Sentences with phrase «from piddling»

We've discovered some truly tiny vertebrates recently, from piddling frogs to teeny weeny geckos.

This small insight led the cookie to go from a piddling 3 % to 15 % in a few short years.

Not exact matches

A # 34 million loss for the last recorded accounting period (2012 - 3), including staff costs of # 26.1 million is far from small beer and if the television deal Leicester will enjoy from August makes those amounts look piddling at face value, the wages and transfer fees required to compete at the top level will almost certainly be sufficient to keep the club in the red for some time to come.

Sadly, the other character types don't have the luxury of being so well - cast: you're never given any reason to pay attention to The Engaged One, The Young Officer, The One with PTSD, The Foreign Doctor, or The Michelle Rodriguez One (Michelle Rodriguez), most of whom are given a name and a piddling prologue but are functionally interchangeable from the moment the aliens land on Earth.

Bethune famously founded a girls» school — that would become a women's college, and then a co-ed school — from humble beginnings with just five students, piddling funds, and a brave vision.

I'd piddled along with my books priced from $ 2.99 to 4.99 for a couple of years.

Let me get this straight: you have a product that can reduce electromagnetic waves from cell phones, and you are willing to sell it for a piddling 70M shares of this crud company?

From 2000 to the present, stocks have provided a piddling return, and to achieve this return you would have had to endure the gut wrenching volatility of not one, but two, stock market crashes of more than 50 %.

The dogs routinely escape from the ex-pen and piddle and poop all over the couple's new house.

Crate training can be a positive factor in your battle to preserve your rugs, furniture and sunny disposition from the ravages of puppy piddle.

Move the piddle pad slowly closer to the front door if you want to transition Sparky from using the pad to using an outdoor potty.

Her housemate, Wolfie — the nine year old rescue — takes his cue from us and just acts like the piddle isn't there (he doesn't even sniff it any more and we're eternally grateful that he doesn't feel he has to mark her spots inside like he does outside).

These new voices I was hearing transplanted the temporary excitement I had from Abstract Expressionism, which was the only thing at the time, and we were all more or less piddling with paint in the same way.

the opening of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to rape by fossil fuel oligarchies (a piddling amount of revenue, but sufficient to buy off the principle-less Sen. Lisa Murkowski from Alaska);

Not only would this spare bitcoiners from having to keep records of every piddling purchase they make or live in fear of prosecution, it might also improve overall tax compliance.

But the husband «receives» the message that his wife must not care much about him because she spends all morning in the kitchen instead of outside supporting him; the wife «receives» the message that her husband must not care much about her because although she is hard at work in the kitchen, her husband «isolates» himself from her by spending time «piddling» in the yard instead of coming inside to be with her.

I hadn't previously given a toss about Karl's marriage break up, but my friend Claudia came over for dinner on Friday night and was demanding answers from me — as an ex-weekly magazine editor — for why Karl just rolled over and gave his ex a quickie $ 6million financial settlement while only keeping a piddling $ 500,000 for himself.