Sentences with phrase «almost eighty»

In top end areas as much as two thirds to almost eighty percent in the case of the Atlantic Seaboard, were cash transactions.

The grey dust was in reality gold dust, so far as Backton was concerned: Nabel's business employed almost a eighty townspeople.

Despite only coming to the attention of a wider art world a decade or so ago, Herrera has been painting for almost eighty years and continues to do so from her studio in Manhattan, in the same city she has lived in since 1954, although her first stay began in 1939.

The Savannah College of Art and Design has gone the book and film several times better by absorbing and restoring almost eighty buildings, each with a story of its own.

(Bottrop, March 19th, 1888 — New Haven, March 25th, 1976) after almost eighty years from his exhibition organized by Wassily Kandinsky.

David's portrait comes first among almost eighty drawings from the Louvre, going clockwise at the Morgan Library, but Liberty faces the visitor on the way in.

Despite only coming to the attention of a wider art world a decade or so ago, Herrera has been painting for almost eighty years and continues to do so from her studio in Manhattan, the same apartment she has lived in since 1954, although her first stay in New York began in 1939.

The earliest of the almost eighty - five works on view are cartoons from the 1940s, while the most recent feature landscape drawings inspired by the Sacramento River valley.

The entire soundtrack has been lovingly reworked and reimagined by a team of almost eighty musicians.

By the year 2000, biologists were logging almost eighty attacks in a single season.

While traveling in Croatia you can discover a wide range of different landscapes including the Dinaric Mountains, eight national parks (e.g. the world - famous Plitvice Lakes National Park), the long and rocky Dalmatian Coast or almost eighty islands on the Mediterranean Sea.

It came by mail, regular postage, the old - fashioned way since the Judge was almost eighty and distrusted modern devices.

Now, almost eighty years have passed, and there is a fear that that past might resurface.

Almost eighty minutes of the film is entirely driven by toxic masculinity.

Almost eighty percent of successful dieters eat breakfast every day and try not to skip meals.

The population has declined by almost eighty percent in the past few decades.

They've been ambling along for almost eighty years and I think they can do without the «L» for at least another twenty.

This singer is almost eighty years old, but looks great and has stayed incredibly active, and the book is studded with small, often old - school tips of how she believes she's managed to keep up her health.

She has been making this for almost eighty years, first watching her mother, then cooking for her five children after she immigrated, like many Moroccan Jews, to French - speaking Montreal.

There are almost eighty references to apostles in Scripture, and nearly all of them refer to either the Twelve Apostles, or to Paul.

I am almost eighty years old and hope soon to be in the presence of my Maker and Judge and Father and Friend.

He was by then almost eighty years old, but the passion with which he sought to defend the market order against what he saw as the heresy of collectivism was undiminished.

It has been almost eighty years since the publication of H. Richard Niebuhr's The Kingdom of God in America and we are still talking about what Niebuhr called the problem of constructive Protestantism.

It has been around almost eighty years and, like America and the main voice of liberal Protestantism, Christian Century, it has an entrenched base in library and other institutional subscriptions established over generations.

That year, the company lost 800,000 customers, its stock price tanked almost eighty percent, and their management team got turned into a Saturday Night Live sketch (remember Qwikster?).

Not exact matches

«Pulitzer Prize - winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of the eighties» biggest names on Wall Street — Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine — created the greatest insider - trading ring in financial history and almost walked away with billions, until a team of downtrodden detectives triumphed over some of America's most expensive lawyers to bring this powerful quartet to justice.»

In the eighties, we weren't even called forensic artists,» we were just called «police artist» or just, you know, «cop artist, something like that, which is almost like an oxymoron, «cop artist,» you know?

Given that every one of the eighty propositions could be negated (plausibly) in several different ways, it was almost guaranteed that a mélange of different opinions would ensue.

Admittedly, we do not know the intellectual and spiritual profile of TNR readers, but in a nation where 95 percent of the people say they believe in God and almost as many identify themselves religiously, it seems improbable that only 8 percent of the more than eighty respondents were «religious believers.»

Many «experts» make statements like: «Over eighty percent of the population of India are vegetarians; and the southern half of India is almost exclusively so.»

This framework developed in the late eighties is still in operation after almost thirty years, and it was John's influence, foresight and leadership that made it happen.

I've not joined in with The Gallery for ages, mostly because I'm so rubbish at blogging that I only find out the theme once the linky is almost closed, but as a child of the Eighties, I felt it was my duty to show you some photos and generally give myself the chance to show off just how damn CUTE I was as a child.

At eighty - two, Simone Veil is still an active and articulate woman who has become in France almost the British equivalent of a national treasure.

«We found that almost 50 per cent of women in their late seventies and eighties in the study took statins, and five per cent were diagnosed with new - onset diabetes,» Dr Jones said.

Eighty - five per cent of the girls had been subjected to FGM since it was outlawed, almost two - thirds of them by non-medical personnel (Reproductive BioMedicine Online, vol 16, p 27).

According to Lisa, last year, almost all of the eighty fourth and fifth grade science fair projects were based on Science Buddies Project Ideas, as were a large number of the forty sixth grade entries.

He did weight training almost daily until well into his eighties and he ran 11 km a couple of times a week too.

Living in a rain - soaked Swansea, in what appear to be the eighties, Oliver is in love with Jordana (Paige); almost to his surprise they start going out, their relationship based on a mutual love of setting fires.

But there was also We Are Your Friends, the Zac Efron EDM project no one saw, followed almost immediately by Bill Murray's financial abortion Rock The Casbah and then Jem and the Holograms, the eighties nostalgia exercise that was quietly yanked from theaters after just two weeks.

Though Less Than Zero seems, despite its sterile apocalyptic blight, almost naïve in the wake of Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream, it retains (especially in retrospect, given the lost spirit of the Eighties and Robert Downey Jr.'s offscreen problems), something approaching the laden nostalgia of Romanticism.

Released way back in the summer of» 84, Ghostbusters raked in almost a quarter - billion dollars at the box office, making it the most successful comedy of the Eighties.

It does try, at almost exactly the one hour mark (it runs a breezy, but deliberate eighty - nine minutes), to become a character study, but it is not a character study.

It's just a pity that the trailer gives away almost all of it not to mention neatly summarising about eighty minutes worth of the plot of this ninety - minute film.

Eighty - four percent of graduating seniors from our CMOs enrolled in college, almost 60 percent in four - year colleges.

Almost 1,000 educators and support staff representing more than 38 of the City's 50 transfer schools and partner agencies gathered at the Brandeis High School campus on West Eighty - Fourth Street to take part in more than 75 workshops and panels designed to speak directly to the needs and interests of the transfer school community.

Senator Bonwiller was eighty - nine when he died and hadn't been in the news for almost fifteen years, but the crowd included more than a dozen United States senators, two Supreme Court justices, the governors of New York and Connecticut, and enough lawyers and judges and state representatives to fill the county jail.

Till last year, Amazon maintained a sway of the e-book market and the company alone accounted for almost a dominating eighty percent of e-book sales.

At the same time, around eighty percent of dog owners — almost seventy million — choose to leave those fully adoptable shelter dogs for dead, and instead contribute even further to the problem by purchasing their family pet from a breeder.

My expectation for Ninja Gaiden II was sky high long before it was even revealed, not because of hype, but because the original Ninja Gaiden on Xbox was quite simply my favourite game of the last console generation - an astonishing, epic action game that achieved perfection in almost every area and kept me playing though its hugely challenging singleplayer game for something like eighty hours.

Maze games essentially died after the eighties, but while they were going strong, every company made at least one to replicate Pac - Man «s success (and almost nobody succeeded).