Sentences with phrase «among about a dozen»

The firm is among about a dozen startups that are racing to prove that blockchain, the technology underlying bitcoin, can be used in financial markets.

According to the National Cancer Institute — it has been found that umbelliferous vegetables, which includes parsley, are among about a dozen super foods with the highest anti-cancer activity.

They are among about a dozen people in the northwest suburbs who offer infant massage.

Before Levy became county executive, title work was awarded under a rotation system among about a dozen title companies.

O'Neill was among about a dozen current and former NYPD officials slapped with subpoenas this week to testify on behalf of former Deputy Inspector James Grant, law enforcement sources said Friday.

I like the variety in the skill tree, which lets you pick from among about a half dozen spells that gradually improve over time.

[9] He was among about a dozen artists proposed to fill one of two vacancies in the 80 - member academy, and is the first Black artist to be elected a Royal Academician in the history of the institution.

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Consumer Reports has identified about a dozen class - action lawsuits in the U.S. involving shattered sunroofs, finding complaints against Hyundai, Kia, Ford, Mercedes - Benz, Nissan, and Volkswagen, among others.

About a dozen NHL players use the new Sher - woods, and Soule says the models have gained acceptance among Midget AAA and Junior players.

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Kenney also noted that Canada's Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Tom Lawson was in Saudi Arabia last month for a meeting with dozens of international military commanders from countries opposed to Islamic State, including about 25 actually involved in the military campaign against the terrorist organization, among them top officers from key Middle Eastern countries.

I am recalling dozens of coffees, lunch dates among a faith community who's invested in one another just to say, «I'm worried about what I feel and I'm worried about how your heart is.

Tara and Troy Livesay were among the highlights of my trip (my only regret being that I couldn't stay for a sleepover so we could finish about two dozen conversations).

Along similar lines, physiologists believe that the human eye is capable of distinguishing among more than six million hues, and yet the fact that we typically use only about a dozen words to describe colors suggests that we see them much less richly than we are capable of doing.3

At the time of the Revolution, statutes in most of the colonies prescribed hanging for about a dozen offenses — among them murder, treason, piracy, arson, rape, robbery, burglary, sodomy and (in some cases) counterfeiting, horse theft and slave rebellion.

Roland is among half a dozen people who have formed Save the Rink, a committee that's trying to raise about a half - million dollars.

A group of about two dozen advocates — among them former City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, City Councilmember Diana Ayala and Community Board 11 Chair Diane Collier, who all campaigned vigorously for years for the removal of the statue — gathered on Tuesday morning to watch its removal.

Among Republicans, they are looking at about a dozen senators, including Gregory R. Ball of Putnam County, Andrew J. Lanza of Staten Island, and Mark Grisanti, James S. Alesi and Roy J. McDonald, who represent upstate districts.

Dadey, of DeWitt, will be among about two dozen advisers serving on the executive committee of the presidential transition team, Trump said.

The Rev. Jason McGuire, executive director of the conservative advocacy group New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, is among more than two dozen signatories of an open letter to Trump that presents pointed questions about the current Republican front - runner's commitment to culture - war issues including abortion, same - sex marriage and gambling.

Katko was among at least a dozen Republicans who spoke to GOP leaders about possibly running against Maffei for the 24th Congressional District.

According to information from the New York State Authorities Budget Office, only about a dozen authority board members would be covered by the order under the Cuomo administration's new interpretation — and at least one of them is among those who have donated to the governor.

Mr. Smith, a 56 - year - old Democrat, and Mr. Halloran, a Queens Republican, were among about a half dozen people facing charges in the federal corruption case, the people with knowledge of the matter said.

Washington — When the Republican National Convention begins Monday in Tampa, Fla., Jane Loftus and about a dozen other Central New Yorkers will be among 4,400 delegates and alternates from across the nation.

Owens and Roberts were among representatives of about two dozen American manufacturing companies that were invited to meet with Trump on Wednesday.

FLATIRON — A series of floating pools dotting Manhattan's East River shore or elevating the heliport on East 34th Street to create more open space were among the bold visions several dozen community members suggested Monday night at a public forum about re-imagining the waterfront.

McAlister, 35, is one of three Diptera curators among the entomology department's curatorial staff of about two dozen.

Previous scientific work suggested that sea star - associated densovirus (SSaDV) was the best candidate pathogen responsible for sea star wasting disease (SSWD) among about two dozen species affected by it.

Presenting here last week at a meeting of the American Society of Naturalists, the researchers say this signaling ability has evolved three times in hawk moths and about a dozen more times overall among other moths.

The study's authors, representing more than 3 dozen medical centers, government health agencies and institutes in the U.S., Asia and Europe, credit this rise in smoking among Asians to aggressive product marketing by tobacco companies and a lack of education about health issues related to tobacco.

Today about a dozen species dominate the landscape in the United States, with Kentucky bluegrass the most widespread among them.

About a dozen of the elements in this salt are radioactive, among the heavy metals present are lead, mercury, arsenic, thallium, cadmium, polonium, etc..

Among dozens of other things I love about your holiday decor, I love the touches of pink and hot pink.

He has been featured on dozens of television news shows including 60 Minutes, Nightline, and Dr. Phil among others, was enthusiastic about the new page.

Florida, USA About Blog Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, activist and networker among innovative Christian leaders.He has written dozen - plus books & assisted in the development of several new churches.His public speaking covers a broad range of topics including the gospel and global crises; theology & postmodernity; liturgy, preaching & spiritual formation; evangelism & inter-religious dialogue; faith & social justice.

Indiepix Festival Favorites, Volume 2 Value - priced, three film set of music documentaries: «Icons Among Us: Jazz In the Present Tense,» about the modern jazz scene, with Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Donald Harrison Jr., Anat Cohen and Esperanza Spalding; «Echotone,» a lyrical documentary providing a telescopic view into the lives of Austin's vibrant young musicians as they grapple with questions of artistic integrity, commercialism, experimentation, and the future of their beloved city; and «Roaring Abyss,» a stunning audiovisual poem, the product of filmmaker Quino Piñero's two years of field recording traditional and modern music from around every corner of Ethiopia, a country of eighty different nationalities and cultures spread amongst mountains, deserts and forests.

He also writes about film, pop and geek culture, gaming, books and the arts for The New York Times, BoingBoing, wired.com, Salon.com, PsychologyToday.com, WBUR's «Cognoscenti,» and GeekDad, and has also contributed to Playboy, National Geographic Traveler, Christian Science Monitor, Psychology Today, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, and Washington Post, Time Out and Fodor's, among dozens of other magazines, newspapers, websites and guidebooks worldwide.

The Center on Education Policy has received dozens of calls from the news media about the Obama administration's effort to improve the schools that rank among lowest - achieving 5 percent of schools in each state.

I am a HUGE Michael Crichton fan and after reading Jurassic Park and Pirate Latitudes (among the half dozen other of his meticulously researched novels) I was thrilled to learn about his earlier works from his med school years.

Onyx Boox — Onyx has about a dozen different variations of large screen ebook readers, including the 13.3 - inch Onyx Boox Max, so there are plenty of options for good PDF readers among them, depending on what you need.

There are about a dozen lawyers in Belize City and they all handle criminal cases among their other duties.

Holding 44 patents to date with a dozen more on file, Canesta could be a vital addition to Microsoft given the company's record in creating natural user interfaces across different platforms, an addition that undoubtedly relates to upcoming Kinect and how serious Microsoft is about trying to make a lasting impact on the industry with it, among other areas.

He faced about 250 members of the media — representatives of newspapers, magazines, and television stations from at least a dozen American cities, as well as from France, China, Israel, England, Japan, Russia, Brazil, and Germany, among others.

Several hundred viewers, including dozens of scientists, filed complaints about the film's accuracy, impartiality and fairness with Britain's Office of Communications, or Ofcom, which among many duties monitors standards for programming.

One theory pedalled by a former tobacco advertising guru is that opposition to the «joys» of living with giant fans is only a problem among English speaking countries: the guru reckons that complaints like those heard from dozens of wind farms around Australia are a cooked - up phenomenon exclusive to the English speaking world — as pitched - up in this piece of propaganda on ABC radio and parroted in this piece of eco-fascist drivel from ruin - economy (for a taste of what the Taiwanese — not the world's strongest English speakers — think about giant fans, see our post here).

First, you'll hear from Inti Martínez - Alemán about leaving Honduras after dozens of lawyers were murdered, his mother among them.

Hundreds of participants will be able to choose among a wide selection of workshop topics presented by dozens of experts who will talk about virtual deal rooms, computerization of the courts, e-filing, e-discovery, paperless office, cybercrime, online identity, electronic signature, security, metadata, professional ethics, best practices and more.

About a dozen candidates have signed up for the service, and several — Rand Paul, Bernie Sanders, and Rick Santorum, among others — have already used it to ask their followers to support their presidential campaigns.

The debut of half a dozen devices by Amazon comes about a week before Google holds an October 4 hardware event where the company is expected to announce a premium version of Google Home and a smaller version of Google Home, among other devices.