Sentences with phrase «years we lived on»

Mez himself spent six years living on the streets.

When his popularity eventually waned, he would have been sentenced not to the cross but to quiet oblivion, spending his final years living on income from investments and reruns, forgotten by the public.

The rooms bear a striking resemblance to the dormitories students call home in their first year living on a university campus.

Fall is my favorite time of year living on the West Coast.

In 1984, he spent a year living on an Israeli kibbutz.

With more than 50,000 pupils and 1,500 schools having participated in Sky Sports Living for Sport last year, the ceremony marked the culmination of countless inspirational personal journeys, as global icons David Beckham and Jessica Ennis - Hill honoured the Student of the Year, Teacher of the Year and Project of the Year live on air in front of a studio audience of young people, teachers and sporting greats.

Following a nationwide search for the UK's top student, Bethan Gill of Samuel Cody Specialist Sports College in Farnborough, Hampshire, was named as the Student of the Year live on air in a special edition of Sky's popular Game Changers show; and an overcome Bethan was congratulated by David, Jessica, Olympic sprint legend Darren Campbell, Game Changers» Di Dougherty as well as a host of Athlete Mentors.

I published my first book with Random House Australia, (4 years living on an isolated and deserted Pacific coral island) They have just refused my second book for reasons of it's lack of «commercial appeal».

My wife and I spent two years living on a very, very strict budget.

There's no point having a big splurge when you first retire only to spend the next 20 years living on bread and water.

On one hand, every additional year I live on, the insurance premium seems to go waste.

Over the four or five years they live on dairy farms, before their bodies are completely broken down, dairy cows are impregnated once every year to ensure continual milk production.

During her three years living on Grand Cayman, she volunteered and participated in various local projects, such as the Blue Iguana Recovery Project, the Guy Harvey Foundation stingray census, and green sea turtle studies at the local Cayman Turtle Farm.

A dog can have a grain allergy just like a human, and they're somewhat more common in dogs since they haven't spent thousands of years living on grains like humans have.

Her first novel, Tropical Depression — based on her five - odd, sometimes very odd, years living on a small island near Guam — was published by teeny indie publisher Back Porch Books in 2011.

Remiss, I know, but after over three years living on Bali — and at least five years thinking about getting to Nusa Penida — I...

I quit my job, sold most of my stuff and spent a year living on the African continent.

Councillor Corbett - Labatt was born in PEI into an Air Force family and over the years lived on several air force bases and communities across Canada and in Germany.

After three and a half years living on Caye Caulker running a bar and making a considerable dent in the island rum supply Mike started doing pencil and ink drawings to sell to the tourists.

She spent seven years living on Oahu and exploring the island.

After being granted the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1948 and a Fulbright Grant, he spent three years living on Via Margutta in Rome.

He is a Diné photographer and trans - customary artist who spent his formative years living on the Navajo Nation.

During the years she lived on 10th Street, she got drunk on 15 cent beer at the Cedar Bar, participated in the heated discussions at The Club, befriended Franz Kline and many of the major Abstract Expressionist painters, and participated in the group's promiscuity, which she described as «musical beds.»

Before moving into a village two years ago here in the Hudson Valley, I spent 23 years living on or near the Saunders family farm on an old dirt road in Garrison, where the black angus — like those in Baltimore — were famed for finding weak spots in fences and wandering neighboring lanes and yards.

For years we lived on the top floor with buckets in the hallways and sagging, water soaked ceiling tiles.

Not exact matches

«That was the first thing that crossed my mind — I was like, «Oh s — ,»» Rosie, a 30 - year - old DACA recipient who has lived in the US for 26 years, told Business Insider on Tuesday.

The Canadian dollar has been very volatile so far this year, jumping from a low of 68 cents (U.S.) on Jan. 20 to a short - lived 80 cents on April 29.

Besides Oakland residents arrested within the city for pot crimes dating back to 1996, the permits are available to residents living at least 10 of the past 20 years in police beats torn apart by the war on drugs.

For example, Cruz made his bid for office known on March 23 last year by live - streaming his first major speech.

They were working months or even years of their lives on products that nobody used.

GOBankingRates estimates the cost of living comfortably in San Francisco at $ 119,570 — outpacing every other city on the list by $ 30,000 a year or more.

In other words, you'll be able to click on your friend Sarah's profile and see that she's a 32 - year - old mom, lives in Chicago and considers herself an amateur photographer.

Get your small business, and your life, on track with these resolutions for the coming year.

World War I, which ended 99 years ago on Saturday, took the lives of about 40 million people and is considered by many to be the first total, industrial war.

-- Shannon O'Brien, ranked number one career coach and number one life coach in Boston on Yelp and founder of Whole U, a career and life strategy consultancy she started after seven years working and studying at Harvard and MIT

As the years went on, I learned just how important this skill is in life.

Facebook's CEO highlighted 23 books in his recent «A Year of Books» reading list, which featured «Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $ 2 a Day» by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Ruthven.

Meanwhile, Behan, 48, and Jaime Gifford, 51, who are in their 10th year of living aboard Totem, a Stevens 47, logged decades of sailing experience prior to setting off on their journey in 2008.

«Probiotics are probably the single most important new food category to emerge in the last 20 years,» Scott Bass, the head of the Global Life Sciences team at law firm Sidley Austin LLP and an adviser for the FDA on its first dietary supplement website, told Business Insider.

In 1980, it took the typical Canadian aged 25 to 34 five years to save a 20 percent down payment on a house; now it's 12 years, or 15 if you live in Toronto, and 23 if Vancouver is home.

It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, «If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?»

I won't talk this morning about the 13 lives that were lost, or the more than 100 who were injured, when a 22 - year - old terrorist rammed his van into a crowd of pedestrians strolling along Las Ramblas in Barcelona this summer — nor will I mention the 86 people who were killed in Nice on the evening of Bastille Day in 2016, when a mindless thug drove his cargo truck into a mass of celebrants who had gathered to watch fireworks on the Promenade des Anglais.

The announcement came on the same day that Israel celebrated its 70th year of statehood, and amid continued protests at the Israel - Gaza border, in which Israeli soldiers have used live ammunition against Palestinian protesters, killing dozens and wounding hundreds more.

«We knew we wanted to take off, see the world a little bit, live on board and sail for a couple of years,» he said.

In addition to Hulu's planned live - streaming service, Google has reportedly signed a deal to carry CBS content on its own planned live online television service, called YouTube Unplugged, which is also set to launch next year.

«We should place these feelings at the center of our lives and let them be the catalysts for a sustained exploration that continues throughout the week, over months and probably years, and that generates conversations with ourselves, with friends, mentors and with professionals,» he writes, warning us that «something very serious is going on when sadness and anxiety descend for a few hours on Sunday evenings.»

We lived in rural Wisconsin and on one of the coldest nights of the year, I was seven months pregnant with my first child and my husband and I went to bed one night and our house burned down.

I sometimes say «why do you want to spend several years, and hopefully many more, of your life working on this problem.»

We found four folks on this year's list who not only have lives outside the office but also regularly and willingly put them on the line.

Like six - year - olds chasing a soccer ball, the «marketing world» seems to careen from fad to fad these days, pursuing the fickle millennial consumer as though its life depended on it.