Sentences with phrase «hours for years on end»

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By comparison, all the Tesla (tsla) cars on the road (about 280,000 at the end of 2017, according to company statistics) likely used less than 1.3 terawatt hours of electricity combined for the year, a Fortune analysis found.

It's the end of the year, and employees have plenty on their wish list: Some want relaxed work hours, others want gifts, and several are pining for a rocking office party.

When you spend an hour and a half every three weeks literally face to face with someone for years on end, you either become friends or sleep.

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

It was confirmed on Saturday morning that the 23 - year - old would be leaving for Preston North End in July, just over 12 hours after scoring a hat - trick for his current side against defending champions Dundalk at Oriel Park.

I have a 1 - year - old who nurses through the night, a 4 - year - old who still nurses several times a day, and let's face it, after 4 years of breastfeeding I just don't sleep that well on my side for hours on end.

The lying awake at night worrying about patients, replaying mistakes over and over, calling patients just to see how they are, working hours and hours of unpaid overtime, sleepless nights, 100 hours weeks, mountains of university debt, almost no social life for years on end AND ALL OF IT BEING DISMISSED BY THE ALT - MED CRUNCHY WOO PEOPLE.

Obviously, you don't want to leave your two - year old unattended with free reign of the house for hours on end, but 30 minutes on their own in the playroom or watching TV while you do the dishes is totally acceptable — and even beneficial!

Hours before his indictment Espada issued a year - end report of the majority leader expounding on the importance of state grants for nonprofit agencies and taking credit for reforms in the Senate to make lawmakers accountable.

Then the shooting starts up again, Saturday night and into Sunday morning, and finally one more shooting for good measure in the middle of Sunday afternoon in the Bronx, a 24 - year old man shot and killed on Briggs Ave.. That makes it seven dead, three boroughs, 24 hours, which is why City Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo issues her own plea for the end of bloodshed in New York.

Yet here we had His Holiness, a 77 - year - old man, who sat during six days, ramrod straight for hours on end, his legs tucked under his body, attentively following our arcane scholarly arguments.

An avid reader might read for an hour or more daily, for years on end.

I, along with thousands of others (to be conservative) have spent hours in the gym for years on end getting nowhere impressive.

This is the first year I have not been and que'd outside in the freezing cold for hours on end for h & m's designer collaborations.

I will keep it short and just say I spent the last year getting jerked around by a guy who claimed «computer inadequacy», not knowing how to end the service...» his friends signed him up»... and most recently, after watching for a solid month and seeing him «online now» or «active within 24 hours» he lied to my face and told me he hadn't even been on the site in over three weeks.

After being on the opposite ends of a bullet for years, they must team up and have only 24 hours to get to The Hague to bring down a murderous dictator.

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«Every year, the D.I.C.E. Awards brings the global interactive entertainment industry under one roof to recognize and honor the very best in video games — the games that captivated and inspired us, and kept us entertained for hours on end,» said Meggan Scavio, president, Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.

1 hour lesson for year 9 on describing pictures of relationships including picture describing vocabulary and self / peer assessment at the end based on GCSE Foundation mark scheme.

(Roetlin, How the Iowa City School schedule changes were made (Feb. 14, 2016) The Gazette; Morris, Iowa City public schools will start almost an hour earlier next year (Feb. 11, 2016) Little Village Mag.; Hines, School board: Elementary to start earlier next year (Feb. 10, 2016) Press - Citizen; KCRG - TV9 Staff, Iowa City Schools Approve New Start Times (Feb. 10, 2016) KCRG - TV9; Hines, Earlier K - 6 start time on the table for ICCSD (Jan. 26, 2016) Press - Citizen; McCarthy, Parents protest new bell times for Iowa City schools (May 27, 2016) The Gazette; Phillips, Bell times will shift this fall for Iowa City students (May 13, 2015) The Gazette; Hines, Board approves new school start, end times (May 12, 2015) Press - Citizen.)

No more searching for the camera at the bottom of the draw, no more post it notes stuck all over my desk, no more cutting, sticking and writing out the EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage) for hours on end!

When Vice President Steve Ferrara of the $ 1.5 billion testing company Pearson blogged that testing accounts for «a minuscule percentage of education spending,» and «students in grades 3 - 8 spend about ten hours on end of year tests... about a day and a half of school per year,» which of these comments was posted in response?

On average, schools dismiss students two hours or more before the end of the normal workday and are closed for an average of 29 days per year — not including summer vacation.

«On the one - year anniversary of the tarmac delay rule, it's clear that we've accomplished our goal of virtually eliminating the number of aircraft leaving travelers stranded without access to food, water, or working lavatories for hours on end,» U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood saiOn the one - year anniversary of the tarmac delay rule, it's clear that we've accomplished our goal of virtually eliminating the number of aircraft leaving travelers stranded without access to food, water, or working lavatories for hours on end,» U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood saion end,» U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said.

Gavin, who became a five - time winner in the 24 Hours of Le Mans earlier this year, is gearing up for a high - intensity end - of - season programme that consists of five races on two continents in seven weeks.

You sit alone for hours on end honing your deathless prose, go days without really talking to anyone and, if you're lucky, within a year or so you will have a manuscript that almost no one will want to read.

At the sound of his name I felt a chill through me, not only from the shock of learning that Daniel had a daughter, or the sudden expansion of the tragedy I'd perched on the edge of for so long, or even the certain knowledge that my long stewardship had come to an end, but also because some part of me had waited for such a phone call for years, and now, despite the late hour, it had come.

He remembered his first awkward hour in the college — joining the other first years for the freshers» get - together in the Common Room on the second floor of Foster Court, ascending the stairs under a painting by Whistler, and ending up informing a bespectacled girl with a Princess Di haircut that the Sanskrit prem meant both carnal desire and love, that there was no separation between the two in «Indian culture».

Just hours before the «renewal of the Company's management team,» it had reported projections for an «extraordinary loss» of 13 billion yen (about US$ 140 million) in the fiscal year ending on March 31.

Working my butt off for 50 + hours per week for years on end only to see a highly likely cut in my commission checks and then seeing the payouts in the companies I'm invested in rise relentlessly year after year no matter how crappy of a shareholder I am in real life allows for an interesting contrast and really opens ones eyes: being a shareholder is much more rewarding with much less work required.

At varying times of the year out on the Great Barrier Reef you will come across species that will have you tied down in the seat for hours on end with a man and fish fight to see who can last the distance.

«Every year, the D.I.C.E. Awards brings the global interactive entertainment industry under one roof to recognize and honor the very best in video games — the games that captivated and inspired us, and kept us entertained for hours on end,» said Meggan Scavio, president, Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.

In a statement, president of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, Meggan Scavio, said: «Every year, the DICE Awards brings the global interactive entertainment industry under one roof to recognize and honor the very best in video games — the games that captivated and inspired us, and kept us entertained for hours on end.»

Meggan Scavio, president of the AIAS, commented: «Every year, the DICE Awards brings the global interactive entertainment industry under one roof to recognize and honor the very best in video games — the games that captivated and inspired us, and kept us entertained for hours on end.

Two years back, SEGA released a kart racer that I never truly expected to impress — but against all odds, Sonic & SEGA All - Stars Racing had me hooked, with its nostalgic characters and colourful tracks keeping me entertained for hours on end.

Join Ben and Colin for an hour - long end - of - year extravaganza, as they discuss a ton of news from the past week, including the Nintendo Switch's public debut on The Tonight Show, Super Mario Run's approaching release, Pokémon GO's upcoming set of Johto Pokémon, and tons more.

Again, I don't believe this year's CoD will bring in new players (at this point, I don't think nothing will), but dedicated fans of the franchise are sure to eat it up for hours on end across all modes.

It is a reboot of the 1989 title Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap, a game I have fond memories of playing for hours on end all those years ago on Sega Master System.

Based on IEA modelling of electricity consumption profiles by end - use, this potential represents the sum of all loads than can be shifted for every hour of the year.

On March 2, for example, German coal generator Enervie said it would close the 310 - MW Werdohl - Elverlingsen unit — a 1982 - built plant in North Rhine - Westphalia that ran only 780 hours last year — by month's end.

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

And while the case went on for three years (complaint was filed in August 2003, and the case was tried at the end of 2006), it seems unlikely that it consumed two full years of billable hours.

While these earnings tend to vary with a physician's number of years in practice, the geographic region of their practice, the amount of hours worked each week, and other contributing factors, this yearly salary for family practitioners is on the low end for doctors.

A 2013 study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research found that unemployed people who volunteered 20 hours or more over a 12 - month period were, on average, 6.8 % more likely to be employed at the end of that year, compared to individuals who did not volunteer.

On average, 20 percent of all accounting professionals work more than 40 hours per week, with severe spikes in work hours at the end of each year due to companies closing their books for the year and the beginning of tax season.

On Saturday night my ex and I took the youngest to sushi train for dinner and then her end - of - year gymnastics concert, which involved sitting through three hours of gymnastics for a three - minute performance featuring the youngest.

It's a skill I learned during 20 years as a journalist, where I often attended functions alone and had to make conversation with complete strangers for hours on end.