Sentences with phrase «bought about a dozen»

The hosts had bought about a dozen or so large King Cakes — far too many, bless their hearts — which were delivered in pizza boxes and lined up along the wall.

I have bought about a dozen ebooks in the last couple of months.

Buy about a dozen 3 - hole - punched sheet protectors in which to display your horn - tooting items.

Not exact matches

Using tips from Di Vincenzo, along with time - tested advice from sources like DealNews and Mint, we've complied dozens of examples of the best times to buy just about everything.

I mention all of this to say that there are about two or three dozen companies in the world where the goal is not to buy the stock at an undervalued price.

Avocados are on the clean dozen list, so I don't fret too much about buying organic.

While I was at Fresh Market I picked up store bought pizza dough — new brand to me called Wewalka — apparently you can buy this at Walmart too — I also had about a dozen people message me that they make puff pastry too — so I'll need to find that.

Your cookbook has not left my counter since I bought it... i've made about a dozen of the recipes (some multiple times already).

One of my favorite ways to eat strawberries is to buy them whole and frozen (always organic since they're at the top of the Dirty Dozen list) and snack on them right out of the freezer, or after about 5 minutes of thawing.

Today's Question: We've talked about the dreaded Dirty Dozen — the 12 fruits and vegetables you should definitely buy organic.

i was in a sports shop just about to buy my friends four year old son his first football team kit so that i can convert him in to an Arsenal supporter like i have done for dozens of kids, but for the first time i said Fluck it and walked away i mean why inflict life time of pain to someone.

Having half a dozen or more on hand is definitely not overkill — after about six months, you will wonder where they all disappeared to, and might even need to buy more.

Plan on going through about one a day if you have a busy kitchen, so buy a half - dozen or so.

But I hate washing bottles, so I bought a dozen, and for that you would need about 4 of these for all those.

The initial startup cost - to buy equipment and build about a dozen collapsible miniature storefronts - was estimated at about $ 7,000.

Remember if you have a small washer, don't buy as many diapers (2 dozen will be plenty, washing about 14 at at time and the rest for spares and use during wash time).

Prompted by the widespread Russian influence campaign that targeted nearly two dozen states during the 2016 presidential election and the proliferation of secretive political advertising on social media platforms like Facebook, Cuomo proposed and the state Legislature successfully passed the «Democracy Protection Act,» which prohibits foreign entities from creating independent expenditure committees or buying political ads, requires anyone who purchases an online political ad to register as an independent expenditure committee, and also requires online ads to include information about who paid for them, as is currently required of traditional media platforms.

I personally recommend that when people are concerned about prices they try and stick to at least buying the dirty dozen organic.

The Preferred trim line, about $ 36,000 list, offers a dozen minor options, such as the ability to buy all - weather floor and cargo mats, premium carpet mats, and back seat tablet holders.

But being dogmatic about it doesn't help - whether it's boycotting books you love because Hachette is publishing them, or buying a dozen paperbacks you'll never read because Hachette is publishing them.

Over the course of about a week, I used the web site a dozen or so times to try to buy it.

Sidenote — a positive word about the Kindle: As I've written before, I have one and despite its god - awful hardware design and some of the most incredibly bad user - interface ideas I've ever witnessed (see earlier review), I like the convenience of having dozens of books in my briefcase and I especially like the think - it, buy - it instant - shopification features it offers with an EVDO - powered access to the Amazon store.

Since we're now up to, oh, about a dozen buy links, I think you'd probably have to break them down the purchase options into print, ebook and audio editions and then from there readers can click through to the retailer of their choice.

There are many, many important advances present in the Buy - and - Hold Model (I should know, I stole about a dozen of them for inclusion in VII!).

The previous Friday, about half a dozen of the biggest gainers on the Nasdaq were stocks that PDT had sold short, expecting them to decline, and several of the biggest losers were stocks PDT had bought, expecting them to rise.

We always hear the success stories of the traveler who opened a dozen credit cards and got a free trip around the world, but we almost never hear about the folks who found themselves buying more than they could afford and ending up deep in debt for years on end.

No Man's Sky, the highly anticipated space exploration game, launches in a few days and despite dozens of leaks from streamers buying the game early, people are still confused about the game's activities.

It wasn't until about 15 years ago that I picked back up into gaming heavily with buying arcade machines where I have about a dozen or so of them mostly in my house and console gaming.

He started out buying and selling works in the $ 10,000 range, acquiring about three dozen pieces by artists like Sterling Ruby, Joe Bradley, Tauba Auerbach and Cory Arcangel, all of which have appreciated considerably over the last six years (today a Sterling Ruby can fetch a million dollars or more in the secondary market).

It provided a wider range of customer - friendly information than its competitors, including a loan calculator, trade - in - value calculator, and dozens of articles about car loans and buying strategies.

There's dozens of complaints about it on the Best Buy website.

I have bought and sold about a dozen portable BT speakers including several of the ones reviewed, and several with aptX.

I am very curious about an agent in our area who has seemingly bought many dozens, if not a hundred or more, buses, bus shelters, and billboard ads — and was unheard of only months ago.

About a dozen volunteers help the Tilfords work the farm and are rewarded with two dinners a year, their pick of flowers grown on the farm and discounts when they buy their food at the farmers market.

Having rented my first land in 1940, bought my first property in 1957, partnered in buying 484 single family units in 1968 (Trading sweat equity for almost $ 1.5 - Million in profits) and being engaged in REI continuously since — I have nevertheless invested in about a dozen training programs during the last 15 years.

The prospective buyers, consisting of about a half dozen Nordstrom family members and a private equity firm, proposed to buy all of the company's outstanding common stock, and about 21 percent of family - owned shares, for $ 50 per share.

Today I would include a multipurpose portable plug - in small smartphone battery pack charger (about 15 $, I bought a dozen at a time).