Sentences with phrase «odd numbers work»

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This trick is a little odd, but only because it only works with odd numbers.

Going to an odd number also removes the possibility of a deadlocked 31 - 31 chamber and Senate coup vets all know how that worked out.

Having no particular dream or direction, he worked a number of odd jobs — drilling water wells, cleaning carpets, working in a gas - station diner.

However, this only works if an odd number of atomic layers is responsible for the difference in height of the two surfaces.

Students read the numbers on the carrot cards, sort on a work mat as odd or even, then record their answers on an answer sheet.

The best of the odd - numbered Star Trek films, Insurrection doesn't boast nasty villains or terrible dangers but plays like a great extended TV episode, with a compelling plot that works as a smart political commentary on Western imperialism.

The setup in the video is slightly odd — Mitchell seems to have been held at gunpoint against a wall and forced to give a monologue — but the director has a number of interesting things to say, particularly on the contrast between working with stars like Kidman and the less seasoned players of his last film, «Shortbus.»

The odd - numbered chapters form the narrative of the linguists» visit to Al - Sayyid and their subsequent work deciphering its language.

My initial reaction to hearing 2.0 is that this is basically a different name for Disney Infinity 2, instead of using a catchy tag line like Giants or Skylanders, or even just using a simple 2 or just adding a year to the title (it works for all the sports titles like WWE or NFL), they look to have decided to go down the edition number way which sounds odd but I think it actually makes things a little more simple.

To do this, Yoshia and his team of hard - working developers plans to drop in «extremely difficult dungeons and quests» in every odd - number patch.

In 1942, the Corcoran Gallery purchased the odd - numbered panels and the Museum of Modern Art acquired the even - numbered ones (the first works by an African American artist brought into MoMA's collection).

«Since the time Duncan Phillips first acquired the odd - numbered panels of Lawrence's series in 1942, «The Migration Series» has remained a cornerstone of our permanent collection and a force in our educational work with international communities,» said Director Dorothy Kosinski.

We were acquiring a number of works at that time which I think would be odd not to have in a museum.

While all of these works were met with acclaim, his most celebrated series was The Migration of the Negro (later renamed The Migration Series), completed in 1941 and purchased by the Phillips Collection (which owns the odd - numbered panels) and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)(which has the even - numbered ones).

It would also, I guess, catch the odd fraudster who, like me, wouldn't be able to work the Luhn algorithm and come up with a valid - seeming account number.

I've found numerous spreadsheet errors in other people's work, and in my own, by looking for numbers that didn't square with my expectations or looked odd in context.

Odd job timing: Even though a good number of medical assistants will have a standard forty hours of work weeks, a number of medical assistants are still obliged to work in the evenings on the weekdays and some weekends as well.

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Décor items work best in a pair or a grouping in odd numbers.

If you have a long rectangle table you may want to do a series of items as your centerpiece — 1 large item in the middle and smaller items on the sides — always work in odd numbers — 3 or 5 things.

One of my favorite tips for styling your items is to always work in odd numbers.

Remember to keep items on varying heights and work in groups with odd numbers for the best effect.

Groupings work well in odd number collections — 3 to 5 depending upon your space and the size of your items.

«Odd numbers always work better than even, and varying the heights of things adds interest, too.»