Sentences with phrase «cracking nuts since»
The antiquity of the stones means that chimpanzees have been cracking nuts since long before human farmers reached the region — one explanation for the ability of modern chimps to use hammer stones and anvils to open food.
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At home, though, the Gunners remain a tough nut to crack — unbeaten since November in the league (11 games)-- and they proved a point or two to us all when dispatching of champions - elect Manchester United two weeks ago.
Many feel that Derbyshire County Council will be the toughest nut to crack in local government for us on 4th June, but one needs to remember that Labour have not faced us when there has not been a General Election on the same day since 1993... and that was not a good year for Conservatives anyway!Accordingly, we have worked hard to establish a Shadow Cabinet, engage in active but constructive opposition and really get to grips with the workings of the County Council so that we can put our vision for the future in place quickly; to employ a cliché: «to hit the ground running».
A world - class climber since his student days, Reppy is famous for his invention and promotion of clean - climbing techniques, in which the nuts that hold the rope are wedged into existing, natural cracks in rock faces rather than banged in like pitons.
Mathematicians great and not so great have been trying to crack this nut ever since Riemann put it out there.
Moreover, nut - cracking is clearly a learned behavior, since it takes years to master.
Since we have writers from every discipline, no project is a hard nut to crack for us.
Faster Pace: Since Build & Battle allows teams to construct home bases however they want, it is possible to have layouts that are very, very hard to get into — indeed a very tough nut to crack.
Ever since it came out of stealth mode, FF has been a tough nut to crack.