Sentences with phrase «odd years because»

When we finished 2nd that was an odd year because United, City, Liverpool, Chelsea were all rebuilding and were average.

Not exact matches

I've never even heard of this man until today which is a little odd for me personally because he's based out of The Bahamas and I've spent considerable amounts of time there over the years.

There wasn't a teachable spirit to the leadership which is interesting to me now, twenty - odd years later, because I remember the folks there and there were some incredible leaders among them.

«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.

My assumptions are: The Board were looking for a suitable replacement, Either to gradually take the reins from Wenger within two years or to completely replace him at the end of the season, that's if he (Wenger) didn't agree to their terms and Maybe that's why Wenger was delaying the signing of that contract because he didn't want to work with a new assistant manager next season, we now know that the present one is jetting off to manage a club in Turkey at the end of this campaign and after working with Wenger for 19 odd years, this does sound a bit strange, right??

We are extremely tired... it's not because you've been in the job for 20 odd years at Arsenal and more if we add up the the years outside that you know more on everything.

I think ultimately Spencer becomes the odd man out — but hopefully we don't give him away... I want a top 15 pick for him — which may be insane... but I'm also OK keeping him on the roster until the trade deadline next year because you know that a PG will go down somewhere and there will be a need (for once, it would be nice if a PG going down somewhere wasn't Brooklyn)...

Maybe it is because we are so used to Arsenal being plagued by injury problems year after year that it seems normal, but it does seem a bit odd that a lot of the talk in the football media in the build up to the north London derby this weekend is about the injury problems facing the Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino.

Odd - year seasons are when Auburn needs to do big things, because we get UGA and Bama at home.

Just imagine City winning nothing but the odd FA Cup over the next 10 years, failing to challenge for the Champions League at the same time, yet Guardiola remaining in charge because the football in 2017 - 18 was so good?

Iv just read Andy Prestons views and I can only admire his optimism because from where I'm sitting we have already blown it, Wenger couldn't find a striker in January?what that really means is not at the price he wants to pay, he has constantly neglected the team while picking up 8m a year, every thing he's done is rapidly going to waste because he is so arrogant and aligned to greedy Stan that his job is safer than anyone else in Europe, till he goes and greedy Stan goes we we may win the odd cup, but that's it,

It's been a weird couple of weeks, I've been feeling quite sad that my littlest is now half way through Year R and a little unsure about what to do with myself, which is odd because every second of every day is completely full, it's not that I'm bored, it's more a restlessness, an unsettled what do I do now feeling... last Monday I spent the day in school with Hannah in Year R, it was a lovely insight into her school life, but again I came away a little sad.

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.

I've seen women told «He'll latch when he's hungry enough», I saw an 18 year old sobbing in agony for 48 hours, nipples cracked and bleeding from baby's odd latch, being told she was a «Silly little girl», and «a lazy mother» because she wanted to rest her breasts by using formula for one night.

The lawsuit is odd on its face because Ezzo settled out of court with the editor of Sydney's Child last year over this Grille article.

My 10 year old daughter is seen by her female peers as being odd because of her interest in politics.

I left the Labour party after forty odd years, because in 1990 I had to go on benefits after breaking my back in work, and snapping my spinal cord, I now feel guilty for taking benefits when I should be safe and proud.

Because the short session (in odd - number years sessions are five months long) is held in an election year, legislative leaders live to highlight good news and keep bad news off the stage.

That's because historically, Republicans come out to vote in higher numbers than Democrats in off - year (odd numbered) elections.

The next morning, it became clear just why SCL and Cambridge Analytica had been suspended so abruptly, and at such an odd hour: because the New York Times and the Observer were prepping major investigative stories about the company's use of Facebook data, based on documents and other information from a 26 - year - old whistle - blower named Christopher Wylie.

NGC 6822, about 1.6 million light - years away, is classified as an irregular dwarf galaxy because of its odd shape and relatively small size compared with other galaxies, such as our own, the Milky Way, and its other neighbors, the Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies.

Because the clockwork is strictly mechanical and is open to inspection, «you can figure out how to restart it if it hasn't been on in 100 - odd years,» Hillis says.

over two years of what I'd say was lowcarb / primarily paleo eating (I say «primarily» because I did continue to eat organic yoghurt almost daily and relied on the odd Atkins bar when in a bind)....

Maybe it's because I am just over this cold weather and the bright colors are some what getting me through this odd time of the year.

The other day at Urban I found myself eyeing a hi - lo dress, which was odd because I distinctly remember condemning hi - lo dresses about a year ago saying, «hi - lo dresses are SO over.»

The arrival of six penguins changes Tom Popper, if only because his children and ex-wife of 15 - years guilt him into a mindset of caring for the odd little creatures as a way of winning back their trust.

It seems odd to wax nostalgic about the year 1994, not just because so little time has passed between then and now, but because the particulars of the period — the music, the fashions, the language, the politics — are so hazy and elusive.

Of course, it's hopeless, but because the young man is a very nice guy, and because he knows no one in town, and because it doesn't once cross his mind that a woman almost 40 years his senior could be interested in him, they develop an odd but warm friendship.

Because of the odd nature of this year, it's conceivable that you might see a three - way split: Best Picture, director, and screenplay all going to different movies.

This year is marked by an odd phenomenon of masterful leading performances that will have to be put in the supporting categories because there isn't enough room for them in the leading categories.

That makes Jeremy Renner the odd man out, but only because this year is already rampant with so many great performances.

Or maybe because the SLR McLaren simply stayed relevant for seven odd years.

That's good, because it means I'm coming to the BRZ armed only with what I've read in the weekly magazines, the odd online review and my own level of anticipation fed by years of teaser stories about it and the Toyota GT 86.

They also told me that my brakes were going to need replacing, I thought that was odd, because I had Les Schwab replace them 1 1/2 years ago... I decided to get a second opinion and went to a place that 3 different individuals recommended to me.

This last point is the oddest, because the Vox itself can store up to 4000 books, which, at one book a day (a very fast pace) it would take 10 years to read them all; there's no reason to include a microSD reader just to get MORE books.

I did this because the English language has changed in the last 150 odd years.

Because of these odd financial times, some lenders have cinched up their requirements these last couple of years, so it is wise to check with prospective lenders to nail down the requirements.

The approval process for the PLUS loan is easier (I have witnessed some families with a bankruptcy in their past being approved — which is odd because bankruptcy in the past 7 years automatically precludes a family from being eligible?)

Answer: If she only had patchy, odd - looking hair loss I wouldn't worry as much because Huskies will sometimes blow some of their coat this time of the year if they are primarily indoor and you have started turning the heat on - BUT, in her case, the scabs, redness and pus are definitely not normal.

Last year I reviewed D - Links very pricey DIR - 890 which made the odd claim of being a gaming router, which didn't make much sense because gamers really want the same things as everybody else from a router: stable wireless, good functionality and absolutely no loss of speed or disconnections.

«People get surprised when I say I did it in five minutes, but I'd like to think I did it because I had fifty - odd years of living experience up to that point.

No one mentions the X1S / OGX1 because MS convienantly ignores it, because it allows them to ignore how they haven't supported it with much quality 1st / 2nd party content for the past 2 odd years.

Because of its strange new villains, its wild gameplay, and its mysterious touches, SMB2 has for years been regarded as the Odd Mario Out, even as it has seen popular updates on the Super NES and Game Boy Advance.

Odd because 9 of Stella's top 20 prices were seen at auction in the last three years.

Ealan Wingate, Gagosian's director, explains that D. kept its luster because it's been in storage for the past thirty - odd years.

Which is odd, in itself, because Hickman reminds us that this is is 16th and final year of covering environmental issues at the Guardian.

The risks have increased quite significantly precisely because we have been hoodwinked into a slow as she goes approach over the last 30 odd years.

It is not because most climate scientists do not share your level of scepticism, and are probably more focused on the detailed observations of forcings during the climate model era (the last 30 - odd years).

Given some of the odder comments here (e.g., # 216) that seem to attack me because I am a law professor, perhaps I should have added that I have taken over a dozen courses in statistics and statistical inference over the last few years and am nearing the completion of my Ph.D. in Sociology at the Univ. of Chicago, with a concentration in social statistics.

I find it really odd, and so telling too, that a M Mann feels so compelled to keep writing articles and doing interviews because no one has really taken notice for 25 years of the science.