Sentences with phrase «only around a dozen»

Mr Corbyn is still resisting the plan however, meaning only around a dozen of the 63 MPs who resigned from his frontbench in June are expected to return.

However, among the hundreds of students I taught over that period only around a dozen actually came up with professional level graphic designs on their own.

Not exact matches

Among nearly two dozen major airlines contacted by Reuters, only Japan Airlines gave actual figures on incidents of sexual harassment on its flights: around 10 to 20 a year, with police called in on some cases.

These were only a few of dozens of ideas the engineers started to kick around.

In addition, you'll want to spread that money out over a dozen or more companies, with the idea that you only need two or three of them to turn around in order to achieve spectacular returns.

The holidays are a great time to be around dozens of family members you only see a couple of times a year, attend packed office parties and travel on sold - out flights to the far ends of the country.

If you're anything like me, there's a pretty good chance you still have more than a couple boxes of Girl Scout cookies hanging around (or am I the only one that buys them by the dozen?).

Unfortunately, there's only about a baker's dozen entree recipes and most of them are based around pastas and crusts / breads, which isn't really my thing.

Here's my latest garden update (http://takewithfoodblog.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/garden-update-june/)... that was only two weeks ago, but the plants are already sooo much bigger than they were and I estimate that I'm around 75 cherry tomatoes and well over a dozen on the other plants A pretty healthy crop for container plants, I think!

The worlds best CDMs only average around meaningful 3 tackles a game and that is one of their prime job functions — it is like we are expecting a dozen or so thunderous challenges from Ozil every game.

Earlier at the Sidney Albert Jewish Community Center in Albany, Cuomo said the recent bomb threat scares that have led to the evacuation of dozens of JCC's in New York and around the country are not only «ugly» and «immoral,» but illegal.

Marshall is one of only a dozen arachnologists worldwide specializing in them — and the only scientist who runs a lab full of tarantulas gathered from around the globe.

Ever visited a tour - book - recommended, «off - the - beaten - path» vacation destination only to look around the train car or hotel lobby to see dozens of people carrying the same travel guide?

Globally, there are around 600 crayfish species, of which only about a half dozen have become problematic invaders in the United States.

The authors and other experts noted that the study, which involved dozens of scientists working around the clock at four labs at three universities, still only goes so far and must be followed with additional research.

Believe it or not, Sharoupim is only one of an estimated dozen women around the world selling these milky baubles — and the demand is growing.

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

We also have many of our sexy members on webcams around the clock strutting their stuff, and not only that, but we also have dozens of very fun chat rooms that re constantly filled with the sexiest black military men and women who are waiting to get to know you better.

Her testimonials page has dozens of stories from satisfied clients, and that's only a small slice of her overall impact on the dating community around the world.

As 2009 films go, there is a lot of love around these parts for Gaspar Noé «s sensational masterpiece Enter The Void: Three of the dozen or so contributors to Row Three chose it as their «best film of 2009» and it should bear mentioning that they were the only three that saw it!

Violence: The premise of this film revolves around a competition where two - dozen adolescents are forced to fight to the death until only one survives.

Nothing is more annoying than wading through a group of enemies — advancing slowly so as to kill them all in one pass — only to turn around and see dozens that were somehow missed.

In addition to this, there are not many books and educational resources around so, whereas the average middle class British child has dozens of books before they are 1 year old, the average Sierra Leonean secondary school student can probably only produce a handful of scruffy exercise books on request.

Although 46 states applied for the money, only a dozen were awarded funds for innovative proposals to turn schools around and improve educational quality.

The German - built Focus RS is one of a dozen new global performance vehicles — cars to be sold around the world with only minor tweaks between versions sold in different markets — that the automaker will launch between now and 2020, Ford says.

If you've only got a dozen or fewer reviews, you should probably place them strategically around the pages of your website.

I recall scouring a dozen or more pages of listings and coming across only two titles I'd heard of — Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question, which I read, and Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, which I didn't get around to before my free Prime membership trial (and borrowing privileges) ended.

And because you have only three credit reports, making sure they're all accurate and impressive is a whole lot easier than chasing around dozens of different credit scores.

Even though Dog by Dog has only had a dozen screenings around the country so far, our efforts have helped start new protests all over the country.

There are only a few dozen hotels in Siqiujor, mostly around the San Juan beach area.

In the early morning there were only a handful of other intrepid visitors there, along with about half a dozen flamingos wading around in the shallow end of the water.

These are not the only animals here though, dozens of fish such as horse - eye jacks, silver porgy and blue runners, dart around grabbing the sharks and rays» leftovers.

In case you haven't been there before, Belize is a very small country with a population of only around 300,000, and its one international airport only handles a few dozen flights a day.

Nothing is more annoying than wading through a group of enemies — advancing slowly so as to kill them all in one pass — only to turn around and see dozens that were somehow missed.

Just like it happened around the time of Atari's E.T. game in the 80's, or the burst of the speculation bubble with comics in the 90's, that was catered by most comicbook publishers, like selling dozens of only slightly different versions of the same release (platinum version; with hologram; with extra certificate; different added posters;...)!

I've picked up over a dozen Virtual Boy games from eBay in the past eight months and while statistically that works out to more than one per month, you have to consider that for every fifty copies of Mario's Tennis floating around out there, there's only one Jack Bros. game pak.

Abts only allows around half a dozen paintings out of her studio in a year, so although all ten in this exhibition are dated 2015 or 2016, do not be fooled.

A variety of willow, its trunk is less than a foot thick and stands only a dozen feet, but its leaves hang on limp branches that hang around it like a billowing hoop skirt.

«With dozens of large - scale avoided deforestation programs emerging around the world, the agreement between Acre and Germany demonstrates that payments can flow not only for preparatory activities but also as payments for verified emissions reductions,» says Forest Trends President and CEO Michael Jenkins.

The fact that IPCC scientists are from around the world sounds good but actually means little, since only about two dozen countries possess the educational infrastructure to produce top - notch personnel.

One theory pedalled by a former tobacco advertising guru is that opposition to the «joys» of living with giant fans is only a problem among English speaking countries: the guru reckons that complaints like those heard from dozens of wind farms around Australia are a cooked - up phenomenon exclusive to the English speaking world — as pitched - up in this piece of propaganda on ABC radio and parroted in this piece of eco-fascist drivel from ruin - economy (for a taste of what the Taiwanese — not the world's strongest English speakers — think about giant fans, see our post here).

And because they were so aggressive, they stung him around 30 times, whereas usually he might only get a half dozen or so.

For example, we have already found out that Sarıkamış National Park only has one or two packs, each [with] around a dozen individuals, and it is a remote forest suitable for wolves.

That reputation gets around quickly because there's only a half a dozen defense firms that defend these across the country.

The only successful attempt revealed that the player was in China, using 6 computers to run around two dozen accounts, and was making more money than he did in his previous career farming WOW, for a fraction of the effort.