Sentences with phrase «spend years taking»

You don't have to spend years taking classes that you won't actually need in your career.

If I am remembering correctly, the main reason they gave for giving up on marriage is that they spent years taking care of a man and their children and they did not get much back in return.

Students will spend a year taking introductory courses on neuromuscular disorders and learning neuroscience techniques before starting a 3 - year research project.

The film marks a major shift for Lawrence, who has spent years taking on emotionally dense, mature roles — think American Hustle and Silver Linings Playbook, the latter of which won her an Oscar — while steadfastly avoiding jobs that rely on sexuality and nudity.

Diesel passenger cars in the U.S. have long suffered from a market that takes two steps forward and one step back, then spends years taking no steps at all.

Following graduation, Dr. Berthiaume took his first job in New Hampshire and spent a year taking care of a variety of animals including cats, dogs, horses, sheep, rabbits and even a bear cub!

I spent years taking bad photos and improving my craft.

Nathan Allen, an American blogger who describes himself as «a hyper - observant culture - junkie who recently spent a year taking photos and documenting the Philippines.»

Not exact matches

Last year, 6.15 million Chinese travelers took international trips, a 7 percent increase from 2016, with overseas spending estimated to amount to about 100 billion yuan (nearly $ 16 billion).

I've watched the behavior of 14 - year - old girls spending 10 minutes to take the best selfie, post it on Instagram, and then take it down when it doesn't get enough likes.

Half of small business social media users complain that the platforms take more time than they'd thought, but almost the same number believe it's time well - spent — that their social media initiatives will pay off financially in a year or less.

This involves taking the estimates that clients have come up with for what they expect to spend in retirement — and then running a simulation of what would happen to their portfolio if they spent 25 % more than that over each of their first 15 years.

The government did pledge $ 47 billion to infrastructure spending over the next 10 years and extended the accelerated capital cost allowance for manufactures — a tax relief program for investments in new machinery and equipment — by two years, which means stock holders could get a boost if public companies are able to take advantage of this spending and savings.

Growth appears to be strengthening this year even after taxes increased on Jan. 1 and automatic government spending cuts totalling $ 85 billion started to take effect on March 1.

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

When Guy Laurence, the former CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. (which owns Canadian Business), took the reins of the telecom three years ago, he spent several months touring the country, talking to everyone from cable installers to call centre staffers to mid-level managers about their concerns.

To become a lawyer, you need to complete a bachelor's degree, take the LSAT (Law School Admission Test), go to law school, and finally, pass your province's Bar exam and spend a year articling (training under the supervision of a lawyer).

The last thing he wants is to have to spend the next few years publicly defending legislation that takes away health insurance from tens of millions of Americans and raises the premiums for tens of millions more (whether he believes in the merits of that legislation or not).

Confidants report that Bezos spends more time in Washington than in any other city outside of Seattle — ten trips a year, give or take — and for good reason.

One board member, who had run a large marketing agency, took things into her own hands and spent a year going around campus in stealth mode, talking to deans and other board members to see what they thought about the institution's brand.

When you outsource your social media outreach efforts, you often sacrifice quality for quantity, and in the past year we discovered that if we take our social media efforts in house and spend less time on posting but more time on developing great content and promoting that, we have much better results and feedback.

Most governments of developed countries have spent the last several years attempting at all costs to keep their economies out of recession, and in doing so appear to have taken their eye of inflation.

Before taking the helm at Foxwoods two years ago, the industry veteran spent over three decades working in hospitality industry.

Spending on premium and artisanal pet foods is skyrocketing, and Pet Wants pet food franchise is uniquely positioned to take advantage of this trend, which last year accounted for more than $ 8 billion in pet food sales.

After 16 years and $ 120 billion spent on the reconstruction of Afghanistan since the US invasion, the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces are alarmingly unprepared to take on the resurgent Taliban that's slowly clawed back territory since NATO combat operations ended there in 2014.

After spending much of the year preparing and delivering presents to children all over the world in just one night, Claus takes a much deserved break to recoup and recharge.

He spent years as a web developer and took a short detour into carpet cleaning.

Unlike the years before the crisis, the global consensus now is that governments should be agnostic when it comes to fiscal policy; too much debt is problematic (Greece, Spain, etc.), but it can take more than a balanced budget to inspire business confidence and get executives to spend.

Take 38 - year - old software engineer and blogger, «Mrs. BITA,» who asked to remain anonymous, of «Bayalis Is The Answer»: From 2008, when she first started using Amazon, to 2016, she managed to spend $ 41,000 on more than 1,400 items.

Mr. Meister, who took a 7 a.m. flight to Washington every Monday for three years, said he was leaving to spend more time with his family in New York.

On a journey that took us from NYC to San Francisco and back again, the Qwiki team has spent the past few years creating products and technology that make it easy to share and discover stories.

Take a hard look at your budget and spending habits to avoid finding yourself in the same situation next year.

Ferrante's credibility comes from his ex-mafioso status, a conversion to author and motivational speaker that took root during years spent behind bars.

So, I spent a lot of my time during junior and senior years of high school researching the process and trying to find «secret» ways to get the most financial aid possible — all the strategies I assumed my peers were already taking advantage of.

She spent 7 1/2 years with the agency before taking a year off from law enforcement.

After working for Doctors Without Borders in Darfur he began taking photographs, and last year received funding from the U.S. - based non-profit Institute of Modern Russia to spend six months documenting Russian corruption.

Many North American producers have already spent 75 % to 90 % of the per - barrel cost of a project before recovering their first barrel, and in the case of the oilsands, it might have taken 10 years.

Amazon Spent Years Learning What It Takes to Do Great Work.

By taking time to work out, spend time with your family and making sure you do not burn out, you will start to notice that sometimes you solve your toughest problems on that morning run, or while lying in bed with your 2 - year - old as she falls asleep at night.

We refused to pay off this company for the ideas our employees spent years innovating and unfortunately we have been left with no choice but to take this fight up through the court system.

The money doesn't have to be invested within a month or two, so if it takes you a year to figure out a long - term spending and investment plan, so what?

They spent years working on Google Glass, their take on connected eyewear.

Paul Smith — who among other things spent six years at Dear Friends and more recently at Friends at the Hyatt — has taken up the task of creating outstanding food at the valley's newest venue.

A legion of Canadian corporations recently acquired new CEOs: Guy Laurence joined Rogers (which owns this magazine) last December, one month after BlackBerry brought in turnaround artist John Chen to fix its ailing smartphone business; at TD Bank, Bharat Masrani spent a year (some might say his entire career) preparing to take over for Ed Clark, while across the street at CIBC, internal candidate Victor Dodig was given just six weeks before he replaced Gerald McCaughey.

To take their awareness efforts further, Martinez and Miller have spent the past year and a half throwing «Right2Work» dinners to «create a space to discuss the reality of what's happening.»

I don't know if that cost him his job but after spending his entire 26 - year career at HP, McClellan later took a demotion to work for Red Hat, a much smaller company.

«For every dollar you spend, you save $ 2 to $ 3 but it may take two to three years,» says Bell at Towers Watson.

Solo act: Barr spent his first year in business as a one - man show — designing the product, managing the website, taking care of order fulfillment and everything in between.

Americans spend a ton of money on diet and exercise — health clubs alone take in over $ 75 billion a year in revenue — in spite of the fact that most of us have no clue as to which nutrition and exercise plans are actually best for us.

Not until after I took a major risk in my career of quitting my job as a banker and spending two years researching and writing my second book did my mentor take me under his wing and open up for me a valuable stream of knowledge, people and opportunities that have inspired my journey ever since.