Sentences with phrase «by couple of»

The suspension will be beefed up with stronger shocks and springs, effectively raising the car's ride height by a couple of inches in comparison to the Avant.

As a reminder, the motor show study (Generation EQ), revealed at the 2016 Paris motor show, was powered by a couple of electric motors putting out a combined 400 hp and 700 Nm, and it had a claimed range of 500 Km or around 310 miles.

The rear end has a dual tone bumper, which is accompanied by a couple of chrome plated exhaust pipes.

The most noticeable being that the roof is now sloped downward in the rear by a couple of degrees.

Jason in finance was able to negotiate with my lender to have my half of the radio replacement added to my financing, which only increased my payment by a couple of dollars.

The body colored bumper is fitted with a wide air dam that is flanked by a couple of bright fog lamps.

Along with the presumed pricing advantage (assuming BMW will raise the GC's price by a couple of grand, the M2 four - door should still be $ 10,000 cheaper than an M3), the M2 Gran Coupe should also be just as quick in the real world, on top of offering the extra practicality that a four - door bodyshell provides.

The rear bumper has been elevated by a couple of inches while the taillights have been extended to reach the sides.

Australian pricing for the BMW X1 and Audi Q3 rival will increase by a couple of per cent, but the price hikes will be offset by extra standard equipment.

Adjustment is manual, and it feels as if the seat could be lower by a couple of inches.

A well - designed interior is marred by a couple of glitches.

This feature, developed by General Motors and copied by a couple of other manufacturers such as Mercedes - Benz's TeleAid, uses cellular technology to notify operators in an emergency, and also can handle less - critical duties.

It is surrounded by a couple of fog lamps as well.

With claims of 22mpg in the city and 30mpg on the highway in the more efficient rear - wheel drive guise (adding all - wheel drive drops both figures by a couple of miles - per - gallon), it's comfortably the most efficient engine in the range, and better in many cases than what smaller, turbocharged four - cylinder gasoline engines in rival cars can muster.

When your company was founded by a couple of world - class racing drivers, you take a track - down approach to automotive innovation.

But that was then and this is now, and now means it doesn't get a V12 and won't be built by hand by the couple of hundred.

And that's with the car equipped with the standard six - speed manual transmission (as is the tester); with the six - speed DSG dual - clutch automatic the zero - to - 100 time should drop by a couple of tenths.

I kept missing it by a couple of blocks.

This magazine advertisement for the 1982 CJ touts the truck's rugged good looks — emphasized by a couple of models who look as if they came straight out of a Dukes of Hazzard episode — and its somewhat implausible claimed fuel economy.

Coming down into Turn One, it looked like Jan had been jumped by a couple of cars.

Separated by a couple of weeks.

Before I'd even seen the car in person, it had aged me by a couple of years.

The 3.5 L DOHC V - 6 boasts the largest displacement available in an import minivan — technically edging out the tremendously popular Honda Odyssey by a couple of cubic centimeters.

This Wagoneer's single - overhead cam six, first U.S. mass - produced OHC engine (predating the Pontiac OHC six by a couple of years) was removed in favor of, ironically, the OHV 5.7 - liter Hemi V - 8, paired with a four - speed automatic transmission.

«They accept that grade boundaries can change by a couple of marks, but to change by 10 or more makes a mockery of the system.»

Dedicated to promoting the privatization of public education, more taxpayer funds for privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools, the Common Core, the Common Core testing scheme and a host of anti-teacher initiatives, Students for Education Reform, Inc. (SFER) was created in late 2009, according to their narrative, by a couple of undergraduate students at Princeton University.

I miss by a couple of inches and lose what little attention I had been commanding.

There is even a cookery club set to launch after half term, run by a couple of our dedicated Teaching Assistants, for those budding chefs and bakers!

Cut public education budgets by a couple of billion dollars.

«Some of the best charter schools I know were started by a couple of renegade, fantastic teachers,» Lake said.

«We didn't have enough space for a separate teachers lounge,» says Segel, pointing out the adult desks cordoned off only by a couple of pillars from her classroom.

This was a question asked by a couple of delegates.

In the next few years, every indication is that both fully online and blended learning courses will be enrolled by a couple of million students.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Intergalactic Eddie Murphy Vehicle Arrives on DVD In 1984, John Sayles directed The Brother from Another Planet, a thought - provoking, sci - fi comedy about an alien who washes ashore at Ellis Island and makes his way to Manhattan where he does his best to blend in because he's being chased by a couple of bounty hunters who had followed him to Earth.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening January 16, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Chandni Chowk to China (Unrated) Action comedy about a humble chef (Akshay Kumar) from Delhi who moves to China after being mistaken by a couple of visitors from the Orient as the reincarnation of an ancient war hero.

Youth (R for profanity, sexuality and graphic nudity) Surrealistic meditation on mortality by a couple of BFFs, one, a composer (Michael Caine), the other, a filmmaker (Harvey Keitel), reflecting on the meaning of life while vacationing in the Swiss Alps.

But Cruise is mostly on his own here, hamstrung by a couple of obvious twists and a wasted post-apocalyptic performance from Morgan Freeman.

1983 — The weakest peak of the decade, with only a fair amount of depth, the year is led by a couple of truly great films: Chris Marker's Sans soleil and Philip Kaufman's The Right Stuff, along with one of Woody Allen's more underrated gems, the great Zelig.

Jonathan Cross (Chris Klein) is one of the participants and soon finds himself being chased by a couple of police cars.

Played with wide - eyed determination and desperation by an excellent Chiwetel Ejiofor, Solomon is a free man who is tricked by a couple of young shysters into losing his free papers and becoming a slave, where he remains for more than a decade under the mastery of two different plantation owners — the benevolent William Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch) and emasculated, tyrannical Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender).

by Walter Chaw If it barely registers at under ninety minutes, Wes Craven's high - concept thriller Red - Eye is carried along by a couple of excellent lead performances (from Cillian Murphy and Rachel McAdams) and a revenge subtext that lends surprising gravity to the lingering sensitivity of a sexual assault victim's scars.

Meeting Resistance (Unrated) The resistance movement to the American occupation serves as the subject of this documentary shot by a couple of Western photojournalists who spent ten months embedded with Iraqi insurgency in Baghdad.

Cropsey (Unrated) Urban legend documentary shot by a couple of first - time filmmakers from Staten Island determined to find out whether there's any truth to the haunting rumor circulated during their childhood that an escapee from a nearby insane asylum had been responsible for the mysterious disappearance of five kids from their neighborhood.

The Black Dahlia is a lot more like his The Untouchables than the Chinatown to which it aspires — a technically - marvellous picture (its use of sound is astonishing) overburdened by a couple of actors simply incapable of saying the words.

The two scenarios are dreamed up by a couple of playwrites while discussing whether nature if inherently funny or tragic.

Whatever you want to call it, this 1972 film was a vehicle tailor - made for Van Cleef by a couple of Leone colleagues: screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi, best known for scripting the western comedy My Name is Nobody and its loose sequel, and first - time director Giancarlo Santi, Leone's AD on The Good, The Bad... and Once Upon a Time in the West and his vetoed choice to replace a fired Peter Bogdanovich at the helm of Duck, You Sucker!.

They are also joined by a couple of young, lower class troublemakers (Jamie Kierans and James Napier) and Sophie (Yaya DaCosta), the Ethiopian refugee employee of a nearby shop whom Joe has begun seeing.

The fashion moment of the year is observed by a couple of excited, unseen women taking over to assess and describe the dress and hair of Ms. Middleton, whose father carefully folds her train on the seat next to her.

Hoping its seasonal timeliness overshadows the stench of its failure to connect with the public, Guardians hits stores on Tuesday as the final chapter of the DreamWorks - Paramount partnership in no fewer than five DVD, Blu - ray and Blu - ray 3D editions, two of them joined by a couple of hopping egg toys.

Moments later, the wife and child are brutally murdered by a couple of nasty customers on a stagecoach; moments after that, Jon catches up to the nasty customers and brutally murders them.