Sentences with phrase «years spending almost»

After 20 years spent almost exclusively behind the wheels of Fords and other mainstream American autos, I hit my limit on providing endless vehicular life - support: it was time for something new.

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.

And if we have demonstrated anything over the past 40 years, it's that we'll risk and spend almost anything to get them.

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.

Household spending sank 4.6 % in the year to August, almost twice the fall expected by analysts.

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

A new report from American Express on small - business owners doing business with the U.S. government shows that active contractors spent almost $ 129,000 in the past year seeking out those opportunities...

You've spent years working this job that hasn't been what you wanted for your life, but you smile because it's almost over.

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.

Constellation Brands paid almost $ 1 billion for craft brewer Ballast Point late in 2015 and spent $ 160 million last year for High West Distillery.

Over the next five years, Snap will spend almost $ 3.5 billion on these cloud services, according to Jefferies.

«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.

I spent almost five years at Apple, where I was responsible for helping to build out and expand iAd.

What's more is that they're willing to spend a lot — almost half (48 percent) said they're willing to spend over $ 5,000 throughout the year and 31 percent said they'd invest more than $ 10,000.

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.

In your younger years, it's almost impossible to plan ahead for the exact amount you'll need based on the exact amount you'll spend when you retire.

The company also said that its chief accounting officer Jas Athwal, who had spent almost nine years at the company, has resigned.

We spent almost 1,000 hours volunteering in 2016 and we're on track to blow that number away this year.

Until the Federal government can pass a budget (they haven't in almost four years), remove the 7 - year long ZIRP which penalizes savers and rewards debtors, and find a way to eventually remove the excess QEs and > $ 1 trillion annual spending deficits, I will stay on the porch while the «big dogs» run.

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.

The Federal Government will spend almost $ 1.1 billion in the next four years to promote business - based research, development and innovation.

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.

Having spent almost two years working for a startup that made data collection apps in a communications marketing role, here are the top 3 things you need to consider before you join the startup world:

P&G is already the nation's largest television advertiser, while Gillette spends almost $ 1 billion a year on ads, primarily targeting men rather than P&G's traditional female customer.

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.

Their names and the money the company keeps spending each year to maintain their standards make it almost impossible for new competitors to enter this market.

Last year, Chavez went on a spending spree that almost tripled the fiscal deficit, but helped him win a third six - year term.

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.»

As a young man fighting in the Polish resistance, Wiernicki was captured by the Germans and spent almost two years in Auschwitz.

Jesus spent almost 30 years preparing for his 3.5 yr ministry....

For me — as someone who has spent almost five years studying Eve — I can say that this was and is not, in fact, God's natural order where women are concerned.

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've tried to like them, bought several — even tried «comfortable» ones, even spent several years in a Fundy church that required them... but I was so uncomfortable it was almost a hindrance to me wanting to go.

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.

We have actually eaten almost nothing else when we went out during the one year we spent there.

«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.