Sentences with phrase «few years hand»

In the past few years hand - drawn art styles for games have become very popular and it's easy to see why.

Now, as he pursues a Ph.D. at Purdue, he'll spend the next few years hand - counting beans from about 750 plots — more than 10 times the size of his first experiment.

Not exact matches

On the other hand, a few years ago my trash overflowed with food packaging and I didn't know what composting meant.

On the other hand, self - driving cars from the likes of Google — while still at least a few years away from consumer use — also loom large.

(This goal is considerably less gruesome than the one he set a few years ago, when he resolved to eat meat only from animals he killed with his own hands.)

I had to put a company of mine into the hands of an administrator (kind of like Chapter 11 in the USA) a few years back in the midst of a partnership dispute.

Legere has generally held the upper hand in the competition between the two companies performance in the market, as T - Mobile has added by far the most new subscribers over the past few years and surpassed Sprint last year to become the third - largest U.S. carrier.

Microsoft (msft), on the other hand, had not shown up in the past few years, but this year managed to place at # 37.

There's been a lot of hand - wringing over the past few years about the declining rates of entrepreneurship in the United States.

Two years after Amazon.com Inc introduced the Echo, a $ 179.99 hands free speaker with AI - powered virtual assistant Alexa, the virtual home assistant category is poised to beat out virtual reality and possibly a few other high tech competitors, according to the Consumer Technology Association.

A few years after the subway ads debuted, Zizmor branched out into television commercials, which he also initially shot by hand.

A few years and some corporate investment from Apple later and voila — military technology in the palm of our hands.

On one hand, Apple has made it abundantly clear over the last few years that it's keenly interested in health.

A few years before my own experience with a catcall, I saw a young woman walking down a Chicago street with a milkshake in hand.

«Someone handed me a check that set me for life — and I was miserable,» George Jacobs told me a few years ago, referring to the $ 20 million the 50 - year - old serial entrepreneur made when he sold his company American Limousine in 1998.

So, while Hilton says HHonors's changes match those made by competitors over the past few years, customers who see loyalty points as cash in hand are still indignant.

Goldman's ROE, on the other hand, has regularly topped 10 % in the past few years.

Merger agreement in hand (and the money in escrow), Cline spent the next five months on the road trying to win over CEA's investors, who were looking for a growth company that was well - positioned to go public, preferably with a strong management team and a few years of audited financials.

But like other foreign - owned private security companies (PSCs), during the past few years it has been forced to hand off much of its work to local Afghan subcontractors.

The company is reducing senior management by 5 to 10 per cent, replacing veteran executives with a younger generation in their late 30s or close to 40 and putting more responsibilities into fewer hands, while preparing the company for succession in the coming years, sources said.

So my plan is to have more cash on hand when this happens and be able to buy low if the market drops, as well as have enough cash on hand to sustain me for a few years while the market is recovering.

That's why, ultimately, I can't really blame Jana Partners for pushing for a break - up... Qualcomm's licenses by themselves would be a money gusher, at least for a few years, and while I think most investors are more long - term oriented than people think, I can absolutely understand the temptation — and associated price premium — associated with money in hand now.

On the other hand, if you'll need the money in just a few years — or if the prospect of losing money makes you too nervous — consider a higher allocation to generally less volatile investments such as bonds and short - term investments.

It's hard to believe it's just a few years since countries like Ireland and Spain had to go cap - in - hand to international lenders — at least if you look at their bond yields.

«A few years ago, I could probably count on my hand how many people had more than 500 LinkedIn connections,» says Ryan Bethea, who goes by the title of Chief Connecting Officer at Socialnomics.

«I think the CSA will start with a soft - glove approach and evolve to more iron - hand in a few years,» says Paul Gryglewicz, managing partner of Global Governance Advisors, a Toronto firm that advises company boards and senior managers on corporate government and executive pay issues.

When you read news sites like Search Engine Land and Search Engine Roundtable and see penalties handed out left & right for things that seemed generally white hat just a few years ago, you can't help but think «maybe what I've thought for so long that's completely white hat is targeted next?»

The market shakeout already under way throughout the Asia - Pacific region should concentrate capital in fewer, more experienced hands, easing the rampant competition that has kept asset prices high in recent years.

A few years ago, your best bet would have been to bury your nose in the Internet and read as much reliable information as you could get your hands on.

Having a person with CFO level experience lending a hand a few times a year can do wonders for your business finances.

But over the last few years (since 2008), I think there's been a pretty dramatic growth in what we'd call Tea Party politics in that set — extreme conservatism that goes beyond hands off fiscal and regulatory policy, the kind of feverish mindset in which you could write with a straight face that progressives might be building toward some sort of mass wealth confiscation or internment or even extermination for the likes of Tom Perkins.

On the one hand, there are few investors who will only invest in a few businesses per year while on the other hand, you have many entrepreneurs seeking funding for their business.

This so - called hot - hands theory relies on the high returns of funds that were hot for awhile and survived for at least a few more years.

Knowing that venture funds have plenty of cash on hand from last year's unprecedented run of fundraising ($ 41.6 billion in 2016) leaves us optimistic about the funding prospects for NYC's seed - stage startups over the next few quarters.

For example, Guidant CEO David Nilssen recommends providing incentives to customers to pay in lump sums rather than installments because having enough cash on hand essential in the first few years.

Yes, we are spared the pain of seeing our spiritual leaders portrayed as sweaty, quaking, self - righteous, pulpit - pounding televangelists, but on the other hand the last few years have shown that Hollywood has no problem seizing the headlines and showing priests as either pedophiles or at least questionable.

On the other hand, I met a little three year old girl a few weeks ago named Harley.

A few years prior I'd had a harrowing experience at another church, wherein I nearly lost my job for reporting a suspected abuse situation to the authorities, rather than hand it off to my boss.

I often meet abortion rights advocates who honestly thought that the national controversy over abortion would simply melt away within a few years of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973.

A few moments later, Mitt Romney mentions his five sons and hands his microphone to 36 - year - old Josh, who calls his dad «my hero.»

In one respect it appears that even within a very few years the perspective of the kerygma must have altered, namely, in respect of the relation conceived to exist between the death, resurrection, and exaltation of Christ on the one hand, and His second advent on the other.

Every since mankind has been as the Apostle described us in his epistle (Again, 2 nd Timothy 3:1 - 5; see also what Jesus said in Mark 7:20 - 23), the only thing that has «advanced «at our hands is our architecture, our technology, and our search for medicinal cures for what ails us.No one is denying that we've done tremendous good with these various advances, but we've also done awful, vicious, horrendous atrocities and brutalities as well.I've heard it quoted that out of all the centuries, millennia that we've considered ourselves «civilized», we've had only a few hundred years where something approximating peace has held sway among us.So again, I'm all world seeking to «make the world a better place», as it were; I just believe that mankind in his present moral, ethical, and spiritual configuration is capable of doing so.We can always enhance out technological prowess, improve our architechural designs, and make our drugs more powerful, but what about our hearts?

If I've learned anything over the past few years, it's been that loving God means holding my beliefs about Him with an open hand.

There is a variety of ways to get connected as a group — joining hands in the circle with eyes closed for a moment and then discussing what each person experienced; milling around, taking a brief time to hold the hands and look into the eyes of each member, repeating his name; talking in pairs for a few minutes about topics such as «What I hope for and fear in this group,» «What's most important to me right now,» «What I hope to become in the next year,» after which each person introduces his partner to the group, sharing what he has learned.

I've been following Jenna on her blog for a few years now, so I was excited to get my hands on her first book, White Jacket Required.

I tried some overseas a few years ago and it was delicious, unfortunately the chef was not handing out any recipe.

Fire safety has been a issue to me for the past few years but it wasn't until a few nights ago when our apartment building's fire alarm system went off 5 times during 1:30 - 3:00 AM that left my hands shaking, heart beating quickly and pacing our loft (with kitties in arms) that I knew this had to be a post.

Although John and Dave Locke intend to retire within the next few years, the company will remain in good hands as it is passed to the next generation, which includes John Locke's son, Curtis, Campbellford Wholesale adds.

The first time I made this pie (when you first posted the recipe a few years back), I pitted them all by hand without the benefit of a cherry pitter.

This decadent fudge recipe was crafted by the skilled hands of Lynne Morris, a professional food stylist for 9 years who has worked with companies including Kroger, Procter & Gamble, John Morrell and HoneyBaked Ham just to name a few.