Sentences with phrase «couple of sentences of»

A couple of sentences of the passage are read by «voice guide», which makes it very easy to determine if you've found the passage you wanted.

Lynn Mundell: It is nice to know who the writer is, but that doesn't require more than a couple of sentences of introduction, such as who are you, where do you live, and what do you care about?

Those are the first couple of sentences of Graham's post, so there's no confusion about his essential advice.

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Limited space on these cards forces you to narrow your marketing message into a couple of sentences or bullet points, and high - quality graphics create further impact.

Whether it's just a few words, or a couple sentences, many of the world's most valuable startup companies clearly understand their mission and have made it part of their DNA.

When you speak for a minute or write a couple of sentences about the business, you should be able to explain the core concept and exactly why it's a valuable investment opportunity to a prospect.

My answers may take a little more thought and typing than the usual drivel I spit out in a couple of sentences.

But it is a little astonishing that, in a three - thousand - word article in First Things, Hitchens devotes just a couple of sentences to the idea at the core of the AA program: the Higher Power, otherwise «God.»

Five men have been sentenced to death in Pakistan for the murder of a Christian couple who were burnt alive.

Third, the way of seeing Christianity that goes with this older way of seeing God and the Bible I'm going to describe briefly with six adjectives, expanding each with a couple of sentences.

To practice this kind of communication, find a quiet place and take turns, as a couple, completing the following sentences.

And in 2009, a longtime missionary couple were sentenced by a Gambian court to a year of hard labor for sending a wry comment in an email to their prayer list.

There's no way to squeeze a couple of centuries of Church life into a few sentences.

A couple of years later Webb wrote to me, saying, «I was, if you recall, going to write about you, beginning with this sentence: «A screaming came across the sky...» (stolen from Gravity's Rainbow) but never got the chance.»

And then, three sentences later: «Of course, I was the guy who had argued that love was an insufficient basis for a couple to think that they should be married.»

No need to delve into every single detail when they may just want a brief couple of sentence definition.

I've mentioned before that I not a morning person, in fact, I don't think I really utter full sentences until I've been up for at least a couple of hours.

When you read the next couple of sentences, it is pretty clear what he meant.

I think it was on BE that someone once pointed out how important a couple of commas and a capital letter could be in a sentence like: «I helped my uncle, Jack, off the horse.»

For a couple of years, I was so tired, I could hardly string complex sentences together at work.

And to his credit before things got heated, he admitted that he served a couple (yes, a couple) of brief sentences in jail for drug dealing.

The hyperlink above the sentence on affluent couples points to the study, but here it is again: Couples at greater risk of breakup after pregnancouples points to the study, but here it is again: Couples at greater risk of breakup after pregnanCouples at greater risk of breakup after pregnancy loss

(In the 1 - 10 section, I think I editorialise in a couple of sentences on Carswell, but everyone else is simply reported).

Imaginary religious arguments, like those used by the sentencing judge in Loving, should not be used to bar faithful couples, of whatever race or gender, from the same civil institution of marriage that the majority enjoy.

This was a stark contrast to the style he displayed at the leadership debate just a couple of weeks ago, where he lacked energy, his voice trailed off at the end of sentences and he appeared lacklustre.

I didn't intend that the next President of the United States would follow my advice but I think he must have done because, apart from literally a couple of sentences in the speech which could be counted as essential tribute (to past Presidents and God) every single sentence in the speech utilizes one of these devices and some of the more florid sentences in the speech use as many as four devices at once!

However, some people are making unfounded claims that I endorsed Mitt Romney for President based on a couple of sentences where I did not express myself as clearly as I should have.

In fact, some of them didn't even mention it, being far more upset by a comment attributed to Watson a couple of sentences earlier: He was «inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa,» Watson had told The Sunday Times, because «all our social policies are based on the assumption that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really.»

Using a large corpus of sentences pronounced by English - language speakers showing a great variety of pace and accents, researchers observed that these coupled oscillations split words in an intelligent way: they adapted to the pace of the speaker and could correctly detect not only the syllabic barriers but also syllables identity.

There are brief biographical sketches — ranging from a couple of sentences to half a page — of well over 2000 notable figures in science, from Michael Ashburner to Zeno, the Greek philosopher famous for showing that in a race Achilles can never overtake the tortoise.

To quantify the effect of placing related words closer to each other, the researchers compared the dependency lengths of the sentences to a couple of baselines for dependency length in each language.

Their son Eric was found guilty and is currently serving two consecutive life - sentences for the murder of the wealthy couple.

But in the next sentence they say, «This is not to suggest that there aren't couples who happily make these milestones — we all hope that we're one of them.»

Before we go into details for certain goals, I'd like to write a couple of sentences on the main principle you need to understand — the principle of progressive resistance (or progressive overload, any way you slice it).

Within three or four hours after giving Bruce the first couple of tablespoons (of coconut oil) he was speaking in clear sentences again.

In the same paragraph on page 89 of his hard - cover book, he writes «I am not saying all carbohydrates and sugars are completely equal» then, a couple of sentences later, he writes «when I say Sugar Calories I mean all carbohydrates [calories]».

In a couple of years (or some more) we both might sit at the Oceanside in rocking chairs, having a strong Italian Espresso and chatting about one little similar sentence, that gave it a change; — RRB -... Freak OUT — love you blog — keep on, and have a nice and successful day... lovely greetings from Europe - TT

By half - assed, we mean only uploading one photo and saying a couple of sentences about yourself.

This is usually a few short paragraphs or maybe just a couple of sentences.

Just a couple of sentences here are fine enough.

But I did not have a good feeling about the whole «communication» because I thought that the man did not make any effort to write to the woman a couple of nice and interesting sentences.

There are so many men who sign up to a dating site, jot down a couple of sentences, refrain from uploading a pic, and then start sending women messages.

They think they will write a few sentences about themselves, take a couple of selfies and «boom!»

A couple of sentences is an adequate first response to a message.

Take every little mouse - click into account, and make sure that you have more than a couple of sentences in the «talk about yourself» section.

With Tinder, choosing a match is entirely dependent on photos and a couple of sentences, which aren't much better odds for finding love than meeting someone at a bar.

Wouldn't you be turned off if someone you didn't know turned in a report or emailed you with a couple of brief sentences, rife with misspellings?

how do I sum up who or what I'm about in a couple of sentences here goes: this is my life praising an honoring God for every day that he gives me.

well, I would like to make a comment, with of course no harsh bashing or one sided opinionated blather, However, I find it quite simply funny how one could watch a movie and with a couple of sentences and elegant word - ology, thing they can grasp what it takes to compose a work of art and creativity into a 250 page manuscript and then production material for viewers such as myself and yours truly.

Sentenced to three years in jail upon getting into a scuffle with a couple of fuzz trying to stop him from busking in the park, Otis, for starters, would be a far more resonant character if he were portrayed by a black actor (it doesn't count that the icky Matthews suffers from delusions of soul), since there's nothing to justify his martyr complex.