Sentences with phrase «bit harder this year»

That has been a little bit harder this year than most because our temperatures have been MUCH below normal.

My parents & in - laws are always at the top most precious people in our lives but gift giving is getting a bit harder each year so the personalized deer ornanment would be perfect!

Not exact matches

Since those recommendations appear throughout the year, it's a bit harder to compare their performance to the market head - to - head.

It seems to me looking at a year when the stock market has gone down a bit, credit spreads have widened substantially and the dollar has been very strong it is hard to say that now is the time to fire a shot across the bow of financial euphoria.

I've picked up quite a bit just by being around our CEO, Kyle, for the past few years — he's been in and out and up and down in startups, and has shared some of the hard lessons he learned along the way.

(I'd like to offer a rosy «best wishes for the New Year,» but I'm one of those hard - bitten union types who dislikes empty rhetoric as much as our members do.)

We are in the midst of a historic bear, whose bite is clamping down harder on the Industry with each passing year, squeezing the last -LSB-...]

Still, Walther, who has been in the financial services industry for more than 25 years, senses a fundamental underlying change even if the current generation of guaranteed income products will need more refining before RIAs bite down hard.

Why they weren't up in arms about it years ago is a bit hard to take.

I know this kind of wrecks the convenient narrative you've been working for the past 60 or so years (and hitting especially hard the past 18 months), but honestly that nasty bit of heresy has done enough damage already and it needs to go.

As I said before, these are just general observations I've made about humor and satire through the years, and some principles I worked really hard to incorporate into A Year of Biblical Womanhood, which included quite a bit of both.

But its so hard not to be a bit harsh when it feels like we're dealing with 10 year old Pokemon fans who keep quoting from their handbook as if it means something.

After three years of hard work on the manuscript, seeing your plant - powered creations under #simplyvibrantcookbook is seriously one of the most fulfilling bits of our days.

(I eat pancakes maybe twice a year but it might be hard not to eat them more often with this recipe) I may try adding a bit of vanilla but they really don't need it.

I will be trying to stick to a strict budget as I will be relying on money I have saved over the last year or so, so will have to reign in any non-essentials - maybe a Pulsin» bar or two might be an exception I will need to stock up on some store cupboard bits initially but after that I will really be trying hard to stick to a budget, we'll see how this goes and I'll blog about how I get on.

Last year I had used a bit smaller saucepan, and it took much longer than 30 minutes to reach the hard crackle stage - 310 degrees.

I do believe that we have lacked a bit of steel over the last few years but players that can battle as well as having great ability are hard to come by and therefore the most expensive, so we are back to money.

Might be fairer to say that as fans we have become a bit spoiled and the Dubs of the last 3 years have always provided a level of excellence that is hard to match day in and day out.

Our unbeaten year, we had players who did not pass the ball around waiting for an opening, they sat back a bit more and hit them fast and hard when we won the ball back, meanwhile the opposition has gaps which pace and skill exploited.

We have always relied on our passing and possession in recent years, but it can be a bit slow and predictable and hard for us to penetrate a well organised opponent's defence.

I guess I'm still scarred from all the hard contact and HRs he gave up last year in critical moments, but I absolutely don't trust him 1 bit when he's on the mound.

The ideal coach in 1980, uniting a team of college kids and sending them out to beat the world, Brooks remained the ideal coach 22 years later, prodding hard - bitten pros with homilies and buzzwords such as «rebound.»

I really don't want to bite too hard on this bait, as that's all it likely is, but... JT has been a solid ML starter for years, even last year.

It's hard for me to latch on to one of the big names here — long hitters that tend to spray it a bit, the grinder who hasn't been in form this year, etc..

It's been a bit of a hard time for the club at the moment with the injuries we have and the amount of games being played throughout the Xmas / New year period.

They had to work a bit harder for their 2nd W of the year, but earned the 21 - 18 W over Team Dincin late in the Game on Saturday afternoon.

Great Reception???, tell you the truth Im not one of those gunners who started supporting the gunners during the invicibles or early Wenger double winning years, quite honestly i wasnt ineterested in football and I liked a certain Crespo and Shevchenko meaning I liked the blue half of London, surprisingly when Mourinho joined I stopped watching football all together, till one glorious Champions League Night, It was my first ever Match there was a certain 20 year old highly rated youngster who scored a wonder goal that day he played with such skill and passion ever since then I started supporting arsenal that was during the barren years.I actually liked Barcelona because of their similarity with the arsenal, so when Fabregas joined Barca I started to watch them a bit more I still loved Arsenal and I was extremely passionate, the other players i adored left in painful manners, while some left which was still painful: i.e Eboue.I always taught cesc would come back and when it was official he was leaving Barca i said Finally almost hosting a party.Well reports started coming out that he is going to join chelsea and i laughed so hard and said he would be the last player on earth to do that, when it became official words cant express how i felt, He was the reason I started watching football he lit up the emirates with exquisite touches through balls to walcott, its a shame I would have preferred he joined bayern, or remained in barca its terrible reading the comments he made recently about the emirates, This was a captain, someone who led, anyways, like ive learnt and Arsenal have learnt, We do nt live in the past Like Liverpool (no pun) WE ARE THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE (Crowley)(Puma) WE ARE ARSENAL.....

The Dodgers also acquired Nick Punto in this trade, which seemed a little odd at the time: one of the game's top first basemen on a contract the Dodgers wanted to possess, coupled with a former ace and a former star who had both fallen on hard times... and also a bench player who hadn't hit even a little bit in his first year with the Red Sox and was only owed a little over $ 300,000 for the rest of the season.

Notorious hard - men from over the years have included such names as Dave Mackay, Ron «Chopper» Harris, Norman «Bites Yer Legs» Hunter, Billy Bremner, Roy Keane, Graeme Souness, Joe Jordan and Vinnie Jones.

I've followed AT for a few years now every season we are warned nothing will change, don't believe the transfer rumours, save your hard earned cash, yet due to the love of Arsenal FC we continue to hold on to that bit of hope that this year might be different.

Comiserations to the parents of young Arsenal fans who will have to think a bit harder about birthday presents this year!

Furthermore, Mancini's cause isn't helped one little bit by the fact his team have taken a miserly two points from a possible eighteen on their travels since the turn of the year, however a great deal of confidence can be had from their exploits at Wembley a week previous, when eliminating arch rivals Manchester United in the semi-final of the FA Cup courtesy of a hard - fought but thoroughly deserved 1 - 0 victory.

Despite the tight struggle at The Hawthorns on New Year's Day, the team captain said that «It was a very hard game for us at West Brom and we got a bit lucky.

Therefore, transfer activity is expected to be very limited at CSKA in the upcoming years as the cost of paying off the stadium debt combined with the general financial downturn of Russian football in recent seasons and Financial Fair Play bites hard.

We used a play yard around the tree last year for our then 2 and 1 year olds... worked great, just a bit of a space hog and made it harder for us to water the tree!

Avoid offering hard or tough bits of food like whole nuts or chunks of raw carrots until he is about three years old.

But I find that even now, with an 11 - and 14 - year old, sometimes it's hard for my kids to accept the idea that it's not just OK but actually desirable to be really hungry before a meal, and that no one is going to «die» of hunger if they're forced to wait it out a bit.

Children should not have whole nuts until five years old, and babies should not be given very hard foods that can snap into small bits in their mouth, such as raw apple slices and chunks of carrot.

*** I have moderately hard water, I do not add a water softener, I just use a tiny bit more detergent, 1 - 2 extra lines, 7 years never a problem with build up in my diapers ****

Before age two, I tried really hard to limit her sweets but for about the last year and a half, I've been a bit more relaxed about it.

Being a bit more flexible and going with the flow can be wonderful and liberating, unless you are undoing the habits you worked so hard to maintain the rest of the year.

So far this has been 1 year, 9 months (lowered milk supply when I got pregnant and I couldn't get it back up), 10 months (screamed when baby bit me very hard and could never get him to latch back on, mommy fail and major heartbreak for me), then 12 months.

Every little bit helps, and this year is twice as hard.

Known for his rather «hard» prophesies particularly on the eve of every new year, Founder and Leader of Glorious Word Ministry, Rev. Owusu Bempah in another round of predictions for the year 2018 has said that wife of Ghana's President, Rebecca Akufo - Addo may bite the dust if Ghanaians don't pray to avert any planned death on her life.

It is not hard to imagine that most athletes will object to having bits of flesh sliced from the very muscles they've spent years honing.

«Over the years, we've constantly been increasing our rates and running our furnaces a little harder, a little bit hotter, and as a result our emissions have increased as well,» says Ma.

Postdocs who have been in the circle for much longer than that — some have been postdocs for 15 years — have «got into that bit of a rut where it's going to be quite hard for them to leave and go and do something different» from academic work, he says.

It's not hard to imagine that most athletes will object to having bits of flesh sliced from the very muscles they've spent years honing.

This year biologists published a study of super-ants that fly by biting against the ground so hard that they shoot themselves into the air.

Although science played only a bit part in this year's dramatic, hard - fought campaign, many researchers expressed fear and disbelief as Trump defeated former secretary of state Hillary Clinton on 8 November.