Sentences with phrase «eked past»

Last season their fêted passing carousel swept all before them but they received an almighty scare that they were lucky to survive when they eked past Chelsea in the Champions League semi-final after seeing their flowing football squeezed half to death by the Londoners» muscular midfield.

WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. (AP) Jalen Ray launched a game - winning 3 - pointer with 2.1 seconds remaining, scored a career - best 14 points and Hofstra eked past Monmouth 85 - 84 Wednesday night after coming back from 14 points down.

Recently eking past the $ 100 M mark domestically (and over $ 200 M and counting worldwide), Bad Teacher's strong showing belongs chiefly to Diaz.

Abstract painter Ryan Sullivan, for one, sold a rippling latex canvas done in earth tones that resemble a topographical map for # 98,500 — just eking past his previous auction record.

A lot of new smartwatches manage to eke past a day.

Not exact matches

So far rivals have not shown an ability to take advantage of Bloomberg's missteps; the company has continued to eke out additional market share even as its terminal sales have slowed to 1 % annual growth the past two years.

«Most lenders won't report late payments until it's 30 days or more past due,» Eke says.

Until breastfeeding is properly supported systemically and structurally, breastfeeding will remain akin to football — a game of inches, with some women eking out small gains while pushing through and past monumental obstacles but rarely making it to end zone or scoring the collective touchdown.

Maybe the fact that I attended three film festivals (Sundance, SXSW and SIFF) and was able to eke out some hidden gems that would go on to sneak past most audiences (and critics.

The petrol station in Betws - y - Coed is our first port of call, and as I cruise along, eking out what little fuel is left in the tank, we file past a small boy on the way to primary school with his father.

In the distant past (you know, before 2007) precious few scribes were ever able to eke out a reasonable living from scribbling alone.

I eked out another small gain this past month.

Today, we're thankfully more practical in eking out our incomes: we look to the sun and its instruments (see this Thursday's opening of the «Heliotropes» group show at Geary Contemporary) or envision terrible futures in our analogue pasts («that old school dystopia» at Theodore: Art on Friday).

But simply putting a quality sensor inside a phone isn't a recipe for success — see practically every Sony phone released in the past four years — so it remains to be seen whether BlackBerry Mobile has managed to eke a win, but the IMX378 alone is a good start.

Based on my 45 years of full time training real estate agents, I believe the Single Greatest Reason that sales agents fail is that they do not learn what to say fast enough to survive or well enough to get past eking out a living.