Sentences with phrase «thousands of couples every year»

The winners in our category this year were once again John Lewis — one of the very biggest names in UK retail, whose wedding gift list service is used by thousands and thousands of couples every year.

Just 2 - 5 hours» flying time from the United States, Belize is the least populated country in Central America, drawing in thousands of couples every year thanks to its unspoiled landscapes and exotic wildlife.

Not exact matches

Over the past couple of years, Gillinder has spent tens of thousands of dollars to upgrade its backup generators so they can deliver enough energy to keep the furnaces running in the event of another blackout.

Typically, this would be the time of year the gallery owner would be banking a couple thousand dollars a week.

Each has access to the thousands of third - party skills developers have made over the past couple of years as well as your Prime Music, Amazon Music Unlimited, or Spotify library.

The NDP wanted $ 700 million but surely this lesser amount — $ 600 a year for single seniors and $ 840 a year for couples — would have at least helped out tens of thousands of impoverished elders.

A paper co-authored by University of Ottawa Professor Michael Wolfson, one of Canada's top researchers on income and equality issues, said there was much debate of Ottawa's new program this year allowing some income splitting for couples with children, but most people don't realize income splitting has long existed for thousands of professionals such as doctors and lawyers who have been able to funnel their incomes through private companies they create to hold their income.

If you're a schoolteacher, chances are you spend a couple thousand dollars out of your own pocket every year buying supplies for children in your classroom.

Evolution — including what Mr Ham would call «micro-evolution» resulting in variations within a species (like the degrees of melanin concentration in the human species) takes longer than a couple of thousand years in a complex organism.

BTW — it is two thousand years and not «a couple of centuries».

2) May I remind you that this God of the Gaps has been steadily on the retreat in the last few thousand years and especially in the last couple of hundred years.

Just because the same nonsense is repeated for a couple of thousand years doesn't make it anymore sane or true.

You really don't realize do you, Debra, that quotations from this book put together by ignorant men a couple of thousand years ago is really not convincing at all.

A couple of thousand years ago (and really up until a few hundred years ago, or less than that even, in some fields) there was no explanation for lightning, thunder, volcanoes, earthquakes, tornadoes, etc..

Let me get this straight: You believe that a couple of thousand years ago an invisible man in the sky impregnated a virgin girl in the middle east, had a half - god / half - man son who traveled around doing magic tricks, and then rose from the dead and is now constantly watching all of us to see if we'll get pie in the sky when we die?

But as none has ever surfaced going back oh, say, at least a couple of thousand years — I'm not holding my breath, Gull.

But they never offer guidance for a case in which the couple must do the hard work of obeying what the Church has taught for two thousand years.

Almost as irrational as someone claiming a person that died a couple of thousand years ago is gonna come back cause he wants to get laid... lol..

That bullshit might have worked when mankind was living in caves and a couple of thousand years ago when some desert dwellers wrote a crappy piece of fiction now called The Babble, but we now know better on many, many fronts.

Hussein rubbed out many thousands more in the next couple of years.

Okay, okay, okay — i really shouldn't ask a guy who believes that russian excavators heard (and recorded) the voices of the damned from inside the Earth, but I got ta: You actually believe that some guy, and a few family members, a couple thousand years ago, built a boat big enough to put two of every kind of animal on the Earth in this boat?

Irrelevant but personally changing question that I have found - In certain areas of the rain forests in South America there are tribes that have never seen a person from the outside world in thousands of years and have only in the last couple of years been discovered by aeroplane.

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.

So in other words, though it seems like God took thousands of years to send Jesus, from His perspective, it only seemed like a couple days.

Besides the obvious creation narrative of «6 days» of creation even when adjusted for the «thousand years is as a day» still leaves wildly inaccurate time frames, coupled with the Adam lineage down to Abraham all written thousands of years after the supposed events took place by Moses, set's a definate time frame for how old the earth and most bible scholars proclaim this to be between 6,000 to 9,000 years old.

Here's one — humans are generally taller than they were a couple of thousand years ago.

And, the individual responsibility to care for one another has worked really well over the last couple of thousand years when people were left to starve and die in the streets.

then how in the hell are we supposed to believe anything from a couple of thousand years ago?

In the case of the latter, you have to believe that the earth is only a couple thousand years old when we know for a fact that's not true thanks to carbon dating.

The role of raising children is entrusted in principle to married heterosexual couples because after much experimentation — several thousand years, more or less — we have found nothing else that works as well.

Did someone open a portal and a bunch of religious fanatics came through from a couple thousand years back?

People have been claiming Christ was going to return for oh, a couple of thousand years now.

I'm writing a book on what it means to be happy, the good life, and how that idea got hijacked for a couple of thousand years.

It's sad when contemporary arguments are made over interpretations of what some guy said 150 years ago vs. what some other guys may have said a couple thousand years ago.

We have an entire branch of government devoted to interpreting the Consttution and laws passed by Congress, and those are written in English and only a couple hundred years old at the most, not thousands of years ago from a different language and culture.

Talk about trying to wrap up a couple of thousand years» worth of ideology in a pretty little three minute video.

Those mountains are not a couple of hundred or even a couple of thousand years old.

Why wouldnt this moron of a god just wait a couple thousand years to proclaim himself?

Now we have this wonderful choice (or free will): We can either believe that these desires we were created with had everything to do with a terribly gruesome human sacrifice a couple thousand years ago and plead for forgiveness through that murdered innocent individual in order that we might be chosen to be forgiven for being born this way; or we can be tortured for a ridiculously longer period of time than we were actually alive in this sinful state (that we were unwillingly, unknowingly, forcefully thrust into).

It's merely one that took hold a couple of thousand years ago and has gone mostly unchallenged due to societal pressures.

... quoting a text written by a bunch of guys a couple thousand years ago isn't indicative to proof or correctness.

No, Peter said Jesus» coming could be a couple of thousands years later.

Earl, there may have been some dude named jesus living in the MiddlecEast a couple of thousand years ago but the probability of him being a god is very, very low, so you are most likely getting worked up for what amounts to a comic book hero of the day.

Something like that will probably happen within the next couple of hundred or thousand years.

They seem to believe a guy talked to the god of Israel through a buring bush a few thousand years ago and another walked on water and raised the dead a couple of thousand years ago.

... So where was this «conference of Bishops» the last couple of years when thousands of new abuse cases were discovered committed by their own priests?

The simple minded have waited two thousand years, I am sure that they will wait at least another couple of thousand years before coming to their senses.

«creates complex explanations to (continue to) deceive» «usually at some conflict with real science» «soley based upon faith and a book written a couple of thousand years ago» «is a self - serving lout.

In a couple of thousand years I hope an argument erupts over whether Martin Luther King was black or white.

It's soley based upon faith and a book written a couple of thousand years ago.