Sentences with phrase «handful of days of»

The carrots and leeks I pulled fresh out of the ground — our very mild winter here in the Ohio Valley has meant a mere handful of days of hard ground freeze.

Not exact matches

Zuckerberg, who is speaking with a handful of lawmakers before his congressional hearings over the next few days, spent more than an hour in a one - on - one, closed - door meeting with Nelson.

Even before we launched, my co-founders and I had a big requirement that we wanted to have enough doctors on the website, so that there is actually a scroll bar on the right hand of the site and I remember it was a couple days before launch and we only a handful of doctors on ZocDoc.

Plus, every VC is working with more than a handful of startups at any given time, so we simply don't have the bandwidth to hold a founder's hand on a day - to - day basis.

This fall, they also launched a pilot in a handful of big cities, offering a premium same - day parcel - delivery service for consumers.

Just because you won't see team members in the flesh each day doesn't mean that all communication need be relegated to the handful of times everyone gathers together in person.

Ten minutes a day will give you an opportunity to scan your news feed, figure out the gist of what's happening and reach out to at least a handful of followers.

The layout is a little wonky — you can only click on a handful of links on any given day — but the real fun part is pondering the audience for this thing.

Gone are the days when a handful of customer testimonials and case studies are enough to persuade new customers to buy.

He names the day when he grants that unexpected furlough... The 1942 schedule may run something like this: engagement announcement on Monday, invitations sent out by telegraph on Wednesday, the last handful of rice and rose petals flung on Saturday.»

Now in a two - hour movie, you get a handful of character - defining moments, but in real life, you face them every day.

There are quite a few potential market movers this week, as investors will be watching out for a handful of corporate earnings reports — including some major players from the world's of tech and media — as well as U.S. Fed chair Janet Yellen's two - day stint in front of D.C. lawmakers.

On Tuesday, a handful of service companies in Handan, a city in China's Hebei province, encouraged workers to wear masks to work so that they could relax their faces instead of smiling all day.

This is an awesome resource when you're trying to decide what to write about, but you only get a handful of searches each day with a free account.

They get a real - time report card every day from BizRate, one of a handful of services that survey the customers of online businesses.

By this point in the day, I was feeling faint, and I often needed to cheat with a handful of crackers or a granola bar to keep going.

There aren't enough hours in the day to attend every club meeting and bonding event, so pick a handful of culture - focused social activities that you will personally enjoy.

Sending money overseas to family and friends is pretty expensive these days, and the remittance space is dominated by a handful of players.

But the more ambitious ones dream of one day expanding beyond one location and a handful of employees.

Only a handful of brokers offer a true» 5 Day Chart» with the correct open and close shape of the daily price bar.

For example The Wall Street Journal, which has a paywall for most of its content, posts a handful of articles a day to Apple News.

Unlike the old days, where information was created, controlled, and distributed by only a handful of parties, failing to reach the masses and disguised in hidden agenda, cryptocurrency and blockchain places information and power back in the hands of the user — allowing or non-traditional (and modern) methods of dissemination.

Because my former employer was a small agency responsible for only a handful of clients, our duties could easily fit into a standard five - day work week.

However, these days only a handful of insurers offer LTC insurance, so another option may be life insurance with an LTC rider, which allows families to tap into the benefits they would receive upon the policyholder's death while he or she is alive and requires care.

On a recent winter day, 11 - year - old Lucila Aranda stepped up to the chest - high console to battle the vultures along with a handful of other kids.

«The reason «buy and hold», or HODL, makes sense for Bitcoin is that a handful of days each year account for the bulk of gains for Bitcoin,» says Lee.

In the midst of early February's market turmoil that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average decline by 1,175 points — its largest point drop in one day ever — and the S&P 500 enter correction territory (a decline of 10 percent or more from its previous high), a handful of investment products fell, essentially, to zero.

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Along with a group of friends, he constructed a PVC pipe grid and replanted the trees in a handful of days.

The bulls (if we may speak for the handful of them still holding their day jobs) are seemingly near extinction.

CNN: Personal e-mail urging Mormons to fast and pray for Romney goes national A Utah woman unwittingly started a grassroots campaign when an e-mail she sent to her five children and a handful of friends urging a day of prayer and fasting for Mitt Romney started making the Mormon rounds.

Therefore, a handful of animals were taken on His ark and those of Noah's family that weren't tainted by the fallen angels living in those days.

Lucas and John had met a handful of times before, but that's the day John found his new son and Lucas his «black daddy» — each one delivered in his own way from a tragic past.

God created Adam from a handful of dirt and his spouse from a rib; Talking snakes; trees that bear fruit, that imparts knowledge and eternal life; a global flood, that required a pair of each organism on earth, be stuffed onto a boat; people who lived hundreds of years; a man who was swallowed by a fish, only to be spit up 3 days later, unhurt; a tower god was afraid might reach heaven; a woman who is turned into a pillar of salt; talking donkeys; unicorns; satyrs; a leviathan god creates and then does battle with; a zombie messiah, who was actually god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves and wandered about the town; belief in a circular, flat earth.

When you sit down to pray, take out a handful of the contents at random and say thank you for those, adding to the jar any new ones you have thought of that day.

One day all your faiths will only be followed by a handful of wierdoes in a small room and the human races minds will be free from enslavment!

If you're feeling nostalgic, a handful of new episodes are hitting Netflix this month, so you can relive your Sunday school days.

(CNN)- After years of keeping quiet about his Mormon faith, Mitt Romney's campaign thrust his church life into the national eye Thursday night, as a handful of Mormons took to the Republican National Convention's stage to deliver moving testimonials about the Republican presidential nominee's role as a member and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints.

Worse yet, if you combine this principle with capitalism, property rights, and rent - seeking, the rich will get richer and the poor poorer until one day there is barely more than a handful of people who can even afford to volunteer or donate anything.

Except for an independent organization called the National Episcopal Coalition on Alcoholism and Drugs, a handful of diocesan, councils that promote conferences on alcohol and drugs, and approximately a dozen concerned and courageous bishops who require clergy training in the subjects, the Episcopal Church, in which I am a priest, would have no focused program on chemical dependency at all, save one day a year called Alcohol Awareness Sunday.

But they have begun to talk to each other and to discover that there are a handful of people here and there who one day may all contribute to a common theological style.

i don't know what i hate more, religion or gays guess i'm on the fence here but i guess i'd day religion because too many damn idiots believe in it and there are just a handful of gays.

There have been a handful of days over the past several months where getting out of bed seemed unlikely.

All prophecies in the Bible have been fulfilled except for a handful that remains, and those deal with the last days of man's self destruction and being saved by the God who made us.

However, I limit my reading to a few pages a day, and have made a very conscious decision to regularly follow only a handful of blogs.

A handful of scholars have argued that Deuteronomy was not in existence in Josiah's day and that Josiah's reform program was shaped by the J legislation in Exodus 12 and 32 - 34; or a brief collection of Jeremiah's oracles; or the Holiness Code of Leviticus 17 - 26 (conventionally dated in the sixth century, of course); or, if any part of Deuteronomy, then chapters 5 - 11 only.

Of the handful individual plants I did find over three days, only a few had any ripe fruits remaining.

Otherwise, again, it's a handful of granola and snacks that are balanced, which help to get me through the day.

Here are just a handful of gift ideas that we've assembled to make you feel a little bit spoiled, whether you're in a relationship for Valentine's Day or not.

The Nightingale largely takes place in the past — for the duration of the war — but there are a handful of short glimpses into the present day of one sister (sorry, not going to tell you which one — no spoilers!).