Sentences with phrase «few slight advantages»

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For amid all the advantages of contemporary life, where fewer people suffer disease, hunger, or lack of opportunity than in years past, there still is probably no increase in the sum total of human happiness and very slight advantage, if any, in the main business of making sense of one's life.»

Cagey in the first few minutes, with Liverpool having perhaps a slight advantage.

Malcolm has few advantages beyond a loving single mother (Kimberly Elise), and two friends, Jib (Tony Revolori), an ethnically ambivalent kid with an attitude out of all proportion to his slight build, and Diggy (Kiersy Clemmons), an androgynous kid with even more attitude who delights in flashing her secondary sexual characteristics at bemused onlooker.

Pilgrim is satisfied that, during a roll - on acceleration run from about 25 mph to somewhere north of 100 mph, the TT RS's only advantage over the more conventionally styled RS3 is its 287 fewer pounds and a slight jump ahead on initial takeoff.

Mind you, there used to be a slight actuarial advantage to taking early CPP at 60 but that was negated a few years ago.

Neither did I for the most part, aside from a few years of World of Warcraft experience behind me — which did, admittedly, put me at a slight advantage.