(If this actually is an approximation of your life, I apologize for making it sound boring).; it could take a more than an initial three-hour meet

The error above (placing the period outside the closing parenthesis when the entire sentence is within the parentheses) is from "A fresh perspective equals better dates" - an article in today's Vancouver 24 hours.

Later in the same article, the single-letter word a should be jettisoned.