Sentences with phrase «hour investment of your time»

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The Broadbent Institute estimates that these investments from both government and business could create 186,000 three - month full - time co-op positions, paid internship or summer job placements that pay a wage of $ 15 per hour.

Golf is not only a great way to spend a day networking and talking shop; it's also an investment of four to five hours of your time.

The reason behind this is simple: Time is money, so the potential for return on investment is diminished with each additional hour of owner involvement.

Instead of waiting 6 months, 1 year or even 10 years to get a return on your investment, traders can see returns in a short time period; usually under 24 hours.

The fact that these hours are frequently spent with persons whose mental health is in jeopardy gives counseling a qualitative significance for mental health which far outweighs the quantitative investment of pastoral time.

Other cribs on the market require a time investment of 2 or more hours to get all of the pieces put together.

Such classes usually take about half an hour — a small investment of time for the peace of mind that comes with your baby's safety.

The potential savings in lost workdays and health care costs for protracted hospital stays, surgery and other avoidable procedures is well worth the investment of a few hours of an employee's time.»

For a Northern California household in a region served by the Pacific Gas & Electric utility, a one - time investment of $ 1,150 for 30 LED - based light bulbs of 60 watts at a cost of $ 35 each would pay itself back within two and a half years even if the bulbs operate only three hours per day on average, the J.P. Morgan report says.

Course on Translational Research and Medicine Development: The C - COMEND Course is a course consisting of an introductory e-learning (~ 24 hours student investment time) followed by a 5 - day face - to - face workshop.

We consider this treehouse an investment in our children's health and I love that it is a place where they can spend hours of quality time and make memories.

I fought it for a while... tried to straighten it, but the pain and the time investment (hours and hours) broke me of that.

Also at the bottom of this post I have embedded a video presentation by Jonathan Bailor titled «The Calorie Myth & 6 Reasons Calorie Counting is Crazy» — the video is about an hour and twenty minutes but it is well worth the investment in time and I guarantee you will think differently after watching it.

It can be hard to find time to date when you're a busy professional working long hours, but we really believe that the Relationship Questionnaire is worth the time investment — after all, it covers all of the core values that'll help your new relationship go the distance.

If you're chatting for hours beyond that (maybe because you're excited), you're investing a lot of time in someone before they deserve that sort of an investment.

Even if you have limited time to spare, Luxy provide the right environment which only requires you to make an investment of two hours and it allows the opportunity to meet and connect with Detroit singles who have all come to this platform with the purpose of getting to know you.

If you give the movie the investment it requires and have the emotional and spiritual clarity to receive it, you will be rewarded well beyond the gamble of a couple hours» time.

New Line Cinema's unprecedented investment of time and money has been justified, and the film plays too short at a full three hours.

The setup for Margin Call is pretty straightforward: it chronicles the efforts of a powerful investment bank to avoid disaster when they get wind of the impending financial crisis, over a 24 - hour period of time.

«One hour per month or per week helping students is a small investment of time that has big returns.»

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

A 15 - minute investment of time could save you hours of research and hours of wasted administration time in a clunky Learning Management System.

How will your reader benefit?Somewhere down the road, your book will have to convince readers that what they'll get in exchange for their $ 20 and 8 hours of reading time is worth that investment.

I'm guessing that my book sat somewhere around average or low - average compared to the other Kindle Press authors / books, and while I do think that my book cleared the investment that they made directly into it (advance, editing and promotion), it definitely didn't make enough of a profit for Kindle Press to compensate for the hours and hours of time and effort that goes into the open submission process of the Kindle Scout program.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

It is also an investment of several hours of my time to read it.

All because no - one ever told them that writing and publishing a book costs little - to - nothing, that it's possible to write a staggering amount in an hour per week and that, with modern technology such as speech to text apps, the time investment can be cut down even further allowing you to get down the first draft of your book while on - the - go.

Often there are times when I don't need a massive stack of financial statements, insights into global operations or a tour of a manufacturing plant to get a sense within the first hour or two whether an investment is something that fits my style or requirements to own.

If you're in a higher tax bracket — that is, if you make $ 85,000 annually or more — it may be worth paying for a few hours of an accountant's time to see what mix of these investment options is right for you tax-wise.

Through a luckily timed real estate investment and a lot of long hours finding roommates and working in a pawn shop.

However, even with their fancy Ivy League investment degrees and 100 + hour per week schedules, they are still wrong a lot of the time.

The number shares or bonds that trade on the market in any given period of time (minutes, hours, days) dramatically affects an investors ability to buy or sell his / her investment.

If, however, you're in a higher tax bracket — earning $ 85,000 a year or more — it may be worth paying for a couple of hours of an accountant's time to see what mix of investment options — RRSPs, RESPs and TFSAs — is right for you tax-wise.

Markets are open 24 hours a day 6 days a week (due to time zones), so you need to devote a lot of time to tracking your investment

So when you have a few hours of free time, you can decide if you want a direct - sold or an advisor - sold plan, look up each plan's performance, fees and rankings, and of course and look at each plan's Savingforcollege.com 5 - Cap Rating (which measures the flexibility, investments, performance and economic benefits such as tax benefits of a plan).

If this is your expected emergency, you don't need all three months available within 24 hours but rather a third available immediately and the rest needs to have an investment - to - cash turnaround time of 30 days perhaps.

We are confident that you'll agree that this small investment of time will be well worth the countless hours of enjoyment that will result from finding the perfect cat.

In other words, a little upfront investment in super-close supervision will save you hours of housetraining time and drastically cut the number of accidents that any pup or dog has during the house / potty - training stage.

Having a pet in your house requires a good investment of time, and it can't be put on a schedule of maybe one hour a day.

It's not that I don't like RDR or want to play it, but I also want to clear this mighty backlog of mine a bit so working on Alan Wake and Valkyria Chronicles seems like a more realistic investment of my time as far as actually having a chance to finish things in under 40 hours

Yes, some games only «get good» after a dozen hours of investment - but that's time you could spend playing through backlog games that you enjoy every second of.

Nothing beats taking a character you've invested perhaps 50 hours of solo play in and teaming them up with your mates» characters (themselves the recipients of similiar time investments, no doubt) and working together to take on a formidable beast you could never have handled on your own.

I think, to spur its development, we need electricity pricing that encourages investment in load - shifting, a guaranteed return for delivering a megawatt - hour at peak demand for more than it costs at the time of peak excess supply.

If your passion is hungry children (or whatever social problem you believe is worthy of human investment) it would be wonderful if you would spend a lot of time doing something proactive about it instead of the hours of time you spend heckling on this blog.

For a $ 350 monthly investment — less than two billable hours for most attorneys — you can recoup 10 or more hours of billable time per month.

Addleshaw Goddard's commitment is further outlined by its investment in an annual female development programme, truly flexible shared parental leave package which mirrors the enhanced pay offered to maternity leavers and its support of a wide range of agile working arrangements, from term - time working to home working to reduced hours, with around 70 % of workers reporting working flexibly, regularly or from time to time.

All of them require a substantial investment of time, which means you will have to start practicing for the 60 - to — 80 - hour - per - week law job you hope to get in 2016.

The foundation selected us to receive the award for our «thousands of hours of pro bono service and investment of time and dedication from its attorneys in providing direct service through legal aid agencies.»

Although billing 1,750, 1,800 or 1,850 hours in one year reflect dedication, hard work and devotion to the firm, nevertheless, realization on only 40 percent of the hours billed adversely impacts on the bottom - line productivity of the substantial investment of time made by the billing associate.

Woody's direction and feedback has allowed me to focus my resources on those approaches that will provide the greatest return on investment — thereby saving me thousands of dollars and dozens of hours of precious time!