Sentences with phrase «dozen times before»

It doesn't matter if this is the first time you're looking for a home or you've done it half a dozen times before, you need to know when to step away from a deal.

Many comedy schools advertise a funny curriculum, but in actuality they deliver the same stale jokes you've heard a dozen times before.

Mike Frisch at the Legal Profession Blog posts about this rather pathetic story of a candidate for admission to the D.C. Bar who flunked the exam a dozen times before passing (he'd also failed the Virginia exam six times)..

He has given over 800 public talks about climate change, testified over a dozen times before committees of the US Congress and the legislatures of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, and has given hundreds of media interviews, appearing in Time, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Fox News, National Public Radio, Seattle Times, Seattle Magazine, and many more.

After dying a dozen times before finding a lofty perch to shoot arrows from.

AeternoBlade is a 2.5 D hack - n - slash you've probably seen a dozen times before in better installments.

Meanwhile, the overarching plot is entirely the stuff of typically mediocre video game storytelling, populated with cliche character types we've encountered a dozen times before.

It features a frustratingly mundane story we've seen half a dozen times before in the CoD series.

First, it was clear that the guys had been through this a dozen times before so it occasioned no sense of engagement from them.

Their eagle eyes caught something I had missed, so I recruited two of them and now we check the books a dozen times before they go out.

I moved over a dozen times before finishing college.

I have to say that I intended to put this game down about a dozen times before I was able to; anybody who is a sucker for a good strategy title might just face the same fate.

«Why try something we've failed at a half - dozen times before,» she asks, «only to watch it backfire?»

You've seen this movie a dozen times before, but that only makes it better since you know the good parts that are coming up next.

And because everyone who's actually going to see this film has already essentially seen this film a few dozen times before, the whole thing plays like an endurance test.

Dwayne Johnson goes through the muscle - bound motions in portraying the same type of wisecracking, likable but lethal hero he's played a dozen times before.

Coming on the heels of last year's Hill Of Freedom — one of Hong's best films, and his funniest — Right Now may feel like a retreat, but the fact is that the director is still better than just about anyone at drawing out the complex subtleties of a missed connection, and having done it a dozen times before seems to have only made him better at it.

The unnecessary amount of grinding required to progress through a story we've seen a dozen times before overshadows the decent combat.

I must have repeated that line to myself a dozen times before this abysmal techno - thriller shuddered to a much - appreciated end.

I have picked the wrong places to meet women a dozen times before, so hopefully this may prove a bit more hopeful.

I have picked the wrong places to meet women a dozen times before, so hopefully...

I tried it one at least a dozen times before finally giving into yet another black cape.

As you've probably heard a dozen times before, specific greens such as kale, mustard greens, bok choy, swiss chard, etc are the absolute most nutrient dense vegetables on earth.

We allow our alarm clocks to buzz at least a dozen times before we decide we have to get out of bed...

And if, like me, you aren't a morning person, you may hit «snooze» half a dozen times before blearily finding your way to the nearest source of caffeine.

Team leader Chris Martens, a marine biologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, had lived and worked out of Aquarius a half - dozen times before.

Even if he has done it a dozen times before, today your son will not speak to his aunt.

I guess I had it easy, because both of mine only needed to have the nursing session end abruptly half a dozen times before they stopped biting me.

Wenger must have scouts watching his targets dozen times before making move.

I test some of my recipes several dozen times before they are perfected.

After having made both of these treats a dozen times before then, and using store bought spelt flour (and sometimes organic white flour) in both recipes, we knew something wasn't right!

And I don't know how Wendy does, but when I read these children's stories that I've read a dozen times before, I find that even as I'm reading, my mind is off thinking about something else.

Honest, when you stated early in another post that you were Reformed, I predicted silently to myself that we would be having this very conversation that I have had a dozen times before.

In the case of a mined diamond, you can't really know, since it has changed hands two dozen times before it gets to you.»

So was Grant, who explains in the TEDx talk below, how he had to repeat similar experiments at a fundraising call center a half dozen times before he was convinced that such a little thing could make such a big difference.

Not exact matches

That third boy with shoulders broader than his dad's, he's out seeing the world through a lens and giving me fresh eyes that enlarge this old beat - up heart, and the last boy, the grinning one gunning to be the tallest, he made us dinner last night and the night before that and there's hardly a day goes by that he doesn't hug me half a dozen times, kissing me squarely on the top of my head.

By the time the riots ended in Watts — and Detroit, and Newark, and dozens of other cities — Americans understood that race was a much bigger problem than they had ever thought before.

On occasion the phrase was used to refer simply to the land of the Bible — that is, to the land the Israelites returned to from Egypt — but in all of Christian literature before the sixth century it occurs less than a dozen times, and usually as a phrase to reject.

The King of the Wire puts his faith in the King of Kings.Just before Nik Wallenda steps onto the wire tonight in an attempt to become the first person to walk a tightrope across the mouth of the Horseshoe Falls, he'll form a circle with a dozen close friends and members of his close - knit Christian family and they'll say a prayer to Jesus Christ.The cross Wallenda wears around his neck every time he walks on a wire isn't just a fashion statement, it's a message about the religious beliefs the American performer holds close to his heart.

Variation: For cook - off contest chili, drink bad tequila two days before starting the chili; burn mixture frequently; sprinkle occasionally with sand and blood; serve cold to a dozen other drunks and call them «judges»; and keep telling yourself you're having a great time.

One of my favourite companies, Clearspring, who you've heard me mention dozens of times before, have just launched a new range of products, including these fabulous gluten - free -LSB-...]

I have made these as per the recipe a dozen times, I always cover the top with chocolate chips before baking & they're to die for obviously!

A long time Towne Park Account Manager, Krista started her hospitality career with Mile Hi Valet Service in Anaheim over a dozen years ago, serving at nearly every property in Southern California before moving to the Bay Area in 2010.

Before you think that I am a total idiot, in my defense it was 10 pm on a weeknight, I work full time, I have a toddler and I had just baked 2 dozen carrot cake cupcakes with regular flour.

No point even listening to Wenger turn the volume down trust me you've heard what he's gonna say dozens and dozens of time before!

Before Miller's dad, John, retired from Blackhawk High in 2005 after 36 years, 657 wins and eight 3A titles at two high schools, he and McConnell's dad, Tim, who has 471 victories in 21 years as the coach at 3A Chartiers Valley in Bridgeville, clashed half a dozen times in regular - season games and district playoffs.

It was a caregiver reflex and it took maybe a half dozen times of saying it before I realized how very important it is to believe that message — to have faith.

Within that routine lies a dozen other routines involved in getting the kids ready for school — lunchboxes are packed, homework is checked and kisses are given before ensuring they're on their way in good time.

«It's time that he steps up to the plate,» Hernandez, a graduate student at Canisius College in Buffalo, said before leaving with several dozen other chanting demonstrators from NY Renews.

By the time a few dozen lawmakers had assembled in Albany the week before Christmas for an economic development meeting, negotiations were moving so rapidly that the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, instructed his members not to leave the capital until they had called his office — just in case a gun control deal was ready.