Sentences with phrase «barely make it to the end»

I remember the first time I tried to run and I could barely make it to the end of the block.

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The key here is to start putting money into a 401k by age 25, even if it's fifty dollars per month, even if you are barely making ends meet.

Barely making ends meet on a fixed income and facing a rent increase he didn't think he could afford, Terry Vaughn remembered the day he heard about new affordable housing coming to North Park.

If I had been asked 10 years ago to describe a woman I admire, or a woman I deemed valorous, a single mother barely making ends meet would not have crossed my mind.

We're talking about discipline (or the lack of it), church today, new friend debriefings, the book I'm writing, the school he's trying to finish (still) and how frustrating it is to work and work and still feel like you're just barely making ends meet because I do a lot of things really well but unfortunately, none of them make us much money.

I worked in accounting for about 20 years and was barely able to make ends meet.

Milan have made no secret of their desire to sign Deulofeu, and given that the Spaniard has barely played for Koeman so far this season coupled with the arrival of additional competition, his spell on Merseyside looks to be coming to an end.

Ruggs makes a nice 15 - yard catch to keep the drive going, but two incompletions keep stopping the clock before Scott's punt just barely ends up in the end zone for a touchback.

When traveling, sometimes you luck out with a King - sized bed that makes for a bit more room, but sometimes you end up with a double that sags to the floor and is just barely a safe sleeping environment for an adult, never mind an infant.

If you are barely making ends meet now, and trying to prepare for your child's future you may be borrowing against their present.

At the end, I was pumping many hours a day to barely make one bottle.

I've had so many constituents come to my office who barely exceed the current income restrictions and are struggling to make ends meet,» said Council Member Helen Rosenthal.

It only barely made the 50,000 vote cut - off in 2010 to automatically end up on this year's ballot.

He barely mentioned the act — and certainly made no significant effort to move it with the Senate Republicans — until the very end of the session, as attention started to turn from policy to politics.

I'm clearly never going to be in Sweet and Filardi's league — Sweet manages the museum's climate - controlled mass grave of bird corpses; Filardi spends months on end living in a hut made of leaves on the Solomon Islands, extracting birds» DNA — but even I, an urban sophisticate with a belly full of latte, experience an ineffable, or barely effable, satisfaction at the sight of a twitching organism ringed by darkness.

«Some of the patients could barely make it from one end of the office to the other,» she recalls.

no money in the bank to show for it, we were barely making ends meet, literally living from paycheck to paycheck.

With no money in the bank to show for it, we were barely making ends meet, literally living from paycheck to paycheck.

If you're barely getting — barely making enough ends to meet, you know, you're barely getting enough money to make ends meet, so to speak, right?

You're so tired at the end of the day, you can barely get home for dinner, let alone make a trip to the gym.

I'm usually exhausted at the end of the day and can barely manage to make dinner.

I fast forward to today and can barely get myself to work and home and usually we end up making pasta a lot of nights with just 2 ingredients — just the pasta and sauce.

Now working as a small - time promoter, Charlie pieces together scrap metal into low - end fighters, barely earning enough to make it from one underground venue to the next.

He can barely hide his anger at Ira & Christine's presence, as well as Ira's apparent wealth (unfortunately this is the beginning and end of the film exploring class tensions between the two couples), making his presence add a slight amount of unease to some scenes.

The show needed to make Daredevil better at his job so that at the end when he is struggling against Fisk it has meaning, as opposed to «Oh, this is the guy who lost to an old man with a stun gun and who barely outfought a tailor, no wonder he's having a hard time with this big dude.»

In the end you preach art and intellectualism but you pander religiously to an invisible barely recognizable audience who are made up of knuckle - dragging brain - dead troglodytes who endlessly whine about everything because it «s easier to smash something down then build it up.

What should have caused quite a splash ends up barely making a ripple in yet another American remake that fails to translate.

Peggy Hodgson (O'Connor) is a single mom raising four children and barely able to make ends meet.

It's difficult to witness the character's reluctant tolerance of such inhumanity; all for a lousy thirty bucks a day to make ends barely meet.

To Kill a Man / Chile, France (Director & Screenwriter: Alejandro Fernandez Almendras)-- When Jorge, a hardworking family man who's barely making ends meet, gets mugged by Kalule, a neighborhood delinquent, Jorge's son decides to confront the attacker, only to get himself shoTo Kill a Man / Chile, France (Director & Screenwriter: Alejandro Fernandez Almendras)-- When Jorge, a hardworking family man who's barely making ends meet, gets mugged by Kalule, a neighborhood delinquent, Jorge's son decides to confront the attacker, only to get himself shoto confront the attacker, only to get himself shoto get himself shot.

The schools vary widely in funding levels and other resources, from those that can barely make ends meet on per - pupil allotments that are lower than other high schools in the area to a few schools that amass large budgets from multiple sources and boast extraordinary technology and staffing.

If you make it to the end of the lyrics — which come seven and a half minutes after the beginning, so we're talking real commitment here — the song fades out to a barely - audible trickle of acoustic guitar, and just when you think it's over... it's not.

By which I mean, paragraphs that are barely indented, making it almost impossible to tell where one ends and the next begins — and in some cases, paragraphs that are split partway through.

When I met him he was barely making ends meet in Madrid, hiring himself out for four maravedís in employ of little glory, often as a swordsman for those who had neither the skill nor the daring to settle their own quarrels.

If in 2007, manga was like a foreign movie star who had arrived on American shores to make it big, the last four years have been like watching that star run out of roles, run out of money, sell their house, go into rehab, and end up barely limping along in infomercials.

Finally, there's Seff, a 21 - year - old on the brink of manhood, trying to survive along with his roommate, working as waiters and barely making ends meet.

Award - winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley, whose bestselling fiction «tackles some of life's toughest situations» (The Florida Times - Union), unravels the secrets in a mother's past that turn her daughter's life upside down — by revealing the family she never knew existed.Her dream of studying dance at Juilliard is within reach, but Olivia Dawson turns down the opportunity, choosing instead to stay with her ailing mother in the Houston projects where they barely make ends meet.

Put simply, this cycle consists of working hard, barely making ends meet, and never having enough money to save.

If you can barely make ends meet right now, then work on setting a goal to start funding your retirement account soon.

If you bring in $ 3,000 per month and you're barely making ends meet, why would you possibly think it's OK to purchase that $ 2,500 big - screen smart TV that will take you forever and a day to pay off?

Despite her hardest efforts to pay off some of the outstanding debts, she was barely making ends meet for both herself and her child.

It can be hard to squeeze out a few dollars from each paycheque to funnel into an emergency savings account, especially if you're barely able to make ends meet.

If you are barely making ends meet the last thing you're going to be doing is saving for retirement or stashing away money for your kid's college education -LSB-...]

When you're barely able to make ends meet it is so easy to fall into a screw - the - world type of attitude.

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You were barely making ends meet before and now you need to come up with additional money to save the house.

The only thing that is similar is that nobody wants to make their retirement years a struggle for existence barely being able to make ends meet.

It's one thing to be young, single, carefree, and barely making ends meet.

If you're barely making ends meet in a tough economy or you believe dogs don't cost much to care for, please... don't get a dog.

And if consumers, who are just barely making ends meet, had to buy the expensive foods, they might end up surrendering them — something that no one wants.