Sentences with phrase «around a dozen more»

Conservatives say the dramatic shakeup of Britain's electoral map, which could hand the party around a dozen more seats at the general election, was a quid pro quo for the electoral reform referendum, which took place in May 2011.

It's a simple design twist that, in turn, adds around a dozen more convoluted turns to your journey.

Not exact matches

The company sponsors about 40,000 wreaths each year and donates the services of more than a dozen tractor - trailers to deliver the wreaths around the country.

Bridge International Academies, the subject of a recent New York Times Magazine piece, operates in hundreds of schools around Kenya and Uganda, with dozens more of its low - cost schools scattered through Nigeria, India, and most recently Liberia.

Some of the more popular Bitcoin exchanges include Bitstamp and Coinbase, though there are dozens to choose from around the globe.

Dozens of companies and research labs around the world are developing bots that are even more like humans.

There are now more than a half - dozen drugs in development around the PD - 1 pathway alone, and a number of companies jostling to be the first to FDA approval.

«I look around my office, and there are dozens and dozens more.»

Oath will expand its use of AWS by continuing to migrate legacy workloads and building new cloud - based applications across its portfolio of dozens of media and technology brands, including Yahoo.com, Yahoo Finance, and Yahoo Sports, serving more than a billion people around the world.

He's conducted similar events at dozens of varied organizations around the world including Dow Jones, Microsoft, United States Marine Corps, NY Islanders, Century 21, Jackson Healthcare, National Geographic, and many more.

As the deadly shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school, which killed 17 and injured more than a dozen others, sparks a national conversation around gun control, the White House is pushing Congress to actually pass gun control measures.

In addition, you'll want to spread that money out over a dozen or more companies, with the idea that you only need two or three of them to turn around in order to achieve spectacular returns.

More conservative - leaning Christians may no doubt give pause at reading dozens of encounters of prayer and prophetic moments that Johnson claims have resulted in miraculous healings around the world.

Working out of his small, cluttered office at Adrian University, where he teaches political science, the seemingly indefatigable Khan stepped into the role of public intellectual for the U.S. Muslim community after 9/11 with incisive articles such as «Memo to Mr. Bin Laden: Go to Hell,» which was picked up by more than a dozen news agencies around the world.

I've been thinking about the carrot puree bran muffin idea, but it probably is gonna be a while before I get around to trying it — several dozen more blueberry bran muffins at least, LOL.

If you're anything like me, there's a pretty good chance you still have more than a couple boxes of Girl Scout cookies hanging around (or am I the only one that buys them by the dozen?).

Simultaneously, during 2012 — 2015, three years of mentoring were provided by «The Postharvest Education Foundation» for more than a dozen Tanzanian extension workers and post-harvest trainers who are currently working within the local communities in and around Arusha to improve post-harvest handling practices and reduce losses in horticultural crops.

Well, I've just got done making around eleventy - dozen cupcakes, between these and the Simply Perfect Vanilla go -» round, so I think I'm going to have to finish eating / giving away all of those before I start baking more cake (or my hubs might commit me, lol!).

To answer that question, one needn't look any further than the dozens of damning undercover investigations into agribusiness operations released over the last several years: chickens crammed so tightly into tiny cages that they can't even spread their wings, living in the same space with the rotting corpses of their cage - mates; mother pigs unable to even turn around for months on end inside their gestation crates; factory farm workers sadistically abusing animals; and more.

More than 16,000 buyers jammed San Francisco's Moscone Center in mid-January to taste new food products from all over the U.S. and three dozen nations around the world at the Fancy Food Show.

Now staffers can carry around a dozen or more of the bread rings at a time on wooden dowels, or «swords.»

Until there are more specific details about the proposed deal or the Mets stop checking in on the possibility of acquiring a half dozen other first base fill - ins, this feels like one of the dozens of random what - ifs flying around.

The longest - running exhibition of African - American art in the U.S. features more than 100 dynamic works of art from amateur and professional African - American artists from around the nation, as well as a youth category which features work by a dozen area high school artists.

The federal government is warning parents to think twice before carrying infants around in cozy over-the-shoulder slings that have been deadly for more than a dozen babies.

All this will be the case in the fall too when the vastly bigger and more complicated Obama and Romney campaigns and their many allies square off for the Presidential Election, drawing on money and manpower from around the country but focusing their efforts on a dozen or so swing states.

He has been an expert witness in parliament more than two dozen times, been an adviser to two select committees, and advised governments around the world.

Even more improbable, one would have thought, is that a dozen men with no obvious claim to fame should, one fine Saturday morning, declare themselves experts in a subject whose contents they themselves would get to define, and then turn around and expect the whole world to pay for such expertise.

The shindig is just over three weeks before the midterm elections in which observers now agree the Democrats are very much in danger of losing control of the House — even though that would require the GOP to flip more than three dozen seats around the country.

More than a dozen governors around the country have said they oppose Syrian refugees settling in their states in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks.

The black - tie New York gala featured individual rooms with food products made in the Empire State, a SoHo lounge with live music, a miniature golf course and more than a half - dozen food buffets with cuisine from around the world.

Borough President James Oddo announced the lineup for his annual Summer Sunset Concert Series, which will bring more than a dozen artists to parks around the borough.

This will take place in coordination with dozens of actions around the country, including actions in New York City, Rochester, Binghamton, Albany and Syracuse, spearheaded by groups affiliated with National People's Action, Americans for Tax Fairness, Citizen Action, AFL - CIO, SEIU and many more.

Dozens of foreclosed homes still sit empty around the City of Poughkeepsie, while hundreds of Dutchess County families go homeless every night and thousands more do not have access to quality, affordable housing.

Albany's event is being held in coordination with dozens of actions around the country, including actions in New York City, Binghamton, Newburgh and Syracuse, spearheaded by groups affiliated with Americans for Tax Fairness, AFL - CIO, National People's Action and many more.

Though few will say so publicly for fear of angering Cuomo, in interviews, close to a dozen people in and around New York politics registered their doubts that Foye would have sent such a harsh and extensive email, leaked early on, and continued to have had such an active role, without more contact with the governor's office.

The emergency action plan will be led by the Mexican government and supported by a consortium of marine mammal experts from more than a dozen organizations around the world.

Their report, published May 10 in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that among more than a dozen different lines of mice developed around the world to mirror autism caused by mutations to the SHANK3 gene, Duke researchers are the first to create a mouse in which that gene has been completely eliminated.

IN THE SHADOW Over the next two decades, more than a dozen total eclipses of the sun will take place around the world.

Over the next two decades, more than a dozen total eclipses of the sun will take place around the world.

Using more than a dozen instruments placed around the habitat, including a first - of - its - kind underwater mass spectrometer that tracks fluctuations in key gases up and down the ocean waters, aquanauts watch readouts in real time on computer screens.

It's not uncommon in a New York City subway car, an airport terminal or just about any other public space to see a dozen or more people completely consumed by what's happening on the screen of their smartphone, to the exclusion of the world around them.

More than a dozen species of coral from around the world occupy a tank at Oregon State University.

Since then more than 50 domestic cases have been reported, all from travelers who contracted Zika in more than a dozen countries around the globe.

A small serving of plain popcorn contains more saturated fat than the US government recommends for an entire day, the group concludes after testing popcorn from dozens of cinemas around the US.

Twelve years ago, about a dozen research groups from around the world announced that they had evidence for a lighter pentaquark known as theta - plus, but more detailed studies showed that all of the claims were illusory.

An unprecedented wintertime outbreak of West Nile virus has killed more than two dozen bald eagles in Utah and thousands of water birds around the Great Salt Lake, state wildlife officials said on Tuesday.

Barzilai, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, and researchers at more than a dozen centers around the country plan to test metformin for its ability to fight aging in people 65 to 79.

Of more than five dozen studies looking at youths ages 5 to 17 from around the world, 90 percent have found that more screen time is associated with delayed bedtimes, fewer hours of sleep and poorer sleep quality, the authors report.

Then a dozen or more colleagues from around the world would gather in Santa Barbara for working group meetings to assemble often disparate data sets and search for answers.

(Reuters)- An unprecedented wintertime outbreak of West Nile virus has killed more than two dozen bald eagles in Utah and thousands of water birds around the Great Salt Lake, state wildlife officials said on Tuesday.