Sentences with phrase «more of a fluke»

Her shooting from deep dropped off in a big way at Connecticut (she only made 8 - of - 48 attempts), but that feels like more of a fluke than anything.

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The public has had more than enough of the service Ms. Fluke offers in exchange for benefits, but for the time being she can still get birth control at no cost if she chooses a plan that doesn't offer it.

That thalidomide was not approved for sale in the United States was more of a bureaucratic fluke than anything else.

The diagnostic spectrum comprises more than twenty established methods for the detection, quantification and characterization of eggs, larvae and adult stages of gastro - intestinal worms and lung worms, liver fluke and coccidia.

More to them, even, than a team that has played bravely and well through a tragedy, proving in the first quarter of this season that last year's trip to the Stanley Cup finals was not just a whale of a fluke.

Of course I think last year was a fluke and Lucroy will be more like the Milwaukee version.

Perhaps even more nonsensical is that this hasn't been a fluke, or the eventual consequence of a massive scandal.

With more business to take care of this season, hopefully this loss was a fluke and Atlético can return to their winning ways against Real Betis and Arsenal this week.

So the streak is less a fluke of sudden great performances, and more a fluke of scheduling.

They have also become more robust defensively, having shipped only three goals in their last six league games — one of which was a Brighton penalty, another a fluke by Chelsea's Willian — compared to 13 in the previous six.

Barring a statistical fluke, the resulting pattern of balls would soon appear much more random even though each constituent knock would, according to standard mechanics, be time - reversible.

While some scientists argue that these «megaquakes» could be the vanguard of an extended outburst of strong seismic events, many others suggest that the apparent cluster of recent temblors is nothing more than a statistical fluke.

The parasites can cause cholangiocarcinoma, a highly lethal bile duct cancer that is rare in the Western world but nearly 50 times more common (85 cases per 10,000 people) in Northeast Thailand, a hotspot of liver fluke infestation.

New Jersey led all states in sports fishing for fluke, blasting through its target with more than double the catch of neighboring New York.

Konigsberg says that if it is a fluke, that should become clear by the end of the summer as the Fermilab teams analyze more data.

An international team of hundreds of scientists photographed more than 18,000 humpback whale tails, or flukes, from Alaska to Guatemala and from the Philippines to Russia.

And last winter may not have been a fluke: Those kinds of extremes — years of deluge and years of drought — are already becoming more common as climate change accelerates.

While 2015 may prove to be a fluke, computer models predict similar conditions will become more common as atmospheric levels of man - made greenhouse gases increase.

It was a fluke that I even tried it but anything you do daily is WAY more important than some random act of occasionally eating something at a restaurant.

Proving that 2009's The Hangover was a fluke, this sequel returns to filmmaker Todd Phillips» more usual mean - spirited style, abandoning laughs for a series of painfully awkward scenarios held together by a contrived plot.Having finally...

They remain clean, clear, sharp, and detailed throughout, only briefly faltering in one scratchy bedroom scene, an isolated fluke occurring in the middle of the film, and more understandably in a climactic effects shot.

And like Singleton, Coogler is more than capable of drawing out some strong, emotionally powerful performances from his cast, which includes the transcendent Michael B. Jordan, an impressive Melonie Diaz, and Octavia Spencer, who proves yet again that her Oscar for The Help was no fluke.

Nissan's success was no fluke — the Altima earned its sales fair and square by slowly edging into the spot once occupied by the Honda Accord: that of a reliable and comfortable, but more youthful, alternative to the venerable Toyota.

But as far as feeling like you've «made it» and you're ready to quit your day job, it's more important to cultivate your 1,000 true fans than have a good sales month here or there (as many who've been there can tell you, success can be fleeting if it came as a fluke and you didn't take advantage of it by turning casual readers into true fans).

Keep in mind that those figures spanned more than a decade of trading, so this was not a fluke or some lucky win streak.

I had a lot of hope for Lost World given that it was the same team but it's looking more and more each release that Colors was a huge fluke.

Enter then Road to Gehenna, an expansion pack for The Talos Principle which proves that last year's game was no fluke, Road to Gehenna once more brings those same philosophical musings and brutally clever puzzles to the forefront and does so with the levels of flair and visual flourish that were so evident in its parent title.

Enter then Road to Gehenna, an expansion pack for The Talos Principle which proves that last year's game was no fluke, Road to Gehenna once more brings those same philosophical musings and brutally clever puzzles to the forefront, doing so with the levels of flair and visual flourish that were so evident in its parent title.

Juliette Dumas's large - scale paintings of whales» flukes manage to refresh a subject that has borne more than its share of sentimentality.

Of course, since he knows he can not stand for office again, he does not give a flying fluke what anyone thinks any more.

After thinking a bit more about Gavin's reply, it seems to me it should be possible to show the single «strange» run for land use (run # 1 from figure 5 in Nic's original post) is likely to be a statistical fluke related to model behavior, and not at all representative of the actual effect of land use.

However, interpretation of the weak warming trend in the United States matters because, if it is a statistical fluke, the United States may have in store a rapid trend toward more extreme anomalies.

This is not a fluke — people are more productive in the mornings, and if you want to maximize and take advantage of that productivity, you should get to work early as well.

While for serious stuff a Fluke is worth more than a billion cheap Chinese multimeters, having 3 or 4 of the latter will be immensely more useful than a single top brand one because seeing in real time the battery voltage and what develops around a voltage divider when you change the resistors ratio has no price.

While this is more than likely a fluke than a widespread issue, Digital Storm does offer three years of tech support and warranty for free in the off chance lightning should strike twice.