Sentences with phrase «in a dozen years»

It's the first time in a dozen years that the solidly Democratic legislature has had to deal with a Republican governor.

In the dozen years since I began working in conservation, I've seen the scale of our efforts grow.

Especially when I haven't attended church in a dozen years.

In a dozen years of parish ministry this was the first time I had taught a class on theology.

I'm not too concerned about his poor record here or the fact he hasn't played here in a dozen years.

For sure, some sacrifices will be necessary to preserve a system that its directors warn could go broke in a dozen years or so.

Long story short: I haven't had a real job interview in a dozen years.

A graduate of the Ecole Hotelière de Genève, in Switzerland, Weber has enough stars on his toque to cook in the world's fanciest country clubs and resorts, which is exactly what he did in the dozen years before he was lured to Minneapolis to manage the long - lamented Whitney Hotel in 1991.

And in the case of a district that has had a half dozen superintendents in a dozen years, and dismal academic outcomes all the way along, and on top of that has a new Superintendent in his first six months of superintendency, the board must intervene.

Hurricane Harvey crossed the shorelines of southern Texas on August 25, marking the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States in a dozen years.

Even those anoraks who apparently sit glued to the Parliamentary Channel will find scarce coverage of the work of select committees and, in a dozen years as a chairman of legislative committees, I can think of no single occasion upon which a television camera has been present.

The Michigan Senate approved a $ 56.6 billion budget plan that would provide the biggest increase in base aid for lower - funded school districts in a dozen years.

In Nazi Germany, scientific development was considerably weakened in a dozen years by political control of universities and laboratories and the promotion of «Aryan science.»

Last season's 5th place finish looks like being the best thing to happen to Arsenal in a dozen years.

The St. Louis Cardinals are threatening to make the National League pennant race the longest runaway in a dozen years.

The Pens won with arguably the weakest D of any Cup winner in a dozen years.

Democrats haven't lost a statewide or congressional race in a dozen years.

Mayor de Blasio has now declared six snow days since 2014, compared with four in a dozen years under Mayor Bloomberg.

Lawmakers have not received a pay raise in a dozen years, and they are eager to approve one after this fall's election, giving Mr. Cuomo another «point of mutuality.»

Theatre: Mike Leigh's first work for the stage in a dozen years is a brilliant and original evocation of Jewish family life, faith and identity, says Susannah Clapp.

Science - fiction drama, western, love story, metaphysical mystery, satire of modern America — The Man Who Fell to Earth is the most beguiling of the films that, in a dozen years embracing the 1970s, established Nicolas Roeg as a mainstream heir to suc...

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Dumped Divorcee Dates Bad Boy in Rocky Romance Drama Destiny Charles (Millenia Gay) finds herself on the verge of being single for the first time in a dozen years after being unceremoniously dumped by her ungrateful husband for a younger woman.

The state, which hadn't seen anyone use that tactic in a dozen years, chose to do nothing with the application instead of reviewing the proposal before a March 15 deadline.

After two punishing bear markets in a dozen years, and with this aging bull market set to complete its third year on March 9, investors would do well to be aware and prepared to trade when it's necessary.

Americans are saving as little as ever in a dozen years — while taking on record amounts of credit card debt — as a heady stock market and an accelerating economy boost consumer confidence and spending.

That is because the fund — which is mostly in the form of IOUs from the Treasury — is projected to fall short of the sums needed to cover all benefits in a dozen years or so, and run out in 2035.

Measuring 23 feet by 80 feet, «Mural» maps the whirl of global trade and communications and was deemed «the most ambitious painting I've seen in a dozen years» by Calvin Tomkins of The New Yorker.

Once the fog has cleared completely in some dozen years from now, one may realize that the territory in question, the true TE phase space, looks rather differently from what one imagines today.

Only a surprisingly successful month of August (when the usual stream of summer blockbusters often turns into a trickle) has helped the industry recover from a month of July that did not reach $ 1 billion in total gross for the first time in a dozen years.

But in the dozen years since In the Company of Men stormed the indie scene, LaBute hasn't grown much as an artist.

The arduous process of getting a school budget approved has been the bane of previous superintendents, one of the reasons why Dionne — when she took the job in 2015 — was the 15th superintendent in a dozen years.

WASHINGTON (Aug. 28, 2017)-- As Hurricane Harvey, the most powerful tropical storm to make landfall in the continental United States in a dozen years, continues to lash...

Instead of betting on a decline from here, this is what I see: Based on valuation, stocks are as cheap as they've been in a dozen years.

In fact, the atmosphere is so relaxing that in the dozen years since the T of C has been scheduled within a week or two of the Masters, the Masters champion has never won it.

By blowing up their football operation, the Niners created something of an open canvas with which they could recreate who they were as a franchise, for the first time in a dozen years.

Brown's $ 513.6 million spending plan raises commercial and residential property taxes for the first time in a dozen years.

In a dozen years, NASA plans to bring Mars soil samples to Earth.

In a dozen years, it'll be the stuff of legend.

While BMW has a history of producing excellent four - cylinders — the 1973 2002 turbo and the four - cylinder turbo that powered a Brabham to the Formula One world title in 1983 — this is the first time in a dozen years that BMW has sold a four - cylinder in the United States.

His latest collection, Aimless Love, is his first in a dozen years.

«Their mortgage debt can be paid off in a dozen years.

In the dozen years since our SPIVA reports began to keep score on U.S. active managers, there have been only two bear market episodes.

Speaking in a television interview with BNN, Mr. Carney issued his third stern warning on the issue in less than a week, underscoring how concerned the central bank and the federal government have become about the fact that Canadians» debt - to - income ratio is now higher than Americans» for the first time in a dozen years.

South Australia is leading Australia in the adoption of renewable energy having gone from near zero to over 40 % in a dozen years.

To consider references from the federal government first: the use of federal references is subject to an easily visible ebb and flow, with periods of intense usage alternating with intervals of their complete absence — three in three years in the 1950s, followed by none for a decade; only one in the dozen years before 2010 but then six in five years — but on my count there have been 29 of these since the end of World War II, and these are shown in the table.

For the first time in a dozen years, Texas is not claiming the top spot in the annual Allied Van Lines Magnet States Report.