Sentences with phrase «spent years making»

You have most likely spent years making financial sacrifices and hard decisions in order to save your money.

Many Nintendo fans have been building their own custom Super Mario Bros. levels in recent months thanks to Super Mario Maker on Wii U, but one ambitious fan has spent years making an entirely new Mario game.

Slightly over two pages of comic make a good first impression for Quest for the Antidote, the short tale detailing the reign of King Mithradates of Greece who spent years making himself immune to deadly poisons after seeing his father die at the hands of an assassin and his poison.

The reality is that before the bubble burst, lenders spent years making all kinds of loans regardless of risk.

They have spent years making sure an aluminum F - 150 will continue to appeal to the legions of customers who have been very happy with their steel F - 150s.

She spent years making decorating mistakes until she discovered her decorating style.

David Bader, who co-founded Nomoo Cookies, spent years making cookies for his family and friends, but noticed many who were following kosher diets unable to enjoy his chocolate cookies.

There's little more disheartening to me than seeing a team spend years making a product, then when they're finally in the market, realize the product needs to work in a completely different way.

They spend years making submissions and in slush piles and learn nothing.

I've spent this year making the switch over to Unity and C#, along with a bit of dabbling into Houdini, Blender and Rust.

As there is 0 correlation between time and effort put into making a game and its eventual selling price / profit, you could spend YEARS making a game you REALLY like, but if no one else likes it then you ain't gonna make any money.

«People think we spent a year making a trailer, but actually we spent a year making a set of tools and an engine that is procedural right at its very core,» Murray said.

It's a common story: A team of independent game developers set up a studio, spend years making and releasing a great first game, then... they split up.

I spent a year making pictures based on my dreams about what landscapes he might belong in.

In 1952, she spent a year making studies based on Old Master paintings...

So after spending years making mid-range devices may be its time that Google went the Apple way and shifted to premium devices only to keep software and hardware in sync for a smoother Android experience.

He also spent that year making himself more employable, and he has some tips for you on how to ensure you get a job first time around.

Not exact matches

Growing your business to a fully evolved midsize structure is a worthy goal, but before spending years trying to make this happen, be sure that your industry doesn't have characteristics that will prevent you from succeeding.

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

I believe in the years to come, how we choose to spend our time and what we decide to work on is going to make us less mechanical, and more human.

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 2015, Tom Zhu said Tesla would double its spending on Chinese - made parts, committing to buying $ 500 million worth of supplies from Chinese companies that year; such spending has likely only skyrocketed.

Even though they're spending $ 900 million over five years to satisfy the NDP, the cash - strapped Liberals are making right - leaning promises to limit spending growth to 1.8 per cent a year, rebalance the books in 2017 - 18 and have no new taxes.

Even if you spent your latter years of college grooming your network and making good business connections, you can't expect your first freelancing jobs to come to you.

This spectacle has been 25 years in the making, the result of the countless hours White has spent perfecting an innovative product, soliciting extensive customer feedback and deploying an innate talent for schmoozing.

The recent fiscal legislation caused negative, structural changes on both the spending and revenue fronts — making the task of keeping the debt in check much harder than it would have been even a year ago.

«With tremendous love and respect for each other, and the 18 years we spent together as a couple, we have made the decision to separate.

What we've spent a lot of time focusing on in the last year is making sure that we're able to deliver that technology in a way that is super-customer-friendly and that is supported at a level they feel like they need, and that's from both a sales and account coverage standpoint.

The recession hit during their formative years, making them especially circumspect about spending.

Royal Dutch / Shell and BP on Tuesday joined peers in reporting higher than expected earnings by making further deep cuts in spending to cope with an oil price downturn now in its third year.

The regulator will spend the next year finding out whether internet service should be made essential, what speeds should be considered as minimal, and what pricing looks like overall.

«That's why we've spent so much time in developing this, over seven years developing this engine, to make it reusable,» Smith said.

The high - powered jetpack was 40 years in the making, the culmination of millions of dollars spent and decades of trial and error by Mayman and his business partner, Nelson Tyler.

Earlier this year, Nike (nke) CEO Mark Parker said the retail landscape is «not in a steady state» as consumers spend more online and make fewer visits to brick - and - mortar stores.

I experienced this from the other side during the two years I spent at Conde Nast Portfolio, when the great Graydon Carter made it his mission to render Vanity Fair's new sister title irrelevant by publishing the best longform business journalism in town, even if that meant hiring away Portfolio's writers, like Michael Lewis.

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.

The culture ministry believes this will generate $ 1 billion in box office spend each year, making it the 11th largest film market in the world.

But the first lesson of business school is to tap into your natural network, and veterans, who have often spent years overseas cut off from regular society, often don't have the contacts they need to make the transition into civilian business.

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.

Thanks to tools like Jobbatical and other services aimed at making spending a stint abroad more financially and logistically manageable, leaving home for months or years might be more doable than you imagine.

That also means that nearly half of all households are either just breaking even, or spending more money than they make in a year.

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

After spending a dozen years building an export - minded pharmaceutical company that makes products geared at the booming cosmetic surgery industry, Ario Khoshbin has learned that the quintessentially human desire to look a bit better, and a bit younger, knows no geographical boundaries.

The Liberals made a few big - ticket election campaign spending promises, but, on the tax side, they also indicated they intend to pad revenues over the next few years with higher tax rates for personal and corporate income.

Cascade has spent years focusing on employees, the community, and sustainability, so making the grade was largely a matter of documenting existing practices.

On a journey that took us from NYC to San Francisco and back again, the Qwiki team has spent the past few years creating products and technology that make it easy to share and discover stories.

According to data collected by USAToday.com, the schools with that make the most money in college sports spent an average of just $ 12.0 million (10.2 %) on scholarships last year.

Whether it's being healthier, reaching financial goals or spending more time with loved ones, we make our New Year's resolutions in pursuit of the greatest reward: a happier, more fulfilled life.

The first cross-complaint, filed in February, stated that TMG «did everything within its power over the last 17 years to protect Depp from himself and to keep Depp financially solvent» but that TMG «did not have the power or ability to control Depp's spending or his numerous other vices, or to force Depp to make wiser financial decisions.»

Iger spent 17 years and $ 5.5 billion to make the Chinese theme park a reality, which ranks in the middle of Disney's parks for the number of annual visitors.