Sentences with phrase «couple of down»

Following the 911's lead, the Mercedes - AMG GT S blips a couple of down - changes into the cabin, priming that tremendous biturbo V8 for accelerative action.

Overtaking, pulling out of sharp turns, or climbing steep hills often require a couple of down changes, although the engine makes no complaints and happily revs to its 6,500 rpm red line.

Collectively, it was a good 12 months for the movie industry after a couple of down years in which revenues and attendance were in decline.

I been buying a couple of down coats this winter, going for the warmth.

Before this happened I was running very slow / low heart rate mileage each week around 85 miles a week (for about 8 weeks... with a couple of down weeks around 60).

I am looking forward to a couple of down days.

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His warnings, repeated this week, and the China crackdown sent the prices of bitcoin bouncing up and down over the last couple of weeks.

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

Many complained about it breaking down within just a couple of months, and speeds that weren't as fast as they previously saw from the same SSD.

Half an hour later, he put a down payment on a couple of condos that won't be built for two to three years.

The couple have struggled over the years from almost getting shut down by the police, to losing their home and dealing with the wrath of angry customers, but stuck with it and became multi-millionaires!

Staring down tens of thousands of dollars in debt, rising mortgage costs and no foreseeable way to substantially boost their incomes, the couple decided to sell their house and rent.

After selling his Highgate night spot, Luxe Bar, a couple of months ago, Geoff Hayward says he'd be focussing his attention on his pub down the road, The Brisbane Hotel.

Miller Lite's sales topped out at 19 million barrels in 1990, bumped up and down for a couple of decades, and eventually went flatter than a warm IPA.

Nadal could be seen this fall on CNBC, BNN and Business Insider, offering confident reassurances on the state of the ad business and boasting that while the Big Four chose to batten down the economic hatches over the past couple of years, MDC saw it as a key time for bold investment.

Occasionally, his head would nod down — just a bit — and he'd be very still for a couple of minutes while he slept.

A cheap date — defined as cab rides, dinner or lunch for two at a pub or diner, soft drinks, two movie tickets and a couple of beers — runs about $ 195.90 in Zurich, down around 7 percent from last year, the survey found.

And there's a couple of problems with that — one is that the definition of «share» isn't the same across all platforms, and the second is that sometimes APIs get shut down.»

Instead of sitting down in front of a screen and typing a couple of paragraphs into a form, you compose your message quickly on your phone's keypad.

Down the street, Sprinkles has been baking for a couple of hours.

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And he probably took several of his colleagues down a couple pegs, too — Collins regularly proselytized about the company, Innate Immunotherapeutics, to fellow House Republicans and convinced at least four of them to invest, as STAT News «Damian Garde reports.

His argument, in a nutshell: Take out a HECM as soon as you're eligible, at age 62, and then let it earn interest so you can milk it for cash a couple of decades down the road.

Crumbs's co-founders, a New York City couple named Jason and Mia Bauer, hired Morrow last May as part of an effort to make the chain scalable, which means reducing the bakery down to a defined set of reproducible parts and instructions.

First you slip in small ways, like when you're running behind one morning and don't have time to cook egg whites, so you scarf down a couple of Pop - Tarts in the car.

If job - seekers can also string together a couple of good references, hiring often comes down to a gut decision.

The lesson is that you can save yourself stress down the road by reiterating instructions in a couple of different forms at the beginning of a project.

While some of the rhetoric around trade tariffs on China has died down over the last couple of weeks, the prospect of a trade war has not.

Since stepping down as director of marketing for Facebook in 2011 she has founded her own media company, written a couple of books, produced a much - hyped but short - lived reality show, and spoken at several business and tech conferences.

If you're blogging once or twice a week, brainstorm and jot down some topics to write about and insert them into a calendar that extends into the next couple of months.

He urges the couple to spend not just on worthy causes, but to actually invest a substantial chunk of their money in fundraising, an activity that has been looked down on as potentially wasteful in the past.

In a comment on his own post, MacMillan said he had since been in contact with a couple of Facebook staffers about the incident, and both said they could find no record of the image or post having been taken down, and in fact couldn't find any evidence that anything of that nature had ever been uploaded.

But just a couple of years later, Netflix lost its exclusivity with Epix when the distributor signed a similar deal with Amazon (AMZN)-- news that also hit the company's share price hard, taking Netflix stock down by as much as 11 percent in a day.

That said, there were a couple of times where I forgot I was wearing fancy shoes until I looked down.

«I do believe what we've seen — especially over the last couple of years — is we've seen renewable technologies coming down very rapidly in price,» Henrik Poulsen said.

«A couple of weeks ago, the generator went down.

But when you get right down to it, Tesla is a debt - laden car company with a couple of iffy sidelines.

«The engines ignited but a couple engines didn't like the temperature of the liquid oxygen, so it automatically shut down,» Beck said.

Amazon Music Unlimited will at first only stream «Baby, Let's Lay Down and Dance,» Brooks» latest single, and a couple of his greatest hits albums.

But at the end of day it just comes down to the same thing: To be able to hit the shots when it matters and to make a couple putts at right time.

Tinder is reportedly accusing 3nder, an app that lets couples meet potential threesome mates, of choosing a name that sounds very similar to its own, and wants the startup to shut down and remove all references to itself from the Internet to avoid confusion with Tinder.

A couple of years ago, we locked down the Backstreet Boys, which was always our dream project to work when we were teenagers.

Having headphone controls on an earbud instead of a controller is useful, though you'll have to slow down your exercise for a couple of seconds when making an adjustment.

«For the next couple of weeks, I think it's going to be prices climbing down but, after May 24, look out, that's when we're back into the thick of it and prices could start to slowly but surely climb up with some spikes occurring,» said McTeague.

But they have since gone out for bids and it looks like [the hohlraums] are down to the order of a couple pennies each with a contract to do millions of them,» Sellman says.

But that started to change late in the summer and over the last couple of months business has turned down pretty sharply.

-- to drive traffic, but over the next couple of months it could be that running 10 percent down will be a success.

If you don't have the fiduciary standard, it's a little bit like walking down to the Ford lot and saying, «Do you think I need a new car yet or do you think I should keep driving the old one for another couple of years?»

And after a couple of years spent cracking down on wealth - making activities through a fierce anti-corruption campaign, Beijing could also reassure business and financial elites that it had their interests at heart.

I look at the last couple Consumer Electronics Shows and see much the same stuff — just a lot of it crashing down at once.