Sentences with phrase «where about a dozen of»

Mothers and babysitters on Tuesday were pulling their curious youngsters away from a spot near the shore of the lake where about a dozen of the dead silver herring were lying.

Not exact matches

On this day, Aeryon's office on the outskirts of Waterloo, Ont., is a quiet place where about two dozen people toil in cubicles separated by glass walls scrawled with engineering formulas.

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.

Under the rallying cry #NeverAgain, dozens of students and staff who survived the Florida school shooting departed earlier Tuesday for the Capitol, where they hope to speak with lawmakers Wednesday about school safety and gun control.

Each time we sent a release, it appeared on dozens of online services such as Yahoo!, resulting in hundreds of sales leads.Even though our advertising agency told us not to put the valuable information «somewhere where competitors could steal it,» we created a monthly online newsletter calledTheEdge, with articles about the exploding world of digital news.

I mention all of this to say that there are about two or three dozen companies in the world where the goal is not to buy the stock at an undervalued price.

Palm Bay police officers — about two dozen of them — fanned out along U.S. 1 where several mobile home parks are located to look for other possible damages.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

Oh, by the way, scientists don't expect ME to pay money in their honor every week so some guy in a staged ceremony can read from a 2,000 year old book, translated dozens of different ways, written by a bunch of folks whom we know virtually nothing about, where the facts and moral lessons are both flawed and contradictory.

Folks talk about the soul as a religious item — that it synonymous with religion — But religions don't really explain what a soul is — because they don't know — only a possible destination — Before you get all huffy, please consider where my concept comes from — I am no longer religious — I studied Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs for dozens of years, and determined a different design, for what the glyphs could portend — and found some interesting thought processes hidden within — including what the soul is — for instance: The Ankh symbol represents Life — the charcters for An and kh, I translate as an = thought and kh = soul — Thus Life = the thought of the soul — The soul as described by the AE, is a continuity between 2 or more enti - ties — including the enti - ty Environment — Our environment creates us — some name their environment as god — some believe there is a continuity with their environment — that is soul --

Katy / Mercedes — I don't doubt that this has been written about many other places (see also: the dozens of comments here from people who said they learned the technique from a friend or grandmother), but I didn't look to see where because as I mentioned in an earlier comment (# 255), I figured it out on my own (and through the suggestion of a friend from college).

One of the pros is writer and cookbook collaborator JJ Goode, who has co-authored about a dozen books with the likes of April Bloomfield and Masaharu Morimoto (and a few where he is only mentioned in the acknowledgements).

The arrests ordered by Connecticut authorities are likely to be merely the first of a number that will send shock waves through Florida, Rhode Island and Nevada, where betting on jai alai is also legal, and perhaps put a fatal crimp in the sport's plans to invade Delaware, Louisiana, Maryland and about a dozen other states and two Canadian provinces.

Every thing has been said about «that goal «and iv only watched it 50 times but it's just one of a dozen things that has defined this season imo, 9 men at Boro, 2 pens at Cardiff to name a couple, but one thing for sure, none of this team or Nuno and his staff will ever forget season 2017, 18, when Neves reflects on his career in a decade or so, regardless of his World appearances and champions league wins (hopefully with us) and Nuno looks back on his first season in England, this will be where it all started.

In between all these «mitigating circumstances» there are about half a dozen of games where Arsenal are playing scintillating football these days or anything remotely resembling that.

We all washed up and then headed to the kitchen where the team had assembled about a half dozen or so large bread paddles with little cups of rice flour.

«It's understandable to be concerned about setting a precedent, but there already are probably a dozen examples around the county where this sort of thing or something similar has happened,» said Didzerekis, who was on the Wheaton Park District board for eight years before joining the County Board in 1998.

It is not surprising, in a country with approximately half a million elected offices, where about 133 million people voted in 2008, and with ballots that can call on voters to make dozens of decisions, that the aggregate costs of campaigns and elections mounts.

City Council Watch attended a debate in the 6th Council District on Columbus Avenue this week, where we observed about four dozen elderly black and Jewish voters munch on cookies and fruit, and murmur amongst themselves about the slate of candidates who would presume to fill the shoes of the beloved CM Gale Brewer, champion of the liberal middle - class.

The governor said START - UP is one of about a dozen or so programs that's contributed to a revitalized New York economy, one where there are more jobs than ever in the state's history.

The New Britain Area League of Women Voters will sponsor a candidates forum where candidates in nearly a half - dozen races will get to field questions about their positions on a variety of issues facing Connecticut.

About a dozen staff members were milling about, but there were a smattering of seats available, including several at the main table, where lawmakers shared space with a few members of the Capitol's press cAbout a dozen staff members were milling about, but there were a smattering of seats available, including several at the main table, where lawmakers shared space with a few members of the Capitol's press cabout, but there were a smattering of seats available, including several at the main table, where lawmakers shared space with a few members of the Capitol's press corps.

According to Ortiz, the Rivera race was one of about a half dozen contests «critical to changing the landscape» where the club focused particular effort in providing volunteer support.

He co-authored papers with his doctor, wrote a case study about himself, proposed a new model of the disease, and currently coordinates a dozen Castleman studies from his small office at UPenn, where he is an assistant professor.

The most notable exception is the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), which coincidentally has the largest MARC program in the country, where majority students from disadvantaged backgrounds typically fill about half a dozen of its 40 slots.

It's the national tree of the United States, Germany, and a dozen other countries — as well as the stuff of corks and fine wine barrels — yet little is known about where the North American oak tree came from.

In fact, typing a couple of phrases from Mr. Holder's comment into scroogle.org turned up about a dozen identical posts in late 2009 to early 2010 in response to articles about the UEA e-mail theft, at mostly obscure and varied websites (i.e., ones where the audience isn't likely to have much knowledge of climate science) rather than the most prominent climate websites.

On the other hand, there are rows and rows of assorted cardio machines which are scientifically proven as being essentially useless for both fat loss and muscle building goals, water massage beds and dozens of large TV - screens... ok, we have to be brutally honest about this: as soon as you walk into one of these places, you should know that you've entered an adult playground, a fucking daycare for lazy, fat people — not a facility where people come to work hard on their bodies.

Horowitz says AmorePacific (the brand) does about $ 15 million in sales at Sephora, where it sells dozens of products.

I know of about two dozen marriages over the last 20 years where the guy was childless and married a single mom.

It's hard to paint Socha in too heroic a light, as he did essentially leave a number of the survivors to die while shepherding about a dozen into a hard - to - find corner of the sewers where they could survive with greatly reduced risk of discovery by the Germans.

I'm not sure if they felt that all Chevy Chase appearances needed to dig up his SNL days by having him fall on his butt for no apparent reason, or if Chase just felt Simon's wit might not be enough to generate laughs, but there are about a half dozen instances one can point to where Chase overplays his clumsiness to the detriment of the tone of the scene he is in.

And what about the college newspapers, where the explosion in film education over the past 20 years has generated dozens of undergraduate critics who already know more than some of their elders will ever learn?

As a result, the half dozen hours it takes to run through the campaign - a generous advance on the relatively slim run time of Star Fox 64 - can feel bloated, and a grimly challenging final stretch where the camera does its best to get in your way is likely enough to make you think twice about heading into the arcade mode that's unlocked upon completion.

There are a couple of decent laughs to be had, and about a dozen or so smiles, but unlike its predecessor, Legally Blonde 2 has several stretches of scenes where the levity and mirth take a break, leaving us a bit bored when there's not much going on except some necessary explanations in order to make this ambitious plot work.

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.

In ten minutes, students can walk to Thomas Edison's laboratory, the Wright brothers» bicycle shop, and dozens of other buildings where they can immerse themselves in America's history firsthand rather than simply reading about it in textbooks.

Just watch any one of dozens of videos where the Chicago Teachers Union leader lashes out at, well, just about everyone, regularly dumping on rich people, white people, Common Core, Arne Duncan, et al..

The Clarity will be offered in California, where there are now about two dozen refueling stations, and possibly in the metro New York City area where there are also a handful of stations.

by D'vorah Lansky Being that blogging has become so popular in our author community, and the fact that I've received dozens of requests to teach more about blogging AND the fact that we had 58 comments on last week's blog post, I thought you'd find it helpful if we began a column where we share blogging tips and strategies.

Being that blogging has become so popular in our author community, and the fact that I've received dozens of requests to teach more about blogging AND the fact that we had 58 comments on last week's blog post, I thought you'd find it helpful if we began a column where we share blogging tips and strategies.

As it happened, Chen had just read about the bathhouse in an English publication: Every weekend night, about two thousand Chinese and several dozen foreigners gather together naked at Niaofei Yuyao — a gigantic bathhouse, where the masses soak in tubs of milk, sweat in the «fire jade heat room,» watch movies, and swim in the pool.

Nice thing about some nonfiction categories is that you don't have to sell dozens of books per day to get extra exposure, though there was a magical day a couple of weeks back where it sold 15 copies.)

Then I became my own publisher, started working with several of the largest publishing houses in the world, dozens overseas, and went on a hectic travel circuit to six continents where I spent more time talking about the book trade and business of being an author than I did hawking my own books.

It'll all about implementing dozens of best practices, and then constantly iterating and improving each one until the point where your book can turn one reader into another reader.

Daycare was about half what you are now paying, but even though I had a well paying position (the people at manpower told me there were only about a dozen local employers where I could expect a comparable wage) that certainly would have eaten up a sizeable portion of my take home pay.

And they'll be told dozens of stories about where they come from.

An internet presence before many people were on the Internet, Tara teamed up with the rescue effort to bring her compassion and skill to K9Kastle, where she has saved dozens of elderly or challenged dogs, and taught us about the neurologically challenged cats on whose behalf the city shelter knows to contact us directly.

That leads me to my recently concluded vacation to the wine country of Napa Valley, Calif., where I had the opportunity to tour and taste my way through about a dozen wineries over three days.

There are dozens of exquisite little coves dotted along the coast, where you can snorkel, go diving, or potter about on a paddleboard.