Sentences with phrase «space of a few»

In the space of a few seconds (or much longer if you received an email, a Slack message, or a text) you can evaluate how important it is and how much of an impact it will have on the person asking if you say no.

And each time I'd get another collection call within the space of a few hours.»

In the space of a few short months since Bill C - 51 was announced, hundreds of thousands of people have taken action to stop it.

The ecosystems of tropical forests possess an enormously complex biodiversity which is almost impossible to appreciate fully, yet when these forests are burned down or levelled for purposes of cultivation, within the space of a few years countless species are lost and the areas frequently become arid wastelands.

I'm talking about a game - changing event that could, with little warning, propel the price of gold upward by hundreds — even thousands — of dollars per ounce in the space of a few weeks... conceivably overnight!

In the space of a few months, they lost the ability to sing songs, form shapes with their hands, or make eye contact with other adults.

And then, in the space of a few years, those memberships became immoral.

It occurred in the relatively short space of a few hundred years before and after 500 BCE, and it gave rise to the great world religions.

Now for the space of a few centuries it turned ever so slightly toward the West, toward Europe, Rome, and Occidental civilization, though it never completely faced westward and soon went back to its original orientation.

This pickle recipe was originally given to me by my very good friend, when she gave us a jar and we devoured it in the space of a few days.

Foster's surrendered the licences to Carlsberg, Corona and Stella Artois in the space of a few months after the takeover by SABMiller under change of control clauses.

From the highs of beating Liverpool at the weekend to the lows of crashing out of the Champions League, all the space of a few days...

Arsenal lost 3 - 0 to City twice in the space of a few days and were criticised for a lack of fight and for «walking» in the Carabao Cup final, while Chelsea's lacklustre approach has also got them in Neville's bad books.

A semi final, and a chance to go all the way in the competition, would bring light to what has suddenly turned into yet another disappointing season in the space of a few weeks.

Within the space of a few months, he went from squad player to key man.

completely lacking in attacking verve and is fronted by one of the worst strikers in the PL.When one sees what Martinez has done w2ith Everton in the space of a few months and compare their exciting, beautiful football with that served up by Wenger who has been here for

From looking like they'd never sign anybody and may be losing stars, to two midfielders in the space of a few days and a promising right - back too.

Barcelona in the big one, Leicester in the FA Cup, Tottenham in the league, all in the space of a few weeks... is it starting to feel a bit «2012» yet?

In the space of a few days Theresa May has discovered that the UK's role in the so called special relationship is the equivalent of following a «femme fatale» in a film noir.

The GOP presidential nominee engaged in «political gymnastics,» the NYT reporters write, adding: «In the space of a few hours on Wednesday, Mr. Trump veered from avoiding a clash with Mr. Peña Nieto over his proposal for a border wall to goading an Arizona crowd into chants about constructing the barrier.»

Yesterday, in the space of a few minutes on Twitter, he claimed the programme was ignoring «our post-Brexit future», accused Robinson of failing to ask tough questions and suggested that he taking over the programme.

In the space of a few minutes the prime minister acknowledged the inevitable and withdrew Britain's support for Tony Blair as the first president of the European Council.

If either chamber wants to ignore the governor, they can simply gavel in and gavel out in the space of a few minutes.

After years of extreme training, intense mental preparation, and often many sacrifices, the athletes will get to know — some in the space of a few minutes — how close to an Olympic gold medal they can really get.

Optical cavities confine light in a tiny space of a few nanometers.

The Guo Shou Jing telescope was able to harvest short ultraviolet light emissions from the 100,000 stars involved in the study, in the space of a few weeks.

It can go from sunny to rainy in a space of a few hours so you have to keep your outfits flexible when planning.

But when the weather is so bipolar that all of this happens within the space of a few minutes & proceeds to keep changing, you might see why I almost gave up shooting in lieu of seeing how many grapes I could fit in my mouth at once.

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Respect their privacy and protect your dignity, and remember that people can change a lot over the space of a few years!

Stone's misguided efforts to turn Alexander into a drama of Shakespearean proportions undoubtedly plays a big role in the film's wildly uneven tone, which flits wildly between talky period piece and flamboyant melodrama (often within the space of a few scenes).

From early on Sleeping Dogs encourages (and requires) a suspension of disbelief to just enjoy a well told crime drama and try not think too hard about what would happen to an undercover officer who kills approximately 90 % of Hong Kong's gangster population (and a significant number of innocent pedestrians) in the space of a few months.

The climax is a shocking Shakespearean bloodbath that sees a sizable chunk of the cast butchered in the space of a few minutes as Harold desperately stumbles from one armed standoff to another.

But one day, he meets Miranda (Selma Blair) at a wedding, and falls head over heels for her, pursuing and proposing to the troubled woman in the space of a few days.

How many of you remember that time last year when in the space of a few weeks, Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2 and Call of Duty: Advance Warfare were all launched, in that order?

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The best scenes are between various character pairings, especially one in particular between Willoughby and Hayes, where a small action makes her turn from angry to compassionate in the space of a few seconds.

Zahler's direction benefits from the sensation of watching nothing happen for a long time and then everything to go horribly brutal in the space of a few seconds.

The character education movement, given a boost by widespread, continuous reports of youth misbehavior, became an established part of the education landscape in the space of a few years, a surprisingly rapid development in a field that normally adopts changes slowly.

But Andy Ratcliffe, the chief executive of the private equity philanthropy charity Impetus, which funds education projects, said the plan means some pupils will gain and then lose eligibility for free school meals within the space of a few months, at the same time as the census data which informs exam results and school funding is collected.

Failing schools had improved measurably, often moving out of special measures to «good» or «outstanding» within the space of a few years.

What are the chances of these things naturally happening within the space of a few days of taking the car in and getting back?

In the space of a few seconds, and the touch of one button, you can transform the Sport from a bahnstormer to offroad hero.

In the space of a few dozen kilometres our SDV6 Sport took in its stride: 160km / h highway cruising; some very serious, high - speed twisty tarmac; rough, fast, high - commitment derestricted rally roads; and an offroad course that had us hanging from our seatbelts, so steep were a couple of the descents.

I reached out to Brenda Errichiello, who will do a full, comprehensive edit of my upcoming novel over the space of a few months.

Suddenly in the space of a few short weeks, my membership exploded.

In the space of a few days, he will receive several disturbing letters, his son will go missing and he will be accused of rape; in short, his complacent small - town life will be turned totally upside down.

But in the space of the few years since ebooks took off in a big way, it might be self - publishing that has undergone the most transition.

Like Katniss, she's a natural, lighting from thriller to bodice ripper to fantasy in the space of a few chapters, churning out a powerful, innovative oeuvre without making a big deal about it... She's a literary fusioneer, that rare writer who is all things to all readers.

The Espresso Book Machine, or EBM, by On Demand Books, works on the same principle as any large, commercial - grade printer, except that it actually formats, prints, cuts, and binds a book in the space of a few moments.