Sentences with phrase «city for almost»

1947 after the war was stil cold enough for the blizzard of 1947 to immobilize New York City for almost two weeks.

While Paradise Works is a new addition to Salford's cultural landscape, Islington Mill has been in the city for almost 20 years, providing space for studios, exhibitions, club nights and gigs.

Some sights have become familiar and common because I stayed in Puerto Princesa City for almost a year but most are seen with fresh insight - rediscovering the beauty of simple life.

I already consider myself a local here since I stayed in this beautiful city for almost a year.

Though intended for temporary use, the Ford Street shelter served the city for almost 50 years until the much - needed construction of a new building was completed in the late 1990s.

I have lived here in carson city for almost 12 years, and in northern Nevada since 1989.

Carrie of Contrary Polish and her husband have been a Big Couple to a young man in the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Kansas City for almost 3 years now, so this is a cause close to their heart.

I've lived in New York City for almost 20 years, which makes me official.

A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, Siegel practiced intellectual property, advertising and food law in New York City for almost a decade before turning to a career in freelance writing.

I have been living in Kansas City for almost 10 years now.

Not exact matches

Today, this jewel - colored city is an almost perfectly preserved Dutch colonial trading settlement with a UNESCO World Heritage designation (and a picture perfect backdrop for vacation photos).

In Vancouver, economic development is almost entirely paid for by the city.

For $ 400,000 you can afford to buy into most neighbourhoods in this city and almost 90 % of the areas average under $ 500,000.

Vancouverites may be disappointed their city is no longer number one for livability according to The Economist, a ranking it lost last year to Melbourne after almost a decade at the top.

The city seemed almost suspiciously clean, and my driver told me the government had been working for a month to spruce it up.

There are meet ups for entrepreneurs in almost every city.

Wal - Mart's first location in Rogers, Ark., was called «Discount City» and served as a one - stop shop for almost any product.

But the notion that an Olympic city is going to hell in a handbasket in the weeks before the Games — that this time, for sure, all will be chaos — is almost as predictable as the script for the opening ceremony.

«A replay of the Leafs» partnership with the Raptors, and the maintenance of a one - arena city, would almost certainly be the best way, and perhaps the only way, for a second NHL team to come to Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal,» Keller writes in his report.

After serving almost 20 years with the WA Police service, Brad Waghorn is contending for the City of Perth council election «determined to secure our city&raqCity of Perth council election «determined to secure our city&raqcity».

For a year and a half, the almost 20,000 - resident city will not consider new applications for commercial cryptocurrency miniFor a year and a half, the almost 20,000 - resident city will not consider new applications for commercial cryptocurrency minifor commercial cryptocurrency mining.

New York's top local rate is 3.648 % (so, the top marginal tax rate for a New York City resident isn't 43.97 %, but 47.618 %, higher than Ontario's and almost as bad as Quebec's).

Facebook recently completed the $ 2 billion purchase of virtual - reality goggles maker Oculus VR Inc., which is based in Irvine, California, while Walt Disney Co. is buying Culver City, California - based Maker Studios for almost $ 1 billion.

City staff told the council a wider 200 - foot buffer between dispensaries and homes would eliminate almost all commercial areas as potential sites for dispensaries.

While you'll have to meet income and credit eligibility criteria, the good news is that almost all of Oregon land is eligible for USDA programs except select areas near Portland, Salem and other cities.

Almost this exact time last year, the City ended it's decade - long red light camera program which funded things like the crossing guards, flashing lights for school zones and some police equipment.

The former New York City mayor's wealth is almost entirely sewn up in his company, which means he's worth whatever his company is worth, or what someone might be willing to pay for it.

It is merely good for Edmonton because the City will bear the substantial risks of the deal and almost all of the negative consequences.

During my (almost) two years with Canada Learning Code, as an Experience Coordinator for the Toronto chapter, I've helped coordinate Ladies Learning Code workshops, Meetups (formerly Coffee & Code) and Digital Skills programs hosted at some of the most innovative, creative and richly diverse tech companies in the city.

Well, other than the real Manhattan where Fortune 500 and the world elites must have a presence there for whatever reason, most likely egoistic, or perhaps hangout of the world biggest tech lunatics such as the case of Silicon Valley, most cities in the states are actually ghettos — Detroit is one and Canadians have been buying up their rundown houses as if they're free (almost, going by Canadian standard) just when Americans are avoiding them like the plague.

There is almost a perpetual demand for good coffee as can be seen from the numerous coffee selling chains sprouting all over the major cities around the world.

For almost a decade, Misty Edwards has been a worship leader at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, Mo..

Now, almost three years later, after Darren Wilson was not charged in the killing, the city of Ferguson, Missouri, has agreed to settle with the Brown family for $ 1.5 million.

In the autumn of 1865, a group of almost 120 outstanding Protestant ministers and laymen met in Cleveland, Ohio, to consider joint efforts for city mission work.

The ministers noted in recent sermons that the Baptist church in the U.K. actually fought to establish an inter-faith community for the city almost 400 years ago for all people in the city.

The 50 - year - old is on trial in the Mediterranean city of Izmir, accused of links to two organisations which Ankara blames for a failed coup in Turkey almost two years ago.

The city sands out from revious cases for the reasons the author mentions (prayers are almost always christian, name a specific deity) but also because this wasn't some long held tradition.

New York's City Council convened to vote on the issue and almost unanimously passed resolution 1281, calling for the Department of Education to recognize the holidays.

He went up, John says, «not publicly, but almost in secret,» as if he wished to observe without being observed, taking the temperature of feeling in metropolitan circles.2 But «when the festival was already half over» he was moved to address the crowds in the temple.3 What he said so incensed them that he was in danger of being lynched.4 In the Fourth Gospel this episode is made, after John's manner, the setting for a whole series of dialogues and discourses which are evidently his own composition, though they contain undoubted reminiscences of earlier tradition, but there seems no valid reason to reject his statement that in September or October Jesus was in Jerusalem, and that the reception he met with finally convinced him — whatever premonitions he may previously have entertained — that any advance on the city would meet with implacable hostility.

Now Partnership is working with the mayor's office and other concerned groups on a more ambitious plan: rehabilitation of more than 1,000 city - owned apartments to provide permanent housing for almost 4,000 homeless families and individuals.

While Peter almost certainly visited Rome for what looks like a brief period of time, if there was any city that represented or epitomized his authority in a special way, it would not be Rome, the place of his murder, but Jerusalem, in which the Church was born, or perhaps better yet Antioch, in which he long served as a local leader.

In the futuristic Metropolis, (and almost every dystopian future) wealth and privilege are reserved for an upper crust of society, while an enslaved working class allows for excesses and keeps the city running.

Acre, an ancient city on the Mediterranean coast near present - day Haifa, had been captured by the Crusaders in 1104, and for almost two centuries, with some interruptions, it remained a thriving port and commercial center with ties to the West.

Here we have a phenomenon not without parallel in the history of other religions, as Lohmeyer notes — for example in Islam and in Mormonism — namely a shift from a first center to a second within the first generation of believers; and it is all the more striking that the evidence is preserved in Acts, whose whole interest and orientation centers in Jerusalem, not in Galilee, and whose earliest traditions are almost exclusively those of the capital city.

She hovered almost in slow motion for a moment, before hitting the grass in front of the busiest streets in the city...

Twenty - five years ago, almost to the day, my family moved to a less cool part of New York City (I think that was my fault; there wasn't enough room anywhere in Greenwich Village, apparently, for a child who cried as loudly as I did).

Bacon — yes, American - style bacon in Rome; not exactly the pork product I associate with the city, but who am I to question these things — was grilled to a perfect, lightly charred crisp then topped with peppery wild arugula and drizzled so - very - lightly with an aged balsamic vinegar, the kind that is thick, dark and almost syrupy, as sweet as it is punchy, the kind that probably costs too much but that I still encourage everyone to buy, just once, because used judiciously (which is to say, not in a steak marinade, please, use the cheap stuff for that) it will last forever.

Using a specially designed room in their New York City facility, the tea ferments in a warm environment for a period of time until almost all of the sugar has been converted to a slightly sparkling, refreshing drink containing vitamins, probiotics, enzymes, minerals and healthy organic acids.

The glass capture rates for drop - off recycling is almost 100 %, according to research in the cities of Fort Collins and Loveland, CO and Larimer County, CO..

«Philippe by Philippe Chow is an impeccable partner for Merchants Hospitality and the Lure Group as we have personally been dining at the restaurant for almost a decade in New York City,» says Merchants Hospitality Founder Abraham Merchants.