Sentences with phrase «round the back of»

You may be happy with a six inch pot so that your plant can sit on the kitchen windowsill, or you may have your eye on the empty beer keg round the back of your local pub.

He's a better overlapping left back than Kola, gets round the back of defenders with little one two's and makes plenty of chances for the forwards, he's like a winger, whereas this idiot of a manager want's square passes and waits for a hole and go through the middle.

One word of caution for families with young children — the little stream that runs round the back of the pool area is not particularly well cordoned off — it just has a single strand of rope — and it looks positively filled with algae which can be quite dangerous and on one occasion a family we were talking to at the baby pool — their eldest son slipped and fell in luckily he was o.k but we learnt, after the hotel staff looked overly concerned, that there are snakes in the stream (apparently they are harmless water snakes and no - one has seen them venture around the poolside!)

Ours also has wires — it's the tommee tippee one — and we have the wire come out of the very corner of the cot on the side it's attached to the bed and against the wall, so the baby / toddler couldn't reach it, and the wire then goes round the back of our mattress and we have the monitor on the bed side table on the other side.

From February CCHQ will be at No4 Matthew Parker Street, which is the one that runs round the back of Methodist Central Hall.

Next, the team split the laser beam, sending half round the front and half round the back of the atom.

You feel almost single - seater low in the R8, bum skimming the tarmac, and although the switchgear is no more special than a TT's, things like the carbonfibre hoop that arcs from the transmission tunnel round the back of the instrument binnacle and into the door make the R8 a very special place to be.

Vauxhall, or rather Opel, has brought us here to demonstrate how its latest VXR model handles traffic cones — they've marked out a handling course round the back of some hangars.

As she got out and went round the back of the car she heard, through the open front door, Albert's footsteps clumping down the stairs.

On the rounded back of his wooden chair, the artist attached a clothes hanger for the jacket he has to take off, as it were, before rolling up his sleeves and knuckling down to work.

Apple has varied its designs over the years, from the rounded back of the original iPhone to the flat design of the 5S.

And instead of a being fixed to a stand, this one comes with a separate magnetic base that can be screwed to the wall to provide a magnetic cradle for the rounded back of the camera.

Round the back of the speaker you've also got a 3.5 mm input (just in case you want to opt for a wired connection for any reason) and a two - pin power connector that accepts the speaker's annoyingly short power cable.

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That data raised a fresh round of questions about how the Federal Reserve will proceed on further cutting back on its massive monthly bond purchases, which have kept long - term rates low and encouraged a strong rally on equity markets.

Moreover, a buying binge was expected ahead of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's last round of mortgage restrictions back in March.

-- Mike Zivin, co-founder and CEO of Whittl, an online appointment booking platform for neighborhood businesses, which recently raised a $ 3.3 million Series A round with backing from GrubHub co-founder Mike Evans, as well as GrubHub's first VC, Origin Ventures in Chicago.

Her podcast, «Another Round,» which she co-hosts with Tracy Clayton, has reached hundreds of thousands, and is known for its laid - back style with its hosts drinking during episodes.

Investors should step back from the current round of political turmoil in Europe and pay attention to the fundamentals, strategists have suggested.

The French CAC 40 ended the trading week over 4.2 percent higher on the back of centrist presidential candidate, Emmanuel Macron's first round victory in the French election.

Back in April, leaders of the G - 5 sat down for a round - table discussion at a summit.

The fourth round of Brexit talks are scheduled to begin on Monday after they were pushed back by a week.

So when I had to terminate all employees, and ask 12 of them to volunteer their time for three months (on the hopes of me raising a new round of capital and getting their volunteered back - pay funded), that was a monumental ask.

I hope that when you look back at history, all of that will hit a peak, and then as people got comfortable with it and they move on to the next round of immigrants that came.

LONDON, April 24 - Less than two weeks after the latest round of U.S. sanctions plunged Russia's rouble to 16 - month lows, some global funds have already stepped back in to buy rouble - denominated sovereign bonds and take advantage of the weaker currency.

Part of that is due to uncertainty in the markets, Bannister says, and firms are holding back more reserves in case companies already in their portfolios need more capital to get to the next fundraising round.

The Toronto creative firm behind a few Colgate, Kraft and Revlon campaigns you might recall, had a little warped fun patting itself on the back — and the backs of its evidently very hard - working hirelings — in a hilarious video making the rounds this week.

Southwest's broad twice - a-year blockbuster fare sale is back, dropping round - trip fares below $ 100 on dozens of the carrier's shortest routes.

Even as shameless and short - sighted as most brokers and underwriters are, they're finding that the numbers just won't stand up and they're having to go back to their investors and talk about «public» valuations that may be less than the last couple of rounds of capital injections.

Southwest's big twice - a-year fare sale is back, with round - trip fares below $ 100 on dozens of the carrier's shortest routes.

One recent example: Stemcentrx, which rode an unproven approach targeting cancer stem cells to a summertime financing round of nearly $ 250 million and a $ 5 billion valuation, the most for a venture - backed drug maker and second to Theranos in health care.

Entrepreneur Network partners Scott Duffy and Alan Taylor are back at Quinn's Pub for another round of Seattle's most unique burgers.

«But when we round our back (when we let ourselves slouch forward), we're putting a lot of tension on specific areas in the spine and leaving ourselves vulnerable to injury.»

-- Mike Zivin, cofounder and CEO of Whittl, an online appointment booking platform for neighborhood businesses, which recently raised a $ 3.3 million series A round with backing from GrubHub co-founder Mike Evans as well as GrubHub's first VC, Origin Ventures in Chicago.

The fundraising round comes less than two months after Reuters reported Sun Basket hired bankers for an initial public offering in the back half of this year.

«It stands to reason the eight schools in the official Ivy League account for 10.7 percent of total capital raised and 7 percent of companies - talking undergrad numbers here - to get at least a first round of venture financing, as pedigree accounts for a lot when it comes to backing a first - time entrepreneur,» he wrote.

That being said, even if you have a startup short sale (i.e. selling for less than the valuation you did in your last round), you basically pay back the last round of funding first and start splitting the money on a percentage basis after that.

Woudstra claims he paid an extra $ 456 for another one - way ticket back to Grand Rapids on top of the $ 616 he spent on the initial round trip ticket.

I would have an almost queen - size bed in the back (they can't call it a full queen - size bed because the curves of the Airstream demand pleasing curves along the mattress, and the rounded corners disqualify), and Miguel would sleep up front on a really soft, fake - leather couch that converted to a double bed.

On the other hand, if you need to work long hours at your current full - time job, you commute 60 miles round - trip, and you have two - year - old triplets, piling a part - time business on top of all those commitments could be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

They must have completed at least one round of venture - backed funding.

In three rounds, the last of which concluded in 2014, the central bank credited itself with funds that it then used to buy debt — Treasurys and mortgage - backed securities, the latter in an effort to drive down rates on housing loans during the worst real estate market since the Great Depression.

«Looking at the schedule of a typical CEO, a full 70 percent of that time is sub-optimal, and I'll back that up with my own experience,» First Round Capital Partner Bill Trenchard wrote in a recent blog post.

At least, that's what the state - owned banks who backed the round (and whose commercial arms are sitting on billions of bad industrial debt) will be telling themselves, with crossed fingers.

However, the United award chart shows that business class saver tickets only cost 60,000 each way, or 120,000 round - trip for the same exact flight, a quarter of how many miles or points you would have needed with cash back or a statement credit.

So venture capitalists have recruited unlikely new partners in the form of traditional money managers such as Fidelity Investments (which led the latest deal for Uber) and Wellington Management (which backed DocuSign and Moderna Therapeutics) to support unicorn - level rounds.

The quarter included nine rounds of $ 100 million or more, led by Dropbox's $ 325 million raise from back in January (a deal that may actually be a bit larger).

HeyLets is venture - capital backed, based in San Francisco, and is currently raising its next round of funding.

INSIDER rounded up the best photos from the show and red carpet along with some of the moments that didn't make it on air from back stage.

Coupa Software, a software startup that helps the likes of Salesforce, Sanofi and Swiss Re drive down procurement costs, has nearly doubled its backing with an oversubscribed $ 80 million round.

The acquisition rumors started primarily because of the fact that Andreessen Horowitz, which invested in Instagram's seed round when it was still a location - based «check - in» service called Burbn, is now backing competitor Picplz.