Sentences with phrase «months or years on»

In the 1960s he began employing brighter colors and scraping down entire canvases rather than working on top of previous attempts, thus beginning the entire image afresh at each session and often spending months or years on a single painting.

A developer is able to release a high quality game that represents a fraction of the total vision, and if players think it is fun and justify it by spending money, the developer can continue to improve the game for months or years on end.

One that takes just days to do what other modders spent months or years on.

There are some people who can live free, and travel for months or years on end.

There is something about living out of a backpack for months or years on end, that tends to make people wonder how valuable their DVD collection or 10 + pairs of formal shoes really are.

I honestly don't know how others can sit on cash for months or years on end when there are solid companies trading for fair or better values, paying growing dividends all along the way.

Who wants to owe money to someone, for months or years on end?

Electronic paper is unique: the fact that an e-ink sign will only use power when the image on the screen is changing means that e-paper is extremely energy efficient and will require only a fraction of the energy usually necessary for a digital sign to work — so much so that it can run for months or years on a single battery charge.

This leads to an incentive to crank out books without regard to quality and depth, which unfairly competes against the fiction writer who might spend months or years on their novel.

The next time another author questions my ability to write because I don't spend months or years on a single title, I'm going to refer them to this blog.

The event of a Star Wars film brings the nostalgia of fans young and old for months or years on end without ever tethering.

So, gratitude — > positive emotion — > an extra few months or years on earth.

Everyone finds it a bit hard and challenging a new training program and some people are so used to it because they've been using it for months or years on end.

If you keep doing that for months or years on end it will slowly start to fatigue the adrenal glands, which will eventually lead to mood swings, general fatigue, and anxiety issues.

If you're spending many months or years on an idea and not making any real progress, you're either dealing with fears, lacking a roadmap to follow, or a combination of these.

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They were working months or even years of their lives on products that nobody used.

Previously, same - store sales growth represented the estimated percentage change in sales of all restaurants in the Company system that have been open for one year or more, and the base stores changed on a rolling basis from month to month.

Candidates can complete the program in a few different ways: full - time on campus in Sydney, Nova Scotia over one year; part - time classes on alternate weekends over two years in Toronto, Kingston, Saskatoon, Edmonton, or Whitehorse; or a one - month residency on campus in Sydney each July for three years.

MLB.TV, for example, costs $ 24.99 (U.S.) a month in the United States, or $ 20 a month on a year - long contract, and that's just baseball.

If you can't take the time for a vacation right now, or even a night out with friends, put something on the calendar — even if it's a month or a year down the road.

The new service, Amazon Music Unlimited, is your everyday Spotify competitor on its own, but costs just $ 7.99 per month — or $ 79 per year, which equals $ 6.58 per month — if you subscribe to its premium membership platform.

On the first workday of the year, months away from the close of the quarter, you have a chance to think about and discuss how your company's efforts transcend money or shareholder value.

That's a savings of $ 100 a month, or $ 1,200 a year... just on brunch.

Goal setting should be part of your daily and weekly routines, and should not be based on a calendar year or month.

Chemicals ship every two months or so, depending on pool conditions, and pHin collects data over the course of the year to track usage.

On Feb. 20 the board said it will effectively prioritize those applicants who have been waiting months or years.

Longer - term goals should be fixed on the big picture over the months and years ahead: They might include a plan for growth, developing a product or reaching another benchmark.

The moment that investments start to turn south, everybody wants to know what's going on and whether it will continue, even though the loss may only happen over a few days and not even months or years.

That sounds damningly high, but it adds up to just 35,000 jobs per year, or a seventh of the number of jobs the U.S. economy has gained on average per month this year.

The Los Angeles metro area ranked No. 1 on the list, with 1,048 small firms declaring Chapter 7 or Chapter 11 bankruptcy during the first three months of this year.

We do random acts of appreciation throughout the year, like taking the whole company out for ice cream midday or bringing in McFlurrys for everyone in the office... we have breakfast catered every Friday, rebirthdays (celebrations on the anniversaries of hire dates), all the ladies receive flowers on Valentine's Day, parents receive letters on Mother's Day and Father's Day, and so much more... plus, the whole company is going to Miami for an all - expenses - paid trip in a month (revenue and nonrevenue producers) for hitting a sales goal.»

The media startup, valued at $ 11 billion in its latest round of funding, says the number of «pinners,» or people sharing images and links, has doubled on its platform in the last 18 months and the number of searches on its service have increased by 81 % over the last year.

Almost without exception, exemplars are scrappy young businesses whose brands were born on the same clean sheets of paper as their products were, whose history is measured in months or years rather than decades, and whose founders still show up for work in the morning.

«In the past we'd march on for months or years before we'd admit defeat,» says Chik, an 18 - year veteran who now runs the engineering team that builds Microsoft's mobile device management technologies.

Edison Research, which studies consumer adoption of digital media, reported this year that three - quarters of Americans 12 to 24 and half of those 25 to 54, say they have listened to online radio or streamed audio content available only on the Internet in the last month.

Or your PC can fetch files relating to that approaching customer or colleague and prompt you with zingers like, «Oh hi, boss, just noticing that sales are up 14 percent so far this month over last year at this time,» or «Gee, Mr. Freedman, you must have heard about the special we're having on the Monster Lawn 6000 tractor for Teeny Lawn 300 owners.&raquOr your PC can fetch files relating to that approaching customer or colleague and prompt you with zingers like, «Oh hi, boss, just noticing that sales are up 14 percent so far this month over last year at this time,» or «Gee, Mr. Freedman, you must have heard about the special we're having on the Monster Lawn 6000 tractor for Teeny Lawn 300 owners.&raquor colleague and prompt you with zingers like, «Oh hi, boss, just noticing that sales are up 14 percent so far this month over last year at this time,» or «Gee, Mr. Freedman, you must have heard about the special we're having on the Monster Lawn 6000 tractor for Teeny Lawn 300 owners.&raquor «Gee, Mr. Freedman, you must have heard about the special we're having on the Monster Lawn 6000 tractor for Teeny Lawn 300 owners.»

Begin focusing on the positive aspects of your life and work and in a week, month or year, you'll be so glad you did!

Feng anticipates that, depending on how fast other experiments move, we could find out whether or not this mysterious force exists anytime within the next six months to three years.

«Whether you're a Dyson or a Toyota it takes 18 months to tool for headlights,» says one person who has worked with Dyson on its project, while selecting suppliers can also take up to two years.

If you aren't selling products or services in the next 3 - 6 months or year, you will give up on your entrepreneurial plans and go work for someone else.

What is found will depend on screening frequency — i.e. every 6 months, 1, 2, or 3 years.

Therefore, you can focus on renewal marketing once a year as opposed to every week or month.

While ignition may be six months or three years away depending on how future experiments progress, the project has already laid out plans to commercialize the process with the Laser Inertial Fusion Energy (LIFE) project.

As months turn into years, you may find that staying in the office is less risky than taking a chance on pitching your business to potential clients or expanding to a new location.

«Instead of spending months or even years on a hunch that may turn out to be wrong, you're able to answer your questions really quickly — to stop debating in the abstract, and start making progress.»

That isn't to say they won't continue to nag at you as the years go on, or that new and varied challenges won't arise to take their place, but you'll be prepared to handle yourself in those most volatile and impactful first few months — and that puts you far ahead of the competition.

05:34 Price: Because in television production, unless you are working on a new show or something like The Oprah Winfrey Show that was on the air for 25 years, you work a day, you work a year, you work a week, you work four hours, you work two weeks, you could have eight or nine different employers in a six - month period, you're a freelancer.

As part of the new TCJA, access to favorable capital gains tax rates now demands a three - year holding period; previously, an investor needed only to maintain his or her position in the startup for 12 months to qualify for a lower rate on an eventual sale.

Yields on 10 - year Treasurys spiked to their highest level in roughly 10 months after Chinese officials recommended slowing or halting purchases of them.

The miner said adjusted net earnings for the quarter ended March 31 rose to $ 170 million, or 15 cents a share, from $ 162 million or 14 cents a share in the same three - month period a year ago on the back of higher gold prices and lower depreciation.