Sentences with phrase «spent over a week»

We spent over a week in Buenos Aires (among many other places) and I think you'll definitely enjoy it — but it is very different to north america.

I spent over a week online, searching for an SUV that would work for our family and priced right.

We spent over a week in a 2017 Malibu Hybrid to find out if Chevrolet has repeated the same mistakes as before or if they have learned from them.

Divers can easily spend over a week exploring the many awesome dive sites within the Bacuit Archipelago.

In February of this year, I spent over a week exploring these two islands — just before Carnival.

After spending over a week in bed drifting in and out of consciousness in an alcoholic haze, she reached a realisation.

Painting on 2nd Of December Street in the district of Satwa, Inkman spent over a week in order to finish

According to Buchet Ponsoye, Echaroux spent over a week with the tribe as a guest of the tribe's chief Almir Surui Narayamoga, photographing some members of the group.

After spending over a week with these headphones, we were blown away by their sound but, ultimately, can't recommend them because of the many compromises Monoprice needed to make to get great - sounding headphones into this form factor at $ 150 (about # 110, AU$ 193).

After spending over a week using and testing the Idol 4S, I have mixed feelings about it.

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Of course that initial $ 2.04 per week, after inflation and other escalators, works out to $ 44 billion spent on affordable housing over the next 10 years.

Similar data for China was not available, but the country's consumption has been growing, Last year, Chinese consumers reportedly spent 840 billion Chinese yuan (just under $ 140 billion) in retail and catering services over the week - long holiday, an increase of 11.4 percent from 2016.

Analysts estimate that the PBOC spent over $ 34 billion in November alone to prop up the currency, and figures expected next week from SAFE are expected to show reserves dropping below $ 3 trillion for the first time since 2011.

Blue Ocean Strategy spent over 100 weeks on the bestseller lists, has sold 3.6 million copies, making it what Ryan Holiday calls a Perennial Seller.)

This spring, he spent two weeks running the numbers and battling insomnia before making a dramatic announcement to his 120 - member staff on April 13, inviting NBC News and The New York Times to cover it: Over the next three years, he will phase in a minimum wage of $ 70,000 at Gravity and immediately cut his own salary from $ 1.1 million to $ 70,000 to help fund it.

«I spent three weeks alternating between the fetal position and the whiteboard trying to figure out how strongly I wanted to fight for the existing company vs. how prepared I was to strike out and do it over.»

For example, Springsteen spent three weeks trying to get drum sounds: experimenting, testing, rinsing, and repeating... three weeks of hitting drums, over and over again, trying to find what Springsteen felt was the perfect sound.

Now that conservatives complained about the $ 1.3 trillion catchall spending bill — which blew through previous budget limits by $ 300 billion over this year and next, House GOP leaders have scheduled a vote this week on a proposed amendment to the Constitution to require a balanced federal budget.

Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein has been taunting the U.K. government over Twitter in recent weeks about how he's getting ready to spend more time in Frankfurt after Brexit, as well as gently nudging the country to have a second referendum in case it wanted to change its mind.

In the week after receiving a refund, the overall level of health care spending was 60 percent higher than in a typical week over the 100 days before.

Federal spending cuts scheduled to begin next week would slow economic growth in the next year, though not nearly as much as going over the fiscal cliff might have, economists say.

China is entering week - long Lunar New Year holiday and 6.5 million travelers are expected to be spending that break overseas, splashing billions of dollars over the break, according to a report by country's tourism authority and travel website Ctrip.

It found when women worked more than 34 hours per week and men spent over 47 hours a week working, they were more likely to experience mental illness and symptoms of distress such as nervousness or feeling low.

The week kicked off with some debate over just how much Apple is doing to safeguard kids who are spending too much time on their iPhones and not enough time communicating with others.

A legion of Canadian corporations recently acquired new CEOs: Guy Laurence joined Rogers (which owns this magazine) last December, one month after BlackBerry brought in turnaround artist John Chen to fix its ailing smartphone business; at TD Bank, Bharat Masrani spent a year (some might say his entire career) preparing to take over for Ed Clark, while across the street at CIBC, internal candidate Victor Dodig was given just six weeks before he replaced Gerald McCaughey.

Chapman quit the solar panel business, and with the warehouse and staff in place, was spending just over an hour a week working on the site and updating Facebook ads.

In order to be given a turkey, customers were required to commit to spending at least $ 500 at the store over the 10 weeks leading up to Thanksgiving.

To give you a sense of scale, Heidi has spent 1 - 2 hours per week over the last 6 months answering questions related to Web site design.

The other dozen or so buyers, or category leaders, spend more time in the office, fielding hundreds of cold calls a week from vendors tripping over themselves to make Trader Joe's a customer.

The first few weeks were an adjustment, she concedes, but after she settled in to the NextKids routine, popping over to visit her daughter replaced the regular coffee breaks she would take at a traditional office (and eliminates time spent guiltily wondering how her kids were doing).

(So far in 2017, the average U.S. worker in private employment has spent just over 34 hours a week on the job, not including overtime, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.)

Dell, for instance, last week pledged to spend an astounding $ 125 billion in China over the next five years in an apparent attempt to revitalize its struggling business.

The money is being provided by other governments (mainly the German Treasury, cutting back its domestic spending) into a kind of escrow account for the Greek government to pay foreign bondholders who bought up these securities at plunging prices over the past few weeks.

$ 7 billion in spending over 10 years for Canadian families, including 40,000 new subsidized daycare spaces across Canada by 2019, extended parental leave and allowing expectant mothers to claim maternity benefits 12 weeks before their due date.

Employees spent hours coding their passion projects during Hack Weeks and Innovation Weeks, teamed up to conquer the Tough Mudder and consumed over 350,000 cups of coffee and 280,000 cans of La Croix.

After all, we spend over 3 billion hours a week as a planet playing video games.

Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards have spent much of the past week criticizing one another over the details of their health plans.

Earlier comments by international lenders that Greece must shrink its public sector spending to avoid running out of money within weeks did not dampen the sudden enthusiasm for stocks over here.

* People who spend significant time every week tabulating / charting monetary statistics and poring over reports published by the US Federal Reserve and other central banks.

Late Monday, as VXX was spending a little time over 38.00 a trader used Weekly options to take a stand that the early week strength in VXX would not last.

Over half of them work 15 hours or less a week, and earn side income for «extra spending money.»

With this in mind, I spent some time this week thinking about some of the counterintuitive things I've learned about investing over the years.

These refund checks are being spent at retailers throughout the country which could be a major catalyst for retail stock prices to jump higher when they report earnings over the next few weeks.

While a hot and humid Tokyo emptied out for the summer, BOJ technocrats spent the last few weeks slaving over an in - depth policy review.

Over 20 years ago, I spent a week with him in Philadelphia learning how to do ministry in the inner city.

I know we have spent a lot of time talking about doubt here, and I promise to take a break from the subject over the next few weeks.

What if your church or youth group or school worked on matching every dollar you spent on your one - week trip to send down to the place you served over the course of the year?

In a recent survey I took of over 1,000 married people, the majority said they spend only 15 - 30 minutes per week in quality conversation with their spouse.

In one survey, over 50 percent of the male pastors spent ten or fewer hours per week with their families.

I've spent much of my free time over the past two weeks watching the AMC series The Walking Dead.