Sentences with phrase «been in town long»

Fortunately nobody heard me, even if they had, I haven't been in town long enough for anyone to know me.

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During that first year, the company was in an office «closet» in a Long Island town with its warehouse in the garage of Nesi's parents» home.

Though there's generally less competition for jobs in small towns, business owners need to be more careful about finding applicants who are truly qualified and most likely to stay in the position for longer than their counterparts in bigger locales.

While all of those things still exist, they are no longer the only game in town when it comes to distribution, and therefore they are no longer the only game in town when it comes to making money from control of that distribution.

Finally, IPOs and acquisitions are no longer the only liquidity games in town.

The task was to help plan our week - long sales kickoff, in which the entire global field team would be temporarily relocated to the tiny town of Braselton, Ga..

Though beach fires are no longer allowed here (they are in neighboring towns like Nags Head), stationary fireworks that emit only sparks or smoke are permitted by state law and small - time fireworks can be purchased throughout the state.

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Perhaps the town of Tuxedo's long - standing prohibition on liquor sales — it only lifted the ban in 1969, just before the town was amalgamated into Winnipeg — accounts for the temperance of Heubach Park's residents, who rate decidedly below average in their consumption of craft beer, fine wine and champagne.

I had been well known in town, and now I was going around to my friends with my hat in my hand, asking them to buy my long - distance program.

Twitter and Snap are more attractive now that Facebook is no longer the «only game in town» for advertisers, GBH Insights says.

Naspers is a Cape Town - based company with a dark history as the publishing house that for a long time supported South Africa's racist National Party and its Apartheid policy (Naspers has since apologized for its role in that era).

The best shopping in Cape Town proper can be found on Kloof Street and Long Street; the latter is the host of a bevy of vintage stores, such as Afraid of Mice and Second Time Around.

Windows and Apple's Mac OS are no longer the only operating systems in town (no, Linux, you don't count).

I'd been in town for my mother's funeral, and since our tiny apartment had long before been rented to strangers and I had no living relatives left in the city, I knew that her passing marked the final chapter for the place where I'd grown up.

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP)-- While authorities investigate what set off a deadly shooting at an electronic music festival event, residents said it came amid a growing and increasingly open drug scene in this resort town that has long been spared the violence of Mexico's cartel wars.

Madden's founding story is quintessential Americana: He grew up on the south shore of Long Island in a neighborhood called Five Towns.

It looks like Amazon Echo and Google Home won't be the only smart speakers in town for long.

Austin's CMIT Solutions already has six Long Island franchises — in Merrick, Roslyn, Five Towns, Melville, Northport and Garden City — and it's hungry for more.

And in towns in the midwest where the home prices really are 25 - 75k for a big old Victorian, well it doesn't take long to understand why.

Whether you're interested in starting a long - haul operation or an in - town service, this detailed guide will help you decide which transportation service is right for you.

This illustrates the basic economic reality that productivity growth is the only game in town when it comes to raising the economic and financial well - being of people over a long period.

Nate lives in the small town of Grande Prairie, Alberta (population: 68,000)-- a four - hour connecting flight from Vancouver — and we'd spent our entire relationship dealing with the toll the long distance was taking on our hearts and bank accounts.

But now that one - in - three US homes have a streaming subscription, major studios are no longer the only game in town that can offer original movie content.

Barrhead - Morinville - Westlock: Westlock Town Councillor David Truckey is the first candidate to enter the Progressive Conservative nomination contest in the constituency being vacated by long - time MLA Ken Kowalski.

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Somebody seen him hangin» around As the old dance hall on the outskirts of town He looked into her eyes when she stopped him to ask If he wanted to dance he had a face like a mask Somebody said from the bible he'd quote There was dust on the man in the long black coat.

The town has long been recognized as one of the most vibrant cultural capitals in the world — where exceptional cultural events, activities, and foundations come together.

Not long ago I was driving to a meeting in an unfamiliar town on a...

The violence in Gojra, a town of 150,000 that has long been a headquarters of the Anglican Church of Pakistan, was one of the worst attacks ever against the religious minority.

This scandal serves as a confirmation of something many Hollywood critics have long believed: that Tinsel Town is a sewer of moral degradation and corruption, in which the innocent are abused and then silenced and discarded.

But in a small town or rural area, your efforts to find help may be complicated by long distances to available resources.

(CNN)- While Saint Patrick's Day has long been the preserve of Guinness - drinking revellers painting the world's towns green while wearing shamrock hats, Irish Catholics have always taken pride in their nation's patron saint.

Cordwainer Smith's «The Dead Lady of Clown Town» begins in a time when Christianity is no longer even a name, since the Church expired in the ancient, unknown past.

Not long ago I was driving to a meeting in an unfamiliar town on a rainy Saturday morning.

It will be Garrison Keillor in reverse, and there will be — I feel the pangs already — those moments of bittersweet nostalgia when I recall, with a longing almost palpable, the small town life I left behind in Manhattan.

And again, this is long before Paul and Silas stepped foot in town, long before they preached, and long before «God opened her heart.»

It could be because the church no longer offers social progress, so love of money and power take people elsewhere (which is politics in this town, and there's another story!).

I would, however, add the clarification that God was probably working on drawing Lydia to Himself long before Paul and Silas came to town in the same way that He works on drawing all people to Himself.

I have finally come to grips with the fact that church work will not be a significant part of my life in this location — a profoundly discouraging conclusion, because there's so little else to do in this town, and I can not move away any time soon — but not before going through a prolonged (and continuing) grieving process for the loss of something I loved that had been a part of my life for so long.

When the heroine of I Am Charlotte Simmons» a smart, beautiful, small - town girl» sits down to write her mother a letter about freshman life in «Dupont University,» it takes her hours to produce a «long, well - intentioned lie.»

If He came to any town anywhere in the states w / o people knowing who He was, and offered up fish and loaves to people, He would feel empty inside when he sees the squabbling over who was in line first, who got more, how long it's taking.

I'm there, too, though not because of any childhood church experiences... the town church in our little rural community had kicked my parents out long before I was born.

These are things I had access to long before Evolving in Monkey Town was published or written, and I didn't even realize they could make me happier than it could.

In addition to calling your representatives, consider attending a town hall, writing letters the editor of your local paper, connecting with the local Democratic Party to help with voter registration efforts and to challenge voter suppression / gerrymandering, and (because it's becoming painfully obvious that progressives have ceded local politics to the extreme right for too long), running for office or helping a better candidate get the job.

What I did on that sabbatical was to observe two ordinary congregations, both long established in the same town in which my Episcopal congregation had sprung up.

Fishon Not so country as you, in truth, though the community I serve is not recognized as a town any longer.

Convent life is no longer the only game in town.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin» in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times.

Sometimes it's been eye - contact and long conversations and prayer with the people right here in my town.