Sentences with phrase «first couple of years»

I could not have hoped for a more fulfilling and idyllic first couple of years as a teacher.

Sarah Pearson, NSN's director, commented: «For free schools it's not uncommon for them to have a very small first couple of years, with just a few year groups.

Kelly, however, initially refused to play in Buffalo, instead signing and spending the first couple of years of his career with the Houston Gamblers in the upstart USFL, where he had tremendous success.

«After the first couple of years it became a must - have for many people, including hardcore fans and more moderate fans of the game.

«You see these little companies building out service brands because they want to have account executives who work with customers,» Atkinson adds, «so they try to spin their products into serving three different groups in the first couple of years, and that's a very adverse situation to get into.

«That was our focus for the first couple of years,» explains Nymi CEO Karl Martin.

«For the first couple of years we were really focused on defense, which is how can we retain as many pilots as we can,» Goldfein said.

O'Leary raised hundreds of millions of dollars from Canadians over the first couple of years.

Jade and I worked at Warner Bros. for three years prior to starting our company, and we took on several smaller projects in the first couple of years of our business before we went after bigger projects.

We took any project we could get, for better or for worse, for the first couple of years we were in business.

«I began to try to create [stevia sweetened] chocolate, which is my favorite food, and for the first couple of years I tasted some of the worst chocolate that I've ever tasted in my life.»

The dividend income in the first couple of years will be on a very low level but investing in dividend stocks is all about the long term.

For the first couple of years I worked online, although I had a partner, I spent most of my time working alone.

On the legacy of the Fed's seven - year run of record low interest rates, Posen said he thinks «it continued to do some good, though nothing as big as the first couple of years.»

Revenuewise, Snapchat is well behind where Facebook was when it went public, and even Facebook struggled as a public company in its first couple of years.

Add up those fees, and they can easily cost you more over the first couple of years than the deposit on a good secured credit card — and, unlike a security deposit, the fees you pay are money you'll never get back.

For the first couple of years, it was pretty much just a personal project, but Taylor stuck with it and things began to pick up.

And while retirees pay more in taxes during the first couple of years, experts point out that there are several mitigating factors to take into account.

The good news is that this would be so only during the first couple of years once they retire.

However, factoring in the extremely high supply, rate of inflation over the first couple of years and ambiguity about how useful the coin will actually end up being should be enough to keep buyers on their toes.

And lest we forget, Benedict managed to burn the inter-faith bridges that had slowly been building under the guidance of JPII within the first couple of years.

It was a real adjustment for the first couple of years, and a challenge.

My first couple of years of marriage life has been miserable and pathetic that made me questioned God and put me in the brink of giving - up especially when my wife has began to notice it.

I'm constantly cleaning up the word mess I made those first couple of years.

I used to eat oatmeal for breakfast all of the time, during the first couple of years after I went vegan.

So, whatever we gluten - free people make has to satisfy the gluten - eaters, who turned up their noses the first couple of years that we had to alter the menu.

The first couple of years he was getting away with murder because he was actually producing on the pitch.

Do you even remember how raw Giannis was his first couple of years?

I could do that with Aikman his first couple of years or Romo his first couple of years, and do nothing but criticize how horrible they are and need to improve and will never be good.

I remember how frustrated i was the first couple of years when Ozil came.

«This is going to be better than my first couple of years in the league, I think,» he said, according to The Charlotte Observer's Rick Bonnell.

«The first couple of years, I was lost,» Walton says.

If you recall the token system, perhaps a new entrant might get more development tokens for the first couple of years - there are some smart initiatives you can use to encourage people into F1.»

He is going to drive his head coach crazy for the first couple of years and there is no getting around that.

Around 70 % of managerial replacements do worse than the person they replaced in the first couple of years — and many don't last through that time span.

In my first couple of years with the Revolution, back in the mid-2000s, you didn't come into camp at anything near full fitness — that's what the first two weeks were for.

Something that I learned from teaching and in the first couple of years of parenthood is that opportunities to talk to children without saying no is so important.

The first couple of years of life are a time of huge growth.

During the first couple of years, Paul - Weltzien says, the park district did n`t have any room for an office, so she worked out of her home and the group «s first transportation, a minibus.

The first couple of years, I sat through, from Junior Kindergarten to seventh grade, trying not to look at my Blackberry.

You will be seeing your baby's provider often in the first couple of years, so it pays to make an informed choice.

Your baby will be reaching lots of big milestones throughout the first couple of years of his or her life, and you'll want someone you can share those with as well as people you can turn to when things get a little more difficult than you might have anticipated.

Anything that is needed for baby goes in the diaper bag and they are a constant accessory for the first couple of years.

Teething is a common frustration to many babes and parents as they grow an amazing 20 teeth in the first couple of years of life, starting around 4 to 7 months of age usually.