Sentences with phrase «spent years getting»

They've spent years getting an education and now they're ready for some professional experience to help pay for those college loans.

Microsoft is late to the party on this, and lots of people have spent years getting everything working with Google Calendar, not Outlook.com.

Canada Revenue Agency has spent years getting taxpayers to file their tax returns digitally (more than 80 % now do so) and to sign up for digital options to receive their tax refunds.

While I have spent years getting comfortable with book promotion and public speaking and networking, I will never be the kind of person who can acquire a huge following through the cult of my scintillating personality alone.

«They've spent years getting to a place where they can wire things to their benefit.»

We have spent years getting abused by those two positions in the passing game.

Her husband, meanwhile, who has a fairly common name, had spent years getting debt collection calls intended for somebody else.

I don't want the products to feel like any sort of compromise on what people are used to using, so I spend years getting some of them right.

If they are to do that though, it would be best for him to spend a year getting regular Premier League football under his belt next season.

Having spent a year getting to know the world, by the time your baby approaches his first birthday, he will attempt to take a few steps.

So he spent a year getting retooled in insect systematics.

After already spending YEARS getting through my undergraduate degree, I decided to go back to school to learn more about nutritional therapy.

It's all in good fun though, and as I get set to spend another year getting my heart broken by the New York Mets, I wanted to put this out there for you all.

It helped: Montiel spent a year getting her master's in the Learning and Teaching Program and graduated in 2011.

I spend years getting a novel ready to publish.

I wouldn't spend a year getting a million followers, but an hour or two a week focusing on this?

Two, I'm happy to spend this year getting rid of the last bits of consumer debt (less than $ 5K total on the student loan and the car loan) and start saving.

Many people spend years getting into debt and then expect to get out of it quickly.

You could spend years getting to know the real Nice, but even a short stay can fill you with an enthusiasm and an overwhelming desire to come back.

What's more, cancelling your credit card after spending years getting out of credit card debt is proof you have learned how to be good with your money.

** For the Reserve card, $ 30,000 in spend each year gets you 15,000 MQM, and you'll get 15K more at 60,000 in spend.

It sucks that you really need to spend years getting immersed in your subject matter but I don't see any way around that... its called hard work and I don't see much of it in the Climate Science community...

For although she had spent a year getting the required permits from Orange County, she had, it turned out, yet to make the acquaintance of the «milk and dairy food safety branch» of the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA).

«We spent a year getting it right,» Fastcase CEO Ed Walters told me earlier this week.

I wanted to learn Spanish and spent a year getting it to a good enough level to work in a professional environment.

I've spent a year getting a quality education and got payed to do it.

This time last year Mom was recovering from open heart surgery and she's spent the year getting back on her feet and getting her strength back.

We are excited to spend this year getting to know our little man in person though... what an adventure!

Not exact matches

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?»

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.

He added that, in Singapore, some indicators of Chinese New Year spending that give him signals for the health of the economy are the demand for gift baskets and hampers and the queues for bakkwa — a sweet barbecued pork jerky in Singapore which sells for about $ 38 (S$ 50) per kilogram, and gets more expensive the closer it gets to the actual holiday.

Many distressed homeowners have spent years wondering when they're going to get kicked out.

The government did pledge $ 47 billion to infrastructure spending over the next 10 years and extended the accelerated capital cost allowance for manufactures — a tax relief program for investments in new machinery and equipment — by two years, which means stock holders could get a boost if public companies are able to take advantage of this spending and savings.

The five biggest insurance companies in the U.S. spent around $ 3 billion on advertising last year, which of course got passed on to customers.

Every hour you spend getting better at delegation will pay back 100 fold after two years when your time becomes incredibly scarce and precious.»

As he puts it: «I'd like to CHALLENGE every woman in tech who's a) got a nice care, b) owns a nice house, or c) is making over $ 125K a year to start thinking of themselves as the next Ron Conway or Esther Dyson in the making and commit to investing in startups...» I'll forgive him for the poor grammar, ditto for the wisecrack a couple of paragraphs later about how some of us might have spent $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 on our MBAs... or our wardrobes.

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

Before Yang designed the collection, she spent two years traveling around the country meeting with employees, observing them at work, getting feedback from union groups and reading through responses to more than 5,000 employee surveys.

We spent about two years working with a distillery to get it exactly right.

«My best piece of advice for the quickest way to get rich is to not spend any of your money, and then you'll have more than you need,» billionaire venture capitalist Chris Sacca told Entrepreneur earlier this year.

Even next year, when I won't get the welcome bonus, I'll still be ahead by at least $ 500 — assuming I keep the card — plus whatever I earn in rewards from spending.

«When we launched our science initiative last year, I spoke about how we need to change that our government spends 50x more treating people who are sick than finding cures so people don't get sick in the first place,» he wrote.

The irony of spending years in high school and college before getting a job is that what employers want most isn't any specific (or even highly specialized) body of knowledge; they want employees who can learn on the job.

Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, has spent the last two years struggling: to normalize life for her children, to get comfortable accepting the help of friends and family, to regain confidence at work, and to rediscover hope.

And if we have demonstrated anything over the past 40 years, it's that we'll risk and spend almost anything to get them.

But after spending three years making minimum payments, it became clear that unless I got aggressive, my debt could potentially throw a wrench in my long - term saving goals.

When you think about conventional management thinking and practices in a dog - eat - dog, transactional business world, not enough leaders spend the time to do what Watson had to learn over his many years at Chevron: Getting results through the people and relationship side of the business.

She spent weeks, and sometimes years, getting to know her subjects so well that they dropped their guard in her presence.

To get that point across, McDonald's spent roughly $ 1 billion in U.S. advertising alone last year, according to Kantar Media.

After getting inspired by Ron Chernow's biography of the first Treasury Secretary, Miranda spent six years of his life writing «Hamilton,» according to Fortune.