Sentences with phrase «spent close to a year»

Hearts and minds united «My husband was uncomfortable with the idea of adoption, so we spent close to a year at the fertility clinic.

«It's disappointing that the Comptroller's Office, which spent close to a year on this audit, has chosen to ignore every metric put into place to measure the effectiveness and impact of the multiple advertising campaigns run by ESD,» Conwall said.

«It's disappointing that the comptroller's office, which spent close to a year on this audit, has chosen to ignore every metric put into place to measure the effectiveness and impact of the multiple advertising campaigns run by ESD,» said Jason Conwall, a spokesman for the agency.

But the near - unanimous vote by the conference committee in favor of the deal belied growing anxiety on the left, with civil rights advocates and education reformers becoming increasingly nervous they had spent close to a year working on an education bill that will ultimately harm poor and minority children.

LoriAnn Pecoraro of Paramus, N.J., spent close to a year trying to get errors ranging from collection bills that weren't hers to unfamiliar variations of her name and Social Security number off her reports.

Background: Rescued from the pound, Simon and his brother Randy spent close to a year in Paws 4 You's care.

«We kept cameras rolling for nearly four more months, capturing over 150 hours of footage, and spent close to a year putting the puzzle together into the film we have today.»

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But there are reports that Senate leaders are close to a deal on a two - year budget that would boost defense spending and spending on domestic programs the Democrats want.

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.

After the Philippines trip, Evans spent an academic year at Woodstock, an international boarding school near Dehradun, a town close to the Himalayan foothills in India.

Store owners in some cases report up to doubling traffic levels across the weekend with peaks in traffic hitting on the Saturday before the weekend winds down, last year alone the NFIB reported independent merchants saw record Saturday sales with consumer spending close to $ 5.7 billion.

The partners at Hulse & Durrell had worked together as part of the in - house design team for the Vancouver 2010 Games but, soon after the closing ceremonies, the brand they'd spent years developing effectively ceased to exist.

While many of the space industry's heavyweights — Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic — spent 2016 talking up their respective ambitions to go to Mars or build a space tourism business, Moon Express might be the company closest to getting humans to a place they haven't visited in 44 years.

The «Fearless Girl» statue will be moving closer to the New York Stock Exchange after spending a year staring down Arturo Di Modica's «Charging Bull.»

She had chosen the life of a crafter because she wanted to be close to her 5 - year - old son, but she felt as if she hadn't spent any meaningful time with him in months.

While the plans to build your own TieFi are real (it calls for a tiny Raspberry Pi computer and some software customizations), the launch is a stunt — a tongue - in - cheek reminder to close the laptop and spend some time with your kids this Father's Day, lest you find yourself Cat's Cradled a few years from now.

As the 2016 fiscal year comes to a close, first - term Governor John Bel Edwards and the state legislature have been in crisis mode, struggling to close a fiscal 2017 budget gap that could run as high $ 800 million — and that is after $ 485 million in emergency spending cuts this year.

He had his staff spend two years and close to $ 2 million building a complex computer program called Pipeline, which tracks the cost of every second of every call so that he can find and stamp out any inefficiencies hiding in the traffic.

In addition, another study cited that kids ages 13 and younger spend an astonishing 30 minutes a week outside, with 8 - 10 year olds racking up close to 8 hours per day on some sort of electronic device.

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.

Prior to starting and leading technology companies, I spent close to nine years in the military as a helicopter pilot.

Last year alone, tech firms spent close to $ 50 million on lobbyists.

It added it has a deal to sell $ 225 million in non-core assets to an unnamed buyer that is expected to close before June 30, and that its spending this year will fall to $ 1.775 billion.

We've seen a similar phenomenon here in Yukon, as mineral exploration spending has fallen and is expected to drop further and several mines have closed in recent years.

Because closed - end fund managers have a fixed timeframe during which they have to spend their dry powder, strong fundraising should help prop up demand for real estate in the years to come.

That's still well short of the $ 7.5 billion to $ 8 billion Netflix expects to spend on content this year, but it's quickly closing the gap.

Katsu spent close to eight years at SoftBank Group.

Prior to joining Wellington Management in 2010, Brad spent 12 years at Putnam Investments, most recently as a portfolio manager in their Municipal Bond Department where he helped manage 11 open - end mutual funds and two closed - end funds (2006 — 2009).

Several high - profile economists and pundits are both frustrated and perplexed that initiatives like cash - for - clunkers, the $ 800 + billion U.S. stimulus program, and Japan's 20 installments of government spending juice (over recent years) have failed to trigger anywhere close to the expected multiplier1 impact on economic activity.

«We spend about $ 150,000 a year, but with taxes and charitable contribution, it might be closer to $ 200,000.

Fonstad, who spent close to 17 years at the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, adds that there is still a lot of work to be done.

If we compare operating spending by municipalities to GDP, which is a broad measure of ability to pay, it remains within historical averages of close to 3 % of GDP.  In 2012, operating spending by all municipalities in Canada amounted to just 3.1 % of GDP, the same that it was twenty years ago, and down from the 3.3 % reached in 2009 during the depths of the recession.  This ratio was higher during the recession because GDP had dropped and governments sensibly embarked on stimulus spending to prevent a depression. This was before their misguided adventures in austerity (which presumably the CFIB supports, but have caused devastation to small businesses in countries elsewhere).

The catch is that it still won't even come close to making up for the red ink splashed everywhere else around this fiscal update, most plainly in Notley government's insistence on spending its way through the severest two - year economic contraction ever recorded in the province.

Portfolios are rebalanced each year across multiple account types to maintain overall asset allocation close to 60 % equities and 40 % fixed income as much as possible after yearly spending amount being withdrawn.

Back in November, Western Mass News told you about two high school sweethearts from Springfield who spent close to two years planning their dream wedding in Puerto Rico, only to have it destroyed by a hurricane.

Yes, Mark Zuckerberg turns 30 years old today, and let's assume he's going to spend his birthday with the closest of his 500 million friends, spending some of his 31 billion dollars (to which he's probably added a few million since you started reading this sentence).

It is a place (around the first century, a rabbi postulated that the maximum time spent there would be a year)... in which a person is can essentially be purged of their unrighteous DEEDS, and come close to G - d.

I've been saying for six or seven years now (four of those spent adnitcnujg post-degree) that I could and should be looking for work outside of academia, but only after five rollercoaster years on the academic market and coming * this close * to landing a tenure - track position can I happily and healthily say I quit.

Needless to say, the congregation spent a year with me healing and then closed.

There was no explanation given for this dramatic change, but I can't help thinking it was the cumulative effect of so many years spent in close proximity to one of God's outposts of peace.

Even one of His closest disciples, who followed Him for three years, watched His miracles, listened to His teachings, and spent many hours observing and learning from Jesus, ended up being the «son of perdition» (John 17:12).

Because Hayes himself understands firsthand what it's like to be impaired with medical debt, as he was hit by a car at 17 years old and spent 12 days in the ICU, this hit close to home for him.

I beg to be allowed to offer a brief contribution and personal testimony, the fruit of thirty years spent in close and sincere contact with scientific and religious circles in Europe, America and the Far East.

Currently, the federal government spends close to a trillion dollars a year on more than 80 mean - tested welfare programmes.

What many people may not know is that one in nine people on earth don't have enough food to lead an active life, or that food loss and waste costs the global economy $ 940 billion each year, an amount close to what the entire UK government will spend in 2016.

The company has spent the last seven years developing those relationships and bringing the product closer to its facilities through joint R&D efforts with vendors.

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.

A move to Connecticut came with a promotion to vice president, business performance management, where she managed Diageo North America's financial outlook, totaling $ 4.9 B. Kirsty's Diageo career came to a close after she spent a year in Napa negotiating Diageo's sale to Treasury Wine Estates as Diageo's vice president, finance and business planning.

After years spent introducing consumers to the category with distinctive offerings and personalities, kombucha manufacturers at the show seemed to now be looking closer at meeting the demands of these consumers.

Kris spent close to 16 years in various positions with Anheuser - Busch Inbev where he gained operations expertise, designed process improvement initiatives, led cross-functional teams, planned strategies and managed projects.