Sentences with phrase «more than a block»

Bitcoin XT is about more than the block size.

When we invited people, most said that they «usually don't attend New Year's Eve parties» because they try to stay off the road on New Year's Eve, then laughed when they realized they all live no more than a block from our house.

He's a high - end twitchy athlete who has shown fairly good instincts and averaged more than a block and steal per game as a true freshman.

After arriving at Texas Tech as an unheralded recruit, Smith's emergence was quite the surprise, and averaging more than a block and a steal per game as a true freshman for a quality team was no small feat.

The arthritis, combined with her disc issues, make it difficult for her to walk more than a block or two without having to stop and sit for a minute.

A blackhead is really nothing more than a blocked pore that is given dark shading by melanin.

i didn't need to ride it more than a block to know it was perfect.

A couple of decades back, somewhat awestruck, I held a simple — primitive, really — wooden car model as old as I was, nothing more than a block of wood that had been sliced longitudinally at an angle on both sides sometime in the late 1930s so its transverse cross section became a symmetrical trapezoid.

I've never had to park more than a block away from wherever I'm going.

I exclaimed to my wife, spotting the Power Wagon from more than a block away as it approached.

No one gets you more than Block.

Navigating Gas Buddy never takes more than a few seconds and the alternative gas stations with the better prices are never more than a block or two away.

It will literally look like nothing more than a block of wood; this will actually make you want to retry the level over and over until you have obtained that better looking piece of totem.

With its buildings spanning more than a block and more than one hundred years, one may have difficulty so much as finding the architecture.

Their vigor can be savored in two gallery shows little more than a block apart: «Helen Frankenthaler: Composing With Color: Paintings 1962 - 1963,» at Gagosian, and «Morris Louis: Veils,» at Mnuchin Gallery.

Send Wall - E up there with a shovel, and you can just keep reusing the same dust as it falls back down (slowly)... A potential problem, though, is forward scattering — in particular, if the dust cloud is large enough to extend significantly beyond the disk of the sun as seen from Earth, it might «focus» light on the Earth more than block it (of course it doesn't focus light, it would just seem like it from Earth).

Mom: «This from the kid who wants to be chauffeured any place more than a block away.»

Most people are drawn to the bullets more than a block of text in paragraph form.

Draperies do more than block out the sun.

Not exact matches

Gilbert George has been around the minerals exploration block a couple more times than many and has the resume to prove it.

Matthias Dopfner, CEO of German media giant Axel Springer told the Financial Times that after implementing a similar block at its newspaper Bild, more than two - thirds of users chose to turn off their ad - blocking software.

The current rules on the sale or transfer of radiowaves used to operate cellphone networks don't allow incumbents to bid on and win more than one block, but this doesn't apply to new entrants, said Yaghi.

The intuitive notion of harnessing the body's own immune system to fight the enemy within is more than a century old — and seemingly, each time researchers have seemed close to turning that theory into reality, a new stumbling block appears.

The truth is, money and time blocks are usually more significant in the mind than in reality.

Block sizes are eight times larger than bitcoin's enabling more transactions to be grouped together.

Starting Thursday at midnight, according to several reports, Brazil will place a 48 - hour block on WhatsApp, the Facebook - owned messaging service that has more than 90 million users in the country, where the total population is slightly above 200 million.

Given that no one was likely to have ever seen the thesis, sitting in a library, and that therefore no one was ever likely to have cited it, it seems like a thank - you note would have been more appropriate than a summons or a cell block.

The sale event for a block of 28 townhomes in an upscale part of Toronto recently drew more than 750 real estate agents; some were so eager to buy they offered more than the list price, neglecting the fact the units would be parcelled out through a lottery system.

It was Canadian Business that, back in 2007, brought attention to California's low - carbon fuel standard that effectively blocks oilsands exports to that state — despite the fact that California's own exempted heavy - oil industry has been shown to be more carbon intensive than the oilsands average.

that, back in 2007, brought attention to California's low - carbon fuel standard that effectively blocks oilsands exports to that state — despite the fact that California's own exempted heavy - oil industry has been shown to be more carbon intensive than the oilsands average.

Virtual reality means more than strapping on a headset and placing virtual blocks in a souped - up version of the video game Minecraft.

The zone now covers over 100 blocks and serves more than 12,000 children, with 95 % of high school seniors going off to college.

«What we don't do yet, and it's more a matter of yet than anything else, is block native advertising,» said Roi Carthy, Shine's chief marketing officer.

Or if you've opted to pay for the wage increase by raising your prices, you'll have to explain why your hamburger costs several dollars more than the shop down the block.

He noted that the government has not blocked a «vertical» deal in more than 40 years.

The Department of Justice unveiled a lawsuit to block the $ 85 billion mega merger more than one year after it was announced.

And, lo and behold, the big boys trust Microsoft a lot more with their data and their security than they may ever trust the new tech kids on the block.

It's more private than Bitcoin and Ethereum's block chain and can be used to create what are essentially «intranets» of secured transactions between parties using the technology.

More than 320 employees in 20 quarries and six plants across Canada and the U.S. produce its materials, using 1.5 million cubic feet of rough blocks each year.

In an update to the ASX this week, Calima pointed out that testing of Painted Pony's first well in the Beg Block, just 40kms south of Calima's acreage, had averaged more than 2,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

More than $ 290 million worth of cars are expected to cross the auction block at the Concours d'Elegance in Pebble Beach.

Kolondra also said Opera is not talking with its mobile - operator partners about instituting the feature in its (far more widely used) mobile versions — many operators are controversially experimenting with blocking ads at the network level rather than in the browser, partly as a way of getting publishers and ad networks to give them a slice of their revenue.

The new rule, which reportedly is more than 300 pages long, which will take effect once it is published in the Federal Register, blocks so - called «fast lanes,» known more formally as paid prioritization, will forbid ISPs from blocking or slowing of some content in favor of others and will make clear that all lawful content has equally standing.

The company suspended 7,000 customer accounts for ads that impersonated a news article — what Google calls «tabloid cloaking» — and blocked more than 12,000 websites for copying information from other publications.

«No more than 10 emails were initiated from any single IP address, making the attack difficult to block based on location — and in many cases, the devices had not been subject to a sophisticated compromise,» Proofpoint says.

Today, in pockets of major northern metropolises on the continent, including Vancouver, Toronto, Chicago and New York City, it's difficult to walk more than a few blocks in the winter without passing a Canada Goose jacket emblazoned with the red and white Artic Program trademark, the company's distinctive logo.

ATTRACTIVELY landscaped verges and 200 - year old Tuart trees are attracting home buyers to Woodleigh Grove, where more than half the 42 blocks on offer have been sold to date.

At this point, more than $ 1.5 billion in venture capital has gone to support blockchain startups, and many have business models that would be affected by how the block - size problem is solved.

Two issues with them: they are more micro than macro and they have more company - specific risk than the wood block ETFs.

The page had gathered more than 12,000 prospective attendees before it was blocked at the request of the Russian government's Internet monitor, Roskomnadzor.