Sentences with phrase «spent years of»

The game on average isn't particularly challenging, especially since some fans have literally spent years of their lives figuring out how to break it.

I know I've been there... I personally spent years of my life with my head down and carrying a low self - esteem... its not attractive.

I've spent more time than I would care to admit pondering this question and I've spent years of my life experimenting with various full body workouts and split routines.

At that point in my life, I'd traveled to more than 60 countries, and spent years of my life outside of the U.S. I'd experienced food poisoning, infections, and traveler's diarrhea.

I'd spent years of my life (yes, years) searching for the right sports bra for my chest.

I spent years of my life creating musical scores with early sheet - music software such as Professional Composer, Deluxe Music Construction Set and HB Engraver.

She spent years of honing her craft under Gale Kaufman's tutelage.

Formula manufacturers have spent years of research developing the correct ratio of water and powdered formula.

I spent years of my life researching, observing, and talking to experts about it.

I spent years of my evangelical church life avoiding mission trips — quite a notable feat for a woman married to a former missionary to Mexico and a youth pastor.

I spent YEARS of my life trying to prove that Christianity was the ruth, and the conclusion I came to (not at all an easy one, and one that took a long time to accept) was that it was not truth.

«I grew up in L.A., and I spent almost 30 years of my life there, and I spent years of my life stuck behind the wheel, thinking about how to make this better,» he said.

If you're going to spend years of your life interacting with someone, be sure you give them a thorough evaluation.

The vast majority of us have to spend years of our lives going through this cyclical process of: learning, working, succeeding, failing... learning, working succeeding, failing, (repeat).

But, in the UK, this isn't as much of a thing, said Tarn Rodgers Johns, a London writer and social media manager who spent a year of college in Colorado.

I would disagree with the sentiment that «Few people would not run a cost / benefit analysis of college or graduate school before spending years of their lives and tens of thousands of dollars.»

I spent a year of my life living as Nick Carraway, the narrator of The Great Gatsby, after I had answered a simple newspaper ad: «Waterfront 1BR Cottage.

It means perhaps we would spend years of our lives giving to the world in sacrificial and beneficial ways before settling down with our sweetheart to raise children rather than diving into marriage for the wrong reasons.

Then they are to spend another year of apprenticeship while they work for the community, and only after that year can they be admitted to the common meal.

He spent a year of his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge.

There really is no other explanation, and I've spent a year of my life testing this for myself.

I am sorry you had to spend years of your life being afraid to smile.

Through this compilation, Elmore presents current educators with the opportunity to change the way they think about improving school reform without making the same mistakes as their predecessors and without spending years of their careers learning the crucial lessons highlighted by the featured contributors.

School is the place where students spend years of their lives being shaped by the values and messages, spoken and unspoken, by the adults around them.

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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.

He spent five of those years in Silicon Valley where he became inspired by the fast pace of successful startups.

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.

Viome recently hired Guruduth Banavar, the former head of cognitive computing at IBM Research who spent years working on Watson, to lead its A.I. efforts.

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.

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.

Measuring GDP is a bit complicated but the calculation can be done in one of two ways — by adding up what everyone earned in a year, or by adding up what everyone spent.

After graduating from Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Business, she spent five years working in international operations management.

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.

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.

Driving more than half the growth in drug spending in 2015 were sales of new branded medications that have been available for less than two years.

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

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.

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.

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.

Half of small business social media users complain that the platforms take more time than they'd thought, but almost the same number believe it's time well - spent — that their social media initiatives will pay off financially in a year or less.

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.

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.

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