Sentences with phrase «of double takes»

And love the concept of double takes.

We're getting lots of double takes these days.»

Adorned with bright yellow brake calipers, the Gallardo Spyder caused more than its share of double takes on sheer flash alone.

The film is a symphony of double takes, as every character, great and small, is stunned by Toni's oddity, his eyes twinkling mischievously whenever someone plays along with his games.

After a couple of double takes, (or a couple years of this phenomenon) you start to not get so freaked out, and just take it for what it is.

do you feel like you get a lot of double takes wearing a sheer shirt in Europe?

Style these cat eye sunglasses with your favorite looks for an outfit worthy of a double take.

Scott was solid in American Pie, while Jones was one of the best parts of Double Take.

Before you make your way back north of the river to catch The Photographers» Gallery's half of Double Take, do drop in to see one of the other major events of the week: the second show at Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery, a solo show of work by that other 90s bad boy, Jeff Koons.

Reading the title of Samsung's latest press release, «Samsung Galaxy S7 edge Named Best Smartphone at MWC 2017», you may have done a bit of a double take — didn't Samsung release this phone coinciding with last year's MWC?

Window Dressing: The shutters» rich navy color and off - beat hardware make them worthy of a double take.

Not exact matches

If energy from biomass takes off, says Larry, «it will probably double the size of the industry's ability to absorb equipment.»

I double - majored in theater in college, so I was planning to take on this challenge through some method acting — but since Musk has been sleeping on the Tesla factory floor and skipping showers as of late, I decided to spare my co-workers.

In fact, with the amount of territory up for grabs and fighting taking place, that number could easily be doubled.

«Whenever I get the reports with the [League of Legends viewership] numbers, I almost do a double - take.

But the real issue on pricing is the year - on - year rises on old drugs — the deflection is to talk about new drug prices, but the sleight of hand is on the double digit rises taken every year on the portfolio staples.

«Taking the two years to the end of 2016, almost a third of the rise in the number of people in work reflected growth in self - employment (double the share of that category in total employment), with another fifth corresponding to more people in part - time work,» he wrote in a recent note to clients.

In the last decade, the length of time it takes companies to go public has essentially doubled, according to Greifeld.

According to the Journal, the survey result represents a 4 - point increase from a similar survey taken in October, and it is the first double - digit advantage for the party since shortly before the 2008 presidential election that resulted in a Democratic super-majority in the Senate, and control of both congressional chambers.

The camera will be able to take 240 frames per second, double the rate of last year's iPhone 5s.

Wolters Kluwer's stock price has doubled since she took charge a decade ago, and the firm has returned half of its cash to shareholders in 2015 in the form of dividends and share buybacks.

To live by the 50/30/20 plan, a person would need to earn twice as much as their fixed expenses, so GOBankingRates doubled the total cost of necessities to arrive at the total recommended take - home pay for each city.

Uber's famous free - market pricing strategy did not make an exception for Hurricane Sandy, when many New Yorkers were displaced and the cost of taking an Uber car doubled.

There are many reasons, of course, to take the wait - and - see approach with Bitcoin — from the fact that it could be worth double tomorrow, to the reality that there are currently few nonspeculative ways to actually spend or use it.

President - elect Donald Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, has promised to double America's pace of economic growth, «rebuild» its infrastructure and slash regulatory burdens.

Sales in prime western recreational regions are down significantly from 2010, while months of inventory (the time it would take to sell the current listings) are well into double digits.

The company takes a piece of each sale — and a high one; it is in the double - digit range for every purchase.

The one pictured above, however, made me do a double take — enough so that I had to go back and take a proper photo of it.

Of course, strong leadership also often goes hand in hand with bold ambition: Polman took a big risk by declaring his — to double the company's size even while reducing its environmental footprint and increasing its positive social impact.

Airbus has pinned hopes of continuing production of its double - decker jumbo jet on Emirates, the world's largest operator of the aircraft which took delivery of its 100th A380 earlier this month.

Because, in reality, it's not about the 100th of a second it takes to double tap that photo — it's about the fact that they looked at your profile.

Add another one to the list: for one year, it smashed all records for the highest executive compensation in Canada, awarding its former CEO Michael Pearson $ 179 million in company stock, for a total take - home of $ 182 million, more than double paid to the previous year's highest paid CEO, BlackBerry's John Chen.

The company must have long - term potential; it needs some sort of sustainable competitive advantage that will keep it in business for years to come; he wants double - digit returns — «Why bother buying a business if you're not getting at least that for taking on the risk of owning a company?»

Doubling your users in the space of a year or reaching the million download mark sounds impressive, but if your announcement pales in significance to that of your competitors, then it might be better to take a different angle.

Wednesday's Wall Street Journal had one of those double - take - inducing headlines: «Cord cutters lop off internet service more than TV.»

Amazon now appears to be doubling down on furniture as it eyes taking a bigger piece of the $ 150 billion market, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal.

Mobike claimed in May that its bikes had doubled the percentage of Chinese biking to work in selected cities, taking the share of bicycle commuters to more than 11 percent.

I show you step by step how to take control of your world so you can double your income doing what you love to do.»

When flexibility is just for moms, it creates an unfortunate double stigma that makes companies both less likely to hire them and other types of workers less likely to take advantage of flex - work policies.

Over the course of 2016, Cowin's stake in Domino's Australia (he invested in a local pizza parlour that eventually took over the brand's franchise rights) doubled in value.

Its Entertainment and Devices division, which houses all its gaming business and consumer phones, took a big hit last quarter, but operating income more than doubled from 2010 to 2011, to US$ 1.3 billion on revenues of US$ 8.9 billion.

Two years ago, Bob Shor got a scary introduction to one of health care's biggest problems when his father accidentally took a double dose of insulin, sending him rushing to the doctor.

A Treasury spokesman told the BBC: «We are taking action to support families with the costs of living by cutting taxes for millions of working people, doubling free childcare for nearly 400,000 working parents and introducing the National Living Wage - a significant pay rise for the lowest earners.»

«The games on a double - sided BR disc would take the better part of a couple of days to download in some of those AAA [the video game equivalent of a Hollywood blockbuster] cases,» he says.

Here, in honor of Facebook's big double - digit birthday, we've decided to take a look back at 10 of the biggest moments in the company's history.

Part of Madoff's appeal was that he offered investors double - digit returns year in and year out and — until the stock market collapsed — let his investors take out money anytime they wanted.

Ever do a double take when you hear the person standing in front of you ask for the Pizza Sub at Subway or a Quesarito at Chipotle?

I look internally, double checking that what we're doing is effective, but it also means taking a deeper look into the execution of the campaign.

Amazon said it was taking all 15 stories and 600,000 square feet of the new building in Shoreditch — more than the 11 stories and 431,000 square feet of space it said it would take in 2014, allowing it to double the capacity of its London research and development center from 450 to 900 technical employees.

• From free - flowing Champagne to a double bed, Gillaspia takes us on a tour of what flying on world's best international airline was like.