Sentences with phrase «first year we stayed»

The first year we stayed in Shanghai and last year we were in a little bit smaller city called Hangzhou.

But the latest results from the Schools and Staffing Survey, or SASS — a nationally representative study of teachers by the U.S. Department of Education released just weeks ago — show that 70 percent of teachers in their first year stayed in the profession.

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And, that could be anything from, are there other people from the university that I attend who work here, could I talk to them, to what does it look like to change jobs in a couple years after I've been successful on my first project, to how long do people stay in this office?

And, if he thinks he will stay for five years, he has a positive net present value of $ 12,712, assuming he saves that $ 280 every month during the first year and increases savings by 3 % each subsequent year.

Although membership fees have been waived this first year of SuperShe, staying at the new island will not be cheap.

New hires make the decision whether they want to stay with an organization within their first year of employment, 90 percent of business owners said in Aberdeen's New Hire Onboarding 2013: A Look At New Hires Report.

Instead, when Apple's troubles in the Chinese market became apparent in April 2016, Icahn sold his stake after Apple's stock had risen 53 % since he first bought in — measly returns compared to if he had stayed in another year.

While other designed - for - women firearms have come and gone in the past 22 years, a version of that first LadySmith is still around today, and it relies on quality design, not a pink - toned grip, for its staying — and stopping — power.

Deshpande forecast Brent prices will stay around $ 39 per barrel in the first quarter, but with prices rising to $ 56 by the end of the year, to average around $ 47.80 for 2016.

And for the first time since the final quarter of 2011, China's debt - to - GDP ratio didn't increase and stayed unchanged at 255.9 percent in the second quarter this year, latest data by the Bank for International Settlements showed.

In the 1500s, Germany became the first nation to associate evergreens, trees that stay green year - round, with the Christian celebration.

One reason is that businesses founded during recessions tend to stay smaller for at least the first 10 years of their existence.

This year, for the first time, the Olympic Games» official alternative accommodations partnership is with San Francisco - based company Airbnb, whose online service lets travelers book a stay in someone else's home.

It has been wrong all these years, but starting in the latter half of»96 and continuing into» 97, IPOs have been going off at the lower end of their target stock - price ranges and staying there awhile, rather than more than doubling the first day out, as, say $ 1.4 - million Yahoo! did in» 96.

That deal gets even sweeter when you book four stays within the first 90 days of opening your account, or when you make $ 20,000 or more in purchases each calendar year — which qualifies you for Gold status.

When teaching a first - year class of 350 students, Leblanc noticed several who had difficulty staying awake for the second half of his three - hour class.

Well before the end of Chinese president Xi Jinping's first term, political experts had already begun speculating that he was planning to stay in power for longer than the 10 - year limit accepted by previous leaders.

Aram was very helpful in organizing the factory from the beginning, staying on through most of the first year to help Dad get started.

China, Fukuyama judges, has a strong central state bureaucracy — indeed, it was the first civilization to have one, some 2,000 years before the West — and leaders who, if not democratically accountable, have managed to stay focused on the basic needs of its citizens.

Cost - per - impression on Google's network member sites increased 18 % year over year in the first quarter, indicating continued strength in demand as impressions stayed flat.

Variable - rate mortgages usually have a set period where payments stay the same, like the first two years, and then payments can start changing after that.

This is when people poured thousands of dollars to start their companies, such as Laundromats, store fronts etc; But if you really look at this scenario, maybe about the 5 % who did make it past the first five years, 3 of them were struggling just to pay rent and stay alive, 1 was doing a little bit better than the others, and the other 1 was doing exceptional.

Notwithstanding the positive signals from the labor market and the pickup in sentiment, consensus estimates for US first - quarter 2017 growth showed little change, staying in the 1.5 % — 2.0 % band that has prevailed in recent years.

Toyota shrugged off China sales woes to stay the world's top selling automaker for the first half of this year, outpacing U.S. rival General Motors Co., which boasted such bragging rights for seven decades until 2008.

Regarding the interest rate, a fixed - rate mortgage might be best if you're planning to stay in the home for many years, while an adjustable (ARM) loan could save you money during the first few years.

«We have done the athlete family home stay programme for about 20 years starting in Atlanta for the games there and this is the first time that we have run out of homes,» he said.

As a conservative, I considered the wars in the Middle East justified for the first 8 years or so, but there really is no plausible cause for staying there.

First, a couple of years ago when I went through a difficult time online I had to make a decision: stay in the game or quit.

A comment that stays with me from many years ago, when I first encountered contemplative prayer on a visit to a Carmelite monastery, is a friend's observation that none of us can know how much of what God is doing in the world is brought about in response to the prayers of people we don't know and never see.

AA waqs helpful for me the first couple years and then I stopped the meetings and have stayed sober since 98.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

Twenty - five years after first moving to Afghanistan, Simintov says it is God's will that he stay even though his family life inevitably suffers.

The first group did in fact have its share of alcoholics who wandered by; but the «real» alcoholics who «really tried» (as Bill Wilson described them) were a sturdy band of «last gasp» alcoholics who had stayed sober for about two years since A.A.'s founding days of 1935.

As I stayed at home in first and fourth year attending Mass was easy, especially with the human alarm clock that is my parents.

I first made it when we were in the midst of a year - long road trip and staying in the tiniest AirBnB cabin just outside of Olympic National Park.

My dear friend Jeanette first made this salad for the two of us for a summer picnic in the park years ago and the balance of zesty lime juice, smooth avocado and crunchy sesame seeds have stayed with me since.

My brother stays in LA too:) I first had Tacos when i visited him (almost 5 years back i think).

It's been difficult to stay ahead of the growth, with sales during the first half of 2014 topping the total for all of last year, Sutton said.

And as fate would have it, life picked now for me to develop the first cold I've had in 10 years and have to stay at home away from her due to the risk of infecting her.

I was first introduced to a similar forbidden rice dish about 14 years ago when my husband and I stayed at Domaine Madeleine, a picturesque bed and breakfast in the Olympic Peninsula.

Undercurrent News: Ecuador's shrimp exporters have seen one of the first price declines this year after Chinese buyers stayed away from a hot market.

Brad Pilon is one of the first people to open my eyes to flexible dieting and using Intermittent Fasting as not only a fat loss technique, but also as a way to stay lean year - round in a very easy fashion.

I finished my first Whole 30 Program on November 2, 2011 and am happy to report that I've pretty much stayed on program with the exception of a few Paleo friendly desserts on Christmas and New Year's and a little bit of heavy cream in my coffee on occasion.

I first had chicken livers as an appetizer at The Pheasant in Gestingthorpe, England, where we stayed for my daughter's wedding a few years ago.

The new «Stay Curious» campaign is the first campaign since the brand was globally re-named Brancott Estate one year ago.

We have signed up with BTN since 5 years and were their first 10 members and since then we have stayed with them.

We are actually staying home for the first time in 15 years.

Having failed to qualify for the previous race René Arnoux managed to finish fifth by virtue of simply staying on the track to score his first points for two years, and the last of his career.

Manley managed to stay clean throughout his rookie year, largely because he had no idea how to get drugs in the first place.

We were always going to be a step down as we had not won the league in years and were always getting dumped from the CL so trophies wasn't surely his priority, I thought he wanted a team where he will be appreciated and he has literally been deified at arsenal, so why doesn't he want to sign??? He should have just stayed in Barcelona in the first place!