Sentences with phrase «spent weeks and weeks»

I know writers who have spent weeks and weeks trying to perfect their query letter.

He spent weeks and weeks on the project, until he'd gone through the entire book, from Genesis to Revelation.

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There is so much to see and do in New Zealand that you can spend weeks and weeks exploring both the North and the South Islands.

Because there are thousands of different companies on the market, you could spend weeks and weeks looking for the best plan for you, or you can let us do all of that work for you.

There are hundreds of companies on the market, which means you could spend weeks and weeks calling different companies.

Because there are thousands of companies to choose from, you could spend weeks and weeks researching companies and calling different agents, or you can let us do all of the work for you.

There are thousands and thousands of different insurance companies on the market, which means that you could spend weeks and weeks calling companies to get quotes, or you can let us do all of that hard work for you.

There are thousands of insurance companies on the market, which means you could spend weeks and weeks calling different companies and answering the same questions.

Because there are so many companies on the market, you could spend weeks and week calling agents to get the lowest rates, or you could let one of our agents do all of the hard work for you.

It is possible to find the best car insurance rate without spending weeks and weeks interviewing potential Indiana coverage carriers and browsing through hundreds of brochures and policies.

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First, track your time for a few weeks and notice how much time you spend on each task.

The strength of Hasbro's results contradict a narrative that has formed in the retail sector in which many executives have lamented that spending during the holiday season has focused on two periods of time: the Thanksgiving / Black Friday holiday weekend and the final week before Christmas.

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.

In 2005, he spent weeks in New Orleans as part of NBC's team coverage of Hurricane Katrina, for which he shared a national Emmy, an RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award and broadcast's highest honor, the Peabody Award.

In August, students spend two weeks at Kellogg, and in October Schulich hosts an International Week, where students take electives with contemporaries from around the world.

The first three weeks of December, however, have seen a lull in retail traffic and spending that has resulted in discounting wars.

The senators originally promised to include the measures in a year - end spending bill, but because Congress is only working to pass a short - term extension of federal government funding this week, Collins and Alexander say they will include the bills in an omnibus bill in January.

I spend at least 40 hours a week staring at a computer, so it's easy for me to feel tired and sluggish during and after work.

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.

I once spent a week in an open - style co-working space and was so amazingly unproductive that I wanted to jump out the window.

Just a little time spent reading every week is correlated with higher life satisfaction, greater creativity, more empathy, and less loneliness.

And if you spend a week building a relationship with a new customer, it can be a little awkward to suddenly turn around and demand they pay an overdue invoiAnd if you spend a week building a relationship with a new customer, it can be a little awkward to suddenly turn around and demand they pay an overdue invoiand demand they pay an overdue invoice.

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.

If they choose the alternative — Rotman's Omnium Global Stream — they spend 18 - months meeting six times for two - week residential modules around in cities located in East and South Asia, Europe, South America and the Middle East.

Coming back to «the real world» presented opportunities to fall prey to distractions, vices, and bad decisions — but, having spent six weeks building new, constructive habits and morning rituals, these traps were easier to recognize and avoid.

This being my second journey to Peru, I decided to spend three weeks at a retreat center that focused on wellness to rejuvenate my mind, body, and spirit.

Your aiming to get off the grid and refresh, but chances are decent you have responsibilities that prevent you from spending a week phoneless in a cabin in the woods.

Same Store Sales and Gallup consumer spending varied from weakly positive to substantially negative, although Gallup is almost certainly due to the hurricane: The ICSC reported that same store sales for the week ending October 26 rose +0.5 % w / w and were up +2.8 % YoY.

My husband and I recently spent a week in Hong Kong visiting my little sister, who spent the summer teaching there at a local university.

Early last week, I spent three days among some of the most powerful people in business, media, and innovation at Dell's 5th annual Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network, or DWEN, conference in Austin.

We need to respond to that urgent email, finish up a project due at the end of the week, and of course, spend some time with friends and family — if there's any time left.

It then reached out to those entrepreneurs to see if they had any interest in having MBAs Across America spend a week at their business helping them with a key issue, says Michael Baker, chief operating officer of the organization and one of the original Harvard MBAs.

Instead of being topical, I went for permanent: going deep into a subject and spending weeks crafting an article that will be relevant for years to come.

Most teams spent one week at six different businesses or organizations spread throughout the continental United States and helped them with various issues ranging from product development to online marketing to business expansion.

I've spent the past week playing with the new Samsung Galaxy camera, a gizmo that's most notable for its Wi - Fi and cellular capability.

Research from The Boston Consulting Group found that the guys are not alone in how they spend on takeout: Millennials (ages 16 to 34) eat out 3.4 times per week and are more likely than other groups to get food to go and eat with friends.

Consumers have spent the past few weeks running around and worrying about everyone else, so letting consumers know it's time to focus on themselves will be a nice change of pace.

Dorsey said he would take Saturday off to hike and spend Sunday focusing on reflections, feedback, strategy, and getting ready for the rest of the week.

TechCrunch spent a week with the new iPhone and took it to Disneyland.

She had been using the wrong currency conversion math - and had spent the week spending about ten times the amount of money she thought she was.

Sohn spends 50 hours a week in the store, taking customer orders and answering the land line next to the cash register.

There was no shortage of admiring glances, rapt stares, thumbs up, and questions from total strangers for the week that we spent driving the SUV around New York and New Jersey.

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.

That's the first finding in this week's economic research wrap, which also looks at changes in the way women have spent their days in recent years and summarizes studies on spillovers from central bank balance - sheet normalization.

«I was spending all my time at the Crimson, like 70 hours a week and I didn't go to class for like a year,» he said.

On Tuesday of this week the country had settled into a tenuous calm, when police defending Government House — the Prime Minister's compound — opened the gates to anti-government protestors who spilled in and spent the afternoon, declaring «partial victory» and merry - making on the premier's lawn.

And the more time the business owners spent running their businesses, the more they loathed the task — 58 percent of business owners working 60 or more hours a week said that bookkeeping was particularly draining.

Determine how much you want to spend on food for the week or for that specific grocery trip and withdraw that amount of cash.