Sentences with phrase «dozen times a year»

She further claimed that Clinton called her nursing home a half - dozen times that year, getting through once and asking when she was going to be back in Little Rock; she told him she wasn't.

In fact, they estimate they meet in person only about a half - dozen times a year, and most of those encounters come on the golf course.

However, if I read my Bible the equivalent of every minute that I devoted to watching football, reading fantasy reports and replaying highlights; I'd get through the Bible about three dozen times a year.

Team Eilian, I've said it over a dozen times this year, it's not for a lack of talent that they are in this spot..

He tells this story about a dozen times every year, and because I'm simple, I laugh every time.

On Tuesday, Genova testified that Venditto used a conference room in the basement of what once was Singh's flagship restaurant in Bethpage, H.R. Singletons, about a half - dozen to a dozen times a year for meetings, primarily with other elected officials, Genova said.

We agree with Rick Hess, for example, that «through - course assessments» — high - stakes tests to be taken a half dozen times a year — will pressure schools to follow a particular scope and sequence — and that this is a serious infringement on school - level autonomy.

The N.C. Department of Public Instruction's three - person charter school office and a newly created commission meeting a dozen times a year would be the only entities responsible for ensure taxpayer money is being spent wisely and that state laws are followed at the existing and new schools.

About a half dozen times a year, the Arizona Game and Fish Department nets bats for research and the public can tag along.

I fly domestically probably half a dozen times a year, and I use miles pretty much as soon as I've collected enough to redeem.

Unless you fly with your family over a dozen times a year, or are a frequent business traveler who must fly / meet / entertain clients at airports, your $ 400 - 700 is better spent elsewhere.

High tides once flooded the streets around his home about twice a year; the flooding in the last decade has increased to a dozen times a year.

This is usually the point at which King gets involved, and he says it happens about a dozen times a year.

In contrast, even a major litigation law firm will find itself in trial perhaps a dozen times a year, and that is across the entire firm.

If you can get past all that, then you're still faced with a basic question: do you really want to go to the theater at least a dozen times a year?

«That way, owners can get away a dozen to two dozen times a year instead of just one or two times if they have to fly,» says Hugh Merkle, salesperson at Coldwell Banker — James C. Otton Real Estate, Stone Harbor, N.J. Having sold $ 24 million of vacation homes in 1998, Merkle qualifies as an expert in the field.

Even though I only use mine a half a dozen times a year, when we do use it feels really special.

Not exact matches

Dozens of times over the last 25 years,» Laszewski writes.

Over the last two decades of building and running businesses, and the last couple of years working full time with dozens of startup founders and CEOs on their strategies and funding plans in my consultancy business, I have observed that there are a common set of reasons that startups struggle and fail, and a consistent set of factors that make startup companies successful.

«Manafort, like dozens of other influence peddlers, has been operating in plain sight for years,» wrote Silverstein, the long - time foreign - lobbying reporter.

In Trump's first year in office, the pair bonded over golf in Japan and the US and talked on the phone more than a dozen times, in addition to several in - person meetings.

«They are curious, energetic, and aren't afraid to ask tough and sometimes unusual questions... We both get interviewed dozens of times every year, but this was the most memorable one we've done in a long time.»

That's generally a reflection of how well investors think Berkshire's stock market portfolio, still over 85 % managed by Buffett and his long - time partner Charlie Munger, as well as the businesses they have bought over the years — including railroad company Burlington Northern, See's Candies, and dozens of others — are doing.

At 75, a dozen years removed from his time in office, Fox has used profanity and humor to defend Mexicans from Trump's attacks and rebut his contention that he can force Mexico to finance a border wall separating the two countries.

You've probably also heard a dozen times the tired but true advice that if you gave up your daily drink from the local coffeehouse, you could save well over a thousand dollars a year.

Only a surprisingly successful month of August (when the usual stream of summer blockbusters often turns into a trickle) has helped the industry recover from a month of July that did not reach $ 1 billion in total gross for the first time in a dozen years.

I've seen half a dozen TIFF films over the past three years and none have started on time.

One example is the Empire State Building in New York City that gets struck dozens of times every year.

He's on the board of a billion revenue company, has written for The Financial Times, The New York Observer, and over a dozen popular websites for the past 15 years.

This has happened dozens of times over the years.

But this year, half a dozen developers who had previously attended the conference told The Times that they did not plan to go because they objected to Facebook's policy changes.

«Most entrepreneurs raise money just a handful of times — while most venture firms fund dozens of companies a year.

This question has resurfaced over the past dozen or more years multiple times.

«This time next year, I would not be surprised to see dozens of pilots, legislative resolutions, and even funding spread across the various states and high up in the U.S. Federal Government specifically for piloting blockchain based innovation.»

Over the past decade, I have traveled to Russia a dozen times, with stays for an entire year in 2004 — 2005 and again in 2011 — 2012.

The holidays are a great time to be around dozens of family members you only see a couple of times a year, attend packed office parties and travel on sold - out flights to the far ends of the country.

We have tried about a dozen times over the last four years, and as you say, it feels like such a charade.

Experiencing a connection with the Divine for yourself instead of just reading about someone else's experience of thousands of years ago that has been translated a dozen times... definitely on the outs.

In Norman, Oklahoma, a half - dozen eleven - year - olds used their free time during recess to read the Bible and pray.

That would be the book written by dozens of authors over hundreds of years, edited and reassembled in differing forms with different content countless times, not to mention translated with all the inconsistencies in connotation that entails.

It is gratifying to see one's name in print in a magazine or newspaper; the faces of half a dozen scientists have graced the cover of Time in the last year.

which then reminded me of the project I started several years ago where I set out to summarize all the theology I had been taught in Bible College and Seminary, and then ask the question that I never had time (or courage) to ask... But after a couple dozen posts, I got sidetracked again....

I was clinically depressed a dozen years ago, and one of the stategies I learned was that when I need to wallow, I give myself permission to do so... but I set a time limit (and use a timer for this).

He's amassed a year's worth of canned and dry food, dozens of gallons of water, hundreds of water purification tablets, and a small cache of weapons in a old U-Haul truck outside his western Oregon home in preparation for «doomsday,» the end - times scenario based upon the ancient Mayan calendar hitting a symbolic turning point this month.

On a bad night, we were up dozens of times and I went an entire year of my life at a level of sleep deprivation that meant I probably shouldn't have been driving the mini-van or been responsible for other children.

Theists think they already have all the answers in their 2,000 year old book written via hearsay from a couple dozen different people covering a span of time of something like 5,000 years and conveniently geographically focused on one very small area of the Earth.

A couple of times a year the pastor baptizes dozens of adult believers in a river.

It's arranged roughly in chronological order, covers a time span of 1000's of years, comprised of writings from dozens of different authors (few of whom actually knew each other) yet whose writings all contained a common thread.

In a dozen years of parish ministry this was the first time I had taught a class on theology.

After the first year of playing, I put the bass aside, and have only played about a dozen times since then.