Sentences with phrase «much at this time of year»

Some people saw that as the perfect occasion to bring out the hotpants and flipflops, but I thought that was a bit too much at this time of the year.

Flying to Europe for 48,000 MileagePlus miles in Economy can only be beat by flying to Europe for 40,000 AAdvantage miles in economy (till May 15), or flying from Boston to Dublin for 25,000 Avios in Economy (50,000 in business), or flying to Europe pretty much at any time of the year for 43,000 ANA miles in economy (68,000 in business).

However, the sun often does not shine much at the time of year when home heating is required, and the wind may not blow for several days at a time.

Not exact matches

When the school year ends, we may take a week or two to ourselves much like someone in any other field; however, at the end of that time, we need to get ourselves back into gear.

Though his effort may wane on defense at times, and he preserves energy for a late postseason run — he's now played into June seven years in a row — part of it is that no player in the NBA carries as much responsibility as James.

In addition, «for the last 50 years we have manufactured tablets in factories and shipped them to hospitals and for the first time this process means we can produce tablets much closer to the patient,» Dr. Mohamed Albed Alhnan, a lecturer in pharmaceutics at the University of Central Lancashire, told the BBC.

But it doesn't take a new homeowner long to discover just how large that premium can be in money and time: the constant outlays on maintenance and repairs (at least 1 % of the purchase price per year, experts estimate, and as much as 4 %), the chores and DIY projects that eat up weekends, the pressure to keep up with the ever - gentrifying Joneses.

According to a Payscale report, which calculated ratios based on the cash compensation of CEOs at the 100 highest - grossing public companies in the United States in 2013, CVS CEO Larry Merlo has the highest pay compared to his employees: $ 12,112,603 — 422 times as much as the average CVS employee, who earns $ 28,700 per year.

Another 10 years at the company might be too much, he said on CNBC, «but every time I see one of my doctors, I just say, «Guarantee me five more years.»»

Buffett, who for much of his career avoided tech stocks, has capitalized on that rally by doubling — or, if you will, sextupling — down on Apple stock: He owns six times as much of it now as he did at this time last year, making him one of the iPhone maker's largest shareholders.

Disney CEO Bob Iger spent much of his time on the earnings call talking about ESPN, and about how he doesn't see much impact from cord cutting for at least the next five years or so — an estimate that at least some analysts think is absurdly optimistic.

«We'd love to proclaim these numbers as definitive evidence of a real downshift in the trend in claims, but it's even riskier than usual to put too much weight on single observations at this time of year,» says Shepherdson.

«A couple of years ago, I was going at least once a week, but as time went on I stopped going as much,» says Michelle Langston, concierge wrangler and team lead, who is currently based in the Bay Area.

«We're at a good time in the cycle right now, but I would suggest that you go back and look at the tougher years in 2009 - 2010 and see how much of a struggle it's been for the entire industry during those down cycles.»

What it's like: Ron Owston, dean of the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto, was initially surprised at how much time he spent on human resource issues, such as dealing with the concerns of faculty members and mapping out the academic year so professors can handle their course loads.

Include how much retirement income you'd want per withdrawal, the rate of return you think your money will grow at when you start collecting retirement, how long you expect to live off your retirement fund and how many times you'd like to make a withdrawal per year.

At the same time, global consumption is expected to increase by 1.5 million barrels a day both this year and next, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), with North America and Asia, particularly China and India, responsible for much of the growth.

Mr. Bonforte's team, for example, has spent much of the last two years rebuilding Yahoo's email and instant - messaging services from the ground up, focusing on features such as better searches in email and the ability to unsend or delete an instant message at any time.

The favorable market performance associated with many historical economic expansions is fully accounted for by 1) favorable post-recession valuations, with the S&P 500 averaging less than 9 times prior peak earnings at the recession low, expanding to just over 11 times peak earnings in the first year of the bull market, and 2) favorable trend uniformity, which typically emerges almost immediately in the form of a powerful breadth thrust off of a bear market low, and is confirmed within a few weeks by much broader trend uniformity.

A prudent rule of thumb in the context of the backdoor Roth contribution is to wait a year (though notably, Jeff Levine and the team at Ed Slott and Company believe a much shorter time period is sufficient, such as waiting «one statement» until an end - of - month statement is released to show the IRA contribution being made).

Many times, investors drive up those multiples much faster than the earnings and revenues actually increase, which means that a company whose earnings are growing at 15 % a year can have stock price gains of multiples of that within a year, boosting the investor's short - term performance.

I have underlined several times that while we did see volatility in the equity market in Q1» 18, the bond market was numb to any market movements; while Treasuries were falling, junk bonds didn't widen much compared to how they were trading at the beginning of the year.

That may not sound like a lot of money, but over the course of a year, you could easily earn as much as if you were working full - time at a minimum wage job — only with the perks of running your own business!

The last time we saw this much bullishness was at the start of 2001, which preceded an awful 2 - year period for stocks.

Arguing that OPEC «has not failed at all» in its attempt to drive oil prices up, Oreshkin said that the price of oil is now much higher than it was this time last year, before the cartel and 11 non-OPEC producers led by Russia struck the initial output cut deal.

I am 30, married, and my husband and I both went to grad school (he went full time after a layoff - so a solid 2.5 years of no job for him, I went part time at night but still have loans) and are paying off a massive amount of loans at a decent clip - but this limits how much we can sock away each month.

As a result, the current spread between Australian and US 10 - year bond yields, of around 115 basis points, is much the same as at the time of the last Statement.

But when well run companies share prices are as much as 50 % off the highs they were trading at last year, it may be time to look at what is happening outside of the exchange.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

... The «cambrian explosion» happened over 300 million years... and also coincidentally was around the time oxygen became a large component of our atmosphere, allowing the diversity of life to explode since aerobic life tends to be much more efficient at metabolising food.

We all know, through the yearly cycle of feature articles, that without Queen Victoria and Charles Dickens we'd all be much less merry at this time of year.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

you are but one, we are many,,,, my friends will never return and it is a disgrace in their memory... on our own soil... where they died needlessly under the hatred of those people for our way of life... don't insult us... as we have been through much over these years and this will only lead to more distrust and anguish... how can you sleep at nite as we have great difficulty... please do not support this project is does not merit consideration... at this time...

OK let me ask you this one thing this one thing.how much money and time and feeding the poor.in the country and place you live at right now???? In a three year time span @@@@@ jeeeezy I gave out of my personal money $ 20,000 Thousands us dallors that's more then 30 years worth of income in some of the most religious dirt poor countries that's a fact.you can't give or received with a closed tight hand of selfishness and bitterness now @@@@@@@@ jeeeez how much have you given too help feed clothed and shelter the poor?

Why can religions be invented at a turn of a time (Scientology) which are cults, much like the development of the Christian Church many many years ago?

It is time for the church to reassert its guidance in the lives of its adult members, for they are as much at the mercy of a captivating culture as were the members of the early church before the invention of the church year.

What troubles me at this time of the year is the main News of the Day... How much prophet has this or that store / company / supermarket made more than last year.

Johnson notes that in a Gallup poll, 44 percent of respondents agree that «God created man pretty much in his present form at one time within the last 10,000 years.»

It will take painstaking research to determine how much liability adheres to a family that might have owned one or two slaves at different times over two hundred years, and how much to a family that owned hundreds of slaves without interruption, and under conditions that would make any civilized conscience falter.

According to a 1982 Gallup poll aimed at measuring nationwide opinion, 44 percent of respondents agreed with the statement that «God created man pretty much in his present form at one time within the last 10,000 years.»

In India, for example, the average life expectancy is 301/2 years, compared to 681/2 years in the United States; the average annual income is less than $ 40, compared to $ 1,469 in the U.S. Energy utilized annually per capita, which is a rough index of living standard, is in some countries equivalent to.02 tons of coal, compared to 8 tons, or 400 times as much, in the U.S.. Two thirds of the world usually goes to bed hungry at night.

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

If only the media spent this much time and effort trying to get to the bottom of at least a few of the real stories out there over the last couple years instead of crap like this.

Even at the end of the original (1953) version of Brother to Dragons, the «tale in verse and voices» which dramatizes the brutal murder of a slave by two of Thomas Jefferson's nephews and constitutes a meditation on sin, guilt, history and much else, the narrator (this time called R. P. W.) replies to his own father, who has inquired whether, having visited the murder site so many years later, his son has now finished with his purpose: «Yes, I've finished.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

Years ago I began my own journey with God on the of «earned» and «deserving» d end of the spectrum; but eventually came to the experiential conclusion that if there is anything in the friendship that I have to «earn», it isn't much of a friendship — or at least not one I want to spend time investing in.

Given how much ink has been spilled on the subject by an obsessed and advocating press, and the strong moral certitude with which Democratic (and occasional Republican) members of the House and Senate are making their evolutionary pronouncements, it is difficult to remember that at this time last year, the issue of gay marriage had much less energy surrounding it.

The Khan is much smaller and at this time of year it runs clear and green, skipping merrily over gravelly sand banks and slipping smoothly between the poles of the bamboo bridge that fords it.

Like I'm one to talk, having spent my childhood there — but you know, whenever a politican there does something stupid, I look at what time of year it is and wonder about how much time they spend outside.

At the same time, she learns that her own mother» her «sainted American mother,» who died of cancer when Isabel was eleven years old» had an affair with a much younger man, an affair that the man ended when he became aware of the mother's illness.