Sentences with phrase «spending odd hours»

I have been fortunate that I have been able to keep my «research hand» in during the past 5 years, spending odd hours in the lab and getting a publication or two.

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Spending time with your child at odd hours of the night should not be made a habit, but can also provide for some lovely memories (when else is your little star going to greet the moon?)

Bevirt spent hundreds of hours cleaning up nails and performing other odd jobs at construction sites to earn enough for the costly mountain bikes and computers that would feed his technology habit as the years went by.

I figured she was bored... and since sometimes I would be there while my then boyfriend was sleeping (he worked odd hours) or working, I decided to spend some time with Princess.

A dedicated, growing army of admirers flocks to the group's concerts and makes Merritt an odd sort of anti-celebrity, one who is happiest not being recognized, whiling away the hours in gay bars on either coast or spending a good part of the day soaking up obscure movie classics.

A student spending her lunch hour studying «is regarded as someone a little odd, or different, or queer,» he wrote.

If you should meet a textbook editor and he or she seems eccentric (odd hair, facial tics, et cetera), it's because this is a person who has spent hundreds of hours scrutinizing countless pages filled with such action items, trying to determine if the textbook can arguably be said to support each objective.

Except for about 30 minutes when I gave a tear - filled Teresa time to say her goodbyes, I spent the next two hours lying next to Quin» C, talking softly into his left ear, kissing his face, stroking his cachectic body, and for some odd reason, giving him the single most exhaustive physical exam I've given any pet ever.

You're going to spend at least twenty odd hours in the world of Yakuza Kiwami, though you can expect that to be a much higher figure if you invest yourself in the many side endeavours you find in the city.

Having penned quite a few articles now since Skyrim's release in November of last year regarding the slew of technical issues players continue to encounter, I count my blessings that my forty odd hours or so spent wandering the Nord's native land the worst glitch I encountered was the occasional crash and a backwards - flying dragon.

It feels odd that armor customisation is still locked behind this progression system, requiring you to spend hours in order to change your characters helmet to something a bit more flashy, or even to change the background from your characters unit emblem (mines a cat with a circle behind it).

And with the locust gone, you'll be spending the first few hours battling against robotic foes, which is a bit odd for a Gears title.

Born in London, Kate grew up around the world, spending much of her time scribbling at odd hours of the night.

The invention was designed by Maiju Gebhard in the 1940's to cut down on the 30,000 odd hours that a typical housewife supposedly spent during her lifetime washing, drying and putting away the dishes.

The child shall spend the Thanksgiving holiday, from two hours after the child is released from school Wednesday until Sunday at 7:00 p.m. with Father in odd numbered years, and with Mother in even numbered years.

I've managed to pick up the odd part - time job here or there, but for the most part, I spend at least 40 hours a week searching for jobs, crafting up cover letters, formatting my resume, and optimistically waiting for that phone call or email asking to schedule an interview.

I spent a few hours styling and decorating both sides of this room (it's part Living Room, part Dining Room... a very odd layout, no doubt!)