"You wouldn't bring a lover here, would you?" Well, no, not unless your lover was on the hunt for a batch of short-range tactical missiles to flog on to the Saudis.
The Portuguese director Pedro Costa filmed "Letters from Fontainhas," a trilogy of feature films plus a batch of shorts, in a poor and insular Lisbon neighborhood of grim alleys and crude, dark homes.
By Richard Brody The Portuguese director Pedro Costa filmed "Letters from Fontainhas," a trilogy of feature films plus a batch of shorts, in a poor and insular Lisbon neighborhood of grim alleys and crude, dark homes.
If you use half a pound of butter in a batch of cookies, it becomes "short" — because "short" means, historically, pastry with a high percentage of fat.
The new batch of short fiction is a necessary purchase, and you should be able to claim it against tax as an aid to professional sanity, but the I.R.S. might frown at the luridly whimsical dust jacket offered by Little, Brown.
Due to some pattern-making confusion, the company produced a batch of T-shirts that were two inches too short.
Madeleine, dressed in pink shorts, a pink T-shirt and pink hat, runs across the court, clutching a batch of tennis balls.
He points to a batch of evidence.
A batch of Boeing orders will be replaced by Airbus.
Can you still whip up a batch of buns?
