Sentences with phrase «others by a country mile»

But our estimates, based on evidence from a variety of industries, suggest that star employees outperform others by a country mile:

Not exact matches

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.

In the North Country, with 3,000 lakes and 30,000 miles of rivers and streams, U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R - Willsboro, recalled how she witnessed the fouling of Lake Champlain by zebra mussels — a migrant from the Caspian Sea that clogs water pipes, sucks nutrients away from other fish, and yields sharp shells that cut tender feet on beaches.

Best speech of this or any other Conference season by a country mile, and I can say that with absolute confidence even though there are two conferences still to take place this year.

As card - carrying members of the Cuarón fan club («Y Tu Mama Tambien» was a blistering revitalization of his career; «Prisoner of Azkaban «was the best Harry Potter film by a country mile; and «Children of Men» is one of the finest films of its decade), we've been following the tortuous progress of «Gravity» for what feels like forever, as Cuarón had a bitch of a time financing this 3D - shot, effects - driven film, and suffered several casting knock backs as A-listers signed on and then off the project (Robert Downey Jr., Angelina Jolie, among others).

Whether it's Kitana Kiki Rodriguez in Tangerine or Lola Kirke in Mistress America or either of the women from The Duke of Burgundy or a billion other options, there are so many women more deserving of being in the category than Jennifer Lawrence's least impressive performance in David O. Russell's worst movie by a country mile.

or a billion other options, there are so many women more deserving of being in the category than Jennifer Lawrence's least impressive performance in David O. Russell's worst movie by a country mile.

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.

E-readers that use e-ink are still the closest thing you'll find in the digital realm to paper and, like other e-readers before it, Amazon Kindle Paperwhite beats those backlit tablets on battery life by a country mile.

Musk is going after other projects in Australia, and noted that the entire country could be powered by «1,890 square kilometres [730 square miles] of solar panels — roughly a tenth the area of Sydney — backed up by seven square kilometres [2.7 mi2] of batteries.»

In other words, if you agree that there is lots of energy at higher prices than those consistent with Hummers in every garage, and if you agree that political manipulation in almost every country (including the US) to keep prices down is hurting us more and more every day, and you note from ample literature, demonstrations, and at least a dozen European countries where energy use used both more efficiently and more carefully than in the US, you have to conclude that the forecasts of continued rapid growth in demand will be cut off at the pass, so to speak, by higher prices, drying up of subsidies, and above all more efficient and more careful energy use, fewer miles run and all that.

On the other hand, the equivalent nuclear generation might at a rougn guess occupy a hundred square miles or so (in a few hundred sites dispersed over the country), most of which can be nicely landscaped and used as habitat by wild creatures.