Sentences with phrase «over the holidays last»

Over the holidays last year, I was told about an unusual potluck cornbread that was filled with cranberries.

While visiting Georgia over the holidays last month, we decided to trade in our Optima.

Several authors used this method over the holidays last year.

TORONTO, Dec. 2, 2014 / CNW / - When the weather outside is frightful, Canadians find eReading delightful — so delightful, in fact, that Canadians turned nearly 300 million virtual pages on Kobo devices over the holidays last year, with 16 million on Christmas Day alone.

Mike asked to cook for us when he visited over the holidays last month.

-LSB-...] most of you probably know, our family moved over the holidays last year during a freak snow storm.

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Similar data for China was not available, but the country's consumption has been growing, Last year, Chinese consumers reportedly spent 840 billion Chinese yuan (just under $ 140 billion) in retail and catering services over the week - long holiday, an increase of 11.4 percent from 2016.

Yet fewer than half of employers (47 %) plan to pay holiday bonuses this season, according to the same poll, a slight increase over last year's 45 %.

At a dinner table over the holidays, I sat next to a New York - based investment manager who told me that the CEOs who have come to visit him over the last couple of years told him that their recent layoffs were just «cutting out the dead wood» that they'd been reluctant to cut earlier.

Over the holidays, this could mean switching up your messaging to apply to topics such as last - minute gift ideas or promotions.

Mine your ticket history for these questions (something that's really easy to do if there's a help desk) and see the kind of queries received over the last holiday season.

Comparing state - by - state flight searches for travel over the end - of - summer holiday to last year's Labor Day searches, Kayak's data crunchers found that online searchers in Michigan, Oregon and Tennessee have been checking out vacations in the U.K. — now more affordable thanks to a deep swoon in the British pound.

USPS will delivery packages every day, including Sundays, beginning Nov. 17 through Christmas Day and is expecting the number of packages it handles to range between 450 million and 470 million packages, up 12 % over last year's holiday season..

And there's a bruising fight with Congress over spending and the federal deficit on the horizon, just days after Obama and Congress averted the fiscal cliff with a last - minute deal over the New Year's holiday.

But department stores aren't just competing with one another: They have the challenge of competing with online retailers. Shop.org forecasts that online holiday sales this year will climb 11 percent over last season's, to $ 105 billion.

According to NRF's Thanksgiving Weekend Spending Survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics, 55.1 percent of holiday shoppers were or will be in stores and online over Thanksgiving weekend, down from 58.7 percent last year.

Here at the National Retail Federation, we are forecasting that holiday retail sales will grow 3.6 percent this year over last year.

Americans returned $ 267.3 billion worth of goods last year, an industry report found, and the share of sold goods that are returned to stores ticks up over 10 percent during the holidays.

It doesn't help that Amazon's huge logistics investments over the last few years mean it can flex its muscles the most during the holiday with its arsenal of express shipping capabilities when customers are often looking for last - minute gifts.

Hundreds of fake retail and product apps have popped up in Apple's App Store over the last few weeks, just in time for the holiday season.

The United States Department of State issued a travel warning late last month urging Americans to «exercise caution at holiday festivals, events, and outdoor markets» all over Europe.

Willing to celebrate and embrace a holiday that was stolen by the Catholics, from the Pagans, a ritual that has trickled on down to the Protestants over the last 300 years, which has more to do with ancient s - ex worship than with anything else!

4.1 % — Expected amount of increased holiday sales in the United States in 2012 over last year, according to the National Retail Federation.

Thousands of extra police and security personnel have been ordered to be on guard over the holiday as part of an ongoing effort to crack down on terrorist attacks, the Egyptian Ministry of the Interior announced last week.

«Over a quarter — 27 percent — are last - minute food shoppers, planning to spend the eve of the holiday shopping for groceries,» the study reports.

Over the last five years my opportunity to cook for a crowd for a holiday meal has dwindled.

After almost two weeks of time off over the holidays, it was really hard to contemplate going back to work, so on my last day off, to make myself feel better about it, I made the most comforting thing I could think of: apple pie.

Holiday events, parties and festive things galore have taken over in the last few weeks ---- not to mention all of the little things adding up through school that my boys need to have taken care of before the end of the 2015 and the holiday break begins — ugh!

I made something similar last year over the holidays and I have been waiting to share the recipe ever since.

Since the holiday season isn't over quite yet, I have one last gift to share with you.

Over the last Christmas holiday, the over-worked editorial staff journeyed to Belize (formerly British Honduras), which is located on the Yucatán Peninsula in Central America.

Lovely treats that last a little longer over the holidays.

When I brought some out to share with a few family members over the holiday weekend, they lasted all of a few hours and elicited more mmmmm's and ahhhhhh's than I could count.

My brother and his family are home from London for the holidays, and everyone was over at my house last night (including my OMG mom!!!).

These pumpkin gingerbread sandwich cookies are so good I've made them a few times over the last two weeks, and I'm so glad the timing worked out so I can share them with you before the holiday stress takes over!

After this week though exams will be over, it will be summer holidays and I very much doubt I will be able to find a job by then (seeing as I've been looking for the last six months already with very little luck, mostly due to the fact that every time a place gets back to me I tell them I'm too busy.)

I've made many batches over these last couple of months to serve to dinner guests (anyone else exhausted from all the holiday gatherings?).

Alexis Sanchez hasn't had a proper break from football for over two years, with the Chilean international only getting a few weeks holiday last summer and even then he was seen training out on the beach.

Warren sent our man a flier pushing his «Thanksgiving Bash 2 - Day Turkey Shoot,» his «finest holiday offering,» which, the flier claimed, has produced winners 77 % of the time over the last decade.

Jan 04,2016... The final holiday tournaments ended last week, the big month of intersectional play was over and a f...

For others, there is still time for one last weekend road trip, or maybe a getaway over the upcoming Labor Day holiday.

And while we're on the subject, see last week's article on keeping baby jolly over the holidays.

Last time we went on holiday my son spilt milk all over my trousers — it was not a pretty site.

He said he has raised some $ 1.25 million this year, and the loan is merely a float to tide things over until the holidays when he expects all the last - minute pledges for financial support he has received in the final days of the 2011 campaign.

But I was on holiday last week, and our books editor had already been sent a review copy, so it seemed rude not to stick it in my suitcase and give it a quick once - over.

Mark, her 45 - year - old friend based in Canada, had arrived in town a week before the last Christmas holiday and invited her over -LSB-...]

Vitter, a two - term U.S. senator who was first elected in 2004, said in the email that he and his family started the decision process last week over Thanksgiving and will continue to weigh his options through the coming holidays.

Today (June 23) is the Doncaster North MP's last day of hosting before he hands over to Iain Duncan Smith next week as Jeremy Vine continues his two week holiday.

The last thing we need over the holiday is a bellyache and flatulence, right?!

I thought I would sneak in one last recipe before Christmas; something that's really simple and fun to make over the holiday period (when you just must bake, of course... or is that just me?).