Sentences with phrase «dozen years how»

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That's generally a reflection of how well investors think Berkshire's stock market portfolio, still over 85 % managed by Buffett and his long - time partner Charlie Munger, as well as the businesses they have bought over the years — including railroad company Burlington Northern, See's Candies, and dozens of others — are doing.

And he recalled, down to the last detail, how many dozens he'd sold each year.

The research was conducted by dozens of international health and environmental experts and incorporates data from the ambitious Global Burden of Disease project, which highlighted how smoking, blood pressure, poor diet, and environmental factors affect human health earlier this year.

While she and Gouw would not disclose how much of their own capital they plan to pool for the new venture, they expect to make up to two dozen investments over the next two to three years.

-- Pamela Slim, author of Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur «Guillebeau has been in the trenches for years, and in The $ 100 Startup he guides you step - by - step through how he and dozens of others have turned their passions into profits.

In a conversation about Russian Orthodoxy some dozen years ago, that famous source who can only be quoted off - the - record, the Senior Vatican Official, said to me, «They only know how to be chaplain to the czar — whoever he is.»

During the dozen years we were in the Heights, we made good friends, who through their example continue to teach us how to live a rich and rewarding life.

Featuring Dr. Greger's Daily Dozen — the best ingredients to add years to your life — The How Not to Die Cookbook is destined to become an essential tool in healthy kitchens everywhere.

and would add if the same management structure hadn't lied to fans about how all this would allow us to compete with top teams in Europe with... with exception of PSG... are not driven by oil wealth or megalomanic owners... of course none of this has anything to do with the footballing errors consistently made by wenger and which if corrected would at least give us a BETTER shot at winning top trophies than has been the case over the last dozen or so years

Wenger has said it enough times about how difficult it is to try and bring in half a dozen players at once — surprised people are expecting any sort of quantum shift in policy this year.

You've watched Frank Howard on a dozen Games of the Week over the years, and you saw him in the»63 World Series, but have you ever gotten used to just how big he is?

Every year, Bill Belichick makes the NFL world's head spin with little tidbits from «Patriots sources» about their interest in so - and - so, how they are going to trade all of their picks for Blue Chip Player X — and then he sits back, watches with satisfaction while everyone panics, and then drafts who falls to him in the first, moves up half a dozen spots if the MLB / DT of the future is dropping, or trades down.

A seminar from Franco on how to last a dozen years w / o serious injury, and leave the game w / all faculties intact while breaking records and winning super bowls..

Actually, with half a dozen hyperactive under 11 - year - old girls who haven't seen each other for several days, it is difficult to think about anything other than how to get them to stop talking, listen to what you are saying and then watch them nonchalantly execute the drill, before they return to the back of the line to continue whatever it is that under - 11 girls talk about.

Unions have experienced mixed results over the past year in trying to beat back efforts in dozens of states to restrict bargaining rights, pass right - to - work laws or limit how unions collect dues.

EAST WILLIAMSBURG — Neighbors of about a dozen waste transfer sites in East Williamsburg and Greenpoint, are calling on the City Council to revive a bill introduced last year that would limit how much trash any one community could take on.

CSIC researchers compared the orbit of Annama with the evolution of a dozen orbits of near - Earth asteroids, reconstructing how their orbits evolved in the solar system over the past 10,000 years.

After caring for dozens of asthmatic children over the last 42 years, including her own son and daughter, Crisp knows how to make immediate differences in their lives.

It was morphology that had guided him during the war years, when he was director of research for Aerojet Engineering and helped develop (among numerous other innovations leading to dozens of patents) the engines that allowed jet - assisted takeoff, the ingenious solution to the problem of how to get a plane off the short runway of an aircraft carrier.

From only two events, we don't have a firm sense of how often they happen — perhaps one to a few dozen such events a year would occur in a cube 3 billion light years to a side, according to a follow - up paper from the LIGO team.

In three separate large analyses published between 2015 and this year, researchers at the University of Sydney and their colleagues compared evidence from dozens of studies to determine how well various pharmaceutical options assuage back pain and found all the drugs lacking.

Her wisdom has informed my writing for about a dozen years, and I asked her how worried she is about the flu.

I'm not sure how I managed to overlook it for an entire year — and through a half dozen searches — but I am glad to have it back.

I think I may have to make about a dozen batches of this bark just to see how many pretty patterns I can come up with, so don't be surprised to see a few more versions of it here before the year's out.

This year legislators in more than a dozen state capitals will decide how to spend hundreds of millions of new education dollars slated for preschool.

Back in 2004, Spencer Hsu told the story of how the first federal voucher program was launched, when George W. Bush signed legislation providing grants worth as much as $ 7,500 each to children from dozens of public schools in the District of Columbia for their use at private or religious schools in a five - year experiment.

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

About two dozen boards — not quite half of the charter - school boards in D.C. — already contract with CBP, paying up to $ 15,000 a year for CBP's matchmaking services, governance workshops, personal coach, and help with such problems as how to «pre-plan» a school leader's succession or how to move board paperwork online.

During June and July next year, nasen, in partnership with the Department for Education (DfE), will deliver a string of Implementation Events around the country where education practitioners, SENCOs, health and social care providers can access free training on the details of «how» to make the required arrangements for children and young people with SEN.. The devil is always in the detail — nasen will be working with up to a dozen outstanding education providers over the next few months will design and produce an implementation support pack for all providers to access and take away from our Implementation Events programme next summer.

The dozen educators who stood trial, including five teachers and a principal, were indicted in 2013 after years of questions about how Atlanta students had substantially improved their scores on the Criterion - Referenced Competency Test, a standardized examination given throughout Georgia.

A Mercury News investigation published in April revealed how the state's online charter schools run by Virginia - based K12 Inc., the largest for - profit charter operator in the country, have «a dismal record of academic achievement» but has won more than $ 310 million in state funding over the past dozen years.

But that example also shows some of the limitations of his analysis, including the fact that it can't account for students who leave or enter a district and how that affects overall scores, which could be significant in a district that's closed or consolidated dozens of schools in recent years.

When Gov. Mitch Daniels asked a class of 20 seventh graders at Our Lady of Hungary Catholic school how many of the students were in their first year at the school, a half - dozen raised their hands.

I've been in dozens of writing groups over the years, and I've seen how one or two members can often change the nature of a group entirely.

Last fall, after nearly six years dabbling in creative writing, I thought about how I had produced dozens of flash fiction, blog posts, and essays, but no novels.

Randomly stumbled upon this tonight and I see most of the comments are now years old... but in response to your last comment Tracy about how you know at least some writers that make $ 1,000 a day by writing longer works... out of curiosity, are these writers publishing dozens of books to get to that level or did they just find the right niche and only have to publish a few books to get to that level?

Although London returned home one year later with only gold dust, Lourie explains how London's real wealth was found in the characters and events that inspired White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and dozens of other books and short stories, making him the first author of the twentieth century to earn a million dollars from writing.

And yes, if you get your book into one library in Los Angeles, which has a $ 25 million dollar a year budget, and the other dozens and dozens of Los Angeles libraries can see how well your book is doing, they're going to start ordering it.

How is it that the indie devs at cyanogenmod can crank out a stable release for more than a dozen devices (within a month), while a company that spends a billion dollars per year on R&D can't make a newer, objectively better OS version into a good experience on their own device?

How true it is that there are those who focus on the market where people read one or two books per year and then there are those who focus on the market where people are reading a dozen or so books per year.

I've put together dozens of how to and tutorial articles for Kindle devices and apps over the years, and I wanted to take the best of those guides and articles, along with everything I've learned, and put it all together into an easy - to - use ebook made specifically for Kindles.

In the last year I've read dozens and dozens of blog posts about how difficult it was to successfully open an e-series account with TD.

We owned a very large home inspection company for many, many years in Atlanta and we know how to make reviews work for home inspectors and we have dozens and dozens of clients all over the US, Canada and other places as well.

Speaking in a television interview with BNN, Mr. Carney issued his third stern warning on the issue in less than a week, underscoring how concerned the central bank and the federal government have become about the fact that Canadians» debt - to - income ratio is now higher than Americans» for the first time in a dozen years.

I talked to the counselors two or three times in the beginning and maybe half a dozen times over the five years to see how my account was.

Growing up in a small town of 325 people, he saw how his grandmother — who was bedridden for the last 15 years of her life — was able to remain in her home thanks to more than a dozen friends and neighbors who took care of her.

In 1979 Harvard Press released a book in which Michael Rutter and his colleagues discuss the three - year study of a dozen secondary schools in a large urban area that highlighted how schools whose students consistently performed better, were able to promote that success.

in which Michael Rutter and his colleagues discuss the three - year study of a dozen secondary schools in a large urban area that highlighted how schools whose students consistently performed better, were able to promote that success.

• It has dozens of graphs to show things like how much income goals are eroded every year by inflation.

There are dozens of examples out there to show how saving 5 or 10 years earlier shows differences at retirement in the tens of thousands of dollars.