Sentences with phrase «nearly as boring»

Not nearly as boring as the other books required for my legal writing classes.

I mean, Seattle is not nearly as boring as New Mexico, and Chicago is probably only 80 % crap....

To be fair, this Thing prequel (hereafter The Thing - quel), which imagines the happenings at the Norwegian camp prior to the titular alien finding Wilford Brimley and Kurt Russell's beard, isn't nearly as boring and / or offensive as a senate debate, a naval blockade enacted by space - Japs, and a hike in the desert surrounded by evil Jews and Arabs in the company of a Jamaican Stepin Fetchit.

Gimmick land vehicle zones make up large parts of every story level and are un-skippable (unlike Swap Zones which were nearly as boring / bad, but were skippable).

I don't get nearly as bored.

Not only will it cut down on clutter, but your kids won't be nearly as bored with their toys when they're not all available at the same time!

Not exact matches

Today, as Steeped Tea settles in to its position as «the» name in direct sales of loose - leaf, it bears a pretty close resemblance to the vision Jahshan had nearly a decade ago.

Constantly changing your workout may seem less boring, but constantly doing new exercises doesn't force your body to adapt — and get stronger — nearly as quickly.

Immigrants to the U.S. are nearly twice as likely to start businesses than native - born Americans, the group found, and more than half of privately held American companies worth $ 1 billion or more (so - called unicorns) had at least one immigrant cofounder.

There's no future income or nearly as much time to soften the blow from bear markets.

The IPO is the latest milestone for a service that was born out of a nearly - defunct startup in 2006 and was derided by many in its early years as a silly fad dominated by people talking about what they had for breakfast.

Yields have been in a bear market for rather a long time now, though a grudging one, judging by its protracted trajectory, though I'll grant the nearly 100 basis point gains in 10 years since 2.05 percent as recently as September is rather stellar.

She was a stay - at - home mother who launched a full - time career as a political activist and public speaker from nearly the day her first child was born, doing a neat end - run around the feminists who claimed to have invented the idea that a married woman could have a professional life.

I have now been a «born again» Christian for nearly 30 years and as such have learned much and am still learning.

Among the peoples bearing the Christian name, although they were still far from fully embodying the Gospel as set forth in the New Testament, Christianity more nearly approximated that goal than at any time since by the «conversion» of the Roman Empire it had ceased to be the faith of a persecuted minority and become a folk religion.

Since Whitehead was nearly forty when the Queen died in 1901, we should see him as a man of the Victorian age whose intellect bore its best fruit a quarter of a century later.

Born of a people who never attained greatness as a nation, buffeted by greater and lesser enemies throughout their whole existence, a nation that at its widest period of expansion would have ruled a region scarcely larger than Pennsylvania, this book has mothered three great religions which between them touch very nearly half the entire population of the world.

Parmegiano Reggiano is born in Italy and is usually aged nearly twice as long as other, more common Parmesan cheeses.

Born in the city of Zwickau, Croy spent his entire career with his hometown club, BSG Sachsenring Zwickau (now known as FSV Zwickau), playing nearly 400 top flight matches.

I feel particularly bad for guys, not only because they bear the financial brunt of the day — the typical guy will shell out about $ 168.74 on Valentine's Day this year — nearly twice as much as we gals will — on clothing, jewelry, greeting cards, stuffed teddy bears holding puffy satin hearts with «I Love You» embroidered on them, lacy Victoria's Secret teddies, etc., but because they'll be doing it to either appease their sweetheart — do guys really love V.D. like so many women do?

Sometimes though, my art deals with deeper themes, such as a sense of belonging, something I identify with since I was born in Northern Ireland but lived in Chile for nearly a decade.

Under the new name of «Sunbridge Institute» — in tribute to its roots as the Waldorf Institute as well as its nearly 25 years of educating Waldorf teachers as Sunbridge College — a new adult learning center was born.

My first baby was nearly born at home, although it wasn't the plan at all, so a home birth appeared as an interesting option when I got pregnant with my second.

We had incredible breast feeding support through the midwifery birth center where our child was born, but we were surprised that many of our friends who had hospital deliveries didn't receive nearly as much help.

As a birth doula I supported nearly 100 mothers during their pregnancies, witnessed nearly 100 babies be born into their parent's arms.

My son was born in a waterbirth nearly 5 months ago and I fully intended for breastfeeding to come just as naturally as giving birth but I was so wrong.

In a 2002 study, Seattle pediatrician Jenny W. Pang, MD, MPH, and colleagues from the Washington School of Public Health reported that babies delivered at home have nearly twice the risk of dying shortly after birth as those born in the hospital.

(Analysis of British Attitude Survey 2013 shows that while being born in the UK is ranked as the most important factor when considering whether someone should be considered as «truly British», the percentage of people saying that ancestry is very important reaches nearly 60 per cent among those aged 65 and above.)

Later in the campaign Populus asked Lib Dem supporters in 12 Lab / Con marginal seats how would would vote, bearing in mind that their seat was likely to be a close race between Labour and the Conservatives; in nearly every seat Lib Dem supporters were as likely to vote tactically against Labour as they were against the Conservatives.

Earlier on Sept. 1, the village board members also considered the proposed purchase of the nearly - new demonstrator fire truck, but vowed to follow the town board's decision, as the town was shouldering 77 percent of the department's capital costs, while the village was bearing 23 percent.

Posed as an important site for the maintenance of national security, this nearly 2000 - mile expanse is also one that bears biodiversity and ecosystem significance on both sides of the border.This panel seeks to better understand the intersection of science and technology with national security, human rights, environmental and cultural resources along U.S. - Mexico border.

Now nearly twice as many girls as boys are being born in the Aamjiwnaang community, who live next door to the Sarnia - Lambton Chemical Valley complex in Ontario, Canada.

Brown bears, also known as grizzlies, are extinct in Oregon and California and are nearly extinct in Washington.

The showman P. T. Barnum said that a sucker is born every minute, and I certainly would have been the next one if my husband hadn't been nearly as gullible.

(Reuters)- Conservation groups on Friday hailed a court decision that blocks Montana from building roads and logging in nearly 37,000 acres of a state forest that serves as core habitat for protected grizzly bears.

The Kepler space telescope has turned up a potentially water - bearing world nearly as small as our planet.

Statistically, the risk of becoming caregivers for their parents is nearly twice as high for first - born children as it is for their younger siblings.

Nearly 2 decades ago, the behavior turned risky, as trains began striking and killing the bears.

In a paper published online, scientists report that the incidence of diagnosed autism was twice as high for assisted reproductive technology (ART) as non-ART births among the nearly 6 million children in their study, born in California from 1997 through 2007.

I think of my house as very white, but in truth it's not white at all and nearly all the walls bear some color, albeit pale and wispy.

I don't read nearly as much as I did before my daughter was born, but I am usually still able to get through at least two or three titles per month.

As a born - and - bred Los Angeles girl that is accustomed to nearly year - round warm weather, her sense of style is minimal, breezy casual luxe with a touch of nonchalance.

Day 1 has been a boring start, not nearly as fabulous as yours...

But we should bear in mind that there are all kinds of couplings in the interracial dating world that aren't acknowledged nearly as much, and that interracial can mean a black woman with an Asian man.

I created it as a response to my own online dating experience, that meant sifting through hundreds of dating profiles, that were drab, boring and repetitive and as such nearly identical in content and really poor in photo quality and choice.

The plot and pacing may be nearly as lazy as the sloth bear Baloo (Phil Harris), but animators use that to their advantage, developing the characters so that even minor ones seem majorly entertaining.

Once considered a sensitive actor, Reeves now gets by on his athletic bearing and stoic demeanor; Neo seems nearly as robotic as the computer - generated agents pursuing him.

When she nearly ends up as breakfast for a grumpy bear named Ernest, the two become fast friends and embark on an adventure that will put a smile on your face and make your heart glow.

The Silver Surfer is a nice story direction, still popular, born famously from the «Fantastic Four» comic book, although Surfer fans will probably be very disappointed by the depiction of Galactus (looking nothing like his comic counterpart, and not nearly as impossible to defeat).

It's during an elegiac detour in Norway — a scene that bears the blatant imprint of green - screen tinkering — that Ragnarok extends its sci - fi Shakespeare family drama, introducing a new heavy: Thor's heretofore - unmentioned older sister, Hela, the goddess of death, played by a black - clad, antlered Cate Blanchett, with nearly as much vamping, eye - rolling sarcasm as Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns.