Sentences with phrase «dozen years at least»

Now, although the Kindle is a totally serviceable reading device, there's not much reason to «innovate,» because «innovation» means costs to publishers, which is unacceptable when they can just keep doing things the way they've done them for the last dozen years at least, cutting costs and quality — they're a lot like politicians in this sense — and with a recovering economy even Barnes and Noble can stay afloat!

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Over the years, Nuinsco made at least half a dozen significant discoveries.

The Bright bonanza is part of $ 5 billion that Netflix will spend on programming this year alone, including at least 60 original shows, a dozen documentaries, and eight feature films.

ESPN has broadcasting rights for dozens of different sports locked up for the next several years at least — that's what the fortress walls are constructed from — but those deals will eventually expire, and there are a number of ways to get around them in the meantime if you think creatively.

In the past five years, Elliott has launched activist campaigns at more than 50 companies — 19 this year alone — in at least a dozen countries.

Signs of inflation have prompted at least two dozen central banks, including in China and Europe, to raise interest rates this year.

And you might be right if you bought a dozen or more of the things and held them for at least 10 years.

Filings with the Labor Department show at least two dozen instances during the last two years in which former IBM (IBM) employees applied for federal aid because the tech giant moved their jobs to other countries.

This will be particularly significant, given that China only permits Christianity within the context of government - sanctioned churches, and the fact authorities have partly or wholly destroyed hundreds of churches and crosses and imprisoned at least dozens of Christians in the country over the last few years.

Lem me see here, according to your holy book your God personally ordered more infant killings than all American abortion doctors combined, ordered the annihilation of half a dozen civilizations, routinely taunted and tortured humanity, introduced evil into the world then blamed the things he created for it (even though he's supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent), then abandoned humanity for at least a couple thousand years while making plans to come back and slaughter 2/3 of Earth's inhabitants so that he can judge them and throw most of them into a torturous hell for all of eternity... for not being able to overcome the nature your book says he gave them... Just so he can have non-free will - having cloud gnomes sing his praises for eternity.

There is something of a boom going on these days in Melville studies, with Kelley's book and at least half a dozen other major academic monographs appearing from university presses, and with two new full - length biographies published last year: Laurie Robertson - Lorant's relatively unimportant but informative Melville: A Biography (Potter, 752 pages,, $ 40) and the first volume of the endlessly detailed Herman Melville (Johns Hopkins University Press, 941 pages,, $ 39.95) by Hershel Parker, the grand old man of Melville studies.

I have made this at least a dozen times since the video was published on youtube several years ago.

This recipe is at least fifteen years old, and for some reason, we've had to ask poor Carol to give us the recipe at least a dozen times (my sister has also made these meatballs countless times).

Since the statewide California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA) introduced its Code of Sustainability workbook in 2002, about 37,000 acres in Sonoma went through the voluntary assessment at least once during those dozen years, so many growers were familiar with the best practices.

At least a couple dozen of those people will be at Black Sesame Kitchen — the Beijing cooking school - cum - restaurant I founded in 2008 — where every year we hold a Chinese New Year's Eve partAt least a couple dozen of those people will be at Black Sesame Kitchen — the Beijing cooking school - cum - restaurant I founded in 2008 — where every year we hold a Chinese New Year's Eve partat Black Sesame Kitchen — the Beijing cooking school - cum - restaurant I founded in 2008 — where every year we hold a Chinese New Year's Eve payear we hold a Chinese New Year's Eve paYear's Eve party.

I haven't had them in at least a dozen years.

and would add if the same management structure hadn't lied to fans about how all this would allow us to compete with top teams in Europe with... with exception of PSG... are not driven by oil wealth or megalomanic owners... of course none of this has anything to do with the footballing errors consistently made by wenger and which if corrected would at least give us a BETTER shot at winning top trophies than has been the case over the last dozen or so years

Last weekend Pittsburgh moved into Milwaukee for a scheduled three - game series, the first of at least two dozen crucial ones that should pop up this year, and the picture began to change.

No words of wisdom from the wenger faithful then... to be honest am not even feeling vindicated after 5 years of saying enough of this deluded nostalgist just shocked at the mid table football the 8m quid man now serves up... his exit will need to be followed by at least half a dozen of his hapless progeny... and boards short termist disrespect to fans means they will have to cough up a packet if this team is going to get back to the top of European football... the 3m quid consultant needs to disappear up the orange man's tax fiddling backside as well...

They downplayed November 17 [an organization responsible for dozens of acts of violence and at least 19 killings in Greece before its leaders were arrested in 2002] for almost 30 years.

This was exceedingly rare: While Charlotte police used deadly force in at least a dozen instances in the past five years alone, this was the first time in more than 30 years that an officer was charged for killing someone in the line of duty.

When I was about 15 years old, my mom took my entire collection of Enrique CDs (which was at least a dozen cds) away from me for a week as a punishment!

I have bought at least a dozen of these over the past few years, and this linen carrier is my favorite!

... is not, contrary to popular belief, his outrageous statements or his racist and sexually explicit e-mails, according to veteran GOP consultant Jack Cookfair, who has run dozens of campaigns over the years and is based (part - time, at least) in Central NY.

As such we as citizens have to vote to at least a dozen of subject each year.

Over the last 14 years, state leaders have created at least a dozen different programs that allow them to borrow money off of the state's normal books for projects loosely defined as economic development or community enhancement.

Instead, Mr. Duane, 57, said that he had simply tired of ricocheting between the city and Albany, as he has for 14 years — a number he repeated at least a dozen times — and that he was eager to try something new.

Their secret arrangement earned Silver $ 3 million in referral fees over the course of 10 years through at least two dozen patients, prosecutors say.

In the past four years, Glenwood passed out at least $ 3.6 million to state politicians and the political committees that support them through a roster of two dozen limited liability companies.

This year, as a Judiciary Committee member, she's voted against the reappointment of at least a dozen respected judges in her bitter campaign for family court reform.

Similar bills are in the works in Florida, Michigan, Missouri, Wisconsin and at least a dozen other states, prompted in large part by telephone calls authorized by campaigns during last year's elections.

Privately, members of NYCLASS — led by parking garage magnate Steve Nislick — have grumbled about the mayor's deliberative pace: with the ability to unload six figures on television ads, as they did a year ago, and to deploy dozens of unusually ardent protesters at the gates of Gracie Mansion and elsewhere, the group has at least some leverage over the mayor.

It takes observations on at least three different nights to calculate an approximate orbit, but to really nail down an orbit so that the asteroid's position can be predicted accurately for years in advance requires dozens of observations conducted over several years.

For Don Banfield, a research associate at Cornell University, survival means writing at least a half - dozen NASA proposals every year.

Certification as a medical physicist requires at least a master's degree from a specialized 2 - year graduate program covering physics, biology, and medicine; several dozen such programs have been accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Programs (CAMPEP).

Before stapling came into common use about a dozen years ago, this part of the procedure had to be done by hand, and it would have taken at least three times as long.

Over the last 5 years, at least a dozen teams have reported nailing down the elusive b - secretase, but none have swayed the Alzheimer's research community and many have already failed to stand the test of time.

«I hear at least two dozen heart - wrenching stories [a year], where [the] adviser might steal [a subordinate's] work or fudge the data, and [the subordinates] feel very uncomfortable,» Shamoo said.

This year ushered in at least two dozen more planets outside our own solar system, including some of the oddest ones yet.

Not because any individual path, do I rate it say greater than 50 percent, but when you have about a dozen paths, all which at least to mea appear to have better than 20 percent chance independently, that if you get the R&D up, if you do things on the demand side that include great things we've done, like production tax credit, investment tax credit, Renewable Portfolio Standard, many, many tens of billions of money just in the U.S. alone, so we push the demand side, and now with the commitment to raise R&D and 2016 being the first year that actually did get appropriated, then you're very much tilting the odds to have a very positive surprise.

The National Institutes of Health have provided more funding for social neuroscience than any other public or private funder, and in the last several years, at least half a dozen NIH institutes have issued requests for applications specifically in social neuroscience.

But it's one that bioethicists have warned about for at least a dozen years, since advances in stem cell biology made it easier to produce chimeras.

Over the next year, it will use the investment to open at least two dozen more restaurants, Welton told Business Insider.

In just eight years, Jornet has won more than 80 races, claimed some 16 titles and set at least a dozen speed records, many of them in distances that would require the rest of us to purchase an airplane ticket.

«At least a dozen over the last year - and - a-half to two years, and all of them are still alive, despite the odds.

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

Had a couple of kids — Yeah — fed them a couple dozen at least the last few years, do well with those.

Receives adorable outfits that baby will wear once and half a dozen pairs of shoes for a baby who won't walk for at least a year.

What surprises me about that is that most of these women were around for the years prior to meeting my Mr. Perfect when I met a pathological liar on Eharmony, a man I'm pretty sure was a serial killer on Match, and at least a half dozen mar...

Four writers are credited with the screenplay, which provides Burke with at least half a dozen opportunities to perform full stand - up routines at comedy clubs, a wedding, a retirement community, the courtroom and even a roast at The Friars Club honoring 95 year old actress, May Conner (played by Cloris Leachman).