Sentences with phrase «taken me almost»

It took almost a year to get all that [approved].»

But I do worry about the message her pledge to take almost no time off sends about the value of maternity leave, and how it undermines recent efforts by US companies to offer and normalize the idea of longer parental leaves, for both moms and dads.

It would take almost 10 minutes into a presentation I was giving to get through the uncomfortable giggles and the locker room jokes and I think that just fueled my determination to have a very fact - based conversation.

It took almost 100 years for AT&T to complete this mission, but the mission never changed until it was achieved.

It took almost no time for my boss to zero in on it.

But it takes almost no time for people to realize that.

Growth, especially if it happens quickly, takes almost everyone out of their comfort zone.

I felt right at home with the keyboard, taking almost no time to adjust to the minimal amount of time it took to move from key to key.

Based on these numbers, it would now take almost 2.5 years at the increased salary to cover b - school costs vs. 1 year ten years ago.

Economic growth has traditionally meant that everyone is better off, but in Canada the latest surge of growth simply concentrated income gains in the hands of a few, with the richest 1 % taking almost a third of all income growth between 1997 and 2007.

It took almost 10 years and a $ 5 - million capital campaign to create the Green Barn.

It's taken almost every day and the participants back their opinions with cold, hard cash.

It may have taken almost five years for someone to find an answer, but it's happened.

It took me almost a decade of hearing no before — finally!

Bogle told me that he favors a speculation and derivatives tax precisely because of market changes «in the last quarter century» and the fact that «we've taken almost all the friction out of the system.»

Operationally, Shake Shack is taking an almost slow - and - steady attitude when it comes to growth.

Infinity Travel Hoop BodyHoops» collapsible hula hoops trim your core while taking almost no space in your luggage.

StatsCan takes almost two months to publish an assessment of the labour market based on a survey of companies.

It also took him almost six months to hire his first employee because Japanese workers tend to be «very cautious» about taking jobs at an upstart foreign firm.

As detailed in a 2016 story from The Washington Post, Deripaska accused Gates and Manafort of taking almost $ 19 million intended for investments, failing to account for the cash and then not clarifying what the money was used for.

In the first camp, there are the purists who are taking an almost artisanal approach.

This version actually took almost 2 hours to record because I kept on messing up, and there kept being distractions like my neighbors motorbike and the garbage man coming at 7 AM Etc!

That is one reason why (as the briefing explains) it will be harder to take a billion more people out of extreme poverty in the next 20 years than it was to take almost a billion out in the past 20.

The mortgage refinance took almost four months, but now I'm locked in at 2.375 % until August 2021.

An apartment glut quickly appeared as speculators took almost free money and put deposits on apartments being built by reckless builders.

The result was when this one stock plunged, it took almost all my portfolio with it.

The sudden collapse of the markets took almost everyone by surprise, and spared no one.

The Artist is the movie that took almost all the other ones.

It took almost a century before drug companies could talk them back into using drugs like it.

«All men created equal» yet it took almost 100 years for slavery to be abolished and a lot of those intelligent founding fathers you think so highly of were slave owners.

When asked where the postcard had been all these years — and why it took almost four decades to deliver a simple postcard — a postal worker who would only be referred to as «Mr. N» maniacally retorted, «It must of have gotten....

Thank you for giving me the chance to express out but still I am hurt and a nice word will cool it of and guide me if wrong and about quitting I would because what I am doing now at CNN is taking almost my whole time since the Quran burnning issue and would out doubt I will go back to it and that's why I mentioned earlier that we back here worry about our daily bread and water for family support but needed from you in the free world to notice us out there and have your say on behalf of all heavenly beliefs that what is happening is wrong, One Nation Calamities to other nations benefit, profit?!

It took almost a year for my husband and I to get cleared to get in the foster to adopt system.

But take almost any neighborhood church.

My survey took almost three years and led me into every corner of the Muslim world.

I remember in college, many moons ago, thinking that since I was so very opinionated about religion, I really should make sure I was familiar with the Bible... So I read it... cover to cover... I can tell you, I honestly didn't enjoy it... it's NOT a great read... bits are interesting, and of course very familiar... I took me almost the whole year, but I got through it... So imagine my surprise some time later when I found myself at an after conference gathering, that just so happened to have an inexplicably number of overtly religious attendants (inexplicable because it was a hi - tech network security conference) and after listening quietly for a while, jumped in with the statement «well, you've all read the bible cover to cover, as have I»....

According to the researchers behind Gaia, this one is a «huge leap forward» and took almost two years of sky charting to make.

The Benedictines and the various orders which had arisen out of the Benedictines took almost no share in the propagation of the faith in new areas and among new peoples.

Taking almost half of foreign aid to pay the lobbyists is like thieves running a charity.

It took me almost a year to get over my anger at God... in fact it wasn't until they asked me to speak at the seminary about putting the gospel into everyday terms that I realized that I was making a difference.

Why did it take almost 300 years for records of this persons life to exist?

It took me almost a lifetime to release myself from the hold that religion had on me.

~ only after leaving a Christian Cult (yes, they exist) was I able to come to true relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ... and it took almost twenty years of being out before I could even begin to grasp that I was loved.

It also set me up to think that church abuse was normal and why it took me almost 25 years to be able to walk out with fear and trembling.

It took almost another fifty years for Massachusetts to declare religious liberty within its boundaries, but the first irrevocable step was taken in 1788 at the urging of Isaac Backus, the Baptist minister.

It tastes like a complex and delicious treat, but takes almost no effort (hello Vitamix).

Especially this salsa, because it literally takes almost no time to prepare, and it super delicious!

It did take almost twice as long during the covered bake time.

The cranberry chutney is easy to make, and it takes almost no time to assemble this beautiful cheese appetizer.

Mine took almost 2 hours too, although I also prefer the taste of onions a step just beyond caramelized which might be called carbonized or maybe exterminated.