Sentences with phrase «just up to a couple»

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After wasting a couple million dollars, we ended up selling the line to another company just to get out of debt.

Schroeder claims that Meagher broke up with her just a day before they were due to go on a couple's vacation for their four - year anniversary.

In the last couple of months, the stock market has made new highs while the economy has been just shambling along, and consumer savings have been stretched to make up for the payroll tax increase.

Cohabitating couples may also want to consider healthcare proxy forms so that one person can make medical decisions for the other person if necessary (just be sure to update those forms later if you break up).

«I usually try to staff up a couple extra employees to be on the safe side and just spend a little more on labor to make sure I'm covered in any sort of a bind,» Critton says.

Even as shameless and short - sighted as most brokers and underwriters are, they're finding that the numbers just won't stand up and they're having to go back to their investors and talk about «public» valuations that may be less than the last couple of rounds of capital injections.

When I stopped by the Horseshoe, he was buying drinks for everyone who showed up — friend, acquaintance or media — urging people to try out a bike or enjoy a complimentary taco and then settling in the back of the club when the music started: a couple of little - known local indie bands played, and Broken Social Scene member Brendan Canning — dressed as if he'd just arrived from Wimbledon's centre court — did a DJ set.

The couple has since been married, and the Watts told Business Insider that since their pitch aired in the latest episode of the show's seventh season, «We haven't been able to keep up with the orders, because they just keep coming in.»

I'm in the process of reading a couple different books right now, so I just pick up the one that speaks to me the most that day and I sit and read a chapter of it.

Then I got stuck in L.A. for a couple of days, and I didn't have a guitar to practice on, so I ended up buying a ukulele, and now I just play ukulele all the time.

Note: The title of this piece (see: here) was just too good to pass up on — after we wrote the piece, we found a couple others who thought so as well.

In 2008, we maintained a very concentrated SmartKnowledgeU Crisis Investment Opportunities portfolio allocated to just a couple of asset classes, and we ended up the year with not a lesser 20 % loss against the 40 % + losses of a diversified US S&P 500, but we ended up with slightly positive yield for the year.

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A couple of bonuses and a lot of hard work and I was able to build my portfolio up again to just over $ 50,000 by mid-2014.

A surprise recession (few if any predicted the September 2008 economic collapse, even a couple of months» out) or terrible instances of domestic terrorism in the fall might cause just enough voters to throw up their hands and say, «Enough.

We've been through this song and dance before but I just want to bring up a couple of things that you really are missing and don't understand that you refute your own statements.

Just to clear a couple of things up, we are taught regularly that we should love our neighbor.

In googling this further, we find that the break - up rate for couples is just as high or higher for lesbian relationships as compared to gay relationships.

And when it comes to «family values,» we're weary of battles to «protect» marriage from gay couples, when so many young evangelicals have grown up in broken homes, witnessing our parents divorce and remarry at rates just as high as in the non-evangelical world (more than 33 % of marriages among born - again Christians end in divorce, the same as in the general population).

From all the research I've seen, children of gay couples develop and grow up to be just as normal as those of straights.

In just a couple of days I'm heading to Haiti and joining up with a team of church leaders and bloggers from the USA and New Zealand.

He came up to me a couple of weeks ago and just loved me — as he has ever since my ordeal began.

I checked again just now, as I was writing this, and discovered that there were a couple of new posts after all — including one from someone who ended up replying to herself because no one else did!

She recommended Jim Borst's Coming to God in the Stillness (Eagle Publishing), and it was through reading this that I began using short phrases made up of just a couple of words in order to let go of tension, quieten my mind and become more aware of God's presence.

Hah, I just got into a discussion about this a couple of weeks ago with some sadsack AAer who tried to explain to me over and over that we are powerless and have to give up to God.

Having lived through a few of these, as well as inheriting a couple of them, I understand what it's like to have people hate me just for showing up, to preach to people who spent six days every week telling other people what to do, and to people who just assumed that their version of gossip, slander, personal and family attacks, and pettiness was «normal.»

«Well, we've ruled out a couple hundred possibilities, which leaves an almost infinite number of possibilities that it might be, and the vast majority of those possibilities we can't even fathom or even put into words, and the trillions and trillions and trillions of other possibilities we might be able to fathom but we don't even have the ability to test - well, we're just going to give up and say that it's probably just the god thing even though there are trillions and trillions of other possibilities that it might be.»

I would like to take up this man's cause, wield a couple of cudgels on his behalf, and express my conviction as to how «just being a church» could provide the key to programs that work — that multiply and meet people's needs more comprehensively than seeds, heifers and agricultural innovation alone.

Any time there is an offering taken up at work, a freind is in need, someone's moving and needs a couple buddies to go over and help out, potluck luncheons, anything... be it actual money or just time / food, every single time without exception those freinds who are conservative and / or religious are the ones who show up to contribute and every single time the liberal and / or non-believer friends just show up with an excuse as to why they're not giving or didn't bring something or couldn't help that weekend.

You can then serve straight from the freezer, just leaving it a room temperature for a couple minutes to help warm up.

You can just dehydrate it by itself for a couple of hours to thicken it up more.

You can leave it by it self for up till 3 weeks and if you want to keep it longer just stir it a couple of times per week till you want to use it, but don't keep it too long.

I had already dehydrated some Blood Oranges so I just ground up a couple slices of those first then added in the red pepper and fennel to blend everything.

I threw in a couple of curve balls just to change it up a little bit.

In coming up with this recipe, I basically just made a couple of adjustments to my go - to Purple Ribbon Banana Bread recipe.

This should be a fairly simple task, as I just need to set up a couple closet organizers and move clothes from the nursery closet to the «big boy» closet.

In fact just last night I made spinach wraps and mixed up fresh avacado's and taco salsa as the filler in - between the other veggies and meats:) I bought a couple extra avacado's just so I could sit and each them this weekend:) I never realized until your post that they were great for the skin, that is just an awesome bonus to a food I already love:)

At the time, I was coming home from work to an always empty house, laying on the floor for an hour to re-calibrate from my day, working myself into a 30 minute or so run, and then reading a couple food blogs over dinner (usually a sweet potato, roasted during that run, with black beans, salsa, and a pile of greens), working another couple hours just to survive the next school day, and falling into bed into a deep and dreamless sleep before my alarm clock wrenched me out and up and into another day that was much the same.

It will take just a couple minutes to thicken up to pour over your pork.

A couple years ago, I came up with this pumpkin - shaped cheese ball for a fall party, and it was such a BIG HIT that I just had to make up a variation on it for winter.

Well — I just finished mixing up a batch of the White Batter Bread and I have a couple of observations to make, and questions to ask.

Best I can manage is to decide on a couple of things I feel like making during a given week... everything else just ends up being whatever takes my fancy on the day!

This way, if you want to serve more salads you can easily double up on the other ingredients, and you'll have just the right amount of dressing for a couple more servings.

PPS: If you have the Protein Pow App on Android or Windows, please give it a couple of days for this recipe to show up on your app — the recipes just take a bit longer to upload on non-iOS platforms.

We had a houseguest for a couple days, that we didn't previously plan, but I think that other than that, it was just very busy with some long days (including weekends) at work, a week of sick kiddos, and struggling to keep up with housework.

The weekend right before Hurricane Sandy hit, my husband and I took a trip up to Mohegan Sun with two other couples to celebrate a few big birthdays (ahem, me included), and a big anniversary (my hubby and I just celebrated our 25th anniversary!).

They only take a couple minutes to cook up on the griddle and if we have fajita night, I'll just make a dozen and keep them warm in a slightly damp towel in my tortilla warmer.

Didn't that just make you want to go cook up a big juicy steak or toss a couple of hamburgers on the grill?

Some years produces only a couple of apples and usually I'm just content to let them fall or if I'm diligent, they end up in the compost.

Originally, I wanted to share this recipe in December, but I bumped it it up a couple of months because, well I really just could not wait to make them.