Sentences with phrase «spent about every other week»

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It's not that my husband didn't care about dried toothpaste in the sinks or the fact our sheets weren't washed that week; it was that he wanted to spend his limited free time doing other things.

Blank, who recently spent two weeks in Chile lecturing about innovation, says Start - Up Chile could offer a breakthrough model for other small countries hoping to create a start - up climate.

Instead of hearing about billion dollar gun - registries or carbon taxes, we all get to spend four weeks talking about potholes and roads, garbage pickup, traffic congestion, and other issues that affect people literally where they live.

A quick about Abba Pambo — a contemporary of Origen: «If we asked [him] for a word from scripture or some other thing, he would not give us an answer right away but would say, «I haven't figured out the meaning of this word yet»... It normally happened that he spent two or three whole days, or a whole week without giving us an answer saying «if I do not know what sort of fruit this will bear, whether it is a fruit of death or life, I will not speak.»»

As I watched games and practices each week and spent extended time around the coaching staff, it was clear to me — as it has been to many others who have had the same opportunity — that the pro- gram is much less about athletes and sport and much more about people and growth.

He made sure to spend no more time talking about Bonds than about any other Giant, which made Black unique last week in Orange County.

Aside from fantasizing about seizing the Ginty from his bag and using it to commit parricide; aside from spending the weekend concealing my politics from my dad's gin - blossomed, tartan - blazered classmates; other than being treated by my wife, Laura, upon my return, like a man who had blown two weeks wages on a drinking and gambling binge, I could not have had a better time.

It is a fact that our net spend is less than the interest the owners receive on loans to the club The money spent on players only makes up part of what we didn't spend last year Other clubs spending about # 60 million outside top 6 We should try for Barkley for # 30m pay Lanzini # 100 k a week which we pay to less good players and plan to play Rice with Reid at CB as he's better than all the other CB's we have Buying Kone for more than # 6 mill would be a waste of money Sunderland supporters think he's the worst CB in premiership last seOther clubs spending about # 60 million outside top 6 We should try for Barkley for # 30m pay Lanzini # 100 k a week which we pay to less good players and plan to play Rice with Reid at CB as he's better than all the other CB's we have Buying Kone for more than # 6 mill would be a waste of money Sunderland supporters think he's the worst CB in premiership last seother CB's we have Buying Kone for more than # 6 mill would be a waste of money Sunderland supporters think he's the worst CB in premiership last season!

This following years of Waterbabies / Puddleducks, persuading babies / toddlers in and out of the water in the depths of winter (when the LAST thing you wanted to do was submerge yourself to watch your little angel swim, but did so anyway because the other mothers seemed to care enough about their cherubs to do it week in, week out) and then spending ALL DAY rushing around with wet hair in the freezing cold (because who has time to wash their hair?).

Last week I had the privilege of going on Karen Jagoda's Digital Politics Radio show, where we talked at length about the DSCC and other Democratic groups» grassroots outreach and media spending to try to salvage the 2014 elections, largely funded by small - dollar online donors.

BASC spent a lot of time talking to the government about this issue and in the latter stages of the lobbying process; we collaborated with other organisations to push for this critical measure to be extended to four weeks.»

The other four groups spent three weeks in a low - oxygen environment — about half the normal level — which can trigger pulmonary hypertension.

And more than half a dozen other inquiries are underway within the EPA, at the White House and on Capitol Hill, where Pruitt is slated to testify twice next week about his spending and management practices.

Personal trainer Joel Harper has spent two decades helping his clients (from Olympic medalists to Dr. Oz) reach their fitness goals, and over the course of his career heâ $ ™ s discovered the reason why some people thrive and others fail: It's all about attitude, he argues in his new book,  Mind Your Body: 4 Weeks to a Leaner, Healthier Life ($ 20, amazon.com).

Throughout the night I began to realize she had also been lying about other areas that we had talked about over the previous weeks and I ended up spending the last half hour waiting for the date to end.

Some participants of PPL schemes report spending hundreds of dollars in a week on such «online relationships» that seem «quite real», while others complain about fragility of communication with regular women, who are not compensated for online chats, saying that «it seems that almost anything can go wrong at almost any time».

«We spent two wonderful weeks learning about each other.

Parents are being encouraged to spend 20 minutes a week talking to their kids about how they are feeling, as part of a new initiative aiming to support on (one's) own initiative Without requiring or having been given instruction, prompting, or guidance from others; by one's own effort or energy.

After their bomber suffers engine failure, Louie and two other survivors — Phil (Domhnall Gleeson, «About Time») and Mac (Finn Witrock, «Noah»)-- spend weeks on end adrift on a small, yellow raft, desperate for food and water and made crusty by the beaming sun.

This week, while many kids are swimming, sleeping in late, and spending too many hours on Call of Duty and other video games, there is a group of 50 children arriving early, excited about learning and creatively producing.

UNC is accredited by a variety of organizations that Sheehan said spend weeks on advance research and then several days on campus with groups of six to 10 people talking to faculty, students and others about the program.

In the first 6 months it spent about 51 days in the shop, and to continue going back to the dealer every other week or so get?s to the point of insanity!

Their STANDBY time — time spent turned off — is something ridiculously long but the READING time seems to be 11 Amazon weeks or about 28 hours vs 20 hours for other recent models.

It seems there are some questions about her actions during the two weeks she spent in a small lifeboat on the Atlantic with 38 other survivors of the sinking of the Empress Alexander.

«Now I probably spend about two or three hours entering 40 or 50 contests a week, about as much time as you'd spend on any other hobby,» he says.

Today, with seven other people sharing the work and expense of looking after the cats, Markwood only has to spend about six hours a week on colony care.

The Blue Cash Preferred's $ 95 annual fee will cut into your cash back a bit, but if you spend about $ 35 or more a week on groceries, you'll still come out ahead, even before you add on gas and other purchase rewards.

you really don't think about the people who spend a fortune on home every week to get excluvive benefits that others can't get.

Then the researchers asked 43 other people who don't usually play video games to spend 90 hours over about 10 weeks playing either action video games or Super Mario games in a controlled setting.

There are also a few other games on this list I have spent time with that I can't say much about yet but Snake Pass was my favorite game I spent time with at PAX East a few weeks back.

While some might moan about the fact that it could be spent in just a week of play, for us that was a week of constantly going back to it even when there were other massive, triple - A titles begging to be played.

Something about spending one or two weeks on Oxbow's 115 - acre campus in the Michigan countryside — which includes forests, dunes, and a lagoon — must do artists well: alumni include resepected established artists like Richard Artschwager, Laylah Ali, Nick Cave, Leon Golub, Joan Mitchell, Claes Oldenburg, Nancy Spero, and New Museum founder Marcia Tucker, among many others.

I spent a week listening to 80 paleoclimatoligists and climate modelers argue about the interpretation of the data from ice and sediment cores, how it eliminated some proposed explanations for what was driving the changes in temperature and rainfall, and how it suggested other possible explanations.

«People living in rural areas [of Ghana] are spending up to $ 6 a month on throw - away batteries, using them predominantly to run wireless radios, torchlights, and other products that require electricity such as charging mobile phones,» the BBC wrote last week in a piece about businessman Whit Alexander, who studied and worked in West Africa before creating the Encarta world atlas for Microsoft and helping launch the popular board game Cranium.

But as I spent the last few weeks teaching administrative law procedural fairness, I realized that the other thing bothering me about the law society decisions is the process used to reach them.

So the kids spent weeks learning and practicing songs about, among other attributes, self - confidence.

For a while there, it seemed like a new one opened every week, filling our cities with dimly lighted rooms that smelled like ashtrays where unhappy couples could spend a couple of hours laughing at the comedians» jokes and then more time afterward recalling the jokes to each other, in a desperate attempt to avoid talking about how they didn't love each other anymore and delaying the next inevitable fight about nothing as they both pretended it wasn't over between them and they're both one step closer to spending the rest of their lives alone and miserable.

Over the course of the past week or so I have spent lots of time thinking and writing about how cryptocurrencies represent solid value relative to stocks, bonds and other commodities like gold or oil.

What to do: Whether it's online through Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook, or other social networking sites, or through live networking, spend a few hours a week simply networking and getting the word out about your unemployment.

So let's say you really only «spent» about $ 200... but now consider... If the work we do for you... helps you land the job you want SEVERAL weeks quicker than any other effort would have, how much more money did you EARN in that time?

There's one culture where the mourner will spend a period of weeks only at home visiting with friends and family, doing nothing other than thinking of and talking about his lost loved one.

In fact, couples only spend about 35 minutes a week actually having face - to - face interactions with each other.

In a year that has been tough on nearly everyone in the real estate industry, these winners still spent an average of 30 hours per week helping others, for a combined total of about 8,000 hours in the past year.

I work a full week outside the home so I don't want to spend every other free moment worrying about blogging.