Sentences with phrase «than a couple people»

However, more than a couple people we talked to said the food is far worse in Cuba, unless you're at the best of the best resorts.

So doesn't that raise another question: So why didn't the single people have more attachment issues than the coupled people?

(Dory's response): «That is because no attachment research that we're aware of has ever supported, or even so much as suggested, that single people as a whole are more secure than coupled people.

The authors reported that the singles in their convenience sample reporter less sexual satisfaction than the coupled people.

There is no acknowledgment whatsoever that single people could have more secure attachment styles than coupled people.

When, in the beginning of their article, the authors spell out their expectations for how their results might turn out, they come up with three possible hypotheses: (1) single people are more avoidant in their attachment styles than coupled people are; (2) single people are more anxious in their attachments than coupled people are, maybe because «they have been rejected by relationship partners who would not accept their anxiety, clinginess, and intrusiveness;» and (3) single and coupled people are similar in their attachment experiences.

That is because no attachment research that we're aware of has ever supported, or even so much as suggested, that single people as a whole are more secure than coupled people.

«We know that on average, singles have relatively less sexual activity than coupled people — singles tend to have lower rates of sexual frequency likely because they have to first find a partner to have sex with,» Garcia said.

Not exact matches

In states lacking non-discrimination policies for LGBT people, gay men tend to be penalized most, Klawitter's research indicates, with gay men in same - sex couples earning about 30 percent less than their counterparts in opposite - sex couples.

Daniel Miessler, advisory services director at the cybersecurity firm IOActive, has a recommendation that «would cost infinitely less than the dumpster fire of products we constantly purchase and deploy for millions of dollars a year,» as he writes on his personal blog: simply hire a couple of people to maintain a catalog.

Sales came in faster than they could ship out the tea, which prompted the couple to drive around Hamilton asking people at bus stops if they wanted to make some extra money bagging tea leaves for a few hours.

It's a concept that seems to resonate — more than 1 million people have visited the site since it launched in 2013, with 30,000 participating in forums around the topic of divorce and 2,500 couples expected to use the platform this year.

So I graduated from Harvard, class of» 97, and the internet was just a couple years old then and, of my graduating class of about 1,600, probably fewer than 10 people moved out West to work in tech.

Most Twitter users don't look at tweets that are more than a couple of hours old, so if you want people to actually read your posts, you should time them for when you have the largest live audience.

A couple of weeks ago I read about the pillow online, which claimed to be so cool thanks to a knit fabric that has a higher heat transfer than most materials (ultra-cool knit polyethylene), and asked Helix if they could send us a pillow to try out in person.

Couple that with a trade war and China's GDP could drop faster than many people think.

I've got to think that each of these people spent more than the average couple of seconds looking at a typical magazine ad to execute this program.

The social giant collects much more information than that, which results in at least 600 targeting options including household income, level of education, home type, home value, home ownership status, household composition, parents of children with specific ages, newly engaged couples, new vehicle buyers, expats, a variety of buyer profiles, people who frequently buy online, frequent travelers, and much more.

That's because he's the most aggressive dove, and the person most eager to see the Fed follow a rule in which they allow inflation to grow more than normal until employment is improved, a notion that's not that different from what Bernanke announced a couple of weeks ago.

Only a couple of the CEOs we spoke to had laid off more than two or three people; a few had added head count; and many had replaced employees as the market for available talent ripened to bursting.

One example that I read about, Stanford University, a teacher in artificial intelligence offered a class, a couple of hundred kids in the class, he offered it online to 30,000 people, or 20,000 people, and if I remember correctly when he gave the test there were 400 people, or something like that, that did better than the number one kid at Stanford.

To be accredited a single person must have made more than $ 200,000 a year for the last two years with the expectation that such income will continue, with the number bumping up to $ 300,000 for married couples.

«Anything more than a couple of weeks when people's jobs are at stake is a long time for them to have uncertainty,» Hanrahan acknowledges.

In a span of a couple of years, he and his lieutenants fired more than 200 people, reassigned 500, hired 435 and added several hundred more through temporary contracts.

If you're single, expect to spend more on a per - person basis for an equivalent lifestyle than a retired couple.

Use Roth conversions to your advantage: People who earn more than $ 135,000 in the current year, or couples that earn above $ 199,000, are not eligible to contribute to a Roth that year.

Adjustable height desks are a wise investment for any person who spends more than a couple hours at a computer every day.

For a couple at age 65, the chances that one person will survive to age 85 are more than 75 %.

Even though the basic rules apply to everyone, a couple has more options than a single person because each member of a couple1 can claim at different dates, and may be eligible for spousal benefits.

My girlfriend was a sweet and lovely person, but I grew resentful very fast and our relationship didn't last more than a couple of months after we moved in together.

As the Catechism affirms in 2376,» Techniques that entail the dissociation of husband and wife, by the intrusion of a person other than the couple (donation of sperm or ovum, surrogate uterus), are gravely immoral.»

And while I don't know the stories of all the millions upon millions of people who no longer attend a Sunday morning gathering, I do know the stories of a couple hundred of them, and by far, most of them have grown closer in their walk with Jesus than they ever had when they were sitting in a pew on Sunday morning.

My parents — an ordinary couple — made a deliberate decision, intent on getting to know the people around them from more than a polite distance.

This is why I would sooner recommend The 5 Love Languages to prospective couples than one of the myriad of Christian books that attempt to prepare people for marriage by basing advice on gender stereotypes.

Twenty people accused of being involved in the brutal killing of a Christian couple in Pakistan more than three years ago have been acquitted.

more recently, a couple of people in different ways have challenged me to give people a chance, to make each encounter with them a clean slate, rather than holding on to the things that have hurt me... If I could really do this, imagine the potential for understanding and goodness.

I might add that the people who do research now are vastly smarter than those who wrote books a couple thousand years ago.

Alternatively, if a couple behaves in a way that cuts them off from some of the people in their lives, they are potentially less fruitful than when they were single.

MP David Burrowes, chair of the Conservative Christian Fellowship, led the parliamentary opposition to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, and more than 600,000 people signed a petition led by the Coalition for Marriage against the Bill when it was first proposed in 2012.

A poll of more than 2,000 British people by the legal firm Slater and Gordon found financial strains could drive one in ten married couples to split this year.

The supposedly almighty god can't think of a way to forgive a couple people for disobeying him other than sacrificing himself to himself.

«DOMA instructs all federal officials, and indeed all persons with whom same - sex couples interact, including their own children, that their marriage is less worthy than the marriages of others,» Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the court.

And when we're inevitably less than perfect, less than victorious on my own terms, I feel as though we're failing in our call to be prophetic signs of contradiction for our culture and instead affirming less than flattering images people have of couples with small children and big families.

At this point on Earth with 7 billion people, coupled with a lack of food and resources to provide for everybody therein, perhaps it's not such a bad idea to let people submit to their respective desires rather than chastise them.

When people read a newspaper or watch the nightly news and hear about a Colorado baker refusing his services to a gay couple, the letter of the law and the dogmas of his church count less than the determination of which individuals suffer more from the law.

That's a good reason, for a two year old... You may want to spend a couple minutes and find out why people don't like a candidate, see if there is any validity and then decide on who is best to lead the country which to me is more important than out of spite.

Stephen, seeing as how the Separatists (sorry, can't use the term Pilgrims) survived the first couple of weeks on food caches they stole from the Wampanoag, and then those same Native Americans taught them how to farm in the poor New England soil, they definitely had more to thank the local Native population for than most people give them credit.

(Wait, they can disagree but only if it is to take a more strict rather than less strict view — the people who think one drink is sin are allow to say so where the couple who think sex outside of legal marriage isn't sin aren't allowed to say so.)

You have far more value to God than you possibly could have proven during this morning's sermon, and your care for His people over time — coupled with your value for preaching the Gospel — is what earns you the office of a pastor.

I would like to take up this man's cause, wield a couple of cudgels on his behalf, and express my conviction as to how «just being a church» could provide the key to programs that work — that multiply and meet people's needs more comprehensively than seeds, heifers and agricultural innovation alone.