Sentences with phrase «lucky this year in»

I am really lucky this year in that I still get to be involved in the squash club and play BUCS matches, but unfortunately I am not eligible for Varsity although, it might be good being a spectator, I always found the actual day intensely stressful!

-LCB- Anthropologie coat (similar and a great deal here) / Kate Spade bag (similar in «rosy dawn») / Loft jeans / Ivanka Trump pumps (similar in gold) / Nordstrom scarf (similar)-RCB- We've been lucky this year in NC weather-wise, but now we're at the point where the cold is here to stay.

Not exact matches

I'd love to be doing this 20 years from now if we're lucky and successful in what we do, and have Figure 1 be a noble and helpful force in healthcare.

I might simply be lucky, but in 20 years in the business world, I have never applied once for a job through a job board.

With $ 23 million in revenue in 2011, a three - year growth rate of 10,160 %, and over $ 40 million in investments, Nasty Gal's Sophia Amoruso is feeling lucky.

«But we're lucky that the «Mud Dragon» got stuck in the muck, because its skeleton is one of the best examples of a dinosaur that was flourishing during those final few million years before the asteroid came down and changed the world in an instant.»

We've been lucky this year, with an unseasonably warm winter here in Toronto.

In my role managing Firebrand Group, I've been lucky to advise top - tier brands for years on the future of marketing and communications.

SimStar, the smallest and youngest entrant at just five years old, was clearly lucky to be in such company.

But what we have learned in recent years is that you don't need a lucky hit or an expanding market to create a growing company.

Lucky for the retailer, many of the tools it needs are already in place, the legacy of its old catalog business (dropped in 2011) and of a three - year tech overhaul Ullman oversaw in his first stint as CEO, which ended in 2011.

Add to that a focus on innovation (some 960 employees filed a patent last year), and you get people who «truly feel lucky to work» here, and a stock price that's up nearly 400 % in the past five years.

«A number of pioneers in this industry,» he says, «have gotten rich in the past few years by being merely competent and very lucky.»

Lucky for both UA and Lulu, cotton isn't a key fabric in their apparel lines, so they won't be subject to the same commodity crunch as much of their competition this year.

It was over seventy - five years ago that MLB player Lou Gehrig called himself,»... the luckiest man on the face of the Earth», for being blessed with the ability to spend the majority of his life in pinstripes.

Nate Kontny, an entrepreneur, discusses the importance of luck in his success: «I got lucky a writer with a lot of clout took interest in my project — interest that started because he once worked on a similar project seven years prior, so he understood the challenges I was addressing.

«Sometimes, you're lucky,» Ballmer admitted in an interview a few years later.

We are lucky to make close to 400k / year, but that level of income is quite common in bay area, esp double income households working in hi tech.

I am extremely lucky to work in a job which causes me to be thanked countless times a day to which i have always replied with «no problem» or «no worries» and although my customers never seem to mind it drives me crazy mostly because I spent many years learning to speak and have spent many years teaching my children and think the constant use of one or two phrases over and over is limiting so just recently I have tried to use different phrases such as «your welcome» and «my pleasure» and anything else which springs to mind and is more suited to each scenario.

We recommend reading his three books: The End of Illness, A Short Guide to a Long Life, and The Lucky Years: How to thrive in the brave new world of health — all of which were New York Times bestsellers.

I just consider myself lucky that I happened onto the dividend growth investing strategy fairly early when I decided to start investing in stocks and then the FI blogging community which I've learned so much from here over the last year.

Were you lucky enough to own these three top stocks in your portfolio last year?

The value of gold has the potential to always experience positive growth and if you are lucky to invest in gold at the right time when the market value of gold suddenly experience a positive surge, you will for sure know how to make a million dollars and how to become a millionaire in one year if you are smart enough to invest with the appropriate capital in timely manner.

If you're lucky enough to average that level of business every day of the year (including those dreary days in winter), then you may just walk home with enough profit to pay yourself minimum wage.

They were lucky enough to be in the market during the best 20 - year stretch in history.

Although I wouldn't advocate leaving money in a savings account for 30 years — unless it's an emergency fund you're lucky enough not to touch — it's worth illustrating the difference just one percentage point can make.

Our most sophisticated models can't predict movements in 60 seconds (consistently, didn't stop us from trying as a joke activity) and it is sad that retail traders who don't even have a fraction of the tools or computing power think they can outperform, except of course the lucky ones (elementary 1st year university statistics predicts that, so they are lucky not talented).

In almost 6 years I have a 29 % yearly overall return — even higher than expected thanks to some lucky market timing.

For the lucky subscribers whose membership expires in May, they can still enjoy the old $ 99 price for one final year.

I'll repeat what I've both said in the past and expect to say in future years: Babies born in America today are the luckiest crop in history.»

In his opinion, it takes about 10 years after college to find the right fit, and anyone who finds it earlier than that is just plain lucky.

I was lucky because my life was still simple and my investment was small (five years of study and $ 50,000 in student loans).

Some of us operate with a huge mental clock that's constantly ticking down the seconds, and others of us... well, we are lucky if we know what year we are in.

But in ten short years — if I am lucky — I am statistically likely to be on some form of strong medication and unable to walk the eighteen holes of golf that I now so enjoy.

If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years had been told that in forty years interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia; that prisoners would have their skulls squeezed within iron rings; that a human being would be lowered into an acid bath; that they would be trussed up naked to be bitten by ants and bedbugs; that a ramrod heated over a primus stove would be thrust up their anal canal («the secret brand»); that a man's genitals would be slowly crushed beneath the toe of a jackboot; and that, in the luckiest possible circumstances, prisoners would be tortured by being kept from sleeping for a week, by thirst, and by being beaten to a bloody pulp, not one of Chekhov's plays would have gotten to its end because all the heroes would have gone off to insane asylums.

Those who were lucky enough to be pulled or pushed, a year or so ago, to the Beatles» first movie, A Hard Day's Night, will recall the enchanting scene in which the four of them escape from the prison - like television studio, where worldly men are trying to get them to perform properly, and flee to an open field for a few surrealistic moments of jumping, dancing, abandon.

I used to struggle with hopelessness a lot, in those dark years... still do, every once in awhile... but when I really take time and reflect on all that's happen, I realize just how lucky and blessed I've been — despite everything, I know God's taking care of me... and I know He's taking care of you, too, even when it doesn't feel like it.

In June, Lucky Eagle celebrated its 22 - year anniversary and had a grand - reopening to conclude the $ 46 million expansion; an accomplishment that Miles says everyone was excited about.

To further celebrate the holiday, which falls this year on Sunday, Sept. 18, Burger 21 will be launching its first Secret Cheesy Sweepstakes, in which one lucky fan will be flown to Tampa, Florida to meet with Corporate Chef Mike Remes.

Every year, chileheads gather here at the Peperoncino Festival in Diamante, and in September 2004, we were lucky enough to head south again ourselves, for a week filled with...

We're lucky that we missed most of the heavy snow in Chicago this year.

I was lucky enough to find these once in my local grocery store a couple of years ago and they are delicious.

I wanted to mention that if you happen to be in this area before the end of October, I have a very full medlar tree that will most likely go to waste since I don't have time to let them blet before making more jelly but I'm lucky and still have jars from last years harvest.

Although in saying that, I'm lucky to have a father who barbeques all year round — he's outside on his own, holding a beer and a pair of tongs and always in short sleeves no matter what the weather is like.

I'm lucky to live in Southern California where we have such a diverse choice of vegetables to choose from all year around.

I had The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater on my wishlist for quite some time, and was lucky enough to receive it for Christmas.

For the third year in a row PMC Property Group is sponsoring a bowling party at Lucky Strike in Philadelphia to raise money for Michael's Way (4/20/16 — details here if you are interested!)

I was lucky enough to meet Kate in person about two years ago, and we've kept up with each other's lives through our sites (and Facebook).

I took all the decorating classes and love to decorate cakes, so when I got layed off my job last year I wanted to open my own cake shop, and its not as easy as you think at least were i live in pa you have to contact the health dept plus you have to make sure your house is zoned commerical contact your local borough office if your not you will have to have a hearing and it cost about 300 dollars for that, plus i couldn't have the bake shop in my house unless i had a separate kitchen for the bake shop, and one for my family plus no pets aloud, i am lucky enough that i have a rental house next to mine that i'm turning into a bakeshop but i have to turn it into a business, i've been working with the small business assoc. and the health dept plus there are permits i need, electric has to be updated and new lighting, plus the plummer has to do alot because i have to have a 3 bay sink and a grease trap, gas lines need to be ran for the oven,

I bought two copies... someone lucky in my family will be getting a good christmas present this year:) i can't wait to spend tonight deciding what i will cook this weekend!!