Sentences with phrase «over up to a couple»

Back in the real world, changes of sign extending over up to a couple of decades would be considered «changes in the rate of warming.»

Not exact matches

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

When a manager here comes to me and says certain commodities are going to be put up for bid in the coming months, I go through my files of people I have run across over the course of the past couple of years.

Couples prefer to stay in less - than - satisfying marriages over losing the equity they have built up in their homes.

We've all heard some version of this story from a newly married couple: «If I hadn't been on that business trip to London, bent over to pick up an umbrella, threw out my back, gone to the hospital for an X-ray and ran into her in the hospital cafeteria, we would never have met.

The CEO of the Washington - based firm made jaws drop when he announced that, over the next couple of years, all of his employees would be brought up to the $ 70k mark — a change that would mean doubling the income of his lowest - paid employees.

After years of pitching, Hamilton has gotten some bold - faced names in Silicon Valley to pony up a total of around $ 5 million for her two funds over the past couple of years.

The campaign, which launched back in the spring, has been gathering steam over the summer, and a couple of weeks ago McDonald's added TV ads to back up what had been a slow - build digital effort.

Over the next couple of years I hope to build up a decent audience.

Meanwhile, the company is boosting its operations in Canada: A new 50,000 - square - foot technology hub in Toronto is expected to add 400 positions to its payroll in this country over the next couple years, with longer - term ambitions to employ up to 1,500.

Consider as an example, an older married couple who has built up a lot of home equity over the years and wants to refinance to a lower interest rate.

The speech says that the Bank's central forecast remains for inflation in Australia to pick up over the next couple of years, but for inflation to be nearer to 2 per cent, than 3 per cent at the end of this period.

Up until a couple of years ago, the grocery price war had largely been fought over mainstream products like soda, soup and cereal, leaving higher - end organics to compete on quality.

If this loss of trust were to occur, we would have given up the hard - won credibility of the monetary policy frameworks that has been built up over the past couple of decades.

Business investment has been quite restrained over the past couple of years but is about to pick up according to the plans businesses supply to the ABS's Capex Survey.

Ahead of the letter, many expected Buffett to weigh in on the «active vs. passive» debate that has been heating up over the last couple years in the investing world.

The fracklog, coupled with a step up in drilling, could lead to production growth of about 400,000 bpd over the next four months, Alexandre Andlauer, an analyst at AlphaValue SAS, told Bloomberg in an interview.

Not surprisingly, perhaps, a couple of senators aren't happy with the way such a system can be used to buy and sell drugs and other illegal items over the Internet, something that has also torpedoed previous attempts to set up virtual currencies.

If unemployment continues to move down and job additions remain at anything close to the strong pace we have seen over the past couple of years, we think it should translate into wage inflation moving up.

A couple of bonuses and a lot of hard work and I was able to build my portfolio up again to just over $ 50,000 by mid-2014.

Wymer: The health care sector has not kept up with information technology over the past year, but I think that new types of medicine, often coupled with new diagnostic techniques, have the potential to extend lives.

During 2014, when I was making quarterly contributions to my investment account, I tended to save up my funds to make a couple of large purchases over the course of the year.

Chan believes the 12 to 13 percent growth rate in home prices is unsustainable, and instead sees prices going up anywhere from 4 to 7 percent on a year - over-year basis over the next couple of years.

«Given all the pent - up demand that's certainly built up over the past couple years, housing still has a ways to go.»

Specifically, individuals can make a lump - sum gift to a 529 plan of up to $ 65,000 ($ 130,000 for married couples) and avoid gift tax, provided the gift is treated as having been made in equal installments over a five - year period and no other gifts are made to that beneficiary during the five years.

Though the Bank of Japan has pumped in colossal amounts of money into the money markets over the past couple of days to support liquidity, analysts said it may be tempted to buy up dollars to rein in the export - sapping rise in the currency.

However, factoring in the extremely high supply, rate of inflation over the first couple of years and ambiguity about how useful the coin will actually end up being should be enough to keep buyers on their toes.

Hah, I just got into a discussion about this a couple of weeks ago with some sadsack AAer who tried to explain to me over and over that we are powerless and have to give up to God.

On Ash Wednesday, as the people come up to receive the ashes, they hear the words: «Polvo eres The ashes of the beginning of Lent are a curious and mysterious religious expression of the Mexican tradition which finds its full socio - religious meaning when coupled with the Holy Water which is blessed during the Easter Vigil — when, through God's power, justice triumphed over injustice in the resurrection of the innocent victim from the death inflicted upon him by the unjust «justice» of this world.

Any time there is an offering taken up at work, a freind is in need, someone's moving and needs a couple buddies to go over and help out, potluck luncheons, anything... be it actual money or just time / food, every single time without exception those freinds who are conservative and / or religious are the ones who show up to contribute and every single time the liberal and / or non-believer friends just show up with an excuse as to why they're not giving or didn't bring something or couldn't help that weekend.

He worked his way up the ranks over the past couple of years and upon announcing his new executive chef position to the culinary staff, morale has never been higher.

At the time, I was coming home from work to an always empty house, laying on the floor for an hour to re-calibrate from my day, working myself into a 30 minute or so run, and then reading a couple food blogs over dinner (usually a sweet potato, roasted during that run, with black beans, salsa, and a pile of greens), working another couple hours just to survive the next school day, and falling into bed into a deep and dreamless sleep before my alarm clock wrenched me out and up and into another day that was much the same.

It will take just a couple minutes to thicken up to pour over your pork.

- Place a large, non-stick heavy - bottom pan over medium - high heat, and drizzle in about 1 tablespoon of the oil; once hot, crumble in the ground beef, breaking it up slightly with a spoon, and brown it for about 2 - 3 minutes; next, add in a couple of pinches of salt and black pepper, the oregano, cumin, chili powder and paprika, and stir to combine.

There is no way you can go through that process and want to cook and serve a mediocre meal.We seasoned and cooked two beautiful legs for dinner and had some tender roast meat left over, which, after a couple of wines I boldly volunteered to «whip» something up with the next day.

In a couple hours, you've got the ultimate football party appetizer to skewer up on toothpicks or a fusion - inspired, «take - out» take off dinner that you can serve with the slow cooker sauce over rice.

Action Item: Pick a couple that you think would be easier to work on (for me, that's making a meal over greens, substituting in a veggie snack, and bulking up whatever else I'm cooking)-- and you'll hopefully have great success after a trip to the grocery store to prepare you.

- While the squash roasts, cook the ground beef by placing a medium - size non-stick pan over medium - high heat, and drizzling in about 1 tablespoon of olive oil; once the oil is hot, add in the onion, and saute for about 2 minutes; next, add in the ground beef and break it up with a spoon / spatula into small crumble; once the beef has slightly browned, add in a couple of pinches of salt and pepper, the garlic, the cumin, the cayenne and the cinnamon, and stir to combine; allow the beef to finish browning, then turn the heat off, and turn the seasoned beef mixture out into a bowl; next, add to the beef the cooked brown rice, the black beans, the quartered cherry tomatoes, the chopped cilantro, the sunflower seeds and the orange zest, and combine the ingredients very well; add another pinch of salt if needed, and set the mixture aside for a moment, keeping warm.

I made the 2 Minute Pumpkin Pie a couple of weeks ago when I had some left over pumpkin puree and I remembered to look up your website when I had the hankering for something chocolate (about 10 minutes ago).

You might notice a few formatting changes over the next couple of weeks, as I bring all my old posts up to snuff — please bear with me!

Over the last couple of months I've been eating a lot more nuts and snacking on fruit too but it's been on my mind that I need to come up with some more tasty, sugar - free snacks capable of enticing my fussy eater!

I made and photographed some Burmese food this past weekend, but I've been up to my eyeballs with taxes and reading travel guidebooks over the past couple days, so I haven't been able to do any photo editing or recipe writing.

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Over the past couple of weeks, I've been firing up the grill, donning the checkered apron and hooking my handy barbecue tongs to my belt - loop like I'm Mae West with her six - shooter (sorry, no photos available... whew).

Over the years I have changed a couple of things from my Dad's original recipe to make it my own, but I think I still give justice to the recipe I grew up with.

This will be coupled with over 30 hours of CPD accredited, free - to - attend seminar content spread across 5 stages, headed up by the revamped Keynote Stage featuring dedicated forums for the food, drink, retail, beauty, pharmaceutical and ecommerce industry.

However, you may have some dough left over, in which case you can try to make a couple of extra pies, or bake up the pie scraps with a little bit of cinnamon and sugar.

Over the next couple decades, the market came to reflect the multicultural face of modern Philadelphia, thanks to a concerted effort to seek out and persuade a variety of knowledgeable merchants to open up stores inside — from Amish in Lancaster County to Chinese a couple blocks to the east.

«It's a resilience that we've built up and thoroughly earned over the last couple of seasons, which has seen us go to the so - called big four clubs and get results.

Hence, public bettors have been loading up on Bisping over the last couple months to sway the odds.