Sentences with phrase «good dozen years»

I didn't hang my own shingle until after I had a good dozen years of experience and, more importantly, extensive training and mentoring.

Like Karen mentioned, I was told a good dozen years ago in a writer's round table that e-books would replace print within four or five years — replace.

Not exact matches

Barbara Corcoran took an interest and six years later, Cousins Maine Lobster has become a national lobster franchise with 20 trucks in more than a dozen cities and some brick - and - mortar restaurants as well.

At this point, it's been more than a dozen years since a certifiable blockbuster won best picture.

After spending a dozen years building an export - minded pharmaceutical company that makes products geared at the booming cosmetic surgery industry, Ario Khoshbin has learned that the quintessentially human desire to look a bit better, and a bit younger, knows no geographical boundaries.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- It's a week of reckoning for White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and dozens of other officials who have been working without permanent security clearances for the better part of a year.

He founded Total Debt Freedom in 2004 after spending a dozen years managing collections departments, and says he feels far better about what he does today.

They're the best of the best and were selected after a year of test - driving and reviewing dozens of cars, trucks, SUVs, crossovers, and sports cars.

That's generally a reflection of how well investors think Berkshire's stock market portfolio, still over 85 % managed by Buffett and his long - time partner Charlie Munger, as well as the businesses they have bought over the years — including railroad company Burlington Northern, See's Candies, and dozens of others — are doing.

You've probably also heard a dozen times the tired but true advice that if you gave up your daily drink from the local coffeehouse, you could save well over a thousand dollars a year.

On the downside, the previous account holder had already posted dozens of questionable tweets, some comical («Best years of my life my ass»), some typed in Russian characters, and some that equated to panhandling («Follow me, please!»).

That's why we're sharing the best sales tactics from over a dozen inside sales professionals, which have been honed over countless years of experience.

In the last two years, Sears has sold off dozens of its best stores, among other assets, to raise money while its business deteriorated.

The 36 - year - old performer was joined on stage near Palm Springs, Calif. by dozens of musicians and dancers as well as her sister Solange Knowles, former Destiny's Child bandmates, Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland, and her husband Jay - Z.

Over eight years, she supported dozens of clients with monthly accounting services as well as budget development & management, tax return filing, and strategic planning.

At its peak, the company had nearly 80 franchises across Australia as well as more than a dozen company - owned stores, but over the last few years, a number have closed and a disgruntled Brisbane franchisee launched an $ 800,000 legal action against Pie Face claiming they were misled over profit projections, which Homschek denied.

Denton told POLITICO Media that he is not concerned about giving up some control to an outside investor — which is a reversal of virtually everything he's said for the past dozen years — because having to justify his decisions to someone outside Gawker would lead him to make better decisions.

Furthermore, I spend a minimum of 400 + hours a year to produce the bi-annual reports that I send to every Platinum Member that includes analysis and purchase price points for several dozen gold and silver mining stocks that trade on various global stock exchanges that I conclude are among the best in the world.

Steve Dewart is an organizational consultant, strategist, and leadership coach, with over fifteen years of experience providing mentorship and guidance to key leaders of Fortune 500 companies and start - ups, including Google, University of California, University of Colorado, Software.com, as well as dozens of small business and non-profit clients.

There were well over one dozen large digital currencies that soared more than 11,700 % last year, including Ripple and NEO, which gained a respective 35,564 % and 52,372 %.

2017 was the best year so far and I met dozens of incredible people.

I have worked with dozens of companies over my 11 years online, and I have to say that Shopify has been one of the best to work with!

'» Asked to paint a picture of the company in 20 years, the executives mentioned such things as «on the cover of Business Week as a model success story... the Fortune most admired top - ten list... the best science and business graduates want to work here... people on airplanes rave about one of our products to seatmates... 20 consecutive years of profitable growth... an entrepreneurial culture that has spawned half a dozen new divisions from within... management gurus use us as an example of excellent management and progressive thinking,» and so on.

For the dozens of people who sold all their possession thinking the world was going to end a couple of years ago, well that's kinda crazy.

I remember, a dozen years ago, being told by an editor with the best list on worship in the business that his firm had never made money on any of these books.

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.

For two decades, the critically acclaimed actor has sought roles that challenge big ideas and present complicated characters like 12 Years a Slave (for which he was nominated for a best actor Oscar), Mary Magdalene (he plays Peter), Children of Men, Amistad and dozens of others.

During the dozen years we were in the Heights, we made good friends, who through their example continue to teach us how to live a rich and rewarding life.

DARWIN»S TREE CHOPPED DOWN In recent years, scientists have been able to compare the genetic codes of dozens of different single - celled organisms as well as those of plants and animals.

With good reason: the term has come into prominence only in the past dozen years (after Newsweek named 1976 «The Year of the Evangelical»), and evangelicals themselves fight over what the term does and should mean.

In the U.S. some two dozen «mainline» national denominations — the United Methodist Church, the Episcopal Church as well as the Roman Catholic Church — provide programs ranging from 30 - second spots to half - hour programs 52 weeks a year.

It inspires homesickness, chauvinism, braggadocio, tears (of agony as well as longing), dozens of tumultuous cook - offs each year, and more philosophizing than Marcel Proust's madeleines.»

Featuring Dr. Greger's Daily Dozen — the best ingredients to add years to your life — The How Not to Die Cookbook is destined to become an essential tool in healthy kitchens everywhere.

We help customers with dozens of custom designed packaging systems each year, and can help to create a unique packaging solution for your specific application, as well.

Many years in the making, Esalen Cookbook is finally here, and features dozens of delicious recipes that emphasize healthy, fresh, and organic ingredients, and food made to satisfy the soul as well as the stomach.

I used an already made pie crust (I really can't make pie crust well, and for a half - dozen pies a year, max, I just do it the easy way) and this was so easy.

With a salad similar to the lovely one below in the fridge leftover from my mother's New Year's Day tradition of eating black - eyed peas for good luck — it was good, but unremarkable enough that I didn't photograph and post (such salads are a dime a dozen)-- it suddenly occurred to me that I could use it as the basis for a bean burger.

Since the statewide California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA) introduced its Code of Sustainability workbook in 2002, about 37,000 acres in Sonoma went through the voluntary assessment at least once during those dozen years, so many growers were familiar with the best practices.

The little industry is but a year old, yet its product was two thousand cases, of six dozen to the case, and will be double that this year, as by this time the humble plant is enlarged and transferred to Los Angeles and established in better quarters, with a well known firm to see to the marketing of its output.

«To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Finland, we wanted to create something symbolic that is a gesture to the dozens of Finnish family - owned farms who have dedicated over 110 years of passion and dedication to making some of the world's very best cheeses,» said Marcie Foster, Director of Marketing and Brand Development for Finlandia.

Think it's a lot easier to make a quasi-judgement on a player we see us play twice a year minimum; no doubt avid football fans see him a further dozen times vs other good teams on SNF, Super Sunday, and MNF through the year.

like who really expects not just a rookie, but a 19 year old rookie with only a dozen professional games under his belt, to just come into the playoffs against a veteran and physical team like the Heat and play really well?

We've seen dozens of Playoff upsets over the years and every Team makes the dance, so this time is just for becoming the best Cinderella they can.

and would add if the same management structure hadn't lied to fans about how all this would allow us to compete with top teams in Europe with... with exception of PSG... are not driven by oil wealth or megalomanic owners... of course none of this has anything to do with the footballing errors consistently made by wenger and which if corrected would at least give us a BETTER shot at winning top trophies than has been the case over the last dozen or so years

Or perhaps he spent thousands and thousands of hours on his pitching motion, compiling the best pieces of advice from a dozen different coaches over the first 30 years of his life, connecting neurons and patiently building layers and layers of muscle memory.

Dozens of factors have gone into Notre Dame's markedly low injury rate this year; IC may well be one of them.

KD to the Warriors was a fluke, brought about by a half - dozen other factors that have been well chronicled over the years, from Steph's cut - rate extension to Draymond's second - round selection.

No words of wisdom from the wenger faithful then... to be honest am not even feeling vindicated after 5 years of saying enough of this deluded nostalgist just shocked at the mid table football the 8m quid man now serves up... his exit will need to be followed by at least half a dozen of his hapless progeny... and boards short termist disrespect to fans means they will have to cough up a packet if this team is going to get back to the top of European football... the 3m quid consultant needs to disappear up the orange man's tax fiddling backside as well...

I sincerely appreciate it However we haven't won a PL trophy under your leadership for a dozen years That's too long imho If we don't win this year, it would be better to part ways I believe in Loyalty up to a point

Over the course of that time he has produced well over 100 college pitchers, a national Gatorade player of the year, two state Gatorade players of the year as well as dozens of regional and all - state pitchers.