Sentences with phrase «say about a dozen»

I've said it about a dozen times this Season, but what's one more?

Louisiana state officials said about a dozen people were arrested after throwing chunks of concrete at cops.

«As I sat there reading the letters saying you paid for this medical procedure for someone, or put down money for someone else, I have to wonder if some of that money came from embezzled funds,» she said about the dozens of letters Sampson supporters wrote to the court in a bid for leniency.

Roxy «Rocky» McFall, Cassia, a volunteer and manager of the shelter on U.S. Highway 441 near the Leesburg Airport, said about a dozen volunteers are needed.

Not exact matches

Responding to a question about resolving the issue of more than a dozen Japanese citizens who were abducted by North Korea in the 1970s, the spokesman said he was unsure of what content was discussed in the morning meeting.

The investigation was prompted by about a dozen complaints concerning the Trump school that the attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, has found to be «credible» and «serious,» these people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was not yet public.

«We ended up with almost 500 ideas, which were whittled down to about 50, and now they're down to about a dozen that we will focus on,» Jacob says.

He founded Total Debt Freedom in 2004 after spending a dozen years managing collections departments, and says he feels far better about what he does today.

About a dozen NHL players use the new Sher - woods, and Soule says the models have gained acceptance among Midget AAA and Junior players.

TORONTO — Hudson's Bay Co. (TSX: HBC) says it will open up to seven full - line Saks stores in Canada and about two dozen locations under a discount banner once it completes a US$ 2.9 - billion friendly deal to acquire the U.S. luxury retailer.

Business ability, however, is not a prerequisite for a good president, said Buffett, who built Berkshire into a conglomerate with about 90 running businesses and investments in dozens of companies.

The same was said about diamonds and mattresses, but Blue Nile and Casper have proved otherwise, and in recent years, half a dozen upstarts have emerged to do likewise with bras, a $ 13 billion industry long dominated by Victoria's Secret.

The provincial government says a dozen cars carrying potash jumped the tracks about 10 kilometres west of Swift Current on Tuesday night.

The Financial Accountability Office has issued a report saying the government pumped about $ 22.9 billion dollars into dozens of business support programs between 2012 and 2017.

Jeffrey Klobucar, an attorney representing about a dozen former students, said he's waiting to see the agreement before making any comment on it, although he added that he's worried about the outcome for students.

Lawyers in the Delaware case say they are aware of about a dozen similar suits.

According to nearly a dozen current and former Uber engineers and product managers who attended or were briefed on the Tuesday all - hands meeting, employees said they were concerned that Mr. Kalanick's willingness to work with Mr. Trump after the immigration order would color Uber as a soulless company that cared only about its bottom line.

B. Allan Kurtz, managing director at New York events venue Gotham Hall, which hosts about half a dozen Wall Street holiday gatherings each year, said the standard budget is $ 100,000 to $ 200,000.

Denton told POLITICO Media that he is not concerned about giving up some control to an outside investor — which is a reversal of virtually everything he's said for the past dozen years — because having to justify his decisions to someone outside Gawker would lead him to make better decisions.

About 20 Tally robots now manage inventory at a half - dozen mass merchants and supermarkets in the United States and Europe, Bogolea says.

I mention all of this to say that there are about two or three dozen companies in the world where the goal is not to buy the stock at an undervalued price.

Each can shelter about 800 evacuees, will have a couple dozen staff members from the district and Parks and Recreation Department, and be ready with food to last four or five days, said BPS chief operating officer Mark Mullins.

Involving four national laboratories, seven universities, about a dozen corporations and roughly 350 researchers, the interdisciplinary group gets US$ 25 million a year and «a considerable amount of freedom» to pursue its mandate, King says.

In a sign that investors are content with passive investing: Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones on Tuesday laid off roughly five dozen employees, or about 15 percent of his workforce, a person familiar with the moves said on Tuesday, in the wake of poor returns and investor redemptions.

Earlier in the day, about two dozen teachers at Stoneman Douglas waved signs in front of the school and said they did not want to be armed with guns in order to keep students safe.

It was a Wednesday afternoon, and so I went over to the man and said, «At 7:00 tonight, about a dozen men from our church will show up to unload your moving van.

I am recalling dozens of coffees, lunch dates among a faith community who's invested in one another just to say, «I'm worried about what I feel and I'm worried about how your heart is.

We have tried about a dozen times over the last four years, and as you say, it feels like such a charade.

Already, he says, it has about half a dozen more in mind.

In a conversation about Russian Orthodoxy some dozen years ago, that famous source who can only be quoted off - the - record, the Senior Vatican Official, said to me, «They only know how to be chaplain to the czar — whoever he is.»

Or Middlebury, Amherst, Williams, Smith, Wellesley, Swarthmore, Haverford, Pomona, Reed, or... well, suffice it to say we had a choice of dozens of small colleges that present a similar profile: formally committed to the liberal arts, highly selective in admissions, well - regarded for the quality of their academic programs, and quite openly enthusiastic about a handful of contentious concepts.

A few weeks earlier, a speech by House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan, a Catholic, attracted opposition from dozens of campus progressives, who said his proposed federal budget violates Catholic teachings about helping the poor.

I've read about a dozen books by N. T. Wright, and I am sorry to say that Small Faith, Great God is not his best.

When I asked about Gary Habermas, who told me that he and Flew had been friends for 22 years and exchanged «dozens» of letters, Flew said, «He and I met at a debate, I think.»

The leaders of Judaism had dozens if not hundreds of definitions about what was» work «on the Sabbath Day and completely missed the point (Jesus said so) and here we are arguing about the definition of «drawing ``.

My father didn't speak much about his youth in Bensonhurst, but what he did say was enough to fill that neighborhood — which we visited every Saturday for dinner at my grandparents» house, with several dozen cousins and hangers - on — with myth.

A well - respected businessman in the city in which we live, upon hearing someone in a group of about a dozen people say something that indicated we are Christians, immediately blurted out «You can't be Christians.

Even if one finds some flaw in the evidence about, say, card playing, there are still several dozen other indicators showing the same trend.

Recently I became vividly aware of this problem when I was in a group of about a dozen churchmen who were trying to agree on something to say together on social problems.

If you set about measuring a complicated structure like the pyramid of Cheops, he says, you will soon have dozens of measurements to play with; and if you have the patience to juggle them about in various ways, you are bound to come out with many figures that coincide with important historical dates or with scientific calculations.

«It seems so timely right now as we have these conversations about the football players kneeling during the anthem at the NFL games, led by Colin Kaepernick and the controversy that's arisen around it,» he says, referencing the demonstrations by dozens of NFL players protesting racial injustice and police brutality.

There were dozens and dozens of «response posts» written about me, shaming all over again, but twice as many were written saying, «Me, too!

Point number six, of course, is stated in about a dozen different ways, with people arguing over what the actual requirement should be (repent and be baptized, confess your sins, say this prayer, etc, etc), but for the sake of this blog post, I don't really care about that.

Since his election Wednesday, I have heard at least a dozen Jesuits say, «Well, I don't know much about him, but I know he made the Exercises.»

AE You can continually quote mine the dozen or so things that Einstein said that sorta, kinda implies that he believed in a kind of higher power, but the vast bulk of his words about religion clearly indicate that he did not believe in a personal God or anything even remotely close to Christian or Jewish theology.

The King of the Wire puts his faith in the King of Kings.Just before Nik Wallenda steps onto the wire tonight in an attempt to become the first person to walk a tightrope across the mouth of the Horseshoe Falls, he'll form a circle with a dozen close friends and members of his close - knit Christian family and they'll say a prayer to Jesus Christ.The cross Wallenda wears around his neck every time he walks on a wire isn't just a fashion statement, it's a message about the religious beliefs the American performer holds close to his heart.

I am up to about a dozen sk recipes now and I can say I have never met a recipe of yours I didn't love.

Katy / Mercedes — I don't doubt that this has been written about many other places (see also: the dozens of comments here from people who said they learned the technique from a friend or grandmother), but I didn't look to see where because as I mentioned in an earlier comment (# 255), I figured it out on my own (and through the suggestion of a friend from college).

And since my Oma taught me to keep my mouth shut when I've got nothing nice to say (typical old lady advice), I'm going to keep my cynical thoughts to myself and let those of you who do enjoy your boxes of heart shaped chocolates and dozen red roses, enjoy them without some vitriolic, negative Nancy adding her two cents about the greed - driven hijacking of what was once a pretty badass holiday.

This one has been made at least a half dozen times, which should say something about how delicious it is!