Sentences with phrase «for about a dozen»

I myself write for about a dozen major media site, and while it may not result in immediate customers, the benefits are definitely felt throughout the organization.

As somebody who's worked for about a dozen women and two dozen men (mostly editors), my observation is that the women, in general, were smarter, sharper, more reliable and, well, smarter.

At the time of the Revolution, statutes in most of the colonies prescribed hanging for about a dozen offenses — among them murder, treason, piracy, arson, rape, robbery, burglary, sodomy and (in some cases) counterfeiting, horse theft and slave rebellion.

You will have batter left over for about another dozen.

You should have enough for about a dozen small falafel.

(You will have batter left over for about another dozen.)

He's come to Albuquerque several times to make appearances at the Fiery Foods & BBQ Show and once created (with wife Dominique) a gigantic Indian feast at our house for about a dozen friends.

Real barbecue smokers are taking off here as well, and there were even innovations in charcoal grills: One unit had motor drives for about a dozen individual kabob skewers to rotate, easy to insert and remove.

I just don't see this ending well for anyone involved, for about a dozen reasons off the top of my head.

The first time I married, our wedding — an admittedly hippie thing in the Rocky Mountains with me in my Frye boots and an off - the - rack faux suede dress with feathers and beads, he in his overalls I'd embroidered, daisies for my bouquet and for his top hat, gold bands from the local jeweler, and a backyard reception with cake and assorted food stuff from local purveyors for about a dozen friends — cost about $ 500 (OK, it was 1976).

Wipe warmers that are only able to warm a few wipes at a time are inevitably disappointing when a messy job calls for about a dozen wipes.

Sabrina Greco, director of operations of the Town of Clarkstown, also notarized signatures for about a dozen committee seats.

A state official Thursday confirmed that raises for about a dozen supervisors at the Clinton Correctional Facility are being withheld pending the outcome of a state Inspector General's

Ken Livingstone has upped the ante in Labour's ongoing internal war by calling for about a dozen anti-Corbyn MPs to be suspended.

For about a dozen homeless shelters in Buffalo, it's time for an inspection.

In the lobby of Christine Quinn's headquarters near City Hall, the candidate's lead organizer, Abbey Fashouer, had a message Thursday for about a dozen volunteers ready to hit the streets: «There's still time to persuade those who are undecided or wishy - washy on who to vote for.»

Fitzpatrick, 28, is campaign manager for the Republican mayoral candidate in Syracuse, Laura Lavine; an adviser for about a dozen Republican county legislators; and a top consultant for a handful of judicial candidates, including one who works for his father.

She applied for about a dozen Westminster seats (and had interviews in nearly all of them) but was subsequently selected as a candidate for the European Parliament: she is third on the party list in her home region of the East of England.

Many more are in the works: DOE is currently drafting updated efficiency standards for about a dozen other appliances, including water heaters, air conditioners, microwave ovens, and refrigerators.

I would stay on that path for about a dozen years.

We are using the Hubble Space Telescope in our program Cloud Atlas, to prepare coarse cloud maps for about a dozen or so cool brown dwarfs and exoplanets.

Her wisdom has informed my writing for about a dozen years, and I asked her how worried she is about the flu.

I was a handbag designer in NYC for about a dozen years, and though the mini's were rarely the rave (from a mass marketplace perspective, which is the market I designed for), the small bag has always been my personal favorite.

It's probably a mark of how confused the game leaves me that I've played it for about a dozen hours now, and explored more rooms than I can count (literally, since the save system, and its total lack of autosave, means that I twice lost a substantial amount of progress), but I still can't tell for certain whether I like it or whether it makes me want to throw my Vita across the room.

Yeah, I've been doing theater since I was 15, and I've been pursuing it professionally for about a dozen years now.

The book resonates with me, since I have been studying Italian for about a dozen years now, mostly through classes that have by now evolved into weekly two - hour conversations with a private tutor — a fast talker from Turin who forces me to keep up with her onrushing molto veloce patter.

In Boston, Bunker Hill Community College has for the last two years funded classes for about a dozen people with criminal records.

For about a dozen states, including Tennessee, those changes began with the administration's signature competitive grant, Race to the Top, which offered states a piece of a $ 4.35 billion pie in exchange for adopting a range of significant education policy changes.

Proposals for about a dozen new charter programs are set to come before the school board Wednesday.

I worked on the book for about a dozen years after I retired.

First - I used to be a collector — having worked in the collection industry for about a dozen years.

And her home is a haven for about a dozen dogs, four cats and horses, too, all rescued from the meanest of streets or not adoptable because they were too old or not cute enough.

It's normal to have to repeat this sequence for about a dozen times at first, but eventually your dog will get it.

I think a case can be made for about a half dozen to credibly claim world champ status.

I visited Osaka, Japan a couple of weeks ago to sit down with Monster Hunter World for about a dozen hours and talk to Capcom about what's gone into its creation.

Not exact matches

The compensation package sets a dozen milestones for Tesla's market cap, starting at US$ 100 billion (it's about $ 59 billion today) and rising in $ 50 billion increments to $ 650 billion.

Several dozen union workers from GE factories in Pennsylvania, Canada and elsewhere protested outside a GE facility here, where about 450 shareholders gathered for the meeting.

Basically what I, and dozens of other SEO industry experts, have been writing about for years has now come to fruition.

And that's OK because you're about to learn more than a dozen research - backed methods for taking your online forms from low - performing to irresistible.

Now, MetaStable owns about a dozen different cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (which one of the fund's co-founders, Lucas Ryan, originally received for free in 2011), Ethereum, and Monero (of which the fund holds nearly 1 %, or about $ 6 million worth, of all outstanding coins), according to a pitch deck seen by Fortune.

Like Nitin Julka, Fortune talked to three dozen experts in the new startup economy — venture capitalists, recruiting specialists, and successful jungle - gym - climbing workers for tips about how to get yourself launched.

As investigators wrap their case against more than a dozen traders involved in the recent LIBOR scandal — which involves executives at Barclays and a growing list of international banks attempting to manipulate the benchmark figure for trillions of pounds» worth of financial contracts — they're revealing a curious fact about how some of the details were leaked in the first place.

Of course, he could be proved wrong about that, but for now Cydia is pulling in about $ 6,000 a day by selling dozens of programs you can't find on iTunes.

Most of Zappos's executives have rented apartments on the same floor; a dozen other Zappos employees have also moved into the building, in which a two - bedroom apartment rents for about $ 1,600 a month.

Dozens of readers told me they felt the list revealed a lot about their own situation working for a boss who didn't quite understand their motivations or skills.

For those unfamiliar with Reddit, the recent controversy that shut down dozens of popular forums on the site probably seemed like much ado about nothing: A well - liked staffer who handled Reddit's «Ask Me Anything» interviews was let go, for reasons that were largely uncleFor those unfamiliar with Reddit, the recent controversy that shut down dozens of popular forums on the site probably seemed like much ado about nothing: A well - liked staffer who handled Reddit's «Ask Me Anything» interviews was let go, for reasons that were largely unclefor reasons that were largely unclear.

There is nothing like having dozens of highly paid employees standing around waiting for what comes next to teach you about time being money.

The half - dozen diverse stories are a must read for anyone who has lived under the shadow of depression, covering the founders» level of disclosure about their condition, recommended approaches to staying healthy, and opinions on the level of stigma remaining in the industry.

Although the price of sweet potatoes has gone up about 7 cents since 2010, you can probably still afford to «splurge» on a half dozen or so for this tasty dish, courtesy of Trader Joe's.

«Yet the Department told us it had not re-prioritised its overall programme of work, had not begun procurement for around a dozen essential digital systems and could not provide vital information about its workforce.