Sentences with phrase «not by a country mile»

i'm not sure the overall evidence of team performance could have chelsea the better team not by a country mile and not even after they played trump card hazard we were a right handful for chelski.

Not by a country mile.

Not exact matches

Since a high - profile visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories nearly a year - and - a-half ago, he's gone only to a handful of small countries not far from Rome - racking up nothing like the number of air miles logged by his predecessor, Pope John Paul II.

I have spent most of my years living in surburbia, or out in the country, or a small city that doesn't really feel much like a city at all — more like a few towns connected by miles and miles of country roads and freeways.

I don't understand why Wenger still wants to remain so secretive about his targets, when most of the time he messes it up himself by under bidding by a country mile for the player and it's not as if the other clubs are spying on his transfer activities, like they used to, a decade ago.

AKB's just never run out of excuses, it isn't «bad luck» when we are first on the injury ladder (by a country mile as well) EVERY SEASON, the last time i remember having a reasonable injury list was before diaby was injury prone, so whether it's down to his tactics, players diets or imcompetent staff, a 2.5 star manager wouldn't have taken more than 2 - 3 seasons to fix these problems, players join our club with amazingly good injury records (ozil) and become injry prone, players leave our club (fabregas) and are fit 2x as much as they were for us, SOMETHING IS WRONG AT ARSENAL

Yes he does not look like a «typical» centre back, he isn't big and strong and doesn't make crunching tackles etc. but he has been our best player by a country mile this season, so I feel he should carry on playing at CB until his levels dip.

Two games in a row our best player by a country mile is Chambers (don't be surprised if he's given the Captaincy when Arteta leaves).

Do nt know about wheelchair but ramsey did it just fine last season, you know the season he had the most tackles in the prem till his injury and where he was our best player by a country mile.

Winston Reid was labelled «not good enough» by many on here in Jan when his stats showed he was a country mile better than Mert.

Let's keep doing what hasn't been working by a country mile.

Plan A wasn't working by a country mile, so instead of using Giroud's strengths for a plan B, Wenger decided not to have a striker on the pitch, make the game even more conjested with the subs, and carry on with plan A. Wenger also decided to help Swansea with their counter attacks by taking off our DM.

My biggest piss off is not Wenger,, but Kroenke by a few thousand country miles!

On this yardstick you'd think Nigel wins by a country mile, but I'm not so sure.

It is by addressing these issues, scrutinising the Government and understanding why things like the cost of living matter so much to people that will reconnect voters with politicians - not pursuing a Z - list career on a popular, but ultimately trivial, TV programme thousands of miles away from this country.

In short voter apathy should have come top of the list by a country mile, not bottom.»

By overlaying isotope ratios of these three elements, the South Africans were able to distinguish ivory not only from different regions and countries but also from parks as few as 150 miles apart.

Portland is often considered America's best biking town, and Sunset magazine called this 30 - mile loop the city's «most scenic ride by far» — not to mention, one of the country's top 10 urban bike rides.

We have found the Indians very faithful in their covenant of peace with us; very loving and ready to pleasure us: we often go to them, and they come to us; some of us have been fifty miles by land in the country with them; the occasions and relations whereof you shall understand by our general and more full declaration of such things as are worth the noting, yea, it hath pleased God so to possess the Indians with a fear of us, and love unto us, that not only the greatest king amongst them called Massasoit, but also all the princes and peoples round about us, have either made suit unto us, or been glad of any occasion to make peace with us,... so that there is now great peace amongst the Indians themselves, which was not formerly, neither would have been but for us; and we for our parts walk as peaceably and safely in the wood, as in the highways in England, we entertain them familiarly in our houses, and they as friendly bestowing their venison on us.

Levy actually turned some heads with the underrated «Real Steel» (his best movie by a country mile), but then followed that with last year's «The Internship» (you had already forgotten about that one, didn't you?)

In the end, it's difficult to say what's more troubling — that the film doesn't do enough with its clever premise, or that it doesn't seem to care — but one thing is certain: «The Cobbler» is McCarthy's worst movie to date, and by a country mile.

It's not a complex mechanical and chassis package by any stretch, but put all the parts together and add in a clever suite of electronics and there you have it: a car that's not only happy in the city but one that can devour the country miles too.

The Velar SVR may be significantly more than the Macan Turbo or one of of the other pretenders to the SVR but pricier or not, the Range Rover will undoubtedly be miles superior to the Porsche and the other performance SUVs, especially when judged by other Land Rovers which are all class leaders my a country mile.

But while that sounds very high and noble, this is not, by a country mile, the most popular content, according to Nielsen.

Don't leave Cayucos without tantalizing your taste buds at our very own tasting establishments, then, if you like, take a drive along country roads that will surely bring you by several wineries in Paso Robles, Templeton and Atascadero (15 to 30 miles).

Some of those issues are international ones, such as restrictions on fishing in our economic zone, which stretches 200 miles beyond the Reef, and which is being eyed by many countries as a potential source of food for them, not us.

Just imagine setting off and knowing that, for the next 53 days, you will be taken 23,000 miles round the entire globe on famous international rail networks, by air and by coach, not only visiting, but actually getting to know, a vast diversity of countries and being able to experience, as you pass through or stop to explore them, all the astounding differences in landscape and culture of each one.

I don't know why Nintendo doesn't reuse more from this game, but I wish they would — the Corneria theme beats Star Fox 64 «s by a country mile (not that the latter is bad), and that's just getting started!

This studio visit was one of nearly 1,000 stops made by the curatorial team during a year - long, 100,000 mile journey across the country to discover artists whose work has not yet been fully recognized.

While a fraction of the coal - power stations that would be saved by switching to biomass will be sited on suitable geology for CO2 sequestration, the great majority are not, meaning that in every quite - developed country HP pipelines would be needed that would sum to many thousands of miles.

So there I am, six thousand miles away from home in a foreign country (whose language I don't speak) covering a trade show by myself, and I realize the power brick on my XPS 13 is busted.