Sentences with phrase «few fair days»

She is also the author of A Few Fair Days (1971), a collection of short stories for children set on a Cumberland farm, and two novels for teenagers: A Long Way From Verona (1971), which explores a wartime childhood in Yorkshire; and The Summer After the Funeral (1973), a story about a loss of innocence after the death of a father.

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I have, in fact, participated in my fair share of shopping on the day, and I still have a few lingering items around the house that have thus far avoided the office White Elephant Gift Exchange.

Kayleigh manages casting, VIP seeding and event management and her work includes The Vanity Fair Pre-Oscar parties, Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, Young Hollywood Awards, Coachella, ELLE's Annual Women in Music Awards and Dapper Day at Disney to name a few.

On a frigid evening, days before Christmas, nearly 100 people braved icy roads to attend a SolarCity job fair at Mt. Olive Baptist Church, on the slight chance they might qualify for one of the few hundred positions available at the company's solar factory.

I'm going away in a few days, which makes me nostalgic for family time in advance, plus it was the annual Vehicles Fair, which we have loved going to since Nathaniel was just a tiny guy.

It is, of course, the week of Valentine's Day, so I have a hunch we're all going to be eating our fair share of chocolate over the next few days.

If you want to embark on changing your tastebuds to sweetness, it does pay off to know your low fructose fruits (especially if you're currently eating a fair few portions a day) so you can make a few less sweet swaps and really that fruit isn't going to put back on some sugar train.

A morning routine really has the power to make or break your start to the day, and these chocolate peanut butter protein oats have certainly featured pretty heavily in a fair few of my mornings thanks to their fail safe happiness boosting effects.

The river began to thaw a few days later and the Freezeland Fair was over, melted away with the floods.

Arsenal shipped out a fair few first team players in the final days of this summer's transfer window, with Gnabry, Wilshere and Chambers all leaving in the final days, either on loan or on a permanent basis.

He also spoke about their being a fair few Frenchman in the current squad which would help him to settle, but Coquelin has played a bigger role than that, as an Evening Standard report explains, as the two have kept in contact since those international days and are clearly quite close, so Coquelin has had the chance to put in a lot of good words for the Gunners.

It's been a fair few years since Arsenal were last forced into selling one of their best players and brightest talents to a rival and those days are supposedly over for good now, given that the stadium debts have finally been paid off.

Absolutley fair point, but who's to say that he is even going to perform well, he has had a few scary patches of inconsistency, like most brazilian players now days remember Bernard, Adriano, Vagner Love, Ganso it ends up all the same..

The Gunners could certainly do with a player of his ability, though, and there have been a fair few Arsenal transfer rumours over the last few days suggesting that he is one of the players on the transfer wish list of Arsene Wenger.

To be fair to the boss, I reckon this is a pretty strong side and with a crucial Premier League game against Liverpool coming in just a few days he has little choice but to rotate.

To be fair he did admit that the Miami trip had been arranged well in advance of the Burnley game; and indicated the week before that fateful encounter at the London Stadium that he might take everyone away for a few days training in the sun.

It would be fair to say there has been plenty of talk about England's defensive situation over the past few days, following John Terry's surprise decision to announce his retirement from international football.

And with this issue out the door begins a very full and busy season behind the scenes at Taproot, as we prepare for a few days at the Common Ground Fair (will we see you there?)

Is the fair one of two days long, or just a few hours?

It was amazing being at such a big and well - known craft fair in London, although being surrounded for two days by so much beautiful handmade stuff, I did have to treat myself to quite a few things!

A few hardy exhibitors, vendors and visitors braved the intermittent thundershowers on the first day of the art fair last weekend.

When there are fewer indoor shows in the winter months, many artists spend their days working on their art and the often tedious process of applying to the art fairs.

For the first few days after birth, lochia contains a fair amount of blood, so it will be bright red and look like a heavy menstrual period.

Join in and you can help the Center whittle the Sexist Sixteen down to the Egregious Eight and the Foul Four over the next few days, with the final vote to crown the winnah and champeen to be held on Fair Pay Day on April 12th.

But, FAIR INDIVIDUALS will easily recognize that: It is a long time that ISIS is attacking daily to Shia countries and related Shia countries (as their main targets) such as Iraq, Syria, (& Yemen) and kill oppressed children, women,..., so, honestly, you can not really compare these vast daily (several years) savage attacks of Isis against Shia with: One or few attacks in one or some limited days, who they attack to a few diverse countries?

The Albany Medical Center upgraded Sweat's condition to fair on Tuesday and noted that he will remain in the hospital for «at least a few days.»

This is Lord Oakeshott's decision and is understandable in the circumstances.These have been a difficult few days after a disappointing set of election results.But now is the time to get on with the business of Government and getting our message out about what the Liberal Democrats are delivering in Government to build a stronger economy and a fairer society - cutting income tax, bringing down the deficit, creating jobs and making sure everyone benefits from our economic recovery.

Just a few days ago, Queens City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer announced his support for the Move NY Fair Plan.

«Over the next few weeks, I'll be speaking directly to residents across the state and urging them to make their voices heard in this fight to ensure a fair day's pay for a fair day's work,» Cuomo told The News.

Cuomo's commitment to pushing for fairer lines has come under scrutiny over the last few days after he told The Democrat and Chronicle's editorial board that he had basically been defeated by the legislature in the fight for independent redistricting.

However, since allocating a few hours a day to this pursuit is impractical for most people, we can still create a plan that has a fair amount of low level aerobic movement, such as walking briskly, hiking, cycling at a moderate pace, etc a few times a week and keep it at under an hour.

Fair Warning: There may be a few days of indoor shots since Boston is getting slammed — AGAIN — with snow.

Since I've been MIA, it's only fair to catch up a little on what I've been up to these past few days -LRB-... weeks...) with life.

Cold and rainy the next few days = (Not fair!

Consider this your fair warning that I am sprung on stripes after a taste of spring with a few warm days, so you'll be seeing them often here!

The difference with these kinds of fairs is they are much larger and often are over a few days.

Finally he spent a fair bit of time over the past few days playing Laser League, which is really really good!

A few days later, Jackson spoke to Vanity Fair to clarify that his pot - stirring remarks were never intended to cause any animosity.

Having busied himself with matters of the apocalypse for the better part of two decades in films like «Independence Day,» «The Day After Tomorrow» and «2012,» it's fair to say few would expect him to have -LSB-...]

I mean, right from day one the more distracting and disruptive students who tend to be attentionally insecure do need a fair bit of guidance from their teachers about their behaviour, both in the public sphere of the classroom itself and also following up with students one - to - one who've been particularly difficult in those first few lessons.

But audit testing, in a few grades at year's end, using secret tasks, is inherently unable to improve teaching and learning day in and day out in all classrooms, as my proposal is designed to do and any attempt at fair and comprehensive reform must do.

The webinar will address common charter school human resources questions, such as state leave days, and exempt and nonexempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act, to name a few.

Just a few days after the 55th Bologna Children's Book Fair, NYRF signed an agreement with BookExpo, the American book fair organized by Reed Exhibition, allowing the two events to work together to better serve the publishing indusFair, NYRF signed an agreement with BookExpo, the American book fair organized by Reed Exhibition, allowing the two events to work together to better serve the publishing indusfair organized by Reed Exhibition, allowing the two events to work together to better serve the publishing industry.

Sadly a few days ago Peter Mayer, the North American and International publishing, long - time friend of the Bologna Children's Book Fair, left us.

I'm learning a lot at the London Book Fair and will post a wrap - up of publishing and marketing tips that indie authors can use in a few days, for those that couldn't attend, so stay tuned for that.

I'm delighted to find I can log in to my local library and download, for free, for periods of up to 14 days, a fair selection of a few hundred popular ebooks.

BOLOGNA: After attending sessions at an Australian publishing forum in Beijing just a few days before, walking into the Tools of Change for Publishing conference at the Bologna Children's Book Fair this past Sunday felt like stepping back out of a time machine.

Campbell River also ranked poorly on our list for both its high number of wet days and overall amount of precipitation, although its fair temperatures meant it had few days below zero.

You were very fortunate to receive employee retirement health care coverage, very few employers offer that these days, and the high expense of private insurance is, unfortunately, going to consume a fair bit of our employer contributions to our retirement plans.

We have heard from a fair few owners that have lost their hamster, they will be fine on their own for the first few days and may turn up after weeks.