Sentences with phrase «spent about a year»

So we spent about a year trying to course correct and then it became clear that we weren't going to be able to.

Moon Express spent about a year working with the F.A.A., the State Department and other agencies to jerry - rig what Dr. Richards called a «temporary patch,» using the F.A.A.'s existing authority to review rocket payloads in order to gain the approval Moon Express was seeking.

I personally spent about a year reading everything I could on investing before I bought my first stock.

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After we decided to close that down, I got a job as assistant brewer at West O Beer in West Okoboji, Iowa, where I spent about a year - and - a-half before taking the job at Gull Dam.

The district spent about a year negotiating a lower fee with the Crystal Lake - based association.

She was naturally inseminated at Miami Seaquarium by the calf's father, Lii, after spending about year there.

I spent about a year laying down with her to get her to sleep.

I spent about a year and half thinking, researching, dreaming, sharing, and planning.

Bush did spend about a year and a half on «vacation» away from the White House, and that doesn't include time spent abroad on official business, but I don't think that's what artfdviuyt is driving at.

«We didn't believe the measurements at first, and spent about a year just convincing ourselves that they were accurate,» said lead author Laurence Yeung, an assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Rice University.

The team then spent about a year using a computer algorithm to analyze the images to more fully count 751,527 penguin nests, Lynch says.

EVERY PENGUIN COUNTS Researchers did a preliminary head count of Adélie penguins in the newly discovered supercolony, and then spent about a year analyzing drone footage such as this to get a better count of penguins nesting in the area.

Opportunity spent about a year wandering through Victoria Crater, getting an up - close look at the layers on the bottom and figuring that these were likely shaped by water.

He spent about a year there where he supervised the re-assembly of his telescope on the Observatory grounds as an exhibition.

I spent about a year dating almost exclusively women older than myself.

The first thing I started after «A Way Of Life» was researching a project called «Where Hands Touch,» which is set in 1940s Berlin, on a relatively unusual subject, so I spent about a year, a year and a half doing that, and then began writing it.

I spent about a year with Jeff before we started shooting, so he knew kind of what we were getting into, and we were all very close, and we are all still very close.

Charter middle school applicants who were offered a spot at one of the schools to which they applied spent about a year longer attending a charter school than applicants who were not offered a spot.

I spent about a year selling cars at Carmax.

I spent about a year researching Beneath a Marble Sky.

After graduating from college and spending about a year substitute teaching and teaching Spanish part - time, I realized I did not want to be a classroom teacher.

I spent about a year at home after college and saved up a lot in that time.

I spent about a year looking for her again, and finally succeeded this past spring.

The Burtons spent about a year trying to find Bella the right balance support dog.

«I spent about a year - and - a-half talking to hoteliers and it turned out, a lot of them had already been talking about the need for something like this,» he continued.

We started traveling in 2007, spent about a year back «home» and then hit the road again.

«On the consumer side, we spent about a year and a half talking to travelers,» Jeff described.

She also spent about a year working on an anti-corruption initiative in Malawi as part of a United Nations project and travelled to Ghana to present the paper that came out of that research.

Before opening his doors, Shuaib spent about a year trying out every practice management software option he could find, but he eventually found that Clio was a cut above the rest.

I graduated with a masters degree in Communications Management and have spent about a year doing various part - time jobs and internships to gain more work experience and am looking for a full - time job.

We recently spent about a year and a half remodeling most of our home.

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The players have spent more than a year worrying about no one but themselves.

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).

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the combination of tax increases and spending cuts could trim economic growth this year by about 1.5 percentage points.

Though the thought of running your own business, spending your days working on something you're passionate about, and choosing how and where you spend your time is enticing, realize there are days if not years of sleepless nights, cash flow shortfalls and mindset hurdles between you and your destination.

González Franch has run AI alongside CEO Tomas Bello Garza for almost 30 years, and by their own admission the broader well - being of their 4,000 employees wasn't something they'd spent a lot of time thinking about.

According to an FAQ page on the CAQ website, Quebec spends about $ 4 billion on business tax credits every year, «and the results are not forthcoming: private investment in Quebec is significantly lower than the Canadian average.»

The later hasn't happened, perhaps because households are spending about $ 600 per year less on gasoline, Poloz said.

He added that, in Singapore, some indicators of Chinese New Year spending that give him signals for the health of the economy are the demand for gift baskets and hampers and the queues for bakkwa — a sweet barbecued pork jerky in Singapore which sells for about $ 38 (S$ 50) per kilogram, and gets more expensive the closer it gets to the actual holiday.

As he puts it: «I'd like to CHALLENGE every woman in tech who's a) got a nice care, b) owns a nice house, or c) is making over $ 125K a year to start thinking of themselves as the next Ron Conway or Esther Dyson in the making and commit to investing in startups...» I'll forgive him for the poor grammar, ditto for the wisecrack a couple of paragraphs later about how some of us might have spent $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 on our MBAs... or our wardrobes.

The $ 665 billion deficit for fiscal year 2017 will rise to about $ 800 billion this year and jump to $ 1.1 trillion in 2019, a result of the last year's tax deal and an early 2018 spending...

Of the $ 100 billion a year spent on Belt and Road, about 50 % will be used for raw materials like concrete and steel, according to Strategy &, the consulting arm of PwC.

It was the first time in 13 years that anybody other than my family had actually spent 30 minutes thinking about my well being.

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.

If you spread the spending impact over your entire retirement, you would need to cut your spending back by about $ 520 per year in today's dollars.

She admits to naively thinking she'd be able to turn a profit right away, but for each of the company's first four years she spent about $ 30,000 more than she brought in.

Over the last 10 years, real personal spending increased on average about 0.15 % monthly.

The government already spends about $ 12 - billion each year to pay interest on its debt, about 8 per cent of revenue.