Sentences with phrase «first gap year»

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Australia had been on my list for over ten years but due to work commitments I kept postponing until 2004 when I could take my first gap year.

Not exact matches

Strikingly for Agios and partner Celgene, the therapy was in human clinical testing not so long ago (there was just a three year gap between the first human studies and Agios» regulatory submission to the FDA).

For the first time in our nation's history, there are more seniors 65 and older than children under 15, and the gap between the two will widen for years to come.

As the 2016 fiscal year comes to a close, first - term Governor John Bel Edwards and the state legislature have been in crisis mode, struggling to close a fiscal 2017 budget gap that could run as high $ 800 million — and that is after $ 485 million in emergency spending cuts this year.

The first is that the years immediately preceding the 2008 - 9 recession were not normal times in Canada; commodity prices were in the stratosphere, and the Bank of Canada's estimates for the output gap suggest that the economy was operating significantly above capacity.

The legislation met with little resistance in the Nordic nation that has ranked first in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap standings for nine consecutive years, said Brynhildur Hei?ar - og?

«The question is going to be, with the animal spirits having sort of disappeared here and the classic risk taking mode, whether we're going to continue to see this gapping around, which I think will look more like recent sequential quarters than it would like the healthy first quarter we saw last year,» he said.

As the 2016 fiscal year comes to a close, first - term Gov. John Bel Edwards and the state legislature have been in crisis mode, struggling to close a fiscal 2017 budget gap that could run as high $ 800 million.

Dendreon was first - to - market with its activated cellular therapy, Provenge ® in 2010 followed by a 7 year gap until Novartis» Kymriah ® was approved in August of 2017 which was shortly followed up by the approval of Kite Pharma's Yescata ® in November of 2017.

Moreover, U.S. growth tailwinds in coming quarters are powerful, as a result of massive deficit - financed fiscal stimulus now flowing into a closed output gap for the first time in near 50 years.

(In the cases of those interviewed by the writer, there was often a time gap ranging from one month to five years between the first contact with AA and the beginning of real participation.)

I'm a first year seminary student and I have come to realize that there is a extrodinary gap between knowing and actually doing.

The true story, whatever that was, was assumed to have been lost or significantly revised in the thirty - year gap between the life of Jesus and the writing of the first gospel.

Even the Acts of the Apostles, probably written more than sixty years later, recognizes the gap to have been seven weeks, placing the first public proclamation of the resurrection on the day of Pentecost.

For those of you who don't like the timing of the writings, here's a look at the time gap between the original and first surviving copies of some very important books that give us information on important historical figures... Bible: 25 years Homer: 500 Demosthenes: 1400 Herodotus: 1400 Plato: 1200 Tacitus: 1000 Caesar: 1000 Pliny: 750 Now, here's a look at how many of those manuscript copies we have....

The first being the time between when the alleged events occurred (4BC - 30AD) and when they were first reduced to writing (70AD) a period of about 40 years and a second gap between when the events were first reduced to writing and the oldest copies of those writings (about 250 years).

«After many years of research and investment, we are delighted to see the first of our range of human milk oligosaccharides becoming commercially available, thus addressing a major gap in the nutritional composition of infant formula,» said Professor Wim Soetaert, Inbiose's executive chairman.

«After many years of critical research and significant investment, we are delighted to see the first of our range of human milk oligosaccharides becoming commercially available, thus addressing a major gap in the nutritional composition of infant formula,» says Prof. Wim Soetaert, Inbiose executive chairman.

Vice President of Franchise Development Tom Finn said The Greene Turtle is now seeking franchisees to take advantage of available territories in the Philadelphia / South Jersey region, bridging the gap between its mid-Atlantic hub and the foothold it established earlier this year in New York with the opening of The Greene Turtle of Franklin Square, the first of 10 sites planned for Long Island.

The first question at Manolas's Roma unveiling was about his filling the gap left by Medhi Benatia, who had been beastly in the Roma defence the previous year.

We've seen the most playoff turnover since 2003 (eight teams) and, for the first time in NFL history, four teams end playoff gaps of at least eight years (Titans, Bills, Jaguars, Rams).

hayden is quite a beast in d / m apparently also and wenger rate him highly in this position as well says he has «good concentration and technical skills» for it and he is a big lad at 6 ″ 2 mobile as well could be promoted this year to filll in gaps at the back and in d / m maybe he is my favorite to get a good run of games out of the youth and as wenger has become pro english this year do nt be suprised if crowley gets fast tracked to first team before end of sept and reg first teamer before years out the kid very talented

And don't forget that Man City made up a 10 point gap to beat United for their first Premier League title a few years ago.

Vettel got into the DRS zone on the last lap but couldn't mount enough of an attack despite his best efforts, and Bottas took the win by just six - tenths of a second - the same gap he beat Vettel by when he won his first GP in Russia earlier this year!

Telesco usually leaves one gap on the roster with a view to filling it with a first - rounder — hence the panic trade for Gordon a couple of years back — and keeping Addae and signing Okung, both on chunky contracts, takes S and LT out of the equation by that metric.

I think the signing of both of these players would be a great boost for us for the coming season Cavani has undeniable class but can't see Wenger going for a striker this summer considering that we only bought Welbeck not even a year ago, I think we should go for Marco Reus as our now customary (or so they would have us believe) marquee signing of the summer and promote from within to fill some of the other gaps in our squad, except for maybe CDM as we lack rotation in this area, but our very own Le Coq shows what promotion from within can achieve, he is just one of many players to come through the ranks to command a spot in our starting XI, such as Bellerin those 2 seem like almost the first names on the team sheet nowadays who would have thought that 1 year ago or even 6 months ago?

The 27 year - old left - back actually first arrived at Malaga on loan to replace Nacho Monreal after he left for the Gunners, and was impressive enough to earn a four - year contract with the Spaniards, so he could be a useful stop - gap if we make a bid for him in January.

Two quick - fire first - half goals from Danny Welbeck had given last year's finalists a healthy cushion at the interval, but the Swiss outfit had missed several opportunities to close the gap against a poor United defence.

Continuing this series of posts on clubs promoted to the top - flight of English football after a considerable gap or, in some cases, the first time ever, Michael Wood turns the clock back to the year 2000.

The gap between first and second may have been smaller last year than in seasons past, but that has more to do with the fact that Juve's lead as they reached the Champions League semifinal was so great that they could afford to ease off the gas and rest key players for midweek games.

The Citizens have been imperious for much of the season and take a three point cushion into the weekend, a gap which could double in size should United come unstuck for the second year running at the Emirates — though they could also go level on points with Roberto Mancini's men should third - placed Tottenham become the first team to win at the Etihad Stadium since November 2010.

Leave entitlements are over-concentrated in the first year, leaving a gap in provision in later years.

The continuing father involvement deficit across developed countries reflects three key factors: the gender pay gap between men and women which worsens when people become parents; unequal entitlements to parenting leave during the first year when long - term parenting patterns and core competencies are established; mother - focussed services that can easily marginalise fathers and send a message that dads don't really matter.

We didn't chose that 2 year gap, it chose us — I got my period back only 6 weeks after giving birth the first time despite full time breastfeeding of course — but at the time of conception I was so ready for another baby - the second time it took 18 months to return and I didn't feel ready at all for another one during that time.

IUD is a good way, but if people are planning on small gaps between children, then they often do not want to use this on the short term, sometimes people just want to be sure that they have a year and half between their first sets of kids (1 - 2 and 2 - 3 etc etc as each person wants).

And the cranial bones can't keep up with their growth so it kind of helps to create some gaps so that the baby's brain can grow and flex and change for the first year to two.

I am going to have my second (after a six year gap) and I feel like I know so much after the first, but still not enough.

The FuzziBunz First Year Diapers were designed with this size gap in mind.

In fact Stephen Beer claimed Labour needed to respond to the tough decisions it faced on the economy, outline an economic plan for the future rather than a retrospective attack on Coalition policy and most importantly close the economic credibility gap that was first conceived and then grew during Labour's last years in office.

12:13 - Why for the first time in five years has the gap between male and female pay increased?

Cuomo has long insisted the state has been funding schools at record levels after initially seeking to scale back spending hikes in order to close yawning budget gaps he inherited during the first year of his first term.

In the year leading up to his first re-election campaign, Cuomo essentially invented a whole new form of budgetary accounting that figuratively (and, for a time, literally) erased the state's continuing (but shrinking) structural budget gap.

In essence, the Republicans want the final state budget agreement to include $ 1 billion that would completely eliminate the gap in funding, which was first approved in 2010 during the final year of Gov. David Paterson's administration.

It's unlikely the gap will be as big as the one he faced his first year in office, when the budget was out of balance by $ 10 billion.

As the state grapples with a $ 3.5 billion budget gap for the fiscal year that starts April 1, how $ 9 billion worth of settlement money from 22 Wall Street entities that first arrived in 2014 is being spent is again drawing scrutiny and criticism.

Mr Farnell, who regained the position of Labour council leader in 2014 after a gap of 22 years, told the inquiry he was never informed of the scandal during his first stint in office between 1986 and 1992.

Instead, at the first glimmer of budget balance since 2000, the Governor is proposing to create a series of projected budget gaps for future years.

James, who became the first woman of color to hold citywide office four years ago, has sued the city at least 11 times and spearheaded the passage of a bill that prohibits employers from asking job applicants about their salary history in an effort to close the pay gap between women and men.

If they had been included, there would have been a larger gap between previous years and 2015, when there was only a race for one Assembly seat in the first half of the year.