Sentences with phrase «spent years and years»

How do you bounce back after walking away from your shot at a superhero franchise you'd spent years and years developing?

She knows that you've spent years and years to master shaving techniques, and suddenly you trust her leading role in this sacred ritual!

She spent years and years in ministry.

It would be like spending years and years building a beautiful watch that keeps perfect time and has hundreds of complications only to throw it into molten lead and watch it melt down to nothing.

A man spends years and years listening, and praising, the words of a racist extremist, then when he needs votes, he does a 180, and you call it evolving?

A more likely scenario now is that we might very well as soon as this year fall out of the top 4, lose key players like Sanchez and Ozil and probably Bellerin and other special players, see Wenger quit in a huff, replace him with an inexperienced manager and spend years and years dreaming about getting back to a top 4 spot.

None of the above included the numerous next best things who spend years and years out on loan, never to be seen again.

Thank you for spending years and years studying, struggling, working night shifts, and dealing with sick people.

«I think you can spend years and years researching and analyzing you won't get it all.»

Psychiatrists spend years and years trying to help people make fairly small changes in their lives, and here comes this experience which in a blink of an eye totally transforms reality.

You might spend years and years studying to be a lawyer, and then when you finally make it, you work your ass off to become the best one you can be — making all that time and money back tenfold.

There's nothing wrong with looking for Mr Right — of course not, why would there be — but a problem starts to creep in if a woman spends years and years — even decades — trying to find Mr Right.

She was in her fifties and didn't want to spend years and years looking for someone suitable.

After spending years and years living with one person, you may not be able to imagine yourself loving anyone else again and it's difficult to look to the future in terms of relationships.

Not exact matches

April 24 (Reuters)- Burger King owner Restaurant Brands International Inc and its franchisees will spend C$ 700 million ($ 546 million) over four years to revamp coffee chain Tim Hortons, following a round of bad publicity over its management of the Canadian chain.

We've waited over 3 years and now we have a chance to get something but only if we spend another $ 40 plus $ 10 in shipping?»

However, after spending several years testing various technique with other experts and clients, I have developed five strategies for crafting emails that are sure to grab a prospect's attention:

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the combination of tax increases and spending cuts could trim economic growth this year by about 1.5 percentage points.

I've watched the behavior of 14 - year - old girls spending 10 minutes to take the best selfie, post it on Instagram, and then take it down when it doesn't get enough likes.

The push in recent years to patronize small businesses for holiday shopping resulted in the creation of Small Business Saturday, and this year's holiday shoppers spent an estimated $ 5.5 billion at small businesses the day after Black Friday.

It's now holding on to 60,000 finished lots and «should be able to comfortably meet forecasted deliveries in the next two years without materially increasing land spend,» wrote Wetenhall.

The investment indicator in the Business Outlook Survey weakened significantly from the summer report, as the balance of opinion between firms planning more spending on machinery and equipment versus those predicting less dropped to 17 per cent from 29 per cent in the summer and 35 per cent at the start of the year.

Ask him how many nights he spent away from home last year, and all he has to do is consult a spreadsheet.

Thomas Thurston, the founder of Growth Science in Portland, Ore., has spent the last seven years building databases and algorithms aimed at finding commonalities between businesses that thrive and fail.

Tim McCourt had a long career in derivatives, spending 10 years at JPMorgan in sales and trading.

Though the thought of running your own business, spending your days working on something you're passionate about, and choosing how and where you spend your time is enticing, realize there are days if not years of sleepless nights, cash flow shortfalls and mindset hurdles between you and your destination.

Many are managers from the field who spend a year or two in the department and blend excellent math skills with rail yard know - how.

Still, we're in the fifth year of a very weak recovery in which small businesses have been hit hard by tight credit markets, slow sales and limited spending.

Psychologist Angela Duckworth has spent years studying kids and adults, and found that one characteristic is a significant predictor of success: grit.

But there are reports that Senate leaders are close to a deal on a two - year budget that would boost defense spending and spending on domestic programs the Democrats want.

Given the billions in stimulus dollars that will be spent in coming years on infrastructure projects, demand for planners is likely to grow in lockstep with the flow of federal and provincial dollars to social housing, transit, public spaces and recreational amenities.

It's a big win for Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd., whose officials spent years pushing to scrap a ban on weighted - voting rights, which give founders and executives control even with minority ownership.

González Franch has run AI alongside CEO Tomas Bello Garza for almost 30 years, and by their own admission the broader well - being of their 4,000 employees wasn't something they'd spent a lot of time thinking about.

I have spent the last seven years studying these questions and searching for both the truth and the correct answer.

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.

Senior executives are pledging to maintain a cautious approach to investment and spending despite the recovery in oil prices over the last two years.

Among the most imaginative deals was a package that gave him a bonus despite the fact that his casino empire was losing tens of millions of dollars a year, and an agreement to that had the casinos spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on Trump Ice bottled water for the mini-bars.

Most entrepreneurs who become «overnight successes» have spent years learning, researching and making mistakes.

This involves taking the estimates that clients have come up with for what they expect to spend in retirement — and then running a simulation of what would happen to their portfolio if they spent 25 % more than that over each of their first 15 years.

For these sins he was demoted and has spent the past couple of years as the minister of state for small business.

This unit of the company targets news verticals such as energy and health, and sells newsletters and other coverage for which some government clients spend upwards of $ 10,000 a year.

And the bill allows deductions on such spending to be immediate, instead of over several years.

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.

But an interesting trend is growing: Americans are spending less on wedding planners than they did five years ago, instead opting to customize their events and choose caterers, bartenders, DJs, and other vendors themselves.

Caruso - Cabrera joined CNBC in 1998 from WTSP - TV in St. Petersburg, Fla., where she spent four years as a general assignment reporter covering crime and hurricanes.

I spent over a year and half of business floundering in internet no - man's land until I implemented SEO.

MacMillan had originally planned to grow the company, and spent years scouting for potential merger partners without any luck.

By contrast, while the cost of older, branded pharmaceuticals continue to rise and contribute to increased spending, when discounting is considered, prices of these drugs increased, on average, 2.8 % in 2015, the lowest growth rate in years.

The Goldman Sachs partner had spent much of his nearly 25 years at the firm orchestrating deals in the US's busiest financial hubs — New York and San Francisco — where the investment bank was entrenched in corporate boardrooms of the world's most important companies.