Sentences with phrase «few points at»

The dragon has a million health points and you initially do very little damage, a few points at best.

In practice these are fairly blunt tools that tell me «1 cent a point for American miles is a really good deal» but that I'm not going to spend 2 cents unless there's a very specific scenario — like a few points at the margin to top off an account for an award I've put on hold — where it makes sense (and in that scenario, my valuation of each point is higher since they're helping me to save with a real redemption).

It's a revenue based program, so you won't be able to have these amazing value redemptions of few points at a luxury hotel.

One or two hard inquiries on any given report won't have much impact on your overall score, typically only lowering it by a few points at most.

The blocks get bigger as you complete more nights, so you'll earn just a few points at first but they add up quickly.

PennHip studies have shown that the laxity number at 16 weeks is only off by a few points at 2 years, but testing done in between 16 weeks and 2 years will have a tendency towards a higher laxity number due to the growth process.

Some people won't get the joke, others will act as though they don't, and your target and his supporters can try to score a few points at your expense.

«Bayern drop very few points at home so it will take a big performance, but we know we have the ability to cause them problems»

Team Holzman turned in a huge fight on Tuesday Night but just couldn't get past # 5 Team Horwitz, falling by a few points at the end of the Game.

I think most people will earn less by redeeming fewer points at once.

No side in the top flight has collected fewer points at home this season than West Brom have (jointly with Newcastle and Watford).

But when the deflation of the bubble happens, everyone points the finger outward, few point at themselves.

I think most people will earn less by redeeming fewer points at once.

Not exact matches

All the hype around startups overshadows the fact that fewer people are starting new businesses today than at any point since 1978.

At one brief point during a commercial break, the office's TVs cut to black, causing a few seconds of panic and yelling.

A few days ago I was listening to a caller on an AM radio show promote the government's economic record by stating that there are more Canadians with a job today than at any point in Canada's history.

«This is only a few billion below the figure at a comparable time last year, and above the figures reported for some earlier years (almost 60 % of the full year's refunds are typically received by this point in the year).»

There are still plenty of ways for it to fail once it gets off the ground — the structure could be torn apart by supersonic shockwaves or the side boosters may not separate, since that system has never been tested, for example — but at that point, SpaceX could probably launch another Falcon Heavy within a few months.

We'll put put specific numbers on that bluebird view by creating a simple model that involves moving a few decimal points: Let's say that FAANG Inc's share price is $ 24 (based on $ 24 trillion valuation) and that it earns 80 cents (that's the $ 80 billion, many decimal points to the left), so it's selling at the FAANGs combined PE of 30.

Few could argue that Americans are a slightly rounder society at this point in time.

It's at that point where we're really just counting down the last few hours.

A few months later, my (at the time) fiancée opened the Preferred, too, earning the same bonus, and, because she applied through a «refer a friend» link I sent her, I earned 10,000 points.

If you reach the point where you care about the last few percent, you'll be amazed at the power of the 1/99 rule.

«The company believes that malware, installed through the use of compromised third - party vendor credentials, affected one particular point of sale system at fewer than 300 of approximately 5,500 franchised North America Wendy's restaurants,» the company said in its quarterly filing Wednesday.

As any salesperson will know, few businesses are ready to buy at the first point of contact.

That's because it will be one of the few remaining data points that Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and the rest of the Federal Open Market Committee will have before they decide whether or not to begin the process of raising interest rates at their upcoming meeting December 15th and 16th.

At one point of the night, and many beers in, I joined Carl and a few bloggers on discussing what his life has been like since retiring from his job.

Here's the likelihood that a person has been married at least once at some point in his or her life for every year of age over the past few decades:

At a few points in early interviews, the guest's response left me speechless (something my wife claims doesn't happen often enough).

We've all committed a few of these slipups at some point.

Few people even used the term «social media» at this point, and it wasn't clear whether any of these new social networks would last.

The fees can vary from less than 1 percent to a few percentage points — and interest at the prime rate to several points over prime on the balance of receivables you sell, making it steeper than most bank loans.

«It used to be that Silicon Valley had the attitude that Washington was inconvenient,» Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur and researcher of public policy at Stanford Law School, says, but over the last few years Silicon Valley has reached a turning point, and that perspective has changed drastically.

Rumors of an in - display fingerprint scanner appear to be dead at this point, leaving few standout features for the Galaxy S9.

(Bonus career karma points if at least a few of them are work - related.)

Sanders scored a few more rhetorical points than Clinton, frequently drawing rousing applause from his supporters at the Brooklyn Naval Yard.

At any point over the past few years, I could have decided to grow my company into a multimillion - dollar public - relations agency.

Perhaps it's not quite the Austerity Games yet, but we are already at the point when very few countries in which the leadership is accountable to its populace will take on the financial and political risk of staging the Olympics.

There are a few topics that online readers have seen time and time again - and at this point, they're just becoming noise.

There are dozens, if not hundreds, of articles and books written on ecommerce and the importance of having your potential customer click as few buttons and see as few pages as possible between the point at which they're interested to the point they've completed a transaction.

That said, it seems VandeHei may not have been so much urging Zuckerberg to run as he was commenting that the 2016 race is so outside the bounds of typical U.S. presidential elections that almost few twists in the narrative would be surprising at this point.

The economy may be healthy enough for them to raise interest rates, but the new 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent target for the benchmark fed funds rate, up a quarter point from where it had been, remains far below the historical norm — and, by all indications, the Fed still expects rates to stay low for at least a few more years.

A 2009 study found that 66 percent of employees do not max out their allowed vacation days, and today, fewer Americans are taking vacation than at any point in the last four decades.

The catch is that most airlines only make a few saver - level tickets available for each flight — and they make them available at various points before traveling — so you may not be able to find saver seats right away.

In most cases you have only a few seconds to capture someone's attention at the beginning of your demo and get your most important point across.

That means that if you were looking at a $ 600 flight from Chicago to Munich, you would only need 48,000 Chase points, fewer than you would need for a saver ticket if you were to transfer the points to United.

While on the campaign trail in 2015 at the age of 44, the presidential candidate spoke at Liberty University and alluded to his experience of having to finance his education: I, Cruz said, «took over $ 100,000 in school loans, loans I suspect a lot of y» all can relate to, loans that I'll point out I just paid off a few years ago.»

Most security attacks are targeted at a few weak points on your PC that aren't that hard to protect.

«I think the main reason the show got so much traction in the first few seasons was the original cast - we all knew each other, and had known each other for 10 years at that point.

But in a few years, when 5G gear sending data at up to 100 times the speed of current networks is commonplace, people may remember July 2016 as a major turning point.