Sentences with phrase «hour of time just»

Leave an extra 1/2 hour of time just in case!

His great friend Leopold Halpern — who very, very kindly gave me hours of his time just before he died — one of my outstanding questions was did you ever ask Dirac about that and he said, «Yes I did, and Dirac said «Yes, why is it funny?»»

Not exact matches

Cruise control is not just the easiest way to make sure you don't get a ticket — I routinely set mine 6 or 7 miles an hour over the speed limit, and (knock on a huge piece of wood) can't remember the last time I got a speeding ticket — but it's also the courteous move, especially on the interstate.

While this might seem extreme, driving a few hours to help ensure you get to where you need to be can be a better use of your time than just waiting around in the airport.

(Speaking of startups: Here's how to start a business in just a few hours, and 10 steps to start a business while keeping your full - time job.)

Nike - endorsed elite runner Eliud Kipchoge has run the world's fastest marathon time but missed finishing under the two - hour mark by only 26 seconds — a gap of just one second per mile for the distance of the race.

«Changing this perception requires much more time — instead of just firing off an email, for example — but the improvements in quality and commitment are well worth a few extra hours a week.»

On a warm spring afternoon, Phil Knight found the time to meet up with me at the Le Germain Hotel in downtown Toronto while in Canada for just a few hours promoting his book Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike.

May stunned investors by putting Hinkley on hold in July, just hours before a deal was to be signed, saying she needed time to assess the project under which French utility firm EDF would build Britain's first new nuclear reactor in decades, backed by $ 8 billion of Chinese cash.

Or they tend to dance around, or omit entirely, information that consumers care deeply about when deciding which phone to buy, such as whether the battery life reflects hours of actual use, not just resting time.

Virgin Atlantic recorded a time - lapse video which showed how a team of engineers replaced a five - tonne aircraft engine in the space of just 24 hours.

To establish structure and discipline, plan your meals out ahead of time, set a weekly work schedule, and track your hours to ensure that you're working effectively and not just being busy.

With a flight time of just 11 hours and 30 minutes, it claims to be the fastest way to get from Singapore to Europe.

Today's workers are pretty entitled when it comes to Olympics - watching during the workday: More than three - quarters say it's «appropriate» for them to take work time to watch a competition or check scores — and a surprising 56 % think it's just fine for them or their colleagues to spend half an hour of the workday watching, listening to, or reading about the games, and almost 10 % think it's reasonable to spend an hour or more concentrating on the Games instead of their jobs.

The Solo3 headphones offer up to 40 hours of battery life and just five minutes of charging time will give you three hours of playback.

In 2016, the Bureau of Labor Statistics conducted the American Time Use Survey, which found watching television is still Americans» top leisure activity, accounting for the way people age 15 and older spend just over half their available free time — or 2.7 hours — each Time Use Survey, which found watching television is still Americans» top leisure activity, accounting for the way people age 15 and older spend just over half their available free time — or 2.7 hours — each time — or 2.7 hours — each day.

«It would literally take me four or five hours,» he says — an eternity in Frind time — «just to make heads or tails of their code, when normally you're supposed to spend, like, two minutes doing that.»

While some are clamoring for an Intern Bill of Rights, and other interns are filing lawsuits, which prompted Reuters to declare that a wave of intern lawsuits was just beginning, I'm saying, why should we prevent students from exchanging 20 hours a week of their time for some experience and a reference?

That trend is evident in the recent string of announcements from tech companies — Netflix, Microsoft, Adobe, and Amazon just this week — about the sweetening of their parental benefits and in the additional hours and full - time opportunities that retailers like Toys «R» Us and Macy's are offering to hourly employees.

Twenge (and a whole lot of tech moguls) suggest limiting teens» screen time to just an hour or two a day.

Ask yourself how many times you've spent extra hours at the office just to do something that could have easily been handled by one of your workers.

Shave off just an hour of sleep a night, and in a couple weeks» time you'll have accumulated a «sleep debt» guaranteed to sap your creativity, stunt your productivity, and make you grumpy to boot.

Every night he was streaming — at night I want to spend time with my fiancée — but every night I was sitting at my computer watching this four - hour webcast, kind of preparing, like, «OK, he just said this; how am I going to spin that in his favor?»

'' [Besides] saving time, there's no real incentive to cheat on these tests because typically it's just to get a certification of «hours» for internal compliance training, so your score doesn't matter, and if you don't pass, you can take it again.

«If you read The Remains of the Day, which is my favorite book of all time, you can't help but come away and think, I just spent 10 hours living an alternate life and I learned something about life and about regret.»

But if you run a pizza parlor and get only a couple of customers a day during the winter months, you might be better off staying open just a few hours a day at that time of year, or closing the shop altogether.

After SolarCity acquired the startup in late 2013, the mounting system helped lower SolarCity's average time of rooftop solar installations from days to just hours.

If you're working another full - time job with nobody fully invested, you are running the risk of burning out, acting with less urgency and just not having enough hours in the day to get what you need done.

He and his top lieutenant Emil Michael, who was forced to leave the company just weeks ago, belittled and ridiculed Lyft's president for an hour when the two companies met to discuss a potential deal, according to a recent New York Times profile (paywall) of Kalanick.

Since I am the only one earning money for my family, I just want to give enough time for them staying at home during off work than getting a part - time jobs outside and travelling so many hours but not satisfied to earn enough money affecting lack of time for family and gives a tiresome day go back to home.

Cutting settlement times from hours and days to just three seconds or less will remove billions of dollars in unnecessary intermediary fees,» said Alastair Constance, CEO and founder of Mercury FX.

This is why the Nissan Leaf, with a retail price of just under $ 30,000, has a range of only 84 miles (one - third that of the Model S) and takes three times as long to get to 60 miles per hour.

With Air China set to launch a new direct route between Beijing and Athens at the end of September 2017 — just in time for Golden Week — we foresee Athens to rise in popularity with mainland tourists, especially as this new non-stop flight will slash flight time to merely 10.5 hours.15

Cutting settlement times from hours and days to just three seconds or less will remove billions of dollars in unnecessary intermediary fees.»

Perhaps the most interesting thing about this type of account is that it offers a very quick withdrawal time of just one hour, which is unheard of in the world of binary options platforms.

According to data from CoinMarketCap, all of the top 20 cryptocurrencies have displayed growth in the last 24 hours leaving the total market cap at just under $ 300 billion USD at press time.

A real - time example of this tagging effect happened just a couple hours ago during this session.

There's no way I would take any job just to fill the spare 25 hours a week of time I currently have.

Speed Volunteering makes it easier for people to give a little bit of time while still making a positive impact — in just a couple of hours, on a one - off basis, and at short notice.

At the time of this article, BTC - USD is sitting just at $ 3900 and is showing signs of further pullback: Figure 1: BTC - USD, 12 - Hour Candles, GDAX, Macro Fibonacci Retracement ValuesThe figure above shows the whole, macro bull run from the $ 1700s.

But those that are willing to spend thousands of hard earned dollars on «what if» insurance, and then stomp their foot and insist that any religion is a farce and aren't willing to spend a few free hours of their time to just learn a little more are the ones I'm concerned about.

I remember other people's coping, which included laying to rest her copy of Ocarina of Time, or just crying for hours on end... I decided to walk.

It's easy to get stuck in a pattern of working long hours, being tied to the phone or just binge watching shows on Netflix during every minute of free time.

You never once smacked one of those kids, the ones there on full scholarship with visions of patched sport coasts in the Ivory Tower, you never once icily mentioned that you were working full time, going into debt, commuting two hours to school, that you had three small babies at home, that you worked in a fast - paced and exhausting industry under tremendous pressure just to come home, kiss your kids for a brief moment, launching into that thesis until well past midnight, just to get up at 6 the next morning and do it all over again, relentlessly.

The narrative doesn't tell us just how much of that glory the disciples saw or understood at the time of the wedding, for as Jesus explained to his mother, his hour had not yet come.

A perfect part - time business would have to be very easy to start, require little time and money and no technical expertise, be easy to maintain with just a few hours a week and have a proven track record with a high probability of success.

The very appetite proceeding from labor and peace of mind is gone: we eat just enough to keep us alive: our sleep is disturbed by the most frightful dreams; sometimes I start awake, as if the great hour of danger was come; at other times the howling of our dogs seems to announce the arrival of the enemy: we leap out of bed and run to arms; my poor wife with panting bosom and silent tears takes leave of me, as if we were to see each other no more; she snatches the youngest children from their beds, who, suddenly awakened, increase with their innocent questions the horror of the dreadful moment.

When I'm picking up for the eleventy - billionth time, when every one needs to eat and it seems like we just ate, when we are wondering what to do with our one wild and precious life that sure isn't feeling very wild or precious right about now, when the laundry is piled unfolded and someone spills their full glass of milk on the floor I just washed and the bickering and noise enters its second hour and the house is too hot and there isn't much time for the things that I want to do on the day off, I feel like Sisyphus, futile, pushing a rock up a hill that will never summit.

Never mind all that data collected and analysis done by scientists over the last 300 years, I choose to believe in a magic invisible sky man who created the Earth in 6 days, one who keeps me under surveillance 24 hours a day 7 days a week from the time I'm born until the time I die because I'm just that important to him, a god who will convict me of thoughtcrime, even while I'm asleep, if I should ever doubt his existence.

«It took us three hours to retrieve 11 bodies because the mixture of petrol and water is so potent that we just couldn't risk being in that boat for long periods of time,» Michele Telaro, the field coordinator for the Doctors Without Borders rescue missions, told The Independent.