Sentences with phrase «as few dozen»

Their detailed running and jumping animations each help to give them as much personality as a few dozen pages of dialogue and backstory.

What begins as a few dozen aphids per plant in mid-July can become as many as 800 aphids per leaf by the end of July or the first week of August.

In practice, this means playing as a few dozen different things — from a smiling fireball with Mario's signature mustache and wide eyes to a massive T - rex.

Not exact matches

Ms. Channing recently emailed dozens of blockchain experts, trying to get them to volunteer as representatives to the I.S.O. delegations in their countries, so that the process does not become dominated by a few countries.

These exceptional personalized gifts, sent to only a few dozen fans, were seen by the rest of her fan base as an incredible act of kindness.

Allison spent a few years in the early 2000s homeless, but now rents in San Francisco's rapidly changing SoMa district, which is known as the home of dozens of tech companies including Yelp, Zynga and Airbnb.

Crews got the more than 200 patients from the threatened buildings, one firefighter said, as flames closed within a few dozen feet.

It is unlikely you will find success as a book author if you haven't written a few dozen blogs first.

As one of the few remaining, functioning businesses, Smith could supply desperately needed services to his community, including care to the dozens of cats, dogs, goats, horses and other animals in the community that suffered from burns and smoke inhalation.

As he geared up to sing a song he had apparently authored («My Chinese Dream»)-- karaoke style — to a few dozen reporters in a conference at a hotel on Central Park South, one thing about this eccentric Chinese millionaire seemed clear — Chen Guangbiao isn't afraid of the limelight.

As an underwear - clad brass band and two dozen strippers march through the office, the camera lingers on the woman a beat or two longer than is comfortable — a few loose wisps of hair emerging from her patchy scalp, a fake smile plastered across her face as she tries to prove she's a good sporAs an underwear - clad brass band and two dozen strippers march through the office, the camera lingers on the woman a beat or two longer than is comfortable — a few loose wisps of hair emerging from her patchy scalp, a fake smile plastered across her face as she tries to prove she's a good sporas she tries to prove she's a good sport.

It added: «As of today, the number of active structures created via the firm Mossack Fonseca for clients amounts to a few dozen.»

There are dozens, if not hundreds, of articles and books written on ecommerce and the importance of having your potential customer click as few buttons and see as few pages as possible between the point at which they're interested to the point they've completed a transaction.

It struck me, as I watched dozens of ticket holders get turned away from the oversubscribed event, that there was perhaps no better symbol of the speculative mania we've been witnessing in recent weeks than the sight of 70 would - be attendees sadly zip up their rain jackets, reverse course, and trudge home from an event that, not so long ago, would have been attended by few people.

We've heard an awful lot about entrepreneurs attempting to «disrupt» the tech ecosystem with new innovations, but few sectors are experiencing as much disruption as the auto industry, where dozens of start - ups are aiming to create the vehicle of the future.

Extension capacity growth ranges from as few as a dozen (or so) extensions on the IP Office Small Office Edition VoIP business phone system, up to 384 extensions on the IP Office 500 cabinet.

The target account list is likely to grow from a few dozen to a few hundred accounts as the target account profile also matures.

At its peak, the company had nearly 80 franchises across Australia as well as more than a dozen company - owned stores, but over the last few years, a number have closed and a disgruntled Brisbane franchisee launched an $ 800,000 legal action against Pie Face claiming they were misled over profit projections, which Homschek denied.

As gunshots rang out in the halls of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, a teacher guided a few dozen students into a tiny classroom near the culinary area.

Probably some of the PM's current staff, including his soft - spoken chief, will discover iron in them that few suspected as the government navigates the next half - dozen crises.

Physical gold that may be suffering from a falling domestic fiat currency price is still exponentially more valuable than devaluing paper fiat currencies, as anyone living in the Ukraine, Russia, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, and in any number of dozens of other emerging markets have unfortunately rapidly learned in the past few years.

Faraday Future's troubles intensified over the past few months and as we reported earlier this week, it resulted in dozens of employees jumping ship.

This decision should not be interpreted as an incipient feminism in Southern Baptist life (out of more than forty thousand churches, only a few dozen have female pastors), but rather as an affirmation of a pattern of cooperation that has served Baptist mission causes well for more than a century.

The soldiers arrested a few dozen whose fate, as Smith reports, was pitiful.

(I've been turning down as many as half a dozen television interviews per day, because they take so much time in traveling to studios, and mainly because most of them provide an opportunity for no more than a few sound bites and a food fight.)

A few participants were veterans of as many as two dozen volunteer trips.

600 years later, at the nicean convention, the gentlemen in attendance decided that Jeshua Christos should be called Jesus Christ and instead of this being the story of dozens of individuals, should be depicted as one man, and of the inumerable stories written of such men only a select few should be included.

As for sin, while most people can fix a few sins, they can't fix all of them, and every time one sin gets «fixed,» a dozen more seem to sprout up.

According to him, if you can have a dozen duplicating machines in the back of your church, and a few volunteers to duplicate and label the tapes, then you can have the tapes ready for sale (or to give away) as the people leave the church service.

P.S. Webb does a great job of grabbing his readers» interest at the beginning of the book by asking them to look through a list of a few dozen verses and mark which biblical instructions are «still in force for us today exactly as they are articulated «on the page.

Wanted to let you know that I made these as cupcakes (just a few over a dozen) and I think I underbaked them a little bit which caused them to collapse upon cooling, leaving them very convex on top.

Hi Deb, I've made challah bread a dozen or so times using your recipe and a few others recipes (include the one in Bread Baker's Apprentice) but for some reason I can't seem to get the bread as soft as the ones you get in the bakeries.

Did want to let you know of a few tweaks; subbed butternut squash for pumpkin as I bought more than a dozen (so cheap this time of year!)

Not to forget the other four - legged beasts that folks dine on, there are other restaurants inside the building that offer up a dozen cuts of lamb, almost as many of pork, and a few permutations of that good old standby, chicken.

The facilities would discredit the average high school: the track is often as hard and baked as a sandlot infield: the locker rooms, built in the 1920s, have been condemned several times; the permanent stands consist of a half dozen rows of splintery, sun - bleached wood, plus a few well - warmed and precarious seats on the tin roof of the locker rooms.

Ranging in age from 19 to 51, short and wide to superbly conditioned, they seem a ragtag group, but for the cleats around their necks, the footballs a few carry, and the insults, bro - hugs and daps they exchange as their number swells to a dozen and they head into the Baruch Projects and its 75 - year - old playground.

I think we maybe went to a half dozen games in 2001 + I went to another few with other friends as well.

Clemence may finally be remembered as the man who deprived Peter Shilton of another few dozen caps, which is unfair but perhaps not completely so.

If you knew anything about me, you'd know that on match days I'm as laid back as they come and more than happy to chew the fat with opposition fans as was evidenced on my visit to your gaff last season when I spent a very enjoyable few hours chatting to Arsenal fans over half a dozen or so pints of North London's finest gnat's p*ss, oops sorry beer

My mother just stitched up a few dozen from flannel, and to tell you the truth, I like using baby washcloths just as well.

Call me paranoid, but there is not a single baby product I bring home without reading at least a few dozen reviews and comparing different products and their features (even if it is as simple as a baby toothbrush).

All the ones I have listed are well reviewed and high quality products — watch out if you are offered an unbelievable deal on a dozen brand new all - in - ones, as they may not perform well after a few washes.

From bread, to salad dressing, to only buying organic fruit that falls under the Dirty Dozen list, just make a few changes as you can

You definitely will get more for your money if you order a few dozen at a time as it will be the same price for shipping for one dozen up to twelve.

As his «People's Army» celebrated uproariously, Mr Farage confirmed that Ukip will concentrate on winning «a few dozen seats» next May to grab the balance of power in the Commons.

Syracuse Republicans are just a few dozen votes shy of winning back a city office as a race for Common Council will come down to absentee ballots, but the rest of city hall remained solidly Democratic after Tuesday's election.

The new Shadow Health Secretary, one of just a few dozen MPs who back Mr Corbyn, mounted her attack as Ms Eagle prepares to unveil a formal leadership challenge later today.

A few dozen «hardcore» residents, as City Councilman Mark Levine called them, braved the rain to have their say in the process, which asks locals to weigh in on how they think funding should be allocated, followed by a community - wide voting process to select the best ideas.

Then came the arrests of Mangano and Venditto, which seemed to have acted as a drag on the campaign of the latter's state senator son, who lost his re-election to Democrat John Brooks by a few dozen votes.

A few years ago, I and dozens of others frustrated by the state's failure to resolve the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit and provide the resources coming to the city schools as a result barricaded the entrance to the Capitol in Albany in an act of civil disobedience.