Sentences with phrase «half dozen»

He is also host of The Tim Ferriss Show, which deconstructs the habits and routines of dozens of icons, billionaires, and world - class performers.

Dozens of companies hope nutritional and ecological benefits can overcome diners» squeamishness

Though their rockets didn't quite make it to suborbital space, the group did pull off dozens of successful launches.

I've participated in dozens and dozens of startup sessions listening to entrepreneurs explain a new idea.

Here are quotes from more than two dozen executives who name their favorite book and explain why it's worth your attention.

Environmentalists have long scrutinized Exxon Mobil for giving money «to dozens of right - leaning interest groups whose main purpose was to cast doubt on that very science» despite understanding the link between global warming and the burning of fossil fuels as early as the 1970s, according to the New York Times.

Genetic testing is all the rage in biopharma these days, with players ranging from pharmaceutical giants to dozens of upstarts getting into the genomics game.

Ms. Channing recently emailed dozens of blockchain experts, trying to get them to volunteer as representatives to the I.S.O. delegations in their countries, so that the process does not become dominated by a few countries.

Beyond the household names like Coca - Cola, Delta, and Home Depot, there are dozens of massive enterprises for Goldman to sink its claws into.

Under the plan, which launched last year, T - Mobile divided its customers into blocks of about 120,000, who are each assigned to a specific group of a few dozen employees at a specific call center.

They focused on new workforce improvements, and interviewed more than a dozen local NGOs to help with in - factory training sessions.

I don't even know what this word means anymore, and we must use it a dozen times in the course of a half - hour news meeting here at Inc.com.

Dozens of these rampages happened at stores, restaurants, bars, or nightclubs; they occurred at offices and on turnpikes, in movie theaters and in RV parks.

Several dozen union workers from GE factories in Pennsylvania, Canada and elsewhere protested outside a GE facility here, where about 450 shareholders gathered.

Legere gives away personalized sneakers (right) at dozens of employee rallies each year.

SD Card's are a dime a dozen, and so are flash drives, but what sets this solution apart is its incredibly small size.

It doesn't happen often that gadgets delight, especially if you are used to seeing (and using) dozens of them, but the Surface Pro strikes a fine balance between elegance, look, personality, and usability.

The drywall company he had owned and operated since he was 20 years old — employing dozens of people over decades of hard work — shriveled.

Budget 2016 announces that the Government will eliminate tariffs on about a dozen manufacturing inputs, providing an estimated $ 9 million in tariff savings over the next five years to Canadian manufacturers in the consumer goods and transportation sectors.

On a recent Sunday night, three dozen prospective buyers gather in a Tesla showroom in Beijing for a wine tasting.

Apart from smartphones, Xiaomi has backed dozens of startups producing a wide spectrum of products from wearables to rice cookers.

And dozens of startups are working on their own takes on blockchain.

This means that they've had possibly dozens, or even hundreds of various micro - and macro-interactions with your brand before your sales rep has a chance to outline your product's value proposition.

He grew up poor in communist China, failed his college entrance exam twice, and was rejected from dozens of jobs, including one at KFC, before finding success with his third internet company, Alibaba.

It's very likely that your CPA is running a practice that has dozens - maybe hundreds - of other clients.

On the day I arrived, there were at least a half dozen Amazon employees (wearing bright orange so you could easily spot them) helping shepherd people into the store, replacing items on shelves, checking IDs for those shoppers headed to the liquor shelves, and mostly answering lots and lots of questions.

There are dozens of mobile phone manufacturers in China being sold under brands that Americans have never heard of.

Harvey kicked off the festival in 1986, when he and about a dozen others burned a wooden man on a San Francisco beach.

Sure, dozens of Chinese state - owned behemoths have joined the global corporate aristocracy in the past two decades.

Responding to a question about resolving the issue of more than a dozen Japanese citizens who were abducted by North Korea in the 1970s, the spokesman said he was unsure of what content was discussed in the morning meeting.

The new team's first task was to analyze the roughly two dozen estimates that poured in from manufacturers across the globe and start to analyze who would be best.

The company's nearly a dozen employees help people sell their cars on consignment by conducting test drives, handling paperwork, offering financing and providing a one - stop location for any other car - selling needs.

«According to dozens of complaints filed with the FTC since 2014, people have been signed up for an Honest diaper subscription service with recurring payments under misleading conditions.

No amount of spin will make Trump's dozen years at the helm of a Trump Hotels, the only public company Trump has ever run, look like anything but a flop that damaged thousands of shareholders, bondholders, and workers.

For some, Twitter's potential remains so bright that they could see a buyer putting up dozens of billions of dollars to purchase it.

Gizmodo reports dozens of complaints have been filed with the Federal Trade Commission alleging Jessica Alba's Honest Company has been charging customers for a subscription diaper service under «misleading conditions.»

This is why Mastercard, for example, recently brought dozens of industry leaders together in Sri Lanka to explore better ways of mitigating the risk that digital security issues have posed.

I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

Given Xichang's warm climate and ample rainfall, a dozen of them could infest an entire neighbourhood.

The Trump Administration is staring down a half - dozen deadlines on trade policy that will create a moment of truth for the White House.

We have nice cities of the kind in which highly educated people like to live — as do a dozen other countries.

While HQ2 could produce negative effects, including increased traffic congestion and housing prices, on the chosen city, dozens of cities have clamored for Amazon's attention.

And FC Barcelona fights not only to win league titles — it has won Spain's La Liga two dozen times and many European championships — but also to maintain its unique culture within Spain's semiautonomous region of Catalonia, which has battled for its separate rights from Madrid for more than a century.

According to the latest Census of Agriculture, more than 80 per cent of Canada's dairy farms are located in Ontario and Quebec and half are found in fewer than three dozen Census Divisions.

Kelly said that procedures won't be too different under the new law because the state, like more than two dozen others, had already legalized medical marijuana.

The first would be to set up «virtual retail pharmacies» alongside its dozens of other sales «departments,» from books and baby products to wine, and then contract directly with generic drug makers to sell their pills.

More than a dozen big chemical companies are building tens of billions of dollars in petrochemical plants along the Gulf Coast, and Union Pacific, boasting by far the region's best routes, is destined to get most of their rail business.

More than a dozen athletes have crashed during Olympic training.

When Hootsuite started, with just a few dozen employees, we were honestly worried about being swamped with calls from our millions of users.

Along the way he's dramatically reduced expenses, eliminated dozens of unprofitable SKUs, terminated expensive celebrity endorsement deals, made a major international push... and recently launched a line of all - natural, organic products.