Sentences with phrase «years of spending almost»

We had these nearly two years of spending almost every minute of every day together, living in our quiet, predictable rhythms.

Not exact matches

González Franch has run AI alongside CEO Tomas Bello Garza for almost 30 years, and by their own admission the broader well - being of their 4,000 employees wasn't something they'd spent a lot of time thinking about.

Half of small business social media users complain that the platforms take more time than they'd thought, but almost the same number believe it's time well - spent — that their social media initiatives will pay off financially in a year or less.

Earlier this year, a survey suggested almost one in four Canadians were spending more time watching online video over the course of a day than time on the couch in front of their TV.

Summer is almost over, and it's already time to start thinking about the holidays — otherwise known as the biggest spending season of the year.

When Ron Klein, inventor of the magnetic credit card strip, was 16, he contracted hepatitis and spent almost two years recovering.

In its 2011 filing, which covers the last seven months of the year, Crossroads GPS reported spending almost $ 22.4 million, including $ 1.7 million on political ads, including this anti-Obama ad.

«I spent over a decade of my life working at the issue [of prison reform], including half a decade at the NAACP, and yet here you have a former inmate turned entrepreneur who's been able to bring relief to almost a quarter of federal inmates in just a couple of years,» Jealous says.

Over the past decade and a half, they and the major insurers have snapped up most of the biggest properties — OMERS bought Brookfield Place in Toronto four years ago, for example, while London Life and Great - West Life jointly spent $ 382 million on Calgary's Gulf Canada Square in 2007 — and today are believed to own almost 90 % of downtown Toronto's commercial space.

The average American spends almost $ 800 per year on lottery tickets and people who make $ 20,000 or less spend an average of 10 % of their income on the lottery.

Australians spent almost $ 800 million on over 2 billion cups of coffee last year — and that's just the start of the caffeine habit.

When asked if the state of the U.S. economy would impact their holiday spending plans, four in 10 (41.4 %) said yes, down almost 20 percent from last year and the lowest amount since NRF first asked in 2009.

«I grew up in L.A., and I spent almost 30 years of my life there, and I spent years of my life stuck behind the wheel, thinking about how to make this better,» he said.

She pays month after month, spending a grand total of almost $ 9,000 by the time all is paid off in 34 years.

We spent almost two years researching the idea and Rich met a lot of other business owners in the popcorn business.

Budget balance has been achieved despite a slowing economy and new tax cuts mainly by doing almost nothing new on the spending side for the coming fiscal year of 2015 - 16.

I have spent almost my entire career in the investment industry, over 27 years of it anyway, as an analyst focused almost entirely on «value» stocks.

The poor consumer spending in Q1 could be a harbinger of more economic weakness, not only because the consumer is almost 70 % of the U.S. economy, but because average real personal consumption expenditures grew at a faster rate than real GDP over the last three years, 2.9 % to 2.2 %.

This was a guy who spent almost 20 years deliberately experimenting with ways to become conscious of his unconscious, delving into his own «darkness.»

Middlebury, for example, spent a one - time $ 12 million on a biomass gasification plant, and spends almost $ 5 million per year to achieve its goal of becoming carbon - neutral by 2016.

«Reconciliation is a mixture of event which gives momentum and patient work which brings a change of heart deep down and is almost unknown in our world today, even in places which have achieved some kind of peace... We have to be willing to spend years at this.»

I spent 35 years trapped in false traditional Orthodoxy that almost led to my demise or at least insanity, until I came to this conclusion: This theology reconciles ALL doctrinal problems; and does not create them as tradition has; it gives us the true message that God wills the ultimate reconciliation of ALL that He created; and gives nothing to Satan; hence does not leave the human universe eternally split between Himself and the Infernal Liar.

Refusing to turn from Christ, the women spent almost a year in the women's ward of Evin Prison, where they saw the harsh effects of Islamic law on women and, consequently, found hearts that were open to the hope of Jesus.

I spent almost 30 years pastoring and left because of some of the most harmful behavior by leaders and an institution that would not acknowledge such behavior, behavior that has gone on for decades.

And in between that, a trip to Japan happened (still figuring out how to write about that from a food perspective, because boy was there a lot of food), many weekends were spent up at the cottage, I wrote my doctoral comprehensive exam, and before I knew it, the year was almost over.

I almost regret all those years I spent eating other pancakes not knowing the magic of the quinoa pancake was possible.

«I spent almost five years in search of a product to meet our needs before encountering Biosphere at a trade show last year and learned more about the patented process,» Clawson says.

Well, we spent a week in Poland during the kids» autumn holidays at the beginning of October last year and I liked the food soooo much, I just had to try to recreate some or better said almost all of the delicious dishes we had there, at home.

The rapid growth of Foodstirs — which spent most of 2017 in around 400 stores before a surge of interest from retailers propelled it into almost 8,000 doors by the year end - proves you can disrupt a category dominated by legacy brands (Betty Crocker, Duncan Hines) by offering mainstream products and flavor profiles (chocolate chip cookies, sweet vanilla cake) that appeal to a generation of consumers that want to cook - as evidenced by the growth of meal kits - but also want to vote with their wallets by choosing brands which align with their values, argued Fleishman.

For the brand's Cabernet Cask imperial stout, a stout spent almost two years in oak barrels that first aged Groth Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon before finishing in Jefferson's Reserve bourbon barrels, resulting in a complex beer with notes of chocolate, espresso, fig, tobacco, and leather.

lol] won it, Madrid spent roughly half a billion Euros [same as the cost of building the Emirates] in pursuit of La Decima for SO MANY years while Barcelona spent almost nothing on Messi, Xavi and Iniesta, the chief actors of their dominant years... my point?

Kaluzny and his partners — David Meyer, a mechanical engineer who did most of the designing, and Richard E. McPherson, a government contract administrator — spent almost three years developing the idea.

Arsenal are the fifth richest club in the world, have one of the highest wage bills, Wenger's kept his best players for the last four years, has brought in WC talent, and had a net spend in the summer of almost # 100 million.

I have always had a healthy respect for what Wenger has done for us over the years but this run of results is too much by a long chalk and its time that his competancy and the boards ambition was called into question by any of the fan groups strong enough to make a difference, theres around 200 million comming into the club next season with the new BT sports deal and I am almost certain that this wont be spent on the players we really need nor will it be used to lower season ticket prices, so where will this money go?

The same applies to Debuchy last year, why let Sagna go free to Manchester city and then go and spend # 12 million on debuchy who is almost the same age and plays the same standard of football with Sagna.

Nor do players complain about their roles, of particular note in the case of fading 36 - year - old star Vincent Damphousse, who has played wing after spending almost a decade at center.

This year's crop of Big Swing candidates includes a coach who is almost certainly not going anywhere, a coach who spent the last 19 years of his coaching career (which ended four years ago, by the way) in the pros, a coach who leaves every job either hated or in unceremonious fashion, and a coach who knowingly played ineligible players for an entire season and lied about it to the NCAA and must sit out part of his next season as a head coach.

To such a weird and wonderful estate, which over the last dozen years has annually paid him more than $ 100,000, most of it already spent, Mel Allen has risen on the strength of an indefatigable, hinged - in - the - middle tongue, an unsurpassed knowledge of and almost mystical involvement in sports.

According to BBC Sport, City almost spent # 55million on signing Sanchez during the summer, but the 29 - year - old could now become one of the best Bosman signings of all time.

Nice article... I used to be one of those staunch Wenger fans through the years... I used to believe he is superior than Sir Alex, because with almost nothing to spend and playing with kids, he managed to keep us up there every year... I was really caught up with that half season wonder we used to show... In the summer 2013, him or the board (I don't recall) came out and said we are much stable financially and now we can fight with the biggest bullies, I got my hopes high, I thought we are definitely signing a top striker and DM, that what we need... What happened, only hours before the window closed we managed to sign a top AMF (remember we have our best player for the season 2012 - 2013 was AMF, Cazorla if you remember), I was really depressed seen Giroud leading the line every match... then comes winter window, and we were right there top of the table... My friend send me a poster of an elephant on a tree, and on the bottom of it «no one knows how it got there but everybody knows how it will get down»... I told my friend that we are only one decent striker far from the gold... and what happened, we signed an old injured DM on loan... That for me was a completely arrogance and stubbornness cost us the league title... There I completely lost the plot with Wenger... I wish yesterday I was with those who raised that banner... I would write in my banner «Enough talks and philosophy, we need results»

And after Welbeck spent 13 years as part of the Man United set up and has been playing with the likes of Wayne Rooney for almost all that time, as well as having been involved with England since 2006 at an underage level, his feeling such a part of Arsenal already just highlights how happy Welbeck is and that he feels he has definitely made the right decision to join us.

As usual Jon you make some good points but with all respect to Leeds, Villa and Forest, no way would Spurs spend the amount of time in the lower leagues [just one year] that those three have spent recently and I'm sure you remember that great Spurs side in their double year dropping their first point after 14 games to Man City and suffering their first defeat to Sheffield Wednesday by the odd goal in three on Boxing day and almost beating our 66 point record [2 points a win in those days] which stood from the glorious thirties thanks to a shock home defeat on the last day of the season by West Brom with their frightening forward line of Jones, White, Smith, Allen, and Dyson and to make things worse the following year the signing of Jimmy Greaves, and don't let anybody tell different without doubt the greatest striker the English game as ever seen.

Southampton striker Jay Rodriguez has spent almost an entire year sidelined with injury, yet he is still attracting injury from the likes of Liverpool, Tottenham, and Manchester City, according to the Independent.

He's been with us for almost a year, signing on 10th August last year as the club made a number of signings to bolster the development squad, and then spending the second half of 2015/16 at Altrincham for whom he scored five goals in twenty National League appearances.

For the past few weeks, midfielder Vurnon Anita has been drafted into playing on the left after spending almost all of last year for Newcastle in the right back slot.

Despite City's high number of purchases last year — they spent over # 100 million on Raheem Sterling and Kevin De Bruyne alone — the Catalan coach still feels the first - team needs almost a total renewal.

I spent almost five years reporting in Harlem, attending parenting classes and sixth - grade math lessons and basketball games and parent - teacher meetings, and the time I spent there turned out to be a period of great change, not only for Geoff and the scope of his project but also for plenty of individuals whose stories I've tried to tell in the book.

I am embarking on a new, creative change at almost - forty and it feels slightly terrifying, having spend the prior 15 years in a more traditional line of work.

Don't forget to check your local library or garage sales for free or almost - free books before you go spending big bucks on something baby is probably going to bite a chunk out of before the end of year one.

When my sons received one of the Civilisation strategy games as a Christmas present one year, they spent a week, almost solidly, playing it.