Sentences with phrase «takes about a million»

I have a recipe that uses seitan and it takes about a million years to make.

It takes about a million years (in a species with an evolutionary velocity like ours) to make substantive changes to our digestive systems.

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The company has about 1,200 employees and has quietly taken on more than $ 200 million in venture funding.

Last year, 6.15 million Chinese travelers took international trips, a 7 percent increase from 2016, with overseas spending estimated to amount to about 100 billion yuan (nearly $ 16 billion).

Hubble was about 400 - 500 million miles away from Jupiter at the time, and it was taking pictures of Europa's backlit silhouette as it moved across the gas giant's surface:

Anything that has 200 million monthly visitors and about five billion video views is probably worth taking seriously as a media outlet.

World War I, which ended 99 years ago on Saturday, took the lives of about 40 million people and is considered by many to be the first total, industrial war.

When Facebook took on its first round of financing in 2005, for $ 13 million, Parker pushed for a high valuation of the company»» about $ 100 million at the time.

We had to take what I've learned from turning around companies and growing them, and what the people here know about getting 100 million meals into Canadians» bellies every year, and mesh those skill sets.

IN 10 years, CJ King and Co Pty Ltd has grown from a small annex behind a North Beach home to what it claims is the biggest full colour printer in the Southern Hemisphere — a $ 1,500 investment that is now turning over $ 10 million a year.With the assistance of Austrade and the WA Department of Industry and Resources (DoIR), the company is taking on the UK market, already with some success.One of the remarkable things about this success story is that it has been achieved through a consummate belief in a philosophy to use standardised, leading - edge technology and to supply just the print trade and other on - sellers.

Access to the complete Twitter stream costs about $ 30,000 a month, with fees based on usage that can take the charges up to $ 1.5 million a year, according to people who have used the data.

By far, the oddest thing about Donald Trump's 1995 tax returns, a portion of which was published by The New York Times on Saturday, is not the massive $ 916 million loss — some 9,385 times as large as what was taken by the average filer who claimed a similar loss — but this: 1995 was actually a very good year for Trump, perhaps one of the best of his career.

He also took home $ 3.06 million in salary and a previously disclosed equity award of $ 89.2 million, bringing his total payout for the year to about $ 102 million.

Things can go in a million different directions, and the more time you spend worrying about the possibilities, the less time you'll spend focusing on taking action that will calm you down and keep your stress under control.

To get more small businesses on board, I've co-created the 3 % Forward movement — with a goal of 1 million entrepreneurs taking the pledge of providing 3 percent of either their revenue, talents or products toward causes they care about.

This infrared photo, taken from 2.2 million miles away, reveals the vast distance between Earth and the moon — 239,000 miles, or about 30 diameters of Earth stacked together.

Cooperman also sold about 3.5 million shares in Sprint (S), bringing his total holdings in the telecom to just under 40 million shares, and he took 5.2 million additional shares in grocery chain Supervalu (SVU).

With an estimated 46 million people globally living in slavery, human trafficking is being taken increasingly seriously in all countries with Britain home to an estimated 13,000 slaves and authorities identifying about 3,260 people victims in 2015.

In 2012, Benson purchased professional basketball's New Orleans - based team, then called the Hornets, for about $ 338 million from the National Basketball Association, which had taken temporary custodianship of the team in 2010.

By the time she took the company public in 2016, she'd raised about $ 100 million.

So unless revenue rises substantially and operational costs remain stable — a tricky proposition as Tesla is still struggling to get Model 3 manufacturing in track — Tesla will spend itself down to either nothing on the cash - balance side or end up with about $ 1 billion in reserve, give or take a few hundred million.

With about 53 million subscribers, Sprint has taken more than its share of criticism for its customer service over the years, as have many of its competitors.

Even then, he says, Nuinsco — which started the year with about $ 6 million in cash and marketable securities — won't take on a new project without enough cash on hand to deal with setbacks.

The takeover bid for Aquila Resources took an unexpected turn today when a mystery buyer, believed to be Mineral Resources, spent about $ 192 million buying a large stake in the Perth company, paying well above the bid price.

Take a look at Kathryn Minshew's recent bridge story about raising a $ 16 million series B round for The Muse.

It had already said it would reprioritise spending to mitigate the costs of the inspection and repair program and is sticking to its 2018 free cash flow guidance of about 450 million pounds ($ 643 million), give or take 100 million pounds.

Currently, Grand River has a contract to ship about 12 million pounds of tobacco to China, but Williams says customers there could take 20 times that amount.

The study estimates that U.S. workers across all sectors on average were better off by about $ 431 million in 2010 when you take into account the increased productivity and innovation within the tech sector due to foreign workers.

Construction is expected to take 18 months and cost about $ 6 million.

It takes the combined wealth of about 160 million Americans to equal that of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett, according to analysis from the Institute for Policy Studies.

According to the company, there are about 28 million small businesses in the country, and the overwhelming majority are hidden from investors; they're too small for private equity firms to take notice, but not right for a traditional bank loan either.

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.

In 1998 I launched Insevo, which helped connect enterprise systems to the Internet, and soon decided to take about $ 20 million in venture capital to help the company grow faster.

The situation dates back to 2011, when private equity firm Rizvi Traverse Management, in partnership with Hefner, bought Hefner's company Playboy Enterprises (which in turn owns Playboy) and took it private for about $ 217 million.

Thiel's take was about $ 55 million.

PITTSBURGH — Paint maker PPG says it will lay off about 1,100 people and take a pretax restructuring charge of between $ 80 million and $ 85 million in the second quarter.

Donating an average of about $ 250,000 each year to his charity, the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation, also took another $ 2 million bite of his net worth annually since 2009.

Today, more than 15,000 people have taken Lactagen, an over-the-counter derivative of the formula Ritter cooked up, and his company, Ritter Pharmaceuticals, is about to launch trials for a prescription drug to treat lactose intolerance — an endeavor that can cost upward of $ 50 million before the FDA gives its OK.

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).

The SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond fund gathered more than $ 1.1 billion, or about half its total for the year, while the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond took in $ 603 million, pulling it out of negative territory for the full year.

Talk about a great deal: «We're in a position where we can use that tax savings to start taking bigger risks,» says Cheryl Volkman, co-founder of AbleNet, based in Roseville, Minn., a 100 % S corp ESOP with $ 8 million in sales.

What's so remarkable about the staff of a developer of securities - trading software with $ 13 million in revenues taking daily milk - and - cookies breaks?

Wall Street has already taken it as a given that Snap will more than double its revenues, which were about $ 404 million in 2016, to $ 1 billion this year.

That's according to Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, which reports that Coincheck said that some 500 million units of a cryptocurrency known as NEM, worth about 58 billion yen, had been taken from customers» wallets.

Hawkins took over running the original store in 1985; sales then stood at about $ 17 million.

Berkshire Hathaway took on a stake of 17.5 million shares, worth about $ 540 million by midday trading.

About one million Americans take advantage of Canada's lower drug costs every year.

And Colorado has taken in about $ 45 million in total tax revenues from both medical and recreational marijuana year - to - date.

Despite some initial apprehension about whether a city with fewer than 1 million residents could support a third location, Riley took another chance.

ACCRA, April 30 - The International Monetary Funds board on Monday approved the next disbursement of about $ 191 million under Ghanas aid program, while urging the West African country to take further steps to address its high debt.