Sentences with phrase «span of a few»

In the span of a few months the company announced that it would acquire both AOL and Yahoo as it works to load its formidable network still the most comprehensive and widespread in the U.S. with content in a bid to keep a highly competitive (and highly lucrative) market from turning into a commodity business.

In the span of a few days this week and last, several big - bank CEOs and chief economists let loose a flurry of warnings about surging home prices in Vancouver and Toronto, where it now costs an average of $ 1.5 million and $ 1.3 million, respectively, to buy a detached house.

One by one in the span of a few days bank CEOs, governments and economists have expressed their discomfort with what they see unfolding in the housing sector.

Considering the populations had a chance to mingle in Europe over a span of a few thousand years, some sort of casual affair isn't all that surprising.

Bitcoin had previously run up to 4800 from 1000 in the span of a few months so I figured that if it pulled back to 3800, I would buy 1 bitcoin and then sell it if it gets to 7000.

If you want to avoid taking a big hit on your credit score, do all of your loan shopping within the span of a few weeks.

In a span of a few months, Poloz has gone from being seen as overly dovish to one of the world's more hawkish central bankers.

The media too has gotten on her case, the most recent — if breathtakingly tasteless — salvo coming from the British magazine New Statesman, which compared Merkel to both the Terminator and Hitler in the span of a few short paragraphs and also said she represented a greater threat to the world than Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

When I was in high school, three major hurricanes hit my hometown of West Palm Beach, Fla. within the span of a few months.

Some drinking is not wrong, but getting drunk causes a person to lose all control of themselves, and generally a person can go from being happy to being furious in just the span of a few seconds.

So somehow, in the span of a few decades, the Lord's Supper goes from referring to the once - a-year observance of Passover to being a more frequent meal of fellowship with other believers.

It seems well established, however, that, led by the king and the nobility, within the span of a few years the entire nation adopted Christianity.

anvil sayz,»... then in the span of a few years... became dissatisfied with his works...» Where does it say a few years?

We have God - sized dreams that we go for whole - heartedly in one setting or in a span of a few days, and most of the time, God is whispering, «Wait.

They happened to be extremely addictive — I literally ate three in the span of a few hours — and I figured we could all use another easy muffin recipe in our lives.

The man who went from the best story in college basketball to the sport's most polarizing player in the span of a few weeks.

So when Cena eliminated Miz from multiple WWE World Championship opportunities over the span of a few weeks, Miz decided he was tired of Cena getting in his way, evolving two old feuds into new ones with all kinds of new angles to work.

In the span of a few days Drew literally managed to throw this season, and the record, down the drain.

Particularly when kids are young, the span of a few months can matter when it comes to social / emotional readiness.

When I think that Ethan's potty process occurred over the span of a few months — not days, I now see how much time I wasted.

Flower pot and gardener: Within the span of a few naptimes, you can pull off this costume and amaze your friends.

In the span of a few weeks it was just me and a tiny baby and I felt totally lost.

Although giving birth is a natural process, babies being born can experience complications within the span of a few moments, jeopardizing their lives and producing long - term health consequences.

Even the most simple patterns are real showstoppers and can usually be crafted in the span of a few hours.

And unfortunately, changing diapers is a job that has to be done several times a day and over a span of a few years (most kids aren't potty trained until they are at least 2 - years - old.)

I learned, in the span of a few months, who was truly a supportive friend and who wasn't, and then I learned how to say goodbye to the people who were more hurtful than helpful.

«In a span of a few months, the EPA shifted their position repeatedly — changing the level from 400 parts per trillion to 100 parts per trillion in a single town, and then changing the national advisory level from 400 parts per trillion to 70 parts per trillion.

«But... in the Kepler data we saw an episode of multiple dips clustered together over the span of a few weeks.»

The finding is a particular achievement because of how impossibly quickly this energy conversion takes place — over the span of a few picoseconds.

The impatient gene It's long been known that evolution sometimes happens very quickly — as in the development of resistance to antibiotics in bacteria — but the discovery that lizards on two islands in Croatia evolved significant differences in body type and social structure in the span of fewer than forty years is shocking enough to warrant publication in a top - shelf journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

In the span of a few days, more than 45,000 civil servants in the military and judiciary have been fired or suspended.

Nor could microbes have colonized the molten material in the short span of a few days during which the rocks cooled and hardened, sealing the globules deep within.

Over the span of a few days or week, gradually add more sprays — I do not suggest using more than 15 to 20 sprays on the body per day.

It took place over a span of a few months.

Mike was a published iron game magazine writer and if he had slowly over the course of time had eased the high volume training folks down a set or two at a time over the span of a few articles I'd be willing to bet they would have evolved into the concept of Heavy Duty training without even realizing it.

Most Asian dating sites introduce you to three or four girls in a span of a few days.

The financial crisis and the Obama election had changed the American landscape drastically in the span of a few short months, and Hollywood hadn't quite yet adjusted.

The film tracks her sexual awakening thanks to the help of Emma (Lea Seydoux) and their relationship over the span of a few years.

Seriously, the first time you grab a Power Pellet and proceed to devour a few dozen ghosts within the span of a few seconds is one of the most satisfying experiences gaming can provide.

When it comes to the trajectory of a directing career, few filmmakers have ever followed a path as jarring and unpredictable as that of Lone Scherfig, who went from working within the constraints of Dogme 95 to directing a Nick Hornby script in just the span of a few years.

The trailers don't look great, but after «Avengers: Infinity War» it will be Josh Brolin's second big - bad - comic book villain role in the span of a few weeks.

Kurylenko's character flips the switch from cold as ice to becoming a potential future wife for Joshua in the span of a few scenes of saccharinity.

It's quite remarkable how, in the short span of a few years, the compact - crossover segment has blossomed from a handful of vehicles to a category nearly as dense as the mid-size-sedan field.

Do you know you have a problem when you seek out an author twice in the span of a few months?

Quickly, in the span of a few months, she went from primary princess to business owner, with seven other party princesses on the payroll.

Having to complete all of these papers within a span of a few days, sometimes with the same deadlines can take its toll on the physical and mental well - being of the student.

In the span of a few days in April 2003, as U.S. forces defeated Saddam Hussein's government in Baghdad, the city's National Museum of Iraq was robbed of an estimated 15,000 items in an orgy of looting.

All of this in the span of a few years.

Reports about the new iPad achieving sales of 3 million in a span of a few days comes as no surprise, so does the Chitika one about the iPad holding 94.64 % of all tablet web traffic.

In the span of a few years, books changed, publishing changed, printing changed and bookselling changed.