Sentences with phrase «tried about a dozen»

We have tried about a dozen times over the last four years, and as you say, it feels like such a charade.

We have tried about a dozen taco seasonings and they have all been lacking.

I'm making these right away: — RRB - And btw, I've tried about a dozen of your recipes till now and each one of them rocks.

I tried about a dozen varieties on their own; once I identified the standouts, I tried incorporating them into recipes as well.

I have tried about a dozen different brand pocket diapers and this one is by far my favorite.

I've probably tried about a dozen protein powders over the last 10 years, so I have a good idea of the differences in taste.

After trying about a dozen different jackets / coats for next month's Paris trip, I think we finally have a winner!

Not exact matches

Hsieh has put on dozens of similar events, at his own expense, to try to get his employees excited about the move downtown.

Handpick about a half dozen or so of your favorite bloggers and ask them to try whatever you're launching.

Don't rightly care about Russ but I am curious... if a woman takes a blade to her throat or downs a few dozens sleeping pills, is it legal to stop her or try to save her?

Recently I became vividly aware of this problem when I was in a group of about a dozen churchmen who were trying to agree on something to say together on social problems.

As a Christian, I am compelled to take seriously the fact that, when Jesus came to the end of his earthly ministry, when he gathered in the Upper Room and tried to show that dozen half - hearted, half - understanding disciples what it had all been about, he showed them in a meal.

Why would he think it immoral to try to save dozens of innocent victims — specific individual human beings about to be killed — because he was involved in a separate effort to save thousands of other men and women who were at risk of being rounded up and placed in those concentration camps?

I've been thinking about the carrot puree bran muffin idea, but it probably is gonna be a while before I get around to trying it — several dozen more blueberry bran muffins at least, LOL.

Sometime I will give this a try; the one thing I do love about a good cornbread is how quick it is to whip out half a dozen ingredients and toss it together.

-LSB-...] One of the most important things about smoothies is finding the right protein powder for yourself — I've tried dozens and finally settled on Sun Warrior a few years ago.

After reading and trying dozens of «sour» bread recipes from a multitude of cookbooks, I've used this method on my own (I derived it from bits and pieces from the aforementioned library of cookbooks... minus the Vitamin C) for about a year now.

And while I have about a dozen tried and true recipes for banana muffins, banana bread, and banana things, it's always fun to try... [Continue reading]

I tried Rachel Rays roasted tomato soup and roasted about a dozen roma tomatoes for a few hours.

Wenger has said it enough times about how difficult it is to try and bring in half a dozen players at once — surprised people are expecting any sort of quantum shift in policy this year.

After dozens of tries (and several jump starts) I managed to just about beat Bottas's reaction with a time of 0.197 seconds.

And try not to forget the fact that Santi has about 400 + games under his belt playing anywhere but No. 10, and scored a dozen and assisted half a dozen from out wide in 2012 - 13.

But Jack's career has been like a teenager trying to learn to drive stick: it lurches about half a dozen times, leaps forward, and dies.

It's not because we haven't tried because I swear we've tried over a dozen different programs and methods but reaching someone who's attention span is about 2 minutes proves to be quite difficult.

I tried about half a dozen different beauty products on it that promised to deliver «extreme moisture» but none of them worked.

Every year, Sausage and I make a new set of decorations for the tree, just about a dozen or so to add to the current collection and each year I try to do something different with her.

Is she trying to make calls about dinner or t - ball or the dozens of other bits of minutiae that her partner hasn't keyed in on because 64 percent of moms in two - parent households say that they do more than their spouse or partner when it comes to managing their children's schedule and activities?

Roland is among half a dozen people who have formed Save the Rink, a committee that's trying to raise about a half - million dollars.

They evaluated some existing pumps - there are more than a dozen on the market - and talked to their wives about the shortcomings of the models they had tried.

With Kurantowicz as director, Voters for Good Government made a splash in 2012 by spending about $ 300,000 on a last - minute burst of negative ads and mailings aimed at trying to defeat a half - dozen Democrats and flip control of the state Senate.

As their colleagues noisily traded blame over the shutdown, about two dozen centrist senators from both parties crammed for hours into the Capitol Hill office of Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins to try to chart a civil way out of the mess, using a Native American «talking stick» to take turns speaking.

Nearly two dozen people from five states are accusing U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions of lying to the Senate Judiciary Committee about his communications with the Russian government and subsequently trying to cover up that lie, according to a complaint sent to the Department of Justice.

The hapless leftie was pictured in his grey tracksuit ahead of another day of announcements about the new Labour frontbench as he tries to fill dozens of holes left after mass resignations earlier this year.

Choosing from dozens of available Hour of Code modules, students are encouraged to try a fun coding project and learn more about what it means to write a computer «program.»

, try one of his light and nutritious evening snack ideas about an hour before bed Roasted Sweet Potatoes Chef roasts a dozen small sweet potatoes at a time in the oven, and then keeps them in the fridge for a quick grab - and - go snack.

I personally recommend that when people are concerned about prices they try and stick to at least buying the dirty dozen organic.

We tried them on collectively about a dozen time, contemplating whether or not to get them.

All in all, «Dirk Gently» tries to be about half a dozen shows at once, and none of them rise to the level of adequate.

We're talking about one of THE defining games in the last decade, which dozens of games have borrowed gameplay elements from, or tried to outright copy.

As per usual — a phrase that critics have to invent at least a dozen variations on when writing about Hong — this creates a sense of fluid causality, which matters a great deal in a movie that's largely about people trying to recapture moments that happened only minutes ago, but are already slipping away.

Dozens of copycats tried to mimic the perfection of Geometry Wars with minimal success, and if that doesn't speak volumes about the game's prowess, we don't know what does.

Aftershock (R for rape, profanity, nudity, drug use and graphic violence) Harrowing horror flick, set in Chile, about a half - dozen tourists» (Eli Roth, Ariel Levy, Nicolas Martinez, Lorenza Izzo, Natasha Yarovenko and Andrea Osvart) ordeal trying to survive the chaos and collapse of civilization in the aftermath of an 8.8 magnitude earthquake.

In addition to approving a proposal from the top leadership to set up a broad - based advisory committee to take into account the results of three regional strategy meetings and to try to mold implementation of the law, the NEA Representative Assembly generated about a dozen other measures on...

Last week, a bipartisan dozen of us gathered in DC at AEI to try to push past the kumbaya of the moment and seek some clarity about what personalized learning actually is, what gets lost amidst the happy - talk, and where the real tensions might lie.

About a dozen big cities are at this moment trying to hire new school superintendents, Lauren Camera notes in U.S. News,

On display were about a dozen different virtual reality simulators of all shapes, sizes, and sorts, but I didn't try any of them.

Until you try to load something in the back and realize that a 5 - foot -2-inch box is good for holding about six bags of gravel — OK, a dozen bags — and not much else.

After trying to answer that question a few dozen times, I finally decided to write up everything I know about self - publishing and marketing and release it as an E-Book.

Apple isn't trying to gain exclusive books rights, and thoughtful readers who aren't devouring the two dozen «instant articles» about this bit will see what's going on.

Over the course of about a week, I used the web site a dozen or so times to try to buy it.