Sentences with phrase «than a couple dozen»

Because everything can mix and match (which is the whole point of a capsule wardrobe) there are tons of outfits even though there are not more than a couple dozen articles of clothing.

Typically asking no more than a couple dozen questions about your personal details, income, and employment, most credit card applications can be completed in less than five minutes.

There's some reasonable amount of fog everywhere (but nowhere near as much as in Turok), and the game does some crazy form of mipmapping where every object more than a couple dozen feet away is rendered into a horribly pixellated caricature of itself.

Small, portable scanners aren't fast enough to scan more than a couple dozen documents in one sitting.

He'll also be responsible for making sure that Google produces more than a couple dozen XL units (because that phone is shaping up to be the vastly more desirable one).

Not exact matches

It took time, but with a couple of large sponsors and dozens of smaller ones, we raised more than $ 250,000 for the expedition, including sponsorships to cover our gear.

Germany looked set on Friday to join more than a dozen other European countries - including the UK and the Republic of Ireland - in allowing gay couples to wed..

Lem me see here, according to your holy book your God personally ordered more infant killings than all American abortion doctors combined, ordered the annihilation of half a dozen civilizations, routinely taunted and tortured humanity, introduced evil into the world then blamed the things he created for it (even though he's supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent), then abandoned humanity for at least a couple thousand years while making plans to come back and slaughter 2/3 of Earth's inhabitants so that he can judge them and throw most of them into a torturous hell for all of eternity... for not being able to overcome the nature your book says he gave them... Just so he can have non-free will - having cloud gnomes sing his praises for eternity.

After speaking at more than seventeen events last spring, which involved catching dozens of flights and a couple of stomach bugs, I made the decision — along with Dan and my speaking agent Jim — to cut back on travel this fall.

If you're anything like me, there's a pretty good chance you still have more than a couple boxes of Girl Scout cookies hanging around (or am I the only one that buys them by the dozen?).

Fresh Network Solutions, LLC and its Side Delights ® brand of fresh potatoes are moving into its second decade of existence with a full slate of eight partners and more than a couple of dozen SKUs including many unique value - added options ranging from potato kits to fresh - cuts to organics.

Traditionalists used to insist that no trainer could successfully handle more than a couple of dozen horses.

Every other power conference team has had a first - rounder more recently than that, as have a couple dozen mid-majors and FCS teams.

They made more than 120 cloth diapers and a couple of dozen receiving blankets and purchased a couple of dozen pairs of plastic pants to send to the Caribbean island nation, where poorer families average $ 90 to $ 300 a year.

After waves of lawsuits alleging the failure to warn about the dangers of the sport and that helmets were ineffective in preventing concussions, the number of companies making them dropped from more than a dozen in the late 1970s to only a couple of major names by the early 1990s.

I bought a dozen terry towelling square nappies (what we call diapers) for less than $ 20AUS and i bought another couple of dozen from the op - shop for a couple of dollars - they lasted three kids.

It is harder to research a couple dozen candidates in a given election (which would be typical in a nine seat election since there would be viable third party candidates as well as a candidate for each seat from each of two major parties) than it is to research two of them as you would in a single member district with the two party system that single member districts strongly favor.

Well done, Sunder, for not mentioning Labour's record on tax (up for the lower - paid, down for the rich), ID cards and 3,000 new crimes, increase in inequality, lost personal data, obsession with targets rather than actual service delivery — and in consequence the fact that in many marginal seats a couple of dozen Labour activists will be opposing a couple of hundred Tory volunteers...

The Buffalo News over the past couple weeks reached out to more than two dozen chairpersons of Democratic parties in all regions of the country.

There have only been a couple of dozen instances since 1999 in which state - level candidates have received donations from more individuals in a six - month filing period than Cynthia Nixon did in just 24 hours.

A couple dozen lasers switching at this speed could handle a trillion bits of information per second — more than 100 times as fast as current silicon chips.

Along with more than a dozen helpers, the married couple applied 5,000 pounds of clay and germinating seed to the church's walls over a period of five days, creating a layer only millimeters thick.

In fact, typing a couple of phrases from Mr. Holder's comment into scroogle.org turned up about a dozen identical posts in late 2009 to early 2010 in response to articles about the UEA e-mail theft, at mostly obscure and varied websites (i.e., ones where the audience isn't likely to have much knowledge of climate science) rather than the most prominent climate websites.

So the number of potted plants in my house at any one time is often more than a couple of dozen.

The frozen section at Trader Joe's has the best appetizers, and they end up being less expensive than all the ingredients you'd need to actually prepare a couple dozen pastry bites.

Man keeps unopened Christmas gift from girl who dumped him almost 50 years ago «It's just become a habit after 47 years of looking at it and having the An elderly couple are finally getting rid of dozens of old household appliances they bought more than half a century ago - with many still working.

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story A film about a married couple rather than by one, Harold Michelson was a production designer for dozens of films, including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

With a rap sheet way to long to list here (he has been at the fest on a dozen plus occasions), Sils Maria scored a couple of points higher than the Russian film and will have some ardent critics supporting the film in it's multiple regional release.

But a couple dozen hours in Willamette was more than enough for me.

There were only a couple letdowns in the little more than a dozen films I saw, but even those had at least some redeeming qualities to them.

Of the couple dozen fields examined, business is the only one where new assistant professors earn six figures (they make more than $ 110,000 a year).

A few days before Senator Schneider's anti — Common Core bill passed, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce (which had spent more than $ 100,000 in ads opposing the bill) lashed out in frustration at the outsized effect Heather and Erin had had on the legislature: «Two moms from Indianapolis, a handful of their friends and a couple dozen small but vocal Tea Party groups.

Only about 100 districts joined the initiative — out of the nation's more than 14,000 — and only a couple dozen said they met their pledge to replace one traditional textbook for one course with an OER alternative within one year.

What could be nicer than a summer's evening with a couple of dozen book trade tweeters, a vast picnic spread and lashings of Pimms and champagne?

The system was developed in 1954 by the Chinese Ministry of Education in order to improve the literacy rates of adult Chinese (a couple of dozen letters being easier to learn than the more than 40,000 characters that make up Standard Mandarin).

Add that to the fact that, once you have more than a couple of dozen books, remembering which reader has which book becomes difficult.

There is also more than enough space at any given time for several dozen apps, a couple hundred eBooks, and assorted music and video files.

Because we have more than two dozen open credit accounts, many with high limits, I finally shut down a couple old Chase cards we hadn't used in eons... with no perceptible impact on my scores.

Animal Control officers also helped a couple dozen owners evacuate their horses to locations other than the shelters.

As a part of the job, Mills spent 18 months under - cover in order to break up what became the largest dog - fighting bust in the history of the United States — getting a couple of dozen people arrested, and saving more than 500 dogs from their dog fightin operations.

In more than half a dozen restaurants in four square blocks, and a couple more places nearby, hip couples in de rigeur black chat on cell phones, women in saris admonish their kids, and cab drivers leave their taxis idling — all as they down a mango lassi or quick tandoori kebab.

Technically, with a price point that's only a couple of dozen dollars higher than the aforementioned $ 1,000 limit, the ASUS FX502 laptop doesn't exactly fit right in.

Thankfully, collecting extra lives is fairly easy and it's not uncommon to always have more than a couple of dozen at your disposal at any one time.

Of the few dozen maps in the campaign, only a couple are more quagmire than bombastic battles, with tons of real estate to cover while you search out objectives.

Dark Souls 3 is no exception, and it might be even worse than normal - in a new demo showing off the game's earliest section, DS3 answers a couple of small questions and adds in a few dozen giant ones to take their place.

I use the term «particular pictorial truth» because, of the dozen, mostly large - scale paintings on display — other than a pair of deliberately coupled (on the part of the curator) canvases from the 1990s — no two are alike.

It's older than genetic engineering, DNA, continental drift, probably a couple dozen other fairly major sciences.

The latest security maintenance release for recent Galaxy smartphones from Samsung couples fixes for 12 vulnerabilities in Samsung's software with fixes for more than two dozen Android OS vulnerabilities provided by Google.

Due to your assistance with my resume and LinkedIn profile, I went from a contact or two every couple of weeks to more than a dozen contacts / phone interviews with recruiters this past week, resulting in 3 very real opportunities.

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