Sentences with phrase «nearly fell over»

A couple of years ago when the new colors that came out were a newly named country blue and peach I nearly fell over.

I found the technology incredibly immersive; when I stood up I nearly fell over.

We shoved the big old wicker chairs and table out of the way, and Dan nearly fell over the balcony trying to get the shot as I squeezed in the farthest corner.

Kelly screamed, jumped around, and then nearly fell over from the excitement.

I nearly fell over at the markets this weekend when discovering fresh sweet corn!

I nearly fell over when I won the ring — I am never on that end of the contests!

(I read it on the treadmill and nearly fell over a few times with laughter.)

I had the proprietor of a Thai restaurant nearly fall over in shock at our two year old scarfing down lamb with red curry.

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Bitcoin fell below $ 10,000 and shed nearly 18 percent of its value over two days last week following increased regulatory scrutiny of cryptocurrency exchanges last week.

The rate of new firms entering the marketplace has fallen by nearly half over the 40 - year period from 1978 to 2012, to 8 percent, compared with a steadily increasing rate of new firm closures, up two full percentage points, to about 10 percent, over the same period, according to the Brookings Institution, a policy think tank.

Investors better hope that the machine is a success; Sony's share price has struggled over the last five years, falling nearly 70 % since February 2008.

On the surface, Papa seems to have gotten an extraordinarily generous deal to turn around the beleaguered drug company: Not only is his salary more than twice what it was when he was CEO of Perrigo (prgo), a company nearly three times as valuable as Valeant (vrx), it's also especially good considering Valeant's stock price has fallen nearly 67 % since he took over.

(Over the following months, they would fall nearly 80 percent.)

Over the next two weekends, about 150,000 visitors will hit Desert Trip and spend nearly half a billion dollars once the final curtain falls.

A Bloomberg index of seven North American hospital chains has fallen nearly 8 % over the past three days, with Tenet Healthcare (thc) down more than 10 %, Community Health Systems (cyh) down 12 %, and Quorum Health (qhc) sinking more than 16 %.

But he fell seriously ill, and by the time he recovered and could start the chaplain training program, World War II was nearly over.

Three months after Porat took over as Google's CFO shares are up nearly 15 % while the tech - heavy Nasdaq Composite Index has fallen approximately 8 %.

Snap shares have fallen nearly 19 percent in the past three months, and about 6 percent over the past month.

Facebook reportedly offered Waze nearly $ 1 billion last month, but the talks apparently fell through over the purchase price.

Zynga's stock, a high - flier in its initial public offering in 2011, has fallen off by nearly 31 % over the past year.

It was the fall of 2005, in Singapore, during nearly five hours of interview spread over two days.

The only reason the median didn't fall more was because net worth for the top 10 %, those with 2013 incomes over $ 154,600, rose nearly 75 %.

True, the Dow gained over 100 points, but new lows outpaced new highs by nearly 10 - to - 1, the Nasdaq fell, and utilities sunk to a new low.

The commission rate paid for research by BlackRock's nearly $ 15 billion Multi-Asset Income Fund also fell over the 2014 to 2016 fiscal years, plunging by nearly 41 percent.

In the capital of San Juan, towering eucalyptus trees fell nearly every other block over a main road dotted with popular bars, restaurants, and coffee shops, some of which were damaged.

The labor market in Fargo shows a lot of promise, as the city has the second - lowest unemployment rate on our list, behind only neighboring Sioux Falls, S.D. And, future job growth over the next 10 years is estimated at nearly 43 percent, according to Sperling's.

The value of Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency, has fallen over -15 percent today, down nearly 30 percent from its record high of almost...

Over the last 12 months shares have fallen nearly 15 percent, even as the Hang Seng Index has risen by 17 percent.

If you convinced somebody in the fall of 2007 that this was the right way to invest, they'd have a bone to pick with you, as they'd watch U.S. stocks crash by nearly 60 % over the following sixteen months.

Both companies continued to fall Wednesday, with Match Group dropping nearly 6 % and IAC falling just over 2 %.

Steve Symington (Under Armour): Shares of Under Armour have fallen nearly 50 % over the past year, including a more than 30 % drop so far in 2017.

By July 2015, shares of Peabody Energy had fallen 92 % to $ 1.25 per share and my stock portfolio was down nearly $ 30,000 over just a year.

Lo and behold, the industry group that contains biotech names has been the worst - performing group in the S&P 500 over the past three months, falling nearly 9 percent during that time.

The CPI fell by 0.4 per cent over the year to June, compared with falls of nearly 1 per cent in the past few years.

Over the past 12 months, as shares have fallen nearly 60 %, insiders have sold 6 million shares and purchased only 700 thousand shares for a net of 5.3 million shares sold, or 2 % of shares outstanding.

After experiencing a strong upswing in recent years, dwelling investment fell by 3 1/2 per cent in the December quarter, following a 1 1/2 per cent fall in the September quarter, to be nearly 2 per cent lower over the year.

Total assets in small cap mutual funds nearly doubled between year - end 2007 and year - end 2016 — from $ 473 billion to $ 779 billion — despite the fact that the number of small cap stocks fell from 3,700 to 2,600 over the same period.

Alibaba's shares have fallen nearly 45 percent over the same period.

Although that's still significantly lower than the peak level of nearly $ 5,000 reached over the weekend, it's a remarkable comeback after falling as much as 20 percent on Monday.

3M's net income jumped nearly 23 % year over year on marginal improvement in revenue, but all that the market cared about was that the numbers fell short of analysts» estimates.

The math suggests a nearly 90 percent probability that mean reversion will occur over the next three months, with yields falling and the gold price rising back to its mean.

I very nearly gave up early in that 2005 series though — I think it was the farting aliens on Downing Street that made me roll my eyes so hard they nearly fell out of my head — but right around the eighth and ninth episodes (called The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances, a perfect mix of love and fear, creepiness and beauty) was when I fell head over heels in love with the show.

The fish catch had been growing at a record rate for two decades prior to 1970, but since 1970 the fish catch per person fell by 13 per cent or over 1 per cent per year Then fifteen years later in the mid-1980s there was an upturn of nearly 20 per cent due largely to the recovery of the depleted Peruvian anchoveta fishery.

I haven't fallen over, just a hop and skip as I got out and nearly lost balance the first time!»

With a healthy senior year, he could finish with nearly 10,000 career yards and 60 touchdowns, but Cincinnati's Passing S&P + ranking has fallen from 23rd to 76th to 115th over his three seasons.

I've been pushing kids around in shopping carts for nearly 6 years and nobody has fallen out yet, although my son did drop a large container of yogurt out of the cart basket which exploded all over the floor.

ad campaign, per - capita fluid milk sales have fallen nearly 3 % over the past five years.

I've been pushing kids around in shopping cart baskets for nearly 6 years and nobody has fallen out yet, although my son did drop a large container of yogurt out of the cart basket which exploded all over the floor.

6 yrs I did nt fall pregnant went to drs who referred us to specialist and was precribed clomid I fell pregnant to a beautiful little girl (she is nearly 7 now) since havin my daughter I found a new partner and over 2 yrs we been tryin so drs have referred us bk to fertility specialist.

The number of traffic fatalities in 2017 in New York City plummeted to the lowest level since record - keeping started over a century ago, city officials said — a decline led by a steep drop in pedestrian deaths, which fell by nearly a third from the year before.