Sentences with phrase «older than about»

If the deck is older than about 15 years, however, it is probably past its life expectancy and should be inspected by an experienced, licensed landscape contractor, Marston says.

Heck, I'm getting to the point where I don't want anything older than about 1980.

De-emphasize anything older than about 15 years of experience — with anything beyond the 10 - year mark focused on one or two key bullet points.

In Mike's case, we focused on his recent work and summarized any experience older than about 12 years.

You generally can't find cases older than about 1870.

For instance using standard USGS 7.5 - minute paper topographic maps in the continental US generally means using the NAD27 (North American 1927 Datum) datum for any map older than about 1980.

In fact, many reputable breeders routinely only home them to families with children older than about 8 - years - old.

If your cat is older than about five months and begins showing these signs, get her to the vet for her spay as soon as you can.

So consider your hamster's circumstances: You didn't say how old she was when you adopted her (often the shops won't know precisely), but if she was older than about a month, she was quite ready to be alone in a burrow, collecting her food and dried leaves and grasses for warmth and comfort.

This half - life is so long that the Rb - Sr method is normally only used to date rocks that are older than about 100 million years.

(I'll aim to finish posting them in the next few days, they're not older than about 2 months for sure!)

If your school district is anything like my school district, once those teacher assignments come out for the upcoming school year, the feeding frenzy begins and people start interrogating everyone who has a kid older than theirs about teachers.

You can use these with infants who are older than about three months old, but you shouldn't use them with toddlers because they simply won't fit.

A breastfeeding baby who is older than about 4 months will not likely take a bottle if he has not already gotten used to one.

Since the seats for these swings are made of molded plastic, they may not be big enough for kids older than about 8 or so.

The carrier may not work for babies older than about 5 months because it isn't designed to support as much weight as others listed here.

This product isn't for everyone, and if your children are older than about three years of age, it may not work well for them.

Not exact matches

By way of pay, while the average worker at a startup earns about 6 percent less than a worker at a more established firm, the youngest workers earn about 3 percent more than they do at older firms.

Just like you can trash a supercar with no maintenance and rough handling or keep that old Toyota humming along nicely with a bit of TLC, intellectual performance is about much more than hardware.

I won't talk this morning about the 13 lives that were lost, or the more than 100 who were injured, when a 22 - year - old terrorist rammed his van into a crowd of pedestrians strolling along Las Ramblas in Barcelona this summer — nor will I mention the 86 people who were killed in Nice on the evening of Bastille Day in 2016, when a mindless thug drove his cargo truck into a mass of celebrants who had gathered to watch fireworks on the Promenade des Anglais.

It's a hoary old stereotype that women take longer to get ready than men, but there are several reasons it might be true that have nothing to do with outmoded jokes about complicated hair care or excessive vanity.

Many critics called Trump's comments about the first lady, who is 24 years older than her 39 - year - old husband, sexist and inappropriate.

He was about six years older than me, so I always watched him and it got me interested.

Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal play a pair of teens who head on a road trip with an older woman, but come to learn that there's more in store than getting lucky as they learn about themselves and the realities of life.

Traders are suddenly worried about interest rates (although anyone older than 30 has to be amused that 2.85 % on the Treasury 10 - year is a source of panic), worried about inflation (although after the last decade of stagnant wages, Friday's 2.9 % rise should be cheered, not jeered), and worried about a tax - fueled spike in growth (with this report from Powell's Atlanta colleagues leading the way.)

Often as we get older we get a little clearer about what we don't want in our life, perhaps more clear than we are about the things we do want.

She was out of shape, she looked about 30 years older than she was, and now her life was going to go from better to worse.

So I graduated from Harvard, class of» 97, and the internet was just a couple years old then and, of my graduating class of about 1,600, probably fewer than 10 people moved out West to work in tech.

In the old model, which died for good in about 2010, the leader in business was the person who is always right, who talks louder than everyone else, who makes frequent demands, and who collects the highest paycheck.

The app is only about a month old, but it's amassed more than 30,000 daily active users, about 310,000 total users in the US and abroad — it's the top lifestyle app in Germany right now, the company says — and has produced close to 200,000 matches so far.

And according to the MPAA's stats about these frequent moviegoers, they love their mobile devices: «Frequent moviegoers tend to own more key technology products, such as smartphones and tablets, than the general population of adults 18 years and older,» reads the report.

But, as inevitable problems arise, the older and more experienced investors treat these things as business as usual: problems to be dealt with rather than major catastrophes that are about to kill the company.

He's discovered how much ankle I like to show (just enough to see the pattern on my socks), diagnosed an old shoulder injury («Your right shoulder slopes about a half - inch more than your left») and beheld my dismay at learning that my waist is actually four inches rounder than I'd believed.

Our old professor was a bit more upset about it, though, partly because the college milks those guys more than a Libyan trafficking gang (albeit the access to the labor market is a lot better at the end of the process).

Even the very fact that people are talking about Pokemon more than usual again has prompted reminiscences among some older fans,» writes Baraniuk.

Data from the Social Security Administration shows that about one in three 65 - year - olds today will live to age 90, and more than one in seven will live to age 95.

What's more, as the Washington Post points out, the average 18 - to 34 - year - old today makes about $ 2,000 less than they would have in 1980.

When a couple came on to talk about their 16 - year - old daughter, who had been murdered by her boyfriend, they told the host that they wanted the audience to know their daughter's life was bigger than her tragic death.

The 35 - year - old has more things to worry about anyway than a silly feud with Swift.

The authors of the study — professors Jorge Walter (George Washington University School of Business), Daniel Z. Levin (Rutgers Business School), and J. Keith Murnighan (Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management)-- studied what happened when more than 150 executives interacted with old ties about an important work project.

It also allows the 31 - year - old budding philanthropist to change his mind about what he wants to fund and how much he wants to give over his lifetime, making the $ 45 billion number more like a pledge than a gift.

That's according to financial website Nerd Wallet, which conducted a survey of more than 2,000 U.S. adults aged 18 and older, of whom 1,112 are parents, to find out about their retirement savings habits.

About 80 % of the people who retired and then found new jobs say they like their current careers better than their old ones.

Author Alexandra Levit, for instance, recently blogged about receiving an email from «a 45 - year - old who was thrilled that after more than 20 years in corporate America, he was at last working in a so - called «open environment.»

Their goal was to make marginally more correct decisions than their competitors, in the long haul, and to do so they implemented an analytically rigorous system that not only processed all of the bleeding edge metrics they could find or create, but also heavily incorporated data from old fashioned sources: scouts, who could see things about a player's potential and character that numbers couldn't.

The 31 - year - old restaurant owner insists the branding is more about turning a profit than endorsing politics.

In many areas — including Australia and the U.S. — about 60 percent or more of the proportion of those engaging in social entrepreneurship are older than 35.

It's like trusting your 28 - year - old fresh - from - MBA - school McKinsey consultant to make executive business decisions about your 128 year - old - business that they know nothing about just because they are wicked smart, have a blackbelt in Excel & Powerpoint and do better graphs than you.

[2:17] What is your idea of an extraordinary life [2:43] You can be rich and happy, or rich and angry [3:08] It's about defining what life on your terms looks like [3:18] Nothing worse than an angry rich man or woman [3:24] We have a 2 billion - year old brain: focused on fight or flight, and survival [4:14] We don't appreciate enough.

That said, the oldest Boomers are past their «peak consumption years», meaning less spending on key categories like transportation, housing and apparel, with the windfall more than picked up by their children, netting out to about an average 0.77 % demographic driven annual growth rate across sectors through 2060.12