Sentences with phrase «bigger slice of a pie»

The last two years, Instagram started to get a big slice of the pie, and we are seeing steady growth for Twitter and Snapchat.

Online advertising is taking a bigger slice of a pie that used to be dominated by TV.

If that all sounds pretty good, the real issue is how big a slice of this pie is the US industry getting, and how important overall is China box office revenue to the studios?

For 28 - year - old JP Livingston, the key to retiring with $ 2 million in the bank was cutting back spending on the biggest slice of that pie: housing.

They want as big a slice of the pie as possible, and they want to do things for players (full - cost - of - attendance scholarships) and for themselves (waterfalls in facilities that never needed waterfalls) other schools can't afford.

In other words, you may burn a bigger slice of the pie from fat but lose the edge when you can only reach 50 per cent intensity rather than 70.

Since Kindle is by far the biggest slice of the pie, that could indeed cause some major hurt.

There is also the financial consideration, in that as a self publisher, one gets a bigger slice of the pie.

When it comes to print on demand, IngramSpark and CreateSpace compete for the biggest slice of the pie.

Notice that bonds still make up a big slice of the pie, despite today's low interest rates.

Moreover, even if a given policy will ultimately benefit Americans, voters may distrust it and demand measures that more explicitly assure them a big slice of the pie.

I had reached the view that the realists» story was in fact a fantasy, and it seemed to me that by signing I would be downplaying the science (and the Authority's own earlier work) in exchange for a big slice of pie in the sky.

You absolutely should not be concerned about how big a slice of pie the client of a cooperating brokerage, or the client of a cooperating sales person within your brokerage, receives.

Not exact matches

Independent developers — often just a handful of people and sometimes just a single individual — are popping up faster than mushrooms in a Super Mario game, and they're taking a big chunk of the pie through a thousand little slices.

In other words, by restricting the market to retain their big slice, cabbies are also restricting the size of the pie.)

DEMAND for fast food alternatives continues to increase and gourmet pie shops are taking a big slice of the market.

Exports have never been a big part of the U.S. economy, they make up 10 per cent of GDP, less than half the slice of the pie they account for in Canada.

And China doesn't have to build a blue water navy or engage in an arms race to take a big slice of the U.S.'s energy pie.

I'm currently ploughing my way through pretty much every recipe from Appetite for Reduction, so obviously I'll need to balance out all that healthy eating with a big ol slice of pie!

One of my favorite sweet treats that my mama use to make, and one I still love today is taking a piece of apple pie, topping it with a big slice of cheddar cheese and putting it under the broiler until the cheese melted all over the pie.

Slice up this pie, and you'll discover it's studded with big chunks of fresh strawberries inside that pretty pink filling.

The day of giving thanks can not end without a big slice of pumpkin pie.

Thanks Indu — the layering was so easy to do as I was only frosting pieces as big as a slice of pie.

Go with bite sized desserts like the these easy homemade truffles instead of big slices of cake and pie.

These bars look even better than a big slice of pumpkin pie (and coming from me that means a lot!)

: Partially aged in oak barrels, it's a refreshing slice of sour pie to help cut through the meal's big flavors.

With its first South Australian stores now open and its expansion into Western Australia due to start rolling out mid-year, the future is looking bright for the German supermarket chain's quest for a bigger slice of the Aussie supermarket pie.

Then, when I went to apologize to my son for yelling, he gives me a big slice of humble pie... like he usually does.

(The winner of the quiz gets the biggest slice of pumpkin pie.)

Breaking up the NHS and schools, letting the Tories» friends in big business get a slice of the pie, will not deliver better services or save money.

Al Samuels, who has spent nearly two decades as RBA President, thanked his wife for putting up with his whirlwind life, much of it spent advocating for a bigger slice of Albany's «pie» for the county.

The ten regional economic development councils were back at it this week in their efforts to bring home as big a slice of three - quarters of a billion dollar state funding pie as possible.

The health care lobby, for instance, has a $ 6 million ad blitz (its biggest since Cuomo's first year as gov) to ensure it gets a fat slice of the pie.

In short, both Labour and the Tories are getting smaller and smaller slices of a bigger and bigger pie.

Ricardo Letelier, professor of biological oceanography, says that although NASA used to represent a big slice of the funding pie for university projects, that slice has shrunk in recent years.

In the long run, «from the manufacturer's perspective,» Smith says, «what they may be looking at is a bigger slice of what we all hope will be a much smaller [liability] pie.»

«More to the point, with Congressional activity that increased the size of the budgetary pie there is no reason that NASA's science program can't see a bigger slice.

If you fancy a bigger slice of Gordini pie, then fear not.

Besides, with a 183 - mph pie, each of the six slices was going to be pretty big.

India is one of the biggest markets for subcompact SUVs and crossovers in the world and every automotive manufacturer wishes to have a substantial slice of the pie in these segments.

Although the Japanese automaker's market share in the U.S. may not be that big of a slice of the pie, rising from 2.2 % to 2.5 % this year, with a few anticipated improvements they expect to keep that momentum going by offering the right car to the right customer.

I spoke to Viz CEO Ken Sasaki at Comic - Con in San Diego last July, and he told me that the app still accounts for the majority of their digital manga sales, but he expected sales on other platforms to grow; while Viz's slice might get smaller, the pie as a whole will get bigger, he said.

Miller then makes a pretty big assumption, that DC has the same slice of the digital pie as it does of the print - comics market; if that holds true, he reckons that digital sales amount to 40 million downloads a year.

I'm not annoyed or surprised — I predicted that once Amazon had its way with the big 5, once indies had served their purpose as a stick with which to threaten trad pubs, it would go back to business as usual, where the lion's share of sales went to trad pubs and Amazon imprints (a variation of trad pub), and indies had to generate far more content and work far harder for a much smaller slice of the pie.

Just because your slice of pie gets bigger doesn't necessarily mean someone else's becomes smaller.

But in this case, perhaps offering the government some (bigger) slice of the pie might ultimately yield a significantly better net benefit for shareholders..?

Since the mortgage interest is the biggest slice of the revenue pie — it is easy to start the investigation with the mortgage side of the business.

Despite this promising growth, however, sales of these products remain a fairly small slice of the bigger pie, with only 1.3 percent of all pet food sales at pet specialty retail in the U.S. falling into this category.

While social media has taken a big slice out of the communications pie, direct email remains a powerful tool to reach people interested in your organization and its work for animals.

I'll concede that mobile gaming is helping itself to a bigger slice of the consumer cash pie than ever before, but there's no way it's muscling traditional gaming away from the table.