Sentences with phrase «spent more than a year»

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

Ford also tangled with President Donald Trump, who spent more than a year criticizing the automaker on the campaign trail for expanding operations in Mexico.

This is why NASA does not permit astronauts to spend more than a year or so in orbit.

Before starting $ 19 - million Oil Changers, a California chain of 37 oil - and - filter - change centers, Larry Read spent more than a year on the road, talking to owners of independent «quick - change» shops from Salt Lake City to Daytona Beach, Fla..

Yellen has spent more than a year floating the idea of negative rates, so it is no surprise she is hustling the ludicrous policy once again.

Warmbier spent more than a year in detention after being sentenced for 15 years behind bars for allegedly trying to steal a propaganda poster from a hotel to take to his church.

Still, at the start I never intended to spend more than a year working for this odd little magazine.

Her book One Thousand Gifts came from nowhere and ended up spending more than a year on the New York Times» best - seller list.

When I started baking a few years ago, I spent more than a year trying to replicate her recipe.

Chobani's in - house creative team spent more than a year developing the evolved brand look and feel.

Each bird has less space than a sheet of paper on which to spend more than a year before she's slaughtered.

After having spent more than a year on the sidelines, Welbeck recently returned to first - team action.

His previous book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, was translated into 27 languages and spent more than a year on the New York Times hardcover and paperback best - seller lists.

Paul Tough's last book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, spent more than a year on the New York Times hardcover and paperback best - seller lists and was translated into 27 languages.

Paul Tough writes about education, parenting, poverty, and politics for various publications in the U.S.. His book How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, was translated into 27 languages and spent more than a year on the New York Times best - seller list.

A Chicago grocery chain with plans to move into Orland Park may have been undercut after it spent more than a year on its proposal.

Paladino, the 2010 Republican standard bearer, sees a kindred spirit in Trump and has spent more than a year boosting him at rallies across the state.

The Oneida Indian Nation and the Change the Mascot campaign have spent more than a year putting public pressure on the Washington D.C. football franchise to drop its nickname, the Redskins.

Winter is coming Christina Reed, 27 May Meteorologist Elena Stautzebach will spend more than a year at the German research base Neumayer - Station III, in Antarctica.

Meteorologist Elena Stautzebach will spend more than a year at the German research base Neumayer - Station III, in Antarctica

The team spent more than a year collecting data from phones placed on a «shake table,» a device that simulates the ground motions produced by an earthquake, and comparing them with data from everyday movements.

Cabral spent more than a year and a half at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, studying the molecular phylogeny of Vitex and its historical geographical dispersion with Möller.

Lander, head of the Harvard - MIT Broad Institute, teamed with physicist James Gates Jr. of the University of Maryland, College Park, to lead a 19 - member panel that spent more than a year examining ways to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in U.S. elementary and secondary schools.

Yoav Yair of the Open University in Ra'anana, Israel, and colleagues spent more than a year analysing the video, which was originally taken to study atmospheric dust.

There, shielded from most sources of contaminating noise, researchers have spent more than a year's worth of time looking for flashes of light emanating from WIMPs striking xenon nuclei.

Instead, the network switched off the show, despite spending more than a year negotiating the mass turn - off with the country's electric grid.

As for myself, I've now spent more than a year trying to avoid beef and pork, though here in the South, bacon seems to constantly sneak its way into places it doesn't belong (a dish of Brussels sprouts being my most memorable example).

There, shielded from most sources of contaminating radiation, researchers have spent more than a year's worth of time looking for flashes of light emanating from WIMPs striking xenon nuclei.

Nagy spent more than a year trying to clinch a development deal with Anglo American, the South - African based conglomerate.

The researchers had spent more than a year learning how to hack the Jeep and assert that only remote access would be needed to complete such a hack.

After spending more than a year at another asteroid called Vesta and spending 2.5 years finally getting to Ceres.

Shaw's group spent more than a year studying how ULK1 works and developing new strategies for screening its function in cells.

So, I spent more than a year doing full time research, travelling throughout the USA with my son Lance looking for the best supplements available.

That's why Natural Society Co-Founder Anthony Gucciardi spent more than a year doing the research on how to escape health pitfalls and rediscover what «healthy» truly means in light of the modern day food supply's chemical makeover.

After spending more than a year in Rio, I thought Id give some pointers to guys that are interested in going to Brazil and dating Brazilian women.

Writer - director Wong Kar - wai spent more than a year collecting the shots for this Hong Kong near - romance; his meticulous attention to detail resulted in a movie that's closer to a spell than a story.

NPR spent more than a year in the coal counties of central Appalachia and found hope, cynicism and some surprises.

Thierry has spent more than a year completing a training course that doesn't qualify him for the job in question; he's unable to sell his mobile home without going well below market value; he's bluntly told by a prospective employer (in an interview conducted via Skype, for extra tackiness) that his chances are exceedingly slim, though not quite zero.

Before Jon knows it, he is whisked off to a remote lake house where the band spends more than a year trying to record an album.

With support from a host of community partners, the district spent more than a year preparing the museum and its teachers before opening two years ago.

CJ Pascoe, a professor at Colorado State University, spent more than a year observing boys in a high school in California's Central Valley, a conservative district some of the locals describe as «right out of Iowa.»

If she were a human, she would have to spend more than a year working round clock and answering posts.

His previous book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, was translated into 27 languages and spent more than a year on the New York Times hardcover and paperback best - seller lists.

Funny thing is, I spent more than a year following top charter schools and never once met a hedge funder.

The move, in which the Philadelphia School Reform Commission invokes emergency powers, comes after the teachers» union spent more than a year resisting concessions...

In addition to deep archival research into the lives of her artist subjects, she spent more than a year interviewing former patients at a rehabilitation facility known as Seneca House, which was established in the early 1970s near the Potomac River in Maryland.

In the third book in her Chesapeake Shores trilogy, author Sherryl Woods takes readers back to Maryland and a small - town beach community with warm yet complicated family relationships.The only girl among the O'Brien siblings, Susie O'Brien has spent more than a year «not dating» Mack Franklin while they're spending every spare moment together.

She spent more than a year, living virtually alone, on Lake Cabora Bassa in Mozambique, monitoring water weeds.

This is from Snow Falling on Cedars (1994), which won the PEN / Faulkner and spent more than a year on the New York Times best - seller list.

All three books have spent more than a year and a half on Amazon's list of the top 100 best - selling Kindle ebooks, and Collins also had the # 1 and # 2 best - selling ebooks this Christmas — The Hunger Games and Catching Fire.