Sentences with phrase «in mere days»

In hot markets like Chicago's, attractive properties that hit the MLS (multiple listing service) will often sell in mere days and receive multiple offers, which makes getting a «deal» impossible.

Most of those then current sales had sold in mere days, with multiple offers, in a relatively slow market, bringing the sellers a sale price above asking.

As we did our homework to prepare to teach the class, my wife and I felt the trend of our marriage shift in mere days.

The average deadline is usually somewhere between two and three weeks, but some require turnaround in mere days and necessitate working over an Easter weekend and Christmas holidays.

Sony has taken note of their pleas and will not only be bringing The Sly Collection to the PlayStation 3 in mere days, but also have recently revealed ICO and Shadow of the Colossus Collection.

The original 1997 release reached cult status in mere days, and for good reason too.

Like any role - playing game, you can go through the story in mere days and be done but because the game offers so much to do, why not take a seat back and have fun building!

Final Fantasy XIII comes out in mere days, but will fans place it above all the others?

So as a value investor, you're: a) buying a stock you think is cheap, but which could collapse in mere days, if bad news hits / sentiment turns and finally / suddenly everybody else notices the company's poor financials & bails out indiscriminately, or b) already trying to catch a falling knife!?

The path without coverage is fraught with peril and expense, but the forty - four percent of residents who had a policy will be back on their feet in mere days or weeks.

In mere days Amy will be condemned to a stifling, loveless marriage, and she sees no way out — until the devastating fire of 1666 sweeps through London, and tragedy lands her in the arms of a dashing young earl who knows a diamond in the rough when he sees it... Colin Chase, the Earl of Greystone, has his future all figured out.

I'm two episodes in (with Episode 3 debuting in mere days), so I don't have enough sales data to identify a bona fide trend of success.

Oh yeah, and they raised millions on Kickstarter in mere days to fund their upcoming adventure game; and don't you know that Greg had a huge part in this!?

But we'll know for sure in mere days if not hours... clearly I'm hoping they call today.

Not exact matches

(Such a rupture, of course, is precisely what President Trump has gleefully tweetened — my portmanteau for a threat delivered in 140 characters or less — in recent days, as he slammed those payments as mere «bailouts» to the insurance companies.)

Know this: it's not just the books you read; the mere habit of making yourself read each day, and keeping to a plan, is a major ingredient in success.

That is defensible only if one is certain that the baseline level of possible robotic error in civilian protection exceeds that baseline level of human error... I, for one, would not bet against the possibility that for some military applications, we will some day come to see mere human judgment as guaranteeing an unacceptable level of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence.

Instagram, a start - up which had existed for a mere 551 days, which had never made a cent in revenue, and which employed just a dozen people, had pulled off one of the most impressive exits in recent memory.

Meanwhile, there are a few activities out there that are the temporal equivalent of that awesome 100X investment, activities that if you spend mere minutes on them early in the day, will pay you back with vastly more energy and productivity later on.

From outside Michigan Republican circles, it appeared that the Republican drive to weaken unions came out of the blue - proposed, passed and signed in a mere six days.

It took the founder a mere eight hours to develop the app that only sent and responded with «Yo,» but Or Arbel quickly saw his creation become «the No. 1 social networking app in the U.S. App Store and the No. 4 app overall» after its release on April Fools» Day.

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the ensuing «delete Facebook» campaign, it would be particularly interesting to find out the psychological effects of a permanent break from Facebook rather than a mere five - day holiday.

The MPAA claims this window now averages 14 days, although a few years ago it was measured in mere hours.

But then again, back in those days tuition was a mere fraction of what it is today.

I did all that while still excelling at my day job and actively raising three young children,» writes William Hertling in a slightly maddening (to us mere mortals) if extremely helpful guest post on VC Brad Feld's blog recently.

Mere days after the jury returned a guilty verdict in Bill Cosby's post - #MeToo retrial, the disgraced star has been removed from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Creativity pick of the day: In Apple's latest ad, a teenager who uses facial recognition to open her iPhone X discovers a superhero - like capacity to unlock everything around her with a mere glance.

Now, so too has the academic who advised our federal minister of finance that it would be a smart idea to change the 40 - year - old rules that govern Canada's small businesses, with a mere 75 - day «consultation» process, in the dog days of summer.

By fulfillment, I do not mean the mere availability of information and content as in the early days of direct marketing — where collateral was king then.

Many of the islands along the chains in the Pacific have geopolitical significance beyond their mere location — several are modern - day colonies of Western states.

Online businesses, since they started seeing the light of day in mid-2000, have come a long way from being a mere marketplace to one that goes a step ahead in walking the last mile with a customer.

The three - day Central Economic Work Conference is expected to set major changes in economic indicators to reflect more on the quality of the economic growth rather than mere growth speed, while tackling specific issues such as mounting debts, poverty and pollution.

For example, if the Fed wants to increase the stock of bank reserves by, say, $ 100 billion (admittedly a mere trifle, these days), it has only to purchase $ 100 - billion worth of Treasury securities or other assets from dealers in the secondary or «open» market.

The new probe comes mere days after President Trump complained about Canadian trade practices, stating «Canada does not treat us right in terms of the farming and the crossing the boarders, we can not continue to be taken advantage of by other countries».

Legendary retailer Macy's is a mere 12 years from celebrating the bicentennial of its founding and six years from celebrating the 100th anniversary of its famous Thanksgiving Day Parade — originally known as the Christmas Parade — in New York City.

In those frightful days after Jacob's diagnosis, Sofia and I went from being mere acquaintances to connected - at - the - soul friends.

For example, whereas the sun and moon were the objects of worship in pagan religion, the Book of Genesis taught that they were nothing but lamps set in the heavens to give light to day and night: not gods, but mere things, creatures of the one true God.

As well as the dangers already mentioned, this also meant, especially in the early days, that it had no clear connection to the sacramental and liturgical life, above all devotion to the Holy Eucharist, and all too often doctrinal and catechetical formation were dismissed as mere «academics» or intellectualism; doctrinal formation and apologetics being seen as something purely for those of a «theological bent».

Our deepest longing is to see the day when the triumphant, sovereign lordship of you our loving God will no longer be a mere hope clung to desperately by faith, but a manifest reality in all human affairs.

Not only do we have to deal with fighting this disease every day, we have to be anxious and worried that our healthcare might be taken away in mere months.

The mere fact that god, who supposedly knew that one day global mass communication would be available, decided to appear in an outer province of an empire in a period when communication was mostly by easily garbled oral transmission shows a ludicrous lack of planning.

Second, for someone who is so uptight as this author about knowing religions and even writing a book about it, the mere fact that not ONCE in this article did you use the official and correct name of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints (aka Mormon) in my mind completely discredits your temper tantrum.

In Mexico, with a mere ten days of phonetic training under his belt, Pike proved he had the makings of a competent linguistic scientist.

«It is not mere coincidence that the emperors of Rome in its horrific final days were hom.ose.xual; that Adolf Hitler's inner circle were mostly hom.ose.xual; and that nearly all of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history were hom.ose.xual.

Thus, a mere 16 miles away from the site of modern Pentecostalism's American beginnings in 1906 at Azusa Street in downtown Los Angeles, an Episcopal church in the Van Nuys section of the city sparked a latter - day Pentecostal revival.

In the Church year the high days and holy days have given way to the mere holidays of the secular year, if only for the privileged.

Following a nationally - covered commencement speech by presidential nominee Mitt Romney in May, the school's invitation to Donald Trump might have seemed mere fodder for a slow news day.

Whatever sort of a being God may be, we know to - day that he is nevermore that mere external inventor of «contrivances» intended to make manifest his «glory» in which our great - grandfathers took such satisfaction, though just how we know this we can not possibly make clear by words either to others or to ourselves.

Converted men as a class are indistinguishable from natural men; some natural men even excel some converted men in their fruits; and no one ignorant of doctrinal theology could guess by mere every - day inspection of the «accidents» of the two groups of persons before him, that their substance differed as much as divine differs from human substance.

This rejectionism had, over time, crystallized — some would say, fossilized — into the view that the legal establishment of the Catholic Church as the official religion of the state was the desired arrangement (the «thesis,» in the theological jargon of the day), while other arrangements (like the American constitutional order) were mere «hypotheses» that could, under certain historical circumstances, be «tolerated» — even as Catholics in countries governed by the «hypothesis» worked for the day when the «thesis» of Catholic establishment could be....