Sentences with phrase «gap year off»

Many will be moving on to college or university for further studies while others will be taking a gap year off to see the world.

Not exact matches

To get Lulu back on track, experts believe, Potdevin needs to repair a brand tarnished by last year's see - through yoga - pants disaster, fend off new competition from well - heeled rivals Gap, Nike and UnderArmour, and keep growing fast enough to mollify the suddenly dyspeptic public markets.

It was nudging up at 2.96 percent on Tuesday, which also left the gap between U.S. and German 10 - year benchmark bond yields just off its widest level in nearly three decades.

See, the gap - toothed goal scorer got off to a rocky start in the ad game — perhaps following Mario Lemieux's lead with a bizarre local car dealer commercial — but quickly turned things around last year with a series of quirky spots for Reebok CCM that featured his decapitated head's crazy - person / evil genius laugh, and a turn for ESPN's SportsCenter that pegged him as a Russian spy.

If you experienced a layoff, decided to take a long leave to raise your children, or took a year off to travel around Latin America, you will have a big gap in employment.

The IRS does not clearly specify how long this gap can be — but, for example, if you took a year off work to spend time with your children, you will not qualify for a tax deduction.

We transitioned off GAPS about two years ago.

I have been off of the GAPS diet for about 3 years and have struggled to incorporate any grains back into my diet.

Three years later you want to slash your wrists and jump off the Gap because they have screwed the backside out of you.

Carolina's topline, centered by Rod Brind «Amour, drew the attention of Pronger and partnerJason Smith for most of the series, giving it the dubious honor of trying towipe that David Letterman - like gap - toothed smile off Pronger's unmarked face.That matchup gave Carolina's second - line center, Staal, a degree of liberty.The 6» 4», 205 - pound Staal matter - of - factly led playoff scoring with 28points, including eight in the finals - a remarkable achievement by a 21 - year - oldwho is as modest as his roots, which really do come from the soil.

In the past years, we have had large points gaps with the champions, and it will be a significant improvement if we're are off the top by just a few points.

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.

Between 16 and 18, things are getting serious, because now they are preparing to go after college or have a gap year or something which they are going to be independent, so now the stakes are higher and you really want them to be accountable, to a cash flow statement budget, savings, credit, they really need to learn about FICO scores, all of these things they are going to need when they are off to college.

When our 5 - year - old failed to mind the gap on the Tube (translation: she dropped her beloved stuffed animal in the gap on her way off London's train during rush hour), they actually stopped the entire Tube system and grabbed her toy for her.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel today said he will not rely on making city workers take unpaid days off to solve a $ 30 million budget gap Mayor Richard Daley left him with for the second half of the year.

If Scotland were to choose to go down the independence route, not only would there be more than enough oil income to make every single Scot better off by considerably more than # 500 a year, but also for its new government to close down the submarine bases in the Clyde without having to submit to any form of blackmail on currency issues, to increase the gap in health and education funding relative to the rest of the UK, to keep the ship yards open, and a great deal more besides.

The $ 315 million midyear budget gap could lead to another transit raid in the $ 20 million range before the year is out, if Governor Paterson convenes a lame duck special session and Albany repeats the same sort of heist it pulled off this fall.

«The Summer Food Service Program helps to fill the gaps when students are off for summer break, making sure they get the good nutrition they need all year round.

Kremer says this years budget pays off $ 500 million of that debt, and if the economy continues improving, the gap elimination adjustment ought to be out of the picture in two to three years.

In 2016, Albany received that year's budget - gap - closing $ 12.5 million as a «spin - up» or advance on payments the state owes for the Empire State Plaza being off the city tax rolls, which typically has been the case.

Reversing an earlier pledge to not lay off state workers before Jan. 1, Gov. David A. Paterson said on Thursday that he would dismiss government employees before the end of this year to close a persistent budget gap.

Cuomo, facing his third lean fiscal year as governor, closes a $ 1.3 billion budget gap by holding spending flat for state agencies, which he estimates will save $ 434 million, and putting off a cost of living increase for health care providers, worth $ 412 million.

In «Missile Gap», the surface of an alternate Earth still trapped in the cold war has been peeled off and stretched across a vast disc a million years in the future.

A smarter type of memory A recently announced alliance between HP and Hynix Semiconductor aims to fill the imminent gap with a denser and more energy - efficient technology called resistive random access memory (RRAM) that could roll off the assembly line in the next few years.

Most damningly, he believes the cores are riddled with unseen gaps where erosion periodically obliterated sediments, potentially throwing off the timeline by millions of years.

Valerie was a client with multiple food sensitivities who had been following the GAPS Diet on her own, off and on, for about a year and a half.

Ten years ago, when I still worked in the trenches of conventional medicine, before I spun off to start my own integrative medicine practice, I figured there had to be a better way to fill the gaps that women encounter between what we struggle with and what mainstream medicine offers.

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I got a camel sweater from Gap last year but there's a giant hole in it out that came out of nowhere, so I got this one from J.Crew factory during the 50 % off sale a few weeks ago.

Same - sex couples display the stereotypical age gap as they grow older, leveling off at about 4.5 years difference after age 38

Twenty - years married to his high - school sweetheart and soulmate — a word every member of this strong cast seems obliged to say at least twice — and suddenly cast off, straight - laced Cal docks himself behind a bar, sipping vodka crans and muttering «Lindhagen» under his itchy Gap blazer.

Starting off as a viral - marketing found - footage monster film, it eschewed the conventional sequel and - after an eight - year gap - instead pivoted with 10 Cloverfield Lane into being an anthology series featuring twists on classic sub-genres.

It may seem odd to toss the whole thing off all to the younger generation when I'm personally only so many years over them but just for comfort sake I'll take whatever gap I can find between myself and that ever flowing river of bastard offspring.

Nine years is certainly not the biggest gap between films in a series (the recent sequels in the Indiana Jones and Tron franchises took a lifetime to come to fruition), but it is nevertheless a long time since Ferrell & Co. brought their off - the - wall characters to the silver screen.

Cassia is the pampered daughter of local Pompeii developer, Severus (Jared Harris), and Aurelia (Carrie - Anne Moss), who are anxious to marry their daughter off after her gap year in Rome.

That means we have a two - year gap for another Wolverine story to be told between when he accepts that he's a «soldier» at the end of The Wolverine and jets off with his new partner Yukio to be a hero, and when he's re-recruited by Magneto & Prof X. There's also another 4 - 6 years between that mid-credits scene and the state of the world we saw in the X-Men: Days of Future Past footage played at Comic - Con, where another story could be told.

The company's mascot returns to the 3D platforming genre after a several year hiatus which saw several 2D platformers, Mario Maker and many other spin - offs filling the gap since Super Mario 3D World on the Wii U. Arguably, the last true 3D release in this prestigious line of masterpieces was 2010's Super Mario Galaxy 2 on the original Wii; which re-used assets from the first one.

Throughout 45 Years, pop songs, heard on muted radios, provide bitterly ironic commentary — I Only Want to Be with You by Dusty Springfield, for example, while Kate snappishly turns off Young Girl by the Union Gap.

The gap between first and second film was close to a decade long, here's hoping that this sails off in production this year.

Formerly a seasonal outlet purely focused on the Oscar race, the site bridged the gap with consistent off - season commentary and industry coverage in early 2008 after exclusively covering the film awards season for three years on the web.

But the American Gap Association, an accreditation organization founded in 2012, advocates thinking of gap years not as «time off,» but as «an experiential semester or year «on,» taken to deepen practical, professional, and personal awareness.&raqGap Association, an accreditation organization founded in 2012, advocates thinking of gap years not as «time off,» but as «an experiential semester or year «on,» taken to deepen practical, professional, and personal awareness.&raqgap years not as «time off,» but as «an experiential semester or year «on,» taken to deepen practical, professional, and personal awareness.»

An editorial in The Telegraph thought Malia was «right» to take a gap year while The Atlantic pointed out that students who take time off after high school have a lower chance of completing college.

There are cheaper ways to take time off — paid volunteer programs like Americorps and City Year are often described as «funded» gap years — but Pendoley believes that «unless there is a major change in how we fund undergraduate education,» gappers will never account for more than 3 to 4 percent of the college - bound population.

In rapid - fire fashion, Grier ticks off Apollo 20's achievements: «It eliminated the math achievement gap in the 11 lowest - performing elementary schools in two years,» he says with emphasis.

Instead, the report recommends a ten - year programme of social reform, which it believes should have the key objective of narrowing the attainment gap at GCSE between poorer children and their better - off classmates by two - thirds.

Milburn highlighted that at the current rates of progression it would take 30 years to halve the educational attainment gap between poorer children and their better - off classmates, and over 50 years before the gap in access to university is closed between the areas with the lowest and highest participation rates.

For years, many states and districts have been masking achievement gaps with low standards only to send young people off to college where 60 % of all students and 75 % of two - year college students have to take remedial classes.

As Dropout Nation has pointed out ad nauseam since the administration unveiled the No Child waiver gambit two years ago, the plan to let states to focus on just the worst five percent of schools (along with another 10 percent or more of schools with wide achievement gaps) effectively allowed districts not under watch (including suburban districts whose failures in serving poor and minority kids was exposed by No Child) off the hook for serving up mediocre instruction and curricula.

In 2007, Alexander and his colleagues found that two - thirds of the ninth - grade achievement gap between disadvantaged students and their economically better - off peers could be explained by what happened over the summer during the elementary years.

After 15 years of work by states and school districts to raise standards, disaggregate data, and close gaps, the federal government is taking the foot off the gas and leaving even more decisions to the states and to local school officials, including those about measures, metrics, incentives, and interventions.