Sentences with phrase «bigger than a handful»

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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.

The funeral industry in WA is increasingly dominated by a handful of big players, including two listed companies that hold more than 50 per cent of the market after buying some of the state's oldest operators.

Like many, he points to the CSeries, which is expected to be ready for test flights in June, as far more important to the company's long - term success than a handful of big deals in the business line.

Indeed, world currency markets have roared back to life lately after years of hibernation, with a handful of monetary policy surprises — including the European Central Bank (ECB)'s bigger - than - expected bond buying program and the Federal Reserve (Fed)'s delay in raising rates — leading to rising volatility, as the chart below shows.

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College basketball is a much different beast than college football — you could (and should) argue that there are a handful of Big East, A-10, and other jobs that are more attractive than PSU.

I wasn't quite big enough for maternity wear, so tried to solve my problem by buying a handful of shift style dresses from Nordstrom in one size larger than what I normally wear.

Parcel a handful of snacks rather than you bring along a big snack item, and don't forget to include one of these in your bag: dried - yogurt drops, yellow box Cheerios, Edamame, mango strips, or other cereal bars.

The development of the long - promised «digital era governance» was mired in a series of mega contracts: huge in terms of cost, scope and timescale, bigger than any attempted by other governments worldwide, and to be delivered by the same handful of giant global computer consulting firms that rarely saw any challenge to their grip on public contracts.

«Next time she indicts a large chunk of the country's biggest city,» Chotiner concludes, «she should have better evidence than a 2008 presidential campaign — which was utterly unrelated to Quinn's candidacy — and a handful of adjectives in a New York Times article,» which pointed to a poll in which voters described Quinn with terms often used to denigrate women in power.

The fact that they could do so suggests that the ability to think in an abstract way may be more common in nature than we might expect, and not just restricted to humans and a handful of animals with big brains.

These men and women also allow flexibility, often giving a little bit of money to a lot of different companies rather than going all in on a handful of companies as many big firms do.

A handful of them have redshifts greater than 6, dating them to a time no more than 900 million years after the Big Bang.

I know that at Middlebury College where I teach [elite students at], a wonderful academic institution, graduates [every year] more than a handful of kids whose biggest desire is to go start farming some place.

«The big picture of your diet is much more impactful than any one or even a handful of supplements,» says Sass.

I had all the ingredients except for the cherries so I used dried cherries and added a big handful of flaked almonds - it all tasted much better and much lighter than I expected.

With understated fatalism rather than Titanic - size hysteria — at once slapstick and ice - cool — McKellar tracks a handful of average but bizarre Canadian earthlings as they prepare in small, banal, personal ways for extinction, then links them in a bigger human whole.

The next several years saw Alda show up in a handful of supporting roles, but in 2004, he had his biggest year in more than a decade.

A big three - time winner at the Sundance Film Festival, here is a film with talent, sophistication, humor, and sensitivity rolled into a joyous, grief - cleansing, heart - lifting 90 minutes that earns both good word - of - mouth and positions itself for year - end acclaim on more than a handful of top - ten best lists.

The team are fractured into units, so rather than one big set - piece, we are treated to a handful of different movies.

A similar ersatz, too - late populism motors The Big Short — the movie begins with a quote from Mark Twain — though the cognitive dissonance it produces is even more dizzying than that generated by The Other Guys «closing credits: The handful of fact - based finance guys the film tracks, who saw that the economy was headed for calamity and made billions of dollars while millions of people lost homes and jobs, are held up as conscience - bearers.

As the world's automotive manufacturers merge themselves into only a handful of big, soulless corporations driven by CEO bonuses, cars are better than ever.

I don't think we'll ever go back to a time when big publishers give marketing help to more than a handful of authors.

As you mentioned, a handful of bad experiences can spoil the reputation of a small company far easier than for a big company.

I guess it's easier for big companies to say I'm sorry to a handful of authors who actually monitor their royalty statements than it is to get it right in the first place.

This time, when comparing only the earnings of «New» authors who debuted after 2010, we see that below a tiny handful of mega-selling Big - 5 debuts (like Veronica Roth), far more «New» indie authors are making a good living from their Kindle e-books than their «New» Big - 5 peers.

And there was a Winnipeg investor who turned $ 35,000 into more than $ 2 million by betting big on a handful of firms.

The new brute splicer, reminiscent of Left 4 Dead's tank, is more of a handful than any of the splicers from the original but most of them are easier to deal with than they used to be, since you're now a Big Daddy.

Having said that, once you are ready to move on, do not expect to enter a bigger studio as anything less than a junior, hiring managers are well aware that you most likely have experience working with only a handful of people.

While Madden 18 doesn't offer up any big gameplay changes, there are a handful of smaller additions and tweaks that make the total package a lot better than last year's installment.

Due to the nature of early 3D games, a lot of beloved games from the era just haven't aged all that well and don't hold up to one memories a lot of the time, but even with that aside, I feel all systems from the generation only had a handful of memorable games, those of which are very good, but I don't feel it's a case where quality makes up for quantity, as both previous and later consoles have games that are just as good and more often than not in bigger numbers.

More than a handful of big name artists will on view, including Olaf Breuning, Katharina Grosse, Tomás Saraceno, Robert Wilson, Sterling Ruby and Rirkrit Tiravanija.

One of my friends always said it's better to have too many people in a smaller room than a big room where it looks like there's only a handful of people.

For a big merchant, it is far better to have to pay $ 5,000 and attorneys» fees to the handful of people who bring arbitrations and win them, than to lose a single class action lawsuit for millions of dollars.

Walmart's got more than a handful you can check out for the biggest savings in gadgets and electronics.

Although there are a handful of very large cities in the state, the city of New York itself is 33 times more populated than the next biggest city.

«Because walkable urban centers close to amenities are typically a big draw for renters, you'd expect rents to rise faster in the city than in the suburbs — which is exactly what we've been seeing until very recently,» says Dr. Svenja Gudell, chief economist at Zillow, «but a handful of factors are helping turn the tables and beginning to push suburban rents up at a higher clip.

However, Kok points out that large companies with lots of properties have a bigger challenge executing a green strategy than an owner with only a handful of properties.

You can play an important role by helping your clients understand that a handful of affordable improvements can make a huge difference and possibly result in a better return on investment than big - ticket changes.