Sentences with phrase «taken of it a few years»

I have one really tall and lovely brother, James (below is a portrait I took of him a few years ago).

If you took of a few years to raise your kids, took off some time to travel, went back to school, started freelancing or gave it a shot with your own business.

Not exact matches

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).

The New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission a few years ago released a fascinating set of data, listing 1.1 billion separate taxi trips taken from 2009 through 2015.

A few years after his first foray into illicit home brewing, Hindy's wife grew fed up with him working in the line of fire, so he came home and took a job with Newsday.

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.

The math is compelling: a few extra years of work can boost your retirement income far more when you take risk into account.

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.

Because a few extra years of work will boost your retirement income more than higher investment returns will, once you take the risk into account.

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.

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.

«Sarah's taking advantage of a unique confluence of events, building the relationships that start - ups today need to grow as fast as they can,» says Kevin Armitage, senior vice-president at FAC / Equities, the investment - banking division of First Albany Corp., which has worked with Gerdes during the past few years.

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.

«A few years ago I would have dismissed this kind of deal as too expensive, but I did the analysis and was pleased to find it will only take a few midsize deals to pay back the investment,» McElaney says.

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.

Average five - year growth rate among the 2001 Inc 500 that had Venture - capital funding at start - up: 4,619 % CEO with an M.B.A.: 2,542 % CEO who took 5 days or fewer of vacation yearly: 2,385 % Open - book management: 2,283 % CEO who took more than 10 days of vacation yearly: 1,983 %

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.

A few hundred thousand people visit the Killing Fields every year; there is another site open to the public in Phnom Penh, a former school where victims of the genocide were tortured before being taken to the Killing Fields.

It took me a few years to truly understand how to manage startup metrics as CEO of Brainscape, despite having nearly 10 previous years of experience in economics, finance and statistics.

«The individual marketplace is one where it would take few years before the exact level of medical risk and pricing needs can be determined,» Schlosser says, by way of explanation.

In the last few years he's had great success and he's letting us take advantage of his success.

Scientists are working on emergency interventions and they've been shown to be effective — bringing corals that took hundreds of years to grow back from the brink in just a few years.

What became known as the «longest traffic jam ever» — a nearly two - week, 60 - plus mile gridlock — took place a few years ago, not in a huge Western metropolis, but in the northern China province of Hebei.

The progress you're beginning to see here is the result of all of those initiatives that have taken place over the last few years.

Take just a few minutes out of your day to watch this short trailer announcing Firsts, a multi-media project from TIME featuring candid interviews with 45 extraordinary women, more than a year in the making.

My business is strong, and I feel that I could, in a few years, step back and allow the business to take care of me.

Over the last few years, Amazon has taken over more control of its logistics, buying stakes in cargo airlines, handling more package delivery itself and leasing thousands of its own truck trailers.

It took discerning consumers a few years of swimming through the ocean of mediocre - to - bad online recipes before they became frustrated with «free,» according to Bill LeBlond, editorial director of food and drink at independent publisher Chronicle Books.

Automation is the all - purpose bogeyman of today's workforce: millions of jobs could be taken over by machines in the next few years, experts say, and the big question is what to do about all the humans left behind.

«The time transition between exercise 1 and 10 of a movement could take some people a few years,» he warned.

It's not too hard to understand why workers might like this plan; it offers them the ultimate flexibility: Instead of running out or cramming vacations into the last few weeks of the year, vacation days can be taken at any time.

A few years later, Trump took advantage of this when he reported more than $ 900 million in losses from his failing casinos, even though investors put up the bulk of that money.

Only about 200 patients or fewer will take Valeant's branded version of the migraine drug this year, amounting to less than $ 1 million in sales (about 0.01 % of the company's annual revenue).

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.

A year into a difficult turnaround, Kelley took a few moments to pen his thoughts on where Consolidated had been and was going — the kind of stuff too many CEOs leave unsaid.

«Raising meat takes a great deal of land and water and has a substantial environmental impact,» Gates wrote on his personal blog, Gatesnotes.com, a few years ago.

In the business world a company might make a point of having managers sit on assembly lines or take customer complaints a few days a year.

Within the next few years, Airbus will take full control of the C Series program and the innovative carbon composite je t will be integrated into the Airbus lineup.

«Structural reform has been quite slow,» Robinson from OMFIF told CNBC, in reference to the past few years following the end of the bailout and when the ruling socialist party took office.

That isn't to say they won't continue to nag at you as the years go on, or that new and varied challenges won't arise to take their place, but you'll be prepared to handle yourself in those most volatile and impactful first few months — and that puts you far ahead of the competition.

Today, we have a much clearer view of where technology will take us over the next few years, and how it will continue to significantly alter our lives.

Few could have imagined before he took office that the birthplace of the United Auto Workers union would become a right - to - work state, but that is exactly what happened last year after Snyder pushed the legislation through in 2012.

Bill 170 allows parents with kids to remain on a patio until 11 p.m. instead of 8 p.m., gives tourists the right to take a beer bought at the hotel bar back to their room, and liberates businesses open for a few months a year from having to buy a full - year alcohol permit.

While on the campaign trail in 2015 at the age of 44, the presidential candidate spoke at Liberty University and alluded to his experience of having to finance his education: I, Cruz said, «took over $ 100,000 in school loans, loans I suspect a lot of y» all can relate to, loans that I'll point out I just paid off a few years ago.»

Since the explosion of the Internet, and in the last few years on social media, there has been an avalanche of advice about what it takes to grow a business.

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll among 1,385 Canadians 18 years of age and older, the majority (51 %) do not agree Canadian employers should be able to hire temporary foreign workers (a federal program which has just been curtailed), while fewer than this agree (45 %).

Engaged employees take an average of nearly 60 percent fewer sick days per year than disengaged employees.

It costs about $ 20,000 for a small business to take part in a trade show for a few days, Egan says, and about $ 1,000 to set up a virtual booth at one of his trade shows for a full year.

The most significant change of the past few years has been that of the consumer taking complete charge.

Instead, he allows his workers to recover from the rigors of the summer by working eight - hour days the rest of the year and taking a few extra days off.