Sentences with phrase «tried about a dozen of»

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.

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.

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?

-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.

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.

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?

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.»

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.

, 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.

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.

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.

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

Forget about managing over a dozen different accounts and trying to remember 12 variations of «Password123».

I've tried many ideas from many advisers (mostly from dozens of job interviews), and so I've tinkered with just about everything everyone else has come up with since»88 with actual client monies.

The first time I tried to feed our dog peanut butter, I had about a dozen little messes to clean up, and most of them were under our bed.

Last night a private plane packed full of cats and dogs landed in Oakland from Texas and now volunteers are busy trying to find homes for about six dozen pets.

After asking a half dozen friends about their experiences paying for pet insurance & doing some back of the enevelope math of her own, Pepper decided to give pet insurance a try.

I have tried to give an unbiased opinion about these products which I have reviewed along with dozens of other products that contained liquid Probiotics for dogs, powder Probiotics as well as capsule Probiotics.

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«I'm really hoping it all comes together at launch,» Thompson explained, as he tried vainly to remember which one of the dozen indistinguishable games he had seen in the last three days that we were talking about.

I feel like if Squeenix remade FFVII they would try to shoehorn all the crappy overblown Compilation mythologies in to the main game, and include the dozens of characters that are about a third as memorable as the cast of the original.

And, in general, Davidoff is spending a ton of money trying to get people like me and The New York Times to write about its arts initiatives, and I guess it's working because here's a story in the Times that mentions that Davidoff is «selling humidor boxes designed by the French artist Lison de Caunes, at 19,500 euros apiece» at Art Basel Hong Kong this week, and quotes a Davidoff executive at a lunch at Art Basel Miami Beach saying some mindless PR nonsense like «Art is part of corporate social responsibility» — and here I am writing this thing about Davidoff where I mention Davidoff a dozen or so times.

When it recycles the same half dozen Hollywood personalities and tries to market news about a handful of art dealers and collectors as fresh stuff, the art world is advertising the fact that it contains a couple of thousand not very interesting people who are awfully satisfied with themselves long after their celebrity shelf date has expired.

â $ ¦ â $ ¦ Phil and I have recently submitted a paper using about a dozen NH records that fit this category, and many of which are available nearly 2K backâ $ «I think that trying to adopt a timeframe of 2K, rather than the usual 1K, addresses a good earlier point that Peck made w / regard to the memo, that it would be nice to try to â $ œcontainâ $ the putative â $ œMWPâ $, even if we donâ $ ™ t yet have a hemispheric mean reconstruction available that far backâ $ ¦.

1) «Phil and I have recently submitted a paper using about a dozen NH records that fit this category, and many of which are available nearly 2K back — I think that trying to adopt a timeframe of 2K, rather than the usual 1K, addresses a good earlier point that Peck made w / regard to the memo, that it would be nice to try to «contain» the putative «MWP», even if we don't yet have a hemispheric mean reconstruction available that far back» Michael Mann http://bit.ly/9d06xq

Aaron, one thing you'll hear today from Betsy and Kelly is how they've dealt with the challenge of managing a remote team and we've been remote for years now and we've run up against some of the same issues and I thought maybe it'd be interesting to talk about how we've dealt with trying to get about two dozen people on the same page, moving in the same direction, and then our smaller team that actually does the Lawyerist background stuff.

I haven't seen enough detail about the case being tried or the witnesses being examined at the time of the question to know what point the judge might have been making, but it sounds a far cry from the US judge a dozen years ago or so who called a fax «just beeps and chirps».

This space is about to get really crowded — Apple is reportedly working on its own wireless earbuds, the Dash is available at retail outlets, and dozens of others are trying to jump - start the market.

After reading mixed reports in the past couple of weeks about how Edge compared favorably against other browsers in benchmarks and also how it becomes unstable when opening over two dozen tabs, I tried hammering it with graphics - heavy websites, shopping sites and other sites I use daily while playing a YouTube video.

The early divorce mediators (there were about a dozen of us around the country in the mid-1970s) were trying to demonstrate that mediation worked.

As of mid-July, Hilco Real Estate was trying to sell about five dozen bank branches, Kirshenbaum says.