Sentences with phrase «anything close to half»

I readily admit, I don't yet have a fan base of anything close to 50,000 readers and I'm here to tell you that writing hasn't been a highly profitable endeavor for many a writer.

I can't imagine that Nook has anything close to those features and others, as well as Amazon's selection of books that you can read for free.

I knew I had no hope of doing anything close to that, but it did plant the seed of something.

Overall, it was really reaching for this to be anything close to plausible, but that's part of the fun of romance.

I would never have written anything close to what Mark suggested in my book query.

When that is all that makes your company anything close to profitable, especially when you sell product of any sort, is money management and not revenue from sales, you have a problem.

Anything close to a quarter of American Equinox sales would be a huge win for Trax, a vehicle that we've already driven, and liked.

Having owned 3 Dodge trucks prior to this recent purchase I was doubtful that the V6 model would be anything close to the mega cab hemi it was replacing.

Sadly I've never seen anything close to 40, 34 has been tops.

While it's theoretically possible to get into one of these for around $ 50,000, which is only a little bit more than the starting point for the shorter Tahoe, it's hard to imagine sneaking off the lot for anything close to that.

Scion only has two cars that could be considered anything close to sporty: the FR - S and the tC.

While these cars are arguably more desirable, neither comes with anything close to the amount of standard equipment as the 508 RXH.

Earlier, Lamborghini was always of the opinion that it wouldn't build anything close to an SUV and would always stick to their 2 - door sports cars.

There isn't anything close to it as far as wheel - to - wheel, sticker - to - sticker competition, though.

The only other crossovers in the segment that have anything close to the visual presence of the Outlander are the Nissan Rogue and Kia Sorrento.

The company did not divulge what changes were employed, but no doubt aside from the aerodynamic wheel covers, it had more than a few tuning tricks under the hood as the spec sheet for the production car would not add up to anything close to 185 mph.

Yet the ride isn't anything close to harsh, making the ML63 fine for longer trips.

You really would want to take this truck onto a racetrack, simply to get anything close to its limits of adhesion.

During my first few miles with it, I found myself pushing too hard on a clutch pedal that didn't need anything close to a Herculean stomp.

To find anything close to that dollar - per - horsepower ratio, you have to...

Or anything close to it.

For looking at this, I'm not seeing anything close to my key in the Honda Motorcycle section.

Changes in direction produce saggy, will - it - tip - over body roll, and anything close to an evasive maneuver has the standard stability system cutting gas and clamping brakes until the SUV rights itself.

Nor are they anything close to the «centralized control» that you assert above.

Although few public schools have employed peer tutoring on anything close to the scale that St. Luke's did, it is something that could be done in every school tomorrow morning at little or no cost.

The odds that Egypt will come out of this as anything close to a free country are somewhere between slim and none.

So, when Detroit imitates the portfolio management and heavy regulation adopted in NOLA my bet is that we will not see anything close to the same success.

But a look at the broad changes wrought by technology and the advance of the knowledge - based economy more than prove the ridiculousness of the assertions made by Gardner (and pushed by folks such as Harvard's Ronald Ferguson and Robert Schwartz in their Pathways to Prosperity report released earlier this year) shows that this is not anything close to reality.

«The fact that the changes are being made without anything close to adequate preparation is a failure of leadership, a sign of a broken accountability system and, worse, an abdication of our moral responsibility to kids, particularly poor kids.

They are unlikely to agree to the Murphy Amendment as currently written, or anything close to it (nor would Senate Republicans, for that matter).

It will be a long while before the families and educators will feel anything close to right again.

«I don't think there's anything close to it,» says Albert Beaton, who helped analyze the report and its surveys of 570,000 students and 60,000 teachers as a researcher for the Educational Testing Service.

No individual reform on the public agenda — neither merit pay, class size reduction, salary jumps for teachers, nor Race to the Top — can claim or even hope for anything close to that level of impact.

It's hard to imagine that we will see anything close to a repeat of last year's inclusive Oscar lineup, when seven actors of color were nominated (with wins for Mahershala Ali and Viola Davis) along with director Barry Jenkins (who shared the Adapted Screenplay Oscar with Tarell Alvin McCraney), editor Joi McMillon, cinematographer Bradford Young, four documentary directors and three producers.

The law the lords are tasked with protecting, as audiences will find, is more to contain existing wealth than anything close to satisfaction for Michael Kohlhaas.

Most of us have never been through anything close to this and would label it cruel and manipulative.

«Neither of the actors are ever out of handcuffs long enough to develop anything close to a real character, and despite the overheated, heavy - breathing publicity blitz surrounding the movie, there is no full - frontal nudity.

Feeling helpless with the boys in her life facing danger, Brittain drops out of university to become as a nurse, but in the face of so much carnage, do her beau, her brother, and her admirer stand anything close to a chance?

But, no, like almost everything in Dangerous Men, this character is soon dispensed with and we never get anything close to a resolution.

The first sex scene in which both participants are undressed involves two women; only toward the end of the story, with the arrival of a young male specimen named Ivan who rolls around in bed with O to the accompaniment of rat - a-tat hi - hat cymbal and electric guitar, does anything close to parity between male and female flesh exist.

My guess is that a shut out is incredibly unlikely, but anything close to double digit nominations is even more unlikely.

It looks shiny and slick, and when you turn it on it lights up with brilliant color, but garbage - in - garbage - out, and no amount of spit - shine will help this trashed robot deliver anything close to an effective right jab.

The game never tries to really create a huge tournament system or really make anything close to what resembles anything we see on TV.

I'm not sold on the female lead, but if she's anything close to Audrey Tatou, Audrey Hepburn, Julie Waters or even Julia Ormond, she'd be good enough for a nod.

With highly anticipated 2007 films by Hou Hsiao - hsein, Wong Kar - wai, Jia Zhang - ke, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Bela Tarr and other End Of Cinema favorites yet to be released in this country, as well as such well - regarded films as 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, Silent Light and Persepolis by filmmakers I'm unfamiliar with, there's no reason to expect this list to be anything close to final.

i was never comparing it to mk or ssb or anything close to that..

He'd never shot anything close to the scale of a Harry Potter.

Writer / director Harris Doran doesn't give Angie anything close to a happy Hollywood ending.

Line delivery is almost painfully dry at points, and the actors who are genuinely giving it their best shot are scarcely given anything close to the screen time necessary to do a good job.

Be aware of a definite mean streak which runs through the movie as well as a complete lack of humor (or anything close to that emotion), despite the fact that Azaria (who voices about a dozen characters on «The Simpsons» TV show) does his best with what little he is given.