Sentences with phrase «takes years in the making»

A child doesn't become spoiled overnight, it's a process that takes years in the making.

Obviously taking years in the making, given the progress of the seasons on exhibit, «Born in China» also has one minute of stunning time lapse photography of flowers as they burst open in a colorful array of nature's glory.

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When we brought in Mexico to make it NAFTA, it took another four years.

Here are three key principles that SMBs have been taking advantage of in the last two - to - three years that have made a huge difference.

Eighteen years in the making, the 360 Eye is taking aim at iRobot's leadership in a market that's growing by 15 per cent a year.

It may be a moot point in the end because European aerospace giant Airbus, Boeing's chief rival, last year agreed to take a majority stake in the jet program and the two plan to build the aircraft in Alabama, where Airbus makes narrowbody passenger planes.

With a burgeoning tech industry that's expected to grow by more than 15,000 jobs over the next four years, Vancouver makes the ideal location for the first Red Academy, but Gilbert says she and Mansell hope to take the concept beyond B.C. and open locations in other major Canadian cities.

Part of the reason is that it can take years to access prison rehabilitation programs if you have a longer sentence because people with shorter sentences get priority; despite recent national efforts to make opioid antidotes and addiction treatments more widely accessible, many prisons still don't have these programs in place, leaving addicts who make it out of prison far more susceptible to relapse.

Yet before the holiday distractions take hold, donors use this time of the year to remember the sacrifices made by the men and women serving in the U.S. military, and to support causes that help them when they return home.

Pensioners took to the streets of Athens earlier this year in protest, and international creditors have said the government needs to make further reforms to the pension system.

He borrowed another $ 35,000 and a sewing machine from his mom, and got to work making his first product — a process that took two years, while he lived with his dad in Sausalito and Jill moved to Santa Monica.

Arlington, Virginia, takes the top spot this year, with women making up nearly 40 percent of the business owners in the area.

When I graduated I took a year off to try to make a game that I could sell and break in [with], but that [Gate 88] didn't do very well at all.

As we approach the heaviest shopping season of the year, many of us will do our holiday shopping from the comfort of our homes, taking advantage of the Cyber Monday deals, or praying Amazon makes that last - minute delivery in time for gift giving.

It took a while to learn the skills that would ultimately make me a senior executive in the high - tech industry and then, a successful management consultant, but I can attribute everything good that happened to me over the next 20 years to that fateful day and the relationships I've built since.

We need to take a fresh look at what's really going to matter and make a difference in the lives of this year's graduates.

The residents of the wooded manors in Canada's richest neighbourhood are as likely to be found abroad as at home: about a third have made a trip to Europe in the last three years, with a little more than that taking a Caribbean sojourn in the same period.

«It took us three years... to make a spacesuit that looks good and works,» Musk said in February 2018.

The discount retailer, locked in a fierce battle with Amazon.com (amzn) to shorten the time it takes to get customers» packages to their homes, last week acquired Parcel for an undisclosed amount «smaller than previous acquisitions» Walmart has made this year (which include Bonobos, Moosejaw, and Modcloth), the company said in a blog.

Ten years after «Night of the Living Dead,» Romero made «Dawn of the Dead,» where human survivors take refuge from the undead in a mall and then turn on each other as the zombies stumble around the shopping complex.

A 69 - year - old doctor, Dao was one of four people who was randomly selected to get off the oversold plane just before it was supposed to take off Sunday from O'Hare International Airport for Louisville, in order to make room for United flight crew members who needed to get to an assignment.

The incident appears to have triggered a lot of anger and resentment about the direction Reddit has taken over the past year, and in particular the movement towards making it more of a self - sustaining business rather than just an online community.

Last year's Rogue One took in $ 69.5 million, compared to the $ 532 million it made in the U.S.

«I think for people making $ 40,000 a year, any increase in their take - home is significant for them and I don't want to diminish that at all,» Crowley said.

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.

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.

Mike Krieger liked to joked that the app, which took barely eight weeks to build, was a year in the making.

McGuire, however, projects it could take much of this year for the state to evaluate and hire a company to do the work, making it questionable if a functioning system could be in place when legal sales launch in January.

Two years in the making, Woodle says he created the ballooning hoodie — which takes three seconds to inflate by mouth — as part of a quest to «elevate the small aspects of life,» your weary brainpan included.

We couldn't make anything like the display in the current Kindle, and it took years for the technology to get to that point.

By taking time to work out, spend time with your family and making sure you do not burn out, you will start to notice that sometimes you solve your toughest problems on that morning run, or while lying in bed with your 2 - year - old as she falls asleep at night.

It makes a massive difference in how you experience each day, as well as each year, but it really doesn't take too much adjustment to flip from one to the other.

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After 35 years as the CEO of Inc. 5000 No. 2539 Professional Translating Services in Miami, «We have made sure not to take any unnecessary risks, while at the same time assuring that we grow year after year,» he says.

The loan modification process alone can take a year or longer and often consumers won't bother making mortgage payments in the process.

They quickly took significant market share in the first year in football and baseball cleats, but decided to slow down their move into the category after investing heavily in the training and running shoe markets and not making as much noise.

After we brought her in, it took a year to make the sale.

Last year, it abandoned a pilot in Canada of a computer system it hoped to transfer to the U.S. to make interacting with reps, including taking orders and paying commissions, smoother.

The initiative takes ongoing tests Macy's has been conducting at its «petri dish» of a store in Woodbridge, N.J. — such as mobile checkout in store and new lighting to make shopping more inviting to 50 stores this year — as a launching pad for a series of initiatives it can roll out to a much greater number of stores in 2019.

The carmaker's board said on Thursday it would ask shareholders in June to back Ghosn for another four - year term, during which he would «take decisive steps to make the alliance irreversible» and «strengthen the succession plan».

«I gave more than 20 years of my life to CKE, and Mr. Puzder took a company that I loved and turned it into a business that makes money by stealing from its workers,» Laura McDonald, a former Carl's Jr. general manager, said in a recent forum hosted by Senate Democrats.

Nike also does big business in the U.S., where it took over for Reebok (RBK) two years ago to make the jerseys for the NFL.

For instance, Kovel said, robot toys made in Japan after World War II took off in price for a few years, but then interest dropped off.

In her speech on Friday, she made headlines saying, «Based on my outlook, I expect that it will be appropriate at some point later this year to take the first step to raise the federal funds rate and thus begin normalizing monetary policy.»

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.

(A donor - advised fund lets you take a tax deduction in the year in which you made the contribution, then pay out grants over time to qualified charities you pick while your money is invested.)

Fifty - six - year - old Amie Crawford, who graduated with an associate's degree in interior design from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and had a successful 30 - year career as an interior designer, never thought she'd be in a job where the average take - home pay was less than a fifth of what she had made before.

Because when we make an investment in technology today it will take us three years to see if it will pay off.

«While stemming the tide against corruption takes time, in the last six years many countries have still made little to no progress.»

It's possible that Constand may have benefited from the #MeToo momentum on Thursday, but it took an extra dose of courage for her to make her claims years ago, in an environment that was so much less accepting.