Sentences with phrase «spent a year looking»

Instead of letting it be like a kid who spends years looking up at the sky dreaming of blasting off into space as an astronaut one day, not really knowing what that would entail — or if they would even like it — why not let her explore it now?

Davies says he spent years looking for the perfect property for growing cannabis on the regulated market, believing legalization was all but inevitable.

«People spend years looking in the mirror,» he said.

So we spent years looking at all the forms of intelligence and cognitive abilities that impact unsolvable puzzles.»

Bellerin: It's not like that Gerard, you know I love you guys, I spent years looking up to you and the other guys and wished I could play with you..

Jennifer Margulis has spent years looking at hospital birth practices.

Dr. John Gottman spent years looking into relationships and he discovered that there's a magic ratio between negative and positive interactions that all healthy relationships have.

In a joint reporting effort, ProPublica, PBS «Frontline» and NPR spent a year looking at the nation's 2,300 coroner and medical examiner offices and found a deeply dysfunctional system that quite literally buries its mistakes.

The planet — Proxima b — was discovered by astronomers who spent years looking for signs of the tiny gravitational tug exerted by a planet on its star, after spotting hints of such disruption in 2013.

The Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission spent years looking for any kind of genetic damage in the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, says Christopher Wills, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of California in San Diego.

There, she spent a year looking at polycrystalline layers of diamond, analysing its chemical properties.

Chen's team — puzzled by such results — spent years looking for an explanation.

So Heimann and her colleagues have spent years looking for better «biomarkers,» proteins found at varying levels in early breast cancers, which can provide clues about whether the cancer is likely to have spread.

I've spent years looking for the right rose gold delicate necklace appropriate for every day, and Love Adorned is great at finding unique jewelers.

The reality is that people often spend years looking for love, so don't let a few bad online dating experiences discourage you.

Our system was developed by our founder, Dr. Neil Clark Warren, who spent years looking through research on hundreds of couples.

Lukeman starts the book off with saying how authors spend years looking for someone to publish their books; they get rejected and give up.

There are * some * self - published authors whose books are excellent and who spent years looking for the right «fit» with an agent or publisher before they decided to take their case to the only jury that matters — the readers.

I spent years looking for an agent and publisher.

Millions of dollars are spent every year looking for sources and cures of disease in dogs so that we can offer them better lives.

«The Brandon market is saturated with vets, so we knew it had to be something unique and different, and we spent years looking,» he said.

Interestingly, the former Scientology, Process Church ii, cultish, radical free - wheelers who spent years looking for a connection and an income producing platform are Best Friends to each other.

After studying Cell Biology at the University of Michigan and spending a year looking into microscopes, Addie decided to volunteer — playing video games.

According to the interview, Barrett spent years looking for a way to modernize his municipal court before launching with Matterhorn this month.

Maybe it's because we live in a small town, but I've spent years looking for light colored tortoiseshell glasses that are a round shape and not too small to fit progressive lenses into.

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But from the outside, he looked like a corporate lifer, spending 20 years ascending inside Tropicana and then its subsequent owner, PepsiCo.

The two have already swapped staff in a number of cases, including Gawker editor John Cook, who spent a year as editor of First Look before returning to Gawker, and Alex Pareene, who worked at First Look before returning to Gawker.

The regulator will spend the next year finding out whether internet service should be made essential, what speeds should be considered as minimal, and what pricing looks like overall.

According to Industry Canada, Big Pharma spends more than $ 1.3 billion a year on R&D — and many global drug makers are increasingly looking at Canada for top talent and a cost - competitive advantage over the United States.

But, don't forget that narrative thread: When you have spent years devoting energy to creating, developing and finally launching a new product or service, you may find it difficult to turn past your company's «page» and look at its story as a whole.

That's the first finding in this week's economic research wrap, which also looks at changes in the way women have spent their days in recent years and summarizes studies on spillovers from central bank balance - sheet normalization.

Based on the GBTA study of 75 countries, here's a look at the top 15 by total business - travel spending in 2012, with percentage growth from the previous year:

China's economy expanded at a steady 6.7 % in the third quarter and looks set to hit Beijing's full - year target, fueled by stronger government spending, record bank lending and a red - hot property market that are adding to its growing pile of debt.

After spending a dozen years building an export - minded pharmaceutical company that makes products geared at the booming cosmetic surgery industry, Ario Khoshbin has learned that the quintessentially human desire to look a bit better, and a bit younger, knows no geographical boundaries.

Some consumers looking to free up cash for holiday spending this year are turning to a costly source: cash advances on lawsuits.

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

Spending years creating a product that looks amazing but nobody wants isn't helpful.

It can be easier for small businesses to track and report spending throughout the year, but at the end of the year, it's time to collect everything and look at the big picture.

Have a look at the infographic from Concur to see what your fellow business owners are spending on in 2014, and how best to keep your own expenses on track if you intend to make financial outlays this year.

In retrospect, he says his biggest mistake was to spend an entire year looking for a job, instead of exploring his entrepreneurial options early on.

Look at the talent behind some of the most innovative tech startups and you'll often find people who have spent years training in the arts.

But other retailers have been pushing the holidays earlier and earlier, looking to ensure that they won't miss out on sales during a year when analysts, on average, are forecasting holiday spending to be up only about 2 percent to 3 percent from last year.

The dollar store was one of the fastest growing retailers in the years after the Great Recession as low - income shoppers looked for lower prices and closer stores to spend less on gas.

Though the sample size was limited, Garoppolo looked like a promising young quarterback who spent years learning under Tom Brady.

Eagle's Sassouni pointed out that since the big drug companies are losing billions of dollars every year to generic versions and have little to spend on their own research and development, they are looking to buy smaller biotechnology companies that are developing their own products.

Shannon O'Donnell, travel blogger and former National Geographic Traveler of the Year, spent a recent afternoon visiting stationary store after stationary store in Barcelona looking for wrapping paper — no luck.

FORTUNE — U.S. and UK taxpayers looking to spend some extra dollars on behalf of corporations during the holidays (and into next year) will be pleased to know that Hewlett - Packard's bungled acquisition of software firm Autonomy has made that possible.

This is helpful for my team and me, as we, like most companies, spend time at the end of the year analyzing performance and looking ahead to changes in social media and content marketing trends to plan and budget for the new year.

This inside look at the house the Forbes family built — the famous headquarters at 60 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, in fact — certainly reads as though its author spent the years since sharpening his knife.

Even in just the last few years, the number of hours the average American spends looking at digital screens has increased dramatically.