Sentences with phrase «began its operation almost»

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Even the war, which had begun in September of 1939 when the Nazis invaded Poland, was in an interregnum, the «Sitzkrieg,» (also called the «Phoney War» or the «Bore War») when the winter weather ground operations almost to a halt.

Just think about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far from the norm, and if the food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk food and fast food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?

And if they are alive and well at the beginning of the operation (as opposed to already dead or very close to it) they come out fine and almost always stay that way.

What began as an almost quixotic effort to catch up with the Amazon Kindle has now grown into a 300 - person operation in the heart of Silicon Valley.

The number of commercial kennels in Pennsylvania plummeted from 303 at the beginning of 2009 to 111 today - a reduction of almost two - thirds - although a few of them are expected to reopen after making renovations, while other kennels got rid of enough dogs so that they are no longer classified as commercial operations.

Axpo responded critically to this «long - term operation concept» proposal: «To begin with it will almost automatically lead to safety shortcomings, compared to the present legal requirements.

On January 25 this year, the gas - fired Fortuna unit of the Lausward Power Plant, owned by the municipal utility Stadtwerke Düsseldorf, began commercial operations — almost immediately setting several world records for power generation capacity and efficiency (see the «POWER POINTS» sidebar).

«We have only begun to scratch the surface of crypto - location technology and how it can be applied to an almost unlimited number of uses for consumers and businesses ranging from small operations to multi-national corporations.