Sentences with phrase «just spent years»

After all, you've just spent years in education and probably want to start making your way in the world and, importantly, you really want to start earning some money.

PS: I am a caregiver for a patient who just spent a year in Roswell, dealing with this stagnant, frustrating institution.

He told her all about being an anesthesiologist in Iraq, where he'd just spent a year with Doctors Without Borders.

Singer had just spent a year as a Fisher Fellow in a program run by the KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) Foundation in San Francisco, training designed to turn him into a school principal with an entrepreneur's skill set.

Quite the contrary, we just spent a year with a Town & Country and found it was a useful, efficient, and innovative vehicle in need of a nicer interior and a «bit more engineering.»

Naturally, this infuriated Sony, who had just spent a year and a half developing the system, and had just announced it to the world as well.

Having just spent a year in China I would not be surprised to see the slope of ln (CO2) increase quite a lot more.

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«Those two things moved him from being just another sheriff in the Midwest to someone who has to be reckoned with nationally,» said Daniel Bice, a columnist for the Milwaukee Journal - Sentinel who has spent years covering Clarke.

Similar data for China was not available, but the country's consumption has been growing, Last year, Chinese consumers reportedly spent 840 billion Chinese yuan (just under $ 140 billion) in retail and catering services over the week - long holiday, an increase of 11.4 percent from 2016.

Google has dramatically increased its lobbying activities in Washington in the past few years: it spent US$ 8.95 million on lobbying just in the first half of 2012 (compare that to the US$ 9.7 million it spent in all of 2011).

And that means that what the federal government regulates, taxes, and spends over the next several years could in large part hinge on the actions of just one 72 - year - old Southerner: Mitch McConnell.

Robust consumer spending will be necessary just to tread water, and the Bank of Canada hopes consumers will spend slightly more this year.

He ended up spending 18 years at AT&T, rising through the ranks of its accountancy program and running installation and maintenance in the Mountain States aged just 28.

While the TV ad market will see US$ 3.2 billion in additional spending next year, digital video will add just US$ 1.7 billion.

So instead of hiring developers and producing software out of the gate, Smith started small, spending the first year — and just $ 75,000 — talking to potential clients and refining the business plan.

Millstein acknowledges that being his kind of activist director is hard work, much harder than just spending a few hours at eight board meetings each year.

During a Reddit AMA last year, the billionaire Microsoft cofounder told readers that he had just spent his weekend watching his daughter ride horses and enjoying some old - fashioned fun.

The drug lobby has spent nearly $ 17 million in just over two and a half years to oppose new regulation in California.

For bigger businesses, this means if one thousand of your employees spend just one hour per day «cyberloafing,» it could cost you $ 35 million each year.

But Cogito's other co-founder, MIT professor of media arts and sciences Alex «Sandy» Pentland, has spent the past 20 years doing just that.

The Fed's preferred gauge of inflation, based on consumer spending, gained just 1.6 percent in the year through October.

The average dating site customer spends just $ 239 a year for online memberships, which more than pays for itself to the tune of $ 12,803 in cost savings from fewer dates,» the report said.

At just 15 years old, his father sent him to spend eight days alone in a remote cabin on the coast of Washington in a heavily wooded place called Iron Springs.

That also means that nearly half of all households are either just breaking even, or spending more money than they make in a year.

After spending much of the year preparing and delivering presents to children all over the world in just one night, Claus takes a much deserved break to recoup and recharge.

On the other hand, more spending cuts could certainly stifle the economic rebound everyone expects to see in the second half of the year after the flimsy performance of this just - ended second quarter.

The CBO report says that that the twin tax and spending bills will push the budget deficit to $ 804 billion this year and just under $ 1 trillion for the upcoming budget year.

In order to keep the tax bill under its $ 1.5 trillion ceiling, Republicans proposed to repeal the ACA's individual mandate — saving just over $ 330 billion in federal spending over 10 years.

At Google, perks such as free lunches and the 20 % rule (where workers spend 20 % of their time on personal passion projects) have helped it recruit and retain enough top talent for the company to become a global force in just 10 years.

«You can't simply just set up shop at the border and say, «Here's something I want to do,» says Castelli, an experienced business executive who speaks four different languages and has spent 12 years doing international business development for a number of firms, including Alcan.

According to data collected by USAToday.com, the schools with that make the most money in college sports spent an average of just $ 12.0 million (10.2 %) on scholarships last year.

The idea had its genesis just three years ago, upon Tetrick's return to the United States after spending seven years working for nonprofits and international organizations on education and food supply in sub-Saharan Africa.

You don't just move into a CFO role because you spent x-number of years as a controller.

The Malaysian - born portfolio manager has spent the past four years traversing the globe and has seen just how much these nations have grown up since she lived in Asia.

In June alone, U.S. Internet users spent about 22.7 percent of their online time on social networking sites, up from 15.8 percent just one year ago, the report said.

Rewind to the mid-2000s: Wat had just spent seven years in management consulting and had been promoted to head of strategy at Watson in Europe.

«Basically, I just spent two and a half years working on utility - scale energy,» Griffith says with a sigh as he chews at a slice of fancy pizza.

GE's new Link lightbulb costs just 66 cents a year — Goldblum quips that he spends that on moist towelettes «every 13 seconds.»

If you don't spend a lot of time on YouTube, you may not have heard of Whistle Sports, a digital video network that launched just over one year ago.

And there's a bruising fight with Congress over spending and the federal deficit on the horizon, just days after Obama and Congress averted the fiscal cliff with a last - minute deal over the New Year's holiday.

With cheap robo - taxis available to chauffeur people around cities, households that spend an average of $ 9,000 a year on transportation could lower that outlay to just $ 2,000.

Even if you don't develop an app, even if you just spend time in a beautiful place, the benefit of that year will continue long after it's over.»

«If we really want to spend several billion per year purchasing conservation easements on property, then we should go and just do that,» Looney said.

«Julius is really fascinated by computers,» says the company's 29 - year - old co-founder and president, William M. «Trip» Hawkins — a basketball buff who got the idea after spending «a lot of Sundays just waiting to see Dr. J make a neat move.»

In the last 10 years, Apple has spent just $ 12 billion on acquisitions — buying Netflix would be more than four times that amount.

A legion of Canadian corporations recently acquired new CEOs: Guy Laurence joined Rogers (which owns this magazine) last December, one month after BlackBerry brought in turnaround artist John Chen to fix its ailing smartphone business; at TD Bank, Bharat Masrani spent a year (some might say his entire career) preparing to take over for Ed Clark, while across the street at CIBC, internal candidate Victor Dodig was given just six weeks before he replaced Gerald McCaughey.

And besides, the pair is hardly willing to sell the business they've spent years building to just anyone — even if such a deal could be financed, an uncertain proposition in today's tough market.

«I got my first job out of college just over a year ago, and I've spent a lot of time reading finance materials.

After spending the last four years largely defined by military service, it wasn't that easy to just let go of it, but there's nothing wrong with toning it down.

What about that time you found out that your killer product idea, the one you've spent months, or even years, developing, has just been launched, by someone else.