Sentences with phrase «few blinks of the eye»

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Many a desktop computer has been purchased specifically to take advantage of these programs, which allow even an unsophisticated computer user to change a few critical assumptions and, in the blink of an eye, recalculate an entire financial model (see «How VisiCalc Works,» INC., November 1981, page 104).

Trades to rebalance portfolios and take advantage of new opportunities can be executed in a few keystrokes and the blink of an eye.

And in another few years, the blink of an eye, I'll be sitting in a house, alone: the laundry will be done at last, the house will be clean — and it will stay clean, and the floors will be quiet, no one will be asking me for anything at all, my time will be my own, and I will feel the full weight of The Ache for which I've been holding vigil at last.

You may be willing to see a few centuries as an eternity, but to real history students its the blink of an eye.

Few moments later, Mertesacker equalised for the Gunners in the blink of an eye and it was again a free - kick that proved the opportunity.

The first few months of a newborn's life are a hectic time that rushes past in the blink of an eye.

Giving birth can simultaneously feel like the longest few hours of your life, and like it goes by in the blink of an eye.

The signs are many and varied — everyone is that little less patient and quicker to snap, small things become big problems in the blink of an eye, the girls seem to be constantly vying for my attention, the TV is on more often then usual, and these are just a few of the signs!

That pushes back the earliest star - forming days of the universe to within a few hundred million years of the big bang — a blink of an eye in astronomical time.

«Unfortunately, the lifecycle of a Wolf — Rayet star is only a few hundred thousand years — the blink of an eye in cosmic terms,» NASA explained in a statement released Friday.

Enjoy these last few weeks!!!! Little man is going to be here in a blink of an eye!!

A good shirt dress is a wardrobe chameleon than can shift from proper and preppy, to sexy grunge in a blink of an eye and a swap of a few accessories.

The truest example of how «just one more try» can turn into a few hours in the blink of an eye, Trials HD puts players on the seat of a motorcycle and forces them through a gauntlet of jumps, stunts and obstacle courses that would make Evil Knievel think twice.

By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Few films in this year's still - developing Oscar race could go from «dark horse» to «frontrunner» in the blink of an eye.

In its first few minutes, the film speeds into its inciting incident: In the blink of an eye, a barely introduced Watney is gone, and his crew mates (Jessica Chastain, Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan, Aksel Hennie and «Ant - Man» scene - stealer Michael Peña) must make the traumatizing decision to leave without him.

If you're prone to crying, bring your tissues for this one and if you're a hardcore zombie buff who didn't even blink an eye at The Walking Dead season 7 premiere, we bet you might let a few cries of woe out as well.

Sure, the few years it's spent out of fashion is but a blink of the eye compared to the more than sixty it has been a part of television without fundamental change.

Money has only been around for a few thousand years, a blink of an eye on the evolutionary timescale.

Trades to rebalance portfolios and take advantage of new opportunities can be executed in a few keystrokes and the blink of an eye.

It should also be apparent that we have sped up change with an amazing burp of CO2 into the biosphere over the past few centuries (a blink of the eye in the time periods being considered).

After all, there are few smartwatches that boast the sort of specs as this does, all the while taking a beating and not blinking an eye.