Sentences with phrase «small gaggle»

Later in life, Thompson redeemed himself by teaming up with the small gaggle of fleet - footed twentysomethings who won the 2008 NPR Relay Race, a triumph he documents in a hard - hitting essay for the book This Is NPR: The First Forty Years (Chronicle).

The shadow chancellor touched Woodcock's arm, as a small gaggle of reporters lingering in the exhibition hall looked on.

Not exact matches

Their strategy with the Montney is to acquire a material acreage position, prove up its value with a small but targeted drill campaign and then monetise the asset, possibly via a take out by one of the gaggle of really big players in the area.

Can't remember any press secretary from Clinton, Bush or Obama canceling briefing and handpicking small group for gaggle.

In northwest DC, where I live, most families seem to be small, so it is not hard to become the «house with the gaggle of kids.»

But within minutes we are mesmerized at the sight of gaggles of birds, large and small, elegant and comical, obeying the secret inner prompting that sets them to fly hundreds, even thousands of miles to serve the demands of life and survival.

For that kind of turnaround, a director needs actors of near - perfect chops, and he has found them in an ensemble that includes Sarah Paulson as Bradlee's then - wife Tony, who has a small but moving scene during a wonderful sequence while a gaggle of journalists and lawyers take over their house for a day - long editing session.

Only later do we get the full James treatment, at a small nightclub somewhere in the provinces, where Isabelle and a gaggle of Parisians have removed for a regional arts fair.

So we have a slew of big 10 - inch iPad competitors, and a gaggle of small 7 - or 8 - inchers like the iPad mini or Nexus 7.

This is a friendly place offering a gaggle of bamboo and rattan cold - water bungalows around a small lawn area with an attached cafe and bar.

What it despises is a gaggle of free independent small businesses...

But despite the gaggle of surveys that have pronounced on this subject, the number of firms that a given law department fires each year is probably a small fraction of all of its law firm relationships.

This may be smaller but it amounts to quite a sizeable gaggle of businesses seeking a share of the action.

But when the rubber meets the road and we go to our local fire department in a smaller community, a fire department with one or two full - time staff and a gaggle of volunteers, the effort of removal and environmental protection falls apart.

Seven nights from now, a gaggle of school mums and (hopefully) dads (bloody Bledisloe Cup) will be dancing like loons to»80s music in my rather small lounge room.