Sentences with phrase «years scrounging»

I'd spent four years scrounging parts and figuring ways around red tape, all for the good of the country.

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Last year, Eric Migicovsky was scrounging for funding to mass - produce a smart watch.

I've been scrounging around the blogosphere for one «last minute» side dish for my Thanksgiving meal this year.

Because of this cargo, it can be argued that the wreck in the hole was not a revenue ship at all, or at least that it was not bound back for Spain at the time; yet, strangely, 64 years ago Cayman Islanders who were scrounging the area for scrap brass did find about $ 6,000 in gold bars and coins near the southwest edge of the blue hole.

Adam Scott hasn't done much of anything for over a year, but might finally be finding enough form to scrounge together a Top - 15 here on the right week.

I've been scrounging my brain for the «next great invention» for years when it's probably been right in front of me this whole time.

Having spent the previous 2 holiday seasons scrounging for employment we felt blessed to have a roof over our heads and food on the table this year.

For two years, Olson researched what he would need and scrounged for parts from eBay and the hardware store.

Hardly competent enough to scrounge up beer money, they're fortunate to learn that Joe has seemingly taken a liking to 12 - year - old Dottie, and will accept her «company» as a retainer... Yes, I wrote «fortunate,» because for the Smiths, no concept is too low, no arrangement too depraved.

Every year I really have to scrounge to find five good ones.

Meet Wadjda (Waad Mohammed), a feisty, funny and wholly unconventional ten - year - old girl determined to scrounge up enough money to buy a bicycle, despite the societal repercussions sure to follow.

Even though state spending on prekindergarten has grown $ 1 billion nationwide over the past two years, a report says, state policymakers looking to sustain and expand their programs — especially in tough budget times — are still scrounging for more money.

Being a survivor of World War II, being someone who spent years — approximately the years I am now experiencing — scrounging for food while traversing Europe barefoot, she is acutely, desperately aware of weights: of bodies, of presences, of things that do and don't exist.

We are entering into the time of year when every student is trying to scrounge up every scholarship opportunity that they can come across to help reduce the college expenses that they are expected to face in the coming academic year.

To eliminate this extra burden, you can always try scrounging together enough money to reach that 20 % threshold, but there's another (far easier) way as well: If your property has appreciated 20 % and it's been two or more years since you bought it, you can have the mortgage insurance removed without having to refinance.

All I know is that I want out and I am going to scrounge every dime for the next year to make sure that this is done.

A new down payment study by Generation Squeeze suggests it will take an average full - time wage earner ($ 47,178) 23 years to scrounge up for a 20 % down payment on a house in Metro Vancouver.

Three years ago she scrounged up a 5 % down payment for a small 34 - year - old bungalow.

I mean, if you had a chance to hand someone $ 1,000 with the agreement that they'd come back to you in 6 years with $ 2,000, we'd probably all hurry up and scrounge up $ 1,000, right?

A little more than one hundred years after his fateful encounter with a young soldier on the streets of New Haven, Connecticut, the animated film Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero tells the tale of Stubby, a brindle and white pit bull - type dog, and Robert Conroy, the soldier who found him scrounging for scraps near a military camp.

We scrounge up a handful of our absolute favorite games from last year — some from totally unexpected places.

PlayStation Plus started trending into the unknown last year as it scrounged together indies to support the PS Vita — which Sony itself is no longer making games for.

I'm still just completely mind boggled that people actually play these call of duty games, games like skyrim, borderlands, arkham city, dark souls, minecraft, halo, etc deserve to be on top more, at least the companies that make those games care about what gamers think and arent like infinity ward and treyarch and just scrounge up a poorly made game in 2 years to make a fortune from the same dimwitted audience.

The last few years have been barren of big Star Wars releases, leaving fans scrounging for entertainment like Jawas searching for droids in the Jundland Wastes.

The doldrums of the past five years of real estate have made us scrounge for every penny and seek savings in the worst of places — customer follow - up and recognition.

After over a year spent shopping itself, selling off assets and scrounging together financing to keep it solvent, Mills finally found a buyer: On Jan. 18, Brookfield Asset Management Co., a Toronto - based real estate firm that owns mostly office space, agreed to pay about $ 7.5 billion including assumed debt and preferred stock.