Sentences with phrase «around after slow start»

Nintendo's hardware sales are still nothing to brag about — there were plenty of great Wii U releases this year, and the 3DS came around after a slow start, but not even Mario Kart, Pokemon or Super Smash Bros. could manage to attract the spotlight away from all the grouchy Internet buzz about things like day - one issues on brand - new PS4 & XB1 games, pre-loaded copies not working properly, online multiplayer problems, and so on.

Arsenal have turned their season around after slow start to the league campaign and now they are one of the most inform team in the league alongside Manchester City.

Arsenal have turned their season around after slow start to the league campaign and now they are one of the most inform team in the league alongside -LSB-...]

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The Old Trafford club's striker Robin van Persie has backed Van Gaal to turn around the club's fortunes after a slow start to the season --(Manchester Evening News)

«After 20 minutes I thought it was going nice and easy, but then I started to worry around that period of the game when Arteta and Santi Cazorla slowed it down and a leisurely, horrible slowness crept into their play.

At Talladega in 2003 the last few laps were completed without incident, but as the massive pack of cars started to slow down after taking the flag Bobby Labonte got turned around in the middle of the pack, triggering a multi-car pileup.

Ritchie de Laet has had an extremely slow start in his career at Aston Villa after joining on August of 2016 but only being able to make 3 appearances before picking up an injury which left him out of the pitch for around 10 months.

Until you're familiar with how long beans typically take in your slow cooker, start checking them around five hours and then every 30 minutes or so after that until they're done.

Sometimes things turn around suddenly after a slow start.

After clearing my heart and lungs, numerous blood and urine tests I started walking slowing around the house, making sure I did not pass out.

After a slow start in the early 1990s, the ETF industry gained traction around the turn of this century as more and more investors realized the benefits of making room for those funds in their portfolios.

Temperature records of recent ice ages show a long slow descent, starting around 10 - 12,000 years after the beginning of the interglacial.

So if you complete a full charge every day, that would mean that the iPhone starts slowing down after around 18 months.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.