Sentences with phrase «around the few small»

In nature, too, crystals grow around the few small crystals that first form in a solution.

I don't really care about fuel economy and most of my driving is around a few small towns with 20k residents.

Besides a few other churches (that always seemed close except for mass), the sights revolved around a few small (and free) museums such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as the Paseo de Montejo.

There is also an element of searching and looking around a few small areas, where those with a keen eye (like Rhys, he's got an ECHO eye) will learn some funny facts about various beings and items.

Not exact matches

Keep in mind the concept of «deal fatigue» (when a deal or opportunity begins to feel tired and shopped around to too many investors), especially in a smaller market with fewer players.

Using Fleming's data, that means a very small percentage of muni investors holds around $ 1.5 trillion — a vast sum of money for so few people.

Creating more confusion around corporate tax increases, a PC press release from April 9 stated «Prentice pointed out that more than 95 % in Alberta are small businesses, employing fewer than 50 people, and questioned those who would put those jobs at risk with a corporate tax increase.»

Returning to school, which was admirable for birding, being small and in the country, with nothing but fields, woods, and streams for miles around, I began to learn the small land birds of eastern Pennsylvania and in a few years knew them fairly completely without any assistance from others except the Reed's guide.

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

Then the participants are asked to take their several pictures into a previously arranged small group of six or seven persons — or fewer depending on the allotted time — and, using the go - around technique, share with each other what the pictures mean to them.

Additional uses for this festive garnish include: sliding a few frosted cranberries onto small cocktail skewers and serving them alongside a drink, adding them to a cheese board for a dose of much needed colour, garnishing a fruit platter to be served at a holiday brunch, or simply filling small bowls and distributing them around your space for a pretty, edible holiday table decoration.

If I have dark chocolate around, I will have a few small pieces and call it breakfast.

Took it to a church potluck and the few small bits that were left got attacked by the paws of 4 small children as they crowded around and picked at it like vultures to a carcass.

When the cake is done and has had a chance to cool for a few minutes, run a small, thin knife around all of the ridges and curves and invert it onto a cooling rack.

Almost two years ago now, while travelling around southern Italy for a few weeks, we happened upon a small café in the town square of Catania, Sicily, with a counter stacked high with sweet treats.

1) Peel the grapefruit, and remove as much of the white pith from both the flesh and the peel 2) Using the peel of one grapefruit, slice into strips as thin as you possibly can 3) Roughly chop up the grapefruit flesh into small pieces and put the pieces in a bowl 4) Pour sugar over the chopped up grapefruit and mix sugar with the fruit 5) Allow grapefruit - sugar mixture to rest for about 30 minutes 6) After 30 minutes, pour the grapefruit - sugar mixture into a large pot, add in the sliced peel, and squeeze in the lemon juice 7) Heat over low fire, stirring every few minutes for around one hour to ensure it does not stick to the bottom of the pot 8) Once marmalade reaches the desired consistency, remove from fire and pour straight away into sterilized jars, capping them immediately 9) Allow the grapefruit marmalade to cool before serving with toast or crackers

Place a few in the pan with enough room around them so you can flatten the balls into small disks, about 3 ″ wide.

It should not be wet or watery looking (underbaked), nor should it be puffed in the center or cracking (overbaked), but a few small bubbles popping around the sides are perfect.

The aggressive and hyperactive takeover battle for WCB has seen the small dairy company's share price rocket from around $ 4 to close to $ 10 in only a few short months, with Lion keen to protect its sizeable National Foods business that owns a portfolio of well know cheeses and milk.

2 cups of cooked brown rice (or quinoa) 1 tablespoon of olive oil 1 small Vidalia onion, diced or 1/2 of a larger onion 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 bell pepper, any color, diced 1 jalapeno, diced (seeded or not depending on your preference) 2 cans of dark red kidney beans, drained and rinsed 1 - 15 oz can of diced tomatoes or 2 medium fresh tomatoes, diced 2 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp smoked paprika 1 tsp oregano 1 tsp liquid smoke 1/2 -1 tsp of red pepper flakes 1/2 -1 tsp cayenne pepper Fresh cracked pepper A few pinches of salt (around 1/2 tsp)

So when an article about giving a small child 1 «pass» to leave their room at night was making the rounds around the parenting cyber-world a few weeks ago, it got me thinking of how much it helped me to not pick sleep as a battle and to instead, surrender to my daughter's needs and rhythm.

The cord had been wrapped around her baby's neck and she needed to be monitored for a few days because she was very small and there were some concerns relating to that, thankfully they were both alright in the end.

This time around, I got a small package of Pampers newborn disposable diapers to use for the first few days until baby has regular poop and I'm able to get out of bed to wash the cloth diapers myself, rather than having to rely on someone else to wash them properly.

Here, blog On Sutton Place shows you how to do it right: a small wreath of greenery hangs from a pretty ribbon around a lamp, one small pumpkin sets a spell of fall, and a few sprigs of autumn berries in a vase add a touch of color.

Although, I think it's the small town moms that have the right to fear an abduction or something horrible, because there are fewer people around to help the child if needed.

A few complaints mentioned that the straps around the waist on the safety harness were too small to fit 20 - something - pound toddlers.

Double umbrella strollers are notoriously easy to lug around and store, so if you live in a smaller house or you don't have a lot of storage space, read on to find a few double umbrella stroller options.

It's normal to have a few small hairs on the areolae, or the dark skin around your nipple.

We made a few of them and then I hid a small treat in each one and hid them around the garden so that the girls could have a fun monster treasure hunt, which they loved!

As a new mom, I loved wheeling my contained small person around the store for an hour and emerging with the things on my list and a few extra hair clips and odd essentials.

Having a few small «stations» around your home ready to receive you, your tired body and your hungry little bundle makes it all a little easier.

Happy moments during Spitzer's tenure as governor were few and far between, so it is small wonder that he would dig around for one to highlight, though it has little to do with the office he is seeking.

Conservative MPs are currently rebelling less often than Labour MPs (in around 11 % of divisions in the first three sessions of the 2005 parliament, less than half the rate on the government benches) and they are doing so in smaller numbers; although a slightly larger proportion of Conservative parliamentarians has rebelled compared to Labour, few have cast more than a handful of dissenting votes, and even the most rebellious would not find themselves high up the PLP's league table of troublemakers.

With so much volume, there were a few relatively small issues at different locations around the county.

What began a few years ago as a trickle of small independent films shot in and around Kingston has of late turned into a veritable flood, including big - budget productions with real movie stars, thanks to a new tax break and efforts by local officials to woo and accommodate the industry.

This March it found signs of white - nose infected animals in two small caves — one hosting fewer than 10 bats and the other with around 60.

Throughout the universe, countless small galaxies rotate around larger host galaxies — our Milky Way has at least a few dozen hangers - on — and theory predicts that they should move randomly.

Until a few years ago we only knew of the existence of rings around the giant planets; then, recently, our team discovered that two small bodies situated between Jupiter and Neptune, belonging to a group called centaurs, have dense rings around them, which came as a big surprise.

Danish feels best to speak after a few beers and with a cork in your mouth, and even if you can speak and understand a little, you still have to get used to the reality that you do not understand the small talk happening around you.

When Hinz studied the disk of dust around the young star HD 100546, he discerned a small gap, probably swept out by a planet a few times the mass of Jupiter.

Since its inception, the checklist has remained the same, but the PCL - R manual has grown from a small pamphlet of just a few pages to the current 200 - plus - page book packed with statistical data from psychopathy specialists around the globe.

Other human populations evolved from subsets of that diverse population, as small groups migrated around the globe just a few tens of thousands of years ago.

Researchers have found that just five strains are overwhelmingly the culprits in more than 3000 samples of resistant S. aureus collected from patients around the world; the small number suggests that relatively few strains can easily develop resistance to antibiotics, allowing scientists to focus on these few and determine what makes them so virulent.

But astronomers have always wondered about the paucity of close - in brown dwarfs: While many giant planets have been found in small orbits, whirling around their sunlike stars in just a few days, the more massive brown dwarfs appear to shun these intimate relationships.

The professors sticking around into their 70s and beyond, on the other hand, tend to be on the arts and science faculty and have fewer outside employment opportunities and earn less throughout their careers — and therefore have smaller pensions — than professional school faculty members.

Few areas in the world have attracted so much speculation, yet so little serious investigation, as the region around the small town of Nazca, some 500 kilometres south of Lima (to avoid confusion, Silverman advocates the «s» spelling for the Pre-Columbian culture of Nasca, and the «z» for the modern town of Nazca, its river and region).

Considering only the commonly applied destructive extraction method, small spiders are useful for only a few years while those with a body length of around 3 mm or more have a good chance of yielding a barcode sequence for about 20 years after collection.

Johnson and Spagat expected that the success of the attacks, measured in the number of people killed, would cluster around a certain figure: There would be a few small attacks and a few large ones as outliers on either end, but most attacks would pile up in the middle.

Borucki says it will be a few years yet before Kepler is able to identify a true Earth analogue — a small planet on a one - Earth - year orbit around a sunlike star.

While Mafra - Neto acknowledges that mosquitoes play a small role in the food chain, helping sustain small animals like fish and spiders, he would like to see fewer of them around, particularly in disease - ravaged countries.