Sentences with phrase «of a few hours in»

We stocked our car for a weeklong road trip instead of a few hours in one of the city's most spectacular indoor havens, when all we really needed were a bottle for the baby and a diaper bag.

But then we figured it out, she switched to a happy medium of a few hours in the middle of the day, it got really good, and we've been best buds for a while.

Our time in the SUVs was brief, just a High - end Denali versions of the few hours in each model, all on pavement.

A training program will usually consist of a few hours in a group setting where you will learn about special needs of foster dogs, screening potential adopters and working with your foster dog on basic commands.

Not exact matches

But because operators bill at such a high rate for data roaming — at about 15 cents per kilobyte of information in France, for example, which is roughly the amount of information in this paragraph — consumers typically reach that limit within a few hours of downloading standard e-mails.

Prime Now offers some Amazon products for delivery in only a couple of hours and on - demand delivery from a few local stores and restaurants.

Zuckerberg, who is speaking with a handful of lawmakers before his congressional hearings over the next few days, spent more than an hour in a one - on - one, closed - door meeting with Nelson.

While this might seem extreme, driving a few hours to help ensure you get to where you need to be can be a better use of your time than just waiting around in the airport.

For comparison, one round - trip flight across the country flying coach uses up three - quarters of one person's annual allotment in a few hours (source):

(Speaking of startups: Here's how to start a business in just a few hours, and 10 steps to start a business while keeping your full - time job.)

By the end of his two hours in the store, Cornell had some germs of what only a few months later, as we'll see, are significant changes he is planning.

Experiments in Sweden are proving that giving staff equal pay for fewer hours of work might actually boost productivity

But too often we see online meetings between distributed project teams devolve into an hour of unproductive chatter, resulting in more meetings and fewer results.

Duong Tri Thanh said his airline benefited from a diaspora of 2 million Vietnamese living in the United States, but most of the traffic was more likely to be driven by price rather than the convenience of saving a few hours of travel time.

Thanh said his airline benefited from a diaspora of 2 million Vietnamese living in the United States, but most of the traffic was more likely to be driven by price rather than the convenience of saving a few hours of travel time.

«Earlier this month, my good buddy, Mike Karnjanaprakorn, founder / CEO of Skillshare, stopped by our place in the Catskills for a few hours,» VC Steve Schlafman shared on Medium recently, for example.

Still, he wrote in that review that using this technology it was possible to use «microliters of blood from a finger prick» instead of «milliliters of blood from a [vein]» and process those samples in a few minutes instead of an hour.

They're doing it through dozens of workshops held in community centers, libraries, YMCA's, and municipal buildings, where anywhere from 40 to 60 women (and sometimes a few men) work their way through a two - hour curriculum that teaches them how to figure out how much they should be paid, how to make their case to an employer, and how to gracefully exit a negotiation that might not be going well.

In fact, according to Robert Emmons, a psychology professor and one of world's leading scientific experts on gratitude, just jotting down a few reasons to feel thankful before bed could net you an extra half hour of quality shut eye.

Next Monday, Blue Point Brewing, which is owned by AB InBev, is unveiling a new Pilsner called Delayed, a Penn Station - exclusive beer named in honor of the train you thought you were going to take home right after work, but will now be spending the next few hours waiting on instead.

Malcolm Gladwell set off a mania for practice a few years ago with his book Outliers, in which he argued that to become truly excellent at any skill, you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice — that's six hours a day, six days a week, over six years of simply sticking with it.

Indeed, researchers have found that getting five or fewer hours of sleep five nights in a row has an impact on memory, attention and speed of thinking equivalent to being legally drunk.

«Changing this perception requires much more time — instead of just firing off an email, for example — but the improvements in quality and commitment are well worth a few extra hours a week.»

On a warm spring afternoon, Phil Knight found the time to meet up with me at the Le Germain Hotel in downtown Toronto while in Canada for just a few hours promoting his book Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike.

Add a heavy meal to being restricted to your seat, and you may be in for a few hours of discomfort.

It was much easier to find meaning and satisfaction in activities outside of work when we were under a lot less pressure and worked far fewer hours.

«Most dealers don't consider the sale final until the money is in their account, and that could be anywhere from a few hours to a couple of days,» said Chris Kulka, senior vice president at the Center For Responsible Lending.

It has few peers in terms of product design; its operational prowess is unmatched (by one estimate, in the first quarter of fiscal 2015, it produced the equivalent weight of a Boeing 787 in iPhone 6s — every 24 hours).

So people who have been scraping by on a few hours of sleep a night might not be in as good as shape as they would like to believe.

Whether it's coaching a kids» sports team like the CEO of Insureon, playing a regular game of pickup soccer like celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson, or extending a standing invitation to your friends for a Sunday evening supper like Huckabee, all the successful people profiled in the book plot out their weekends in advance (though not every minute; just a few «anchor events,» as Vanderkam dubs them) and make active use of the hours they have.

If you've been subsisting on six or fewer hours of sleep, try bumping up your sleep allotment to see if you notice any improvements in daytime performance.

A few hours later, after drifting into the sleepy, dazed state she was in for much of her hospital stay, she woke with a jolt and proclaimed she was the country singer the Zac Brown Band.

North of San Diego, the Lilac Fire destroyed 105 structures after swelling from 10 acres to 4,100 acres (1,659 hectares) in a few hours on Thursday.

BI: On the other hand, ahead of the General Elections we hear demands for zero - hour contracts (in which employees have few rights and no guaranteed work hours) to be reformed or even abolished.

So, throw in a few hours on Saturday to wrap up the week, but be aware of the number of hours you're putting in so you don't let it get out of hand.

It doesn't quite have the shock appeal of the Pope's unannounced TED Talk this week, but a few hours ago, a passerby in California saw a white Lexus fitted out with self - driving equipment emerge from an Apple facility in Silicon Valley and shared those images with Bloomberg.

Mulesoft, the first enterprise technology IPO of 2017, is already looking like a big winner, popping around 50 % above its $ 17 debut price to about $ 25.50 a share in its first few hours of trading.

The misconception of social's utility discussed in the intro aims to capture the high degree of attention garnered by a post in the first few hours of posting, but this is a high - competition space.

But think about all the time you spend sitting in front of a computer — is there any potential in all those hours to burn a few more calories?

Most of these deadlines were short, and to excel I always made sure I used my time as efficiently as possible — knowing that a few hours of web surfing and I would be turning in my assignment late.

Breathing a concentration of a few hundred parts per million can kill a person in about half an hour, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

«With our unique techniques, we are now able to observe the detailed structure of antimatter atoms in hours rather than weeks, something we could not even imagine a few years ago.»

Like Sachs, Whippman believes that «there are many reasons why life in America is likely to produce anxiety compared with other developed nations: long working hours without paid vacation time for many, insecure employment conditions with little legal protection for workers, inequality, and the lack of universal health care coverage, to name a few,» but she stresses that our «happiness - seeking culture» is also part of the problem.

The fire started when a spark from the unauthorized fireworks show ignited a separate batch of fireworks that were being stored at the Puttingal temple complex in Paravoor village, a few hours north of Kerala's state capital of Thiruvananthapuram, said Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, the state's top elected official.

Give yourself the gift of time by signing up for whatever service that will make it easier for you to find a few hours to invest in yourself.

Canwest's Sunday papers are survived by a few remaining Sunday editions across Canada — most notably the Sunday Star — but the 24 - hour news cycle will undoubtedly continue to force the number down, as sitting with the Sunday paper becomes more of an anachronism, in a country that never fully embraced the idea of a Sunday paper in the first place.

Laptop Magazine got almost four hours out of the drive's battery, meaning you can squeeze in two movies or a few episodes of your favorite drama before having to plug it in.

It lets you get hours of battery life from just a few minutes of charging, which is incredibly useful when you're in a pinch.

He quietly told some of the staff that the company would put out one catalog fewer in the year ahead so that he and Gloria could cut back their hours.

Out of the routine, and thus briefly out of his current mindset, something that can quietly but powerfully take hold of any of us and narrow our view, even in the few hours of work before lunchtime.