Sentences with phrase «spent years of research»

Because nobody, not even their teacher (after having spent years of research on the subject), had a plausible answer.

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

He also spent a year of research at the University of California, San Diego Medical School investigating the effects of hypoxia on gene expression and regulation in the brainstems of mice.

To create Unearthed, Corral spent years of researching, compiling interviews, and spending time in the space, before filtering the information she gathered through her artistic practice.

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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.

Major consumer products companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year constructing, assigning and fielding market research projects and then summarily reviewing and incorporating the survey and research results into proposals, pitches, and other internal presentations to a variety of audiences.

Brian Wieser, a Pivotal Research analyst who reviewed Nielsen digital consumption data, said Google properties, including YouTube and Waze, combined to account for 27.4 percent of all time spent on digital media — up 3 percentage points from the previous year.

After spending millions of dollars and several years doing research, a company can still fail to bring a product to market — leaving its investors with little to show for their money except disappointment and a tax write - off.

For instance, business spending on research and development has actually dropped to 0.89 per cent of gross domestic product in 2011 from 1.29 per cent 10 years earlier.

She has spent years studying the science (research, studies, physiology, etc.) of how body language tells the story of what is going on inside someone's brain.

In this in - depth research from BI Intelligence that updates our popular July 2014 report on programmatic, we find that the US digital - ad market will reach a programmatic «tipping - point»: For the first time this year, programmatic transactions will be a majority (52 %) of non-search digital - ad spend.

The United States, France, India and 17 other countries will announce they will double the $ 10 billion they collectively spend on clean energy research and development in the next five years, shining a spotlight on role of technology in any climate agreement reached in Paris.

Smartphone makers Apple and Samsung spend billions on research and development each year so that our smartphones and other connected devices continue to evolve into high - tech works of art.

It's also worth considering one - time expenses, like the installation of a security system, that may inflate a given year's spending, says Aaron Boyd, director of governance research at Equilar.

So, I spent a lot of my time during junior and senior years of high school researching the process and trying to find «secret» ways to get the most financial aid possible — all the strategies I assumed my peers were already taking advantage of.

After graduating, he spent the first 14 years of his career working toward that goal, rising to head of research at the Bank of Canada, before leaving for a short tenure in the private sector.

In this all - new in - depth research from BI Intelligence that updates our popular July 2014 report on programmatic, we find that the US digital - ad market will reach a programmatic «tipping - point»: For the first time this year, programmatic transactions will be a majority (52 %) of non-search digital - ad spend.

According to a study published last year by the National Bureau of Economic Research, American consumers are spending an estimated extra $ 44 billion a year on brand - name drugs, health care items and pantry goods.

In response, Jay Dickey, an Arkansas Republican who described himself as the National Rifle Association's «point person in Congress,» submitted an amendment to strip the CDC budget of $ 2.6 million, the amount it spent on firearms research the previous year.

Novo said obesity drugs will account for more than one third of its overall research and development spend this year, up from around 10 percent five years ago.

Despite the recession, more than 90 % of interactive marketers plan this year to maintain or increase spending on reaching consumers through Facebook, Twitter and the like, according to a global survey by Forrester Research.

Not until after I took a major risk in my career of quitting my job as a banker and spending two years researching and writing my second book did my mentor take me under his wing and open up for me a valuable stream of knowledge, people and opportunities that have inspired my journey ever since.

Eagle's Sassouni pointed out that since the big drug companies are losing billions of dollars every year to generic versions and have little to spend on their own research and development, they are looking to buy smaller biotechnology companies that are developing their own products.

Bernstein research estimated that 59 percent of total U.S. TV ad revenue growth in the third quarter of last year was from spending on daily fantasy football ads.

Kang says the company spent most of the year researching how to introduce the video component to their platform.

It's also spending $ 20 million a year in research and development to stay ahead of the competition.

A few years ago, Microsoft did some research into this problem and found that people spend on average 5.6 hours each week in meetings, and that 71 percent of American employees reported that these meetings «aren't very productive.»

The seven largest US luxury brands collectively spent $ 133 million last year on holiday ad spending, 57 % of which was allocated to magazine ads, according to the Shullman Research Center.

Count all the money Valeant has spent on acquisitions as drug research, and suddenly it has spent 200 % of its revenue over the past five years on R&D.

Its spending on research dwarfs the approximately 1.9 % of revenues that Unilever and Colgate - Palmolive awarded R&D last year.

Thomas Corley, a certified financial planner, spent five years researching the habits of wealthy people for his book, Rich Habits: The Daily Success Habits of Wealthy Individuals.

I have researched and taught economics and international trade for a number of years at Ivey, as well as spending the last eight years as a private sector trade and regulatory consultant to the chemical industry.

Mr. Saud Al Nowais has spent the past 12 years in public service starting as a research analyst and later promoted to a managerial position at the Executive Affairs Authority of Abu Dhabi (EAA) in the Economic Department.

He spent four years in the research department of The Bank of Canada in the early 1960's working in the areas of monetary and economic analysis.

New Street Research estimated that Verizon will spend $ 35 billion over the next five years to cover just 20 percent of the country.

In 2012, having spent several years refining its methodology, Stillwell's team began to publish its research, including the ominous - in - retrospect «myPersonality project: Example of successful utilization of online social networks for large - scale social research.»

Internet entrepreneur, investor and author Chris Schroeder has spent years researching the rise of a new generation of start - ups and entrepreneurs across the Middle East.

Global spending on drones is likely to reach $ 9 billion this year and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 30 percent in the next five years, according to research firm IDC, which estimates more than half of that spending will be on drones for commercial use.

In other words, over the next five years, this government is planning to spend more money on income splitting for a small number of well off families, a promise made during the 2011 election, than on supporting economic growth and job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.

Before joining Thundelarra in April 2012, he spent 29 years working in both the equities markets as a mining research analyst specialising in the exploration and early producer segment; and also in the debt markets as a project financier and as a corporate banker servicing the financing, hedging and day - to - day transactional banking needs of Australian resource companies of all sizes.

For years, Mr. Gates had prodded governments to increase spending on research and development of clean technologies.

Prior to joining iShares, he was Director of Global Sales for Capital Institutional Services (CAPIS) in Dallas and spent seven years at UBS Investment Bank in NY, where he was Head of Alternative Research Provider Marketing Sales and Global Head of Soft Dollar and Directed Commissions Sales.

Brian Solis spent several years researching and gaining newfound appreciation of what makes a unique and successful experience.

But in David's research, he shows that spending tends to dip, expenses tend to dip in kind of those middle retirement years where maybe the idea of heavy travel isn't super appealing.

It's a real word, and The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College uses it for a novel approach to figuring out how much of one's savings can be spent each year in retirement.

We spent almost two years researching the idea and Rich met a lot of other business owners in the popcorn business.

Pat spent 6 years in Equity Research at both Scotia Capital and Merrill Lynch as lead equity analyst as well as several years on the derivatives desk for Merrill Lynch - Bank of America.

(A recent study by three Boston University researchers found that patent trolls have cost publicly traded companies an average of $ 83 - billion annually over the past four years, more than a quarter of all U.S. industrial research and development spending during that period.)

Prior to joining Tocqueville in 2009, Mr. Kaufthal spent six years at Delafield Asset Management and three years as an equity analyst in the research department of UBS.

Research says that many of you could be spending more each year.