Sentences with phrase «small number of houses»

With the low inventory, there is a large group of buyers competing for a small number of houses.

Not exact matches

But political analysts tracking the races say that only a relatively small number of races — fewer than 50 House seats and just a handful of Senate races — are truly competitive.

At last week's Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program graduation at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, N.Y., and again this week at the White House's United State of Women Summit, Buffett offered his number - one tip for business success.

House Republicans on Thursday unveiled a sweeping overhaul of the nation's tax code, slashing the corporate tax rate, eliminating scores of smaller deductions, and collapsing the number of individual tax brackets.

The Prime Minister's Office explained, «Like all families of prime ministers, a small number of staff provide assistance,» and, «Given the nature of the Prime Minister's responsibilities and his young family, the Trudeaus employ two household employees who, in addition to performing other duties around the house, act as secondary caregivers to the three children.»

And sure enough, just hours after Comey testified, the House of Representatives voted to repeal key parts of the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which has contributed to an alarming number of small bank closures since its passage in 2010.

Nuisance troublemaking against Christians goes on quite unnoticed in the smaller towns and villages, but the problem in Islamabad became a cause célèbre because a number of diplomats worship in the house parish that seeks to build a permanent church.

The lack of emphasis on a single religion does not stop Disney from taking up a catechizing role, Pinsky notes, «In the Western world in particular, the number of hours children spend receiving moral instruction in houses of worship is dwarfed by the amount of time spent sitting in front of screens large and small, learning values from Disney movies,» Disney's evangelistic entrepreneurship has been extraordinarily successful.

Facing difficulty in finding jobs or housing in Europe, a small but growing number of refugees are voluntarily heading back to the Middle East, the Associated Press reports.

We give away small toys like those mentioned here and limit the number of houses we visit!

This is a tough one for us, because we have such a small house, but the number of times I have left the boys together for just a few minutes and come back to one of them crying from having his hair pulled or being hit on the head reminds me that they are simply too young to be left together without supervision.

2 houses were revisited daily and a small number of interview questions were repeated, to compare with the responses collected.

An even smaller number of those are from the Senate or the House.

Some police forces have experimented with the use of GPS tracking on a voluntary basis with «persistent and priority offenders» but the numbers are very small and the tracking is part of a holistic package that includes housing and intensive personal support.

A small number of non-party peers are nominated by the independent House of Lords Appointments Commission, while 26 Bishops and 87 hereditary peers make up the remainder.

While the numbers would eventually fall to 600, smaller than the House of Commons, this would not happen before 2027, according to the report.

The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) said the problem is threefold: not enough local authorities planning for the homes they need; house building that is simply too slow; and a construction industry that is too reliant on a small number of big players.

White House officials acknowledged that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin, on a small scale a number of times.

Washington (CNN)- The White House acknowledged Thursday the Syrian government has used chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin, on a small scale a number of times, according to a statement.

If people are receiving upwards of # 2k a month housing benefit, they are likely to be very small in number (it certainly represents more than my annual income).

«We have a House of Lords which is dominated by a small number of people from London and the south east.

The Cuomo administration is moving forward with its plan to addresses homelessness, adding 500 emergency beds in NYC and 1,200 units of supportive housing statewide, and also closing a small number of shelters in the five boroughs that aren't up to standards.

Family values and hints at good Christian morality are often used to thinly veil misogyny and it affects a small but significant number of peerages in the House of Lords that are still only open to be filled by men bishops.

Boundary changes lead to a smaller House of Commons, by cutting the number of MPs.

Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.

a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.

Cameron has made it clear that he wants to reduce the cost of politics and has set out plans to make the House of Commons «smaller and more efficient» by cutting the number of MPs by 10 % and publishing details of their expenses online.

In June, he was one of a small number of Democrats who said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi should step aside.

The number of competitive House districts is fairly small — about 50 seats out of 435 — so Walden's goal is ambitious, but top leaders backed it at the Tuesday meeting, and warned it wouldn't happen unless members stepped up and opened their wallets.

Small scale private house building in the 1980s gave way to more substantial developments in the 1990s and early 21st century and the current local plan visualises a doubling of the number of dwellings to around 1,500 by the early 2010s.

Each year, the Housing Trust Fund hires a small number of recent college graduates, according to Sochet.

A small number of paid canvassers from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in Washington, the campaign arm for House Democrats, and volunteers helped Perez Willams collect 3,200 signatures by going door - to - door across the four - county district in just nine days.

Operatives say the number of truly competitive House races will be relatively small — maybe just a couple of dozen.

When the worms were healthy, they housed a large population of Bacteroides — a group of helpful, supportive, symbiotic bacteria — and a smaller population of Proteobacteria — a group that contains a number of dangerous human pathogens.

One such number - crunching company, the San Francisco - based Climate Corporation, which collates and analyses National Weather Service data mostly for clients in agriculture, has previously warned that it would take only «a few climatic events in a row» for a collapse in property values «that will make the housing crisis [of 2008] look small.»

Space for housing limited numbers of small animal species other than mice is also available upon request.

Field in the small number of scenes she gets does her best to hold her own, but it is impossible not to notice how much better she is in the small moments of quiet madness, such as when she dresses down Republican Leader Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones) in front of a White House party, than when she falls to screeching.

This is often crucial against vast numbers or larger enemy types, some of which are the size of a small house.

It is playing in a small number of art house venues and has already taken up to $ 260,000 at the box office.

The miniseries «centers on Nick Wasicsko, the young mayor of a midsize American city who is faced with a federal court order that says he must build a small number of low - income housing units in the white neighborhoods of his town.

A second will see teaching assistants work with small groups of year 2 pupils for post office themes tasks, using letters, parcels and house numbers to support maths skills and write postcards to tell their class teachers about their achievements.

Constructing and maintaining an in - house website from scratch can be an extremely time consuming job to carry out and it is important to avoid putting undue pressure on a small number of individuals with the expertise to do this.

Developed by Kia's in - house transmission development team in partnership with a German - based engineering firm, the DCT makes the Korean brand one of a very small number of car makers in the world to produce its own dual - clutch transmission.

Another possibility is if a significant number of bestselling authors, unhappy with the current digital royalty rate, start self - publishing or moving to smaller houses.

This news should serve as a conversation starter for authors and publishers — especially smaller press publishing houses — who have yet to explore the options of international distribution, an important market option considering the lack of available English language content in direct proportion to the numbers of English speakers in many of these countries.

Ironically, this same technology has enabled the establishment of larger numbers of small traditional publishing houses, and eventually, the adoption of the technologies by large, established presses, albeit with commercial and business disruption.

The number of small publishing houses producing poor product in the industry causes reader opinion of the small - press in general to be poor.

However, a very insightful piece on this book by Melville House's Nikki Griffiths points to various anthropological research that finds a strikingly small number of cultures make any sexual connection whatsoever to breasts, and that individuals from one country were actually horrified and repulsed by Western sexualization of what nature intended strictly for nourishing offspring.

They get fat and happy on sales numbers that are too small to support any of the bigger houses and some of the small.

With all the excitement of being published and «vetted» by a traditional publishing house (small to medium size), my sales numbers were hardly worth bragging about.