Sentences with phrase «for months at a time»

For the next two years, they traveled around the country, sometimes for months at a time, hitting car shows, swap meets, trade events, rallies, and anything else they could think of to get the Gas Monkey name out there.

Everyone from engineers to welders to project managers has taken part in the program, sometimes for months at a time, helping clients in need of temporary workers.

When you are gone for months at a time, the psychological battle becomes a big endeavor.

Money can't buy the happiness of an intern who's stuck with wasteful busywork for months at a time.

We did the same show for months at a time, playing until every aspect of the performance was right, and then changing the show again and performing in hundreds of new shows again for long stretches.

He was on the road for months at a time, leaving Ruth at their mountainside home in Montreat, North Carolina, to raise their five children: Franklin, Virginia («Gigi»), Anne, Ruth and Nelson («Ned»).

Were the price for Western Canadian Select to stay that low for months at a time, small or inadequately capitalized producers would have to consider halting operations.

Still I was a bit moved by the point that these guys had «left their clients waiting for months at a time to have the materials they need to verify the existence and value of fund assets.»

I own a specific bond that sometimes will not trade for a month at a time (such a bond is said to «trade by appointment» in bond - speak).

This is a valuation model so prices can, for months at a time, drop below the calculated value by perhaps 30 % and spike higher by 100 — 200 %.

To get started - request a viewing of the offices you like, then book the office space that suits you online for a month at a time.

Jackson has heard bullets fly through her front door; lost sleep due to the noisy drug - dealing going on nearby; shared her small apartment for months at a time with children taken from crack - addicted mothers; calmed hysterical young women beaten by their drunk boyfriends; wept at the funerals of young boys; and battled obstinate government bureaucracies to get a swingset for the rusty and littered «playground» at the center of the Smith Homes.

In fact, the 29 - year - old Lumberton resident doesn't call himself by any of the 12 faiths he practiced for a month at a time last year.

David Turpin, 56, and Louise Turpin, 49, starved their children to the point that their growth was stunted, chaining them to their beds for months at a time and forbidding them from showering more than once a year or using the toilet, a prosecutor said on Thursday.

He underwent lengthy hospitalization and had to reduce his activities for months at a time.

The capture software has run for months at a time without interruption.

I've kept it stored in the refrigerator, sometimes for months at a time and it's always delicious!!

I don't like using them as a meal replacement and lord knows my tubs have been through many a dry spell when they went untouched for months at a time.

Whether you budget for partial upgrades of only the most essential sections or complete replacement of the equipment, it's better to be prepared and able to make a rapid decision than be stuck operating ineffectively for months at a time.

And that's the biggest shame of all; no one should go pancake-less for months at a time.

If clarifying your butter seems like an annoying step to do each time you make movie theatre popcorn (it really isn't, it's probably a two - minute process), you can actually make large batches of clarified butter and stash them in the fridge for months at a time and then just melt a little bit as you need it.

There doesn't appear to be any value on this prop bet and I hate tying up funds for months at a time, so I'll be avoiding this prop bet with more fervor than I avoid meeting my girlfriend's parents.

They played.500 ball for months at a time in 2016, however, and still managed to win over 100 games and eventually, a World Series championship.

There aren't many other puzzles that can keep players enjoying the experience for months at a time.

But the loss of so many key players for months at a time (including the loss of an entire speciality — full backs — for weeks and weeks) has clearly had a big impact on our ability to get a consistent run of form going.

Even after a guradIan adlietem and shrink told the courts I was the better parental I was awarded 50/50 custody, the ex wife still kidnaps the children for months at a time and the court allows it, if I tried, I'd be sent to jail.

She has a medical condition that affects her hormones and absolutely destroys her libido for months at a time.

Well, they could have created a marital plan, one that would have asked — and mutually answered — some of the issues she eventually had to grapple with: How will we handle things if one of us has to be away from home for months at a time?

He didn't sleep well for months at a time until he was 5.

You can hire for a month at a time until you build up a good milk supply.

Whether or not you're blessed with a baby who magically sleeps through the night from the day they were born, or a «problem sleeper» who wakes every two hours for months at a time, every baby goes through sleep regressions.

- The park district had 62 staff vacancies as of mid-October, which meant that activities such as wood shop, arts and crafts and gymnastics were not available at some parks for months at a time.

This form is especially useful for active duty service members who may need to leave their children for months at a time.

I tried several different exercise programs and even a biofeedback program for months at a time.

«Any time (former Senate Majority Leader) Joe Bruno was criticized, our members postage or printing allotment would be shut off; they denied us access to government websites (serviced by the same firm handling the Republicans» political websites); Senate Republicans even went so far as to force several of our members to operate without district office space for months at a time.»

Gerndon also said the union is fighting to prevent local workers from being sent off to Buffalo, Syracuse and Albany for months at a time, leaving their families behind.

For months at a time, he stopped telling jokes and concentrated on grinding down his opponent, Ken Livingstone.

I'm very happy with the way the SE network is run, and while I disagree with SE on many things, we've agreed to bury the hatchet because the bickering is not productive if it goes on for months at a time.

Griffin's plan sounds solid enough: Learn to put astronauts on the moon for months at a time, then use the hardware and experience to continue on to Mars.

Anyone forced to sleep in two - hour increments for months at a time will have trouble remembering things.

Remote - controlled water ditch gates allow ranchers to shut off flows they otherwise leave running for months at a time because they are too far up in the mountains to visit.

And in upcoming years, LIGO is scheduled to have detectors off for months at a time for upgrades.

For months at a time, 88 men rubbed shoulders in a 317 - foot - long space that looks for all the world like a boiler room, their only glimpse of the outside world through a periscope.

A successful real - world glue, however, will need to be easy to produce in large quantities and safe to store for months at a time, Karp points out.

Frigid temperatures are the norm for months at a time.

With drug - resistant strains running rampant, a few hospitals have limited use of certain antibiotics for months at a time — on the assumption that hardier drug - sensitive strains would outcompete the resistant bugs and allow the drugs to be effective once again.

These detection records can accumulate underwater for months at a time.

The devices kept going for months at a time.

There are also places near the poles of the moon where it stays light for months at a time.

Beer drinking and surviving on Ramen noodles for months at a time may indeed take skill, but what about things like teaching experience, participation in student government, computer skills (programming, database construction, etc.), investing wizardry, and your knack for schmoozing?