Sentences with phrase «than a year trying»

When I started baking a few years ago, I spent more than a year trying to replicate her recipe.

As for myself, I've now spent more than a year trying to avoid beef and pork, though here in the South, bacon seems to constantly sneak its way into places it doesn't belong (a dish of Brussels sprouts being my most memorable example).

Nagy spent more than a year trying to clinch a development deal with Anglo American, the South - African based conglomerate.

Before Jon knows it, he is whisked off to a remote lake house where the band spends more than a year trying to record an album.

He spent more than a year trying to prosecute ExxonMobil for engaging in First Amendment - protected speech.

Not exact matches

The Employee Benefit Research Institute tried to quantify this phenomenon a couple years ago, and it discovered that this urge is stronger than researchers had expected.

«I had struggled for more than 10 years to try to make a decentralized currency, and I couldn't make it work,» Wilcox recalls.

Molson Coors CEO Mark Hunter tried to downplay the results, noting they came in a small quarter and as the entire U.S. beer industry had a softer - than - anticipated start to the year.

Last year, I tried several pieces from Olivers and liked it better than clothing from big - name sportswear companies.

Dale Carnegie once said, «You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.»

In more than 25 years of practice, he has tried 20 federal criminal and civil cases, almost all to juries that returned verdicts.

For more than four years now, the U.S. Federal Reserve has tried to do just that through a security - purchasing program known as quantitative easing — also commonly referred to as «printing money.»

That's why most business owners would rather do just about anything than sit down with a spreadsheet and try to forecast what their sales, profits and cash flow are going to look like next year, next quarter or even next month.

Unless you have a startup that's trying to change the world, like Apple in its early years, I find personal goals that also benefit the company resonate better with employees than big - picture company goals.

Republican Senator John Hoeven of North Dakota, who co-sponsored the Keystone bill with Landrieu, has pledged to keep trying to force approval of the project that the administration has kept under review for more than six years.

Think of customers as friends you hope to influence by remembering the following wisdom from Dale Carnegie: «You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.»

In a survey of more than 800 full - time U.S. employees conducted by Globoforce in November of last year, 47 percent of respondents said they didn't think their company leaders cared about or were actively trying to create a «human» workplace.

The move comes as Sears tries to bounce back from a five - year stretch during which it lost more than $ 8 billion as it closed hundreds of stores and sales dropped sharply.

If you're turning 70 1/2 this year, you want to try to take your first RMD by the end of December rather than wait until April 2019, Levine said.

Teens who have tried a non-cigarette tobacco product are twice as likely to try cigarettes a year later than those who haven't, study says.

For more than a year, the AngelList founder and CEO has been trying to persuade institutional money managers to participate on his popular crowdfunding platform, which so far has helped facilitate $ 205 million in investment for 650 seed - stage companies.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — About four years ago, the Google team trying to develop cars driven by computers — not people — became convinced that sooner than later, the technology would be ready for the masses.

The New York Times bestselling author and radio show host of The Cardone Zone also talks about how he looks and feels younger than he did 20 years ago — because he stopped trying to please everyone and started living his life for himself.

Rather than trying to reconstruct the terroir and conditions those grapes experienced, though, this San Francisco start - up, founded by two bioengineering grads last year, is foregoing things like grapes and yeast altogether.

For so many years, I always tried to find the people smarter than I am.

I tried Ubuntu both in the live and install versions with a year - old Dell Dimension 2400, a fairly standard desktop PC, and I found it significantly easier to install than Windows XP Home.

In the United States, according to the most recent data, some 11.3 % of the working - age population are either running a young business — less than three years old — or are actively trying to start one.

I didn't have a babysitter for my 3 - year - old daughter for more than two weeks while still trying to run my business from home.

Even as he tries to open more than 30 new stores in three years, he'll do it cautiously, watching how the stores perform in each new market before opening more: «Until I'm very comfortable and convinced, the foot's always ready to be on the brake as opposed to the gas.»

In recent years the search for yield has left many investors feeling like travelers lost in the Kalahari desert, wandering in the blistering sun, canteen in hand, trying to find a place that can reliably provide more than a trickle of water.

That's easier said than done, since the IRS permits corporate owners to switch their status only once every five years — which means it's tough to make a habit out of trying to time your switches to take advantage of the somewhat erratic U.S. tax laws.

It's possible that set - top box, dongle and console manufacturers could try the same unpopular moves as Samsung — indeed, Microsoft generated similar privacy concerns last year with voice recognition on its Xbox One — but their devices are typically much cheaper than televisions and therefore more easily replaceable.

That would be true at any point, of course, and one thing I have tried to reinforce this year is that the Consumer Bureau is far more than its director.

Rozovsky basically said that having studied 180 teams at Google over the past several years and trying to determine what made some teams perform better than others (despite every team being filled with over-achievers who work at Google) one factor stood out more than others: Creating «psychologically safe environments.»

Me: If you look at the world, and you look at languages, and you look at economies... if you were to try to target those parts of the world that in 15 years, 20 years will have taken a bigger step than other parts of the world, where would you go?

You'll win them over quickly, more so than many big businesses that are trying to win over last year.

Earlier this year, Amazon launched a freight - delivery service, and is said to be building out its own Uber - like app for booking carriers, to try to penetrate the more than $ 150 billion industry.

Rather than looking forward, trying to set goals through the lens of your current hectic situations in life, pretend like it's one year from now and you are actually looking backwards at the best year of your financial life.

Since Marathon won an approval to treat a condition that afflicts fewer than 200,000 Americans per year and has a dearth of treatment options (rather than trying to become an also - ran in the saturated steroid therapy field), it has carte blanche over the drug's pricing.

Facebook's data privacy scandal has a silver lining: It's adding 10,000 jobs this year, a staff increase larger than most companies, as it tries to avoid more negative headlines.

New types of computer memory pop up every few years as firms such as HP, IBM, Motorola / Freescale and even startups try to create alternatives that are cheaper, faster, more dense or otherwise offer a different series of trade - offs than the dominant forms of memory used today.

The behaviors the company is trying to address are fundamentally different than those of 10 years ago because broadband Internet has become a much more significant part of our life since then.

More than four years later, Zambada — who currently resides in a federal prison in Milan, Michigan — still has not been tried, in part because of endless wrangling by prosecutors and defense attorneys on the size and scope of the pretrial legal discovery.

I work with a great team who buys into what we are trying to achieve,» said Bates, who, before opening his CMIT Solutions business, spent more than 20 years in corporate America.

I'd been trying to find a legitimate, flexible, work - from - home job for ten years and FlexJobs helped me find one in less than a month.

By helping you consistently make smart financial decisions across all aspects of your life we can add far more to your wealth than we ever could by trying to guess which stock is going to beat the market next year.

With the lowest unemployment rate in the region in more than five years and a more competitive job market, employers are doing more to try to retain their existing talent.

While it's true the airline industry is financially healthier than it has been in years — thanks to cost - cutting and its new pay - as - you - go approach (United Airlines is even offering passengers who don't qualify for elite status the opportunity to pay $ 500 a year for seat upgrades and another $ 350 a year to avoid baggage fees)-- the changes have made flying a truly trying experience that is only likely to get worse.

Markets have been crazy this month, but rather than try to wade through all the news, much of which doesn't seem to have much informational content, I thought I would duck out altogether and instead make a list of things I expect will happen over the next several years.

I can't possibly work longer hours than I already am, I've been killing myself for years in that department and I'm actually cutting back some to try to preserve my health, but we've been living lean for awhile now and still looking for ways to save, so I'm also looking for ways to increase my income without adding a ton of extra hours and labor.