Sentences with phrase «knocking more and more time»

I was running five to six days a week, knocking more and more time off my mile split, and gearing up for a big race that would finally prove I had what it took to hit varsity status.

Not exact matches

Considering the time I otherwise would have wasted perusing a convenience - slash - bookstore and fighting for an outlet at the gate, the productive pre-flight hours knocked a few hundred more dollars off my flight's exorbitant cost.

Since massive Hurricane Maria struck in September and knocked out the dialysis center on the tiny satellite island of Vieques, more than a dozen patients needing treatment now must fly several times a week to the main island.

For the first time in quite some time I managed to pry myself away from the non fictional category, and knock out a major work of fiction, and it turned out to be one of the more influential things I read all year.

mr. horseman, the only religion left in the future will be the only one who followed the truth about jesus who are amazingly J Ws, see above for just a few reasons and there are many more, for those who want sincere answers answer your door the next time they knock.

Bursting with knock - your - socks - off, mind - bogglingly tasty vegan recipes for Cinnamon Apple Crepes, Cheeseburger Pizza, Biscuits and Gravy, Churro Biscotti, and so much more, The Superfun Times Vegan Holiday Cookbook will make everyone at your table happy - even meat eaters and the gluten challenged.

In the mean time, I sent it to some more publishers in both Australia and New Zealand, I had one other publisher interested and a lot of knock backs.

He was only 22 - years old at the time and so was not a regular first teamer but he did come on twice and would have played more but for a knock that ruled him out.

Not that Wenger ever listens to anyone but its time for him to also go all out and get a RB who will compete with Bellarin, he blamed yesterdays bad Bellarin performance that he had knocks, this is more reason for us to bring in someone as Jenks and Debuchy have to be sent packing.

Christiano Ronaldo and Real Madrid are really hitting form at the right time and are now more motivated for ucl, but their being 15 points behind Barcelona, knocked out of the Copa Del Rey and dropping unnecessary points against small teams, this season, should also not be taken for granted.

We are of course still in the Champions League, having reached the knockout stages of the competition for the 13th consecutive term, and despite coming up against the same team who knocked us out of three previous European campaigns, we have reason to be more confident next time around.

A club run by joe Lewis lol when was the last fuking time Spurs won a trophy give it a fuking rest Wenger has won more trophies then spuds in their whole fuking history Sick of plastic fans constantly knocking the manager and players like you are fuking genius experts in knowing all about football We have the worst fan base in football a bunch of ingrates Why would any top player come and join Arsenal when they see how fans treat their own players like ozil Lol at people talking about Spurs and pool fukers don't win any trophies but their fans stay loyal ours turn nasty every game werther we win or lose It won't change even if we get a new manager they will turn on him at first defeat What we need is for the vocal minority of plastic key board fans to fuk off and stop bringing the club down Coyg

Real Madrid have won the champions league more times than we have even been in a final, Benzema will command a high fee and wages when and if he goes, there is a scramble already to purchase this player, I don't see anyone knocking on our door for OG and that's because despite the fact that he has improved and I like him as a player he is NOT as good a CF as Benzema.

It's draining we lost to spurs but more over than anything the way we lost was embarrasseing and shocking we were played off park most game that has concern us as fans spurs bullied us out played us hungry in every department it's has fall with wenger when is time when he just accepts game has passed him matter of fact it has passed us arsenal fans aswell no control in middle very poor from xhaka and elneny and again dembele bought mortgage in midfield he's the owner my god vieria would of knocked he's house down but look we're very poor and away from home sad really how wenger keeps he's job is just pure stupidity but not just with today's results over all away from home we're relegation side go get Enrique before Chelsea get him and let but of class and youth take our great club back before Tottenham spuds leave us so far behind we won't even complete this series lack lustrous club

Patrick Willis (toe) and NaVorro Bowman (knee) have been two of the more notable absentees, Frank Gore, Ahmad Brooks, Anthony Davis and Chris Borland are just a few others who are dealing with knocks and as a result the Niners will miss out on the playoffs for the first time since 2010.

He had spent some time collecting conkers, and some more time trying to knock down apples with those conkers, and then he had devoted himself to the hunt for the perfect stick.

Over the course of the past 12 months — they've met more than a handful of times and they have split the wins but Team Jimenez owns 2 Final4 victories over Team Apuli — knocking them out in each of the past two Leagues.

if chelseas confidence has taken a big enough knock from c / l defeat, but a big ask atm see waht happens in 5 games time then we can speculate more strongly what the lay of the land is, but 2nd and fa cup and if we can over come Monaco with passion and major luck then c / l is as far as we want to go from there q / f is not disgrace for this season for me.

The chances are that, soon after writing this about the injury problems that Arsenal's Premier League title rivals are facing, we will see one or more of our own big stars pick up a knock and be ruled out for a long time.

Chelsea overcame their own lack of Champions League history to win in 2012, but by that stage they had been knocking on the door for so long — and had gone close more times than Abramovich would care to remember — that perhaps their time had come.

This would have allowed Barcelona more possession, which they would have used to kill time knocking it around the back four and Mascherano.

There's lots of different things they do on Papa time - this week has included a lot of baseball; a lot of dirty clothes; a little more time in the woods; nachos for lunch; trying to solve the Rubix Cube (I think Calvin's going to walk around muttering, «clockwise, clockwise, counterclockwise» until he solves it), and a healthy dose of You Tube too - this week, introducing the kids to the wonders of The Electric Company -(Knock Knock Rock, and One Word Comes After Another are the most requested around here - because Morgan Freeman is groovy).

My son now has seven teeth and a few more attempting to come in and YES he has bit me multiple times and every time he does I feel like my heart has stopped because I fear another chunck of skin will be removed from my breasts, but it has not been so bad and he seems to be a lot more gentle with his jaws than my daughter was... and bonus, we no longer have a cat to scare the pants of my children by knocking things over (R.I.P Ozzy) he will be missed but not by my breasts haha!!

And he knocked the current mayor for not providing more time to Senate Republicans who had questions about renewing the program.

At the same time, the governor and the WFP are currently feuding over his recent comments knocking the public education system as a «monopoly» and pledged to fight next year for more charter school protections.

«What is particularly missing at this time is her coming out in public, meeting her constituents, talking to TV cameras, explaining what happened, perhaps being a little humble about all of this and giving a satisfactory explanation to her constituents and the wider Conservative family to be quite frank, because speaking to people from the West Midlands region where she is an MP, these things do have a knock - on effect and there are other marginal seats far closer to her constituency where people have got Labour majorities to overturn which may be more difficult if the local Conservative politician is seen as tainted and not having justified their actions and also I gather that Conservative Party HQ has had party donors from the region expressing concern that she hasn't satisfactorily justified what she has done.»

Lawmakers and good government groups have knocked the last - minute flurry of budget activity before the April 1 deadline because it at times requires messages of necessity, a procedural step taken by the governor to move legislation to the floor of the Assembly and Senate more quickly to circumvent the required three - day «aging» process.

Sapphire, also called Slammer, debuted at 9:30 p.m. Pacific time on 24 January and spread to more than 75,000 computers around the globe in a few minutes, knocking out 911 emergency services, automated teller machines, and airline online ticketing systems as well as denying Internet access to millions.

The eruptions the team studied to make their prediction were 150 times more powerful than an average flare and at least 10 times more powerful than a 1989 flare that knocked out power to the entire province of Quebec, Canada.

Meant to be more clear above: If long - time low - carber John Doe eats whatever he wants a couple times a year, he'll be «knocked out of ketosis» and will feel like arse in the short term, but the reason he'll be back to normal in just a coupe of days is because his * fat adaptation * hasn't gone anywhere.

As you can see Mandy modeling, the green color goes so well with the marble and it will keep the kitchen light but still give it more interest than an all - white kitchen (not knocking all white btw, just not the look we are going for this time).

Makers of the best Rolex replica watches put so much time and effort into emulating the look and feel of a Rolex original that these replicas are now a lot more expensive than the old, cheap knock - offs.

In a time of change it's easy for confidence to be knocked and if you would like more help then I suggest Personal Color Analysis might be the way forward.

From the time - based trials of rolling a giant snowball and knocking your friends off a mountain top, to adventures that require more precision and endurance, players will be fully engaged as they use the Wii Remote's motion, pointing and button control capabilities.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

With his 1970's Adonis hair and charming smile, you get the sense that Tarr has used his wiles more than once to accomplish his goal, but this time he's been knocked for a loop by a Russian woman (Svetlana Khodchenkova, Little Moscow) that he is desperate to save.

With more than 45 exciting mini-games,  Pac - Man Party provides a rewarding and challenging social gaming experience regardless of skill level. From the time - based trials of rolling a giant snowball and knocking your friends off a mountain top, to adventures that require more precision and endurance, players will be fully engaged as they use the Wii Remote's motion, pointing and button control capabilities.

The film was somewhat of a knock - off, filmed quickly for AIP at the time of and taking advantage of the sets of more ambitious efforts such as The Raven and The Comedy of Terrors.

Compared to hard - nosed adrenaline junkies who snap up offerings like the 911 R, GT3, and forthcoming GT2 RS, Turbo buyers tend to focus more on how the world perceives them rather than knocking fractions of a second off of their lap time.

The noise is not a uniform knock - knock - knock - knock, more of a low - throated rat - a-tata-tata-tat, and again, it's not happening all the time, and never that I've noticed when I first start it up.

If regular fuel were used knock sensor would more frequently activate, decreasing timing advance and adding fuel.

The more costly Neon Sport Coupe and Sport Sedan are fitted with a 150 - horsepower rendition of that engine, which knocks the 0 - to - 60 mph time down to a little more than seven seconds - virtually as quick as the BMW 328i.

View horsepower, torque, knock, air / fuel ratio, oil temp, boost, 0 — 60 time and much more right on your factory dash!

These two sensors detect the presence of uncontrolled burning in the chambers more accurately, so the control module can retard engine timing as needed to eliminate the potential for engine knock and pinging.

If you've spent decades knocking on agents» doors, only to be told your work is too quirky / unremarkable, dark / light, similar / different, and «not right for us at this time,» it's kind of nice to get your brain around this wonderful new fact: you don't need an agent to be a successful writer any more.

I've used them a few times and yes, you get more downloads but the free book, but I haven't seen any knock - on positive results for my other books.

Pick the right time to buy a house, and you'll have more leeway with the seller and may be able to knock thousands of dollars off the asking price.

I was making sure I paid my bills on time and I was paying more than the minimums to finally knock down my debt.

Charlie ran more than 100 meters across an open field to launch his attack, began by leaping up and biting the mounted police officer, then pulled the horse and rider down, knocking the police officer unconscious, chased the horse for approximately one mile, and attacked the horse multiple times thereafter, all in front of many uninvolved witnesses.

The ringing of the doorbell and constant knocking from inevitable trick or treating children (or opportunistic adults with extra time on their hands...) can cause stress for more anxious pets.