Sentences with phrase «few years we spent»

(LoL pros need sharp eyes and sharper reflexes, and both dull after a few years spent staring at computer screens.)

He taught me a lot in the few years I spent there.

Cahill has never seen a budget he couldn't vote for, other than the few years he spent in the county legislature where Republicans made budgets and tax increases he couldn't support.

She had moved to Tennessee from Colorado recently, and those few years spent surrounded by snow - capped peaks had left her obsessively thinking about the mountains and craving adventure.

After a few years spent down in the grimy, self - surgery - filled trenches of TV, Steven Soderbergh finally got back to the world of film this year, tapping Channing Tatum, Riley Keough, Adam Driver, and Daniel Craig to star in his backwoods heist comedy Logan Lucky.

The next few years I spent developing everything you see on this site today along with a software I built called ATTRACKTOR that was built around the very system that helped me grow to success as well as every agent I have shared it with.

The first few years we spent most of our time keeping everyone alive — five is a fair number of kids.

Not exact matches

Women have spent fewer years in the workforce.

Google has dramatically increased its lobbying activities in Washington in the past few years: it spent US$ 8.95 million on lobbying just in the first half of 2012 (compare that to the US$ 9.7 million it spent in all of 2011).

Local Motion has spent the last few years (initially out of Lemnos Labs, the hardware incubator) developing a small module — a box — that essentially eliminates the need for keys in fleets of cars.

Dr, Klaus claimed that if you constantly applied this idea - of only doing your most valuable work and then spending time creating more of your most valuable work - you could double your income in a few years.

He even spent a few years as an engineer with Alcan Aluminum in Montreal before he founded Jarislowsky Fraser.

The last thing he wants is to have to spend the next few years publicly defending legislation that takes away health insurance from tens of millions of Americans and raises the premiums for tens of millions more (whether he believes in the merits of that legislation or not).

Due to the economic downturn of the last few years, many businesses still need to think twice about spending more money than they have to.

About 30 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs spent the first few years of their careers developing a strong foundation in finance, according to a study by consulting firm Heidrick & Struggles.

She has a masters degree in journalism from Columbia University and spent the last few years as a writer and editor covering community happenings on Long Island's East End.

Millstein acknowledges that being his kind of activist director is hard work, much harder than just spending a few hours at eight board meetings each year.

Lower gas prices — down about 9 % compared to last year — are adding a few billion to U.S. consumers» 2014 holiday spending budget, Customer Growth Partners President Craig Johnson told Fortune.

Earlier this year, Nike (nke) CEO Mark Parker said the retail landscape is «not in a steady state» as consumers spend more online and make fewer visits to brick - and - mortar stores.

That's quite a few: As CEO of Acker Merrall & Condit, his family's nearly 200 - year - old Manhattan wine shop, the 41 - year - old spends about 120 days a year on the road, mostly courting the still - booming Asian wine market.

«This is a brand new way for people to contribute and give back in a way that's actually needed the most,» says Joe Gebbia, Airbnb's cofounder and chief product officer who has spent much of his time in the past few years leading the initiative.

A recent forecast by the Conference Board of Canada suggests that indebted households will restrain spending over the next few years, contributing to slow economic growth.

But, as someone who himself spent 12 years in sales before becoming a CEO in 2015, I understand why so few chief executives come from the sales ranks.

Spending a few years in the industry under an excellent mentor will provide a good launching pad.

Digital nomads usually spend anywhere from a few months to several years in a country, and then they move on.

The average dating site customer spends just $ 239 a year for online memberships, which more than pays for itself to the tune of $ 12,803 in cost savings from fewer dates,» the report said.

The card, which has a $ 95 annual fee, earns 3x points per dollar on the first $ 150,000 you spend each cardmember year in a few categories, including travel, shipping, internet / cable / phone, and advertising on social media sites or with search engines, such as Google Ads.

Investors get a pledge of double - digit returns within a few years, while producers can raise productivity without spending more of their own money.

Pay - TV subscribers spend an average of $ 231 a year to rent these boxes, because there are few meaningful alternatives.

During his first few years in Las Vegas, Hsieh spent every weekend on the Strip.

Every year around this time, I like to spend a few weeks reflecting on the year and planning the next one.

Jack Raudenbush, vice president of the $ 4.6 million company, which is based in Middletown, Pennsylvania, estimates that the change costs a few thousand dollars per year but calls it money well spent: «This was the type of plan our competitors had, and we needed to offer competitive benefits.»

«We've spent a lot of money in the past few years developing Napoleon as a world - class brand,» he says.

But over the last few years, careers in social media have exploded as companies realize the value of reaching their customers on the medium where they spend most of their time.

But now you have the opposite of that where you've spent the past few years sort of developing this product in the Airbnb lab, and now released it onto the marketplace.

While the plans to build your own TieFi are real (it calls for a tiny Raspberry Pi computer and some software customizations), the launch is a stunt — a tongue - in - cheek reminder to close the laptop and spend some time with your kids this Father's Day, lest you find yourself Cat's Cradled a few years from now.

While spending time with family, I'd stare into a small screen on my lap instead of engaging at a level I would have a mere few years back.

The Liberals made a few big - ticket election campaign spending promises, but, on the tax side, they also indicated they intend to pad revenues over the next few years with higher tax rates for personal and corporate income.

On a journey that took us from NYC to San Francisco and back again, the Qwiki team has spent the past few years creating products and technology that make it easy to share and discover stories.

Allison spent a few years in the early 2000s homeless, but now rents in San Francisco's rapidly changing SoMa district, which is known as the home of dozens of tech companies including Yelp, Zynga and Airbnb.

Until a few years ago, advertising meant spending a small fortune on print ads, plastering your message on billboards or pushing your burn rate through the roof with a radio or TV campaign.

Janet Yellen has spent that last few years preparing investors for rising interest rates.

For a 110,000 barrel per day mine, each additional billion spent on start - up capital translates to about $ 525 - $ 560 billion million fewer taxes and royalties (in today's dollars) over the 40 year life of the project.

But those buyers made 9 % fewer purchases than last year, and they spent 5 % less.

College is becoming less and less a place to kick back and spend a few years «figuring things out.»

I think if you can spend a few years at a fast grower with a great «promote from within» culture that's a good risk - reward balance.

A few years ago, customers might spend an hour of trial and error on a self - service site, Haas says.

That discretionary part of the budget has been squeezed over the past few years, while Republicans controlling Congress have largely ignored the ever - growing tide of automatic - pilot spending on benefit programs like food stamps, student loans, and Medicare.

But to the government's credit, it has hit most of its spending targets in the first few years of the austerity program Flaherty.

When you get to the point where you're only spending a few hours a year managing your investments you can move on to the next thing.