Sentences with phrase «years you spend there»

He taught me a lot in the few years I spent there.

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

The 3 years I spent there reinforced my view that full - time research was not for me.

The more years you spend there, the more your presence will be felt — and the more books you'll sell.

Weitzman stated that he felt satisfied with all that he accomplished during the years he spent there, but he had a longing to return to California.

This painting is a memory of this year spent there

The present work, immortalizing the self - imposed label «Mad Tracey from Margate», emphasises the artist's deep identification with her home town and the turbulent years she spent there.

Simon was my mentor and inspiration for the four years I spent there; he taught me how to be a lawyer.

Not exact matches

Though the thought of running your own business, spending your days working on something you're passionate about, and choosing how and where you spend your time is enticing, realize there are days if not years of sleepless nights, cash flow shortfalls and mindset hurdles between you and your destination.

But there are reports that Senate leaders are close to a deal on a two - year budget that would boost defense spending and spending on domestic programs the Democrats want.

There's no guarantee of a job after the program finishes for participants, nor any obligation for them to stay on in the city, but Greene Groves hopes that spending a year in Detroit will help convince participants to build longer - term ties to the city.

There are some significant competitive advantages that should begin to accrue to the U.S. economy in the years to come - energy, manufacturing competitiveness and demographics - though the savings required to fund investment could be redirected to the public sector if policymakers do not slow the growth of mandatory spending.»

If you spend any amount of time there, in addition to other landmarks such as the famous ball that descends on New Year's Eve and, of course, the Naked Cowboy, you will also notice aggressive salesmen roaming the streets selling their goods and services.

After 16 years and $ 120 billion spent on the reconstruction of Afghanistan since the US invasion, the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces are alarmingly unprepared to take on the resurgent Taliban that's slowly clawed back territory since NATO combat operations ended there in 2014.

«There's definitely a cap on growth at that airport,» says Steve Silverhart of HUBS Aviation Consulting, who spent a year as ground services manager at Billy Bishop, which handled two million travellers last year.

There's little more disheartening to me than seeing a team spend years making a product, then when they're finally in the market, realize the product needs to work in a completely different way.

Pay - TV subscribers spend an average of $ 231 a year to rent these boxes, because there are few meaningful alternatives.

While completing his dissertation, Clark spent two years working for the central planning ministry of the then - socialist African nation, and the first of his four children was born there, with only a midwife present to support the birth.

They spent New Year's Eve there, then traveled to Costa Rica and then to Miami.

I've never even heard of this man until today which is a little odd for me personally because he's based out of The Bahamas and I've spent considerable amounts of time there over the years.

First there was Julian Assange, who spent a good portion of the year hiding out in the Ecuadorean embassy in London as a way of avoiding an arrest warrant.

There are 8,760 hours in a year, and I know exactly how many of them I have spent working, with family, exercising, or on community activities.

She spent over two years there and volunteered her way to more experience by joining the GEO team for her «20 % project.»

And there's a bruising fight with Congress over spending and the federal deficit on the horizon, just days after Obama and Congress averted the fiscal cliff with a last - minute deal over the New Year's holiday.

«They are coming as refugees and there will be a place for them in Uruguay if they want to bring their families,» said Mujica, who spent 14 years in prison before and during his country's 1973 - 1985 dictatorship.

There's some good news and bad news in this year's annual assessment about the way the Pentagon spends its hundreds of billions of dollars.

There were, among others, the debt ceiling standoff - cum - rating downgrade of 2011 and the fiscal cliff scare of late 2012, followed by awfully - timed tax hikes and spending cuts earlier this year.

Hawkins himself happens to be an Apple alumnus, having spent four years there working on the development and marketing of the Lisa computer.

There are great IT systems that have been written over the past five years that are light - years ahead of what we had, and we can lease that for a fraction of what we spent.

After spending the last four years largely defined by military service, it wasn't that easy to just let go of it, but there's nothing wrong with toning it down.

Netflix wants everyone in the world to be a subscriber, and will spend billions and billions of dollars per year to get there ($ 6 billion on content in 2017).

We get excited about hardware, but we spend seven or eight years playing games — and he's one of the best game makers out there.»

Some said it would be from tax cuts (unlikely to pass this year), others said it would be from infrastructure spending (also unlikely), and then there were those like Buiter who saw a trade war as the biggest threat.

To avoid spats over spending, Janine and Dom Detore — stars of CNBC's «Staten Island Hustle,» who have been married for 27 years — say there is a simple mindset couples can cultivate.

As Wallerstein sees it, there's only one for corporations: «The way the IRS's rules are set up for health - care reimbursement FSAs, an employee could decide to contribute, say, $ 2,000 over the course of a year, spend that money on medical procedures during the first two months of the year, and then quit, leaving his company holding the bag for any funds that hadn't yet been deducted from his paycheck.»

Previously, the GBTA forecasted that business travel spending would grow 3.2 percent in 2016 to nearly $ 300 billion and that there would be an estimated 514 million trips this year, an increase of 3.1 percent.

«There is a growing segment of people who spent the first fifteen years of their careers doing the corporate thing, and who are now looking to work in a business that is values driven.

Then there are the cities that spend so bountifully, or plan to poorly — or a combination of both — that they triggered damage that took years or even decades to fix.

In the weeks since the series debuted, there has been an Internet firestorm that has included countless opinions on whether or not justice was truly served and whether Avery may have suffered the second wrongful conviction of his life (he previously spent 18 years in prison for a sexual assault conviction that was later overturned due to new DNA evidence).

«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 departThere 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 departthere 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.

To give some idea of the stakes involved: There are roughly 80 million Millennials in the United States alone, and each year they spend approximately $ 600 billion.

And there will be a searchable archive — available for seven years — which will include the ads themselves plus some associated data (such as how many times an ad may have been seen, how much money was spent, and the kinds of people who saw it).

But the question then becomes: should the government be spending an anticipated $ 703 million over the 3 year program when there is no market failure?

In the past year, a lot of ink has been devoted to China's slowdown after its phenomenal spending boom over the last decade, but there are signs that spending is perking up — a tailwind for resources.

Well a more likely scenario is the one I laid out on this blog 4 days ago, where Trump doesn't get everything he asks for, and there are some spending cuts made, so the plan costs $ 25 trillion not $ 35, but I thought it was just over the course of 10 years.

«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.

This means that if the federal government repairs the Champlain Bridge for $ 5 billion (which could be borrowed in financial markets in the first year of work) there would be no charge to the federal government spending in the federal budget until the bridge is repaired and vehicles are operating on it.

Lynch, who has a doctorate in immunology and microbiology from Ohio State University, spent two years there before joining DuPont as a research scientist working on tests for the AIDS virus.

From there, I spent 12 years at Kodak in various business - to - business marketing roles — everything from market strategy and research to communications and PR.

To get there, Google spent years perfecting their employee perks to create a positive and highly - productive environment.