Sentences with phrase «spent on their gap year»

Many gap year travellers cite the time they spent on their gap year volunteering abroad as the best and most rewarding part of their travels.

Not exact matches

«The price gap is likely to remain substantial in the next two to three years,» the report said, «and assuming it does, Chinese spending on luxury goods will grow about as fast overseas as it will domestically.»

The Conservatives program review this year will close the gap in expected revenue and spending growth somewhat but will still depend on rather dramatic growth rates in tax revenues.

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.

Anne went on to spend a gap year in India, work with Exeter Vineyard Church and then attend London School of Theology, where she and Gavin met.

Over a six - week period last year Way spent 13 days learning to carry the smaller of the two gaps on the ramp (a 50 - footer that followed a 48 - foot drop - in), adding new spins and flips during the aerial.

Moving on from it all for this season i fear for worst to come next season (just had a deja vu i say the same thing every season around this time) City already are talking spending 600 Million in the next two to three years on new players and you can bet Man - U will follow to try and close the gap, Liverpool can sell one player and buy an entire squad, Chelsea owner Abromovich has started to make noise's about next season so they will be spending, spuds will try to keep their existing players with one or two additions to strengthen and some salary rises to keep the elite, and Arsenal will go head to head with the likes of Burnley Everton Leicester for average players signature, and the board will make sure even if they replace AW they will replace him with AW No2 who will do what the board decides on who and how much to spend

Figures released by the Treasury yesterday showed the gap between spending per head in England compared to Scotland and Wales grew by 15 % over the last year, meaning # 1,624 more public money is spent on the average Scot than the average Englishman.

New York City's finances look to be on solid ground, with a strong economy, a balanced budget and out - year gaps that are manageable under current conditions, according to state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's assessment of the mayor's proposed spending plan, though there are risks in the years ahead.

However, as the governor's footnote indicates, the gaps could be turned into surpluses if spending growth continues to average 2 percent a year, as opposed to the nearly 4 percent average increase that would occur if the budget was on autopilot.

A looming fiscal challenge awaits Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers as budget gaps are opening up in the coming years, forcing decisions on issues ranging from school aid to Medicaid spending.

Budget gaps in coming fiscal years could run as high as $ 3.4 billion without a voluntary 2 percent cap on spending increases in the state budget, Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office found in a report released Monday.

The European Commission currently spends an estimated 121.5 million euros per year on maternal health and family planning — equivalent to approximately 1.3 % of the funding gap to meet the unmet need for maternal health and family planning.

A report released by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office on Friday raised the possibility of potential budget gaps in coming years as a result of increases in spending, tax cuts and one - shot revenue sources in the current - year spending plan.

The Conservative - controlled north London council has committed to spending # 1.5 m this financial year on a much - hyped reform programme to help close a yawning budget gap, but it is on course to recoup just # 1.4 m in savings in the year.The programme is budgeted to deliver savings of # 13m a year by 2014, about a third of the total cuts planned by the council.

The $ 3.5 billion budget gap identified in December is closed through $ 2 billion in spending reductions and $ 1.5 billion in revenues from the tax reforms enacted last year that maintained the millionaire tax, albeit only on multi-millionaires rather than anyone making over $ 250,000.

Whenever the next update comes out, it probably will show a worsening FY 2018 budget gap, and perhaps even a true potential deficit for the current year — depending on whether Cuomo forces a post-election special session based on his power to cut spending in the wake of big enough drops in federal revenue.

That approach has long frustrated efforts by many to see «budget gaps» in common - sensical or literal terms, because reported «out - year gaps» are not the actual differences in spending and revenues between one year and the next, but instead reflect projections of how circumstances would look if on auto pilot.

Based on current - law spending trends (including the $ 864 million 2015 - 16 aid hike the Conference Board regards as insufficient), the state financial plan currently incorporates budgets gaps for every year from 2016 through 2018.

Mr. Ravitch's financial plan would impose tough accounting standards on state budgets, allow the state to issue $ 2 billion a year in bonds to help close budget gaps, and give the governor the power to make unilateral cuts when spending and revenues fall out of whack.

And budget analysts on Thursday continued to criticize de Blasio for his spending plan's lack of a «program to eliminate the gap» or «PEG,» a budgeting practice common under all de Blasio's predecessors dating back to former Mayor Ed Koch, which requires city agencies to identify a specific amount of money they could cut in the coming fiscal year.

«Based on the Mayor's latest financial plan and our current revenue and spending projections, the city's budget shortfalls have shrunk considerably and the gap for the upcoming fiscal year appears manageable compared with past challenges,» the report reads.

New York sent nearly $ 41 billion more to Washington than it received back in federal spending — more than double the gap four years ago, according to a report released on Tuesday.

On graduation she did a «gap year,» spending the first part in a «Work America» volunteer research project in Lubbock, Texas, helping to design a part of a particle detector for the Stanford Linear Collider (SLAC), and spending the rest of the year touring the U.S., hitching rides all the way from Mexico to Alaska.

He spent several years on the GAPS diet and found great healing for his digestive issues.

The Cooking School had a guest post from Megan Stevens who spent 5 years on the GAPS diet.

Again, for the several hundred dollars I have spent over the years on gap jeans that I no longer wear, or that have fallen apart, I could have bought one pair of FABULOUS Goldsign jeans that would stay with me forever.

I spent many years online dating (until meeting my boyfriend of eight years on Guardian Soulmates) and spotted a gap in the market for a niche photography business specialising in creating cool profile photos for online daters.

There's also Martin Freeman's random reappearance as CIA agent Everett K Ross, who spends the majority of his time on screen looking like a middle - aged - man on a gap year, and Daniel Kaluuya's W'Kabi, who is posited as a close friend of T'Challa but whose sudden shift in allegiance goes unaddressed.

But the gap over spending on local schools and teacher salaries has opened over the past year.

As of last year, 77 percent of schools had access, and the FCC has signed on to spend up to $ 3.9 billion annually to close the gap.

For poorer districts dependent on the state, the new formula won't close all spending gaps, but per - student spending in some poorer districts has risen dramatically in just the first two years of the new formula.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

Buffalo fares the worst, facing a staggering difference of $ 9,811 less spent on a charter school student compared to a district student each year — a 41.7 % gap.

«Spending roughly $ 40 to $ 50 a year on free books for [each kid] began to alleviate the achievement gap that occurs in the summer.»

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Last year, for example, researchers from Texas Tech and William Patterson University documented what they called «a retirement consumption gap,» or the fact that many retirees were spending much less than they could actually afford based on the size of their retirement accounts plus income from Social Security and other sources.

At the bottom of the Ballparkinator is the so - called «backwards method», which uses a set sustainable withdrawal rate (variations on the 4 % «rule») plus any gaps in spending to see how big a nest egg Elrond needs at the beginning of retirement, then figures out how much he needs to save each year to get to a nest egg that size based on the various real return rates (note that this ignores taxes).

Spend any time on the road and you're more likely than not going to run into a young Australian or a Brit in the midst of a gap year.

Some of the Epic Gap Year team have spent years on the road utilising their ISA certifications and we can assure you it's one of the most rewarding and fun jobs you could hope for!

As avid surfers the Epic Gap Year team have spent countless days on the road in search of beautiful waves with their board shorts in tow and surfboard under their arms — it's a tough life sometimes!

After moving to the U.S., the artist spent a gap year studying for SATs and taking classes on American history and literature before returning to Nigeria to serve a year of National Service — a policy instituted after the Nigerian civil war to promote unity — far from her home in the southwestern part of Nigeria.

It is best to use years instead of months when indicating the duration of period you spent on the activities you engaged during your employment gaps.

It's not uncommon for recent graduates to take their gap year post-study in an effort to remedy this situation — something which The Telegraph is calling a «career crisis,» as the moment of unemployment is prolonged as graduates «opt for a «quick - fix» job or spend time travelling,» rather than seeking out employment based on their degree.

With gaps approaching a year and longer, it is important that you were doing something, whether it was temp work, volunteer work, or occasional consulting gigs, along with time spent on your job hunt.

You explain the gap as time spent getting your resume and job hunt up to speed, painting the house and taking an unscheduled, but welcome sabbatical after X years on the job (smile).

If you have spent less than a year at your last 3 + jobs or if you have several significant employment gaps on your resume, another option is to push the chronology to the end of the resume and keep the focus on relevant achievements rather than on your career chronology.

Mobile advertising and the gap between time and money spent on mobile will close over the coming years and the stats show will close quickly.

In contrast, larger home spend an average of 71 days on market, down 3.9 % year - over-year, suggesting the gap in market velocity between small and large homes is widening.