Sentences with phrase «upon hours long»

This is a great reminder that games do not need to be hours upon hours long to have a great value.

Not exact matches

The lawyers say it is possible the 3 - foot - long (1 - meter) hare died after being placed in a freezer for 16 hours upon landing in Chicago on a flight from London.

And is it better to read a long article (and conversation afterward) that takes roughly an hour, or be forced to pay hundreds upon thousands of dollars because you were too lazy to bother to check or credit your sources?

And, oh, when the hour - glass has run out, the hourglass of time, when the noise of worldliness is silenced, and the restless or the ineffectual busyness comes to an end, when everything is still about thee as it is in eternity — whether thou wast man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or independent, fortunate or unfortunate, whether thou didst bear the splendor of the crown in a lofty station, or didst bear only the labor and heat of the day in an inconspicuous lot; whether thy name shall be remembered as long as the world stands (and so was remembered as long as the world stood), or without a name thou didst cohere as nameless with the countless multitude; whether the glory which surrounded thee surpassed all human description, or the judgment passed upon thee was the most severe and dishonoring human judgement can pass — eternity asks of thee and of every individual among these million millions only one question, whether thou hast lived in despair or not, whether thou wast in despair in such a way that thou didst not know thou wast in despair, or in such a way that thou didst hiddenly carry this sickness in thine inward parts as thy gnawing secret, carry it under thy heart as the fruit of a sinful love, or in such a way that thou, a horror to others, didst rave in despair.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

If we were to be upon an outter planet say Saturn, our days would be a whole bunch longer than just 24 hours and a year on Saturn would equate to X number of years upon this earth!

You want to cook the pernil in the oven for hours upon hours at low heat, until it is tender and nearly falling off the bone, but not so long that the meat itself is falling apart, a la pulled pork.

After an hour of waiting anxiously to savor my creation, I scooped up the bubbly goodness into a bowl and upon tasting the first bite with its brown crispy crust and tangy creamy cheese, was transported back to a time of comfort and bliss, when I didn't have a care in the world, a simpler time and place that seemed long gone from today in my stressful, fast - paced city life.

The bassinet even, upon which hospital - born babies lay their heads to sleep for long hours at a time, are far from organic.

Based upon the business rules of your bank this may take up to 72 hour or longer to be processed.

Group one parents consoled the baby upon each night awakening; group two parents waited for increasingly long intervals before going in to the crying baby; group three parents allowed the baby to cry, even for several hours «non-intervention.»

«That one I think is pretty much agreed upon,» Heastie said after a hours - long closed - door Democratic meeting on Monday.

It is appalling to me that we are still in a situation where men feel that they can't take parental leave because it's frowned upon and not manly, and they are working longer and longer and longer hours and forced out of family life, at the same rate that women are being forced out of working life.»

«Thousands upon thousands of New Yorkers are working long hours, cutting back on expenses, and saving every penny to be able to afford a college education for themselves or their children.

Scientists spend long hours building and testing prototypes that can reliably move in specific ways so that, for example, a robot lands right - side up upon landing a jump.

I no longer spend hours upon hours in the bathroom, I'm no longer severely bloated, I'm not constantly tired / lethargic, and I just feel like a different person.

This is not about sending you a long list of singles in Macclesfield and expecting you to spend hours upon hours trying to find those who are compatible.

With a running time pushing three hours, it's not just an unexpected journey that the titular halfling embarks upon in this, the first big - screen adaptation of JRR Tolkien's enduringly popular children's book and the opening installment in Jackson's new Middle - Earth trilogy, it's a long one.

The big winner: Winter Sleep, a three hour, sixteen minute long Turkish film from filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who last brought his masterful Once Upon a Time in Anatolia to Cannes a few years ago.

There are literally hours upon hours of fun Marvel - themed content to keep games of all ages occupied for long periods of time.

After working long hours as he saves to buy an expensive birthday present to send to his beloved Aunt Lucy, Paddington happens upon a robbery in progress, finding himself mistakenly arrested as a thief.

However, at 2 hours and 24 minutes, it still feels long considering this finale is packed with action scene upon action scene with very little breathing room in between.

I've played hours upon hours of Mario Kart 8 with friends, locally and long distance, so when Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was announced, I was actually feeling, well, a little dejected.

Using a connectivist theoretical framework (Siemens, 2005), this study focuses on secondary teacher candidates (TCs) who completed, archived, and reflected upon 1 - hour Twitter chats (N = 39) to explore the promise and pitfalls in integrating optional Twitter chats as a professional learning and networking tool in a semester - long teacher education course.

Prior to 2003, long - distance drivers would drive cross-country in 3 to 4 days and then, upon reaching the 60th or 70th hour on duty, would have to be off duty at the location where they reached that limit for 3 - 4 days before they were available to drive under the then - effective HOS rules.

The service should take less than one (1) hour to complete, but your Nissan dealer may require your vehicle for a longer period of time based upon their work schedule.

Based upon the business rules of your bank, it may take 72 hours or longer for your bank to process this back to your account.

I wish the flight was longer as I was still quite groggy upon arrival in Singapore after a mere three hours of sleep.

After approximately two hours (and with only a few sips of water left in our bottle) we spotted a pathway leading further down on to the road upon which we were walking, and over the other side of the road it appeared to continue towards the only indication of a town that we could see a long way off into the distance.

Countless bus journeys, morning commutes and hours upon hours of time flies by so long as you've got Halfbrick's app in your pocket.

Or gamers are looked down upon for spending long hours playing their favorite game.

At long last, Atlus's high school simulator / fantasy Inception heart - stealing heist adventure is finally upon us, and whether or not you're willing to commit yourself to its hundred - hour saga of teenage drama, you absolutely must give the soundtrack a go.

I've played hours upon hours of Mario Kart 8 with friends, locally and long distance, so when Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was announced, I was actually feeling, well, a little dejected.

Once upon a time, I could sit around for hours, grinding away at an 80 + hour long RPG, or sinking literal days worth of time into honing my online FPS skills.

The hours upon hours spent leveling and upgrading your character, the endless environments to wander through and explore, the captivating story lines, and the just plain value inherent in a game that is so much longer...

The long hours and hard work have clearly paid off as all three of these games won countless awards and raked in thousands upon thousands of fans.

The films» titles, for the most part, evince the filmmaker's punk rock approach: Pig Death Machine (2013), Scumrock (2002), Fame Whore (1997), Hippy Porn (1991), My Degeneration (1989)... (Although, Terminal USA (1993), also on view, is an almost hour - long film about an unconventional Japanese - American family, screened widely on public television upon its release.)

Long story short... I was frantic to find a good lawyer and after spending hours upon hours calling around and meeting with lawyers that did not impress me, I was starting to really panic.

Sure, there were stomach - churning lunches at roadside restaurants and hours upon hours of staring at long stretches of cornfields.

Ah summertime — longer days, no school, and hours upon hours of free time at home.

According to ASHI, a home inspection can take two to four hours or longer, depending upon the size of the home.