Sentences with phrase «in a small pond at»

The 29 year - old is a big fish in a small pond at Leicester, and now that he has recently got married to Becky (and they have an 18 month old baby plus three older kids), he may be loathe to create a big upheaval in their lives.

Not exact matches

If he left for to join the Tigers, he would be a big fish in a small pond, but at least he would be in the Premier League and he is dearly loved by the KC faithful.

alexis will be a small fish in a big pond at city,

Cain will be a big fish in a small pond this season, but his long - term future is at a much higher level for sure.

He was a small fish in a big pond at Barca and he thought otherwise, spat his dummy out on numerous occasions in his time there, Then there's the tax fraud incident.

and I still reiterate my sentiments, many players are better suited to playing for smaller clubs with very little expectations and less pressure and I can name loads of very very talented players who just don't have the big club mentality, players who bloom and shine when they are the main attraction, the big fish in a small pond but who will whither and fade once they make the step up to bigger teams... with Arsenal Afobe will just be another player, another upstart who will find the pressure of delivering week in week out or be out of the team hard to deal with... at Bournemouth he has time to settle into his pace, if he misses chances like he did on his debut for the club he will still be given chances after chances, just like it happened withn him

How adamant Rodgers was that Sterling wasn't for sale, claiming that he «wouldn't get the same opportunities» at other clubs really made Liverpool look like a very small fish in a big pond.

But at Spurs, he is a «small fish in a huge pond», and it's a shame that we can unlock the talent of the Belgian midfielder, but never say never with football, anything can happen.

In a rather tongue - in - cheek manner, Drogba seems to have taken a pot - shot at Fernando Torres and Liverpool FC in his autobiography, saying that he sympathised with the # 50 million - priced striker who might have felt like a big fish taken out of his small ponIn a rather tongue - in - cheek manner, Drogba seems to have taken a pot - shot at Fernando Torres and Liverpool FC in his autobiography, saying that he sympathised with the # 50 million - priced striker who might have felt like a big fish taken out of his small ponin - cheek manner, Drogba seems to have taken a pot - shot at Fernando Torres and Liverpool FC in his autobiography, saying that he sympathised with the # 50 million - priced striker who might have felt like a big fish taken out of his small ponin his autobiography, saying that he sympathised with the # 50 million - priced striker who might have felt like a big fish taken out of his small pond.

There is a risk because he is a big fish in a small pond and to step up and play Champions League football is a big ask, but he might be leading the line for England at the European Championships next summer.

And at the University of Exeter in England, lake expert Gabriel Yvon - Durocher has been working to measure, on a small scale, how exactly ponds and lakes will respond to rising temperatures.

In pre-Clovis days, it would have looked like a small canyon with a small, marshy pond at the bottom.

Although gas exchange in larger lakes can be predicted by wind speed, this relationship breaks down under low - wind conditions, such as in small ponds, said Meredith Holgerson, the lead author of the study, who conducted the research while completing her Ph.D. at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES).

«We found that we can't easily predict gas exchange rates in small ponds, and that variability in gas exchange increases with lake size,» said Holgerson, who is now a research fellow at Portland State University.

We'd restore and heal our raw skin and aching joints in the timeless waters at Ojo Caliente (literally «hot eye» in Spanish, so named because there previously were small ponds or pools of water in the springs), a secluded refuge deemed sacred by Native Americans.

Being the biggest fish in a small pond doesn't make you the biggest fish pointblankperiod — it's just indicative of your perspective at that given moment in that given space.

The Ka + is Ford's most affordable automobile in the European market, and while its diminutive size and modest power would make it a poor match for America's roads and sensibilities, the small car is quite at home across the pond; Ford has sold more than 61,000 examples of the supermini since late - 2016.

For parents who need convincing: Malcolm Gladwell wrote about the utilitarian value in going to the «lesser» school — aka the big fish / small pond effect; your kid will do best at a college where they can be in the top 10 percent, not at the most highly selective school where they may end up in the bottom half of the class.

She returned from across the pond and completed a one - year rotating small animal medicine and surgery internship at a private practice in Massachusetts, followed by working two years as a staff emergency clinician at DoveLewis Emergency Animal Hospital in Portland, OR.

He hopped the pond for an internship at the University of Pennsylvania (1989), and residency in small animal medicine at THE Ohio State University (1991), then hopped back as a lecturer at the other Royal Veterinary College.

We will then venture on for 10 more minutes until we reach the small pond at the base of the falls, where we can enjoy a swim in the cold waters flowing of the Falls themselves.

An infrequent visitor — but frequent Hyatt hotel guest — like me can now look forward to better treatment at the mega resorts instead of being reduced to a small fish in a big pond.

Final Fantasy IX came at an interesting time in my life, I'd just moved from Primary School to High School, I'd gone from being a big fish in a small pond to a very small fish in a very big ocean.

McCollum's work explores familiarity, simplicity, and the commitment to place in a series of photographs made over the course of a year at a small, suburban pond.

The first work installed is a re-edition of Narcissus Garden, originally presented by Kusama at the Venice Biennale of Art in 1966, which has been placed in the small pond adjacent to the Pond Pavillion designed by Johnson in 1962.

In Beijing earlier this summer for a Future Earth science planning session, I wandered over to a «fitness park» that, despite being ringed by soaring residential towers, was a humane haven for elderly dancers, couples pushing strollers and children poking at tadpoles in small artificial pondIn Beijing earlier this summer for a Future Earth science planning session, I wandered over to a «fitness park» that, despite being ringed by soaring residential towers, was a humane haven for elderly dancers, couples pushing strollers and children poking at tadpoles in small artificial pondin small artificial ponds.

«We discovered that although the small shallow ponds we studied represent only 44 percent of the water - covered surface in a Bylot Island valley, they generate 83 percent of its methane emissions,» said Karita Negandhi, a water sciences doctoral student at the INRS's Environment Research Center.»

A study in Nature Geoscience describes how compiling previously reported measurements made at 733 northern water bodies − from small ponds formed by beavers to large lakes formed by permafrost thaw or ice - sheets — has enabled researchers to estimate emissions over large scales more accurately.

«Our findings show that warming can fundamentally alter the carbon balance of small ponds over a number of years, reducing their capacity to absorb carbon dioxide and increasing emissions of methane,» says Gabriel Yvon - Durocher, chair in ecology at the Environment and Sustainability Institute at the University of Exeter, who led the study.

But for now, let's look at five «big fish in a small pond» techniques in personal finance.

(Even Snap, a smaller fish in the pond, is valued at $ 20 billion, a figure that dwarfs all but the largest cryptocurrency networks.)