Sentences with phrase «spent months and years»

I spent months and years on projects with little regard for much else.

With migrants spending months and years waiting for their cases to be heard, one of the few reliefs comes in communicating with the outside world.

They didn't spend months and years studying the issue.

And because the lawyer is on the record for a demanding number of cases, he or she is compelled to spend months and years on them.

In certain jurisdictions, litigants will not have the luxury of spending months and years before resolving a matter, thanks to new Mandatory Initial Disclosure Pilot (MIDP) programs.

Not exact matches

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison at the California City Correctional Facility with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6 - month training program.

He shares the consensus view that the 30 - year bull market in bonds is now spent and recommends buying floating - rate notes issued by corporations that reset their coupon according to market rates every three or six months.

Yet regardless of how disciplined he was about shutting down his computer and heading home, he continued to spend two hours a day commuting - essentially 10 hours a week which added up to two full months a year.

The average customer, he says, spends more than $ 500, and he has created over 50 videos a month consistently for the past year.

I used to spend $ 250 a month, $ 3k a year, $ 30k a decade, and if I drive for 50 years that is $ 150k.

Writer Max Chafkin spent five months reporting the story and spending tons of time with Kalanick, who has been a bit press - shy in the past year.

Chafkin spent five months reporting the story and spending tons of time with Kalanick, who has been a bit press - shy in the past year.

Thanks to tools like Jobbatical and other services aimed at making spending a stint abroad more financially and logistically manageable, leaving home for months or years might be more doable than you imagine.

Digital nomads usually spend anywhere from a few months to several years in a country, and then they move on.

By contrast, a company that spends $ 300 to acquire a subscriber who spends $ 20 a month and cancels his subscription at the end of the year is pouring its money down the drain.

Last week, the Fortune data team revealed that we spent the months leading up to the launch of this year's Fortune 500 collecting information about the diversity and inclusion policies at each company on the list.

Then, he asks them to go back over their calendars for the past six months to a year and pinpoint how much time they had spent on achieving those goals.

They ended up traveling for 18 months, and today, they've built a life that allows them the best of both worlds: half the year in a London flat and half of the year spent abroad, a lifestyle they chronicle on their website, Global Help Swap, and on their Instagram.

They either create the product first and then find a market for it later, or they spend months, even years, perfecting the product before selling it.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The combined effects of President Trump's tax cuts and last month's budget - busting spending bill is sending the government's budget deficit toward the $ 1 trillion mark next year, according to a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was offered $ 60 million by Congress from Defense Department funds last year to fight Russian election interference efforts — but after Tillerson waited for seven months trying to decide whether he wanted to spend it or not, the offer was withdrawn, and none of the money was used, according to The New York Times.

For months, Republican and Democratic leaders in the House and Senate have been working behind the scenes to broker a deal on overall spending levels for the current fiscal year, which already is two months old.

For example, if you are nine months into the year, and you spent $ 500,000, year to date, on operating expenses, regardless of revenues coming in, your burn rate would be approximately $ 55,555 ($ 500,000 divided by nine months and rounded off).

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.

Some people spend months, years or even an entire lifetime researching, developing and perfecting one great idea.

The divorce documents also show that eight years ago, Hefner was spending $ 46,000 per month on food, entertainment and health care, plus more than another $ 20,000 a month on alimony.

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?

By automating our inventory, the time we spend tracking assets has been cut in half, saving us $ 50,000 a year and at least $ 3,000 a month in lost revenue.

And while requiring people to spend months working for free does put a substantial barrier in the way of someone who can't get financial assistance from his parents, requiring someone to spend a year or two paying many thousands of dollars to a school creates a much larger barrier.

The parliamentary budget office estimates spending to date has boosted the economy by 0.1 per cent in each fiscal year and added between 9,600 and 11,100 jobs over the last 12 months.

This card, which carries an $ 95 annual fee after the first year, also doesn't assess foreign transaction fees and offers 25,000 points if you spend at least $ 3,000 within three months of opening the account.

Two major concerns for investors and analysts over the past few months have been Netflix's growth prospects internationally, as well as the massive amounts of cash ($ 5 billion this year alone) that it is spending on developing new shows.

Tax time only comes once a year, but it can feel like it lasts for months — here are a few of my favorite ways to reduce the stress and time spent on tax, and financial documentation in general.

«Instead of spending months or even years on a hunch that may turn out to be wrong, you're able to answer your questions really quickly — to stop debating in the abstract, and start making progress.»

He finishes up sometime the following spring and then spends the rest of the year doing other stuff — stuff like spending the entire month of August on vacation.»

I'm proud of my staff and the way they put it out,» Sherry says, adding that his team spent a couple months putting the experience together last year before seven customers bought in.

As Wallerstein sees it, there's only one for corporations: «The way the IRS's rules are set up for health - care reimbursement FSAs, an employee could decide to contribute, say, $ 2,000 over the course of a year, spend that money on medical procedures during the first two months of the year, and then quit, leaving his company holding the bag for any funds that hadn't yet been deducted from his paycheck.»

Merger agreement in hand (and the money in escrow), Cline spent the next five months on the road trying to win over CEA's investors, who were looking for a growth company that was well - positioned to go public, preferably with a strong management team and a few years of audited financials.

Instead of working in a corporate office and spending nights and weekends ghostwriting novels — four in one year — as I had back in my six - figure days, I had spent the past seven months backpacking around the world.

Let's say on average I'd spend $ 3.50 on coffee daily, which would cost me $ 24.50 a week, $ 105 a month, and $ 1,277.50 a year (give or take some).

The news followed an announcement the prior month that the bank plans to open 400 branches in new U.S. locations and raise hourly wages for some of its employees, as part of a five - year, $ 20 billion spending plan.

Practically speaking, this means not spending weeks, months or years beating yourself up for a mistake you made, a bankruptcy you went through, a test you failed, or a startup that crashed and burned.

I am a 26 - year old female entrepreneur and have spent the past 10 months developing an online marketplace where sellers post a video of their item rather than pictures and descriptions.

Remote Year should be a pretty appealing idea to anyone with a serious case of wanderlust: Participants spend a whole year working abroad, moving to a different city and country each moYear should be a pretty appealing idea to anyone with a serious case of wanderlust: Participants spend a whole year working abroad, moving to a different city and country each moyear working abroad, moving to a different city and country each month.

Been with VPAS 6 months and not so sure I want to spend $ 3,600.00 year on this service.

So, you've spent months or maybe even years searching for the perfect small business idea, and now you think you've found it.

The Starwood Preferred Guest card also has a $ 95 annual fee — with a $ 0 introductory annual fee for the first year — and a sign - up bonus: 25,000 Starpoints when you spend $ 5,000 in purchases in the first 3 months.

They both work 10 - 11 months including post and pre school - year time spent at the school doing admin and organization work.

U.S. drillers expect to continue raising production this year, but some are adjusting spending to the expected cash flows in the current oil price environment, after prices failed to rise as much as analysts and investors had expected a few months ago.

If you're spending many months or years on an idea and not making any real progress, you're either dealing with fears, lacking a roadmap to follow, or a combination of these.