Sentences with phrase «get years like»

We don't tend to get years like that very often.

Not exact matches

I've watched the behavior of 14 - year - old girls spending 10 minutes to take the best selfie, post it on Instagram, and then take it down when it doesn't get enough likes.

When the school year ends, we may take a week or two to ourselves much like someone in any other field; however, at the end of that time, we need to get ourselves back into gear.

So, it's not like, here's a famous person and how did you get rich 10 years ago?

Right now, it feels like the innovations that will get started in the next 10 years will have a huge impact on the world.

These days, I've gotten to a weird point, where — I mean, I've been doing it for like, seven years, so I sometimes feel like I have nothing left to say.

Tough questions — like whether to leave you comfortable job or start your own business, move across the country in pursuit of opportunity or stick close to home, study economics or art, get down on one knee and propose or give it another year — cause many of us to break out in a cold sweat.

That's the thinking behind Smarter Science, an Ontario - based program that arms science teachers with the tools to get kids thinking like scientists all year long.

As he puts it: «I'd like to CHALLENGE every woman in tech who's a) got a nice care, b) owns a nice house, or c) is making over $ 125K a year to start thinking of themselves as the next Ron Conway or Esther Dyson in the making and commit to investing in startups...» I'll forgive him for the poor grammar, ditto for the wisecrack a couple of paragraphs later about how some of us might have spent $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 on our MBAs... or our wardrobes.

Science fairs, all year long How to get teachers to think beyond the textbook and kids to think like scientists.

In a New York Times article last year, Perdue compared Trump to Winston Churchill, the former UK prime minister, saying that like the legendary World War II - era leader, Trump was «nobody's choir boy» and «a historic person of destiny at a time and place in America when we've got to make a right - hand turn here.»

«It's been 20 years, but it's got to be another 20 years because the only way we're going to end this is through concerted efforts and encouraging governments like the government in the Philippines, encouraging the national community, institutions like World Bank, encouraging major countries, but also just getting our hands dirty and doing it,» Evans told «The Brave Ones.»

That might sound like a lot of companies getting funded, but in terms of the number of deals it's actually quite a steep drop — 19 percent from a year earlier — and the lowest number since the first quarter of 2012.

And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

We're getting guys who do this over and over again, so if you look at the number of companies that have been bought in M&A over the last 20 years, it's something like 1,500.

«Things that would have seemed science fiction to me just maybe five to 10 years ago — like getting a billion cells for each heart — now are doable,» LaFlamme, the investigator on the heart program, said.

He had been at Sony Entertainment for 13 years when he got the idea to bring a mobile app like Uber's to the chopper industry.

Some, like Tom Salonek, were just getting started in business 10 years ago.

«They get stronger and stronger by the day, as importers like Constellation Brands and Heineken get savvier,» Harry Schuhmacher, editor and publisher of industry publication Beer Business Daily, told Fortune in an interview earlier this year.

«We've been around in Austin supporting big events like Austin City Limits and New Year's, but SXSW is as big as it gets,» said Evdakov, the company's CEO.

Author Kelly Shue, of the University of Chicago, says boards» apparent mistake is a common one, highlighted by years of research in the field of behavioral economics, and much like the way workers get confused about the effect of inflation on the real value of their paychecks.

Hamilton and her staff — she now has a full team that includes Kimberlin as a venture partner — don't expect to see any returns on their investments within the next five years, so in the meantime, it's important that they, like many other top VC firms, help these founders get to the next stage.

Today, even companies like Telebrands test upward of 100 products a year to get maybe five hits.

That doesn't mean Airbnb will go public next year — though it sure sounds like it might — but rather that it plans to be finished the process of getting «ready» by next year.

To save $ 200 a month doesn't really sound like a great saving, but when you convert it to $ 2,400 a year, it suddenly gets significant.

People just aren't getting enough sleep, leading to consequences like literally thousands of traffic fatalities a year caused by drowsy drivers.

I've polled every statewide election in Michigan going back 30 years... I don't like to get it wrong, but I'm not alone.»

The Dow Jones industrial average got out of the gates in the new year like gangbusters, surging to an all - time high on Jan. 26.

If you have been impacted and don't take action (like changing your password and monitoring other sites you frequent), that information can be used for everything from identity theft to more serious forms of harassment — and continue to unfold years later as information gets sold and resold.

He has given something like $ 175 million over the past 14 years to universities in Canada, in Nevada (where his fortune got its start with Franco Nevada Mining) and in Israel (where he gave $ 23 million to Technion University in 2006).

After years of backing up Tom Brady in New England, Garoppolo is finally getting paid like a starter, and will likely remain in San Francisco for some time.

In peer countries like Canada, some citizens are taxed at higher rates throughout the year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development notes, but they get a lot more from their government in terms of social services, including health care.

A lot of things you can get away with in your 20s (like subsisting on lots of beer, little sleep, and no exercise), will quickly make you fat, miserable, and sick just a few years later.

The world economy is «about as good as it gets,» the 56 - year - old American said, pushing back against fears that rising trade protectionism could hurt globally diversified businesses like SAP.

«We did it for a couple of years and we were kind of like: How can we get better at this?

And it looks like New Yorkers can't get enough: The four - year - old company's two locations have booked a 2,792 percent rise in three - year sales, which hit $ 3.4 million in 2014.

Hampton Creek projects an estimated 92 million pounds of cookies will get gobbled up this year, as will other products made with vegetable proteins that act like eggs.

One year our best salesperson dressed up like Buddy from Elf and dropped off candy canes at clients just to get a laugh.

He said that while a school like Harvard might have only 6,000 students a year but some 50,000 alumni in the city, each one of those grads is getting contacted by 100 students or more, asking to meet or go for coffee.

This is about the producer who works tirelessly to innovate and create, just like the innovators and creators at Apple are pioneering in their field... but will not get paid for a quarter of a year's worth of plays on his or her songs.

«If you listen to these guys, it'll seem like we got mauled 100 % every year,» he says.

Consumers aren't going to like this, but eventually, the federal government will have to step in, so it's in the auto industry's best interest to get ahead of the curve, and 2018 — with sales continuing to be strong and profits rolling in — is the year to take the hit.

We couldn't make anything like the display in the current Kindle, and it took years for the technology to get to that point.

In fact, these days, the students are more quickly becoming the teachers as companies going through the millennial workplace revolution are getting their 18 to 35 - year - old employees to teach generation Xers and baby boomers a thing or two about integrating tools like social media and crowd sourcing into their modus operandi.

For someone in good health who is eating like this and getting regular exercise, he thinks the FMD might be beneficial to do twice a year.

Companies such as Facebook, Uber, Evernote and Github are all using this service to find their top talents; it looks like 2016 will be a good year to get on board as a job seeker with Hired.

«Then Denis said when she gets to Deckard it's like two people who haven't seen each other in 20 years and when they see each other they can't help themselves.»

«You wouldn't often get someone like that in for just a year,» says de Gruchy, so «employers tend to go internal.»

If you're 60 years old and getting ready to retire in the next couple of years, then yes, volatility is scary, and you need to think about moving your nest egg into more stable investments (like bonds or real estate).

I finally like what I've got set up (and I'd been saving for a few years before graduation, I worked several jobs - although I just put it all into a savings account.