Sentences with phrase «first dozen years»

Indeed, the first dozen years of Sharrer's career promised a successful, high profile future.

Holistic Veterinarian Dr. Gina graduated in 1993 from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine and spent the first dozen years of her career in small and mixed animal medicine.

In North Carolina, the long - run transition costs would amount to about $ 1.6 billion, half of which would be incurred in the first dozen years after the transition.

Not exact matches

While dozens of hedge funds have sprung up this year to invest in the white - hot digital currency market, this one, known as Arrington XRP Capital, is the first to be denominated in a crypto - currency rather than dollars or euros.

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.

Yet during its first several years of operation, Englewood suffered through as many as a half - dozen instances annually in which subcontractors failed to perform.

The company, which was co-founded by entrepreneur Wade Eyerly two years ago, launched its first flight in June with a fleet of half a dozen six - passenger crafts.

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.

In comparison, First Round's fund, called the Dorm Room Fund, invests just $ 2 million over four years, spread across startups at a dozen schools.

Dozens of exploration companies flooded to the area about five or six years ago, staking claims, setting up camps, even building airstrips without informing First Nations who consider the vast land theirs.

Last year, Seafood City Supermarket — a large Filipino grocery chain with two dozen U.S. locations — opened its first Canadian store in Mississauga, Ont.

Sears could use the business: Sears namesake department stores saw comparable sales fall 12.4 % in the first quarter, despite closing dozens of weak stores in the last year.

The department store company, which has reported sales declines in its last 11 quarters despite closing dozens of weak stores, said on Thursday, that comparable sales rose 1 % in November and December, a modest increase to be sure, but one that puts Macy's on track to report its first quarter of growth in three years.

In its first two years, as demand soared, the company hired dozens of hourly workers to handle the flood of incoming complaints and problems.

Nearly three years ago, Google released its first diversity report, setting off a domino effect that led dozens of other tech companies to follow suit.

My very first task was to create a few dozen splogs on freehost domains and to link them all together with exact match anchor texts, so it's suffice to say that a lot has changed during the past ten years.

I've been shaving with a brush for over 40 years and I'm accustomed to the break in period in which a new brush will shed hairs for the first dozen shaves or so, but this has continued to worsen over the months I've used it.

Combine this with dozens of oncology and ant - inflammatory collaborations for potentially first - in - class therapies, and you have a recipe for double - digit annual sales growth for years to come.

Back then, I couldn't find ANY Christian books on spiritual abuse — the first main ones (like * The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse * and * Toxic Faith *) wouldn't even be published until a dozen years later.

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.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

, seven years prior to Norman Malcolm's «Anselm's Ontological Arguments» which evoked more than a dozen replies within the first two years of its publication (Hick and McGill 367 - 68).

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.

I've made this cake easily a dozen times since I first read the recipe a couple of years ago.

A year after Chef's Table first aired, she's still receiving dozens of reservation requests a day from diners eager to score a seat at one of n / naka's nine tables (but no longer on her cell phone).

A dozen years after my first trip to the little Hungarian town of Kalocsa, I returned once again, just in time for the annual pepper harvest in September.

Or perhaps he spent thousands and thousands of hours on his pitching motion, compiling the best pieces of advice from a dozen different coaches over the first 30 years of his life, connecting neurons and patiently building layers and layers of muscle memory.

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.

• Flaming Cincinnati Baseball fans in Cincinnati, burning with pennant fever for the first time in almost a decade, cast two and three ballots each to place five Redlegs on the National League All - Star team, indirectly set in motion half a dozen plans for amending the selection process next year.

I knew he was a lazy, bone idle weed after his first half dozen games, over ten years ago and have been pointing out this clear truth ever since.

For the first time in nearly a dozen years the lady had come back home.

Buss» three - year plan was running well ahead of schedule even before the Kings ran off a 10 -1-1 record in their first dozen games this season.

Whilst I hate Antony Krastrinakis with every fibre in my body he did make a good and reasoned point regarding Bale yesterday — said the world record deal to RM was stupid and undeserved — Ronaldo went to RM as PFA Player of the Year, Ballon D'Or winner, UCL and PL winner and 40 odd goals under his belt in the previous season — Bale went there on the back of his first good season, half a dozen wonder goals and no medals and titles.

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.

Every year, Bill Belichick makes the NFL world's head spin with little tidbits from «Patriots sources» about their interest in so - and - so, how they are going to trade all of their picks for Blue Chip Player X — and then he sits back, watches with satisfaction while everyone panics, and then drafts who falls to him in the first, moves up half a dozen spots if the MLB / DT of the future is dropping, or trades down.

i was in a sports shop just about to buy my friends four year old son his first football team kit so that i can convert him in to an Arsenal supporter like i have done for dozens of kids, but for the first time i said Fluck it and walked away i mean why inflict life time of pain to someone.

For Walcott, the desire to win trophies for his new team burns as strong as when he first moved to The Emirates as a precocious 16 - year - old a dozen years ago.

He's looked very good in the summer friendly schedule, as has 16 year - old Ethan Ampadu, who played a dozen matches for Exeter City's first - team in League Two last season before signing a scholarship with Chelsea this summer.

A little over ten years ago, I was a nanny to a first - grade boy who had half a dozen life - threatening allergies.

But first off, my thanks to the dozens of e-mails the readers sent to Cynthia Davis and reporter Sarah Hollenback of KOMU TV in response to her story about a new bill offering $ 600 a year to moms but not at - home dads.

JOLIET — After dozens of students and teachers were sickened by a contaminated school lunch two years ago, the Will County state's attorney made headlines by charging two state education employees with reckless conduct, apparently the first criminal charges against government employees in a food - poisoning case.

Almost 200 students and adults pledged their time that day to bake the first batches of the 700 dozen cookies that will be sent this year.

I really can't believe that it took me more than 25 years to figure out, but since making homemade french fries for the first times, I've made them dozens of times since.

Since then Dr. Popkin has written and produced more than a dozen video and discussion programs, including Active Parenting of Teens; Families in Action; First Five Years; and Parents on Board: Building Academic Success through Parent Involvement.

Then we went BACK to the cloth diaper store and bought a dozen one size pocket diapers — it's what my daughter got for Christmas her first year.

At 4 p.m., NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and CUNY Chancellor James B. Milliken join dozens of undocumented CUNY students celebrating the completion of their first year in the Program for CUNY DREAMers, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Moot Court Room, 524 W. 59th St., Manhattan.

At an event outside the Capitol with more than a dozen Democratic state legislators, LG Kathy Hochul highlighted accomplishments during her first term in office and laid out some priorities for the next four years.

An Italian cheese producer, founded 124 years ago, is opening its first plant on U.S. soil in Chautauqua County, saving an existing workforce and a critical source of business for dozens of local dairy providers.

Brown's $ 513.6 million spending plan raises commercial and residential property taxes for the first time in a dozen years.