Sentences with phrase «larger than a grain of salt»

It took 90 minutes to complete the surgery which entailed scooping out the stones, which ranged in size from slightly larger than a grain of salt to 3/8 of an inch squared.

Not exact matches

Now, let's take all this with a grain of salt — MySpace is still much larger than Facebook and, at least according to fairly recent figures, the time its users spent on the site per month has not been decreasing.

But that doesn't mean it's a waste of time to try to shape the tweeted concensus, any more than it's a waste of time to get your spokesperson on MSNBC, Fox or Meet the Press — just take the results with a large grain of salt.

While you're welcome to take these thoughts with a particularly large grain of salt, after seeing the success / non-success of different works over the course of my design journey, I feel like there are a few things that are more key than others to a book's sales numbers.