Sentences with phrase «pay dirt when»

Yes, I realize that I hit pay dirt when I connected with my local designer / illustrator.

I knew I hit pay dirt when Elfman came to class with a dog - eared copy of Crossing the Chasm.

He finally hit pay dirt when he reached the principal of a high school in Richmond, a gritty city in Contra Costa County girded by oil refineries.

They finally hit pay dirt when Chinese horseshoe bats roosting in water tunnels tested positive.

Alison Garrison, a senior director of marketing at Volusion, an ecommerce platform for SMBs, saw a long 12 months» worth of organic search engine optimization hit pay dirt when she added Google Shopping ads.

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When landmen from Cabot Oil & Gas came knocking on doors along the rutted dirt grade of Carter Road in Dimock, Pa., last year, they sold a promise many residents in the farming community were eager to hear: Sign a gas lease and the land might finally pay for itself.

The play from that game that stood out to me in particular was when he ran an over route, caught the pass maybe 10 yards from pay dirt and proceeded to give a nasty stiff arm to an App State defender on his way into the end zone..

But how the hell can I pay for that when I've frittered away their college funds on organic quinoa, hormone - free chicken, and vegetables that are free of pesticides but full of bugs and dirt?

A team of American researchers thought it finally struck pay dirt last October when it reported in Science that it found DNA traces of a virus in the blood cells of two - thirds of 101 patients with CFS, compared with 4 % of 218 healthy controls.

I just love it when I interview someone and hit pay dirt.

by Bill Chambers The Fortune Cookie was an attempt on Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond's part to recapture the glory days of six years previous, when their one - two punch of Some Like It Hot and The Apartment hit pay dirt.

The fact that he is still chugging away, knocking out a film a year at 74 years old, is indeed impressive, and one frequently marvels at not only the consistent quality of his work, but the relative indifference when he hits pay dirt — i.e., if some young up - and - comer had knocked out a Vicky Cristina Barcelona or Match Point, he or she'd have been hailed as the Second Coming, but when it's Woody, we just chalk it up as an expectation, rate it on a comparative scale to his previous masterworks, and move on.

When I hit upon Velasco et al., on the other hand, I felt I had finally hit pay dirt, but some of the jumps between their equations were broader than I could easily make, so I wanted some vetting.

OK, intellectual property geeks, you've hit pay dirt: Bill Heinze has posted a copy of a stock e-mail he sends when someone asks him about unfair import investigations before the U.S. International Trade Commission.

«The big variance is what you pay for the dirt, that's most going to affect what the lease rate will be when the property is up.