Sentences with phrase «nigh on»

It's nigh on impossible to live a relaxed happy life if every room has clutter piled up in the corner.

I haven't been able to sleep for nigh on six months now.

On the fridge, I've had my plain Jane Kenmore for nigh on 21 years.

With so many options to compete with, standing out as an exceptional employee can be nigh on impossible.

The most obvious feature has to be the forward facing camera, measuring in at 5MP, more than twice the size of nigh on all front facing sensors.

Other than being a nice big black square, in much the same way as nigh on every handset that has ever been produced, there is little to say.

Hopefully Microsoft gets it right and copies Apple in this regard properly, because Apple's trackpad interface is nigh on perfect, with Windows users seriously missing out.

When you're sweating and gasping for breath, we often found this was nigh on impossible.

The fishmongers, who spent nigh on three centuries in the building, would not have recognised the place, its stone be-scrubbed and its walls bedecked with twinkling lights.

Yet as most of us will know they bought the company nigh on exactly two years ago.

Freshfields has nigh on 500 partners worldwide - it shouldn't have been beyond the firm's wit to get a handful of them to deliver the news personally.

I started publishing Law Librarians News in Sydney nigh on a decade ago.

The Law Society of Upper Canada has been grappling with these issues in a case that has held the attention of Ontario lawyers for nigh on a decade.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ «Claire Wysocki was a beacon of hope to my family at a time when our options appeared limited and the likelihood of a satisfactory resolution seemed nigh on impossible.

because people during the MWP with iron age technology lived and farmed areas of Greenland for several centuries, areas that are now ice covered and which even with modern technology would be nigh on uninhabitable now

Without the whole as an overall guide, as Wilde and Bohm suggest, extrapolated wholes seem nigh on impossible to achieve.

Never mind the lack of warming for nigh on a decade, true believers in AGW, like McKibben are amazingly adept at blaming everything, it would seem, on global warming.

I would suspect that building an outperforming equity model using daily closing prices is nigh on impossible given the amount of brain and compute power that has already been applied to the problem.

Also cores rather than cross-sections make it nigh on impossible to spot those non-climatic disturbances.

The simple fact is that while iron fertilization experiments have been taken place for nigh on twenty years thanks to the late John Martin's iron hypothesis, none of these experiments have lasted long enough or been conducted on a large enough scale to effectively measure the entire life of a pleagic phytoplankton bloom, artificially fertilized or naturally occuring.

In fact I have been a follower of Tiny Houses since its inception and would love to have one in Jamaica, where I was born or Ghana which I may choose to live after retirement, God willing, however through lack of funds, am finding it nigh on impossible to do so.

It is nigh on impossible to get hold of the significant qualities of these works through the images on screen.

There are now so many things you can ask your race engineer it's nigh on impossible to do the movement on the gamepad to select the option you want to ask within the very short period of time you are given to select it.

I always hated sports games, and for nigh on fifteen years, they've been the main place to go to for local multiplayer.

Since you play as both sons at the same time, it is nigh on undoable with the keyboard in my experience; and to top it off, you can't just use any joystick or gamepad you have lying around.

With or without Sucker Punch at the helm, we're quietly confident — even nigh on certain — that inFAMOUS has a future under Sony.

Although Nintendo's own Gamecube adapters for Wii U haven't been officially discontinued, finding one is nigh on impossible at this point (unless you pay...

Well, it's nigh on impossible to recommend a game that appears to have been released as a half - finished product.

Career mode is nigh on the same, although the calendar does seem to move faster through the days, but there is no transfer window deadline day feature and you still can not scout for players, and the international manager feature touted for 13 doesn't make an appearance.

I really would have thought that a sequel - much less a second sequel - would be nigh on impenetrable to newcomers.

By killing this Ogre you finish the mission and Black Spindle is yours, but it was nigh on impossible without a Fireteam.

It's a game everyone's been talking about for nigh on three years now.

The nature of the game makes internal areas an important area to both explore and build but once you have a roof it is often nigh on impossible to see what you are doing.

At least the restart times are nigh on instantaneous, which means the game at least doesn't keep you waiting before throwing you straight back into the fun.

A few problems with unfairness still exist too, like the item distribution being fairly broken (the AI epecially get good items nigh on every time, and the powerful ones are still a bit too common).

But as I said converting the console version nigh on perfectly to the Vita has come at bit of a cost.

The nigh on perfect visuals combined with the master crafted sound design creates an audio visual feast and the pinnacle of this presentation is the dynamic weather.

Nicalis has released an image of the Switch boxart for The End is Nigh on their twitter.

This exploit would make it nigh on impossible to track which Fireteam legitimately completed the raid first, an extremely important matter for both bungie and the fanbase.

In this post Skyrim land, many gamers find it nigh on impossible to play another RPG without comparing it to Bethesda's massive open - world adventure, and that's fundamentally wrong, because the Witcher 2, a port of the PC title, proves that you don't need a massive open - world full of things to do to be a good game.

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Couple this with the fact that the third person shooter genre is so hugely oversubscribed the inability to at least get those core mechanics right is nigh on criminal.

However it is currently nigh on impossible to get an online game which really removes a large chunk of the game's appeal.

Sony have said all of about five words and then trooped out dozens of game trailers that have been nigh on impossible to keep up with.

This mode starts off relatively simple but it soon escalates to levels that feel nigh on impossible.

In a move that has caused considerable upset on the forums, though, the latest Dying Light patch has made it nigh on impossible to alter the files anymore, with Techland claiming that they did it to stop cheaters.

The industry as we know it today has a dark fascination with crafting masses of artificial hype, making it nigh on impossible for games to meet the impossibly high standards set for them by the media and publishers.

«Easy to enter, nigh on impossible to leave.»

Platforms: PC Reviewed On: PC Developer: Daedalic Publisher: Daedalic Singleplayer: Yes Multiplayer: No Confession time: despite it sitting in my library for nigh on a year I never played the original Blackguards, leaving me to head into this sequel with no expectations and a mild case of trepidation.

The camera quickly proves to a pain in the backside as well because it remain entirely under the players control, so while you're frantically trying to deal with a crowd of enemies you've also got to deal with the camera, otherwise it will inevitably become lodged in a piece of the tight environments and make it nigh on impossible to see what's going on.