Sentences with phrase «hit land only»

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That's a problem, considering that most of us who click on an ad only stay the landing page for a few seconds unless it really grabs us (on that note, I'd be very interested to see the analytics on how many people hit the page, how many start the video, and how long the average «view» is).

The frozen wastes of the Arctic reflect around 90 per cent of the UV light that hits them; snow - free land typically reflects only a few per cent.

Have you ever had one of those mornings when you remember waking up and hitting the snooze button and you promptly fall back asleep only to resurface to the land of the living thinking that it has been awhile since your alarm went off?

Only some of these digressions are funny (like the way Laura Branigan's «Gloria» becomes Stant's personal soundtrack), but Gillespie mostly lands the film's tricky tonal balancing act, hitting nostalgic pleasure points throughout even when he's underlining or undermining the cruelty of Harding's victimization.

At the start of Back to the Future's second half, Marty McFly, having survived his time machine's crash - landing thirty years into the past only to have been subsequently hit by a car, is lulled awake by his mother's tender voice.

After hitting his head on a concrete floor (thus only confirming the tot's fear of serious injury stemming from accident), Richard does a Dorothy Gale into an animated land structured around a library motif, with his Virgils manifesting themselves as books called Adventure (Patrick Stewart), Fantasy (Whoopi Goldberg), and Horror («voice god» Frank Welker).

As the only friend of a hit man, the 13 - year - old earned rave reviews and quickly landed additional big - screen parts.

He's not the only creature to get hit with a dose of plot as several other canisters of this harmful gas have landed in rural Wyoming and some Florida swamplands, infecting a wolf and crocodile.

The win was only the latest in a banner season for the songwriters, who met at the University of Michigan, have written several scores both on and off Broadway, and won an Oscar for their contributions to the score of the hit film La La Land.

After being hit by anti-aircraft fire, Dengler crash lands and escapes into the jungle, only eventually to be captured and taken to a prison camp.

Metal monsters typically only receive one point of damage per landed attack, and they are very hard to hit.

Hardy's buzz is such that if only more people had seen this amazing one - man - show from director (and Oscar - nominated screenwriter) Steven Knight, we'd say it would have a good chance of landing a nomination for real, but it's a really minuscule film, and Hardy himself has two more higher profile movies due to hit before the year is out («The Drop» and «Child 44»).

Like its predecessor, the new S208 will be available only in the Land of the Rising Sun in limited quantities as only 450 cars are slated to hit the assembly line.

Only then did he hit the NYTimes bestseller list and capture the attention of NY publishing (which he turned down), agents (which he did not), and Hollywood (with whom he landed with a very nice deal).

There were plenty of times that I know I was far enough away not to land a blow, only to have the game count the hit.

The enemy AI improves noticeably, with enemies not only doing more damage to the player but also making more attempts to take cover from grenades, outflank players and in some cases even try to cover their weak spots so that you can't land one hit kills.

Slashing with your sword only uses one button, but if done in succession will allow you to pull off combos that help you land critical hits and more effective blows by juggling your opponent and keeping them off guard.

25 March is shaping up to be the biggest tech launch day that the UK has ever seen.Not only is the iPad 2 hitting Apple Stores (hopefully) that day, but the Nintendo 3DS is landing too.And, according to Amazon, it's a console much in demand.

Nintendo has just published a list of the 15 games that will be available on the day the 3DS lands in UK stores - 25 March.We knew that over 30 games for the 3DS were going to hit the shops during the «launch window», but it's only now that we know for... Read more

Mario Kart 7 wasn't far behind, hitting stores only 21 days after 3D Land.

This means that a pole with a damage count of nine or 12 could actually deliver a damage count of 36 points, whereas a snazzy axe may only land 28 per hit.

The shrewder players might use the three available setups to have a hard - hitting berserker 2B who brings a boss almost to their knees, only to switch to a build that will earn double the XP when the killing blow is landed.

Paintball - Marine grenades and grunt mines splatter the environment with color and deadly shrapnel Wuv Woo - Scarab and Locust beam weapons shoot rainbows made of pure love and hearts Scoring: Pain Train - All player units train 50 % faster, final score decreases Bountiful Harvest - Supplies from supply buildings arrive 25 % faster, final score decreases Emperor - All player powers recharge in half the time, final score decreases Pestilence - All player units slowly lose health from the moment they're built, final score increases Total Annihiliation - Spartan special ability slams create an even more powerful explosion upon land, final score decreases Sickness - All player units have 50 % fewer hit points, final score increases Firestarter - Grunts and Marines explode on death inflicting damage on enemy units, final score decreases Things That Go Boom - Hero units unleash a nuclear explosion on death, final score decreases Sugar Cookies - All player units have 50 % more hitpoints, final score decreases After Party - Any time a Firebase is destroyed the player who owned it gets a tank and infantry unit, final score decreases Nightmare - No checkpoints or saves on any difficulty with Campaign only, final score increases Shadow - Player core infantry units start cloaked, final score decreases Our Halo Hub Read our Halo Wars 2 Review

Starting on Aug. 26, Nintendo rolls out a stellar set of offers for both Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, including some of Nintendo's biggest hits dropping to a suggested retail price of $ 19.99 each, like Animal Crossing: New Leaf and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD, as well as the debut of a new Mario - themed New Nintendo 3DS system that comes with the Super Mario 3D Land game pre-installed at the low suggested retail price of only $ 149.99.

You'll be landing two - hit combos, not 20 hits, and you've only got one Super meter to keep an eye on.

An autocombo is only useful if someone can land that first hit, making it ineffective against players who know how to block and move effectively.

He notes that this one is mainly a warmup, given that storms like this one, below Category 3, comprise 80 to 90 percent of those that hit land but cause only 15 to 20 percent of hurricane damage.

Now I am not a great fan of the aggregated tide gauge record seeing as it relies on so few gauges (as cited) most with short histories (as cited) or have moved (as cited) or have been interpolated (as cited) To globally aggregate such low grade information only compounds the errors However, anyone working on flood defence work would use a tide gauge as it provides a more accurate record of the place where the sea actually hits the land, where people live, as opposed to satellites which measure open sea.

On February 13 of that year, a rogue wave hit the New York - bound cargo ship Tokio Express while it was only 20 miles off Land's End, on Britain's southwest coast.

In 2004, Cincinnati Reds» outfielder Adam Dunn hit a home run so mighty it sailed clean out of the park, down the street, bounced off the bank of the Ohio River and landed smack on a piece of driftwood along the bank (which according to local geographers technically placed it over the state line); this made Dunn's home run hit the only homer in MLB to be hit in one state (Ohio) and land in another (Kentucky).

Metal monsters typically only receive one point of damage per landed attack, and they are very hard to hit.