Sentences with phrase «a bit»

But the conventional thinking is also a bit misleading.

Biden also did a bit to parry what is probably the main criticism of Theranos, which is that it has not published any peer - reviewed studies of its work.

Mindful of elevating expectations too high, Musk hedged a bit.

«It's just a little bit too convenient for my taste to see a platform ban an entire ecosystem, or an entire market segment, just because they don't want to spend the time figuring out who the bad actors are,» Pakman told me.

«For people of a certain age, Victor Kiam was a bit of a celebrity thanks to him fronting his company's TV ads.

Some require a bit of time, others require far more of your resources.

«Find the «brag bites» that mention your success.»

You don't want one with a tendency to bite off more than they can chew.

This comes even as today's producer price index report suggested that inflation is a bit hotter than expected.

In exceptionally green - friendly states, that might mean that nothing changes, but at the very least it makes the legality seem a bit murky.

«Mrs. Obama is every bit the equal to Melania Trump and more,» White says.

«We're a bit hesitant on the ability of [President - elect Donald] Trump to, one, get legislation passed in the time frame that the market is expecting and, two, the impact of that legislation if and when it is passed,» says the global macro strategist for Pavilion Global Markets in Montreal.

While the shift may be a bit less dramatic than predictions claim, big changes are definitely inevitable.

Okay — seriously, try not to click this link RIGHT HERE before you finish reading the last little bit of this article because you'll soon find that a couple hours have gone by and you've laughed yourself into raging six - pack abs.

It's a bit embarrassing to admit this, but I'm hardly alone.

The more that people push themselves to think about all the possibilities that could happen, and particularly to visualize and think a little bit on possibilities that might contradict with each other, the more they become attuned to understanding what's really likely and what's less likely.

So, what if you've read this list and are starting to feel a little bit worried?

Alexis Ohanian's strategy to make it a tiny bit easier on his wife, Serena Williams?

Corners crumpled a little bit now and again.

Has no one ever heard of a tip, a trick, a shortcut, or even just a bit of advice?

Then, availing himself of the site's annotation tool, another user highlighted various bits of text and added his own commentary to offer another perspective on Rodger's story.

Thankfully, with a bit of work and a bit of practice, you can improve your efficiency at holding meetings, and repair the damaged reputation they might have earned in your office.

Thursday: Alibaba, Celgene, Amazon, Google Alibaba: This stock has slowed down a bit recently, with China cooling off and the loss of its aggressive retail support.

If this were an old Disney movie made while Walt was at the controls, this would be the moment in the story when a little bit of magic would appear — perhaps in the form of a fairy godmother or some pixie dust — to make things right.

But for Trudeau, there's something a bit more subtle afoot.

Despite having read quite a bit about the store before I went there, there were still some big surprises.

There's even a bit of a Miranda Priestly from «The Devil Wears Prada» swagger to her when informing the board that The Post is running the papers.

But I'll be waiting and watching a bit longer.

Those dollars stretch a lot further in a metro area where housing costs are quite a bit lower than the national average.

However, there's a bit of a catch.

«Always look for a sale if you can find one,» Yannetta says, «but a blazer is something you should definitely spend a little bit more on.»

That necessary extra bit of oomph is why Google has hired a team of comedy writers from places like The Onion and Pixar to write dialogue for Google Assistant.

So I took small bites of my half while he dug in to his.

De Brouwer founded Starlab NV / SA, a multidisciplinary laboratory in Brussels where about 130 scientists worked on various projects, encompassing bits of everything from time travel to neuroscience.

Pick your poison: plunging energy costs taking a bite out of stocks in related industries, an erratic Canadian dollar, Greece, interest rate uncertainty.

: This stock has slowed down a bit recently, with China cooling off and the loss of its aggressive retail support.

So for example, you could have fake directors where you pay a little bit extra and someone pretends to be the public face of this company.

Social media can often be a bit of a popularity contest (surprise, surprise) and losing upwards of five percent of followers in a day definitely has its downside.

Peloton has become a bit of a cult favorite among fitness enthusiasts and techies over the past few years.

Investors are getting a bit wary about valuations, following a selloff in tech stocks, venture capitalist David Golden says.

Measuring GDP is a bit complicated but the calculation can be done in one of two ways — by adding up what everyone earned in a year, or by adding up what everyone spent.

If you don't, can't, or won't do that, you could deliver all the content and send all the newsletters, and it simply wouldn't matter one bit.

«I felt in a bit of a slump for a few weeks,» confessed one, which prompted a colleague to chime in, «I've been feeling that way as well.

They have a little bit too much oxygen there.

When you say it that bluntly, it cheapens the underlying truth, so let me attempt to be a bit more genteel: We work so that we might tend to the many other things we care about in life (the vast majority of which cost money).

It all sounds grand, if a bit futuristic in a Ridley Scott Blade Runner sort of way.

«If that rhetoric continues to heat up over the summer, that's going to create some degree of uncertainty as to whether the U.S. would become a bit more closed or introduce trade friction with its trading partners,» de la Durantaye says.

And indeed, even Bloomberg employees are known to seek out hidden corners away from prying ears and eyes when they need a bit of privacy.

We didn't invest, but it didn't surprise me one bit that they raised [funding] because they had the first real application.

I'm a bit of a snob that way.