Sentences with phrase «spent first year»

I have spent my first year as an Engineering Associate on the Pure Ambition Graduate Programme on the Glanbia Performance System (GPS) team in Glanbia Ireland, Ballyragget.

Destiny spent its first year looking like an extended beta, as Bungie tweaked and changed it constantly in response to player feedback.

The iPad Mini is a year old, but it spent its first year wearing a crown.

Leduc spent her first year in Afghanistan living in a three - metre wide blast - proof shipping container with two tiny windows that didn't open, according to a story written for JustInfo, a Department of Justice publication.

I spent the first year, year and a half of our company's existence, ten hours a day, six days a week just reading random contracts and saying, «This is an assignment clause.

I have spent the first year in my job as Attorney General encouraging the government legal profession that I lead to be seen as enablers rather than gatekeepers; for lawyers to be universally known in government as > problem solvers.

... I spent my first year at GW trying to write well, trying to really «learn» the material, and I didn't get a single «A.» My second year, in contrast, I didn't do much reading and I approached the exam with a «get more points» mentality — before the exam, I would go over old exams and construct detailed lists of «points» to hit on for each topic, and would try my best to find a case to cite for each.

I spent my first year at university reading modern languages and quickly realised that my ambitions of becoming an interpreter at the United Nations would be thwarted by the many truly bilingual, and sometimes trilingual, aspirants surrounding me.

I spent the first year or so thinking that every other solo attorney was making it rich and I had no clue what I was doing.

She spent that first year in the Chicago Artists Coalition's yearlong Bolt residency program, which culminated in her first solo show, «The Politics of Desire.»

I spent my first year working my way through abstraction.

In his day job, he was acting primarily as a programmer, so in order to exercise his more creative side, he actually spent the first year just making art for the game.

I spent the first year feeding premade raw, the second year using a base mix because I was afraid of DIY, and then one day I went for it and each month, it got easier and easier.

She spent her first year socializing about 1 - 2 hours a day at the dog park nearly every day.

I spent my first year at WSU the next year.

If you want a card that offers 3 Miles per dollar spent your first year, the Discover it ® Miles should be a top contender.

One author I know, now famous but not always so, told me she spent the first year calling radio station after radio station to get interviews for her book.

I am so grateful for my experience as a DOT Honors Attorney and can not imagine a more exciting way to have spent my first year as an attorney.

The Trailblazer Coalition spent its first year of work, the 2016 — 2017 grant cycle, studying the barriers that prevent people of color in Nashville from choosing education as a career path.

Most SBDM Councils have spent the first year or more of operation developing their bylaws, rather than on the more important business of making school decisions.

(The facilitators value this stage so much that they spent the first year and a half of a two - year process wor king with one principals group on just the descripeducators to jump to solutions without really understanding the problem.

As for the Chinese link, students spent the first year comparing cultures and building relationships and the second year collaborating on a project.

I spent my first year of college convinced that girls were not to be trusted.

We spent our first year of marriage enjoying being selfish without any responsibility but ourselves.

Although I was born & raised here I spent my first year of college at Pepperdine University, then transferred and graduated from the University of Oklahoma.

Getting enough sleep is definitely a factor too, my kiddo is a crap sleeper so I spent the first year sleeping in 1 hour installments, which I'm sure stopped me losing weight (and made me want to eat more anti stress sugary foods).

I spent my first year after being trained stuck in a job I hated because I still hadn't located my courage to just Go, Do, and Be the person I knew I wanted to be.

Ambros spent his first year on the bag of worms trying to generate another mutation in the lin - 4 gene.

I spent the first year setting up the lab, applying for grants, and training my first students.

Barroso spent his first year at GSK's Biopharmaceuticals Centre of Excellence for Drug Discovery near London looking at the use of adenoviruses in gene - transfer therapy.

And spent first year but still have not find a topic?

It has also published no less than four separate strategic frameworks for SHAs, who have, the report claims, spent the first year «establishing the infrastructure which will support activity in the context of the Next Stage Review.»

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, who spent the first year of her speakership carving out her own space and showing her independence from the mayor who helped get her elected, did it again this week when she refused to get involved in what she called a «tit - for - tat» between the governor and the mayor.

Ms. James spent her first year in office largely cheering on the mayor's progressive initiatives — a sharp break from the combative tack against former Mayor Michael Bloomberg that Mr. de Blasio took when he was public advocate.

Insiders from both sides of the aisle say that Trump has spent his first year in office stealing the political spotlight with his controversial statements and tweets, which could wind up overshadowing the trial that could potentially do damage to the governor.

She spent her first year learning how Albany works, «First, you have to get a sense of how it operates.

He spent his first year living with one rare diagnosis (1/100, 000 chance) before doctors realized, with more testing, that he actually has an altogether different rare condition (they don't even know of 25 kids that have it).

But thanks to nighttime feedings the boys spent the first year of their life sleeping in bassinets in my room and the only time I used the nursery was to show it off to visitors.

I'm not happy to report that I spent that first year of motherhood in a desperate, exhausted and depressed state in which I did not seek professional help.

I spent the first year mainly focusing all my energy on keeping him happy and healthy, while also keeping my house in order.

Navas spent his first year in Madrid as backup to the legendary Iker Casillas.

Christ spent his first year of ministry going around and getting as many people to believe in him as possible.

I spent the first year of this journey saying things like, «We are not these people.

«I spent my first year in residency trying to balance laying the foundations for my company between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m. while I was working 100 - hour work weeks at the hospital as a surgical resident.

She spent her first year on staff as the Community Manager of Common Desk - Oak Cliff, and over time, we started to pick up on her uncanny ability to problem - solve, implement new systems, and streamline operations.

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.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper spent the first years of his mandate shunning China on human - rights grounds, but as the global economy has shifted he has become «Mr. Panda Man» — a reference to the PM's fawning over two cuddly Chinese ambassadors.

So instead of hiring developers and producing software out of the gate, Smith started small, spending the first year — and just $ 75,000 — talking to potential clients and refining the business plan.

The original plan was for us to spend the first year establishing the brand and experimenting with different types of reporting techniques.

Part of our five - year plan was to spend the first year getting our brand up and running, to make a name for the Pochetti brand, but eventually we'd like to make Pochetti the place to go for pocket squares of any brand.