Sentences with phrase «grain of sand on a beach»

At first I was disappointed - it seemed that the stars just went on and on like grains of sand on the beach.

«This is one more piece of evidence that nearly all stars have planets, and that potentially habitable planets in our Galaxy are as common as grains of sand on a beach.»

«Nature is too complex, they (the authors) say, and depends on too many processes that are poorly understood or little monitored — whether the process is the feedback effects of cloud cover on global warming or the movement of grains of sand on a beach,» the Times article explained.

Sometimes sifting through a pile of investment pitch decks can feel like you are looking for a single grain of sand on the beach.

The Top God is infinitely less likely to focus on the particular pair of underwear you are wearing today than you are likely to focus on a particular grain of sand on a beach.

«The subtly mottled gray - and - white surface tones of these prints mirror the fine grains of sand on the beach, which have softly shifted to accommodate the countless impressions of feet that are captured in the photograph -LSB-...] It is the trace of previous inhabitants that injects meaning into [the] picture, however open - ended that meaning might be» (N. Spector, Felix Gonzalez - Torres, exh.

This microbiome (the population of all the microorganisms and their genetics in the large intestine) consists of more bacteria than stars in the sky and grains of sand on the beaches, and is the hottest topic in the fields of functional medicine, integrative psychiatry and peak performance right now.

To offer a frame of reference for that number, picture all the grains of sand on every beach on earth, multiply that picture by 16, and you may get an impression of how many planets are out there.

Leveraged ETFs account for a mere 3 % of total ETF assets in the US, while inverse ETFs make up another 2 %, a market share that a Morningstar analyst called «a grain of sand on the beach.»

Each grain of sand on this beach is a piece of white shells that the ocean has been creating for centuries... Miles of white sand along the shore and no one around.

And you will be happier because you will see yourself as a grain of sand on a beach instead of as the center of the universe.

There are more strategies to do this than grains of sand on a beach.