Sentences with phrase «than a few months of»

When she told her boss, a senior partner, the news, she received perfunctory congratulations, followed by some off - the - record advice: «If you want to make partner someday, you'd better not take more than a few months of maternity leave.»

After doing some research, I had heard some rumbles that many of the indoor vertical gardens didn't survive longer than a few months of being installed.

To change Ireland's climate to Siberia's climate would take quite a bit longer than a few months of tectonic drift

It doesn't matter whether they've got regular cables, flat cables, braided cables, nylon cables, kevlar cables, or anything else, they just can't stand up to more than a few months of (ab) use.

The benefits of the latter include more than a few months of battery life, and a wearable that looks like a beautiful, traditional watch.

Your soon to be laid off employees will appreciate that you're doing everything you can for them instead of turning them loose with little more than a few months of unemployment to scrape by on.

Not exact matches

Hulu — which is owned jointly by CBS rivals Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox, Comcast, and Time Warner — made a similar move less than a year ago, when the service offered subscribers the option of paying a few dollars more per month for an ad - free experience.

A Brigade analysis of user - generated positions, or debate - starters, at the turn of the month showed fewer than 10 percent of such posts did not explicitly reference Clinton, Trump, their campaigns or surrogates.

Of course, making the most of the teen demographic means a lot more than trapping them in for a few short monthOf course, making the most of the teen demographic means a lot more than trapping them in for a few short monthof the teen demographic means a lot more than trapping them in for a few short months.

A third of respondents to polls by various American and Canadian health organizations report getting a good night's rest at best a few times per month; more than one in 10 — some studies say almost 50 % — suffer from insomnia.

incidents «rose from fewer than 10 per month in March and April to 41 cases in both September and October of 2014.»

The Department of Justice launched an inquiry last summer (before it was clear that the precipitous fall in oil prices would last longer than a few months) into whether American airlines» pricing decisions qualify as collusion.

That means there are fewer than seven months before the bulk of the law's provisions go into effect.

Maybe algae will scale up from a few thousand gallons a month to billions of gallons a day, or solar energy can be converted to hydrogen, which will then power the planet's 600 million vehicles via fuel cells; but the market has no way to price the possibility than essential resources will enter permanent depletion declines and that no cheap, scalable substitute exists.

But in medicine, impressive technology is little more than a parlor trick if it doesn't benefit patients — like James (who asked to keep his last name private), a 42 - year - old colon cancer patient who had part of his large intestine removed by Sullivan a few months ago.

The first half of 2005 - 06 has been one of the most active sales periods in the Perth CBD for many years according to Knight Frank, which has sold more than $ 50 million worth of buildings in the last few months.

According to research by Jeffrey Dew, a faculty fellow with the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project, couples who fight about finances once a week are 30 % more likely to divorce than those who disagree on the topic a few times per month.

And it's more effective: in the last six months of 1999, IMC made only seven police calls, fewer than half the number for the same period in 1998.

If you notice a trend towards disengagement, or that a lot of people are more than likely to quit over the next few months, you can do something to help the situation.

Some customers of Carl Mazzanti's computer networking and security company want to upgrade their systems, but it's been taking longer than expected the past few months to get banks to agree to finance the deals, says Mazzanti, owner of eMazzanti in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Intarcia has completed several late - stage clinical trials in which it uses the pump to deliver a glucose - controlling drug continuously for months — an idea, that if successful (and approved by the FDA) could significantly help patients with type 2 diabetes, fewer than half of whom maintain the recommended glycemic levels.

That's according to David Noto, owner of Altaneve, a premium Italian sparkling wine that launched in the U.S. a year and a half ago and to date has sold 2,400 cases in more than 100 northeastern U.S. locations, with plans to expand into Las Vegas and California within the next few months.

One of the most talked - about «dark money» groups of the election released its tax returns yesterday, showing it raised almost $ 77 million from fewer than 100 donors over 19 months.

Once business owners have invested a few months of sweat equity for no pay, it makes sense to structure subsequent cash infusions as debt rather than equity.

Having dismissed previous proposals over the past few weeks as undervaluing the company, the directors of SABMiller unanimously agreed to an offer that values each SABMiller share at 44 pounds, 6 pounds more than its first offer almost a month ago.

Still, even though more people in poor health reported high levels of stress than any other group, when all respondents in the «highly stressed in the last month» group listed what contributed to their stress, a few contributing factors beat out health issues: too many responsibilities overall, financial problems, and work problems.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

More than 25 CEOs have stepped into the top spot at a Fortune 500 company so far this year, plenty of them within the last few months.

The most recent ADP payroll report, for instance, saw businesses with fewer than 50 employees add 84,000 workers in June, or 45 percent of the 188,000 total private - sector jobs added in the month.

A few months ago, the blogosphere was filled with amazing comparisons of Apple's size to not just other companies — including the combined market caps of Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon at one point — but entire countries and industries as the Things Apple Is Worth More Than tumblr details.

I am proud of what we have achieved at Gawker Media Group, both in our work and our business, never more so than in these last few months.

During the first few months of the year the S&P 500 rose by less than 2 %, but Canadians who invested in the index are up more than 5 %, thanks to the loonie's fall to 90 cents (U.S.).

Netflix has been offering ultra high - definition 4K — so - called for the screens» horizontal resolution of 4,000 pixels, about four times greater than full HD — for the past few months, but the company only recently sneaked in a quiet price increase.

The goverment said more than a week ago inflation will remain elevated in the next few months, and Prime Minister Lee said in his May Day speech that the No. 1 concern among union leaders is the cost of living.

Within a few months, he had created his own collection of more than two dozen bow ties.

An interesting coda: In the recent filings, one of the endless nuances of bankruptcy reveals itself: how a paper still losing money every month on an operating basis squirrels money away to serve the few rather than the many.

The last few months of 1987 brought four injury claims that cost the company more than $ 100,000.

Griffin's own departure comes fewer than six months after his own firing of L.A. Times publisher Austin Beutner.

In a recent interview, it became clear the «face of Ethereum» has no plans for this project other than a few months ahead...

In net terms, the outlook for the non-resources economy in the near term is weaker than it looked a few months ago, and the recovery of flood - affected mining in Queensland is taking longer than earlier thought.

I started out freelancing over web - based, with the help of some basic tasks which actually wanted a desktop as well as access to broadband and I am delightful than ever... few months have passed by since i begun this and i received cash gain total of 36,000 bucks... Basically I earn eighty bucks every single hour and work for 3 to four hrs most of the days.And awesome thing about this is that you could keep control of valuable time when you work and for how long as you like but you still earn a paycheck every week.

One of the top agenda items at the meeting held on September 22 was to monitor compliance, and OPEC officials were clearly much happier than they were a few months ago.

However, to make consistent gains from taking advantage of momentum in the market, swing trading is best accomplished by limiting your selection to stocks that have the ability to run 20 - 30 % higher in a few weeks, rather than a few months.

I'm retiring in a few months and have more saved than the vast majority of people we know.

More than a few of the projects could have been completed months, possibly years, sooner but for financing delays caused by wrangling all the other municipalities into the same pool.

New shale oil well productivity drove U.S. production higher in the last few years, with the average daily rate for the first month of operation rising from less than 100 Continue Reading

One data point does not make a trend, but also take note of the fact that employment growth for June in the U.S. would bring the rolling average of job creation, as measured by the last few months, to less than 150,000.

Fitness resolutions are a dime a dozen following the start of a New Year, but statistics prove more than half of all people who make fitness resolutions break them within a few months of starting.

And it has been reported that Nobuaki Kobayashi, the lawyer and trustee of Mt. Gox, has sold 35,841 Bitcoin and 34,008 Bitcoin cash — worth more than $ 400 million — over the past few months, starting in September of last year.

A few months after the Boardlist launched, following a beta period, it touted more than five dozen active searches and one early success: The site facilitated Martin's appointment to the board of Challenged, an app that promotes social media challenges along the lines of the ALS ice - bucket phenomenon.