Sentences with phrase «up to a few dozen»

With up to a few dozen holes pockmarking each of its leaves, the Swiss cheese plant (genus Monstera, pictured) is aptly named.

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The idea of buying a home, sprucing it up and selling at a profit a few months later is celebrated by at least a half dozen popular reality TV shows, several of which are either made in Canada or involve Canadians: Love it or List it, Flip this House, Home to Flip, Flip or Flop and the strangely named Masters of Flip.

Gelada baboons (Theropithecus gelada) live in small units, which consist of up to a dozen females, a few subordinate males and a dominant male, who holds exclusive reproductive rights to the females.

(Sure, a bunch of people will give up using FedEx — one of the few major companies to hold its ground against the boycott — but are they really going to boycott two dozen companies, and suffer that much disruption of your consumption habits?

As he geared up to sing a song he had apparently authored («My Chinese Dream»)-- karaoke style — to a few dozen reporters in a conference at a hotel on Central Park South, one thing about this eccentric Chinese millionaire seemed clear — Chen Guangbiao isn't afraid of the limelight.

The company doesn't pay a dividend and rarely buys back its own stock, so failing to consummate a few major transactions adds to the cash that keeps piling up from dozens of subsidiaries including insurer Geico and BNSF Railway.

But while it can be an efficient way to collaborate, keeping up with Slack can become a full - time task, particularly when you return from a few days away and find thousands of status updates, scattered across dozens of channels.

We've heard an awful lot about entrepreneurs attempting to «disrupt» the tech ecosystem with new innovations, but few sectors are experiencing as much disruption as the auto industry, where dozens of start - ups are aiming to create the vehicle of the future.

The company said it's aiming for a metropolitan area of at least 1 million residents, opening up, theoretically, a few dozen cities in the U.S., from New York to Tucson, Ariz., and a handful more in Canada.

Extension capacity growth ranges from as few as a dozen (or so) extensions on the IP Office Small Office Edition VoIP business phone system, up to 384 extensions on the IP Office 500 cabinet.

The idea of buying a home, sprucing it up and selling at a profit a few months later is celebrated by at least a half - dozen popular reality TV shows, several of which are either made in Canada or involve Canadians: Love it or List it, Flip this House, Home to Flip, Flip or Flop and the strangely named Masters of Flip.

Why put up $ 1,000, go through all the paper work and bother of campaigning, only to present yourself to an electorate that, outside of a few dozen (if youâ $ ™ re lucky) f...

1) When I was digging into this whole thing 4 or 5 years ago I ended up coming across a copy of the email you sent to a few dozen emergent leaders back in July of 2008 asking for their help in getting Tony home from the Rolling Roadshow.

To catch the runoff from the melted snow, residents had wisely built a damn, but it was inefficient, providing water for only a few dozen families, and stirring up strife between neighbors desperate for its live - saving waters.

Now, clean him up and stand him in church, just about any church, with a few dozen other people, and suddenly, to those around him, and to me, a non believer, his unresolved mental issues disappear, even though his behavior is exactly the same.

The fact is, it simply makes sense, to anyone with the most elementary notion of how the Catholic tradition alwaysworked before the distortions of recent decades (which please God, after another decade or two of the current mopping up operations, and the retirement of a few dozen more bishops, will soon be a distant memory).

As for sin, while most people can fix a few sins, they can't fix all of them, and every time one sin gets «fixed,» a dozen more seem to sprout up.

The thing that I did do leading up to Portland, especially a few weeks out, was that I upped my daily consumption to a point where I could handle a half - dozen super-hot chiles a day without much to do about it.

Not to forget the other four - legged beasts that folks dine on, there are other restaurants inside the building that offer up a dozen cuts of lamb, almost as many of pork, and a few permutations of that good old standby, chicken.

Gus beats another gatekeeper in the division while DC loses to Stipe (both likely)... Jones gets lengthy suspension and Gus Beats DC in rematch for belt (both possible)... Gus racks up a half dozen + title defenses over the next few years over this very thin division, allowing the UFC propaganda machine to do what they do and build Gus into a destroyer... Then Jones returns and we now legit have the biggest LHW fight ever.

My mother just stitched up a few dozen from flannel, and to tell you the truth, I like using baby washcloths just as well.

It is too late to make this for Christmas, but I have a few dozen candy canes that I need to use up.

You definitely will get more for your money if you order a few dozen at a time as it will be the same price for shipping for one dozen up to twelve.

Successfully playing this is striking a diplomatic balance between «I would never use nukes in a first strike, I am not insane» and «I'm just crazy enough to blow up the whole world a few dozen times over, Commie Pinko / Capitalist Pig!»

A few years ago, the state Department of Environmental Conservation rounded up dozens of the birds and relocated them to a sanctuary upstate.

Two years ago, a few dozen voters were turned away when only one of four inspectors showed up to the site.

One group began chanting «March to Harlem,» while contingent of a few dozen — spearheaded by a group called the Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee — shouted «March on the pigs» and «Stand up, shoot back,» and rushed to confront the officers guarding the NYPD headquarters, at whom they hurled epithets for the next 20 minutes.

In an early sign that Sinai's plan may not encounter the kind of resistance that plagued St. Vincent's, fewer than two dozen people showed up last Thursday to an informational meeting hosted by Community Boards 3 and 6.

«Each of us will have a few questions for you, so we can follow up on previous questions without forcing you to answer the same question a half - dozen times.

The geologists clambered up the valley walls, stopping every few dozen feet to measure the rocks» polarity with a handheld magnetometer.

Now, researchers have come up with a way to more quickly gauge a big quake's magnitude and thus provide faster, more accurate tsunami warnings: by measuring the miniscule changes in Earth's gravitational field that are generated when massive slabs of the planet's crust shift by dozens of meters over the course of a few minutes.

A member of the theropod group, [1] they weighed a few dozen kilos and could measure up to two meters in length.

But even up to 1950 we consumed very few calories from beverages and in the last 60 years, we've gone from consuming almost no calories from beverages to a fifth of our caloric intake in the U.S., and about the same in Mexico and about the same in a dozen other countries — in some less and some more — but the point is, all of those calories we consume, but it doesn't affect the food that we take in.

There's no ladder, just a few dozen nails pounded into the trunk to hoist yourself up.

From only two events, we don't have a firm sense of how often they happen — perhaps one to a few dozen such events a year would occur in a cube 3 billion light years to a side, according to a follow - up paper from the LIGO team.

The Blogads service has generated some significant revenue for political bloggers whose sites were swarming with traffic in the election season, but Henry Copeland, the founder of the service, is just as bullish on a few dozen baseball bloggers who pocket up to $ 200 a month: «My hunch is, in the next year the sports blogs will be where the politics blogs are today.»

Up to now, it has helped them pin down structures for a few dozen proteins.

That's much too big for them to have been built up through the slow mergers of small black holes formed in the conventional way, from collapsed stars a few dozen times the mass of the sun.

As I have stood lecturing brilliantly to a few dozen purportedly eager collegians, it has not escaped my attention that at any one time only three or four seem awake enough to keep up with their text messaging.

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

Heck, you can put your profile on Match.com and MySpace — using deceivingly complimentary photos and exaggerating your income by about 300 percent — and you're sure to have a few dozen potential dates lined up lickety - split.

I think I may have to make about a dozen batches of this bark just to see how many pretty patterns I can come up with, so don't be surprised to see a few more versions of it here before the year's out.

The bar has always seemed particularly low for deodorant in particular, with dozens of articles popping up every few months claiming to have «finally» found the ones that «actually» work, each one discrediting the options the other raves about.

Joie offers up about a dozen different silk patterns each season, so it's simple to grab a few different ones to pair with my distressed, skinny or flare jeans for an easy, no brainer outfit.

The personality evaluation is issued right when you sign up, and it consists of a few dozen questions that shouldn't take you more than 15 minutes to fill out.

With 18 tracks to choose and over a dozen power - ups ranging from a giant hammer to speed bursts, TNT Racers will provide quite a few hours of fun.

During June and July next year, nasen, in partnership with the Department for Education (DfE), will deliver a string of Implementation Events around the country where education practitioners, SENCOs, health and social care providers can access free training on the details of «how» to make the required arrangements for children and young people with SEN.. The devil is always in the detail — nasen will be working with up to a dozen outstanding education providers over the next few months will design and produce an implementation support pack for all providers to access and take away from our Implementation Events programme next summer.

As a result, it adjourned the meeting after 7 p.m., without taking much public comment, although, with the exception of a class visiting from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, there was very little public to take comment from: Fewer than two - dozen people showed up.

I slow to a crawl through the small towns that pop up along the way — putting the AMG's active exhaust in its quieter mode and tiptoeing as to not excite the few dozen residents or their bored constabularies — but haul ass the rest of the time, collecting the fluorescent guts of fireflies on the AMG's steeply raked windshield.

Sir Stirling Moss, making the most of a rare visit to Maranello by chalking up his Fiorano debut with a dozen or so laps in a 250 GT SWB, was later treated to a few more laps in the passenger seat of the 599 and was rendered almost speechless by the experience, later registering his shock at the cornering and braking forces.