Sentences with phrase «tried about a dozen times»

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

, 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.

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

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.

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

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.

As such, I hadn't paid much attention to franchise to know how it had evolved over the years but a quick look shows that Frogger has tried to «be cool again» no less than a dozen times since 1997 with countless ports for just about everyone platform on the planet.

Looking to their contemporaries and racing movies for inspiration, Need for Speed Payback tries to tell a revenge story we've seen almost a half - dozen times already — it's just missing Vin Diesel giving some stupid speech about family.

To expand on this further, the more territories you claim, the more territories around those will become hostile, making you worry about using commands to calm a couple wards to trying to calm up to a dozen at one time.

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 tTimes 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 tTimes 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 timestimes.

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».