She took off a few pounds in a month.
I've got a few errands to do in the town.
All I can do is go and visit a few places, and then after I leave they arrest a few.
The time of Qingjian, downtown a few degrees. A happy friend, cherish a know.
Second, cooling a city by a few degrees dramatically reduces smog.
After a few kilometres, Sam came to an intersection with a stop sign.
Kyla drives us down river a few miles until we see a hut and a wooden jetty.
Having a full list of a few hundred, is that going to be like drinking from a fire hose?
But within a few days the conference had petered out in disarray.
Few employers sanction naps, but even sitting back in your chair and closing your eyes for a few minutes can be restorative.
To help fill any nutritional gaps, take a daily prenatal vitamin — ideally starting a few months before conception.
And the time unit might be a few nanoseconds or whatever, and then it is a good approximation.
ONCE a burning firelighter is placed against a tyre, it takes a few minutes for a car to ignite, giving the arsonist plenty of time to escape.
But a senior reformist ally of defeated candidates Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi said they wanted a rerun rather than a recount of "a few ballot boxes".
Before you succeed, only a few people cheer for you, most people feel sorry for you, after you succeed, most people will cheer for you, only a few people feel sorry for you.
Every food snob has a few items for which he will pay any price, bear any burden.
Sure enough, a few days later when I stopped by his shack, he presented me with a cicada and a little packet of cicada food.
He found a knapsack and quickly stuffed a few toiletries, some personal items, and the two books he'd taken from the library inside.
An ispy jar - Fill the jar with rice and a few secret objects like a coin, a paperclip, a button, a bead, a small toy, dice, etc and have kids see if they can find all the treasures.
I'll only keep you a few minutes.
In a few moments, he will enter a renovated classroom.
Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last grey hairs, 25?
Let me give you a piece/a bit/a few words/a word of advice....
But the children had shown progress, even though the teaching was based on a few simple concepts in a few pages of a brochure.
A few weeks back, we ran into a few snags when we first started rolling this out, but starting today you can turn on text messaging for chat.
I worked a few hours a week for Ben Moss, a local lawyer, doing legal research and running errands.
Since our own overhead has increased somewhat in the last few months, this offer on our part is good only for a few months.
Develop a Mantra - Find a few statements that focus your mind and motivate you. It doesn't matter whether they are pulled from a tacky motivational poster, or just a few words to tell you what to do.
Although a few governments have taken limited measures, the population continues to puff its way to a cancerous death.
A few meager jars of last year's supply were nestled in a knapsack slung across his shoulders. Old Man Tribbit had told Andy to bring him a few jars before winter set in.
I darted out the door and stared at him for a few moments; then, unable to hold back my childlike excitement, I burst back into the room, laughing and skipping, performing a few more tricks.
But American producers argue that they have a few advantages, such as regulatory predictability and quality control.
It's possible to get a super-effective workout in 30 minutes, and only do a few workouts a week, if you maximize your workouts.
Of all the people honest, with the majority of people live together in peace together, and a few frequently, only with a close.
In 1980, the Voyager-1 spacecraft took advantage of a flyby to take a few mysterious, yet frustrating close-ups of Titan's opaque, rusty atmosphere.
He consented to make a few alteration.
This example only illustrated a few cases of failures.
A few years ago an explosion of a packed train a few hundred miles from Moscow would have caused shock and outrage right across Russia.
Cheap and hardy, yes, with a few nutrients, they serve some purpose as a filler.
Suppose most of them are sensitive to insecticide, but a few harbor a version of a gene that confers resistance.
There should be at least a few viable alternatives to whatever it is you hate.
But be careful with almond extract. It is strong; a few drops or a quarter teaspoon arc usually sufficient.
I have in my collection a feather from a California condor-a species reduced to only 14 individuals a few years ago.
So during that transition time - which can take anywhere from a few years to a few decades - we get the endless stream of largely anecdotal stories like this one.
For a nation to have a few philosophers is not so unusual, but for a nation to take things philosophically is terrific.
I can put together a few simple chords and a couple of melodies so that at least some of the tunes are recognizable.
Let me recite a few examples.
He spoke to a few spectators standing about.
The fighting starts when a signal such as an air horn or whistle blows, and can last anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours.
A 5-minute jog from my student house there was a park, which offered a lap of a few kilometers.
We've had to cut a few corners to get your visa ready in time.
Construction of these, in what is now a marshy lagoon on the Pacific side, should start in a few months.
If it succeeds, it could create a two-tier NATO in the east: a few countries with a direct relationship with America, and a vulnerable rump without.
Only a few countries, like India, Indonesia, and Thailand, are feeling the brunt of the pandemic, right now.
Don't expect to pay more than a few dollars per head for a slap-up lunch of dumplings and side dishes.
She refereed for a periodical a few years ago.
But he owns a flashy yacht and bought a Pacific island a few years ago.
There were reportedly still a few bugs at a recent demonstration; HERB is a long way from mass-market-ready.
A few of their favorite chocolates, a small bunch of flowers, a book which you know they'll enjoy... for a few dollars, you have the perfect way to say "I love you".
In a schoolyard a few score of boys, plus a pensioner who says he last held a gun 35 years ago, gather for three hours of training.
Hamas has shown less tolerance, fearful lest a turnout of thousands, including many women and a few rappers, posed a secular challenge.
Within a few minutes, quite a few people were crippled.
See the busy, a few surviving, with several lines of tears, but because of a few whispering the words.
One recent chilly afternoon, only a few dozen spectators showed up.
Shoes can be freshened by either dropping a few drops of Geranium essential oil directly into the shoes or by placing a cotton ball dabbed with a few drops of Lemon oil into the shoes.
The afternoon passed pleasantly with a few laughs and some Shared small talk, then Mark went home.
She died only a few days later.
We chipped in a few yuan to buy a thermos bottle.
A few may hastily drop a few COINS into a beseeching palm, and then execute a quick getaway in hopes that another 20 ragged pursuers won't immediately appear on the scene.
Filter the news with a climate change alert for a few months, and you watch a stream of worrying official statistics trickle in - all of them bad news.
I know only a few streaks about geology.
Dalton USES a razor blade, sewing needle, a sculpting knife, a steady hand and lots of patience to meticulously carve the graphite which can take anywhere between a few months to a few years.
In the course of the discussions of the last few days you have expressed agreement with my report, "The Tasks of the Chinese Communist Party in the Period of Resistance to Japan"; only a few comrades expressed different views.
Estimate your time by unloading a few large tables in a few threads, and accordingly stagger the movement of the data.
But the fact is, without bipartisan support, as we had just a few years ago, we cannot solve this problem.
I left my mountain lair for a few days over Thanksgiving to visit Hillary in Cambridge.
Every program has a fixed repertoire of between a few hundred and a few thousand of these calls.
The chairs go from a high-back to a low seat, a stool to a deep seat chair, and the rocker can change into a lounge chair with arm rest in a few seconds.
The officer sent a few of his men on a foray.
The key to Metcalfe's Law is the knee in its curve, the point at which there are enough users so that each new node adds not a few but a few million new connections.
Sometimes a seller tries to promote an entire product line by setting an attractive price for a few of the items in it; or a few high prices may be set to increase the line's prestige.
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