Sentences with phrase «couple of times a year at»

«We do this a couple of times a year at conferences,» writes Becky Clarkson, a geriatric medicine researcher at the University of Pittsburgh.

Angel and I do not eat quinoa more than a couple of times a year at most, but we also have Paleo friends that have it monthly.

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If you could put this benefit to use a couple of times a year at a decent hotel or even one night a year at a nice hotel, you could easily recover your effective annual fee of $ 200 and come out on top.

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I was at a conference for technology CEOs a couple of years ago, and a former head of Canada's civil service said the government has done all of the policies right, and now it's time for the business community to step up.

So we took a couple of years to do soil studies and climate studies: Looking at soils at different times of the year, looking at moisture levels, at holding capacities, etc..

«We spent a lot of the time over the last couple of years learning from our retail operations out west,» said Mark Childs, chief marketing officer at Samsung Canada, in an interview with Marketing.

At the time, all the networks were making 20 - plus movies a year and a couple of miniseries and maybe a few limited series, and so you were making things all the time.

«We have seen security go from, again what was a couple years ago 20 %, 25 % to consistently 40 % of the business,» Conte said at the time, as recorded in a transcript of the call on the finance site Seeking Alpha.

«A couple of years ago, I was going at least once a week, but as time went on I stopped going as much,» says Michelle Langston, concierge wrangler and team lead, who is currently based in the Bay Area.

But if you run a pizza parlor and get only a couple of customers a day during the winter months, you might be better off staying open just a few hours a day at that time of year, or closing the shop altogether.

By that time, Ebates» two founders had already been hard at work building the company for a couple of years (Ebates was initially incubated at Foundation Capital).

We are now at the seasonally strong time of year... I expect that the next couple months will continue to have strong performance.

-LRB-...) Labour - intensive industries across Dongguan, a city of 8m that from a distance resembles a forest of factories, are grappling with a drop in orders from the west at a time when double - digit Chinese wage inflation over the past couple of years has prompted western retailers to move orders to south - east Asia and Bangladesh.

I personally know several people who still have interest - only mortgages and had been enjoying negligible payments for years now, but have no idea how to pay back the principle on their liar - loans and more terrifyingly for them little understanding of what their monthly payments could escalate to with inflation at say 4 % in a couple of years time.

They have risen over the past couple of years as the economies of the United States, Europe and China appeared to be humming along together at a healthy clip for the first time in years.

Debt servicing ratios of both the corporate and unincorporated sectors have been lower for the past couple of years than at any time in the preceding decade (Graph 6).

At the time of the increase in the target from 5 to 5 1/4 per cent, markets had priced in not only that increase but a couple of further increases over the coming year.

They have only gotten more expensive over the last couple of years and now stand at valuations that are only exceeded by a couple of times in history, namely 1929 and 2000.

I bought it years and years ago and still use it at least a couple of times a week purely for the competition analysis data it provides on the scraped keywords it generates.

If only the media spent this much time and effort trying to get to the bottom of at least a few of the real stories out there over the last couple years instead of crap like this.

I've noted it for the past couple of years: no longer can I sit for hours with a single book before me — barely recognizable is my teenage self who marathoned through Harry Potter volumes the day they arrived at my door — and the convenient packaging of 25 minute episodes of my favorite TV - shows has so shaped me that even sitting through a two hour long movie is at times difficult.

Lemon curd is something I failed at miserably when I made it for the first time a couple of years ago.

With our hearts and our mouths and our pinkies, we made a promise to each other that in a couple of years — when things are far less eventful and chaotic than they are at this particular moment in time — we'll return with a master plan and heavy boxes packed with only our most essential belongings.

I had a really fun time at the first ever Burrito Bowl, and I think future events will be even better, as there were a couple of things that could still be improved for next year.

I think it was for a couple of reasons — partly when my dad was super sick and in the hospital for months, and at the same time we were having this years - long drought... and I just kept thinking «I just want a rainy day to sit inside and rest and recharge.»

I've made some changes in the last couple years to swap a lot of my dairy eating out — i.e. I use plant - based protein powders now & I've been eating dairy free yogurt most of the time — and at this point, all that's really left is eating ice cream & cheese.

Food is not fixed in time, yet we have been poor managers of our resources over the years as human civilization has progressed and today stand at a situation where sustaining our biggest source of energy has transformed into our biggest problem coupled with environmental degradation.

With all of the excitement and buzz surrounding the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) coupled with the fact that the fall and winter flu, holiday survival and New Year resolution seasons are all on fast approach, now is the perfect time to explore some innovations — gadgets, appliances and other science - based solutions aimed at improving our F&B - driven well - being.

It was just a year ago that Team Fischer took a couple of Ls in the first few weeks of the Season before getting hot at the right time and taking the Crown.

You can be with a healthy woman,»» Couples said at last year's British Open, the first time he spoke publicly of Bren's condition.

At different times in the last year or so, track stars Lee Evans and Bill Toomey had made appearances in a couple of the countries, but those two were apparently the only American athletes to have visited Africa recently under government auspices.

Lukas Podolski chose to return to Koln after a couple of lean years at Bayern Munich and his loyalty to the club he represented from the age of 10 until leaving for the Allianz Arena at age 21, is obvious for all to see, however the Polish born forward clearly feels it's time to move on.

Couple times a year Lindsay Grahams parents goes out of town & you get invited to a party at his dads bar but you have to hang out with Carly all night cutting out posters for spirit week.

The guy was on for 30 m and did jack shit lost the ball a few times and a couple of hapless shots... We need to buy benzema and griezman and bender if we are to have a shot at top 4 this year

Last season, the Portuguese tactician slammed the 22 - year - old for his attitude as per BT Sport, and coupled with his lack of playing time, it raised real doubts over his long - term future at Old Trafford.

I join you on that almostawinner... but the same can be said of that famous english core that we extended / signed a couple of years back... Ramsey is a great player, can be world class but for that has to stop being so wasteful at times (bad / heavy first touch, killing counter attacks with the wrong choices, not shooting well anymore the way it looks, giving the ball away)... your not on Gerrard level at his best Gibbs is a good player but seems happy with his bit part role, doesn't look like he's crazy about pushing & challenging Montreal for a XI spot Ox, I still believe in his talent but just no end product for an offensive player with his ability; he could be our version of PFA Hazard / Costa... is it a lack of confidence?

Sometimes the storylines stretch over a couple of seasons: in 2007, Arsenal beat Tottenham at the Emirates in extra time to reach the final; the following year, Spurs got their revenge, sticking five past Arsenal at White Hart Lane

Arsenal may not be the hammer at the moment but far from just being a fancy jewellery, more like a rubber mallet, with at least 2 - 3 fine tuning could become the hammer of justice, but leave it to master Wenger in finishing his master piece, each year he seems to add a couple pieces, not to unsettle the ones he has already, this coming season would be a good time to complete the master piece

I can't see Campbell cuts in Arsenal anytime soon because he is already been loaned a couple of time and yet he is too clumsy and rusty... Akpom and Sanogo need game time which aren't gonna get at Arsenal nowadays so loan deals «for one or two years with any bottom Pl side» might be good for them...

«There's a hunger that maybe wasn't there at times our last couple of years.

Arsenal have been linked with the Argentina international striker Gonzalo Higuain before of course, and according to the Arsenal transfer rumours at the time, a couple of years ago, the deal was all but done until Napoli swooped in with a better offer and took him from Real Madrid to Serie A.

As time went on it became obvious that Wenger had no intention of playing the German international in his last couple of years at Arsenal, so it was little surprise that he was allowed to go out on loan and it would be even more of a shock if Wenger brought Podolski back to the Emirates in the summer.

I am slightly surprised they have not learnt anything from a couple of years ago when they beat us 2 - 1 at the Lane & were actually 10 points ahead of us at that time with less of the season to go than the current situation.

Gunners boss Arsene Wenger is a long - time admirer of the 21 - year - old Frenchman, who is widely regarded as one of the best young players in the world at the moment after a superb couple of years in Turin.

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

Moving him and keeping Witkowski off the ice opens a couple of spots; I also think that AA's time with the organization might be coming to an end, even though I'm very against trading him his comments at the end of the year seem to indicate some real unhappiness between him and Blashill.

Have been calling for wengers departure now for 5 years on grounds he could not take the club to the next level... Personally I feel the record in that time proves me right but ok some can throw in references to debt overhang or cup wins or a couple of genuine world class additions to the squad etc... However I hope this window stands as a real testament to the mans failings and all genuine supporters of the club get behind a call to remove him at the seasons end... Qed

It was just a couple of years ago when Arsenal spent a lot more time at the top of the Premier League table than any of our rivals but we seemed to crumble when the business end of things began.

At the tail end of the season, where there's precious little to play for, and the best we can hope for is 3rd, to put us in the driving seat for another time wasting frolick at the first couple stages of the UCL, having blown away one of our best chances to win the League in what — TWELVE YEARS, matAt the tail end of the season, where there's precious little to play for, and the best we can hope for is 3rd, to put us in the driving seat for another time wasting frolick at the first couple stages of the UCL, having blown away one of our best chances to win the League in what — TWELVE YEARS, matat the first couple stages of the UCL, having blown away one of our best chances to win the League in what — TWELVE YEARS, mate?