Sentences with phrase «come close to hours»

Nothing can come close to hours spent browsing through books at your local bookstore.

Not exact matches

Now I come in to my office, close my door, and I get into a work zone for six wonderfully uninterrupted hours.

Last year there was a string of serial rapes and we are speaking with some of the local advocacy groups and developing a plan to keep the space open and staffed Friday and Saturday nights until an hour after the bars close so that if there is anyone feeling uncomfortable or threatened by a situation can come and use the space as a safe haven and have the option of being walked home at the end of the evening.

After five hours of trekking the floor like it was the Appalachian Trail, I hadn't come close to seeing everything.

Polls are due to close at 5 pm London time, and results are expected to come in around two hours later.

While everyone hopes to relax and rejoice as the year comes to a close, all too often business owners find this time of year to be a manic flurry of seasonal promotions, forward planning, and insane hours (or, for some, a far worse pause in getting paid as clients turn their attention elsewhere).

Within three hours, staffers evacuated 122 patients to other facilities — something they'd never come close to...

Right where you are, your life intersects with countless people who need someone to come close in the hour of suffering.

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

(room temp in the winter you'll probably need closer to 2 hours if you're impatient fill your sink with hot water put the mixing bowl in (you don't want the water to come close to getting in the bowl though) cover with plastic wrap and towel if needed to help weigh it down) and you can use it in 30 - 40 minutes)

I love the recipe for your Shortbread filled with cherries wrapped in toasted coconut cookies... though I don't think they could possibly come close to staying in the fridge for 24 hours

I'll often try to make the dough the morning before we're going to eat it so that the dough gets close to a full 24 hours to come together.

The leaves outside my window seem to be turning yellow by the hour so the summer temperatures must be coming to a close, as well.

After covering 10 or so blocks in the course of an hour, our short morning expedition came to a close, and my pockets were filled with more weeds than I could actually remember trying.

However, just about a half hour ago, the line quickly jumped to 9.5, with close to 80 % of bets and 75 % of dollars coming in on Purdue.

Giroud seemed to be limping around from about the 20th minute but all the action was in Arsenal's half anyway and Coutinho came close to doubling their lead after half an hour but Cech managed to tip his blast over the bar.

At Le Mans Porsche came within a few seconds of winning its first Le Mans 24 Hours - A 908 was leading on the last lap but suffering from brake problems, which allowed the Ford GT40 of Jacky Ickx to pass it and win in one of the closest finishes in the history of the race.

It's hoped that the extra car will increase Toyota's chances of winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which they came agonisingly close to achieving last year.

there is less than 4 hours to go until the window closes and if no substantive whispering can be heard coming out the Emirates at this late stage of the day then I doubt we will get any surprises.

It took just a few hours for the line to move from 2.5 to 1 and so far, close to 80 % of early bets are coming in on the Colts.

The second half started with a bit more urgency from Arsenal after Wenger's half - time talk, but Forest soaked it up, and on the hour mark Forest came back into it and came very close to their third goal, but it didn't matter as two minutes later Holding brought down Bereton down in the box and Forest had a penalty, and Wenger couldn't even complain to the referee from the stand.

Nice article... I used to be one of those staunch Wenger fans through the years... I used to believe he is superior than Sir Alex, because with almost nothing to spend and playing with kids, he managed to keep us up there every year... I was really caught up with that half season wonder we used to show... In the summer 2013, him or the board (I don't recall) came out and said we are much stable financially and now we can fight with the biggest bullies, I got my hopes high, I thought we are definitely signing a top striker and DM, that what we need... What happened, only hours before the window closed we managed to sign a top AMF (remember we have our best player for the season 2012 - 2013 was AMF, Cazorla if you remember), I was really depressed seen Giroud leading the line every match... then comes winter window, and we were right there top of the table... My friend send me a poster of an elephant on a tree, and on the bottom of it «no one knows how it got there but everybody knows how it will get down»... I told my friend that we are only one decent striker far from the gold... and what happened, we signed an old injured DM on loan... That for me was a completely arrogance and stubbornness cost us the league title... There I completely lost the plot with Wenger... I wish yesterday I was with those who raised that banner... I would write in my banner «Enough talks and philosophy, we need results»

I really hope the club will come to its senses but the window closes in less than 48 hours and not a single sale has been closed.

Sami Khedira twice came close to increasing Madrid's lead around the half - hour mark but was denied both times by vital saves from Diego Alves.

Pablo Infante then gave the home side hope, leveling after 57 minutes with a Roy of the rovers strike, but the final half hour was a long one with both sides coming close to adding to the score.

Rooney was searching for his 100th Premier League goal at Old Trafford for Manchester United and the closest he came to getting it was on the hour mark but his side - footed effort from 20 yards was blocked away by Pape Souare two yards from his goal - line.

As the match came to the closing quarter of an hour, Robin was substituted for Ibrahim Afellay.

America now needed three goals to force extra-time and the Liga MX side went close twice before the half - hour, with Alex Bono coming up with fine save from point - blank range and Oribe Peralta's redirected shot just missing at the far post.

When baby needs a break, it's so easy to go back to your room since they're so close by; and just come back out in half an hour if baby wants to go into the water again.

We don't have any close family to come over and help out regularly and my husband had work crazy hours right after my 2nd baby was born.

Indeed, with the capacity to keep milk fresh for days rather than hours, America plunged into a near - obsession with milk - drinking that came to be part of the national character: Three glasses of milk a day turned into a staple of the diet for city dwellers along with farm families already close to the source; kids with red - and - white milk cartons became as common in school cafeterias as mystery meat.

Between getting up for a wee every hour and the baby holding an all - night party, you might not get much sleep (and no to all the people that say this — it's not preparing you for the new mum sleep deprivation — it doesn't even come close!).

And, we found out that if we forgot to close the gate at night, Princess would come calling at all hours.

The way I figure it, I'd have to add hours and hours and hours of private tutoring to your cost estimate to even come close to a fair value, but the bill is paid in full with one sweet smile or a hug or a moment of tender understanding.

The first week of school is impossibly busy for teachers — I'd take home at least 5 or 6 hours of work every night and still not come close to finishing.

Within twelve hours a new opinion poll of members was released suggesting Corbyn is set to win the Labour leadership by a landslide, with none of his rivals even coming close.

The declaration came just hours before he convened legislative leaders in a closed - door meeting to detail plans to slash $ 10 billion in planned expenses, including aid to schools, hospitals and local governments.

He had spent the day in his Doncaster North constituency devising strategies for the coming hours — perhaps days — expecting a close result and a war of words over which party was best placed to form Britain's next government.

Law enforcement came close to apprehending Salah Abdeslam in the hours after the Paris attacks, when French police stopped a car he was riding in near the Belgian border.

De Blasio, who managed Clinton's 2000 U.S. Senate race, has remained close to Bill and Hillary Clinton and refusal to endorse her, just hours before her official announcement on Sunday, came as a surprise to many.

Today's closed door meetings and political maneuverings come after lawmaker met for about five hours Monday to discuss leadership.

But after days of contentious discussion capped by a marathon nine - hour closed - door debate on Friday, Republicans came to a fateful decision: The full Senate would be allowed to vote on the bill, the majority leader, Dean G. Skelos, said Friday afternoon, and each member would be left to vote according to his or her conscience.

«I've had nursing home operators come to me and say if this $ 15 an hour passes there's no question we will have to close our nursing home,» said Sen. Catharine Young, R - Olean, chair of the Senate finance committee.

Sure enough, our Skype interview came to a close within 35 minutes, for a meeting that had been scheduled for 1 hour.

On a drive home from the laboratory, researchers in Canada conducted a straightforward experiment: They traveled stretches of road with various speed limits (20, 50, 90, and 110 kilometers per hour) and tested how close a bird on or beside the road (like the magpie above) would allow the advancing car to come before fleeing its dangerous position — a measure called flight initiation distance.

Early in 2002, S2 came very close to the black hole, coming within 17 light - hours or around three times the orbital distance of Pluto from the sun (or 39 AUs).

I've found that eating 3 meals within the 8 hours is going to fill you up quickly and more than likely those 3 meals won't even come close to going past your maintenance calories.

In my first few weeks of working from home I was able to get away with sitting in my home office with the doors closed and tap tap tapping away on my computer for another hour or so after Niko came home from daycare.

Well, I have come to conclusion that one of the biggest things which you can do in order to be truly happy, even just for a few hours is to completely tune yourself out of your usual daily routine, forget your scheduled life for a day, gather a bunch of your closest friends, hide your phone somewhere deep down in your bag and enjoy an afternoon by talking to each other, making jokes, eating good food and enjoying the moment that you're in.

So as September comes to a close, so must fashion week and what better way to bid it farewell than by attending Hour Detroit's Best Dressed 2015 fashion show?