Sentences with phrase «few weeks these days»

Been a few weeks days since we've had an OS leak, and here we have a shiny new OS 5.0.0.610 for both the Bold 9000 and Curve 8900.

Not exact matches

You can select a specific day of the month for «personal project» work, an hour or two every week, or simply grant an extra few days of vacation time for employees to use for personal work.

Finally, just a few days before this week's fatal crash, an Uber vehicle in self - driving mode crashed into another vehicle in Pittsburgh.

With a little research up front, you will find a group of bloggers willing to feature your product over the course of a few days or weeks.

The routine, as is the case with Streetza, may include very early morning food shopping a few days a week, if not every day.

Follow - up studies that asked volunteers to find time for 15 minutes of device - free solitude each day for a week and keep a journal of their experiences showed the same thing - fewer intense emotions and a greater awareness of subtle ones.

Here are a few things I learned at the J.P. Morgan Health Conference this week: (1) Vice-presidential motorcades tie up as much traffic as presidential ones; (2) San Francisco hotels have no compunction about charging pharma - sphere prices, especially when the city is overrun by pharma executives; (3) no one will ever know if you brought more than one blue blazer to a four - day meeting; and (4) in my next life I want to come back as Bryan Roberts.

Even eating a super low - calorie diet a few days a week (rather than no food at all) can have anti-cancer benefits, and this lifestyle supports anti-aging according to researchers Valter Longo and Satchidananda Panda.

«The idea of working five days a week with two - day weekends and a few weeks of annual holiday is just something people accept,» he writes.

But maybe a few weeks later, you sit in traffic again and you realize that compared to that other day, it wasn't such a big deal.»

The rumor mill has heated up over the past few days, when it was reported that Apple had asked employees not to take vacation time during a week - long stretch later this month.

Weeks: Over the last few days I have been saddened and angered over events taking place in the United States.

This might be true for the first few days, but time off now will mean better output in the weeks to come.

Malcolm Gladwell set off a mania for practice a few years ago with his book Outliers, in which he argued that to become truly excellent at any skill, you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice — that's six hours a day, six days a week, over six years of simply sticking with it.

Later Wednesday afternoon, Corning CEO Wendell Weeks also stepped down, saying in a statement, «the events of the last few days have transformed the council's laudable mission of job creation into a perception of political support for the Administration and its statements.

No one wants to admit they don't make it to the gym a three days a week or consume more than «a few» alcoholic drinks at the holiday party.

From the 90 sales she made in her first few weeks on Etsy, Shaffer has grown her business to an average of 150 orders a day, resulting in $ 960,000 in annual revenue.

Hollender, who took the title of CEO and chairman, continued to live in New York City and commuted to Vermont a few days a week.

Year - round attention to detail means that Keflezighi can afford to be relaxed and philosophical with one of the biggest races of his life a week away, as he was when I talked to him a few days ago.

While it takes only a few hours to throw off your internal clock, it can take days or weeks to reset it.

«There are times we had to go in hiding, but it's been eight years — it's not just a few days, or weeks, because of the consistency and persistency of my team.»

So try my approach and allow yourself a few days a week to buy coffee at cafés, and make it at home the rest of the time.

Typically these examinations last anywhere from a few days to a few weeks, depending on the complexity of the firm, the scope of the examination and the firm's responsiveness to the SEC.

Furthermore, managers may only post schedules for the next week a few days in advance.

The first day of spring is just a few weeks away.

I had heard that a slew of restaurants (and a few other retail spots) offer generous gifts on your big day, and so I put this claim to the test a few weeks ago on my 23rd birthday.

There are quite a few potential market movers this week, as investors will be watching out for a handful of corporate earnings reports — including some major players from the world's of tech and media — as well as U.S. Fed chair Janet Yellen's two - day stint in front of D.C. lawmakers.

«They mistakenly believe a high - standards, six - page memo can be written in one or two days or even a few hours, when really it might take a week or more!»

Granted, your weight will sometimes fluctuate from day to day for what seems like no reason... but over the course of a few weeks, you will definitely know how you need to adjust your diet or exercise in order to reach your weight loss goal.

That's 1 - 3 days working a few hours per day, or 1 - 3 weeks working just a few hours per week - stretching it over a longer period is often a better plan for additional objectivity and less burnout.

At the end of World War II, researchers starved 36 young male volunteers for 24 weeks, giving them a low - fat diet limited to just 1,600 calories a day, which was 600 to 1,500 calories fewer than their body needed (depending on their level of daily activity) to maintain a healthy weight.

A short - term study of 29 young men showed that they consumed on average 238 fewer calories each day for two weeks when they were told not to eat anything between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. And these calories they were no longer eating were coming mostly from high - fat, high - carb foods.

In the span of a few days this week and last, several big - bank CEOs and chief economists let loose a flurry of warnings about surging home prices in Vancouver and Toronto, where it now costs an average of $ 1.5 million and $ 1.3 million, respectively, to buy a detached house.

I also try and get to the gym in the morning a few times a week because I think it sets a good tone for the day.

It may get old after a few weeks but Breathe reminds you just how stressful our days become.

Keeping your butt firmly planted in a chair all day can lead to a whole host of terrible health consequences, doctors warn, even if you dutifully hit the gym a few times a week.

My family has a HelloFresh subscription, and a few weeks ago we received our shipment of meals one day late.

At Bentley University, this summer marks the school's first Job Boot Camp for graduates, a four - day intensive workshop held a few weeks after graduation aimed at making sure students land jobs.

Banyan handled the video's shooting, editing, and production, which took a few days, and posted it on YouTube the same week the Windows 7 phone, the HTC Surround, debuted.

It might be worth it to stick around at your current job for a few extra days or weeks so that you're eligible to purchase more stock.

Choose one that'd make the most positive impact with regard to how you feel about your job and pitch your manager on why they should give you an hour a day — or a few hours a week to incorporate it into your work routine.

It's not too hard to understand why workers might like this plan; it offers them the ultimate flexibility: Instead of running out or cramming vacations into the last few weeks of the year, vacation days can be taken at any time.

Define exactly what you need, whether that's a larger budget to get real results, an assistant, flexible hours, working from home a few days a week, time to go to the gym and clear your head in the afternoons, more realistic expectations, the ability to define strategic goals or otherwise, and explain how that will have a positive impact on your output.

A few days or a couple of weeks of shutdown is an inconvenience.

Over the last several years, consumers worldwide have fallen victim to waiting too long to pre-order new Apple hardware, leaving them with two options: wait a few more weeks until it reaches their homes or stand in line on launch day in hopes of getting one at an Apple store, third - party retailer, or carrier.

His packing philosophy, like many of our entrepreneurial road warriors: «If I'm traveling for a few days or a few weeks, I keep it minimalist — both simple and light,» he says.

Just a few weeks after the market finally had come around to the Fed's way of thinking that three quarter - point rate hikes would be appropriate this year, the day's trading changed sentiment.

At first the shutdown was to last only a few days, but a few days stretched into an unprecedented six weeks at a cost to the company of approximately US$ 171 million.

BI: What pieces of new information (e.g. economic data releases, price action in a given market over the next few days / weeks, etc.) do you think have the biggest potential to alter your outlook?

Several major U.S. companies have dropped their associations with the National Rifle Association in the last few days, less than two weeks after a 19 year old with a semi-automatic rifle killed 17 people in a high school in Florida.