Sentences with phrase «money on a number of things»

Despite the Labour Council doubling council tax since 1997, it has wasted money on a number of things, including # 1.9 million spent on publicity and # 30,000 on the arty timepiece on the Civic Centre.

Not exact matches

«Any number of random things could work on YouTube,» Womack says, «and things that don't cost money often do work.

According to famed investor and co-founder of Union Square Ventures Fred Wilson, the # 1 thing that entrepreneurs should focus on when raising money is «90 day retention numbers for your acquisition cohorts.»

For one thing, that most theologians and most publishers had severely underestimated the number of people who were willing to spend good money on serious books about religion.

Why, just today I heard that there's been an increase in the number of cosmetic surgeries being done - a sign that people are feeling more confident about the economy and are willing to spend some money on things they want, not just things they need.

Sure, you could gamble on boring things like the point spread or the game MVP — bets that can be based on stuff like «stats» and «logical reasoning» — but it's way more fun to risk large sums of money on the wholly unpredictable: the number of times the announcers say «12th Man,» the color of the postgame Gatorade shower, whether Michael Crabtree mentions Richard Sherman on Twitter.

Netflix makes money leaning on data to produce things it knows its customers want — i.e., the now famous story about them producing House of Cards because the numbers already showed that it might work.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

While co-sleeper are a Godsend in my opinion, especially during those initial nights with a newborn, there are a number of things to consider before making that leap of faith in choosing the one that's right for you and your baby; mainly your child's age, how much money you're willing to spend on it, the Co-sleeper's duration of use, it's placement, and importance of avoiding toxins and chemicals.

Monies have been approved and so we will consequently work on the percentage because the numbers have to be audited it has to go through a number of things to ensure that a farm was affected with a number of birds..

I enjoy taking all these numbers down, and laying on the couch for hours.Getting some girls phone numbers if they are local.the thing I don't like is Vibe line never gives you more than 1 trial.Because some of these if they have a lot of females on a chat line I will spend some money on it.Thats what basically I am doing is seeing with chat line is the most active.

Just making my list at number 10 is Andrew Niccol's wasted opportunity In Time, a film with a terrific concept — a world where time is literally money, with people working for and buying things with increments of time (2 minutes for coffee, 30 minutes to ride the bus to work etc.)-- that is frittered away to concentrate on running around and building a «relationship» between two leads, Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried, who don't have the sufficient chemistry together to make it convincing.

With classroom - based sessions, you are limited by things like the number of instructors you have, when your instructors have free time, whether you have free training rooms, the size of your training rooms, the amount of money you have to spend on new courses, the number of hours in the day, etc..

I've taken a number of these free seminars on «how to make money as a writer» and the three things they all have in common are:

The only thing worse than being scammed out of a large sum of money that you owe a bank eager to collect it is to get a knock on your door one morning and find a number of serious - faced federal agents there to inform you that you'll need to come with them because they think you're guilty of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and god knows what else.

Your things are purchased on plastic, so it doesn't seem like real money is being spent; it's more like simply a bunch of «numbers» on paper.

If juniors wanted to create value, they would waste less money on promotion, be properly capitalized in the first place, and reduce overhead (e.g. six figure salaries for the part - time officers who work at a number of other juniors, liability insurance because juniors always do sketchy things, do rights offerings instead of paying underwriters, etc.).

We have had people try to blame us because they shut a door on their puppy and also the following: stepped on the puppy, dropped their puppy and even hold the puppy not allowing it to eat and all these puppies had died and they tried to get either another puppy, their money back or even a discount on another which none did we honor because it was not sick when they got the puppy.I love all animals and I will not take a puppy back when he or she was happy and playing and giving kisses and was fine when it left our home.This woman was from Mecianicsville, Md.Please google causes of blood in puppies stool and there are a number of things that can cause this and over eating food it never had before is one of them.

I think my numbers end up being sometimes cheaper than yours, because we are NOT traveling full - time, and that lets us save money on things like a) we know we'll be back home shortly so can do laundry there, or b) we can use miles and points for just about 100 % of our vacation / travel expenses.

We can do these things, but instead we bicker on the Internet and then grovel at the feet of the publishers, soaking up their marketing and slapping down pre-orders, granting money and numbers used to please shareholders and drive the deadline culture.

However, the numbers make one thing clear: people are still spending plenty of money — and time — on PC games, even if overall PC sales are down.

Transistor is a short game which is for the best as it starts to say goodbye just as things verge on overstaying their welcome but for those who worry about value for money there are challenge modes (speed trials, efficiency trials where you get a limited number of moves to wipe out the enemy and a wave survival mode) and a NG + to keep you going back.

In Oklahoma, there are a number of things that you can do in order to save money on car insurance.

There are a number of ways to improve your credit score and most of them are about spending your money wisely and not frivolously on unnecessary things.

If you want to be able to save money on your renters insurance policy for your rental property, you will be able to do a number of things.

Installing an anti-theft device on your car, upgrading old plumbing or electrical systems in your home, or remaining claim - free for a number of years are just a few of the things you can do to become eligible for Missouri auto insurance or Missouri home insurance discounts, so talk to your provider about what you could be doing to save money.