Sentences with phrase «taken a few years for»

In fact, it took a few years for cofounders Brad Damphousse and Andrew Ballester to find their niche and figure out how to make it work.

It took a few years for her to get her seasonings company going.

And it is this abatement of the great distortions that have caused growth to slow so rapidly, and although we haven't seen much evidence of significant rebalancing yet, it should take a few years for the effects fully to be worked out.

It took a few years for me to finally feel like I was free from my years of service...

I think it will take a few years for Wenger to pacify Jens, Bold had more bite when he 1st became assistant manager but over time became placid, the 1st 6 months though... Jens has a strong personality from what we can read so why not be optimistic?

yes renault itself has said that it would take a few years for them to be competitive, so perez moving to renault next year would be bad for him, might tarnish his image if car is not doing well.

The company grew so quickly it took us a few years for us to catch our breath and realize that we had made something wonderful, something that is better for our planet, for babies and saves parents a lot of money.

Kids understand loss — such as when a toy is taken away — much earlier, but it takes a few years for them to be able to make a clear connection between their behavior and the loss of the toy.

It took a few years for me to fully «get» this concept and not feel left out when other moms talked about volunteering in the class and being room moms.

It has taken a few years for this Swedish crime thriller to break out internationally.

In February, Sherlock creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss indicated that their beloved BBC series Sherlock could return for a new season at some point, but it would probably take a few years for them to come up with a worthy story idea and for Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman's increasingly busy schedules to open.

But it would take a few years for this split to play itself out, the big sweeps would continue for the rest of the 90s, though the rhetoric around the Oscars and their wrongness would grow with each middlebrow choice.

It will [ostensibly] take a few years for Christine (Lady Bird) to purchase her LGBT glasses.

It took a few years for her not to blow up on me whenever we had conversations revolving around conflict.

Under this policy, some popular high school elective classes — including courses in women's studies and social justice — could have been canceled before they got underway, because it took a few years for their popularity to build.

It took a few years for parent volunteers and pro-bono attorneys, all of them heroically volunteering their time, to fight in court.

By the time you count, by the second or third week in Septmeber, you've hired new teachers, you've got your boundaries set... [The reghoster] was a recognition on the part of the legislature that if you're a declining enrollment school district — or even a rapidly growing school district — it's going to take a few years for you to either add the new schools or close schools and redistrict to really make the kind of savings you're going to need to adjust to the reductions in funding.

It would have taken a few years for Han to build up some serious cash value in his policy, but the rewards would have been well worth it.

It usually takes a few years for people to decide what they want to pursue after undergrad.

Although the motorcycle has reduced my transportation costs significantly, it's still going to take a few years for the bike to become worthwhile investment.

Like Hyökyranta, Salakka believes that at the moment everything is a bit blurry regarding the legislation, and that it might take a few years for companies to adjust to the changes.

Digital game codes have revolutionised the industry, especially breaking down publishing barriers for indies, but it has taken a few years for the industry to establish how best to get the codes from a spreadsheet to the media.

But I DID know I was onto something... took a few years for the world to agree with me but what the heck, a few years is nothing.

It takes a few years for plant and animal life to adjust to varying carbon densities.

It took a few years for Canadian farmers to refine their techniques, but today their industrial hemp is considered «the best in the world,» according to David Bronner, president of Dr. Bronner's Magical Soaps, an Escondido - based company that uses hemp to make its soaps smoother and milder on the skin.

I quoted for you the words of one of the researchers who discovered the H. plyori saying it only took a few years for his work to become accepted.

Even if it takes a few years for significant numbers to be sold, it also takes a long time to develop the expertise and production capacity, so now's the time to lay the ground work.

He points out that Word or Excel were popular PC apps, but don't make sense on an iPhone, and that it took a few years for Instagram or Uber to emerge.

It took a few years for OLED panel makers to iron out these issues, and Samsung was at the forefront of solving them.

It took a few years for Google to fix this problem.

These tips will help you stay ready for employment while you raise the kids or take a few years for a non-work activity.

It just took a few years for the pot to produce.

It took a few years for me to realize that I could profitably work ALL neighborhoods.

I've been in the business since 1970 but it took a few years for me to figure out you didn't succeed solely by showing up.

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The last thing he wants is to have to spend the next few years publicly defending legislation that takes away health insurance from tens of millions of Americans and raises the premiums for tens of millions more (whether he believes in the merits of that legislation or not).

On her site, Fobes uses the example of a person who drives an old clunker or even takes the bus for a few years, so as to be able to afford to pay for a new car in cash.

Building a new distribution centre from scratch, for example, might take a few years.

He was a well - oiled machine that simply thought nothing bad could ever happen to him and for 15 years nothing did!This pro was in for the shock of his life when one day he took a few shortcuts and caused a massive explosion nearly ending his own life.

If your private company has grown in the past few years, take advantage of this opportunity to receive global and national recognition for your achievements.

A few years ago at an SXSW conference, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said something so uncharacteristic for a scientifically - minded, tech entrepreneur, it made many people do a double take.

And when, at an industry trade show a few years ago, the creator and executive producer of a TV show under development appealed to Connolly for 25 sets of complimentary wheels, the CEO opted to take the gamble.

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In September, the department store, which has been beset by 11 straight quarters of comparable sales declines, said it would hire 80,000 temporary workers for the holiday season, the second year in a row it was taking on fewer seasonal associates.

Penned by journalist Michael Wolff, also famous for writing a scathing biography about media baron Rupert Murdoch several years ago, Fire and Fury took off like, well, wildfire as soon as word of its imminent publishing broke just a few weeks ago.

Like Twitter and dozens of other companies that have gone public in the last couple of years, GrubHub took advantage of a provision in the JOBS Act of 2012, which lets small companies valued at $ 1 billion or less to file for an initial public offering in private, and just a few weeks before it intends to debut.

The top three quarterbacks in this year's draft class (considered a weak one for QBs to begin with) have all been taken and few appealing options remain in free agency.

An individual's full genome can be sequenced today in a few hours, for $ 1,000 — the first genome sequencing took 13 years and cost $ 3 billion, and that was merely a decade ago.

She drew on that experience a few years later when, as a junior at Harvard in 2011, she was taking an engineering class for non-engineers and was tasked with inventing a product that served a social good.

Several media reports quoted a statement from Puzder late on Monday as saying he took action as soon as he learned that his housekeeper, whom he and his wife had employed for a few years, was not legally permitted to work in the US.

If it took Oprah a few years to get her business on solid footing with all of the resources at her disposal, prepare for it to take you at least that long as well.