the cold.

An all - new, even more refined and fuel efficient Accord Hybrid will be again built in Marysville, Ohio after a couple of years of production in Japan, and will be powered by the third - generation of Honda's innovative two - motor hybrid technology, offering improved power delivery with no compromise to interior or cargo space and packaging.

Production of New Accord Hybrid Returns to Ohio An all - new, even more refined and fuel efficient Accord Hybrid will be again built in Marysville, Ohio after a couple of years of production in Japan, and will be powered by the third - generation of Honda's innovative two - motor hybrid technology, offering improved power delivery with no compromise to interior or cargo space and packaging.

JLR has increased its proportion of fleet sales from 37 percent in 2013 to 44 percent last year and is expecting a further shift, over the next couple of years of several percentage points, towards the industry average of 46 percent.

Only the last couple of years of the Scion brand did Toyota bring Scion to Canada.

After a couple of years of experimentation, the first generation of Range Rovers hit the market in 1970.

I'm especially curious because of all the extra cooling on the ZR1 that was supposed to take care of the over heating problems like the first couple of years of the C7 Z06 had.

After a couple of years of rumors, anticipation and speculation, GM took the wraps off the next generation of Corvette at Detroit's International Auto Show.

Sold off within a couple of years of their initial purchase, they lived on in memory, as I suspected they might.

They are typically for the first couple of years of ownership of a new car.

And the Board could decide to suspend the API again in 2015, on the grounds that there needs to be at least a couple of years of results from the official Common Core tests for math and English language arts before starting to judge schools by them.

The impacts on teacher effectiveness and placement are inconclusive during the first couple of years of study; however, majorities of teachers have indicated that the feedback they received, especially from classroom observations, has prompted them to make changes in their practice.

Trading a couple of years of tenure to a developing teacher who needs more mentoring to become more effective and avoiding the decades of youth who might be denied an effective education by a teacher who was granted tenure in a rush should be an easy decision for those who espouse to care about children.

After a couple of years of planning and a trial run last spring, the state on Thursday released the California School Dashboard, displaying a multi-color system for grading the performance of schools, school districts and charter schools on a variety of measurements.

We find positive and substantial longer - run impacts of double - dose algebra on college entrance exam scores, high school graduation rates, and college enrollment rates, suggesting that the policy had significant benefits that were not easily observable in the first couple of years of its existence.

Thirty districts, encompassing over 15,000 teachers and principals, piloted aspects of the new evaluation system so that the Department could discover first - hand what works, what doesn't, and what districts should focus on in the first couple of years of implementation.

Finally, there was a student from El Salvador who had attended only a couple of years of school at home.

No one would think of teaching a child to play tennis by starting with a couple of years of book learning and no court time.

After a couple of years of that, we started working with the Department of Ed and their Teach to Lead series, which really helped us refine our program.

After a couple of years of doing three - disc Blu - ray + DVD + Digital Copy sets primarily for family films, Fox has expanded the use of combo packs but cut back the design to the two discs that Warner and Paramount have long favored: one Blu - ray and one barebones DVD / digital copy hybrid.

Well, after a couple of years of waiting, Detective Pikachu was finally brought to the West, only now it's three times the size.

It feels like it's been a long time coming, but after a couple of years of rumours, producer scuffles, casting announcements and scriptwriter changes, the new version of Godzilla has finally kicked off shooting under the direction of Monsters» Gareth Edwards.

With a record number of both female - directed Competition entries and female jurors last year (in fact, the jury was mostly female), I guess they feel they've bought themselves a couple of years of male domination.

I did a couple of years of it and boy it is a hard job.

The denim duster is a very trendy piece for Spring that's likely to have at least a couple of years of staying power: I saw tons walking down the Fall 2018 runway at NYFW.

As such, I would not really pay a premium for them, but buy a good quality pair at an affordable cost, expecting to get a couple of years of regular wear.

After a couple of years of considered rebuilding, and introducing navy, blush and camel to my black, I'm happy with my core wardrobe, but still have blah days, especially in the heat.

It's been a little over a month since my good news got confirmed, but after a couple of years of hard work and working towards my new role, i've ended 2017 with a promotion to Managing Partner.

I expect it to have at least a couple of years of staying power, so if your concern is whether these shoes will be passé or not next year, I don't think you'll have to worry.

After a couple of years of NOT painting the fence, we heard a strange sound one sunny morning.

For the first couple of years of Friends, I made so many of the clothes, and I wore myself out.

I've experienced what was diagnosed as «burnout syndrome» by a mental health professional 7 years ago after a couple of years of intensive work and workout ethic and a rather cavalier attitude to stress and «mind over matter».

A couple of years of working through a number of different ways of eating, and I have found what I like.

We don't know whether a couple of years of dedicated stretching to lengthen tendons would have increased or decreased economy, and this study has nothing to say about the question.

Also, you may not even experience the symptoms of this transition until the last couple of years of perimenopause, as this is the time during which your estrogen will drop more rapidly.

After a couple of years of karma yoga at a local studio, she signed up for a Yin Yoga teaching intensive with Deb Donnally and Crystal Palone of Yinside Yoga, completed in March 2016.

If they added 20 pounds of muscle on top of that (over a couple of years of dedicated training) their total gains would be up to about 70 pounds.

But it was pretty much assumed that your jaw structure was set in stone once you were born or for sure after the first couple of years of life.

After a couple of years of regular yoga practice, I decided to take the next big step and complete my 200 - hour training.

Contrary to popular belief that jaw structure is permanent after the first couple of years of life, Vivos widens the jaw and airway in an non-invasive, non-surgical, easy way.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with a day of bad eating, it's when you have a bad couple of years of eating that we have a problem.

VLBI experiments with the 140 - foot telescope and others around the United States commenced within a couple of years of this giant telescope coming online.