Sentences with phrase «last few dozen»

When you are down to the last few dozen of a species or sub-species: «All's fair in love and war».

Then I noticed that Leonardo DiCaprio had re-tweeted my recent suggestion that Apple, which has long named its Macintosh operating systems for the tiger and other wild cats, help conserve the world's last few dozen havens for wild tigers.

Anyone griping abut the intensity forecast for Irene simply has no case, in that these forecasts are always portrayed as conditional and history shows just how much small shifts in conditions in the last few dozen miles offshore can make or break a tropical cyclone.

I'd love to start posting video here of species that are not down to their last few dozen individuals, and will do so when time allows.

In theory, July 9 was International Save the Vaquita Day, conceived to press Mexico to do more to protect the last few dozen members of a tiny and profoundly endangered porpoise species confined to overfished waters at the north end of the Gulf of California.

As I head back out for another trip into the Dark Zone to try and find some more loot in the addictive Tom Clancy's The Division, the best game since at least The Witcher 3: Blood Hunt, and arguably since «Bloodborne,» I realize what the last few dozen hours of gameplay have taught me.

Syracuse, NY — At 6:45 p.m., the last few dozen people were still waiting to get through security to attend a 6 p.m. meeting at the Onondaga County Courthouse about the new New York law that restricts certain types of gun ownership.

Not exact matches

Under the plan, which launched last year, T - Mobile divided its customers into blocks of about 120,000, who are each assigned to a specific group of a few dozen employees at a specific call center.

Like Twitter and dozens of other companies that have gone public in the last couple of years, GrubHub took advantage of a provision in the JOBS Act of 2012, which lets small companies valued at $ 1 billion or less to file for an initial public offering in private, and just a few weeks before it intends to debut.

«We already have seen an increase in interest from travelers who are more aware of terror attacks in different areas who are looking to us to buy policies with terrorist coverage,» says Rachel Taft, a Squaremouth spokeswoman, who estimates that nearly a dozen people have called in the last few days.

There have been comparatively few leaks compared to last year's awards season (so far), when a single group called Hive - CM8 leaked more than a dozen of 2016's top movies, including James Bond movie «Spectre,» «Legend,» «Steve Jobs,» «Creed,» and Quentin Tarantino's «The Hateful Eight» — before it even came out in the cinemas.

And last month, moments before MIT professor James Poterba, president of the National Bureau of Economic Research, gave Summers a glowing introduction to a ballroom that contained dozens of European and not a few Russian economists, a smiling Shleifer glided across the front of the hall.

At its peak, the company had nearly 80 franchises across Australia as well as more than a dozen company - owned stores, but over the last few years, a number have closed and a disgruntled Brisbane franchisee launched an $ 800,000 legal action against Pie Face claiming they were misled over profit projections, which Homschek denied.

This will be particularly significant, given that China only permits Christianity within the context of government - sanctioned churches, and the fact authorities have partly or wholly destroyed hundreds of churches and crosses and imprisoned at least dozens of Christians in the country over the last few years.

Such acquaintance with world literature and such exquisite sensibility would not be of note except for two points — that Shiqaqi was, until his assassination in Malta a few weeks ago, an Islamist (or what is frequently called a «fundamentalist» Muslim) and that he headed Islamic Jihad, the arch-terrorist organization that has murdered dozens of Israelis over the last two years.

Last week, dozens of US lawmakers called for Turkey to release American pastor Andrew Brunson, who remains imprisoned there with limited access to his attorney and few details about the charges against him.

Clara and I have shared a dozen of those over the last few years.)

We have received dozens of tips in the last few months ranging from wine to brand name premium liquor.

Because it's Friday and because my brain is absolutely fried (I caught myself misspelling at least a dozen words), I'm cutting this post short, and just leaving you with these last few photos.

CCA has launched more than half a dozen new products in the last few months, including Barista Bros iced coffee, Zico coconut water, Grinders coffee pods, Perfect Fruit — a frozen fruit whip — and new bottled water brands that sell at a discount to Mount Franklin's, and enable the company to compete against the cheap private - label water filling supermarket shelves.

over the last few years i have made probably half a dozen different paleo / primal donut recipes.

I've got a bevy of maybe two dozen sauces and other products that I've been working on for the last few years.

Eytan Azaria: I've played on more than a dozen intramural teams over the last few years but this team that Cap’n Lalez put together has the the most balanced offense I've played with.

If you knew anything about me, you'd know that on match days I'm as laid back as they come and more than happy to chew the fat with opposition fans as was evidenced on my visit to your gaff last season when I spent a very enjoyable few hours chatting to Arsenal fans over half a dozen or so pints of North London's finest gnat's p*ss, oops sorry beer

Was with my X for a dozen years but only married for the last few.

I gave birth to my 4th child at home in April, my best friend gave birth to her first born in my house last month, we got a dozen more chickens and hatched a few of our own this summer, we went to Story Land and to Lake Winnipesaukee on vacation, built a large wooden swingset, landscaped our backyard, and did several other home projects!

«We used to get dozens of trick - or - treaters; the last few years, fewer and fewer,» Lavine said.

In the last few years, more than a dozen state lawmakers have been convicted or pleaded guilty to corruption charges, including former Speaker Sheldon Silver — your predecessor, Mr. Heastie — and former Majority Leader Dean Skelos — your predecessor, Mr. Flanagan.

At issue last fall was that the Ulster County Board of Elections had allowed a few dozen poll - watchers to vote a few days earlier (via legally proscribed sealed envelopes) than current law allows.

In an early sign that Sinai's plan may not encounter the kind of resistance that plagued St. Vincent's, fewer than two dozen people showed up last Thursday to an informational meeting hosted by Community Boards 3 and 6.

The legalization of same - sex marriage in the United States is a relatively recent goal of the gay - rights movement, but over the last few years, gay - rights organizers have placed it at the center of their agenda, steering money and muscle into dozens of state capitals in an often uphill effort to persuade lawmakers.

But even up to 1950 we consumed very few calories from beverages and in the last 60 years, we've gone from consuming almost no calories from beverages to a fifth of our caloric intake in the U.S., and about the same in Mexico and about the same in a dozen other countries — in some less and some more — but the point is, all of those calories we consume, but it doesn't affect the food that we take in.

They dismount and walk the last few metres to their destination, where dozens of small polythene tents and cloches litter the ground like -LSB-...]

There are many obvious things that could be done — all stem from accepting that in order to «give a stronger impulse... to scientific inquiry», as the BA set its objectives in the last century, it is now better to reach millions of readers, rather than address a few dozen listeners.

Last summer on a warm Paris morning, a few dozen members of the International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature gathered at the National Museum of Natural History.

And yet the corals managed to poison around a dozen people in Anchorage over the last few years.

Each year between 2500 - 3000 scouts, students and teachers visit Green Bank, typically in small groups of a few dozen students with their teachers, for sessions lasting several days.

For the past few days, Liberia, which was recording dozens of Ebola cases daily was only battling with the last five confirmed Ebola cases, but that record is now on a slippery path as five new Ebola cases have been reported in the St. Paul Bridge Community in Montserrado County.»

Had a couple of kids — Yeah — fed them a couple dozen at least the last few years, do well with those.

I've probably tried on a dozen or two the last few years that just didn't flatter me.

I went a little crazy last month and have a few dozen items to post.

Foreign markets have not compensated for the domestic flopping, in which the film grossed just $ 105 thousand from a few dozen theaters last spring.

There are quite literally dozens of Mario games that have been released by Nintendo over the last few decades, but it is a YouTuber and game mod named Kaze Emanuar that has brought us the Mario title we never knew we wanted.

After you whip out your sword to finish the last one off, you'll have killed a dozen enemies in a bloody display of stylish, slow - motion savagery within a few short moments.

I have watched it dozens of times in the last few months as part of this project, and every time I find new things, and have a new respect for the film.

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

Results from the initial round of Common Core - aligned tests (administered last spring) have been trickling out for the past few weeks in more than a dozen states.

It filled most of the vacancies, but a few dozen opened at the last minute, when teachers it had hired changed their minds.

Seriously, for every compact pickup sold last year in the U.S. (mostly Toyota Tacomas, but with some Nissan Frontiers and a few dozen carryover GM compacts), almost eight people made space in their driveway for a Ford F - series, Chevy Silverado, GMC Sierra, Toyota Tundra, Ram or Nissan Titan.

Meanwhile in the e-reader sector dozens of companies went out of business in the last few years, such as Cool - ER, Entourage, Hanvon, iRex, Greenbook, Spring Design, Kyobo and dozens of others.