Sentences with phrase «spending twenty»

Well worth spending twenty minutes to watch.

Bryant taught art from 1958 — 1991 spending twenty - seven years as Professor of Art and Chair of the Sculpture and Ceramics Department at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee.

Unless you really have to rent this game because you want to be a truck driver when you grow up I would say that spending twenty dollars on this game would be much to spend for this game.

It may be that your particular specialty is spending twenty - four hours in one place, which is another way to look at a place.

With all things equal (aka not this week in the American economy) I have no problem spending twenty minutes to switch checking / savings accounts.

Goldman arrived at Columbia in 1993, after spending twenty years at the New York Times, most of them as a religion writer.

Paula Sophia is running for house district 88 after spending twenty - two years on the Oklahoma city police force.

Starting in the mid-1980s, researchers from University College London spent twenty years examining the relationship between sleep patterns and life expectancy in more than 10,000 British civil servants.

As a young priest, Basil Romaniuk, the future Patriarch was an outspoken dissident, a man who spent twenty years in the Gulag and in exile in Canada.

Having spent twenty years in the country as a missionary, Ferreira has come to the conclusion that «This country is a swamp....

Sometimes we spend twenty minutes or more answering the person's questions, usually with others inching up close enough to hear the conversation, and sometimes joining in.

That «church - missionary relationship» is a direct consequence of churches no longer being willing to accept that a missionary can spend twenty years in the field, and only make one convert.

He spent twenty - four years keeping an eye on the city for the New York Times, mainly from a perch in the metro bureau....

Father Keating, a teacher of Centering Prayer, says that we may well spend twenty minutes trying to quieten the mind, but it is time well spent if it leads to one minute of deep silence.

Karl Gaspar spent twenty months in prison as a political detainee.

He spent his twenties moving around, doing odd jobs and living in motels, coming home to work harvests when he went broke.

I think I spent twenty minutes of my hike going back and forth on which dressing to use until I finally decided to just combine the two.

«He didn't look too bad, so I figured maybe I'd train him a bit,» said Wiley, who runs a stable of fighters in North Bergen, N.J. «Spent twenty - five hundred bucks on him.

Have you ever spent the twenty minutes before a game looking for your son's glove, bat, shoes or uniform?

One of our bloggers even spent twenty minutes in Google Images, swearing up and down Andy Warhol had done a painting of a Pampers box.

I spent twenty years working in the tech industry, where women at conferences were definitely in the minority.

«Maurice has spent twenty years working as a community organizer, electoral operative and social movement strategist.

He spent twenty mostly unremarkable years as part of the State Senate's Democratic minority except for pulling off a coup and becoming minority leader.

See this story, which says the two men spent twenty minutes together.

I would much rather spend twenty minutes working hard to lose a few pounds than forty minutes for the same results.

Lierre Keith believed in that plant - based diet and spent twenty years as a vegan.

There's no dearth of complex smokey eye looks out there, but busy moms know the last thing they want to do is plant themselves in front of the mirror and spend twenty minutes on each eye to look hot.

Having spend twenty year in Texas before heading back to the east coast I am still a bit of a purist, that is why I like the Women's Ariat ® Heritage Roper in Black.

Esther Perel has spent twenty years as a couples» therapist in New York; giving her real insight into long - term love, and why it's so common for passion and desire to fade in a committed relationship.

Using only a hammer and a chisel, a man spends twenty - two years carving a road through a treacherous mountain.

Com encourages users to spend their twenties dating as many people as possible to find what they like in a partner.

He and his wife Hana spent twenty years leading a double life as sleepers, Soviet moles building up a carefully designed identity.

Wounded and half dead, Gary stumbles into the home of a Catholic couple, the owner being a former medic who spent twenty years in the armed forces and a man who tells him that «the army does not care about you: you are treated like a piece of meat.»

With a pre-celebrity resumé as varied as any (tennis pro, truck driver, bartender), Chase spent his twenties as a comedy writer for such outlets as the Smothers Brothers and National Lampoon, the latter of which eventually led to a lucrative franchise of Vacation movies.

This was my original downtown bohemian pal Rose's reaction when she found out I'd just spent twenty minutes at the offices of Magnolia Pictures doing a beat - the - clock interview with Philippe Petit, the only person to ever dance across a high - wire between the Twin Towers, and filmmaker James Marsh, who profiled the legendary Frenchman and his «artistic crime of the century» in his appropriately uplifting documentary Man On Wire.

Costner can spend twenty minutes having Costner and Greene bond, Costner and McDonnell appreciate each other's company — and Costner and Grant's relationship is maybe the film's most emotionally devastating — and then get into the bigger questions.

Yes, levels can be easily replayed after being beaten, but after going through an entire level to kill a boss just so that I can go through another level to reach the Smithy, I'll have spent twenty minutes just to earn the right to go looking for more Dim Mak tapes.

E. D. Hirsch has spent twenty - five tireless years bringing these findings from cognitive science to education policy and practice, but the reaction he has evoked indicates that the curriculum debates Loveless recounts may be shaped by a more fundamental opposition than whole language vs. phonics and multicultural vs. traditionalist.

«I think people who aren't in education, honestly, they don't know what's really going on unless they come and spend twenty hours a week observing education and what the teachers are dealing with.»

Or spent twenty minutes searching for a spot in a parking ramp where only compact spots are the only one open?

I spent twenty minutes there and realized that one of the security guards was walking across the parking lot toward me.

When the king spends twenty - four hours in the flower bed, the garden, the zoo, and underwater, and then sleeps for twenty - four hours, when does he ever find time to run the country?»

Jack Kerley spent twenty years in advertising before writing The Hundredth Man, his first novel.

I figure if a group of forward thinking nerds are crazy enough to launch a new ebook - fangled website on a latte and a dream then I'll spend twenty minutes decoding their scheme and tossing so many of my ingenious 1's and 0's at them.

He and his wife Linda lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn for twenty years, and spent another twenty in Denver, Colorado, where their daughter Katherine was born, and died.

The CrackBerry team is also in NYC right now, so we were able to drop by Thorsten's hotel room on the eve of the launch and spend twenty minutes talking about the US launch and a whole...

Siobhan Dowd spent twenty years as a human rights campaigner for PEN and Amnesty International before her first novel, A SWIFT PURE CRY, was published in 2006.

Linwood Barclay spent twenty - seven years at Canada's largest paper, the Toronto Star, until 2004 when he published Bad Move and became a full - time writer of thrillers.

You could spend twenty years accumulating shares of Coca - Cola, have a bad day, and sell it all.

If you spent twenty dollars a month on fast food, the only thing you'd end up with long term might be a heart attach.