Sentences with phrase «drove it a couple of times»

I did my research, test drove it a couple of times and bought it last week.

I drive it a couple of times a week, wife says it has to go!

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Because like I've explained on my blog a couple of times, if for instance the United States decided to ban Cryptocurrencies Well I could take my Bitcoin and you know my one Bitcoin or whatever and I could put it on a thumb drive or a so - called hard wallet.

We were driving to Chattanooga for something like the 29th time a couple of days ago, with the windows down and the golden light of fall streaming in.

However, when I am going to eat anyway (as per tonight) or I am driving for a couple of hours (as is often the case while out speaking), I think this is a great use of time.

We only have one truck on the road that has to stop overnight a couple of times a week because of the distance he has to drive.»

With all of the excitement and buzz surrounding the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) coupled with the fact that the fall and winter flu, holiday survival and New Year resolution seasons are all on fast approach, now is the perfect time to explore some innovations — gadgets, appliances and other science - based solutions aimed at improving our F&B - driven well - being.

The yardage was closer, thanks in part to a couple of decent garbage - time drives.

At the tail end of the season, where there's precious little to play for, and the best we can hope for is 3rd, to put us in the driving seat for another time wasting frolick at the first couple stages of the UCL, having blown away one of our best chances to win the League in what — TWELVE YEARS, mate?

Arthur Chaet had a couple big time at bats as he reached base twice, scored twice and drove in a couple of runs in this Defensive affair.

It's his last time driving an F2 car so to mark the occasion he whipped his phone out, filmed a couple of onboards of him driving, and uploaded it to his Instagram story.

The Spaniard made a number of crucial blocks and interceptions and at times even drove Stoke out of their own penalty area, and started a couple of attacks.

His mother lived 2 hrs drive from us and although we only saw her about once every couple of months she called at least 5 times a day.

That's about 2 1/2 miles from Wrigley, a couple of blocks further than DeVry but about the same distance in driving time, according to online mapping sites.

This means that we have about a 20 minute drive each way a couple of times a day to get...

Population dynamics of library clones revealed Bt genes conferring significant fitness advantages in E. coli over time, including carbohydrate utilization genes, with a Bt galactokinase central to early colonization, and subsequent dominance by a Bt glycoside hydrolase enabling sucrose metabolism coupled with co ‐ evolution of the plasmid library and E. coli genome driving increased galactose utilization.

If a couple of vocal climate skeptics have received money from tobacco companies at some time in the past, it doesn't prove that «merchants of doubt» are driving climate skepticism.

Good article, I've been suffering with knee pain for a couple months due to the hip flexor, patellofemoral pain, I keep stretching it out and it gets better, then i spend a bunch of time at work having to travel (drive) a bunch for a few days or a couple weeks and everything tightens back up and I'm at square one.

I wore them a couple of times, but they were just so loose and floaty around the arms that it drove me nuts... they'd get stuck in doors, end up smeared in whatever I was eating from reaching across the dining table, and while they did cover some of my arms, I would get chilly from time to time.

Not interested in all the B.S. I drive a truck and am looking to hook up a couple of times a month.

The found - footage horror flick The Visit — a film that's only a little less self - reflexive than Split — gave the one - time Hollywood golden boy a chance to start over after a couple of misguided forays into the world of effects - driven fantasy blockbusters.

Equally remarkable is how effective the minimal use of music (some classical stuff at the beginning as the family is driving and one particularly jarring John Zorn song used a couple of times in the film) is in helping to create the tension and suspense of Funny Games.

But, it never really materialised and I didn't have a lot of interest in it, so it wasn't really until Rupert Preston (Producer on PUSHER), who had distributed the first one (the Danish original in 1996), and I had worked with on all my other films up until DRIVE (2011) and was a very good friend of mine, and with that he was very interested in maybe doing a remake because we had been talking about it for a couple of years and he said now was the time do it.

Notwithstanding the bad coupling of a three year - old Common Core program to decades of public education policy and not giving Common Core a reasonable amount of time to prove itself, Trump asserts parents» power of the purse would drive improvement through competition if only they had the money.

I no longer get bent out of shape about CUE's lack of buttons because I can change the volume from the steering - wheel controls and make Bluetooth calls with voice commands, and I don't change the climate - control temperature more than a couple of times during my drive.

Often, though, we'd drive off with disappointing numbers and were pleased to find we gained back a couple of miles by the time we arrived at our destination.

Meanwhile, we've only driven it around the block a couple times just like everyone else, so it's far too soon to presume any sort of final judgment about what we have here.

I once thought I would try to go around some barricades while it was raining in a 2 wheel drive Isuzu Pickup after a long time of trying to get out my friends showed up to pull me out but not before the cops showed up the cop looked at the ruts and then looked back at the truck a couple of times and then asked if it was 4 wheel drive I smiled and assured him it wasn't

I rarely drive the car, maybe once per 30 - 60 days, and had found that the battery had discharged a couple of times when I did finally get around to driving it.

Over the years I've done this drive a couple dozen times, so I have no problems handing over the 2005 NSX to someone new to the road, who happens to be Ted Klaus, the program leader and development chief of the 2017 Acura NSX.

Quite a few of the smaller Daihatsus have a temporary 4wd system, whereby the car is front - wheel - drive most of the time, but with a viscous coupling that causes the rear wheels kick in when the fronts start to lose traction.

In line with this development philosophy, Mitsubishi developed its first high performance four - wheel drive vehicle in 1987, when it equipped the Galant VR - 4 with «Dynamic Four», which featured a center differential - type full - time four - wheel drive system (this system incorporated a viscous coupling unit), a four wheel steering system, four - wheel independent suspension, and a four - wheel ABS (the first total integration of these systems in the world that were highly advanced at the time).

Yeah I know, it's not as though I've wormed my way into Porsche's R+D centre and driven the 918 Spyder's all - electric, 3D - printed replacement seven years ahead of time (I'm guessing here), but having a couple of punts in the Stinger has still been worthwhile.

No hassle took time to l w the meeting test drive a couple of cars to make sure

Cars with salvaged titles are harder to resell for obvious reasons, so if you are looking to drive the car for a couple of years and then sell it, you could have a hard time ahead.

If the timing belt was rattling before for about a couple of months, then it is possible that the timing belt may have broke off when you drove the vehicle without warming it up.

Whenever I drive an F series I'm reminded of a couple friends who at about the same time gave up their F - 150s and got passenger cars.

Every summer, I spend a couple of weeks at my in - laws» log cabin on Lake Michigan, in Door County, Wisconsin, and each time I try to drive a vehicle that will be admired and respected by...

All I know is the couple of times I climbed up into its pre-warmed (thank you, remote start), leather - draped (OK, mine would be pleather - draped) cabin and made my way down Woodward Avenue to the office, I couldn't help but dial up the four - wheel - drive and plow through every intersection sideways, letting whatever wheel that could muster traction through the knee - high piles of slush and snow do its thing, the 6.7 - liter Cummins turbodiesel feeding endless amounts of torque to those giant tires, hands flying opposite lock and back again, watching the road ahead through the side glass and yelling «Yippee!»

Coupled with a nine - speed automatic that shuffles drive to all four wheels, the S 63 claims a 0 - 100 km / h time of just 3.5 seconds, a top speed of 250km / h and a claimed fuel consumption figure of 9.3 L / 100 km combined.

However, it is no longer a full - time 4WD system, and since the coupling is in the rear differential, the driveshaft itself is constantly driven even though it's not connected to anything, which saps some power and efficiency (the analogue being the front driveshaft of a part - time 4x4 truck without locking hubs)

As someone who has been licensed to operate a motor vehicle for more than four decades and who has driven a couple of thousand cars and trucks over that same time period, I try to approach each new test with some semblance of maturity as well as a Spock - like logic.

The DSG responds quickly most of the times and downshifts a cog or two swiftly when you mash the throttle, however, I did notice in city driving that sometimes it hesitates before downshifting and that leads to a delay of a couple of seconds along with some jerks.

At the time of launch it will be available in two variants - Cayenne and the Cayenne S. Both will be powered by a newly developed V6 petrol engine, which will be coupled to an all - new 8 - speed Tiptronic automatic transmission and Porsche's all - wheel - drive system.

Though all were under warranty, it meant time off work to take the car in, sitting for a couple of hours in dealership, or finding someone willing to drive us back and forth.

Disadvantages of this four - wheel drive system are related to actuation time of the viscous coupling.

Yet from the driver's seat it is better than the Sport for a couple of fundamental ergonomic reasons; they being the balkiness of the Range Rover's gearshifter, which consistently refused to go from Park or Reverse to Drive first time.

After driving a Nissan 350 - Z for the past couple of years, it was time for a more comfortable daily driver.

omg i took this new mazda for a test drive 2 weeks ago, and it felt like a heavy car, i gave it a couple of times and u could hear the turbo spoolin up, but no excitement there at all, felt slow, my sp 23 2007 model feels quicker i do nt know what mazda did to this new car, i know its go 60 kg more then the previous mps model but it really felt slow, dissapointedddddddddd

Having crossed the Rubicon a few times myself, and living within a couple hours» drive of the vast and trackless Mojave desert and all the adventure it promises, I certainly hope so.