Sentences with phrase «years studying for»

Did you spend years studying for exams at a certain coffee shop?

Faye Alston spent eight years studying for the General Educational Development exam, better known as the GED.

As the New York Times recounted in a 2008 profile of him, «His three years studying for a master's degree in dentistry in the United States was the most important period in his life.

When I was living in California for three years studying for my MA in psychology and training to be a therapist my new best friend, Caroline, came late into class one day.

«First Implementation Year Study for the Correlation of Value - Added Model Scores, Average Scores on Marzano Elements, and Quality Ratings for Pedagogy»

After moving to the U.S., the artist spent a gap year studying for SATs and taking classes on American history and literature before returning to Nigeria to serve a year of National Service — a policy instituted after the Nigerian civil war to promote unity — far from her home in the southwestern part of Nigeria.

To receive a diploma or certificate, expect to spend between nine months and a year studying for your new career.

See The 12 Year Study for more on this.

Andreas is currently in his final year studying for a Masters in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Not exact matches

A year ago, the London - based multinational undertook a study entitled «The World in 2050,» which projected Canada would be the only major developed economy to hold its position in the world — at the No. 10 spot — at mid-century, largely because of the demand for its resources and its ties through immigration to emerging markets (which by that time will no longer be labelled as such).

Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

In 2004, a psychology study by researchers at the University of Florida and the University of North Carolina found that for every inch you stand above the national average, you could earn an additional $ 789 (unadjusted) per year.

A study by Forbes Insights and Turn revealed that more than 70 percent of marketing executives expect to rely more and more on data for decision - making within the next three years.

I have spent the last seven years studying these questions and searching for both the truth and the correct answer.

Today, so - called Amazonians occupy more office space in Seattle than the next 40 largest employers in the city combined, according to a study by real - estate data firm CoStar for the Seattle Times last year.

The Study: For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins.

After studying at MIT, Chou worked at Goldman Sachs as a trader for four years.

A study of increases or decreases in rates of a disease across years, calculated for groups of people, is called an ecologic study.

«We had been offering our Depression Care service for a number of years, and we wanted to dig into our data and measure our impact... look and see who our end users were,» says Barb Vader, Vice President, Clinical Services at Morneau Shepell, and the study's research lead.

It's rare for families to successfully navigate even one generational transition in the boardroom — a Canadian Business Insights study from last year found that just 17 % of family - run businesses have a firm succession plan in place.

In a study published in March 2017, 7,500 men were split into four groups, and given vitamin E, selenium, both, or a placebo for 5 years.

For the study, researchers analyzed a a sample of more than 340,000 job interview reviews posted anonymously on the site to determine whether hiring is moving faster or slower today compared to previous years.

Recent research has looked into the health consequences of that mismatch, tracking a group of study subjects for more than six years.

Lilly faced a devastating clinical setback last year with a late - stage failure for its experimental Alzheimer's treatment, the studies for which cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars.

The year 1993 saw the publication of an enormous study that followed over 8,000 adults for 15 years in six US cities.

For a Harvard Business Review study, three consultants examined the Outlook calendars of multiple workers at a large company and found that one weekly executive meeting consumed 300,000 hours each year.

Last year, in a review published in the journal Nature, Beebe and coauthors wrote that hematology, the study of blood, was one of the leading areas of use for microfluidic technology, though «a «killer application'that propels microfluidics into the mainstream has yet to emerge.»

One recent study showed that immigrants in New York were less likely than nonimmigrants to own a business that has been running for more than three - and - a-half years, and more likely to have shut down a business within the past year.

Strikingly for Agios and partner Celgene, the therapy was in human clinical testing not so long ago (there was just a three year gap between the first human studies and Agios» regulatory submission to the FDA).

For the study, published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers pitted people assigned to follow a traditional restricted - calorie diet (eating roughly 25 % of their normal daily calories) against those who were told to fast every other day (eating 25 % of their normal calories on fast days and 125 % on the other days) for a yeFor the study, published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers pitted people assigned to follow a traditional restricted - calorie diet (eating roughly 25 % of their normal daily calories) against those who were told to fast every other day (eating 25 % of their normal calories on fast days and 125 % on the other days) for a yefor a year.

Fees for the 2017 - 2018 year vary between $ 36,390 and $ 48,992 depending on a year of study and whether an individual is a foreign or domestic student.

According to a 2016 McKinsey study, autonomous vehicles, including drones, will account for about 80 % of all consumer parcel deliveries during the next 10 years.

Bill Gates is the father of this trend with his long - standing and well publicized habit of taking two «Think Weeks» for deep study and reflection each year.

Jackson is the lead author of a new study to be published in Psychological Science that tracked nearly 5,000 married Australians for five years and measured how a spouse's personality impacted whether their partner received a promotion, earned a higher salary or experienced higher levels of job satisfaction.

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.

Several years of experience in any of those areas of study will qualify you for a director role.

A study conducted this year for UPS by Internet - research firm comScore showed 63 percent of customers research return policies before they buy.

Companies are becoming increasingly more committed to gender diversity once studies began exposing the uncomfortable truth: «Women remain underrepresented at every level in corporate America, despite earning more college degrees than men for thirty years and counting,» states the report.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

Ryan has spent years studying tax issues, and passed up opportunities in House leadership for this chairmanship.

Kelleher championed a clear set of values: «If somebody makes a proposal and it infringes on those values, you don't study it for two years.

British - based GlaxoSmithKline, for example, conducts more than 100 studies a year in Canada, with the participation of some 10,500 patients in more than 1,000 medical centres.

They were pleased enough with the results that they ponied up another $ 10 million ($ 14 million) for LAPCAT II, a four - year study that launched in October 2008 with a mandate to refine two of the LAPCAT concepts based on engines that would burn liquid hydrogen, and to produce detailed development road maps for producing them.

Deutsche Bank is no longer one of the world's top 15 private banks after a difficult year for the German lender, a study by Scorpio Partnership showed Monday.

I've studied leadership for 15 years.

Lashes told Digitaltrends.com, «I'm a huge fan of pop art, and the digital memes that go around now are a social art form that's going to be studied for years to come, and it's totally a new way of communicating with people... I hate when the snakes get in there and start making products and squatting on sites.

Page said that even in a best case scenario, a male birth control pill for consumers is still between five and 10 years away, since much larger - scale studies need to be done before the FDA would give a seal of approval.

Easy for him to say — he's been studying it for 15 years.

Ronald Burt is a sociologist in the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business who for more than 30 years has studied the phenomenon of «structural holes,» i.e., gaps within organizations.

So Schnidman Medbery, who studied computer science at Columbia University before spending two years with Teach for America in rural Arkansas, decided to create software to help teachers track and analyze student performance.