Sentences with phrase «from about a dozen»

Over the course of the next three weeks, I will be running the responses I received from about a dozen men and women from all over the country and from a tapestry of ethnic backgrounds.

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.

There were rumblings about a resolution last month at the denomination's annual conference, and complaints from about a dozen people prompted LifeWay to remove the film from its shelves and online store.

Lake in the Hills — Armed with brochures from about a dozen suburban park districts, west side resident Jeannine Smith took her case for the formation of a new Lake in the Hills park district to the people Wednesday night during a special meeting in Village Hall.

Gov. Cuomo announced Thursday that he and the state Legislature had reached a deal to allow patients suffering from about a dozen diseases to relieve their pain with pot.

It feels as if it has been pieced from about a dozen other science fiction films.

You'll find reviews from about a dozen different critics at BookBrowse (as always abbreviated to the reviewer's essential opinion to avoid both plot spoilers and repetition).

I'm fond of pointing out that Alaska Airlines operates many non-stop flights to Hawaii from about a dozen west coast airports for only 12,500 Avios each way (that's five free round - trip tickets if you maximize this promotion).

I'll post up a summary of comments I've received on our blog soon, but I have heard back thoughtful comments from about a dozen reporters and scholars who study the media, and there are many thoughtful explanations for why we see the coverage that we do on the Vecchi / Soden paper specifically, and climate change more generally (and some responses broader than that).

We will analyze synoptic - scale weather patterns from global reanalysis models over the past 50 years, utilizing a variety of techniques including self - organizing maps, such that these weather patterns can be tied to variations in core proxies, as well as relate this to ten years (2003 - 2013) of records from about a dozen automated weather stations located on and near McCall Glacier.

But Wadhams says the number of these «chimneys» has dropped from about a dozen to just two.

The bill is stuck in subcommittee because of concerns from about a dozen Democrats with strong ties to the coal and gas - and - oil industries, and many predict a push from the popular new president may shove the measure along in the legislative process.

The panel's work received generally positive reviews from about a dozen speakers who testified.

Chicago - based Syndicated Equities is one firm that has made an effort to target high net worth individual investors outside of the U.S. To date, Syndicated Equities has welcomed investors from about a dozen different countries, including Canada, Israel, Norway and, increasingly, mainland China.

We went from about a dozen people a year ago to more than 50 today.

Within a year, he had almost doubled productivity in the office, from about a dozen deals per associate per year to just under 21.

Not exact matches

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

When Hootsuite started, with just a few dozen employees, we were honestly worried about being swamped with calls from our millions of users.

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.

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.

Take it from more than two dozen executives who share their words about the daily habits that got them to the top and help them stay there.

The team assembled in December consisted of about a dozen top managers - including executives from finance, legal and human resources - and aides to discuss ways to mitigate the impact of sanctions on Rusal.

In fact, shipping from China adds about 75 cents to every dozen shirts.

He has been the «second CEO» at a half - dozen companies at this point and can speak authoritatively about this transition from early - stage hill climbing to later - stage growth and acceleration.

Morneau is scheduled to sit down Friday in Toronto with leading economists at a roundtable that typically includes about a dozen experts from commercial banks, think tanks and trade associations.

In reality, the harassment may be dozens of emotionally manipulative text messages, threatening visits to the office parking lot, traumatizing flashbacks from the night before, or anxiety about «revenge porn» circulating to colleagues.

Over the last month, viewers in dozens of local media markets across the country began to hear impassioned warnings from their trusted local anchors about the danger mainstream media outlets and «false news» posed to democracy.

Trump made another pitch for Democratic support on Capitol Hill, where his top aides met with about a dozen Senate Democrats and Trump himself phoned in from his Asia trip.

From the dozens of feral cats that are «employed» by Disney as pest control to the secret train car that's dedicated to Walt Disney's wife Lillian, we've rounded up 22 of the most fascinating secrets about Disneyland that will make you feel like an expert.

Using tips from Di Vincenzo, along with time - tested advice from sources like DealNews and Mint, we've complied dozens of examples of the best times to buy just about everything.

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Buyers began closing on about half of the project's 27 units soon after in 2017, and in July the developers landed a $ 53.2 million condo inventory loan from First Republic Bank covering a dozen remaining condos.

In total, Snapdeal has raised around $ 1.65 billion from about two dozen investors.

Kenney also noted that Canada's Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Tom Lawson was in Saudi Arabia last month for a meeting with dozens of international military commanders from countries opposed to Islamic State, including about 25 actually involved in the military campaign against the terrorist organization, among them top officers from key Middle Eastern countries.

Each can shelter about 800 evacuees, will have a couple dozen staff members from the district and Parks and Recreation Department, and be ready with food to last four or five days, said BPS chief operating officer Mark Mullins.

The Cambridge Analytica office was in the posh Mayfair neighborhood of London, and the dozens of young workers — many of them contractors, a number of whom were from Eastern Europe — buzzed about with Apple laptops.

'» Asked to paint a picture of the company in 20 years, the executives mentioned such things as «on the cover of Business Week as a model success story... the Fortune most admired top - ten list... the best science and business graduates want to work here... people on airplanes rave about one of our products to seatmates... 20 consecutive years of profitable growth... an entrepreneurial culture that has spawned half a dozen new divisions from within... management gurus use us as an example of excellent management and progressive thinking,» and so on.

Despite his success at Bain Capital, it was a big leap for Romney, going from running a firm that at the time had about two dozen employees to one with about 1,000 worldwide.

Last year, the event brought together thousands of activists to listen to dozens of Republican leaders speak about everything from economics and foreign policy to social issues.

Regardless of points of view, the Wall Street Journal reports that the Justice Department is already «pursuing court orders to force Apple Inc. to help investigators extract data from iPhones in about a dozen undisclosed cases around the country, in disputes similar to the current battle over a terrorist's locked phone...»

It was a Wednesday afternoon, and so I went over to the man and said, «At 7:00 tonight, about a dozen men from our church will show up to unload your moving van.

I get about a dozen emails a day from bloggers who want me to help them.

Outside Lake Hills Church — situated on 40 acres about half an hour's drive from downtown Austin — a dozen sheriff's deputies managed the Sunday morning traffic rush.

On a blustery Wednesday evening in central London, about a dozen people from different parts of the city made their way to St. Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace.

About as far from «arbitrary» as an event could be since they were noticed and measured by ordinary, untaught humans for dozens of centuries and led us to further scientific discoveries.

We have a president that received no vetting from CNN or those who voted for him and look what we got... a partisan ideologue who has brought the number of Americans who need food stamps to a record high, embraced policies that have resulted in 23 million Americans unemployed or under - employed, decreased household incomes by $ 4000 annually, increased the number of Americans dependent on the federal government to nearly 50 % and appointed dozens of «czars» who we know nothing about and who were also never vetted.

@ Chad, although I suppose Israel forcing the US into dozens of wars will turn US attention away from the genocide of the Palestinioans and the Jewish Americans who brag about their two houses in the US and their house in Palestine that they only ahd to kill a few people for,... Badda bam badda bing.

We have a minister (servant), a youth pastor (shepherd), and an assistant pastor (that's me — I particularly like the «assistant» bit — I'm there to assist everyone, not just the minister) and a team of about a dozen elders (most of whom are far from elderly) who are responsible for different aspects of the life of the church and meet monthly.

Whenever someone publicizes their personal opinion about the hot - button issues of our day, it's instantly met by a dozen rebuttals or counterarguments from people on the opposite side of the issue.

A few weeks earlier, a speech by House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan, a Catholic, attracted opposition from dozens of campus progressives, who said his proposed federal budget violates Catholic teachings about helping the poor.