Sentences with phrase «much of a blip»

A glance at Team Watts» point total for the season wouldn't cause much of a blip on your radar, but anyone who has seen them play the last three weeks knows better.

There are no special features on the disc (boo to that), the film itself had almost no marketing presence, and I doubt it will make much of a blip on anyone's radar.

A judgment of $ 80 million probably does not cause much of a blip in most major corporate balance sheets.

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Far from being a blip, scooping ice cream behind the counter at Ben & Jerry's was the place I found out how much my brain wanted and needed the act of cooking: messy but focused, challenging but mechanical, all - consuming but unintellectual.

Mertz is looking out of touch, as was Santi (which personally, I think had to have been a blip, he just has too much quality) and right flank is open for someone to impress.

The top six are consistently much too good for the others over the course of a season, although there are some short - term minor blips.

The «blip» was soon forgiven and forgotten as a consequence of the emotional last game at the Boleyn victory over Manchester United just a few days later; but the Swansea performance has set the tone for much of what has come since.

There are many, many, many things to not like about Trump; this is yet another reason, although in the grand scheme of things not to like about him, perhaps it's a mere blip — if even that much.

They have way too much time on their hands, focusing on minutia of an event that is (hopefully) but a blip on the screen of a human's life.

It remains too early to tell if this cutback in coal mining is a blip or evidence for the much - anticipated peak in the country's consumption of the most polluting fossil fuel.

Netflix films have been released with comparatively little fanfare (the Grand Jury prize winner of Sundance, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore dropped onto the platform in February and registered nary a blip, with Bong Joon - ho's Okja also not succeeding in moving the needle all that much), as they seemed content with simply putting it up on the service and setting up a few awards qualifying runs in New York and LA and leaving it at that.

Adapted from the daytime Gothic soap of the late»60s and early»70s - a seminal TV experience for the prepubescent Burton - Dark Shadows is a nutty romp that's as much about celebrating a significant blip in the pop - cult continuum as it is a tale of bloodsucking, of grudge - holding, and the stress involved in maintaining a 200 - room, two - century - old house.

How and How Much Tasked with reestablishing Alfa Romeo in North America to an audience of customers who remember little or nothing of the Alfa Romeo 164 sedan or the long - lived Spider, and for whom the 8C Competizione was a passing blip, the 4C has the presence and the personality make a statement about Alfa Romeo.

In true Toyota fashion, the V - 6 is the picture of smoothness, so much so that the only way to know it's running at idle is to blip the pedal.

It's about as good as that of a 2004 Peugeot - if you've ever driven one you'll know what I'm talking about - it's imprecise, the shift lever has far too much play when in gear and it sometimes sounds strained when you downshift without blipping the throttle.

The six - speed has an automatic throttle - blip system, much like that of the 2014 Corvette C7's Rev Match system, that gooses the throttle within the split seconds between gears during a downshift, increasing smoothness of shifts.

The BlackBerry PlayBook has not been getting much attention lately thanks to the slew of new tablet developments including this morning's ASUS Padfone, but a little Google search revelation has brought the PlayBook back on the radar, if even only a blip.

Which inevitably invokes a much deeper fear, of the same intangibility inherent in our fiat currencies, our fiscal obeisance to governments who seem dead - set on printing & spending their way into oblivion, the fragility of our financial assets & markets (which now exist only as electronic blips on hackable centralised repositories), and our economic future & security itself.

By creating Pong — the «world's first successful video game» — Al may well be relegated by media to a particular slice of gaming history and culture, but as far as he's concerned, the achievement and its significance is but a blip on a much larger screen, and neither defines nor motivates him.

While MMO players are starved for new material, Bless» arrival might warrant more of a blip than a bomb, much the same way that Revelation Online did this past year.

However, in 2006 The Angel of Death, the most recent addition to the Broken Sword canon, came and went without so much as a blip on the gaming radar.

Plenty of genre efforts come and go, never so much as blipping on my radar... and why?

Undoubtedly, volcanic eruptions have contributed some atmospheric CO2, but this can only be miniscule as neither the 1991 Pinatubo eruption (largest of the century), nor the 1986 Lake Nyos CO2 eruption that killed thousands, so much as registered a blip in the Mauna Loa CO2 record.

It is amazing how much the «it's not CO2» argument rests on the blip in the 1940s and the earlier less reliable parts of the surface record.

Other than a brief blip in the late 1970s, the number of vehicle miles traveled rose more than 3 percent a year starting in the mid-1970s, gaining as much as 3.6 percent during the early 1990s, according to government figures.