Sentences with phrase «couple years of spending»

Chelsea transferred their middle table club into prem winners within couple years of spending serious money and the same has to be said about Man City.

Not exact matches

For these sins he was demoted and has spent the past couple of years as the minister of state for small business.

As he puts it: «I'd like to CHALLENGE every woman in tech who's a) got a nice care, b) owns a nice house, or c) is making over $ 125K a year to start thinking of themselves as the next Ron Conway or Esther Dyson in the making and commit to investing in startups...» I'll forgive him for the poor grammar, ditto for the wisecrack a couple of paragraphs later about how some of us might have spent $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 on our MBAs... or our wardrobes.

Kelly, however, initially refused to play in Buffalo, instead signing and spending the first couple of years of his career with the Houston Gamblers in the upstart USFL, where he had tremendous success.

One, Preston Breedon - Glen, a 20 - year - old student, said that he'd spent more than $ 1,300 on champions and skins in the past couple of years.

Tim Harris, co-founder of 30 Under 30 honoree Swift Navigation, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2008 and spent the next couple of years working as an industrial planner for OR Soft, a German software and consulting company.

Tax cuts, infrastructure spending and corporate cash repatriation should remain positive for U.S. markets over the next couple of years, but Rogers sees better opportunities internationally.

Contardi and Mercer spent the next couple of years pitching new show ideas featuring Gampp and her talents, but networks didn't bite.

Over the past couple of years, Gillinder has spent tens of thousands of dollars to upgrade its backup generators so they can deliver enough energy to keep the furnaces running in the event of another blackout.

At Wharton, Ulrich says, he has seen increasing numbers of students spend their summers in San Francisco developing their startups and then participating in Wharton's Semester in San Francisco during the fall — a program he pioneered a couple years ago to continue the foundation built during the summer.

«We spent a lot of the time over the last couple of years learning from our retail operations out west,» said Mark Childs, chief marketing officer at Samsung Canada, in an interview with Marketing.

Twitter, which has spent the past couple of years struggling to boost user growth and ad revenue, recently listed the space through brokerage firm Cresa San Francisco.

And the other main source of economic growth over the next couple of years will come from government spending, led by the federal government's infrastructure program.

After scoring a 760 on his GMAT exam, he spent a couple of years teaching test prep courses for Manhattan GMAT.

Chappelle returned to a relatively steady stand - up comedy schedule a couple of years ago, and he spent the weekend performing six shows (two a night) as part of Austin City Limits Live.

If Netflix sees high revenue increases over the next couple of years, based on strong subscriber growth, customer retention, and low marketing spend, he predicts the share price could reach $ 480.

I've spent years around technology, helping run Wired and a couple of tech news websites over the years.

«I spent over a decade of my life working at the issue [of prison reform], including half a decade at the NAACP, and yet here you have a former inmate turned entrepreneur who's been able to bring relief to almost a quarter of federal inmates in just a couple of years,» Jealous says.

These include spending over half household income on housing, sleeping two or more people per bedroom (excluding couples and same - gender children), being behind on the rent in the past year and / or living in a building that suffers from any two of: frequent elevator breakdowns, pests or broken entrance locks.

To avoid spats over spending, Janine and Dom Detore — stars of CNBC's «Staten Island Hustle,» who have been married for 27 years — say there is a simple mindset couples can cultivate.

I'm proud of my staff and the way they put it out,» Sherry says, adding that his team spent a couple months putting the experience together last year before seven customers bought in.

One of the former employees disputed this characterization of slow innovation, saying that the last couple of years had been spent building infrastructure features, which aren't as visible to the outside world.

After graduating from Middlebury College with a major in geography in 2003, he spent a couple of years working for the Conservation Fund, a nonprofit that helps fund land and water conservation projects.

A couple of non-glasses 3 - D screens were put on display at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, but as some critics pointed out, you may have to spend several minutes moving around the room to find an ideal spot to sit for the image to appear in 3 - D.

And after a couple of years spent cracking down on wealth - making activities through a fierce anti-corruption campaign, Beijing could also reassure business and financial elites that it had their interests at heart.

Spending on goods and services is expected to accelerate relative to the past couple of years rising by 2.5 per cent in 2014 and 2.3 per cent in 2015.

I've been toying with a couple keyword solutions in anticipation of the Google Keyword limitation (I haven't spent anything on AdWords in about five years so I've been looking to see what makes the most sense in terms of $ $ $ spent to the power of the feature set offered.)

«Discretionary dollars for holiday spending are limited for the large pool of lower - and moderate - income consumers due to lack of wage gains this year coupled with the increased payroll tax.»

I agree with earlyretired, I am not sure that interest rates will remain low past the next couple of years without some adjustment to government spending.

If you're a schoolteacher, chances are you spend a couple thousand dollars out of your own pocket every year buying supplies for children in your classroom.

The stimulus will continue to trickle into the economy for the next couple of years, but as a concentrated force, it's largely spent.

A report by Fidelity Benefits Consulting, for example, found that the average 65 - year - old couple will spend $ 275,000 on healthcare costs over the rest of their lives — and that's $ 15,000 more than the 2016 estimate.

A recent study found that the average wedding last year cost $ 31,213, and 45 % of couples spent more than they budgeted.

A couple of days before we had presented a mix of many reports from reputed firms who analysed digital marketing trends for this year, which can give you a clear idea of market spending.

I challenge you to go back through your last couple of years worth of blogs, and show yourself where you spend QUALITY time in addressing hurts and pains.

If there has been little caring and sharing for years, except in relation to the children, couples may have no desire to spend the rest of their lives together.

Spent a couple of weeks last year in BC and the rockies.

Scholar who has spent years actively studying history and the Bible and actually knows what he is talking about: «Hey you guys have a couple of misconceptions about this thing you love so much, wouldn't you like to know the actual truth?»

He knew these boys for a couple of years or longer before spending any private time with them.

For a couple years, they spent time hanging out in part of the larger group.

If only the media spent this much time and effort trying to get to the bottom of at least a few of the real stories out there over the last couple years instead of crap like this.

Indeed, it would probably seem to him that taking a couple of years out of a life that has not yet reached full adulthood, spending them on a few of the nation's lighter household chores, so to speak, and then being rather handsomely compensated for it would more accurately come under the heading of perk than of citizenly offering.

That's a good reason, for a two year old... You may want to spend a couple minutes and find out why people don't like a candidate, see if there is any validity and then decide on who is best to lead the country which to me is more important than out of spite.

I've spent a couple of days thinking about the answer and realized that this year I learned the importance of taking care of myself and putting my needs first.

I spent a lot of the past couple years delving into the silence, watching the chaos in my brain, going far back into memories of my childhood, seeking to understand what and where I lost myself.

I spent a lovely couple of days with them last year, & have a special friendship with one of their sows Jemima I'm also enjoying Sunday mornings browsing www.forked.ie a northern Irish food blog.

A couple of years ago, I spent a week in Austin and got to eat some amazing tacos at Torchy's, which is one of the many taco darlings there.

A couple years back I wrote, «I look forward to 2005 being a year where; I see more of the world I live in through travel and photography, I spend more time with my sister, I make an effort to collaborate on projects with interesting, innovative individuals.»

I'd been thinking about buying some kind of Canon 5D for a couple of years, but I had a hard time committing to spending that kind of money on something that will soon go obsolete.

Up here in northern Europe we actually have a couple of bright and sunny months (even though we spend most of the year in total...