Sentences with phrase «took years of work»

It's true, these instances exist, but it took years of work and an incredible amount of time — resources that could have been spent carrying out Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR) for hundreds of cats.

We've seen Osamu Tezuka pull it off but it took him years of work to capture the same thing that Ono's been doing for only seven years.

That was hard earned and took years of work on operations and scale.

But it took years of work to find the real measure of thawing permafrost.

It would have been difficult in a regular lab, but took years of work in the physically challenging setting of a BSL4.

Detecting and tracking the activities of these transcription factors took years of work involving dozens of laboratory and computational experts.

It takes years of working in an industry to understand it in depth, but sales reps need to access a decent, digestible chunk of information extremely quickly.

But both caution that it could take years of work before either method can issue reliable space weather forecasts.

Once we were able to induce nanowire growth, we started analyzing their composition and structure, which took another year of work.

It took me years of working in a bookstore to know which publisher I needed to call to order a book without scanning it in the system or hunting the tiny print on the copyright page.

You've said — «Your novel might take years of work: researching...»

However, being a highly skilled practice, it takes years of work to develop the trade.

Other policy pivots will take years of work, such as reversing the Clean Power Plan that forced states to cut greenhouse gas emissions from electricity.

As in our environmental consultant resume sample, your resume takes years of work history and a lifetime of applicable skills and concentrates them into a brief page or two that speaks volumes on your behalf to your future employer.

This would also help to distinguish your government from the Abbott Government, who are remembered for their destruction of a national health reform process that had taken years of work and represented a significant investment of resources.

Shame fragments itself in the body in messy, infiltrating way that can take years of work to heal from.

Not exact matches

Where building customer rapport used to take years of hard work, sales representatives can now look to developing deeper customer relationships much faster by using semantics analytics.

Launching a new business takes many years of hard work, and that demands a sort of resolve that can not be easily phased.

For some people it takes years of hard work, stressful days, and sleepless nights, but like anything you put time and energy into, the end result is definitely worth the effort.

«I took off what I thought was going to be 6 months of work, that turned into a year and I had already been to about 160 countries by then,» Lavallo told CNBC.

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.

From there, it can take upwards of ten years to work up to a management role.

Kottke offers a memorable quote from photographer Clayton Cubitt to illustrate this truth: «I think back to my struggles clawing my way out of the trailer park, the violence I survived, all the sh *** y jobs I had to work and the sh *** y bosses I had to tolerate, the extra 15 years it took me, and I find the renewable energy of gratitude for my survival.»

So when she discovered that year two of her rotation would focus mostly on surgery, Holly decided to take a break from medicine and give working for her dad's company a try.

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

There is no shortage of studies sighting that employee effectiveness rises when time off is taken on a regular basis, but entrepreneurs can easily lose sight of this fact, working for months — even years — without time away from the business.

«Taking the two years to the end of 2016, almost a third of the rise in the number of people in work reflected growth in self - employment (double the share of that category in total employment), with another fifth corresponding to more people in part - time work,» he wrote in a recent note to clients.

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.

Tamerlan, neighbors said, often stayed home and took care of his 3 - year - old daughter while his wife worked as a home health aide.

After this, I got to work on one of my many online entrepreneurial business ideas that I've been thinking about for years but never taken action on.

In my 22 years of working for IBM, they let me take a variety of career paths.

«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.

It will take about 10 years of dedicated work until you'll be allowed to cook tamagoyaki (egg sushi).

After eight years of work, he was asked to take over an ailing dealership in San Antonio, according to a 1987 Los Angeles Times profile.

«Here is a company that has the best movies about how we've got to help one another and how racism is wrong and how we've got to take care of our toys,» said Glynndana Shevlin, a 58 - year - old who's worked for almost 30 years at Disney.

A year and a half ago I discovered a different way of working out, which only takes 20 minutes a week and is remarkably effective.

To calculate someone's market value (which the Know Your Worth tool recalculates for participating members each week), Glassdoor's machine learning algorithms take into account current job title, base salary, employer, work location, industry, typical job transitions, years of relevant experience, and current state of the local job market.

Dan runs content at Yahoo Small Business, and has more than 15 years of experience working with small businesses to help them reach new customers and leverage platform tools that allow them to take their businesses online.

It sounds like a piece of cake, but as Angela can attest it takes years of hard - work and preparation to secure investment.

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.

The Marketing Director at Braintree, the fast - growing payments platform, Leyden is a technology and fintech marketing pro who, over the past year, has also taken on the challenge of establishing marketing at Venmo, the peer to peer payments platform, where she is working on brand positioning and marketing.

«It may take Las Vegas or Austin 25 years to challenge northern California as an incubator of new technology, but they are working on it.

Solace Technologies» first year of business was about what you'd expect from a startup — funds were tight and the company's founders, who didn't take a salary for 12 months, worked from a basement in an office building in downtown Los Angeles.

We not only rallied going into the close of the year, the rally at the start of the year has taken everyone by surprise, far surpassing the typical first - day putting - money - to - work story.

By the end of the first three working days of the year, the U.K.'s top bosses will each have earned on average as much as a typical worker will take home in all of 2018, according to a report.

For Roth, that meant 10 years of work before a fully fleshed idea worth publication, took form.

But Google has announced it will build 100 prototypes of that autonomous two - seater, working to refine its technology, and reports circulated in late 2014 that Google was seeking an automotive partner to bring that car to market, though it may take up to five years to do so.

Prevent works in much the same way the YMCA's Diabetes Prevention Program works — a group of people (12, in Omada's case) take classes, engage in challenges, and generally support one another with the help of a health coach for several months to a year, with the goal of losing 7 % body weight and preventing the onset of Type 2 diabetes.

Training full time, sacrificing studies and jobs, can have huge opportunity costs as well, as missing out on necessary education and prime years of work experience take tolls on later earnings.

After working for Doctors Without Borders in Darfur he began taking photographs, and last year received funding from the U.S. - based non-profit Institute of Modern Russia to spend six months documenting Russian corruption.