Sentences with phrase «dozen times over»

The charges were in relation to allegations that the accused molested his son nearly a dozen times over the course of a month.

It would be rare for a good lawyer to make it through a career without having to withdraw for a reason like this at least half a dozen times over a career.

Todd has traveled to the Amazon a dozen times over the course of seven years to document the conflicts surrounding the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Project, and in early March 2016 he returned to the region as the dam's construction neared completion.

A dozen times over the painting seems to undermine itself, but it refuses nonetheless to be undermined.

After retrying stage 2 about a dozen times over 2 days it finally made sense and I finally found that groove that I mention in my review.

I've had (or have) nearly every card mentioned in this article, plus more, and some of them a dozen times over.

It Keeps Getting Better Here... I think I've stayed at Caliente Tropics around a dozen times over the past six or so years, and I've seen it undergo quite a few transformations during that period.

I go through cycles where I pare down my sources... I've done it probably a dozen times over the last 5 - 8 years, and then like topsy / kudzu it grows back.

I talked to the counselors two or three times in the beginning and maybe half a dozen times over the five years to see how my account was.

John and I emailed back and forth over a dozen times over the next few weeks as we game planned my next move in the binary options market.

I had attempted to write a novel several dozen times over the years.

I assured them a dozen times over that it didn't matter, and that they should continue having fun, but it was too late.

For instance, instead of prepping a lesson on fractions for October 5th and then once completed, not teaching it again for another year, teachers may teach that same lesson a dozen times over the course of the grading period.

«Education equals freedom,» she said a dozen times over the afternoon.

If you scour the annals of modern indie cinema and you don't stumble upon that exact same blueprint a dozen times over, you're not looking hard enough.

De la Cortina has been having more success as an actor than as a director, and so he posits himself as the suave leading man (taking off his shirt a half - dozen times over the course of the movie).

So yeah, we all know that Black Panther, a.k.a. Prince T'Challa, is going to triumph over adversity in his bid to bring harmony to the kingdom of Wakanda, that there will be the obligatory action sequences where actual danger is a distant possibility for both hero and bystander, and that the plot will pivot on a mysterious object of unknown origin («Vibranium,» in this case — don't worry if it sounds unfamiliar; the film's characters will mention it at least three - dozen times over the course of the movie).

Subsequent mouth - first run - ins with an overcooked pizza crust, a CD case, a shrimp shell, a hangnail, and a peach pit have required me to get that same broken tooth bonded and re-bonded, then porcelain veneered and re-veneered about a half - dozen times over the past 15 years.

For Mitchell Capitan, one of the founding members of Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining (ENDAUM) who is now president of Crownpoint Chapter, the reasons are technical, and he gives them in a story I have heard more than a dozen times over the last seven years.

The tip of a resonator is placed against a tooth, which it scans about a dozen times over a period of three minutes.

Capital first asked the administration for information about the ads on January 19, and has reiterated its request more than three dozen times over two months.

Successfully playing this is striking a diplomatic balance between «I would never use nukes in a first strike, I am not insane» and «I'm just crazy enough to blow up the whole world a few dozen times over, Commie Pinko / Capitalist Pig!»

If I were prone to, I should have killed myself a dozen times over here, we get some really insane posts...

I had to do this half a dozen times over the four years I used cloth.

The English champions had scouted him no less than a dozen times over the course of past few months.

In fact, many oddsmakers will adjust their lines on a given game several dozen times over the course of the week.

Now they have 37 pans; the great - grandson has multiplied production a dozen times over.

Our weapons of mass destruction could kill all the billions of humans, together with all life higher than insects and grass, not once but a dozen times over.

And in a moment that would repeat itself at least a dozen times over the course of the inaugural «Why Christian?»

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

Not exact matches

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

Today more than a dozen Chinese - backed manufacturers (many of them American startups that now have Chinese owners) are tripping over one another to promote their electric cars and acceleration times; Faraday Future, Karma Automotive, NextEV, and Future Mobility are but a few.

The darkness grew worse over time as Moz, the search - engine marketing software startup he co-founded with his mother in 2004, expanded from a half - dozen employees in 2006 to around 125 in 2013.

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.

He was also chairman or co-chairman of over a dozen product and regulatory committees during that time.

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.

Manual inputting of data doesn't seem like a big deal for a startup with just a few clients, but over time it becomes a major problem area, because eventually you may be dealing with dozens of large accounts.

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.

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.

Fee acknowledged that Hernandez's renting a car sounded «suspicious» but said he rented cars all the time — «over two dozen» between March 2012 and June 2013.

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

The other dozen or so buyers, or category leaders, spend more time in the office, fielding hundreds of cold calls a week from vendors tripping over themselves to make Trader Joe's a customer.

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.

The wait is officially over, people, and it's one of the happiest Fridays we can remember in recent history because Fenty Beauty has officially dropped, and not one of the amazing - looking products in dozens of shades has sold out as of the time this story posted.

This has happened dozens of times over the years.

In the wake of the New York Times's explosive report alleging that megaproducer and Miramax co-founder Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed and assaulted dozens of women over decades as one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, there's been one overwhelming reaction from industry insiders and dedicated celebrity gossip readers: Finally.

Shin says when the negative balance grew to a point at which the bank stopped paying out, the lender attempted dozens more debits over a short period of time — each of which incurred a new $ 34 overdraft fee.

On Tuesday, Ferro told a gathering of some five dozen L.A. Times sales staffers he was working on a bid to take over Gannett.

«Despite being just one of over a dozen companies who contributed to basic cellular standards, Qualcomm insists on charging Apple at least five times more in payments than all the other cellular patent licensors we have agreements with combined,» Apple said in a statement.

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