Sentences with phrase «give a round about»

I say tbsp just to give a round about measurement.

Secretly planning our anniversary trip around Positano and the Amalfi coast — could you give me a round about number on how much hotel / food cost was?

Not exact matches

You wrote the following in a blog post: «When I joined First Round, I gave a lot of thought to the type of VC I want to be, and I decided to be one that wouldn't hedge talking about mistakes and lessons hard won.»

She felt really good about the presentation: «When we told Larry, Sergey and Eric how many publishers we had added over the previous months, Eric almost fell off his chair and asked what resources they could give us to help continue this amazing success,» she said in a recent blog post for First Round Capital.

There was the founder who had a term sheet from an American investor canceled after the investor saw something on the Internet about a protest in Argentina; the founder who had given up 80 percent of his company to secure seed capital; and the founder who was so strapped for cash that he had had to raise an angel funding round just to go to a trade show in San Francisco.

It has raised a total of $ 400 million in two rounds from Comcast - owned NBCUniversal, the last of which gave the company a theoretical market value of about $ 1.7 billion.

Return fares for these cities start at about $ 154 one - way, giving you the chance to fly round - trip for under $ 310 next year.

Today, on Marina Franklin's final guest co-hosting episode, James and Stephen give Marina a lightning round of questions about comedy and the comedy business.

To know more about Fleet Management and Consultancy and to compare management and consultants you should keep an eye on the blogs here as they give a rounded view on everything from managing fleets to how a consultancy organisation can work for you.

He has also given liberals about 80,000 rounds of ammo to shoot at him once the market goes down.

What man is amid the brute creation, such is the Church among the schools of the world; and as Adam gave names to the animals about him, so has the Church from the first looked round upon the earth, noting and visiting the doctrines she found there.

In order to become more aware of your family's strengths and assets, do a «go - round,» giving each family member a chance to say what she or he likes about being a part of this family, / Now, do a second go - round focusing on one person at a time.

If you like the overall taste about 90 % and just want something to take off the edge, you can add a little bit (A LITTLE BIT) of sesame oil to give it a more rounded profile.

Just thinking about the bounty of upcoming Thanksgiving holiday and autumn harvest inspired recipes gives me that warm, fuzzy feeling of well - being of being at Grandma's house with all the family gathered round.

Nothing and what is he leaving behind coqoliin xhaka eleny monreal walcott!!!! So he has had 80 million in wages and thats what he cares about and that also goes for everyone running OUR club that do nt give a monkeys about the title or europe it will only change when totally fail and finish 10 - 12 for a few years and there pockets get hit and i can see it and that will make me hate wenger kronke gazidis and all those stuck up arrogant directors of our beloved club it will be like going back to Don howe managing the club and 17000 on the stands I hope i am wrong but can anyone see it any other way????? Time for change and change now Troy deemy is right no balls I wouldnt want to go into a battle with any of them backing me up White feathers all round

As the fight for the top spots continue, allow me to give everyone a reminder about how the Opening Round will go..

We played Cambridge 2s in a BUCS league match in the second week of term and lost 6 - 0, we then drew them in the second round of the BUCS cup and lost 3 - 1, holding them at 1 - 1 for much of the game before conceding two late goals — I think the contrast between these two results (and the performances) is a testament to our hard work on and off the pitch and gives us a lot to be optimistic about looking forward to next term.

A celebrity within the target group, who may or may not be well rounded enough by now to give Floyd something to think about.

As if all that weren't enough for one broadcast, as the game wound down Vi - tale went on a tirade when Brando mentioned that ESPN would be giving viewers updates and then round - by - round summaries of the Uno Màs fight between Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran which was about to start:

Arsenal and Hull City have finally been given the date for the replay in the 5th round of the FA cup, after both clubs were involved in the discussion about when to fit this match into our busy schedules.

I don't care about his all round game, he gave somewhat 30 goals and 20 assists in 80 games which is a great stat.

I'm not referring to yesterday match because I didn't watch the match only highlights, and also I'm one of those who call for rotation resting our stars for Chelsea because I don't give sh*t about CL, knowing where we gonna knocked out whoever team we face in 16 - round...

Guus Hiddink has given Ruben Loftus - Cheek the chance to start in Chelsea's FA Cup fourth - round trip to MK Dons, and it is fair to say that Blues supporters are pretty happy about it!

as wih just about every season for last 10 years we have a team that is a couple of real quality players short of challenging on three fronts for top honours... so if wenger is willing to get rid of mert flamini arteta diaby and walcott (and possibly gibbs who is begining to really disappoint but perhaps worth another season) and bring in three quality players cb dm and attacker i will change my mind and give him a chance till end of contract... if its another round of bargain basement players with potential and talk of getting in to cl as like a trophy... then yes he needs to go

Rumours of Fernando Alonso going to Renault next year have been doing the rounds for a while now, but recent comments about the team not being able to give him a winning car seem to have put an end to the chances of that happening.

With any given Red Sox - Yankees game crawling along at about the same tortoise - like clip as a final round of the U.S. Open, baseball officials are as concerned about losing young fans as those involved with the business of golf are with attracting the same demographic.

(Official reasons were never given; rumors about cheating during practice rounds and stealing from teammates have been circulated widely.)

3) Could not believe how Joanna was talking nonsense about the decision in the post fight presser... I scored it 48 - 47 not the 49 - 46 judges gave, but it was a clear 48 - 47 for me, 3 rounds for Rose, 2 rounds for Joanna.

Similar to Derwin James, if he falls into the third - round price, then it becomes something to give serious thought towards, but the team has to be careful about overpaying.

If Jack Wilshere is allowed to leave then it shows that A, Wenger don't have a clue what to do with Jack, B, Wenger is like a football farmer, fatten up the English youngsters then flog em off while signing 2nd rate foreign boys, C, Wenger don't give a monkeys about any players who don't idolise him, Jack is future captain material but Wenger doesn't do captains, which is why when the games going against us we run round like 11 strangers with no leader, I will be glad when Wengers gone and taken his useless back room staff with him,

A generic round - robin mail out with «hello there» can be spotted a mile off and gives the impression that you haven't been selective about the shops you are targeting.

So when an article about giving a small child 1 «pass» to leave their room at night was making the rounds around the parenting cyber-world a few weeks ago, it got me thinking of how much it helped me to not pick sleep as a battle and to instead, surrender to my daughter's needs and rhythm.

Because I didn't hear about it when I was pregnant and had my babies, and if it's been around for a while obviously the hospitals that I gave birth in never made any mention of it, so I'm assuming they weren't baby - friendly back then, but after I gave birth I knew that a lactation consultant was going to go on to the, come into the room, well actually at the first child you already know the rounds, you know, what's going to happen, you know, how long you're going to be there, all that stuff.

The case thrust into the spotlight concerns about a shake - up of maternity services in Caithness, which has forced pregnant mothers to make the 200 - mile round trip to Inverness to give birth.

And she found that it's incredibly predictive, that people are pretty honest about their grit levels and that those who say, «Yes, I really stick with tasks,» are much more likely to succeed, even in tasks that involve a lot of what we think of as IQ: She gave the test to students who were in the National Spelling Bee and the kids with the highest grit scores were more likely to persist to the later rounds; she gave it to freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania and grit helped them persist in college; she even gave it to cadets at West Point and it predicted who was going to survive this initiation called «Beast Barracks.»

Next week's round - table session will give residents a chance to chat with local officials about village issues.

At my appointment, I said something about it, and told the OB to give her my best when he did rounds, and all he would say was «hmm.»

They take Donations year round and give about 50 % back to Ministries and Charities.

Ministers are being urged by unions to give public sector in - house bids equal consideration as firms gather in London to hear about the next round of possible privatisations.

A «representative string of emails» subpoenaed by investigators included «a lively discussion among members of an organization about which of the organization's LLCs should be used to make a round of outsized contributions, based upon which ones had already given outsized contributions in the past,» the report said.

Instead we got «I had an anecdote about this guy I met in the park but I've forgotten it, so give yourselves a round of applause while I concentrate on walking around this goddam stage without falling the fuck over».

Therefore warning about the potential imposition of strict border controls is somewhat tin - eared given nationalists are already strongly in favour of the EU, while sceptical Unionists — who need to be won round - would love to see tougher controls.

The other standard trackers all paint an equally bleak picture for the government, on the forced choice question (which I always tend to think of our best indicator of which way tactical voting is likely to go next time round, given that there are no regular tracker questions that ask directly about it) the Conservatives now enjoy a 12 point lead over Labour, they have an 8 point lead as the party most likely to run the economy well, David Cameron has an 8 point lead as Best Prime Minister.

«I spent a lot of the referendum going round mostly prosperous country areas — they weren't deprived areas of the north — and the overwhelming reason given for voting the way they were, and they were predominantly older groups, were about immigration.

Meanwhile, the governor advised the Presidency to ensure it gave accurate information about the health status of Mr. President so as to forestall a situation whereby people would continue to spread nasty rumours currently milling round.

All of you were excited about Eliot, and that's what we like,» he said, instructing them to give themselves a round of applause.

There is an ICM study in today's Guardian which, like the YouGov poll in last week's Spectator, tries to get round the fact that some of the Conservative leadership candidates are very unfamiliar to the public by giving respondents information about the candidates before asking questions.

«I think voters were willing to give him a second chance, but this latest round of revelations clearly voters are reluctant to give him a third chance to try to convince them about his candidacy,» Miringoff told CBS 2's Marcia Kramer.

«For the next half - year period, new meters were installed in the same places, thus giving us a year - round picture about the currents.

Information is packed onto the pages, with Karl Marx appearing as one of 11 items on a spread devoted to «The factory», opposite a museum photograph of a hand spindle with yarn twisted round it in a way that gives erroneous information about how a spindle functions.