Sentences with phrase «half years off»

«My plans mostly revolve around reading books, hanging out, and listening to music,» he said, noting that he'd promised himself to take a year off.

She also pursued studies at Oxford University during her Ivy years, and took a year off in 2011 to film.

After realizing a successful exit selling Destia Communications, Levy took a few years off to get reacquainted with his family and get his financial plan together, and gradually began about what he wanted to do next.

«But, frankly, I know you and your husband are planning to have kids, and I can't afford to hire someone who's going to take every other year off.»

Your goal needs to be to head into January well - rested — how else will you leapfrog your competition and start the year off right?

But eventually, the pair discovered they could afford to take up to two years off work to travel.

Maybe you're a spa and you invite people to de-stress from the holidays with 25 percent off a massage, or you're a mechanic who encourages car owners to start the year off right with a discounted oil change and inspection.

When I graduated I took a year off to try to make a game that I could sell and break in [with], but that [Gate 88] didn't do very well at all.

While this may sound like a pipe dream, the idea became a reality thanks to $ 50 million in venture backing — in particular, the $ 40 million invested by Taiwanese entrepreneur and billionaire Samuel Yin in a Series A round in 2011, which trimmed years off production and helped the company quickly ramp up to more than 450 employees.

I did a B.Sc in interactive arts at Simon Fraser University, but I did that two years on, two years off, and then two years on.

«The stress took years off my life, but when you get that kind of responsibility, it's hard not to feel ownership.»

Start the year off right by organizing and decluttering the room.

And launching studies to treat more widespread diseases could still be more than a few years off.

Cutting five years off the life of a mortgage substantially reduces risk to the lender.

Japan and several European countries — Bulgaria, Hungary, Japan, Lithuania, Austria, Czech Republic, Latvia, Norway, and Slovakia — each offer more than a year off as well.

Brodbine Ghoneim, who left the company in mid-1997, had envisioned using the payoff from her options to take a year off for travel.

Uber also would need to go public, which likely is more than a year off.

She spent 7 1/2 years with the agency before taking a year off from law enforcement.

Two decacorns — Spotify and Dropbox — started the new year off with a bang.

So, to kick the year off on a happy note (maybe even a handwritten one) make sure you acknowledge these 7 important groups:

ChangEd is a new app that says it can take six years off your repayment term and save you $ 14,000 in interest costs — all with a bit of spare change.

In fact, it can bring on a whole host of health problems and even take years off your life.

Right now that inflection point is 4K (with whatever's post-4K likely a lot more than just three or four years off).

«They don't realize that saving that amount per month can shave four or five years off their student debt.»

On the other hand, in his persistence he successfully crushed most of the prosecution's charges at trial, and knocked three years off his sentence.

You also might be able to convince your employer that taking a year off will make you a better employee upon your return, especially if you're going to improve your foreign language skills or increase your knowledge of another marketplace while you're gone.

Why not take the longest day of the year off work and actually accomplish all that stuff that's cluttering your brain?

When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number, I poked my head into the front of the car, tapped my grandmother on the shoulder, and proudly proclaimed, «At two minutes per puff, you've taken nine years off your life!»

They have imposed data caps on Internet service that could limit a customer's ability to watch as much Netflix or Hulu as desired (though the caps are high enough that such problems are probably a few years off).

It's not too late to start the new year off right, reviewing where your business is, renewing customer touch - points, and recalibrating your goals.

«Coca - Cola usually does a holiday package design with Santa, but it sounds like they're giving Santa the year off....

To launch Box, Smith decided to take a year off from Duke University, ultimately finishing his degree while serving as the company's 20 - year - old CFO.

The full acceptance and adoption of VR and AR in the workplace may be a few years off, but we get closer and closer every day to creating an amazing technology that will help better connect and inspire us, and will improve the overall way in which we conduct business.

In Canada, I feel we have a better respect for one another, thanks largely in part to the government's support of our choosing to take a year off.

After starting the year off with a bang many of the best defense stocks are now down for the year and are trading 15 - 20 % below their 52 - week highs.

I propose we comprehensively change the text across all languages when the fees are very high on a permanent basis, which I think is some years off thanks the ecosystem taking better care to optimize usage of the blockchain.

He makes $ 12 million per year off the field with partners like Buick, Nationwide, Papa John's, Gatorade and DirecTV.

«The National Speakers Association cut years off my learning curve.

After selling Double Line Partners to a private equity company, Young took a year off to spend more time with her kids and family.

A 23 - year - old who begins saving 10 % today can shave five years off retirement age, amassing enough to leave work at 70.

If they were to live on the average worker's pay, Canada's CEOs could stop working at around 11 a.m. on Jan. 2 and take the rest of the year off.

Allegations of endemic companywide sexual harassment got the year off to a bad start.

If you put that $ 317 toward your loans, you could shave 4.8 years off your repayment term and save $ 4,815 in interest.

I certainly hope you have a strong fourth quarter and finish the year off with a bang!

Jonathan Krinsky, MKM Partners» technician, starts the year off with a «bull market checklist» looking at trend, momentum, breadth and sentiment for the overall US stock market (Russell 3000, S&P 500) and determines that there are no current warning signs of a decline — although sentiment could be coming close.

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.

This group of exceptional entrepreneurs arrived to class ready to start the new year off right.

The momentum you'll gain can knock months or years off your total payoff time.

Anyone can shave many years off having to save for retirement by doing any of these steps.