Sentences with phrase «than a fortnight of»

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No more than a fortnight after the decision was handed down in Romer v. Evans, the same professor was in print, in the New Republic, not only aware of the connection, but quite emphatic now in his opinion: Romer v. Evans would in fact call into question the authority of a state in refusing to honor gay marriages.

More than 200,000 people have been displaced in the past fortnight, including all the residents of Iraq's largest Christian town, Qaraqosh, and a large number of the Yazidi minority group.

Arcadian has grown from being one farm processing 66 head of cattle a fortnight in 2005, to having more than 120 certified organic suppliers in 2014.

There is no doubt in my mind that the most disastrous decision we made during the past calendar year, up to and including the most eventful January transfer window in recent memory, was not the Sanchez debacle that saw him off to Old Trafford, which will forever be considered a failure of epic proportions, or the selling off of Ox to Liverpool following a thrashing less than a fortnight earlier, or even the triangular clusterf * ck that saw Giroud head to our crosstown rivals in the 11th hour, but the re-upping of our manager after another tumultuous and cringe - worthy campaign both on and off the pitch.

The January transfer window may now have been slammed shut for more than a fortnight, but it never quite sleeps, as the continuing links being made between Premier League clubs and players for the January market are proof of.

My rental car was towed from its parking spot on the sixth day of the Games and spent the next fortnight in a circle of hell called the ATOW lot, where an employee extorted a sum just less than the car's original sticker price for its safe return.

His comments came little more than a fortnight after chairman Jeremy Peace went on record to praise the 14 - goal striker for his resurgence, after a difficult period when he lost form and was convicted of drink driving.

The result made for a tense post-match press conference, in which Benitez was greeted by a host of difficult questions — including a number about whether he fears he will be sacked less than a fortnight after taking charge.

Robben's injury comes less than a fortnight after the departure of Bayern's team doctor, Hans - Wilhelm Müller - Wohlfahrt, after a row with coach Pep Guardiola.

Brett Omerod looks set to drop down to the bench following the arrival of DJ Campbell, but other than that there shouldn't be too many changes from the team which earned a hard - fought 2 - 2 draw with Fulham a fortnight ago.

Nevertheless, few could argue that this weekend is a better time than any to face United, who within the space of a fortnight have bowed out of two separate competitions and now face the ignominy of spending the second half of the campaign in the Europa League.

In 67 % of cases, kids see their fathers less than once a fortnight.

It may not be any more successful than the botched PR disasters of the last fortnight.

Johnson's elevation to one of the great offices of state marks a remarkable turnaround in his fortunes, coming less than a fortnight after his hopes of becoming prime minister were dashed.

He then moved on to the issue of votes of confidence, which the Bill would still make subject to a simple majority, but rather than causing an immediate general election, there would be a fortnight for a new government to be formed which could command the confidence of the Commons, before a new election had to take place:

Mr Osborne has little more than a fortnight to complete the comprehensive spending review, which will implement departmental budget cuts of at least a quarter in a bid to tackle Britain's deficit.

Less than a fortnight after this first apparently successful zapping of the infection I developed more fever and alarming headaches.

If mothers took any of the painkillers for more than a fortnight, the risk of cryptorchidism rose to 2.47 times higher than for women taking no painkillers, for example.

The risk rose significantly for women in the Danish group who took more painkillers, particularly between 8 and 14 weeks: it increased 21-fold if women took more than one type of painkiller daily for more than a fortnight during this period.

Boke had reported no Ebola cases for months and then reported six cases within a fortnight in May, resulting in a list of more than 230 people deemed at risk of catching the haemorrhagic fever, according to the World Health Organization.»

Although the visit lasted less than a fortnight, the Japanese students said that their experience in Russia made them more mature and more aware of how their generation is responsible for Japan's future.

Pregnant women, women planning pregnancy and young children should limit their intake of shark (flake), marlin and swordfish to no more than one serve per fortnight (150g for adults and 75g for children), with no other fish to be consumed during that fortnight.

The real elephant in the Palais this year was the Directors» Fortnight, which played three films by leading filmmakers that apparently weren't up to the exacting standards met by Joachim Trier's Louder Than Bombs or Guillaume Lecloux's The Valley of Love.

Sure, a number of international darlings will be back to a festival known for rewarding its own: the Turkish - German director Fatih Akin («In the Fade»), «The Artist» helmer Michel Hazanavicius («Redoubtable,» about a young Jean - Luc Godard, quelle scandal) and Arnaud Desplechin («Ishmael's Ghosts,» a return to competition after he opted for the Directors Fortnight section with his 2015 dramedy «My Golden Days» rather than take a spot in Un Certain Regard; his new movie will open the festival).

It's one of the highlights of Directors» Fortnight, a parallel program that tends to be more hospitable to genre movies and American independents than the official selection.

Each fortnight, more than a dozen student volunteers from Kincumber High School walk down to their local creek to conduct water quality tests — monitoring the health and the quality of the waterway in their local community.

Gavin became a five - time class winner in the 24 Hours of Le Mans last month and appears to have carried momentum «across the pond» from France to the United States, despite crashing out in perilously changeable weather in the Six Hours of The Glen less than a fortnight ago.

Last generation there were an extra four weeks of charge waiting inside the combined case / charger, but it meant you couldn't take your Oasis away for longer than a fortnight without packing your case too.

Well, less than a fortnight later, the company released news of the Chairman's upcoming resignation, plus a 9 month trading update which (while excellent) consisted of a single sentence... This appears to draw a line under the failed bid, and signals it's business as usual, which I really don't find acceptable.

This means leaving the house with the dog just once a day may easily waste more than a whole fortnight over the lifetime of the dog.

The latest version of Tourism Australia's There's nothing like Australia global campaign has got off to an impressive start with the signature ad receiving more than eight million views globally since being unveiled just a fortnight ago, making it the agency's most successful ever advert.

With its rolling dales, dramatic moorlands and historic towns — not least the city of York — there's more than enough to keep you and your family busy for a fortnight.

With less than a fortnight to go, the make up of the attending at Gamescom has been coming thick and fast with many surprising and interesting titles making an appearance.

With less than a fortnight until the game's PC launch, we thought you might like to know if these are serious problems, or mountains made of molehills.

For your reference, I have collected a smallish list of the AAA titles landing this Q4 below and it shows that between early September and December, if you were fan of these you may have to buy a game more than every fortnight.

The release date for the Xbox One X is almost within touching distance now, with less than a fortnight till the launch of Microsoft's new console.

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number has been dated for March 10th, meaning that there's less than a fortnight until we're embarking on another brutal campaign of metaphysical gory score attack slaughter.

A fortnight later, the prescient Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar unveiled his new site - specific installation, The Garden of Good and Evil, in the Yorkshire Dales: a grid of 101 trees, sheltering nine steel cells no larger than two cubic metres.

Perhaps because, in January / February, London had its heavieast and most prolonged cold spell for twenty years and since then we have had several nights of bitter frosts Less than a fortnight ago I had to break the ice which had formed in the birdbath and was still there three hours after sunrise.

The numbers of people seriously worried about «climate change» are as flat as the handle of Mann's hockey stick, and the numbers who are worried enough to do anything more about it than suffer the same smelly, damp towel for their fortnight's vacation are even smaller.

While I suspect that more North Americans know about Fair Trade than what a fortnight is, two weeks of Fair Trade promotion is a wonderful idea.

Two - thirds of parents (67 %) took their children to visit friends with other young children once a week or more often, 16 % took them once a fortnight and 17 % less often than this.