Sentences with phrase «handful of years seemed»

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Passage of a similar package seems certain today in the House, where a handful of dissidents conceded they expected to be steamrolled by a GOP frantic to claim its first major legislative victory of the year.

A handful of measurements of decaying particles has seemed slightly off - kilter for years, intriguing physicists.

For years, I had taken what seemed like a handfuls of pain meds just to make it through the day, and I took sleep medicine at night because my hip pain kept me awake.

That being said, this seems to be the year in which Hollywood is cleaning its house and exorcising its demons, and it so happens that there are plenty of films in contention that align with the righteous indignation against prejudice and victimization, as well as a handful of female - centered masterpieces.

We're just over a week from the Oscars and while a handful of races seem pretty locked up right now (Adapted Screenplay, Director, ALL four acting categories), we still have some real nail - biters that will be keeping us on the edge of our seat right until the envelope is opened (barring some fiasco like last year...).

Within the past year, the market has seen a resurgence in «couch co-op» games, but it seems that for everyone that's up to the challenge of entertaining a group of friends, there is another handful that just doesn't quite get there.

Assuming it's true — state officials seemed to waffle, fiddle, and redefine when asked tough questions by reporters — this would go a long way toward explaining why Texas has for years had a rate of special - ed placements below just about every other state in the union, and far below a handful of jurisdictions (such as Massachusetts) that are pushing 20 percent.

Named as one of the top 50 trucks of the decade by Street Trucks Magazine, Goodguys Truck of the Year 2002 - 2003, six magazine appearances to its name, a Boyds Pro Pick in Scottsdale, and laying claim to a handful of other awards, $ 132,000 almost seems like a steal.

Last year, the truck of choice for many builders seemed to be the all new 2014 Chevy Silverado 1500 but this year, we'll likely be seeing a lot of aluminum 2015 Ford F - 150 trucks and more than likely just a handful of 2015 Chevy Colorado trucks.

And praise for the F - Type has been pretty much universal, with the handful outside Jaguar who've driven it praising just about everything from the performance to the handling — whether it be the entry - level V6 Supercharged or the (for now) range - topping V8S — and it seems the World Car Awards panel concur as they've just bestowed the 2013 World Car Design of the Year award on the F - Type at the New York Auto Show.

Though it doesn't seem their manga line - up is taking any direct blows in terms of any more dropped titles (and in fact they still have a handful of new titles starting this year), it's hard not to wonder what this really means.

We've seen a handful of novels this year that address the current political climate really well — namely Jonathan Dee's The Locals, which seemed to surprise even the author with its prescience.

It seems every month so far this year has offered a handful of stories that give a voice to the displaced, the fishes out of water, the strangers in strange lands.

A handful came from young couples with incomes of $ 200,000 or more a year who seemed genuinely perplexed about why they couldn't afford all the toys they would like right away.

He had a rocky start, getting an auto - immune disease when he was about a year old and went on / off prednisone a handful of times over the next few years, seeming to need smaller doses for less time during each flair - up.

Thanks to its efforts, the number of vehicles converted to plug - in status seems likely to soar from a handful today to hundreds within a year.

Meanwhile, rising incomes and increasing ring roads (a new one seems to be added every five years) are only encouraging sprawl and causing citizens to rely on cars for commuting between outlying neighborhoods and a handful of downtown business districts.

There have been a handful of forks from the main Bitcoin Network over the past few months, and that seems to be continuing into the new year.

It's still off to an early start for the year 2014, but it seems like there's already lots to look forward to from a handful of China's Internet companies that are escalating their efforts in Southeast Asia's smallest country, Singapore.

«A handful of PS4 games employed a similar idea a few years back, but it didn't seem to gain much traction, and we're only just beginning to explore the potential of games with meaningful crowd - voting systems,» he told TechNewsWorld.