Sentences with phrase «many years does»

Only once every few years do they turn up at a high - profile wedding or bestow money on a worthy cause such as the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC.

Thurston: I did, and in the first three years I did not like the answer.

«Last year we did a Twitter campaign last year in the US to raise awareness, and people started doing crazy fun videos about the brand, and made it a lot of fun.

If cutting rates by 500 bps over the last few years didn't spark a recovery then why would cutting from 25 bps?

When [Clay Felker] and I started New York magazine, I would say for a year we didn't have any idea what we were doing.

Look back over time, though, and you'll see many instances where the best choice was almost binary — the worst - performing asset class or sector in one year does the best (or close to it) the next.

If you want a scoop on an album — «Alexa, «What year did [band] release [song or album]?»

And his small, four - man crew brings in about $ 2.5 million dollars a year doing it.

After 30 - plus years doing this and seeing how much it's digitized?

After spending millions of dollars and several years doing research, a company can still fail to bring a product to market — leaving its investors with little to show for their money except disappointment and a tax write - off.

Never in a million years did I imagine writing for a major publication at that time in my life.

«Encouraging people to shop small just one day out of the year does nothing to help my business grow.

That's something that Gerdes learned well during her years doing marketing for various high - tech start - ups, including WordPerfect Corp., PI Systems, and Documentum Inc..

Just because someone has been a leader for several years does not mean they don't need to continue to develop their skills.

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.

«We could easily get our costs down to less than # 10,000 (~ $ 12,200) a year doing this, but we'd miss out on too much,» Jason said.

«But then I did this thing called the Westinghouse Talent Search, now called the Intel Talent Search, where I spent about 2 years doing research on neuroscience lab and I ended up coming in third place in that nationally.»

The companies selling them have made billions a year doing so, Wheeler said, but users have been locked into a captive and largely unfriendly environment in order to get service.

Even bitcoin's huge gain this year doesn't look that impressive when comparing against global equities.

The increased deployment of drones to the Arctic this year doesn't just spell economic opportunity for global shippers of oil and gas companies but also for drone manufacturers.

• Fact - based or general questions: «How many years did you work at [company x?]

Three times a year we do upward management surveys.

«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.

Just existing for five or six or seven years doesn't necessarily mean success.»

If this sounds familiar, it's because former President Barack Obama spent eight years doing it to limited effect.

When I got there I had a resumé and 10 years doing half of Shakespeare's canon.

So apart from wanting to spend even more time with good friends and family this year I didn't really set a New Years resolution.

He said he had spent the last 10 years doing a job that he doesn't enjoy because it pays well.

But Delrahim, who has lobbied on behalf of AT&T in the distant past, said in an interview on Canadian television last year he didn't see the deal as having a major antitrust problem.

Every year we do a ride in the morning and a blowout dinner at night.

It's a bit of a strange gambit for a treaty that has a six - month escape clause for any participant; while all parties currently seem reluctant to make any hasty decisions, the idea of tearing the bandage off over five excruciating years doesn't seem to hold much appeal either:

Now calling the combination illegal, the DOJ's Makan Delrahim said last year he didn't see it as a major antitrust problem.

Yet, several weeks into the experiment, Tad reported with delight: «It was the first Saturday in three years I did not check my Blackberry!»

«One year we did it, three years ago, they went from the worst team to an amazing team,» Hornthal says.

The hurricane might have helped put climate change back on the White House agenda, and once the Keystone debate resumed earlier this year it didn't take long for environmentalist groups to link Canada's planned pipeline to the devastating storm.

Gordon spent years doing research and conducting experiments on himself to understand the difference between workaholism and high performance.

But the «revolution» Steenberg and other investors see as shaping energy sources over the next 25 years doesn't take the form you might think.

«Jerry every year does a lot of Ohio Democratic Party county events,» Burke said.

He finishes up sometime the following spring and then spends the rest of the year doing other stuff — stuff like spending the entire month of August on vacation.»

After attaining a license from the province or territorial's association of professional engineers, spend three or four years doing supervised work, pass a practical exam, and you're golden.

For the longest time they had what they called division 1 stores, which were not focused on food, and only in the last 5 to 10 years did they open up superstores.

For the first time in three years it does not include North Dakota, which falls to 10th place overall from third last year and fifth in 2012.

An oil price crash and an unemployment rate that spiked to nine per cent last year did not cause the residential real estate market to crater, as some feared.

But just because Unilever now has experience creating an idea and taking it to market in a little over a year doesn't mean it will start randomly launching brands, Seal said.

The arrival of Nintendo's Wii U last year didn't invigorate game sales, which research firm NPD Group said have dropped 9 per cent over last year.

Rules about how much you can / should be withdrawing from your retirement accounts each year don't seem to be resonating with current retirees.

For instance, nearly three - quarters of poor American how make less than $ 30,000 per year don't have them while 81 % of those who make more than $ 75,000 do.

Just because something has worked for a number of years doesn't mean that it will continue to work, or that you can't find a better way to do it.

As 2013 began a lot like the last few years did, it's starting to feel like déjà vu all over again.

Traditional publishing is a slog — find an agent, pitch a book and if it's picked up by a publisher, sign away the rights to your work, then spend years doing edits and waiting for the book to slot into a publishing schedule — and the majority of these people don't score a deal, because most entrepreneurs «aren't in a position to be commercially published,» says Sattersten.