Sentences with phrase «sometimes years of hard work»

To them — deeply involved in the nip and tuck — the «new» car represents months, sometimes years of hard work.

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If you bought one stock every year or two, and you have a portfolio of say 7 or 8 stocks at a time, it may appear to clients (who see hardly any activity in their portfolios for months, sometimes years at a time) that you might not be working all that hard.

This time of year my mortal & pestle are hard at work with herbs & Salts... I am happily reminded that sometimes... dried has it's place!

«After getting married six and a half years ago, I would sometimes go through spurts of working out, but I found it hard to commit to working out for more than a month at a time before kids.»

According to Child Trends Data Bank, 77 percent of men and 65 percent of women in 2012 said children sometimes need a «good, hard spanking,» a proportion that's been decreasing steadily over the past 20 years over a growing body of research showing that spanking and other physical punishment may be harmful in the long - term and doesn't actually work that well.

Rather, success sometimes takes years of hard work and dedication, and learning from mistakes is a part of the journey.

Every year, the studios try hard to push their contenders onto the list of talked about performers and it can sometimes work.

In recent years, an intense focus on closing racial and economic achievement gaps has resulted in policies and practices that can sometimes come at the expense of families that work hard and play by the rules.

When I started writing A Promise of Fire over five years ago now, there was a good chance this manuscript would end up like my other works of fiction: perhaps unfinished, never seen by anyone but me, definitely never presented to agents or editors and using up space on my hard drive in a folder with a misleading enough name that hopefully no one would ever open it and stumble upon my first (and sometimes hilarious) attempts at writing a novel.

Sometimes it is even harder when you realize that after serving your employer for years, instead of being rewarded for your hard work you notice you are a VICTIM OF WAGE THEFT by your employeof being rewarded for your hard work you notice you are a VICTIM OF WAGE THEFT by your employeOF WAGE THEFT by your employer.

It's thanks to the hard work of developers on our forums that many older Android smartphones are kept alive by custom ROMS sometimes years after devices were abandoned by the device maker.

Sometimes the biggest days of the year — for example, special religious festivals or holidays — are the hardest times to work out parenting plans that suit everyone.