Sentences with phrase «than a handful at»

Fostered out twice, neither home was able to offer the time he required or the ability to care for his special needs, which were more than a handful at his size during a seizing fit.

Not exact matches

Plus, every VC is working with more than a handful of startups at any given time, so we simply don't have the bandwidth to hold a founder's hand on a day - to - day basis.

Examining modern campaign politics, the open - source movement and some of the few recent bright spots in the traditional music business, Benkler isolates a handful of «design levers» — «elements of successful cooperative human systems that we can employ to motivate [people]... to contribute to the collective effort rather than exclusively pursue their own interests (at the expense of those of the group).»

After consulting with a handful of Fortune 500 companies, at 25 he founded a content marketing agency and generated more than a quarter million its second year.

In years past, there might be a handful of teams fighting for last in the NBA and the 25 % shot at the first overall draft pick (and assurance that you'd fall no lower than fourth) that comes with it.

Despite recent hype around a handful of venture - backed companies raising money at multi-billion dollar valuations, achieving a more than $ 1b exit for a startup is highly unlikely.

More Spray Tan than Substance Start - Ups offers a handful of genuinely valuable moments — an insider's peek at when employee - turned - entrepreneur Kim Taylor decides to leave her job and start a business of her own, for instance; or when the unfocused upstart Ben Way mentions to an investor that he has over 40 companies, which comes off as amateurish bragging.

Further, as no one was quoted, it's impossible to know if the single reference to the meeting is nothing more than an aggregate of the author's handful of experiences at the beginning.

For a population to survive more than handful of generations, there needs to be at LEAST a dozen genetically distinct breeding pairs.

Surrounded by thousands I have loved for more than 10 years, only a handful, 3 at best, really understand me and accept me for who I am now... I have become a walking paradox.

In terms of fat content, pistachios have a bit less fat than most other nuts, although they are still about 75 % fat (that's why you should stop at a handful).

Ingredients Pasta Dough (Recipe from All Recipes) Double the below recipe if cooking for more than 2 -1 cup (128 g) all purpose flour -1 cup (128 g) semolina flour -3 large eggs -1 tablespoon of olive oil Mushroom Filling - olive oil -8 oz of mushrooms (230g) white or crimini mushrooms work fine - 4 cloves of garlic, minced -2 big handfuls of spinach leaves -1 / 2 cup (250 ml) of heavy cream - salt & pepper to taste - 1 cup (128g) of ricotta Carbonara - 2 chicken breasts -1 cup of blanched peas -4-6 slices of crispy bacon - grated parmesan -2 egg yolks (at room temperature)-1 egg (at room temperature)-1 / 2 cup heavy cream 2/3 cup (75g) parmesan cheese, finely grated

Part of the magic of cooking traditional Indian cuisine is that it doesn't have to be about hunting down specific ingredients to make it authentic in a Western sense, such as powdered garam masala, you can use just a handful of ingredients at hand to whip this up quicker than you can say; Holy Haryana.

I repeat meals far more often than I used to and I take a handful of shortcuts but I am still fumbling through my days with the wee people at my feet (or on my hip and in the cupboards, more specifically).

They're frozen at the peak of ripeness and, ironically, are often more nutritionally rich than fresh produce which is picked prior to fully ripening, followed by weeks of transport, store display, and time in our homes before ever being eaten) Add a handful of powerful, chlorophyll and mineral rich greens to tuck inside all that flavorful goodness... and you're ready to get blending.

Arsenal though are at a massive 2/1 or better, and I bet there have not been more than a handful of games in the last 20 years that have seen us at such a high price for a home game, and I think that could prove to be a great bet, and this is why.

Rather than rightfully punish the act and counsel the striker, these entities and a handful of writers supported him on the basis that he's good at putting the ball in the back of the net.

After coming over from the Giants in the Hunter Pence trade in 2012, Joseph was limited to just a handful at - bats every year (never more than 198) because of concussions sustained while playing behind the plate.

There are more than a handful of teams at +1,500 and +1,600 that could be worthy of taking a flier on.

Giroud does more than just score, he's enormous and can be a handful for defenders, he's also good at creating space for the wingers.

«I think Benteke is a handful and could be a beast at a club who are more direct than we are.

The 112th meeting between Oregon State and Oregon was one of a handful of showdowns last week in which heated rivals squared off with much more than bragging rights at stake

Pogba is also more than happy to remain in Manchester, and knows that his price tag — which would be well in excess of # 100million — is only within reach of a handful of European teams — as he would no consider a move to China at this point of his career.

They were prepared with much more butter than I ever would, and quite proficient at self - feeding by 11 months, she delighted in shoving handful after handful into her mouth.

He is more than a handful and it's overwhelming at times!

It came in more than abundantly with OK who I pumped religiously around the clock every two hours for, it came in a tiny bit, but not much, with the singleton who was also way too early to attempt to save, and it came in even more abundantly than for OK with MK, even though I only pumped ever three hours and made sure I got at least one six hour stretch of sleep a night, and my worst oversupply problem of all of them was with YK, who I only pumped those first few days a handful of times when I felt up to it.

A handful of new signs at a time is a more manageable number to tackle than a whole language.

Alison, the wife of my lead at work, someone that I have met only a handful of times at company parties, took it upon herself to give us a large set of cloth diaper goodies that expanded our initial set and gave us the opportunity to explore a larger portion of the cloth diaper world than we would have been able to otherwise.

Despite all but a handful of MPs, the active support of the trade unions, the pleas of every former leader of the party and Alan Johnson's battlebus, more than a third of the party's electoral base jumped at the chance to quit the EU.

At the same time, it had one of the state's larger drops in turnout relative to 2013 and it's one of the handful of places where the Democrat at the top of the ticket performed worse than in its last electioAt the same time, it had one of the state's larger drops in turnout relative to 2013 and it's one of the handful of places where the Democrat at the top of the ticket performed worse than in its last electioat the top of the ticket performed worse than in its last election.

Police have cited vendors for a variety of infractions — selling too close to building entrances or less than 10 feet of a crosswalk, for being in wrong zones at the wrong times and for being too close to fire hydrants among a handful of other violations, data show.

The bulk of this windfall would go to a relative handful (fewer than 200) of the very wealthiest estates valued at over $ 10 million each.

And the Mississippi governor faulted the New York Republican Party chairman at the time for «letting a handful of people pick somebody who is not just a liberal Republican - she's more liberal than many of the Democrats.

McCallion's strategy to make sense of all this data looks at the active genes in cells affected by a disease, groups of genes that interact with one another, their vulnerability to mutation and information from past scientific studies to filter more than a thousand gene candidates for disease risk down to just a handful within any one implicated region.

Cumulative procedure volume at U.S. centers was a median of 80 cases, ranging from a handful of cases at some hospitals to more than 600 at the highest - volume centers, he said.

More than 160 papers were published on rodent enrichment in 2016 versus a handful at the turn of the millennium; at the 2016 meeting of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, 83 out of 171 rodent presentations focused on enrichment — more than twice the number at the 2009 meeting.

Beckmann has turned a modest amount of state economic - development funding — the institute has received about $ 1.6 million a year in state support since its inception in 2007 — into a handful of achievements, including $ 26 million in additional funding with affiliated researchers at Oregon universities and companies and a laboratory capable of screening more than 10,000 chemicals a day for druglike activity.

The deep 3 - D map also revealed young galaxies that existed as early as 12.5 billion years ago (at less than 10 percent of the current universe age), only a handful of which had previously been found.

Bees infected with both the fungal parasite Nosema ceranae and with any one of a handful of RNA viruses were much more likely to have come from hives on the decline than from healthy hives, researchers reported May 25 at a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.

But no one had ever managed to assemble more than a handful of qubits at a time.

I know that at Middlebury College where I teach [elite students at], a wonderful academic institution, graduates [every year] more than a handful of kids whose biggest desire is to go start farming some place.

They have gone from being rare occurrences to breeding annually, but only at a handful of locations, and no farther north than Neragon Island in the southern Bering Sea, a thousand miles to the south.

To celebrate the more than 400 students who have spent a summer of research and discovery at BTI, we're showcasing the whereabouts and accomplishments of a handful of these interns.

I've worked with more than a handful of clients who were using essential oils at the advice of the Internet, and were very disappointed when all of their digestive or skin problems weren't resolved through essential oils.

Consuming 10 to 20 almonds, roasted unsalted peanuts, or raw cashews with a 10 ounce glass of water fills up a growing child for two hours, providing protein, carbohydrates, and fat with fewer calories than you'd guess (just don't eat huge handfuls at a time.)

Give your six - pack more respect than a handful of crunches at the end of your workout.

The garlic flavor came through perfectly and the whole wheat pita substitution gave the overall chip a solid crunch that was completely satisfying, making it easy to stop at just a small handful rather than devouring the entire bowl before halftime!

The therapeutic clinical applications of probiotics have been limited to a handful of strains out of the more than 7000 at last count.

Considering I don't have a dining table in my one - bedroom apartment, nor do I have enough nice dishware to host more than a handful of friends at once, I kept my Friendsgiving on the intimate side.

I live in Seattle and we have less than a handful of retailers that (are allowed to) carry Chanel products at all.