Sentences with phrase «odd years of»

For the first eighteen odd years of your child's life you will no doubt need to rally all your resources to meet the challenges of parenthood.

On the other hand, younger students moving from twenty - odd years of school daze into the real world will do better to find their way in a broader, rotational exposure to practice and direct contact with experienced mentors in a full service firm.

If they are not then presumable we won't be able to say the warming trend has come to an end until we have another thirty odd years of no warming, which doesn't seem right to me.

In truth, the intergovernmental body entrusted to prevent «dangerous» levels of climate change has not only failed to make progress over its twenty - odd years of work (and more than ninety official negotiation meetings since the agreement was adopted), it has overseen a process of virtually uninterrupted backsliding.

It's a hard task to corral 40 odd years of painting history into a modest if well proportioned gallery space — especially if it's the career history of an artist like Robert Motherwell.

Parameters that would impact any exhibition, but which become more evident and emphatically relevant in this kind of socio - geographic case study include: which works have been brought into the permanent collection; what arrangements can be negotiated as far as borrowing work; what relationships have been established with local Indigenous communities over the sixty - odd years of the gallery's history.

Her 40 - odd years of innovative creation and performance have brought about some memorable collaborations, most frequently with Robert Rauschenberg but also with Robert Whitman, Donald Judd, Nancy Graves, Terry Winters and Fujiko Nakaya.

First, Pokémon Go tapped into 20 - odd years of childhood memories to become a global sensation, and now the house of Mario has revealed a rerelease of its pioneering 1983 Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

«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.

Even after 20 odd years of getting myself across the continents, I...

I don't think in my 40 - odd years of dog owning I've ever had such a wonderful animal.

I'm reading up on things I've never known about in 40 odd years of living with Dogs.

And, in my dispassionate outsider's view, as a fairly moderate sort of guy who fits no political party well, but finds the modern Left worryingly authoritarian and totalitarian... The US is more divided than I've ever seen in my twenty odd years of watching.

Like a Dolmio advert come to life, a tanned and weathered face, skin lined from its 80 - odd years of emotion, cracks into a broad smile as it turns from the vines at the side of the road.

There are many variants — rear - drive or all - wheel drive, wide - bodied or narrow, Carrera or Carrera S, turbo or naturally aspirated, Tiptronic or manual — and chances are they've been driven hard over their 20 - odd years of existence.

Twenty - some - odd years of revising and training, top honors from Annapolis and grad school at MIT were light work, but Blow Some Shit Up was the best idea he could throw at black liberation.

A sustained reflection on 40 - odd years of picture making, it laces his best underplaying with a solid undertow of romantic yearning and tragic self - interrogation.

As he is winding up his military career after 20 - odd years of acting as an enforcer for a government bent on eradicating natives, he soon becomes the victim of changing social values when he is chosen as the escort on a mission of mercy to repatriate a dying Cheyenne chief back to his native Wyoming.

It is certainly a change from my 20 odd years of wearing designer duds so all my design clients would think I had taste that was transferrable to all the parts of my life.............

The researchers believe the mutation became fixed within different breeds during 300 - odd years of artificial selection — that is, dog breeding.

When I came back to Berkeley after the investigation was completed, I realized that for the past 50 - some - odd years of my career, I'd been working on 10 percent of the problems.

Just made this INCREDIBLE cake for a good friend of ours who has spent the last 50 odd years of his life always putting others before himself (generally with a bottle of stout in his pocket to help him along!).

It may be that Lutheran doctrinal reflections have run their course over the five «hundred «odd years of Reformation existence.

And that the Quar «an had 600 - odd years of people asking questions of and critiquing Christianity to build on when supposedly providing answers to the holes in Christianity is not surprising in the least.

One last test and I will be free after 16 odd year of schooling.

Not exact matches

Sometime in the years before 1913, Hoffman, the in — house statistician for the Prudential Insurance Company of America, began noticing something odd.

By far, the oddest thing about Donald Trump's 1995 tax returns, a portion of which was published by The New York Times on Saturday, is not the massive $ 916 million loss — some 9,385 times as large as what was taken by the average filer who claimed a similar loss — but this: 1995 was actually a very good year for Trump, perhaps one of the best of his career.

Born: 06/16/79 Year the maple leaf first appeared in Canadian Olympic Team iconography: 1908 Number of colours in Hulse's maple leaf mosaic: 28 Kilometres logged on Canadian roads while touring with Run the Red Light: 150,000 Oddest application of the new maple leaf mosaic: A life - size moose sculpture

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.

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.

Eklund, on the heels of a controversial, year - long stint in California as an adult film star under the name Tag Eriksson, got to work taking odd jobs and hawking paninis outside the set of David Letterman's Late Show.

«I know this is an odd time of year to ask for this,» says one customer as she enters the 5 & 10 on a frigid day.

Of the 3,000 - odd participants who had said they «almost never» sat, less than 7 % had died in the intervening 13 years.

As odd as it sounds, you lost $ 2,313 in net earnings, or 4.6 % of what you had been indirectly generating each year, despite buying an asset with a higher look - through yield.

Looking at the last 30 - odd years, it's the «demographic sweet spot» of labor oversupply that has kept wages low and allowed competitive pricing to drive down inflation.

That means an estimation of all the tutoring, baby - sitting and piano lessons I was giving in high school, which as a rough guess were about $ 6,000 a year for four years, then the $ 1,000 - something I was making flipping burgers, working a cash register or waitressing during the first three years of college, and the $ 2,000 - odd I got during the last two years of business school.

While spending down his formidable fortune — currently estimated to be $ 78.4 billion by Bloomberg — to fund reusable rocket research and space tourism might seem an odd choice, Bezos said last year that it's all part of a long - held dream.

I think it's odd to think that you know the last years (whether 1000s or millions) based on your little spec of our recorded data.

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

Come on Stacey doesn't it seems a little odd that God would create man imperfect only to send most of them to an eternal hell after a breif few years on Earth...

All of a sudden they left in a very odd manner after years of relationship and completely cut off all ties.

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.

It may strike readers as rather odd to be so cognitive about how one affects the emotions of people, but it is such knowledge writers spend years gaining.

The Muslim year is a lunar year divided into twelve months with the odd months having thirty days and the even having twenty - nine, with 354 days most years, but 355 days eleven years in each cycle of thirty.

That said, hasn't it ever struck any of you as odd that scores of people had gods thousands of years before Yahweh presented himself to Abraham?

Now if I were as much under the grip of the «fallacy of the false dilemma» as Robert C. Koons seems to think, I would indeed harp on these strains as a sure sign that all those Christians were right all along who have been battering away at Darwinism for the past one hundred and forty «odd years.

Moreover, returning to our child / adult contrast, it would seem odd to hold that the experience of childhood is «emptier» than that of later years.

No one knows with any kind of certainty what he would think or not think about any topic 40 odd years later.

«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.

Thirty odd years after this overview of twentieth century Catholic intellectual culture, the points of James Hitchcock seem even more relevant.