Sentences with phrase «odd years ago»

When I first discovered Pinterest (some 4 odd years ago) this bathroom was one of the first pictures I came across.

Some of these are old neighbourhoods where their families grew up, they remember as kids canoeing down the streets 30 - odd years ago — and they still live there and will continue to do so.

The Public Law Project has consistently punched above its weight since its foundation thirty odd years ago and, reflecting the growth of judicial review and administrative justice, has thrived ever since.

Just as the Crown in the provincial court, by whatever name at that time, in Cornwall and in Valleyfield, were not much interested, 40 some odd years ago, in a careful consideration of evidence before laying charges, much the same attitude prevails among Justice Department lawyers and the Indian Affairs officials for whom the Justice Department supposedly lacks.

Attending two convocations at two different universities within one week allowed me to reflect on how important and life - changing university was for me 40 - odd years ago and how important and life - changing it has been for my kids in this decade.

Thirty odd years ago, I dined with Federal District Court Judge who had been summonsed for jury duty in the Delaware or Virginia state courts.

The attribution is for anthropogenic warming since 1950, ie, 60 odd years ago.

A small group of sculptors 30 odd years ago decided to have a crack at what seemed to them to be the gaping hole in abstract sculpture.

In her catalog essay, Lewallen reminds us that what might not seem novel or radical today was indeed a risky proposition only 20 - odd years ago.

Doug Urbank, one of the artists I was speaking with at the Fort Point Open Studios, was explaining that in his building the most expensive studios are located on the top floor / front side and were primarily inhabited by photographers fifteen some odd years ago.

Some odd years ago, Cinders had an insane show with Nick that consisted...

Whether on the scale of a big canvas such as «Flower Offerings» (2014) or the small untitled one on view, Tran gives a convincing account of abstraction as free - wheeling performance, a possibility supposedly played out 60 - odd years ago, certainly no later than the deaths of greats such as Joan Mitchell (1925 - 1992) and Nicholas Carone (1917 - 2010).

Yve - Alain Bois's book Painting as Model was written twenty - odd years ago and continues to be an important text, providing conceptual fodder for many contemporary art practices.

Long - time gamers may want a little more than the same games they played 30 - odd years ago, though.

This idea is something I've had since I started developing games 20 - some odd years ago.

One of the reasons that I came to love the Shin Megmai Tensei series some twenty - odd years ago, and still love it to this day, is Atlus» take on combat.

Forgive the use of the famous line uttered by the lovely Sweet Brown when describing the horrific ordeal she faced 5 odd years ago but it does seem rather fitting in this context.

When I first started blogging some 7 + odd years ago, I didn't know «travel blogging» was a thing.

Thirty odd years ago I showed a Manx with all four feet bearing each four extra digits.

As the Bentley Continental GT rapidly approaches the 15 - year mark, you have to wonder whether «Walter Owen» would have envisaged such popularity for the marque that bears his name, 90 - odd years ago — either in his wildest or even most troubling dreams.

As I complete this first quick go - round in the new 300, I'm reminded that until 20 - odd years ago, most large American cars were rear - wheel drive.

But then, it did seem perfectly reasonable to me 60 - odd years ago to build a road car that resembled the best of those from some 20 years earlier.

Times do change, and today's school (today's world) isn't the same as twenty - odd years ago.

Accept the fact that the present NAEP math framework is still pretty much aligned with what cutting - edge math educators deemed most important twenty - odd years ago.

If Into the Wild were made twenty - odd years ago one could have seen Penn stepping into the shoes of Chris McCandless himself, but here Emile Hirsch takes on this demanding role.

That is, until a surprise visit from Greta Gerwig's Pegeen — the estranged goddaughter he hasn't seen since a falling out with her parents twenty - odd years ago.

Thirty - odd years ago, Pauline Kael, a writer whose argumentative style I will always admire despite the fact that her field of vision was riddled with blind spots, once famously (and wrongly) sneered that Meryl Streep made «a career out of seeming to overcome being miscast.»

The story, with its opposing elements of character drama and action, is blended so well that, as I said before, it feels like an old Hollywood film from some 60 - odd years ago.

Some thirty - odd years ago, they fought each other, twice, and they each lost once.

It's like coconut oil, 30 odd years ago when researchers fed animals hydrogenated coconut oil that was purposely altered to make it completely devoid of any essential fatty acids.The animals fed the hydrogenated coconut oil (as the only fat source) naturally became essential fatty acid deficient; their serum cholesterol increased.

I couldn't do a pull up to save my own or any one else's life when I started to train at Bodytribe Fitness (www.bodytribe.com) 9 - odd years ago.

When I fell pregnant about five odd years ago, parenting advice generally came from family or friends, however with social media being such a huge platform for others to voice their opinion about breast versus bottle, there's one thing to remember: fed is best.

Don't bet me wrong, I think this is brilliant, and so much better than 20 - odd years ago when the choice was limited to what you could find in the Simplicity catalogue in your local department store... but it also means it's quite hard to choose sometimes, with the plethora of options available to you.

At the time I thought about how amazing life is because 40 some - odd years ago my mother soothed my brother as a baby and now here he was 40 years later doing the same thing.

Norwich City chairman Robert Chase did something similar 20 odd years ago.

What the EPL pant wetters need to understand is that we are The Wolves and we are just on our way back to where we were sixty odd years ago.

«He came in 20 - odd years ago and revolutionised the game.

No move him on to much of a risk to keep him he has had plenty of chances to prove himself simply not good enough for Arsenal he not a Arsenal man but a lifelong West Ham supporter I think he play better for a team of less importance having said that Arsenal are not the side they used to be 20 odd years ago!!

When I was a kid growing up in the north of England some seventy odd years ago the only shoes I had was clogs.

And that only 70 - odd years ago.

You are wasting your life on something that you stated yourself as being «poetry, stories, laws» that were written a thousand some odd years ago when life in all aspects was very different.

The Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ in a manger in Bethlehem 2000 some odd years ago is ubiquitous across the country, even if the American tradition has leaned away from the sacred and toward the secular.

The supposition is that after the Hebrews were booted out of Jerusalem 2k or some odd years ago all «offical» writtings stopped.

It's the kind of long - term thinking guys like Stephen used to enrich our economy 130 - odd years ago, and that smart leaders would do well to emulate today.

Not exact matches

«We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook.

What was in the head's of a country's founders and the odd (stupid, should be removed) reference to some god (s) in documents 100 + years ago does not bind current citizens.

The odd skeletons had prominent jaws and jutting cheekbones, and middling - sized brains more commonly seen in human ancestors from hundreds of thousands of years ago.

The fossil record includes the Stromatolites, colonies of prokaryotic bacteria, that range in age going back to about 3 billion years, the Ediacara fossils from South Australia, widely regarded as among the earliest multi-celled organisms, the Cambrian species of the Burgess shale in Canada (circa — 450 million years ago) the giant scorpions of the Silurian Period, the giant, wingless insects of the Devonian period, the insects, amphibians, reptiles, fishes, clams, crustaceans of the Carboniferous Period, the many precursors to the dinosaurs, the 700 odd known species of dinosaurs themselves, the subsequent dominant mammals, including the saber tooth tiger, the mammoths and hairy rhinoceros of North America and Asia, the fossils of early man in Africa and the Neanderthals of Europe.

I love the way I eat and just a few years ago I was seen as this odd girl eating weird food — but I'm so happy the world is catching on and now we're like all hey, let's eat what Ella's eating... amirite?

On the occasions when I want to take the extra step of making «cheese» or when my mind reminisces of years ago for some odd reason (and my appetite follows)... I at least like having healthier options!