Sentences with phrase «course of a few short years»

Over the course of a few short years, he's led his sales team of mostly millennial agents to incredible heights.

Not exact matches

If any of us went in a coma for 5 years, imagine waking up and seeing Wenger still shrugging his shoulders and saying «He is out for a few weeks, we have 5 others who are still short but could be back in a week or two and of course our 4 long term absentees are not expected back until March.

He plans to take a short course in musical instrument repair (woodwind) in Wales in October, so we're thinking of going to the UK at the end of September for a few weeks, rather than earlier in the year.

Doctors are advised to use benzodiazepines in short courses of a few weeks in order to prevent patients becoming dependent on them, but researchers complain that doctors sometimes prolong such treatments for years.

«But if they return within a few months, or even a year, you may have a recurrent infection» and thus may need another (short) course of antibiotics.

Of course, a few years ago I said I would never wear jean shorts again and I am ready to get into a pair this spring!

Commenting on the figures, Rudolf Eliott Lockhart, chief executive of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales, said: «While it is fantastic to see increasing numbers of students opting to take the full course GCSE in Religious Studies, a reflection of the attraction of an academically rigorous subject that helps prepare students to understand an increasingly diverse modern world, we should not ignore the troubling news that declining entries for the short course mean that more than 100,000 fewer young people have studied the subject at GCSE level this year than in 2010.

Budgetary shortfalls, school district bankruptcies, teacher and administrator layoffs, hiring and salary freezes, pension system defaults, shorter school years, ever - larger classes, faculty furloughs, fewer course electives, reduced field trips, foregone or curtailed athletics, outdated textbooks, teachers having to make do with fewer supplies, cuts in school maintenance, and other tales of fiscal woe inevitably captivate the news media, particularly during the late - spring and summer budget and appropriations seasons.

With a colleague I carried out a review a few years ago for UNESCO of all major donors» activities related to teachers in multi-year projects with over $ 1 million funding and the biggest takeaway was that most funding that one can identify as earmarked for teachers goes to short - term in - service courses and that there is very little evidence about impact.

Of course, my favorite excerpt from Mr. Rooney's review is this: «Overall, Outskirts Press is run by a CEO with a thorough knowledge and background in self - publishing and marketing, and in a few short years they have established themselves as a leading POD solutions provider for authors.

The law degree attained, the bar admission course passed and the articling period completed — all in the space of a few short years in your professional youth — grant you the right to call yourself a lawyer and sell legal services for the rest of your life.

Just a few short years later in 2005, our online course swept across the State of Texas and has helped millions of drivers since.