Sentence examples similar to odd households from inspiring English sources

Some of them even pick up the odd household bill.

The novel emerges more or less chronologically, using this virgin or that to illuminate different corners of this odd household and society at large.

I divide my time between London and the US, and travel like a packhorse, toting several suitcases containing clothes, accessories, books, CDs, DVDs and the odd household chattel from one residence to another.

S. J. Perelman once visited the odd household he maintained for a while in Hollywood with Dorothy Parker, "in a fog of crapulous laundry, stale cigarette smoke and dirty dishes, sans furniture or cleanliness; one suspects they wet their beds".

The works on view, like many of her others, are reminiscent of odd household trinkets you might have ogled as a child; unaware of its designated purpose it gained instead an inexplicable mystique.

Lured by buoyant share prices and a series of successful privatisations, more than a quarter of Spain's 13m-odd households now own shares.

Shaliuhe's farm had nearly 1,000 cows at its peak in 2002, with the animals owned by 60-odd households in the area.

What he found was that out of the 15 million-odd households in the two countries, only 58,300 had any servants - a term that presumably includes chauffeur/butlers, housekeeper/secretaries, and all the other strange hermaphrodites of modern servanthood.

The city is only at the stage of moving earth from a nearby mountain to fill in land that sank by a metre (three feet) during the earthquake.As for Ishinomaki, a city in Miyagi prefecture where 3,700 residents drowned in the tsunami, only 150-odd households have moved into permanent new housing, with 12,700 people still in temporary quarters.

Those million-odd households now get around 15percentt of national income, which is huge.

They must also be capable of displaying empathy or they will be rejected, says Kerstin Dautenhahn, head of a "social robotics" team at the University of Hertfordshire in Britain.Her team's Care-O-bot robots crunch data from 60-odd household sensors that monitor door and cupboard hinges, taps, electrical appliances and so forth.