Sentences with phrase «often than it hits»

This debut definitely shows promise, but in the end misses the mark much more often than it hits it.

The fact that Game Night hits the mark more often than it hits a wall is cause for cheering.

You clip them with your war - ax more often than you hit your intended target; you demand that they wait for you as you descend into the bowels of a great dwarven city, then leave them to starve as you forget they exist.

Not exact matches

But because small enterprises often have less stringent security than large corporations, Clinton says, they often get hit more frequently.

Every time my sales management has assigned sales numbers a little lower than what they think a rep can manage, that number is usually hit — and often exceeded.

And more often than not, it has enabled them to hit the mark.

Listed companies are larger and better connected than their unlisted peers, and often have access to state - bank funding, so the mounting backlog hits smaller outfits hardest.

Getting more hits, and concert tours, often did depend on the celebrity - friendly - manners and publicity - work that labels like Motown emphasized, but still, pop - music celebrity always remained somewhat different from the image - drenched Hollywood method of star - creation, which especially in the early days tended to be far more about the star's type - cast and sex - appeal possibilities than acting talents.

I'm a big fan of raw cookies — I find they always hit the spot and are often way more satisfying than their baked counterparts.

He'd played fewer than 500 innings, and the ball wasn't hit his way that often.

He's no Ronaldo, no s ** t. Alexis gets targeted quite often and is almost always moving, it's much harder hitting a final ball like that, than being stopped and with no pressure and a clear view.

One has to ask, if all QBs seem to run into big hits maybe it's not them running into them, but more often than not, lack of decent o - line play set them up to get hit big.

As well as the fans the English media can be brutal, especially with that sort of money and will expect you to hit the ground running, and more often than not we've witnessed the next big sensation command a hefty transfer fee only for him not to adjust to the rigours of the Premier league and their confidence to be damaged irreparably (exhibit A Lazar Markovic — or Falcao).

The A's are terrible on the base paths (70 steals, 13th in the league last season), they don't hit for average -LRB-.259, also 13th), and they fan more often than John Popper on a 100 [degree] day (a league - high 1,129 times).

If you have watched Peyton Manning, he's not exactly fleet of foot these days, and you'll often see him simply fall down behind the line of scrimmage rather than taking a hit.

Unders (which are less popular) are hitting more often than not, especially in games with higher totals — which often garner tons of over bets from public bettors.

More often than not he's hitting his progressions well.

Finding a more mobile and more anticipating defensive midfielder would be more important than getting a tall striker, because Arsenal are often easily hit from quick counter-attacks.

But Xhaka offers nothing defensively (often worse than nothing), and his passing is hit and miss all the time.

Some readers may be dissuaded by the meager 41.3 % winning percentage, however, because you are often betting moneyline underdogs, you can turn consistent profits even if you're hitting on less than half of your bets.

Asuka hits harder and more often than anyone Bayley has wrestled before.

Oddsmakers have been a bit off so far this season on their totals, with overs hitting more often than not...

In general, F1 autobiographies tend to be a bit hit and miss - sadly more often than not falling on the «miss» side - but «How To Build A Car» is an emphatic hit.

Theo can finish, he might fluff some chances but he hits the target more often than not and he can find the back of the net.

It looks like the Arsenal transfer rumours hitting the football media this week about the Borussia Monchengladbach and Switzerland international midfield star Granit Xhaka may well have been based on fact rather than the speculative guesswork we see so often during a transfer window.

The defence did have an off day but each of the back four have proven themselves this season, the attack has brought the goals more often than not but the key department of the team which is the midfield engine room has been hit and miss.

Of all the players to have hit 10 or more goals in all of their Premier League seasons, only Manchester City's Sergio Aguero (seven) and Eric Cantona (five), who played for Leeds United and Manchester United, have done it more often than Mane (four).

Because Pinnacle Sports Book offers odds that are up to 50 % better value than other bookmakers with high limits, Pinnacle Sportsbook will often get «hit» before the rest of the market.

More often than not, when these questions appeared, or when the tears came (his or mine), or when boredom struck or chaos hit... we walked.

I tried adding additional feeds to follow the babywise schedule as we have hit 8 weeks and I would like to encourage her to sleep longer at night but she is fighting against it... all feeds closer than 4 hours she feeds for 10 mins then becomes fussy and won't feed so instead of rearranging her feeds and hopefully dropping the MOTN feed she just feeds less more often.

Those exposed to more than one language will often hit these benchmarks around the same time for each language.

Raising kids is not always a picnic and many, if not most, parents themselves were often raised under the shadow of threats, force / violence, etc and, more often than not, repeat the same things they were subjected to for no other reason than that it is easier to yell, threaten, intimidate, berate, belittle and / or hit.

Although Proxima Centauri's dimness provides the planet with a balmy climate, the star is prone to outbursts of harsh X-ray and ultraviolet radiation, which could damage any chance of life on the planet — X-rays hit the surface 400 times more often than those from the sun pummel Earth.

When they do die, the cause is often an attack — hit by acar or mauled by a raccoon — or one of a number of infectious diseasesthat kill these turtles at all ages in seemingly equal proportions.While certain ailments, such as cancer and heart disease, strike olderhumans more often than they do younger ones, Congdon's animals don'tseem to become more vulnerable to disease as they grow older.

New research finds that parents spank or hit more often and for more mundane reasons than researchers previously thought.

If you love hitting the gym but find yourself busy more often than not, high - intensity interval training (otherwise known as HIIT) could be the perfect answer to your troubles.

Ordering a 90 - day supply of medication by mail often costs less than hitting up your local pharmacy once a month.

MONDAY, May 22, 2017 (HealthDay News)-- American teens are hitting the bottle less often than they did 25 years ago, new research reveals.

Unfortunately, cystitis is very common, occurs across all age groups and often hits more than once.

This specific program requires you to train your biceps a bit more often than the general recommendation — for best results, you need hit them with brief workouts on three nonconsecutive days per week for about six week in total.

I find myself hitting chest much harder and more often than back and have started to see some of these problems occurring in myself.

Hitting legs twice a week also means you're performing big lifts more often, which will boost testosterone, build more muscle and burn more fat than a traditional body part split.

You often become far more worried about hitting your calorie goals than satisfying your hunger.

More common in women than men, thyroid cancer often occurs when people hit their 50's.

I've been blogging for five years and more often than not when I hit publish I still get anxious.

Hi Susan, I live in subtropical Queensland, where the temperatures are above 85 more than 6 months of the year, and often hit 100.

You always end up using one shade much more often than the others, and while I have hit pan on Pale Pink and NC20, I barely made a dent in Pale Yellow and NW10.

He is straight, I am bi-ish (when the mood hits) We own a small cafe which keeps us busy but love to get out to Geocache (hike) when we can, but more often than not...

More often than not, the undeniably talented comic actor's hits (Billy Madison, Big Daddy, The Longest Yard, Click ad nauseum) personify him not only as an arrested adolescent but a perpetually (and psychotically) angry one; the box office success of movies as unpleasant as those reveals things about their fans that I'm not sure I want to know.

The arms - length, sluggish vibe is eventually alleviated by a final third that, quite unexpectedly, boasts a number of admittedly electrifying sequences (eg Barry's duel with a long - standing rival), which finally does cement Barry Lyndon's place as a maddeningly hit - and - miss drama that's all - too - often far more miss than it is hit.