Sentences with phrase «years they spent studying»

The invitation to participate in this series came as I was putting the finishing touches on a sabbatical year spent studying — and that means doing — the arts.

All of the benefits mentioned below are based on scientific fact after years spent studying the progress of babies weaned at different ages.

Back in my martial arts days, lots of people would boast about how many years they spent studying.

It's the capstone to a year spent studying about our local ecosystems, northern climate systems, and cultural universals with an in - depth study of native peoples of the Arctic.

Nineteenth century literature is fantastically two - fisted, and I am clearly influenced by the years I spent studying it closely.

Tale of the Tape The years you spent studying technical analysis may not make you a good trader.

Influenced by a gap year spent studying art and Italian in Florence, Italy, Mazur's thesis included 16 hand - carved woodcuts and wood engravings illustrating texts from the Bible, Oscar Wilde, Gustav Flaubert and Stéphane Mallarmé.

Although he abandoned his dental profession the day after graduation, Estabrook's artistic career has benefit immensely from those four intense years spent studying human facial anatomy, utilizing unconventional tools, sculpting crowns, and stressing microscopic details.

Julia has a degree in LLB Law and German from Cardiff University, which included a year spent studying German law at the University of Passau.

Not exact matches

Nonadherence to prescribed regimens is also costly, resulting in nearly $ 300 billion a year in wasted spending, according to some studies.

Psychologist Angela Duckworth has spent years studying kids and adults, and found that one characteristic is a significant predictor of success: grit.

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

Especially if they've spent the last four or however long years studying, it's a nice signifier that they can begin to enjoy their free time, their adulthood, and hopefully the fruits of all that labor.

Last year, a study commissioned by Larato found, «Salespeople spend 11 % of their time traveling.»

About 30 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs spent the first few years of their careers developing a strong foundation in finance, according to a study by consulting firm Heidrick & Struggles.

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

According to a new study, by the end of this year, digital interactions will influence 64 cents of every dollar spent in retail stores.

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.

That's the first finding in this week's economic research wrap, which also looks at changes in the way women have spent their days in recent years and summarizes studies on spillovers from central bank balance - sheet normalization.

According to a study released by Battelle Memorial Institute, Research and Development (R&D) spending in China this year is likely to reach $ 284 billion, up 22 percent from 2012.

Millennials — Americans born in the 1980s and 1990s, also referred to as Generation Y — will spend $ 69 billion on discretionary items this year alone, according to data from a recent Harris Interactive study.

She has spent years studying the science (research, studies, physiology, etc.) of how body language tells the story of what is going on inside someone's brain.

A petroleum - consulting and advisory firm, Sproule has spent 60 years assisting organizations around the world with the evaluation of oil and gas reserves along with merger - and - acquisition - related due diligence and reservoir studies.

Based on the GBTA study of 75 countries, here's a look at the top 15 by total business - travel spending in 2012, with percentage growth from the previous year:

SnowEx — a NASA - led research campaign — will be spending the next five years studying how much snow is on the ground worldwide at any given time.

Plus, I spent five years studying the money habits of the rich and the poor in my Rich Habits Study.

In tracking all the comings and goings to the S&P 500 for the last 50 years, the study shows that the duration companies spend on the list fluctuates in cycles mirroring the overall state of the economy and disruption from new technologies, including biotech breakthroughs, social media, and cloud computing.

As a result, I have spent the past five years studying finance as a hobby.

«Recognizing the power of emotions... one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century spent years studying the emotional effects of his body language.

Tory Higgins, a professor of psychology and business at Columbia University, has spent more than 20 years studying what makes people reach their goals.

According to a study published last year by the National Bureau of Economic Research, American consumers are spending an estimated extra $ 44 billion a year on brand - name drugs, health care items and pantry goods.

A study by JPMorgan calculated median annual health - care costs for today's 65 - year - olds at $ 4,660, but they project annual increases of 6.2 percent to 7 percent as that group ages, so that by 2036, when those people are 85, their median annual health - care spending will reach roughly $ 18,000.

I spent a year studying how girls learn best, researching gender differences, talking with neuroscientists and observing children's play patterns.

Sterling spent the next year creating the toy, studying gender differences and cognitive development in children, writing a business plan and doing in - home testing with a prototype with more than 100 boys and girls in three schools and more than 40 homes.

Sociology professor Dan Chambliss spent years studying Olympic swimmers and what separated them from swimmers at other levels.

* Starts next phase of key obesity study next year (Adds comment by CEO, Victoza's market share, R&D spending in obesity)

In addition, another study cited that kids ages 13 and younger spend an astonishing 30 minutes a week outside, with 8 - 10 year olds racking up close to 8 hours per day on some sort of electronic device.

A 2016 Rand Corporation study commissioned by the Pentagon found that allowing transgender people to serve would increase health care costs by $ 2.4 million a year, or a 0.04 to 0.13 percent increase in Defense Department spending.

Both studies found that until Americans hit the latter retirement years, when health care expenses tend to scale up, they're spending far less than 85 % of their pre-retirement income, on average.

Whether the person forged their blade and are showcasing its durability because they own a forging business or blade company... or whether they're representing a martial art where they've been studying for the past 15 or 20 years... spending as much time as we do on set you can't help but feel like you're going through the competition with these people.

«There have been transitions before where the department headed off in new directions, but there is traditionally a period of new people coming in and studying and learning about issues before taking bold and dramatic new policy directions,» said William Yeomans, who spent nearly 30 years at the department.

When Amazon announced last year that it wanted to spend more than $ 5 billion to build a second headquarters with as many as 50,000 employees, it sparked a flurry of studies as to which metro areas had a chance to win the business that would transform most economies.

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Looking further at those trends, the study reveals that men spent less time on social media than women (5 vs. 7 hours per week), decreasing their hours by 1 from the previous year.

NerdWallet's 2017 household debt study shows that several major spending categories have outpaced income growth over the past decade; many Americans are putting medical expenses on credit cards; and the average indebted household is paying hundreds of dollars in credit card interest each year.

Having spent two full years studying the inequalities of the current banking system, she knew she had to be part of the cryptocurrency movement.

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Kurt also spent a year at McGill University in the finance department and focused on Canadian studies during his undergraduate and graduate degree programs.

I spent five years studying 177 self - made millionaires Rich Habits Study — Background on Methodology and I have to say, they are among the most courageous, fearless individuals I have ever met.

In a study published this year that tracked Best Buy's ROWE program, researchers at the University of Minnesota found that, while it had helped reduce employee turnover, women who took part still spent 10 hours more on child care per week than their male flextime colleagues.